Out of the system...

Making idiots of intellectuals and of idiots intellectuals.

"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...

My new love...

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

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.

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

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.

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))