tasuki’s blog

I thought it would be fun to try to find polish words that have funny meaning for czechs. I started with writing it by hand, asking people and it took me at least an hour to find out that lists like this one already do exist and that such words are called “false friends“. Nevertheless, I think this list contains some words that no other (easily findable) false friends lists contain (at least nozki, nozyczki, plywac and prawie).

A few remarks concerning polish pronunciation ((mainly) for czech people): ć and cz – č, ó – u, ł – english w.

Feel free to write more in the comments.

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A side story:

Finding out how “edit html source” window in wordpress behaves
Will pressing escape close the window?
Nah, probably not…
Well, let’s try it to make sure…
@%#$^&*{€¶ŧ→ø@#°’&Đ*Ł

One line corresponds to aproximately one second of thinking. Of course, the table with all the words was gone. I couldn’t even believe I did something this stupid for no real reason.

It all started the previous night. I thought I should go to sleep early so I had a shower before midnight. Then I thought I’d read just a few pages of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (thanks Merlijn ) and suddenly it was one o’clock. Well, time to sleep. But somehow my body didn’t agree, so I stayed awake untill half past two (that’s the last time I remember taking a peak at the clock).

Waking at six, five hours earlier than I am used to, and after only three and half hours of sleep, sucked hard. But I managed to get to the math lecture in time (2km walking, 10min tram, almost 1km walking). After the lecture I learned from the bulletin board that my next lecture started in 15 minutes and was in a place reachable in no less than 30 minutes (unless I’d have a car). I came half an hour late, but it didn’t really matter. The english teacher Ken is from Canada and he seems to be a very friendly and always happy person. I like happy people.

After this lecture I have to get back where the math lecture been… of course, I have 15 minutes for that (I’m getting used to it already). My impression from other lectures is that there are way too many windows machines and no other ones, but I always manage to break windows very quickly so I am not really afraid that much.

I took a walk back home, it’s slightly less than 6km long (at least judging from 55 minutes it took me) and it’s nice (add one point for every tree and substract one for every car, this one has positive value on almost any interval you choose).

Tomorrow I’ve got to be there at seven again.

Set is a wonderful game. Read the official rules, then download TatSet (it’s Dutch, but you’ll get used to it).

I got only 1800 so far (just a very few games, didn’t have much time yet), I am sure you can beat it (feel free to brag in the commentaries :licknose:).

PS: I forgot to mention: it runs flawlessly under WINE.

Good Day,

My name is Madam Beverly Murray. I am deaf and dumb and I am a complete citizen of the United State of America, widow to the late former minister of finance in Philippine who was a victim of the terrorist attack against the United State of America on the 11th September 2001 that crashed at the World Trade Centre in New York . I inherited a total sum of $20 million dollars…

[continues as usual]

Usually I send these emails to spam after two seconds, but here the two seconds were enough for me to spot the “I am deaf and dumb” part, which made me read the whole email (nothing else interesting there). How could anyone even write this?

When I was returning from the Mikulov tournament, I followed a bike path for last fifth of my travel. The path is about 3 meters wide and made of asphalt.

It was sunday afternoon, so the path was crowded. There were basically three types of people – walkers, roller-skaters and bikers. Bikers moving around 20-30km/h, roller-skaters 10-20km/h, and walkers 0-5km/h. The path is wide enough for 4 walkers next to each other, for 3 bikers and for 2 roller-skaters. It is used in both directions simultaneously, I guess that you can imagine the mess.

The worst were roller-skaters, who really like to ride in pairs next to each other, one taking up half of the path, so there’s no space left for anyone else. The only positive thing about them was that 80% of roller-skating girls are really pretty (I don’t know whether it’s the cause or the effect). On the other hand that makes it even more difficult to concentrate on manoeuvering through the crowds…

I know a person who is rather clever and can be called computer literate (he knows at least one programming language, dunno on which level, but probably medium advanced). We were doing some kind of interview, basically we had a text that we wanted to cooperatively change.

First, I saved the text from ICQ, added some very simple html tags (html, body, p and strike for the parts I didn’t like). I sent it to him, and the guy made a few changes and sent me a pdf (if you don’t think “wtf?” now, there is something seriously wrong with you ). So I have rewritten the changes he has made in the pdf into my html and sent it back to him, with a note not to send me pdf, that it’s uneditable. Then I got html produced by MS Word. Couldn’t be much worse, could it? (if you’ve never seen it, it’s practically unreadable with the tags taking like 80%) This time I asked him to use a text editor, that it will be much easier for both of us, that the html I use is pretty easy. Next time I got html produced by mozilla… Speechless. [Maybe I should note that he wasn't able to explain why he was so deliberately trying to avoid the easy way. Also, this is not the only example, many people who are usually quite normal, sometimes behave in similar ways, life is just weird...]

Why using a wysiwyg editor for easy html is stupid? You know, I’m already very sleepy, but just a few things for the few people who don’t believe me: everyone has a text editor, so everyone can read it; by writing html by hand you produce much cleaner code than (almost any, I think) wysiwyg editor even if you don’t try to, it’s much easier to further alter it; you can use advantages of your favorite text editor.

Also, we decided to make my lines bold, which took one global replacement command in vim:

:%s/<p>V:/<p style=”font-weight:bold”>V:/g

My guess is that it would be much more difficult in any wysiwyg.

Again, argh… I start writing half asleep and fall asleep while writing, all my ideas get lost and I will be too lazy to change it tomorrow… but believe me, wysiwyg mess=evil, pure&readable=good. Good night.

Okay, this will be boring:

First there was Toyota Tour in Brno, where I scored 3/6 but only lost to 6dan players (and two of the games already looked rather good for me…), somehow ended up winning “best 4dan”.

After one day break there was ESGC (European Students’ Go Championship), a six round tournament where I started pretty well winning first four games (the only notable win is against Antoine Fenech, but I am not sure whether the game is notable too). After this, there were only two of us with four wins, but ex-insei Pal Balogh crushed me in his favourite moyo style game. In the last round I played Merlijn Kuin, it was basically a game for the second place (which means going to Japan). The game started by Merlijn making a mistake followed by about three of my mistakes. After having played endgame in the fuseki in such an important game I was angry with myself and started some wild invading. The group got quite big and it could have lived easily in many ways but I somehow managed to die. Painful…

Yep, they are all gone.

3, 3, 3, 11, 15, 15, 7, 6, 8, 8, 1, 1

That’s (approximately) the number of people staying at my place at a given day from 28.8. to 9.9.

We had no major problems and nothing too bad happened, which is definitely very nice.