Archive for random thoughts

I am getting pretty sick of KGS. It’s been bothering me for several months already.
Most admins don’t care about the users at all. What’s worse, I’m starting to be like that too. I simply follow the rules: “leave me alone, we don’t deal with escapers, the system does it automatically”. Which is true only partially. […]

Recently, Merlijn lent me The God Delusion, a book written by Richard Dawkins. He urged me to read it, but I thought that as an agnostic or weak atheist, I will not be very influenced by reading it. Now I can see how deeply mistaken I was. So, big thanks to Merlijn.
// Side note: While […]

I am not going to talk about excuses about why you came late, why you didn’t do your homework, why you broke your promise, etc. These excuses are necessary, if you omit to explain why it happened, you will face unpleasant consequences (you will face unpleasant consequences anyway, but you can at least lower them […]

I write with my right hand.
I sleep on my left side.
I hold spoon in my right hand.
When I walk in a circle I always turn to the left.
When I walk next to someone, I prefer walking on the right side because I want to have the person on my left side.
When I walk alone, I […]

To continue my previous post about films…
A Fish Called Wanda, 1988, 8/10: It’s a comedy, a reasonably good one too. Undeniably Pythonesque.
A Hard Day’s Night, 1964, 7/10: Something between a comedy and a documentary. Maybe documenting a comedy.
Citizen Kane, 1941, 10/10: Classic, well worth watching (some people said that they expected too much and were […]

This post is not about math, it is about how I perceive the world.
I know, fourth dimension is easy, for example you can easily create vector v=(1, 2, 3, 4) … but somehow, this is just numbers and tricks, I can’t really feel the fourth dimension. I recently had some free time to think about […]

I use the internet all the time. About 20% of my internet usage involves searching for some kind of encyclopaedic info (dictionaries included). Another 20% consists of mostly random funny or interesting things, like reddit, digg, links from friends. And finally, communication with other people makes up around 60%.
I sometimes do write emails, but mostly […]

During the past few months, I saw several films, most of which are highly praised and widely considered as the best ones.
Here it goes, sorted by year of production, including my subjective score on a 1-10 scale (where 10 is best; I tried to be tough in scoring):
The Battleship Potemkin, 1925, 5/10: This one is […]

Actually, I ain’t. I’m more of an agnostic. But it’s a cool quote from Luis Buñuel.
Here, let’s throw a couple random links:

An atheist at Virginia Tech (if you have no time to read all the links, read just this one)

Douglas Adams: Radical Atheist (look at the responses too)
Atheism (quite a popular video on youtube)
A few […]

Call me biased.
As much as I love cheese, I hate chess.
Chess is often regarded as “the best board game”. Some say that chess is profound, that it requires more skill to master than other board games, and chess players often act arrogantly (take that, bastards, I can be arrogant too).
What I dislike the most about […]