I hate ponies!

"Darling Winston, I hope you will try & not smoke. If you only knew how foolish and silly you look doing it you wd give it up, at least for a few years. If you will give it up & work hard this term to pass yr preliminary I will get Papa to get you a gun & a pony".

Lady Randolph Churchill in a letter to her Harrow studying 16 years old son, dated 19 September 1890

Asa, un whishlist fotografic vag :)

Un Hasselblad 500 C/M
Lentile: un 60 mm si un 80 de mm;

Un Voigtlander R4A (gata, s-a rezolvat, l-am luat)
Lentile: un Voigtlander Nocton 50mm 1.1, un Nocton 35mm 1.2, un Ultron 28mm 2.0, un Color Heliar 75mm 2.5 pentru portrete;

Un Nikon D300s digital si un F6 pe film
Lentile: un 50mm 1.4 pentru Nikon, un 12-24mm, 85mm 1.4 avem, multumim pentru intentie.

Un Zeiss Ikonta 521 A, un Rolleiflex 2.8F. Merge si un 3.5E sau F:) Asa, mai pe departe: un Kalimar Reflex, un Bencini Comet III, un Contax Zeiss IIIa, o lentila Zeiss Sonnar Ultron de 50mm 1.5, o Tessina, un Graflex, un Minox Riga, un Exakta Varex VX, o prisma metered pentru Bronica ETRSi, un incarcator profesional,un set de 8 acumulatori R6 buni.

si mult timp liber, daca se poate.

Ataque de panico!

A small time producer from Uruguay puts Hollywood to shame. His bet? Making a cool video of a robot invasion in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, on a 300$ budget. Long story short, he gets 2 million + views on his Youtube page, and bang, Hollywood calls: he signs a 30 mil. movie deal.

Watch his four-minute short, "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack)

Product tip for Asus

Hello Asus Product Development Team,

if you were wondering what should be the next big thing after you flattened the EEE netbooks, here is a free tip from me: just put an eInk based e-book reader on top of them, on the back of the actual screen, for an extra 200$. No, actually, for an extra 199$.

The thing is I don't want to carry both a netbook and an e-reader around. If you price the combo better than the cost of a separate netbook + ereader combination, it would be great.
And you should, as the combo should have only one battery, not two, as its separate pieces.

The Naming Paradox

Final Fantasy XIII :)

Decat

"Mai aveti decat trei zile de mandat, domnule Basescu..."
Mircea Geoana, in timpul dezbaterii

E greu cu romana, domnule Geoana. Decat ca din cauza asta o sa pierdeti voturi, chiar mai mult decat din cauza vizitelor la Moscova si la Vantu.

Naming is Believing

"According to the "Sagas of Icelanders", Norsemen from Iceland first settled Greenland in the 980s. Erik the Red, having been banished from Iceland for manslaughter, explored the uninhabited southwestern coast of Greenland during the three years of his banishment. He made plans to entice settlers to the area, even purposefully choosing the name Greenland to attract potential colonists, saying "that people would be more eager to go there because the land had a good name".

Get yourself a good name. Naming is believing.

Nomen Est Omen

"Istoria neamului se continua cu urmasii urmasilor lor: [...] Capitanul Mihai, dregator de hotare, copiii sai si ai Anitei, [...] Barbu, cel casatorit cu fiica marelui vistiernic State Socoteanu si a Predei Matei Golescu." (Printul George Constantin Bibescu - Biografia unui calator)

As indrazni sa spun ca State Socoteanu e un nume predestinat pentru un vistiernic. Aproape la fel de bun ca Porcescu, numele politistului care a investigat spargerea de la mine de-acasa, de-acum cativa ani.

Completati lista, va rog. Dar sa se potriveasca ca o manusha, zic.

An old Jewish saying*

- What is truer than truth?
- The story.
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* for those who ask themselves if Basescu slapped a child or not.