Vecāku rūpes ir neizmērojamas

Mamma ieraudzīja manu draugiem.lv profila bildi (izgriezums no šīs), un viņai radās vien divi jautājumi:

1. Vai es esmu dzīvs?
2. Vai tas bija mēģinājums izmukt no kāzām (veiksmīgs vai neveiksmīgs — atkarīgs no atbildes uz 1. jautājumu)?

:D

Satistiski vidēji 300m attālumā no tevis kādam ir sekss

Izmantojot šo formulu, un datus no šejienes, šejienes (Latvijas datu nebija, tāpēc paņēmu vidējo no Vācijas un Lielbritānijas, un pavilku uz leju līdz lielam, apaļam ciparam, lai nebūtu uzpūsti dati) un šejienes (pats raksts gan ir maldinošs, bet Latvijai tuvāku statistiku man neizdevās atrast), veicu vajadzīgo aprēķinu. Rezultāts — ja tu dzīvo Rīgā, tad statistiski vidēji kāds pāris nodarbojas ar seksu ne vairāk kā 300m rādiusā no tevis :P. Latvijā kopumā rezultāts krietni vien neinteresantāks — 2,4 km.

Pārdodu ģitāru – Stagg SW203CETU-N elektro-akustiskā, iebūvēts skaņotājs + soma

Laiks viekt nelielu upgrade. Lai kompensētu jaunas ģitāras iegādes tēriņus, jāmēģina notirgot pašreizējo. Vainas nekādas, jauna pati par sevi maksā, ja nemaldos, kaut kādus 115-130 Ls, tā kā 100 Ls kuros ietilpst arī 20 Ls vērta soma ir, manuprāt, visai izdevīgs darījums.

Sludinājums: http://www.zip.lv/show/?i=607691.

ja nemaldos,

Pārdota!

Mīti par šķavām

Gana daudz esmu dzirdējis, gan pats kultivējis, tāpēc pēdējais laiks aizvērties un izstāstīt, kā ir patiesībā. Lietas, kas vienkārši nav patiesība:

• Šķaudot nav iespējams noturēt acis vaļā. Ir cilvēki, kas var.
• Nošķaudoties ar atvērtām acīm, tās izsprāgs no pieres. Acu iedobumi ir no kaula, nekādi nav saistīti ar elpvadiem un aiz acīm nav nekādu muskuļu, kas šķaudoties sasprindzinātos. Pat ja tā nebūtu, cilvēka acu plakstiņi nav tik izturīgi, lai varētu stāties ceļā tik spēcīgam spiedienam, kādu vajadzētu, lai acābolus izspiestu no dobumiem.
• Šķavas ir mini-orgasms un/vai vairākas šķavas pēc kārtas spēj izraisīt orgasmu. Ja tā būtu, cilvēki, kas cieš no alerģijām, būtu vieni no laimīgākajiem pasaulē. ;) Iespējams, ka mīts ir cēlies (kā jau lielākā daļa), pārprotot no konteksta izrautu seksa terapeitistes Rutas Vesthaimeres (Ruth Westheimer) sacīto, ka “orgasms tāda pati šķava vien ir.” Patiesībā viņa teica “orgasms ir reflekss, tāpat, kā šķavas.”
• Šķaudīšanas laikā apstājas sirds. Nē, tā ne apstājas, ne palēninās.

Dažas lietas, kas gan ir patiesas:

• Šķaudot ir iespējams salauzt ribu.
• Neļaujot šķavai notikt dabiskā veidā — turot ciet gan muti, gan degunu — ir iespējams pārplēst bungādiņas.

Tā kā redzi “aizšķaudīt” nav iespējams, bet dzirdi gan (ja mēģina kaut ko improvizēt).

Pārdodu videokarti – MSI NX7600GS (PCI-E, 256 MB)

Pats sludinājums. Karte nu jau mazliet morāli novecojusi, bet varbūt kādam noder.
Pārdota!

Veidi, kā cīnīties ar pirātismu

Lielākā daļa ir specifiski datorspēlēm, izcelšu tos, kas manuprāt attiecas arī uz jebkuru citu jomu (bet iesaku izlasīt arī pārējos, cilvēks zina, ko runā). No savas puses es vēl varētu piemest padomu — taisīt labākas, ilgdzīvojošākas spēles. Pat paši izstrādātāji atzīst, ka galvenais viņiem ir aizkavēt spēles nonākšanu Internetā pirmo nedēļu vai divas, jo tieši pirimajās nedēļās ir vislielākie ienākumi (tātad, teroētiski — vislielākie zaudējumi, ja spēli masveidā iegūst par velti). Man tas liek domāt, ka lielākā daļa dārgo spēļu ir tik dārgas nevis tāpēc, ka tajās būtu ieguldīts milzīgs darbs un resursi, bet gan tāpēc, ka milzīgs darbs un līdzekļi ir ieguldīti gandrīz tikai vizuālajā izskatā un reklāmas kampaņās, lai pēc iespējas vairāk cilvēku, skatoties attēlus un video, noticētu, ka viņiem to spēli vajag, uzreiz pēc iznākšanas nopirktu (vai pasūtītu pat vēl pirms iznākšanas). Pēc tam jau vienalga, ka tā tiek paspēlēta dažas stundas/dienas un apnīk aizmirsta — cilvēks ir “uzķēries”, naudiņa nokāsta, cepam augšā nākošo (un mana pieredze ar daudzām no jaunākajām spēlēm šo viedokli, diemžēl, apstiprina). Labai spēlei, manuprāt, ir jābūt ilgtermiņa ieguldījumam — pirmajās dienās mazliet labāki pārdošanas cipari, tad tāda kā pauzīte, kamēr nezinātāji nepērk un nopirkušie spēli paspēlē, novērtē. Un tad ienākumi atsākas un lēnām turpina nākt, jo spēli nopirkušie turpina to spēlēt dienām, nedēļām, mēnešiem, gadiem (nē, ne jau no vietas ;)) stāsta, rāda draugiem un visādi citādi reklamē pasaulei, piesaistot arvien vairāk cilvēku.

Un tagad atgriežamies pie paša raksta. :)
The Escapist: 10 Ways to Fight Piracy:

5. Be open about piracy.

The common tactic is for publishers to make outrageous claims about their losses from piracy. If you’re going to talk about piracy, then at least acknowledge the basic facts which every gamer has already grasped: Piracy is hard to track, and most of your numbers are guesswork. More importantly, not all downloads are lost sales. If a million people downloaded your $60 game, you did not lose 60 million dollars. When you say things like this gamers conclude that you’re either a bunch of idiots, or that you think they are a bunch of idiots. Either way, they will tune you out instead of joining you in your lamentations.

8. Lower Prices.

[..]

I’ve mentioned before that prices should simply drop during the shelf-life of a game to glean the sales of those lower-tier customers. Some people can pay $20 for a game. Some will pay $40. Some will pay $60. If you only go after the top tier then you’re leaving money on the table and giving the lower-tier customers an excuse to visit the torrents.

9. Accept piracy.

Note that I’m talking about reducing piracy, not eliminating it.

Your plight is not unique. All businesses suffer losses at some point, and smart businesses will account for these inevitable losses in their plans. Wall-Mart puts up with shoplifting. They could probably catch more shoplifters if they strip-searched people on the way out, but they’re smart enough to know that such a policy would do more harm than good. Retailers know and expect a certain degree of losses due to theft. (They call it shrinkage.) Piracy happens. The goal should be to mitigate it without annoying or accusing paying customers.

Dienas čupiņa #20090510

• Alpine Legends videospēle (1. aprīļa joks no Microsoft).
• GMail e-pasta autoatbildētājs (1. aprīļa joks no Google).
• Vienkārši jauks videoklipiņš.
• Viens no prasmīgākajiem ēnu teātriem, ko nācies redzēt.
• Google Chrome komiksa parodijas: te, te, te un te.
• M. Džeksona dziesmas “Billy Jean” kovers.
• Viena fotogrāfija un mazliet teksta var pateikt daudz.

Joprojām tirgojamies — PSP TV kabelis (component)

Ar tām pārdodamajām lietām kā ar tarakāniem — ja atrodi vienu, skaidrs, ka ir vēl. :P
Info par pašu vadiņu. Pārdots!

Gluži kā multenēs

Sestdien uz vienas zināmās aprindās plaši pazīstamas mikroshēmas pārgriezu (ar nazi izsmērēju) ne mazāk pazīstamu dzīslu. Svētdien izdomāju, ka tomēr gribu atpakaļ, kā bija — paņēmu zīmuli, trūkstošo posmu vienkārši ņēmu un uzzīmēju, un viss strādā kā sākumā. :P

Jā, es zinu, ka tas nav nekas īpašs un visi to zina. Ļauj tak papriecāties, e?

Roberta A. Hainlaina gudrības

Visu jau nevar salikt, tāpēc izlasīju, manuprāt, labākos.
Robert A. Heinlein, “Time Enough For Love”:

• Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.
• Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
• There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?
• If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
• Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
• A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.
• No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: “Come back with your shield, or on it.” Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
• Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy”is the most amazing — with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place.
• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is theonly universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “Women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.
• All men are created unequal.
• A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
• When the need arises — and it does — you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don’t farm it out — that doesn’t make it nicer, it makes it worse.
• One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
• Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it’s more sanitary.
• Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
• Never appeal to a man’s “better nature.” He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
• You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
• Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
• Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
• An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications.
• Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”
• In a mature society, “civil servant” is semantically equal to “civilmaster.”
• When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away.
• A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
• There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.’” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts arenot part of “Nature” — but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-fade absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers’ purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the Naturist reveals his hatred for his own race — i.e., his own self-hatred. In the case of “Naturists” such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong-an-emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate. As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women — it strikes me as a fine arrangement — and perfectly “natural”. Believe it or not, there were “Naturists” who opposed the first flight to old Earth’s Moon as being “unnaturaI” and a “despoiling of Nature.”
• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.
• Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?
• Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government; it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat-driver syndrome.”
• What are the facts? Again and again and again — what are thefacts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
• Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death,
  there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
• Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)
• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty.” Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute — get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
• Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter bow “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
• Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing — and you don’t have to go home in the cold. But it’slonely.
• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. If tempted by something that feels “altruistic,” examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
• The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive
  Industry in all history.
• The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.
• Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as yourpersona requires.
• If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I’ve never heard of it.
• A competent and self-confident personis incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
• You live and learn. Or you don’t live long.
• One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
• The phrase “we (I) (you) simply must—” designates something that need not be done. “That goes without saying” is a red warning. “Of course” means you had best check it yourself. These small-change clichés and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
• Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
• Rub her feet.
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.