Most of computer geeks love Star Wars. At least those that I have seen on the web (Slashdot, etc). Now I am really getting interested if my starting to use pack() and unpack() in Perl yesterday has anything to do with me watching three episodes of Star Wars in like two days…
I should keep an eye on this trend.
I was reading this post about circumcision from a little pregnant blog. It was spawned by another blog entry. Both posts were written by women. Each one decided differently on the issue. So I guess I would add some from “that could happen to me” point of view.
Olga and I went to Pizza Hut for dinner today. While eating and (me) having a couple of pints, we talked about movies. We both think I watch a lot of them and that kind of stimulates me (or us) to talk about movies. So we talked (read: everything below is a product of one somewhat short dialogue and no Internet research what-so-ever)…
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Olga and I are usually shopping in “Woolworth”, which has recently been renamed to “Ermes”. We prefer it to two other supermarkets in Limassol – “Orphanides” and “Chris Cash & Carry”. Both “Chris” and “Orphanides” are bigger than “Ermes” and are boasted to be cheaper by many individuals.
Today, we went shopping to “Orphanides”. It is holiday season and we are a bit short on cash, so we figured – why not. It the second time we visit “Orphanides” recently and it is the second time that I get this idea that it is not cheaper. Before you argue, let me finish.
Product to product comparison will most definetly show that “Orphanides” is cheaper than “Ermes”. But there is more to shopping than just product to product comparison. Choice is important too. “Orphanides” offers a much wider choice of products than “Ermes”. All these products are generously distributed over shelves. Consumers (read: me and Olga) end up walking longer distances, looking at more products with lower prices. All of this leads to the shopping cart being feeled with all sorts of useless stuff. Being overwhelmed by choice and feeling confidence in low prices, people tend to by more. Not only me and Olga, I must say.
Second visit to “Orphanides” showed that two times out of two we have spent more money in “Orphanides” than we did in “Ermes”. We bought things that we have never bought or even wanted to buy. Just because it was there, it was cheap, and we decided to try this and that.
All these leads me to believe that “Orphanides” is not cheaper than “Ermes”. Here, I’ve said it.
Do you know all those cheap newspapers they sell at the city square kiosk? They are printed on the cheap recycled paper, which looks yellwish. If it doesn’t, than it gets yellow from time, but very shortly after you buy it. These kind of newspapers always carry really strange and weird stories about aliens, superpowers and such. In Russian, these are called “yellow press” (word-to-word translation).
There are similar newspapers in many countries of the world, I guess. Additionally to such newspapers, there are cheap books about pimps, drug lords, supercops, etc. They are roughly of the same quality and value as those “yellow press” newspapers. These books (and sometimes journals) are known by the name “pulp fiction”, if I am not mistaken.
Considering all of the above, if I am writing some “serious” stuff like this post about Keanu Reeves soul, using only free (as in beer) software, then does it mean that I am doing “pulp blogging”? Or am I writing “yellow posts”?