Archives for "November, 2005"
Being a foreigner
It’s funny the way people treat you when they realize that you’re a foreigner. If you’re outside the “basic” countries of your comrade citizens, such as how Canada and Mexico are for yankees and Sweden and Estonia are for Finns. Especially if you’re living in a country. I’ve always taken the approach of immersion, fully [...]
Snow
There are some things which you just need to see to believe. I can’t name any now, but I’m sure there are some things. I wanted to rant about global warming and green house effect, but then I realized that every damn winter these days is damp and slushy, like a popsicle in your shoe [...]
Doom
Today I finally went to see something that I’ve been “waiting” for the last ten years, when they first announced the coming movie project based on the legendary first person shooter game, Doom. There are a few things I don’t understand when doing a movie based on a book or a game – why reinvent [...]
Homes for the homeless
All right, back in Latvia once again. It was surprising to see that there had been some snow here and the weather seems content in settling to the negatives. Probably it means that winter is actually coming finally, although I’m kind of hoping it would be over already. Coming to the office this morning I [...]
More Television
Ok, this might sound like the worst thing to do when you have lot of work and a thesis to write, but recently my cable TV operator sent me a letter that they are upgrading their digital system and I’d need to pick up my decoder card from the nearest service center (which is, by [...]
200 days
Seems like the Gods of Blogging (not you Boing Boing) are mocking my feeble attempts to redeem myself. It’s been nearly 200 days from my last post to Mind Itch and the only think I’m wondering is where all the time went. I know that I’ve been busy, but 200 days seems like an eternity, [...]
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