“Sociology of the Mobile Phone” is an excellent collection of links to works that are related to social issues of mobile telephony. How mobiles affect our life and work, our families; how entertainment and news industries change; what’s new on the front of gossipping after introduction of the mobile telecommunications; etc.
All of these makes for an interesting flip through reading when there is nothing better to do.
Something that has been annoying me for some time now, but enough for me to look for the solution – a stalled secure shell connection. In graphical mode getting read of a problem is easy – just close a window of the terminal and start a new one. In text mode though it’s a pain.
In order to close a stalled secure shell connection just type in tilde+dot (“~.“). If that doesn’t help, then try holding a Ctrl key while typing in the dot (“.“). Problem solved.
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Our old 21 inch JVC TV-set (on the left) died a couple of days ago. This happened most probably because of some mode I put it in in order to have better experience with DVD watching. Poor thing. :)
Instead, I’ve got a 28 inch Panasonic TV-set (on the right). It’s second hand, but from a very good hand and for a very good price. :)
Olga and I went to the Reptile House today. You can find it near Limassol’s Old Port, next door to the left from the Ladas Fish Tavern.
It has been a while since we wanted to get there, but today we found out that we were not missing a lot. It is a small, dark, hot room with about twenty glass cases. One of these cases is bigger then the others and is filled with midium-sized turtles. There is another bigger one turtle too. A couple of lizzards in two other cases. Everything else is devoted to snakes. All the reptiles make you feel pity. They look dead. Really. No action at all. A couple of snakes lay in the plates with drinking water. Lizards are not any better. There was a lot of excitement from our side when in about 10 minutes one of the snakes started to move a bit to get in the water. That was about it.
There is not a lot of information about these species. There are few printed out paper sheets with descriptions in Greek and English, but they are boring to read due to the small font and darkness. Visually though, there was nothing surprising. I had a feeling that if I would go deeper into the fields somewhere in the mountains that I can find any of these snakes or lizzards. Probably this is wrong to feel. :)
You are welcome to enjoy the Reptile House and make your own opinion for a mere 1.50 CYP. Few pictures from the place are here.
Today, Olga and I celebrate our second anniversary. Yes, it has been two years since we got married. Time flies indeed. :)
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in Russia there is a title (usually associated with some material) that is attached to each year of the married life. According to this resource (in Russian) we celebrate the paper marriage today.
Feel free to use comments functionality to congratulate us and send us your best wishes. :)