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Kierkegaard and subjective time

In the ethical stage, repetition assumes the form of the universal norms of conduct: instead of chasing the elusive moments of esthetical pleasure, we rely upon the certitude of repetition. Repetition is a sign of maturity when the subject has learned to avoid the twin traps of impatient hope in the New and of nostalgic memory of the Old: we find satisfaction in the return of the Same, like the happy marital couple who has overcome the yearning for exotic adventures, yet is still able to avoid melancholic remembrance of past passions.

The deadlock which pushes Kierkegaard toward the next (religious) stage is of course the experience of how, at this stage too, repetition is impossible: the ideal point at which we overcome the futile yearning for the New without falling into a nostalgic backward-directed attitude, is never present as such. The structure of subjective time is such that, from hopeful expectations, from "too early," we are thrown all of a sudden into melancholic remembrance into "too late." In other words, the self-referential paradox consists in the fact that the ideal point between hope and memory is present precisely and only in the mode of hope or memory: in youthful zeal we hope to find peace in a beloved spouse one never gets tired of; in old age we remember the happy time fulfilled with the reliable rhythm of repetition.

from Zizek's Enjoy Your Symptom

a gentleman is

"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't."
― Mark Twain

by Nicos Economopoulos

"It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls." Schopenhauer

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NY 20110705

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Flirted with you all my life.

On December 25, 2009, Vic Chesnutt died from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital. In the 2009 interview with Terry Gross, while discussing the song "Flirted with You All My Life", he said, "You know, I've attempted suicide three or four times. It didn't take."

Just as was told - Lift to Experience

London 20111104

NY 20110820

Isao Tomita - Peer Gynt, Suite No.2: Solveig's Song

NY, August 2011

Hyperfocal & Depth of Field Calculator for Fujifilm Finepix X100 (Android)

Check it out here.

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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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"

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)

O ΑΓΙΟC ΙΩΑΝΗC ΚOΛΤΡEΙN

The African Orthodox Church canonized John Coltrane in 1982 (wpedia)

Revisiting Fox Bat Strategy

Almost an Angel

Lost on Cahuenga

Dead Man

- "Wanted: William Blake."

- Huh?
"In the amount of $ . "
Shit.
Hell, ain't we about more fucked than a whore at closin' time, huh?

transcript here.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every involuntary repulsion that arises in your mind, give heed unto. It is the surface of a central truth."

UFOs landing in NYC

Twist in my Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram

one of those songs that I always forget the title

(la cinématographie est magnifique)

Wings of Desire / Pyramid Song

and, the song of childhood.

U.F.O.'s Over Vampire City

Reflections, on the object petite a

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.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/07/garry-winogrand-class-time-with-garry.html

Take It With Me

Tom Waits ~ Take it with me

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)

Kodachrome Slides are here

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.

Micah Hinson @ South Bank, Nov. 11 2010

Nagorny Karabach

Song & Picture.

Garry Winogrand vs. Moss (It Crowd)

Promise [...] set your house of fire

Hector Zazou / Katie Jane garside. Apostrophe

The guy who didn't move in Istanbul

Confirmed by sampling at regular intervals throughout the day. The results are statistically significant.

Shooting cats from behind

Amir, near Starbucks in Istanbul:


Vavas, in Cy:

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.

Now that August is gone

Go Savoullis

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

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

Vavas is Waiting for the Mayan Mothership

Tindersticks @ Bush Empire, March 2010

you can get the 'official bootleg' here

Woven Hand @ Block33, Thessaloniki (Nov. 2009)

Σώτη Τριανταφύλλου στο Orient Express

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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.

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

Playing the Building (by David Byrne) @ Roundhouse, 31 August 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{%

Well, it's a long, long time

From May to December.

But the days grow short,
When you reach September

And the days dwindle down

To a precious few
September, November..

Πρωινή Ισυμμετρία (Ισφισπούριον)

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

An Ocean of Volcanos

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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:

Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls

The Townes Van Zandt version:


from For the Sake of the Song

and the Staples (Tindersticks) cover:

Latex tables made a lot easier

Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables

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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

Improvisations With Marc Ribot, Evan Parker and Han Bennink

Philip Glass: An Evening of Chamber Music

A small sample:

Ευγένιος Τριβιζάς - Ημερολόγια

don't worry about the future, it has already been done

String Trio: Adagio, by Alfred Schnittke. (1999 AFCM Ensemble)

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".

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

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.

Looking for bibtex-formatted citations?

try this

but be careful of \ldots and other inconsistencies

//much better: http://www.bibsonomy.org

Enna Brexei

1. And a love like ours, my dear,

2. Is best measured when its down

or (1), (2)

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

Humans don't (need to) download (all the time)

Βάρτο Spotify

(title insp. from)

Documentary on Nikos Kazantzakis

OK, lets sum it up

More +
Less +
Link +
Link +
Oh +
ha ha +
so much more
... +
signpost here (but still, we {can, `t })
...
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1949 & kati i3eren o tziortzis


dws tous mes ta poukatomasella
could be accompanied by -, - & -

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

Problems, problems, problems x 2

But we got problems...

metamorphosis

ρέ φίλε, άκου μουσικήν ρε φίλε (forgive my drunken words)

12 months and this past week

no shadow no stars
no moon no cars
(.)

Peter Molyneux, creator of god games STIR lecture for Design London @ Imperial College London

Tindersticks @ St. George Church, Brighton (September 13th, 2008)

LaTeX Template για Πτυχιακή Εργασία

LaTeX template πτυχιακής εργασίας για το Τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.


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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.

Leonard Cohen - Who by Fire (Athens, July 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.

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Ελληνικό Spell Checker για LaTeX editor (LEd)

Για όσους γράφουμε σε LaTeX σε περιβάλλον windows και με τον LEd, πλέον υπάρχει ελληνικό spell checker διαθέσιμο από τα add-ons. Βασίζεται σε wordlist από το ελληνικό aspell και περιλαμβάνει κάποιους βασικούς κανόνες διόρθωσης.

Ιστορία ενός αρχιεπισκόπου διηγημένη απο αυτόν τον ίδιον εις τη κόλαση (Ανδρέας Λασκαράτος)

Read this doc on Scribd: al arxiepiskopou

click here to enlarge, or get the pdf here

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"

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.)"

In "Modern Operating Systems", (Andrew Tanenbaum) while referring to the "little research" being done in deadlock detection:

• "None of it is even remotely practical in real systems.
  Its main function seems to be keeping otherwise
  unemployed graph theorists off the streets."
  

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 )

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 )

Eugenios Trivizas, Sta Akra

another great storyteller, Eugene Trivizas

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

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
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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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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.

a-few-days-ago (and now)

(.)

Hosting Problem

Fixed.
My account on the site that hosted Archive, Galleries etc. has been deleted, so temporarily those sections are out of order.