Monday, October 10, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Notable immortal species include the Turritopsis nutricula, a jellyfish which after becoming a sexually mature adult, can transform itself back into a polyp using the cell conversion process of transdifferentiation.
Turritopsis nutricula repeats this cycle, meaning that it may have an indefinite lifespan.
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Turritopsis nutricula repeats this cycle, meaning that it may have an indefinite lifespan.
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Saturday, September 03, 2011
William Klein
"A picture is taken at 125th of a second. [...] The life of a photographer, even of a great photographer as they say: 2 seconds"
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Martin Parr - The Magic Moment
"I believe it is the increasing wealth of the western world, which is fundamentally my main subject, is in the end the thing which will do as all in. I ‘m no exception; i live in a beautiful house, I have lots of things, I buy everything I want, I’m a big hypocrite. I’m not going to sacrifice my wealth for the sake of the planet as indeed anyone wealthy is not prepared to do. [...] The greed of you, me and the viewers of this program."
(The Magic Moment/2003, by Hank Onrust for VPRO, Netherlands)
(The Magic Moment/2003, by Hank Onrust for VPRO, Netherlands)
Monday, August 15, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Monday, August 01, 2011
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every involuntary repulsion that arises in your mind, give heed unto. It is the surface of a central truth."
Friday, July 29, 2011
Twist in my Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram
one of those songs that I always forget the title
(la cinématographie est magnifique)
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Garry Winogrand ~ Class Time with Garry
You have a lifetime to learn technique, he seemed to be saying, but I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Saturday, June 04, 2011
the gaze of the Other
Jean Paul Sartre saw the gaze as the battleground for the self to define and redefine itself; we become aware of our self as subject only when confronted with the gaze of the Other and become aware of our self as object. The gaze of the Other is outside our immediate control and the way the gaze objectifies us robs us of our freedom as a subject: "insofar as I am the object of values which come to qualify me without my being able to act on this qualification or even to know it, I am enslaved. (more)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, November 11, 2010
To loose the memory of the take
Winogrand almost never developed his film immediately. He said he deliberately waited a year or two in order to lose the memory of the take.
Monday, November 08, 2010
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The guy who didn't move in Istanbul
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
this one's about to take a crap
Triggered by the bird roll post on leica diaries, I remembered these pictures I had taken in Camden.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Mingus on Academia?
"Making the simple complicated*1 is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple**2, that's creativity." ~ Charles Mingus
Recipe for:
*1 Publishing scientific papers
**2 Being a good teacher
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Why my desktop is never tidy
"My problem with classifications is that they don’t last; hardly have I finished putting things into an order before that order is obsolete. Like everyone else, I presume, I am sometimes seized by a mania for arranging things. The sheer number of the things needing to be arranged and the near-impossibility of distributing them according to any truly satisfactory criteria means that I never finally manage it, that the arrangements I end up with are temporary and vague, and hardly any more effective that the original anarchy"
- George Perec, How I Classify
- George Perec, How I Classify
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Friday, October 23, 2009
It works this way as well
"What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new community, forgetting and forgotten by the place that now means so much to me. In short , what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (what is now) my home."
-SZ
What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new relationship, forgetting and forgotten by the woman that has ment so much to me. In short, what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (whom is now) my woman.
-SZ
What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new relationship, forgetting and forgotten by the woman that has ment so much to me. In short, what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (whom is now) my woman.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Between
Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman
- Woody Allen
There is no direct, unmediated relation between the male and female sexual position, because the Other of language stands between them as a third party
- Jacques Lacan
- Woody Allen
There is no direct, unmediated relation between the male and female sexual position, because the Other of language stands between them as a third party
- Jacques Lacan
Friday, September 25, 2009
White rim with Warsaw theme (beamer ~ latex)
Problem:
Notice the white rim appearing on the left. A quick (but not the most elegant) solution to this is to edit the theme file used by Warsaw.
Open the tex\latex\beamer\themes\outer directory and (after backing up), edit:
beamerouterthemeshadow.sty
In the
\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{shadow theme}
block, find the following line:
\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hbox{%
and add an hskip, for me -0.05ex worked:
\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hskip-0.05ex\hbox{%
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Well, it's a long, long time
From May to December.
But the days grow short,
When you reach September
When you reach September
And the days dwindle down
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Philip Glass @ BBC Proms (8/2009)
http://rapidshare.com/files/268039581/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/268043149/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part2.rar
Philip Glass
* Violin Concerto (23 mins)
* Symphony No.7 'A Toltec Symphony' (UK premiere) (36 mins)
* Gidon Kremer violin
* BBC Symphony Chorus
* BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
* Dennis Russell Davies conductor
Friday, July 24, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Clint Mansell and The Sonus Quartet @ Union Chapel, London (July 2009)
"The live line-up is a nine-piece band featuring the Sonus Quartet from Los Angeles and also piano, guitars ,bass and drums. We will play music from Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler as well as some new material, yet to be released."
From The Fountain:
From Requiem:
From The Fountain:
From Requiem:
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Evangelical (A)theism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go_XII
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6591231.ece
http://lucidsawndream.blogspot.com/2009/06/atheist-summer-camp.html
"On the one hand we have this so called rise of fundamentalism and so on, but something very interesting started to happen in the last years. Did you notice how a certain very vulgar direct materialism, attacking religion as stupidity, immoral laws, is gaining also at the same time extreme popularity. The three big stars even for, of course us, are originally Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and now also Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Its kind of an extremely vulgur reductionist materialism claiming religion is basically stupid, ethically hurtfull and so on. I think more and more that these are in a way two sides of the same coin, that we don't have to choose between these two." - SZ
Monday, June 15, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Two tD Points: A few years ago, around gardens & Grapevines. Now.
(1)
[...]
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
[...]
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?
[...]
When the child was a child,
it awoke once in a strange bed,
and now does so again and again.
Many people, then, seemed beautiful,
and now only a few do, by sheer luck.
[...]
//
(2)
According to the “Mosquitoes” chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), mosquitoes are seen as reincarnations of the dead, condemned by the errors of their former lives to the condition of Jiki-ketsu-gaki, or "blood-drinking pretas".
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Όξω! Όξω! στις χωραφκιές του Βούδα
among stars to wander forever,
weightless, without a headline,
without thought,
without newspapers to read
by the light of the Galaxies
http://open.spotify.com/track/05hCoZEzc4VX9OnxQq7VGz
http://qualityspam.blogspot.com/2009/03/hydrogen-jukebox.html
weightless, without a headline,
without thought,
without newspapers to read
by the light of the Galaxies
http://open.spotify.com/track/05hCoZEzc4VX9OnxQq7VGz
http://qualityspam.blogspot.com/2009/03/hydrogen-jukebox.html
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Includegraphics causes entire page to turn bold (LaTeX)
This happens when you 're including a .pdf image, which contains text in latin modern fonts. Found no other solution except turning into a .jpg (and missing the vector graphics pros) or changing the font type.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
you will find me if you want me in the garden
Οξα είμαστεν μαλαχτοί compilers για dna-source-code
http://open.spotify.com/track/122YkByeAQfmLWld0lDCit
http://open.spotify.com/track/122YkByeAQfmLWld0lDCit
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
We have a deficit of wonder right now
Tom Waits: "This is what's wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now."
(Source: "Tom Waits: Dancing In" The Dark Harp Magazine (USA), by Tom Moon. December, 2004), taken from here
(Source: "Tom Waits: Dancing In" The Dark Harp Magazine (USA), by Tom Moon. December, 2004), taken from here
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
LaTeX Template για Πτυχιακή Εργασία
LaTeX template πτυχιακής εργασίας για το Τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.
download templUoA
download templUoA
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Hmmmmm
Από cosmo.gr:
"Εντυπωσίασε η Madonna στην πρεμιέρα της περιοδείας της [...] Καθισμένη σε ένα διαμαντένιο θρόνο που είχε έμβλημα το «M» [...] έκανε την εμφάνισή της η Madonna στη σκηνή του Millenium Stadium του Κάρντιφ
[...]
Για μια ακόμα φορά, χρησιμοποιεί τη σκηνή για να περάσει πολιτικά μηνύματα, καθώς προβάλλονταν βίντεο με τις μορφές ανθρώπων που εργάζονται για παγκόσμιους σκοπούς όπως ο Bono και ο Al Gore να εναλλάσσονται με εικόνες από χώρες που σπαράσσονται από πόλεμο και πείνα."
Hm.
"Εντυπωσίασε η Madonna στην πρεμιέρα της περιοδείας της [...] Καθισμένη σε ένα διαμαντένιο θρόνο που είχε έμβλημα το «M» [...] έκανε την εμφάνισή της η Madonna στη σκηνή του Millenium Stadium του Κάρντιφ
[...]
Για μια ακόμα φορά, χρησιμοποιεί τη σκηνή για να περάσει πολιτικά μηνύματα, καθώς προβάλλονταν βίντεο με τις μορφές ανθρώπων που εργάζονται για παγκόσμιους σκοπούς όπως ο Bono και ο Al Gore να εναλλάσσονται με εικόνες από χώρες που σπαράσσονται από πόλεμο και πείνα."
Hm.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Leonard Cohen - Who by Fire (Athens, July 2008)
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
tab2win firefox add-on

Tab2Win is a new firefox extension that allows the user to move a tab to a new window. Click to get it.
Comments are enabled for support / questions

Friday, June 06, 2008
Ελληνικό Spell Checker για LaTeX editor (LEd)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
νυχτοπάππαρος, e-nictopaparus (ego)
"Στην Κύπρο απαντώνται 16 είδη νυχτερίδων από τα οποία τα 15 ανήκουν στα μικροχειρόπτερα και είναι εντομοφάγα. Μόνο ο νυχτοπάππαρος ή νυκτοκόρακος (Rousettus aegyptiacus) ανήκει στα μεγαχειρόπτερα και είναι φρουτοφάγο"
Friday, March 21, 2008
Humor in Operating Systems Books
In "Operating System Concepts", (Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne) while explaining the notion of multiprogramming:
- "This idea is common in other life situations. A lawyer does not work for only one client at time. While one case is waiting to go to trial or have papers typed, the lawyer can work on another case. If she has enough clients, the lawyer will never be idle for lack of work. (Idle lawyers tend to become politicians, so there is a certain social value in keeping lawyers busy.)"
- "None of it is even remotely practical in real systems.
Its main function seems to be keeping otherwise
unemployed graph theorists off the streets."
Sunday, March 16, 2008
κι αυτόν τον καραγκιόζη τον Αλ Γκορ
"Αυτό που με κάνει σκανταλιάρη, πάντως, είναι το politically correct. Τη σάχλα αυτή τη σιχαίνομαι - τη μοντέρνα οικολογία, τους οικολόγερους και τις οικολόγριες κι αυτόν τον καραγκιόζη τον Αλ Γκορ. Παίζει και στην παράσταση! Είδα το ντοκιμαντέρ «Μια ενοχλητική αλήθεια». Αυτός υπέγραψε για βομβαρδισμούς στο Ιράκ και τη Γιουγκοσλαβία και σου λέει μετά ότι δεν φταίνε τα πλουτώνια, πρέπει ν' αλλάξεις τη λάμπα και να κλείσεις την τοστιέρα..."
Τζίμης Πανούσης ( απο συνέντευξη εδώ )
Τζίμης Πανούσης ( απο συνέντευξη εδώ )
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The Kerkis Font Family (Latex pack good, TTF bad)
The kerkis font family
http://iris.math.aegean.gr/kerkis/
produces some great results, especially on latex documents and especially in greek. So you just include the kerkis package in your latex document (\usepackage{kerkis}) and you get something as pretty as this:

But beware: This font, when installed as a TTF in windows (that is, pasted in the windows/fonts directory) can cause the gdi plus windows xp library to crash! After installing the fonts yesterday, applications such as YzDock, objectDock and similar ones kept crashing on start-up. Then I noticed ms office 2008 word crashing, and finally photoshop CS2. These apps all crashed on gdiplus.dll, except word which crashed on some other dll. After a few system restore attempts, msconfig configurations, I thankfully ended up in this thread, of a forum. Yes, I had installed a third-party font. So, after a good laugh, I thought that I should warn people getting similar errors...
I want to make clear that this is about the truetype fonts installed in the windows/fonts directory and has nothing to do with the latex package which works great. If you want to install the true type fonts then do so, they can be easily removed if similar problems occcur ( go to windows/fonts directory and delete them )
http://iris.math.aegean.gr/kerkis/
produces some great results, especially on latex documents and especially in greek. So you just include the kerkis package in your latex document (\usepackage{kerkis}) and you get something as pretty as this:

But beware: This font, when installed as a TTF in windows (that is, pasted in the windows/fonts directory) can cause the gdi plus windows xp library to crash! After installing the fonts yesterday, applications such as YzDock, objectDock and similar ones kept crashing on start-up. Then I noticed ms office 2008 word crashing, and finally photoshop CS2. These apps all crashed on gdiplus.dll, except word which crashed on some other dll. After a few system restore attempts, msconfig configurations, I thankfully ended up in this thread, of a forum. Yes, I had installed a third-party font. So, after a good laugh, I thought that I should warn people getting similar errors...
I want to make clear that this is about the truetype fonts installed in the windows/fonts directory and has nothing to do with the latex package which works great. If you want to install the true type fonts then do so, they can be easily removed if similar problems occcur ( go to windows/fonts directory and delete them )
Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Crooked Tree

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me; I'm tall and I'm straight and I'm handsome. Look at you; you're all crooked and bend over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together.
And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper.
And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.
~Tom Waits
Friday, December 21, 2007
uoaMail notifier [ Firefox Add-on ]

Πρίν απο κάποιο καιρό άρχισα να φτιάχνω ενα add-on για τον Firefox που βασικά είναι ενα mail notifier για accounts στο webmail1 του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.
Πλέον η επέκταση είναι διαθέσιμη αποκλειστικά απο το Firefox Add ons
Download Link [ version 0.4 ]
Some Features:
~ Multiple Accounts [user/pass, server]
~ Define max mail check interval [ possible that check is done in less time ]
~ Select to be notified only for personal mail
~ Alert notification (see image) ~ availiable only in Windows
1: [ webmail.uoa.gr ]Έχει δοκιμαστεί στο di.uoa.gr και di.uoa.gr (folders) αλλά πρέπει να δουλεύει και στα άλλα domain
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Makes you wonder
1a
1b
2
3a
3b
4
Mr. 1 thought that "Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed". Also, that "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle-Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace...to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor". And: the apartheid state.
No need to talk about Mr. 2, I think. Quoting his democratical and peace-loving words "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves", "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" etc.
Mr. 3 let us all know about the threat of the ManBearPig . Also he wants us to know that we will save the world if we unplug the TV while we sleep [but travelling with his private jet(s) is ok].
To Mr. 4 we should bow.
Mr. 1 was voted greatest Briton. Mr 2 and 3 got a nobel peace price. Mr 4 didn`t.
1b
2
3a
3b
4
Mr. 1 thought that "Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed". Also, that "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle-Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace...to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor". And: the apartheid state.
No need to talk about Mr. 2, I think. Quoting his democratical and peace-loving words "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves", "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" etc.
Mr. 3 let us all know about the threat of the ManBearPig . Also he wants us to know that we will save the world if we unplug the TV while we sleep [but travelling with his private jet(s) is ok].
To Mr. 4 we should bow.
Mr. 1 was voted greatest Briton. Mr 2 and 3 got a nobel peace price. Mr 4 didn`t.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Hosting Problem
Fixed.
My account on the site that hosted Archive, Galleries etc. has been deleted, so temporarily those sections are out of order.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OpenGL, Glut and Intel 945GM
Running an OpenGL app on a laptop with an Intel 945GM (128 shared) graphics card, I got a little disappointed by a couple of things such as the low fps. But the major problem was quite strange: artifacts, dissapearing polygons. Anyway turns out that the default value for the depth buffer in the OpenGl settings for the graphics card was 16 bits. So what you should do if you are having problems with OpenGL apps (mine was build with glut) on this kind of graphics cards is:
- right click, graphics properties (or the long way: right click, properties, settings, advanced, select the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver and then click on Graphics Properties)
- From the menu, click the '3d Settings' button
- Finally, change the Depth Buffer Bit Depth from whatever it is to 24 Bit Depth Buffer.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Monday, December 18, 2006
Cool4Sms Firefox Extension not working
Λόγω αλλαγής του website της υπηρεσίας cool4u, με την οποία δεν είναι συμβατή η έκδοση 1 του cool4sms firefox extension, δεν λειτουργεί η αποστολή sms μέσω του extension. Ελπίζω να φτιάξω σύντομα κάποια νεώτερη έκδοση.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Day after tomorrow
[...]
They fill us full of lies, everyone buys
'bout what it means to be a soldier
I still do`nt know how I`m supposed to feel
'bout all the blood that`s been spilled
Will God on this throne
get me back home
on the day after tomorrow
You can`t deny, the other side
don`t wanna die anymore than we do
what i `m trying to say is don`t they pray
to the same God that we do?
and tell me how does god choose
whose prayers does he refuse?
who turns the wheel
who throws the dice
on the day after tomorrow
I`m not fighting for justice
I`m not fighting for freedom
I`m fighting, for my life
and another day in the world here
I just do what I`ve been told
We` re just the gravel on the road
and only the lucky ones come home
on the day after tomorrow
and the summer, it too will fade
and with it brings the winter`s frost dear
and i know we too are made
of all the things that we have lost here
I`ll be 21 today
I been saving all my pay
and my plane will touch down
on the day after tomorrow
Day After Tomorrow:
- TW (2004): "The government looks at these 18-year-old kids as shell casings, you know, like we're getting low on ammo, send in some more. We're neck deep in the big muddy and the big chief is telling us to push on and offer up our children. I sure wouldn't want to let my boys go." (Source: "Bard Of The Bizarre". Telegraph Magazine (UK). By Richard Grant)
- TW (2004): "If you write tunes or whatever. I guess that's all you really can do is put a human face on the war. These are MY feelings. You know I just tried to imagine a soldier writing home from ANYWHERE. This is your war you have lost, both sides have lost." (Source: "BBC Interview With Tom Waits." BBC Radio 4 (UK). October 4, 2004. By Mark Coles)
- TW (2004): Tom Waits pauses briefly to consider whether "Day After Tomorrow," which takes the form of a letter home from a soldier at the front, should be interpreted as anti-war in general, or anti-Bush in particular. In the end, he decides, it all comes to the same thing. "Bush calls himself a wartime president, so if you're anti-war you're anti-Bush and if you're anti-Bush you're anti-war," reasons Waits, during a recent phone interview. "I don't know whether he came in knowing he was a wartime president and said, `Well you know what, the only thing missing here is a war.' He's like a doctor who breaks your leg. And then comes in and fixes it for you." (Source: "Songs Of Decay From Waits." Toronto Star (Canada). October 5, 2004. By Vit Wagner)
- TW (2005): "Yeah just a soldier writing home to his family. Tried to make it so it's not really about necessarily this war that we're in now, the Iraq war, but in fact about any war really. Because I guess the letters home are probably the same. I think most of the soldiers are really like the gravel on the road. NS: What do you mean by that? TW: Well the gravel on the road that the others are driving on, you know? Spent shell casings." (Source: "Cool Ivories", American Routes radio show, by Nick Spitzer. February 16-22, 2002)
Day after tomorrow - Tom Waits
Comments taken from: www.tomwaitssupplement.com
They fill us full of lies, everyone buys
'bout what it means to be a soldier
I still do`nt know how I`m supposed to feel
'bout all the blood that`s been spilled
Will God on this throne
get me back home
on the day after tomorrow
You can`t deny, the other side
don`t wanna die anymore than we do
what i `m trying to say is don`t they pray
to the same God that we do?
and tell me how does god choose
whose prayers does he refuse?
who turns the wheel
who throws the dice
on the day after tomorrow
I`m not fighting for justice
I`m not fighting for freedom
I`m fighting, for my life
and another day in the world here
I just do what I`ve been told
We` re just the gravel on the road
and only the lucky ones come home
on the day after tomorrow
and the summer, it too will fade
and with it brings the winter`s frost dear
and i know we too are made
of all the things that we have lost here
I`ll be 21 today
I been saving all my pay
and my plane will touch down
on the day after tomorrow
Day After Tomorrow:
- TW (2004): "The government looks at these 18-year-old kids as shell casings, you know, like we're getting low on ammo, send in some more. We're neck deep in the big muddy and the big chief is telling us to push on and offer up our children. I sure wouldn't want to let my boys go." (Source: "Bard Of The Bizarre". Telegraph Magazine (UK). By Richard Grant)
- TW (2004): "If you write tunes or whatever. I guess that's all you really can do is put a human face on the war. These are MY feelings. You know I just tried to imagine a soldier writing home from ANYWHERE. This is your war you have lost, both sides have lost." (Source: "BBC Interview With Tom Waits." BBC Radio 4 (UK). October 4, 2004. By Mark Coles)
- TW (2004): Tom Waits pauses briefly to consider whether "Day After Tomorrow," which takes the form of a letter home from a soldier at the front, should be interpreted as anti-war in general, or anti-Bush in particular. In the end, he decides, it all comes to the same thing. "Bush calls himself a wartime president, so if you're anti-war you're anti-Bush and if you're anti-Bush you're anti-war," reasons Waits, during a recent phone interview. "I don't know whether he came in knowing he was a wartime president and said, `Well you know what, the only thing missing here is a war.' He's like a doctor who breaks your leg. And then comes in and fixes it for you." (Source: "Songs Of Decay From Waits." Toronto Star (Canada). October 5, 2004. By Vit Wagner)
- TW (2005): "Yeah just a soldier writing home to his family. Tried to make it so it's not really about necessarily this war that we're in now, the Iraq war, but in fact about any war really. Because I guess the letters home are probably the same. I think most of the soldiers are really like the gravel on the road. NS: What do you mean by that? TW: Well the gravel on the road that the others are driving on, you know? Spent shell casings." (Source: "Cool Ivories", American Routes radio show, by Nick Spitzer. February 16-22, 2002)
Day after tomorrow - Tom Waits
Comments taken from: www.tomwaitssupplement.com
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Cool4sms Firefox Εxtension
18/December 2006: Λόγω αλλαγής του website της υπηρεσίας cool4u, με την οποία δεν είναι συμβατή η έκδοση 1 του cool4sms firefox extension, δεν λειτουργεί η αποστολή sms μέσω του extension. Ελπίζω να φτιάξω σύντομα κάποια νεώτερη έκδοση.
Για όσους έχουν συνδρομή με την otenet, μπορούν να ενεργοποιήσουν την υπηρεσία cool4u (http://cool4u.otenet.gr/gr/) η οποία επιτρέπει την αποστολή 20 sms ημερησίως (250 το μήνα) ~ δωρεάν. Αυτό το extension επιτρέπει την αυτοματοποίηση της διαδικασίας, προσφέροντας διαχείριση contacts, αποθήκευση account information (στον firefox), αποστολή sms, save/load sms etc.
v 1.0 - (for Windows* & Linux**)
alternately, install from
** on Linux tested on Firefox 2.0 (get suse)
* on Windows tested on Firefox 1.5 - 2.0 (but should work with previous versions)
Σημ: Προς το παρόν δεν υπάρχει μηχανισμός ελέγχου του αριθμού των sms που επιτρέπονται.
Για bugs κτλ, καντε comment σ` αυτή τη σελίδα.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Ipokrisia
"Sir Bob Geldof, in contrast, praised the work of the Gates foundation and hailed Gates as the world's most important philanthropist. " - source
"Rolling stones play for Bill Clinton" - source
"U2 party with Clinton" - source
So much hypocrisy you can`t even be ironic. The "greatest" philanthropist one that has so much money that his grand-grand-grand children won`t be able to spend. Greatest than the one who can afford two meals and shares one, even though the last is a case of self-sacrificing. On the rest, no comment is necessary.
Και πόσο αρμόζουν οι στίχοι του Τζιμάκου:
Με ένα ρεφραίν
κάνω το χρέος του κι εγώ
τραγουδώ
για αυτούς που πεινάνε
Υπάρχουνε παιδάκια
που δεν έχουνε φαί
ούτε πικάπ
ν' ακούνε μουσική
Δεν θέλω λεφτά
never
τραγουδάω δωρεάν
για μισό κιλό κοκαΐνη
Στείλτε αποφάγια,
ξεροκόμματα μπιζού
είναι το AIDS της Αφρικής
οργή Θεού
Όλοι μαζί με μια κιθάρα
Πλούσιοι φτωχοί, κουτσοί στραβοί σε μια παπάρα
Αμερικανάκια, προβατάκια COMSOMOL
φιλανθρωπία με ναρκωτικά και ροκ εντ ρολ
Να γίνει το ροκ
immediately
σαν τον Ερυθρό Σταυρό
τα φρικιά, αδελφές νοσοκόμες
Απ' την Αγιά Βαρβάρα
here
μέχρι το Κονέκτικατ
Ο Μάικλ Τζάκσον, ο Χατζής, ο Αραφάτ
Κι αν είμαι ροκ μη με φοβάσαι
προσαρμόζομαι να με λυπάσαι
νηστικό αρκούδι δεν χορεύει, δεν μπορεί
πρέπει να φάει για ν' αγοράσει μουσική
Τζίμης Πανούσης, USA for marketing
"Rolling stones play for Bill Clinton" - source
"U2 party with Clinton" - source
So much hypocrisy you can`t even be ironic. The "greatest" philanthropist one that has so much money that his grand-grand-grand children won`t be able to spend. Greatest than the one who can afford two meals and shares one, even though the last is a case of self-sacrificing. On the rest, no comment is necessary.
Και πόσο αρμόζουν οι στίχοι του Τζιμάκου:
Με ένα ρεφραίν
κάνω το χρέος του κι εγώ
τραγουδώ
για αυτούς που πεινάνε
Υπάρχουνε παιδάκια
που δεν έχουνε φαί
ούτε πικάπ
ν' ακούνε μουσική
Δεν θέλω λεφτά
never
τραγουδάω δωρεάν
για μισό κιλό κοκαΐνη
Στείλτε αποφάγια,
ξεροκόμματα μπιζού
είναι το AIDS της Αφρικής
οργή Θεού
Όλοι μαζί με μια κιθάρα
Πλούσιοι φτωχοί, κουτσοί στραβοί σε μια παπάρα
Αμερικανάκια, προβατάκια COMSOMOL
φιλανθρωπία με ναρκωτικά και ροκ εντ ρολ
Να γίνει το ροκ
immediately
σαν τον Ερυθρό Σταυρό
τα φρικιά, αδελφές νοσοκόμες
Απ' την Αγιά Βαρβάρα
here
μέχρι το Κονέκτικατ
Ο Μάικλ Τζάκσον, ο Χατζής, ο Αραφάτ
Κι αν είμαι ροκ μη με φοβάσαι
προσαρμόζομαι να με λυπάσαι
νηστικό αρκούδι δεν χορεύει, δεν μπορεί
πρέπει να φάει για ν' αγοράσει μουσική
Τζίμης Πανούσης, USA for marketing
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Audio Clips Uploaded again
Due to some problems of filexoom servers, the audio clips from
the Lucid Sawn Concert were deleted. I have uploaded them again
and refreshed the links. You can get them again from here.
the Lucid Sawn Concert were deleted. I have uploaded them again
and refreshed the links. You can get them again from here.
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