At first, he can’t even drink any juice. Because he’s new born. Than you make some juice with water for him and hold his cup. Than you still make some juice with water, but he hold his cup himself. Than you don’t mix juice with water anymore. Than you just tell him – “Take some juice from the fridge”. Than you ask him – “Could you please bring me some juice from the fridge?” and he gladly does. Than you ask him “Could you please bring me some juice from the fridge?” and he tells you “Go get it yourself you old man”. Than he asks you if you want any juice from the fridge. And if you want it mixed with water. Than he no longer asks you, but mixes and brings juice with water straigh away. And than you can’t drink no juice, because you’re freaking dead. And than it starts all over again.
Tag: thoughts
Request for an application
I’ve got an idea for an application. If you have nothing to do or looking for an idea to practice your mad programming skills, feel free to use this one.
Flickr is an excellent source of images. Better even, all images are tagged and most are available in different sizes. It would be very nice to have a tool that could use Flickr images as desktop backgrounds (wallpapers). Ideally, I would just specify the tags that I am interested in, such as sports, nature, or landscape, and this tool would get the list of images from Flickr that are available in the resolution that I am using. Images could be random or sorted by some criteria, such as posted date or number of comments. If there would be a preview and an easy way to change to the next image (maybe even automatically based on time period) I’d be totally happy.
I don’t see myself programming this anytime soon as I don’t care much for desktop candy. But if one was available there is a chance that I would use it. I also know of a few people who would simply love something like this.
On Flickr
I really really like Flickr service, but I can’t find a good way to use it. Since I have my own server that hosts all my photographs, I don’t really need to upload anything anywhere else. My current photo albums don’t have all the functionality that I could get from Flickr – tags, search, feeds, comments – but I hope that I will migrate to some powerful album software soon enough.
Once in a while I still upload some pictures, go through galleries, and leave some comments here and there. That’s about all I do with it.
Does anyone of you uses Flickr? What’s your profile? Do you know of any way I could use Flickr together with this blog?
By the way, if you are interested, my Flickr gallery is here.
Irony in science or a bad example of Post Hoc
While reading through this excellent website I came across an article about Post Hoc logical fallacy. To freshen your memory, this article describes Post Hoc fallacy as follows:
A Post Hoc is a fallacy with the following form:
1. A occurs before B.
2. Therefore A is the cause of B.
There are also a few examples that help to understand this fallacy. Among these examples there is this one:
Bill purchases a new PowerMac and it works fine for months. He then buys and installs a new piece of software. The next time he starts up his Mac, it freezes. Bill concludes that the software must be the cause of the freeze.
I couldn’t help the smile. In the scope of logic as a science this example perfectly illustrates the point. But in the scope of computer science this quote would be a good example of the opposite. In other words, if you computer worked fine for months and than you installed a new piece of software on it, and it started to freeze – chances are that the software is the cause of problem.
Ironical, isn’t it?
New perspectives
One of the reasons that I like to watch movies over and over again is that I can see them from a different perspective. I like it when some time passes between re-watches. And watching some other movies in between is a good thing too.
I was watching “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” again today. I’ve seen it a lot of times before, but something occured to me only today. This film can be separated into two parts. The first part would tell the story of Harry Potter, how he got to the wizzard school and how all of his training went. The second part would be exclusively about the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Now, for additional fun, these two parts can be remixed with other movies – either soundtracks only or, maybe, even the visuals too. While watching the film today, two movies that would be perfect for remixing came to my mind. The first one is “Full Metal Jacket”, which has the best drill instructor ever. And the second one is “Snatch.”, which is all about getting the stone.
The mix is so clear in my mind that I was annoying the hell out of Olga by quoting both “Full Metal Jacket” and “Snatch.” into the “Harry Potter”. It’s a good thing you know, that I’ve seen all of these films like a billion time and can easily quote them back and forward from start to end. That makes into a lot of fun!