Archive for December, 2007

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I’m willing to pay money for a good service…
Example: I bought not too large amount of cheese for almost 20€ recently. At the shop, there was a cute girl who spent like 15 minutes helping me to choose what to buy. When I was interested in some cheese, I could try it out to see […]

Posted on 2007-27-12 in random thoughts
Short stories 1 comment »

Short stories are good when you don’t have much time but want to read something (why welcome, Captain Obvious).
Here are few that I really liked:
Isaac Asimov: The Last Question
Terry Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat
Ambrose Bierce: Moxon’s Master
Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum
I strongly advise you to read at least the first two.
Somehow, […]

Posted on 2007-23-12 in fun stuff
Mildly paranoid 7 comments »

I’m mildly paranoid – and fully aware of it.
For example, when leaving a windowless room with the lightswitch inside (typically a bathroom) and entering a lighted corridor/passage/room/whatever I always switch the light off before opening the door. Why? Well, if there was anyone out there out to get me, this could give me a considerable […]

Posted on 2007-20-12 in personal
We don’t need no educashion 5 comments »

No, not another Pink Floyd post…
It happened that I changed schools again. Faculty of business management at vutbr was real crap (so crap I’m not even giving them a link). Easily the worst school I’ve ever seen. While I think that educashion is very important, I’m not a fan of schooling. One can educate (or […]

Posted on 2007-14-12 in personal, random thoughts
The real reason I write my blog in English 3 comments »

As some of you might have noticed, I’ve been writing this blog in English exclusively. My “official reason” was for it to be accessible to more people. While I’m happy that more people can read my blog, it certainly wasn’t the main force behind my decision.
I spent my highschool days writing papers in Czech, and […]

Posted on 2007-08-12 in random thoughts