I’ve been reading Transmetropolitan again…
Have I mentioned that Spider Jerusalem is totally my hero? Well, he is!
Damnit, What now?
What the hell just happened to my gallery is what I want to know. One day everything is working fine and now I check it out and the layout is completely b0rked!
…
Scratch that, everything seems to be back to normal now. As a troubleshooting step, I renamed my wpg2header.php file to a _bak and copied the header.php into the same name. Format was closer to the original but still bad.
I then restored the _bak file to it’s original name and it now works…
WTF?!
Oh well…
I still need to fix the stylesheet for the gallery and add the footer in some way however.
Need. More. Free. Time!
Swordbrothers
Can’t be bothered to write something about it now. Just see the gallery for now 😉
Ouchie
- My neck hurts – Strained a muscle headbanging yesterday
- My chest hurts – I manaeged to get a small second degree burn while firedancing on Sunday
- My ankle still hurts – I twisted it back in February
Pain
Swamped
My time seems to have suddenly disintegrated. Between 9 hours of German lessons per week (3 hours on Monday, Wednesday and Friday), training, exercise and festivals, I barely seem to have time to check my online comics or even sit and watch a tv series.
Just last Sunday, where I was expecting to take it slowly, I went to the Grüneburgpark to train @ firedance a bit and I ended up hanging out with a party of people sitting around playing with drums (Τουμπερλέκια ελληνιστί) and generally having a good time. They drew me in and I went home at 11pm instead of the 7:30pm I was initially planning to. I’m not complaining mind you, I like meeting new people and doing stuff but I don’t seem to be able to manage some time for computer projects and the site and I’m also afraid people will start to think that I’m ingoring/avoiding them.
Ah well.
ACP
After some discussion, the Antichristian Phenomenon has gone live. I decided to just dive in and make a start and see how things go after that. Why not? After all, it won’t cost me anything other than time since I’m not using even close to my limits on my hosting plan right now.
Right now the main site is based on WordPress (oh how I love free software) and there is room for expansion into anything else (like gallery, wiki or whatever).
I’ve installed some few basic plugins but unfortunatey the theme I picked does not support widgets currently, which is unfortunate since they have recently been put as a base feature list in the new wordpress 2.2.
Maybe I’ll change theme if it isn’t updated or I may just do without widgets as I’ve done until now. The group will decide anyway.
Who knows, maybe this will turn into something interesting in the long run.
Slow learning
After three hours of German lessons at VHS they have finally taught us the following:
- Ich heiße Konstantin
- Ich komme aus Griechland
- Ich wohne in Frankfurt
That’s it
No seriously.
There were a total of 18 people in the class, of pretty much every ethnicity. Unfortunately this slowed the learning to a crawl as the teacher would make every person repeat the phrases he was teaching, and then make us tell it to each other.
The funny thing is that the teacher did not actually teach English to German but rather a German-for-all style, even though most participants were english speakers. He communicated what he meant, and what he wanted us to do, with body language mostly. This might be all well and fine when teaching you to say “Wo wohnen Sie?” but how the hell is he going to explain the more difficult meanings or the strange words? I’ll guess I’ll find out soon enough.
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Canada becomes Hollywood's bitch
It’s been building up for quite while now and it’s almost over. Canada has submitted to the will of hollywood studios and is passing the appropriate laws.
Ok, let me say that again.
A Sovereign nation has made a modification to their legal system in order to comply with the wishes of movie producers in another country!
Am I the only one who think this is starting to get out of hand? Certainly not, from seeing the reactions of other bloggers, but I do not see any reaction from the people of Canada itself. How can they stand by and let their own politicians and legal body be bullied by some lobbyists in the USA? Why are they not up in arms throwing rotten tomatoes on those sellouts that say they represent the people?
Something similar happened in Sweden not so far back before when the MPAA lobbied the US goverment to pressure the Swedish goverment to force the police force to perform an illegal raid on the Piracy Bay.
What happened? 3 days later the Piracy Bay was back up and because of the nature of the raid and who was behind it, the Pirate party became that more popular. The Swedes obviously did not see favorably the fact that their goverment was being shoved in the direction the entertainment cartel wanted.
Canadians, on the other hand, just sit and take the pimp slaps of the Motion Pictures Ass. of America.
So what if they take away the previews? So what if push back the releases? They’re only shooting their own foot by forcing people to download if they want to watch the new releases.
It was just a scare tactic. It is not in their best interest to lose the box office revenue of entire Canada.
So they bluffed and forced a whole country to change their laws in a knee-jerk reaction.
Is this how things are going to be from now on? Whenever Holywood says “Jump” we’re going to be asking “How high?“? I am aware that many goverment bodies, especially the US one, work mostly for the benefit of the corporations and hide behind rhetoric for the people. However I’ve never before seen such a blatant display of power from the true beneficiaries of recent copyright laws.
When are people finally going to realize that it’s not us who needs hollywood and movies, it is them who need our wallets so that they can continue to pay the extravagant salaries of their movie “stars” and studio execs.
Canada, wake up and smell the bullshit! You are being 0wned!
Trendy
Every time I end up in a trendy or “in” place, the experience solidifies my distaste for the whole scene.
On Friday a few colleagues from the [tag]ECB[/tag] had arranged a birthday party at a pizza place on the east side of Frankfurt. As one of them was Greek, I received an invitation as well along with a few others.
I was hoping to meet some people on the way there but everyone went there early and although I happened to enter the same Train as one of the birthday people, Reka, I did not recognise her in order to sit with them. Fortunately finding the place was not difficult.
Most people were having pizza (some with spinach…ugh) while I was busy either annoying them with my new shiny singing monkey balls (more on that soon) or taking videos of them while they were trying to talk. I must say that the aforementioned singing monkey balls were a great success among the participants, especially the two Greeks sitting close to me that were about to strangle me if I didn’t stop.
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I also managed to convince Reka not to kill me for the time being.
After the pizza was finished we visited a night club on the back (I can’t even remember the name). The doorman almost did not let us in since we were not dressed for the occasion. I especially with my leather trenchcoat and long hair must have made him think twice. Fortunately he let us in (although in retrospect I might consider putting an “u” in front of the first word) and we paid 10 euros for that privilege after which I wasn’t in much mood to buy a drink.
The music inside was boring to tears. A monotone beat and some simple melody that changed slightly every 15 minutes or so. No passion, no melody, nothing. Just brain dead music that requires an equally brain-dead person to consider it worth 10 euros. Fortunately the rest of the group were pretty fun to be around and we ended up dancing for a few hours until everybody got sick of the place and decided to leave.
However it still does not fail to amaze me that these places are actually popular. What the hell do people find enjoyable there? The boring music or the look-alike people that inhabit them? Seriously the dress code is completely stupid. They force people to dress like everyone or they will not get in. As if we don’t have enough conformity in our lives that we need some more.
It is depressing to see so many people flock to these places just because the “beautiful girls” go there or whatever other excuse they find for themselves. Why are people so uncritical of this? When did pop music become so absolutely bland? How can people actually enjoy this and even pay dearly for the privilege is beyond me.
A thousand times better to go to a metal or rock place. Even Gothic music is leagues better than the stupid House and the people you meet or see in the former are certainly more interesting. At least now I know much better than to visit another such club in the near future.