Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

There is this fun side to working in the office - you get to listen to all those small talks, little arguments and what not. Here are some quotes from the recent discussions. I’ll remove the names to protect the innocent.

- I don’t like football!
- What do you mean you don’t like football? How is that even possible for you not to like football. You do.
- No I don’t!
- Even you kid loves football. Look at his pictures, he’s always with the ball and in football clothes…
- Dude, the kid is just a couple of years old. He doesn’t know what he likes and what he doesn’t. He’ll play with whatever you throw at him…

- If I remember correctly, you were married and now you are divorced, right?
- Yes. I was married twice.
- Some people… they never learn…

- Are you going to eat with us?
- I’m on a diet.
- Again?!!
- Still…

- What are you planning to do then?
- I will be a teacher in the public school.
- Teaching what?
- Computers.
- Listen, if I will ever know that you are teaching computers in school, I’ll come over and personally kill you.
- Why? You think I am alone like this? Other teachers aren’t much better anyway.
- I don’t care. I warned you. And you know what?
- What?
- I don’t have a limit of killing just one person. If there is more like you, I’ll take care of all of you…

Continuing my Skype saga…

I’ve finally fixed the headset at the office. Again, it turned out I had two sound cards - it’s just one of them was disabled completely. Instead of trying to please the SoundBlaster Live! I turned that other one on, and it worked like a charm. Damn Creative. Every time I try to use - I have a problem.

So, anyway, with all the headphones and microphones working, I decided to go further along and buy some SkypeOut minutes. SkypeOut minutes allow one to call from Skype (read: computer) to any regular or mobile phone. Anywhere. Dirt cheap.

I used my PayPal account to buy a 10.00 EUR credit. It worked like a charm. I made a couple of test calls around. The quality is OK. The additional benefit is the anonimity. The calls are not signed with any number, so if you want to call anyone anonymously - here is your option.

That’s it for now. Soon, I’ll tell you about things that I think suck in Skype.

During the last few days I started to change my understanding of the word “enlightment”. I think I already mentioned that Maxim loves looking at light sources (lamps, windows, etc). He loved looking at them from his very first day in this world and he still enjoys it.

Sometimes he would lay on the bed looking at the light bulb, thinking about something. And than he would suddenly start talking in his meaningful manner (’Rggggrgg’,'Arrrrgggrrgg’, etc). When I see him like this, I say that he just was “enlighted”. Thus “enlightment” is talking your mind out after watching a light source.