Category: All

All posts across the whole website belong to this category. They might also belong to some other categories as well, but this one holds all of them. Hence the descriptive name – All.

Day in brief

  • I am back online. I don't what happened, but suddenly it started to work. I doubt that CYTA fixed the cable on Sunday. Magic happened. #
  • Seriously considering a one-day trip to Athens, Greece on September 25th. Ozzy Osbourne concert. #
  • Slashdot comments are scrollable with keyboard navigation (j/k). I never knew that until now. #

What’s wrong with airlines today?

I think there is something wrong with airlines, their policies, and their price making.  Here is one example.  I was looking for the cheapest way to get from Larnaca, Cyprus to Athens, Greece on Saturday, September 25th, 2010.  One of the lowest prices was offered by Aegean Airlines – 42 EUR for a one-way ticket.  That sounds awesome, doesn’t it?  Well, apparently that’s not the final price.  The final price with all the taxes and such came up to 156.16 EUR.

What’s the point of listing the price, on top of which you’ll have to pay the “tax” and “fee”, and which will be almost doubled by those extras?

Day in brief

  • I favorited a YouTube video — Тодоровский и Никитин – французское поппури http://youtu.be/TDTm6LKvY2w?a #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Соло на Вилках http://youtu.be/R_gBbZl-5PM?a #
  • No coffee or wifi in Starbucks … Purpose? #
  • Parked next to my mother's apartment. Using her WiFi. Both me and my wife in the car with two laptops. Funny. :) #
  • Back to offline world for now … #

Illustrations by Jason Seiler

Via this blog post I came across an amazing artist – Jason Seiler.  Being an amateur photographer, I am not much into paintings.  I always thought that most paintings miss the details and accuracy of the photographs.  A lot of Jason Seiler’s art doesn’t have that problem.  Some of the images are breathtakingly similar to photographs and only the caricaturist distortion suggests that these are actually drawings.  Have a look at this image of Bill Murray, for example.

Or at this absolutely wonderful black and white portrait:

More images are available at Jason Seiler’s website and in his blog.  I’m an instant fan now.