Category: Personal

Despite being at work all the time, and being constantly busy, I am still a human. I am social. I have a life, family, and friends. I have thoughts and experiences. Once in a while I share them, and when I do, I do so in this category. If you don’t know me personally, chances are you’ll find posts in this category particularly boring.

And there was great silence…

Either Bloglines does not update half of my feeds or this is the most silent weekend ever. With my 200+ feeds the only things that I get to read are Delicious feeds and posts by a couple of hardcore bloggers who live in a different time zone.

I understand that not everyone can shoot ten posts a day, like I do it. But at least one a day is a fairy deal. Don’t you think? Am I alone on this?

Passing the vision test

Few years ago, when I was in high school, I had a classmate who was wearing this really thick glasses. His vision was terrible. But every time he was passing the vision test, he scored the most points. I was wondering how he was doing it, since he could see practically nothing.

The trick was simple.

Back than vision tests were done using Sivcev’s tables. The most common Sivcev table is a poster with rows of random latters. The top row has two letters in biggest font. Next row has three letters in smaller font, and so on. Reading letters from a certain distance can suggest how good a person can see.

The guy just had the whole table memorized. Yes, that’s true. He knew all the letters in all the rows and could spell of them back and forward and as you wish. I thought it was close to impossible at the time.

Car service

Since I don’t have anything else to blog about, I’ll post about my car service. Every 10,000 kilometers or so I service the car. Air filter, oil filter, sparks are all getting changed. There is also a routine check up of the engine and other internals on the computer. Sometimes they would take it for a test drive to see if everything sounds nice. Not so often they would change brakes (every 20,000 kilometers or so I guess), timing belt (every 100,000 kilometers) and other parts.

The E.F.I. Technics garage that I am using is not one of the cheapes places on the planet, but they really know their stuff. Or at least they seem to know, as far as I can judge. I paid 125 CYP for today’s service. The biggest numbers on the list were for computer test of the engine – 30 CYP and sparks (12 CYP a piece times 4 equals 48 CYP). Every time they change the sparks, they remind me that sparks for this car are way too expensive. Heh, I tend to agree.

Anyway, the car is shining clean and feels brand new now. It behaves nicely, drives smoothly and gives me confidence.