Thursday 30 December 2010

Reading Bible

Recently I started reading Bible. The reason was, that it is often said, that Bible is what made the Western Civilization... must say that it has not changed my mind about the God (yup, He still does not exist for me, not even some Flying Spaghetti Monster), but it is very interesting book to read.

One can see how life was back there for example from all those things which are forbidden etc. I cannot imagine that nowadays priests would be liked if they would be speaking in churches about not f***ing your own mother, because no one who is actually NORMAL does not have such thoughts... but the list in Leviticus of which family members are not bangable, made me really laugh, because someone living in the era, when this was "normal" HAD TO write that list.

Eitherway from this little example we can say that the author was quite succesful. Only the thought of it is like atrocity these days. But on the other hand, it was written back in the old times, where genetics was even not idea and people would not know DNA, but still inbreeding is very bad because of the physical and health damages. So it is both morally and genetically wrong.

Saturday 11 December 2010

Nothing like subileus

Ever and yet again... what a great night.

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Bratislava at night and tremendous Giovanni Sollima

Don't know whether it was because we came during the "before Christmas" part of the year, or that it was the evening with full moon, but Bratislava seemed to me like very beautiful city.

We were only in the old historical part, but being totally alone at the castle (whose premises are open till 1 in the night) was quite magical.

The reason to be in Bratislava was quite charming concert of Giovanni Sollima. He was tremendous as usual, played the best concerto for two cellos by Vivaldi, then Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze (You should be there, Nigel Kennedy as well), couple of pieces by Sollima, then really great Nirvana songs and some old Italian pieces as well. Encore was finished by terra danza and improvisation on the old theme from 18th century.

Anyway Sollima was great, but from the eight Slovakian cellists who accompanied Sollima, only one or two were good, and only one of them was at least little match to the genious play by Giovanni Sollima...

But it was really a great evening and on the way to Bratislava we also made a visit in Brno, Vankovka Gallery and saw great contemporary Czech Artists. Quite downside of the Brno was the local franchise of Potrefena Husa, who from three meals served one horrible and unedible (soup), one quite terrible (onion gratin with goose liver) and one on the level of "Maybe I will survive if I eat these funghi papardelle." And keeping asking me about whether I like the food, really does not make the food any better, just me uncomfortable being honest...

Friday 5 November 2010

Usefulness of social sciences

It is rather interesting fact that none of us is having any doubts about such sciences as physics or medicine. But when it goes to the social sciences there is (at least for me) one interisting problem.

How come we actually have doubts about social sciences? Sometimes it looks like such sciences (as sociology, media studies etc.) are mostly important only for those, who say it is science, i.e. scientists. Those who are the practitionists of the science. What we do, or write is only read or understood by other social scientists.

Is then there any sense at all in all this stuff? One can even say, that the social sciences have the reason only for the social scientists because they are not capable of anything else than creating teoretical categories from "our" everyday life.

How come is this in any way useful for the "common" people? Will their life be changed for the better? And is such change even needed? And are the theories even capable of such thing? Someimes I have serious doubts about this. And when you have doubts about the usefulness, how can you be so sure what exactly should you study or research?

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Vision 97 and knowledge

Last week I was at the Vision 97 ceremony, at which Paul Konrad Liessmann was awarded... I read in the materials that he writes a lot about knowledge and education, so maybe I should read something...

The times when there were polyhistors are gone... they knew a few information about a lot of things. Nowadays we have specialists who know almost everything about almost nothing...

What is better? Or can we even ask if is something better? Either way I still have respect for all people who are such Fachidiots in their field of work and yet they have vast knowledge about almost every science there is... but in my life I met only three of such people.

How not to get lost in the knowledge

Allegedly when Roland Barthes died, he had at home aproximately 15 000 index "cards" with different entries about what he was doing and when he was writing his non-fiction books he used these cards...

Looks like really painful-in-the-ass and slow process, but maybe he did not get lost in all that knowledge... nowadays I have a feeling that anything you want to know, you just type it in Google or find it on Wikipedia, but you "forget" it in the second you read it...

Thursday 30 September 2010

Out of the system...

Making idiots of intellectuals and of idiots intellectuals.

Tuesday 28 September 2010

"Live" not fast enough

Television changed our perception of time in a way, that before TV we were satisfied enough, when we read news day after it happenned.

But internet chnged the situation so much, that sometimes I have a feeling, that even "live" broadcast is not fast enought. Therefore we send press releases to the media "before they actually happen" with embargo e.g. till 8 p.m. Only then when e.g. the winner of the contest is told during the event it can become news right in that second on the internet...

There is a nice example from Czech Republic (back then it was Czechoslovakia), that when one of the high officers of stalinist regime died (before the television), people working on the radio were so afraid of their lifes, that they actually recorded the whole funeral and then they were playing in it on the radio... problem was that the funeral procession was moving quite slowly and the record was much faster... therefore they said two sentences and then there were mute minutes of nothing...

Monday 27 September 2010

My new love...

Pickled Ginger. Today I ate almost half of the can... hmm, tasty.



Sunday 26 September 2010

Tough to be intelectuall

Intelectuall is an expert, which can be characterized as a person, whose expertise and knowledge is not worth of to be noticed by the large part of the society. (paraphrased Berger and Luckmann). In other words, no one gives a fuck about intelectualls and their baloney.

Sunday 19 September 2010

Talking with my wife

"Today I felt really like an ass, being in a tram, listening to newest Philip Glass opera and reading Michel Foucault and his Archeology of knowledge."

"Yeah, you tell me, I was reading Nietzsche and listening to Bach in the tram."

lol, maybe we should switch to Michael Jackson and Danielle Steele :oP

Thursday 16 September 2010

Vertigo over knowledge

Sometimes you feel almost sick from every book you have just read. Lets say I have read hundreds of books, but with every new one I feel like I "know" still nothing, or very little. Every book intertextually connects you to another book and another author, but still there are lots of those you will never have time or possibility to read...

And that feeling is something I would compare to the vertigo over knowledge.

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Where is bidet situated in countries in which they write from right to left?

It is kinda well-known fact, that people who live in countries which use left-to-right handwriting have sense of time as a line which goes from left to right, e.g. if you draw a line and in middle you write NOW, then on the left side is PAST and on the right side is FUTURE.

It works on the opposite level for the people who write from right to left. Their FUTURE is on the LEFT etc.

Now the interesting thing is if this works also in architecture. Take for example the toilets. In most (lets say European, cause it is where I live) countries when you sit on a toilet and look around, the bidet is situated on the rigt side. You know, first you poop and then you move on the timeline to the right, where your bidet is.

To prove my hypothesis, which says, that in the countries where they write from right to left, they will have bidets on the left side, I would want to see their toilets.

Well there are certainly some flaws in this, i.e. do they have bidets in such countries etc., but if they have, maybe you should look left after you poop :o).

Please, leave comments if you have experience with toilets in right-to-left writing countries :o). OH, I forgot you cant make comments because of the stupid fucks who spammed the blog all the time :o))

Monday 2 August 2010

Secularization

Finding Yellow Pages instead of the Bible in the bedside table at hotels.

Is communism dead?

It is so funny, that when reading about anti-communist activists, media always mention Cuba or China. Well I think that if Marx would see the conditions of proletariat in China, he would wet his pants, because that is the purest form of capitalism there and yet they are enslaved there under the notion of communistic regime.

On the other hand in European Union we say that we have democracy, but look at the working conditions of proletariat here. That is the purest form of socialism. And what is Brussel? Lots of people look at Brussel as the lair of the socialist bureaucrats who are regulating economy as much as they can and Brussel is then only other form of central planning.  

I would be really interested in what ideology the activists who fight against China believe in. Are they leftists or righ-wings? Because if they prefer leftist ideology, then it would be really interesting.

Sunday 30 May 2010

Negative connotations

Propaganda and ideology. Both words used to have positive connotations up until the famous leaders used them.

Being propagandist during the time of Congretaion de Propaganda Fide used to be a noble job. Then Hitler and Goebbles came.

Ideology used to be a positive term as well. Then Napoleon came.

Are there any words, that used to have negative connotation and then someone with lust for killing came and it became positive? Guess not.

Saturday 22 May 2010

Paradigmatical changes of sport in television

Hm, so today I found another change in the sports in television. ice hockey shootouts are now only on series of three. Plus there was only one overtime. Tss. I guess that the TVs were pissed off, when two overtimes and longer shootouts were disturbing their whole-day programmes...

I was wondering how many of the changes in sports there were in the history of television...

Table-tennis - now using bigger balls.
Tennis - using greenish balls.
Volleyball - not playing on "losses" anymore
Football in winter - orange ball.

Hmm, looks like there were at least couple of them. Well, if you know any more, or I will remember other, I will add them to the list.

Thursday 6 May 2010

Socialists of all countries JOIN. To pay the Greek debt!

The Greece case has a simple solution. Kick them from the EU, let THEM pay the debt and good bye and good luck.

While the whole EU is looking for money for them - e.g. Slovakia has to borrow money to get the money for Greece, they even protest against the EU and MMF and tell them to go home.

If any Greek fucker reads this - I dont know any other country, where they have 13th and 14th incomes in a year, where they retire at 53 years of age and where the socialists have even made such perks as if you come to work on time you will get extra money for punctuality.

Jesus fucking Christ, and with your protests, you can even go and fuck yourself, cause i dont know any other income of Greece apart from tourism and olive oil. I am definitely not coming during Summer to Greece to support your bad economy build up on EU donations.

Wednesday 14 April 2010

Meaning of Life

Many wondered about the meaning of life. This is probably not something new, but when I was watching the hundreds of people passing me by on a todays lunch snack with the view at the city square I thought this.

Maybe the whole meaning of life is the life itself. That our purpose is merely continuity of the species. I know it is slightly influenced by the Jewish-Christian idea of "be fruitful and increase in number", but maybe this is just it. Live, have kids and then die. All that is around it is just a bonus of how you make this happen.

Who knows.

Update. Well, maybe one should also try to behave like a human being. This is influenced by one story which was said by Malcolm X and that a white guy approached him, whether he would shake hands with him and Malcolm X replied in a way that he will shake hands with anyone who tries to be a human being.

Update 2. Well, maybe you end up like in Monty Pythons / Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. /.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

"No signal" when using HP desktop computer with GT230 installed

Having bought recently the great HP Elite 7000 MT desktop solution, I found out very soon that there is something wrong with it.

If you played PC games or used any other content heavy on graphic card resources... your screen would just turn black and say "No Signal".

Well looks like I was not the only one, because here on this HP forum, you can see that there are several other ppl with the same problem.

Looks like there is problem with the Pegatron GT230 (Nvidia based) graphic card and replacement of the card is the only solution. Even if your serviceman tries to make an ass of you by helping you with: "Update the drivers" recommendation... you should really insist on repleacement if you have the GT230 on your HP Solution. First you can of course  try to update the drivers, but there is a high chance that you have the faulty line of the graphic card.

Friday 5 February 2010

Thoughts on Sex before marriage

I read kinda interesting article, which can be summarized as follows:

a) sex before marriage as a religious problem (Catholics) emerged hundreds of years ago, when people were adolescent (puberty) around 15 years of age and then they become married around 17 years of age. Two years without sex.

b) nowadays people are adolescent (puberty) around 13 years of age and are getting married around 30 (at least in Europe). Seventeen years without sex.

That concludes that living by Catholic beliefs means in nowadays society 17 years of renunciation, sexual frustration and lots of other stuff which will damage your psyché for the rest of your life. Because people should not get sexually active around 30.

Either you get married at 18 years of age, which is nowadays kinda sick - with the growth of university education in Western society (you end University now around 25 or 26 yrs) or you just have to brake the rules which are not coined for society we live in now. Your call.

Monday 1 February 2010

Saturday 23 January 2010

Gender Studies

Hmm, so I read a brochure written by Gender Studies organization and I have a slight logical problem with it.

a) it says, that gender stereotypes are social constructions, which we could say that this is kopernikos logic (how Winfried Schulz has put it) or constructionist theory of representation (Berger and Luckmann)

but

b) then it says, that the biggest culprit are media, which destruct the reality, because they falsely representate the reality, which we could say that this is ptolemaios logic (how Winfreid Schulz has put it) or reflexive theory of representation.

These two are total opposite and either you "believe" in one logic on in the other. Because in the reflexive logic you "believe" in that journalism can be objective and unbiased and that it is the media or journalists who destruct the reality. Or, you "believe" that objectivity is impossible and it should work only such as ideal which you can never succeed in, but you should at least try.

I have a slight feeling, that this construct of critisism is slightly illogical and it uses everything what it can just to support its ideas. Well I do not have any problem with gender studies or feminism - go for it! - but I have feeling that if someone from Gender Studies organization tries to write about media, maybe it should be bullet-proof logic. Both their claims a) and b) are correct, but I have feeling that they are not correct both together, because it says the opposite.

P.S. Well there is also the third theory of representation and it is called "intentional". It says, that the objective "truth" is framed by the intention of the communicator, i.e. if I say A is right, then A is right, even if it is not right, because it is my intention. This theory is in between the reflexive and contructionist point of view, because it says that neither of it is right. Usually it concerns propaganda, manipulation and persuasive techniques.