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petek, 21. marec 2014

Bennedict Cumberbitch err ... Cumberbatch. You know, Sherlock.

Let's get it on: Bennedict Cumberbatch (link here)
:D Quietly, you'll thank me, ladies.

Cumberbatch talked for a long time about the tragedy of Turing’s life and about what has been a series of very intense roles, heavy on iconic fictional characters and real people. “I am so ready to play a really dumb character,” he said.

I like this two excerpts below:
'As good a sport as Cumberbatch is, he sometimes finds it a bit too much.

Filming “Sherlock” last year in Cardiff, Wales, he had an awkward interlude when he had to walk from his trailer to his car wearing a costume that, had anyone seen it, might have become a major plot spoiler. When he failed in his efforts to get a particularly persistent paparazzo not to photograph him, Cumberbatch shrouded himself in a hoodie (“I looked like Kenny in ‘South Park’”) and held up a sign he had hastily fashioned that said: “Go photograph Egypt and show the world something important.”

The move was lampooned by the British newspapers, particularly when, to the delight of hundreds of fans massed on the street in London for another shoot, Cumberbatch did it again, this time with signs printed with provocative questions about democracy, government intrusion, journalism and the battle between liberty and security in the war on terror.

“These are very complex questions and very difficult arguments to be very clear about, so to ask the questions is to stimulate the debate,” he explained. He has not done it since, though, he said, “I felt really strongly about it at the time.” '

This sounds positively like Ms. Granny Weatherwax* of Terry Pratchett's Discworld!
For a moment, he sounded positively Sherlockian. “There is a way of just shadowing through,” he continued. “The higher the walls, the more dark the windows, the bigger the sunglasses — the more people are going to look. The greatest disguise is learning how to be invisible in plain sight.”


*She has the ability to fade into the background of a room, see Powers, here.

torek, 28. januar 2014

Bill FCUKing Murray

Who is this guy, then? Well, if you don't know him, you might want to check Bill Murray on IMDb or on Wikipedia.
The original You're Awesome!
dude. Still from Stripes (1981).
If you're familiar with the concept, please, just read the stuff below. It'll blow your mind.

Bill Murray Answers questions on Reddit:  (or see Monuments Men Movie post on Facebook here).
This is also a good story to read: 12 Insane Things That Happened On My Night Out With Bill Murray | Dec. 3, 2013, by Alex J. Mann.

And while you're at it, 10 Stories That Prove Bill Murray Really Is The Most Interesting Man In The World |January 10, 2014 |, with pictures of Murray doing some crazy siht here.

If this isn't enough for you (I know, some of the jpgs are slightly lame or just ridiculously incredulous, so you're wondering - is any of this shit true?), you should check out the web page dedicated to collecting (sometimes fictional) Bill Murray stories, conveniently titled: Bill Murray Stories. There are real BM stories out there, though, see this about a party in St Andrews or this one (which might be the same event, actually).

"And you know, it's a lesson to all of us, to take what you love and make it the way you live your life, and that way you bring love into the world."

- Bill Murray on Reddit AMA session
Permalink here.
 
And if you didn't already, you really should see Groundhog Day. It's pretty nifty.

Also, in case you were wondering, the title of this post alludes to some other posts on the net and the movie where it sort of started, Zombieland (2009). See clip with Woody Harrelson here.

Aaaand, if you want to groove a bit, while you leave this site and go someplace nice with palmtrees painted on, you can also listen to Bill Muthafuckin Murray on Youtube.
 

četrtek, 12. september 2013

Are you a Lucy, a GYPSY or something else?

A curious page attracted my attention today: link here.
 
Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy
Say hi to Lucy.
 
Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. 
 
Only issue is this one thing:
Lucy's kind of unhappy.
To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place. It comes down to a simple formula:
Happiness= Reality - Expectations
 It's pretty straightforward—when the reality of someone's life is better than they had expected, they're happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectations, they're unhappy.
To provide some context, let's start by bringing Lucy's parents into the discussion: /.../
 
Read more, here.
 

So that's why Lucy is unhappy, or at the least, feeling a bit frustrated and inadequate.  In fact, she's probably started off her career perfectly well, but to her, it feels very disappointing.


Here's my advice for Lucy:

1) Stay wildly ambitious.  The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success.  The specific direction may be unclear, but it'll work itself out—just dive in somewhere.

2) Stop thinking that you're special.  The fact is, right now, you're not special.  You're another completely inexperienced young person who doesn't have all that much to offer yet.  You can become special by working really hard for a long time. 


3) Ignore everyone else. Other people's grass seeming greener is no new concept, but in today's image crafting world, other people's grass looks like a glorious meadow. The truth is that everyone else is just as indecisive, self-doubting, and frustrated as you are, and if you just do your thing, you'll never have any reason to envy others.


Read the whole thing with nice unicorn graphs and flowers and siht, here.

--- UPDATE:
Here's another, rather more succint graphic to point out the matter (though from a different angle): http://maxcdn.zenpencils.com/comics/2012-11-13-chrisg.jpg
(See pic on the right. > Bigger version on the link above.)

petek, 30. avgust 2013

Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Miley Cirus and rape and whatnot

I've seen Thicke's original explicit video so long ago that I can hardly remember ... being put off by it and thinking - jeez, this is demeaning to women. And yet, as Thicke looks nice and shakes his booty in the rhythm of the song (which is, admittedly, quite catchy), they seem to forget all about it. Well, not me. And I'm a guy.

'Thicke's song, "Blurred Lines," doesn't endorse rape, as some have alleged, it does present the most tediously reductive view of sex and women with the idea of "a good girl" just needing to be liberated by alcohol and a penis to become "an animal". It's an idea that was satirised six years ago in Superbad by teenagers and yet remains as credible in pop songs today as it does in porn. It's one of life's ironies that pop music is supposedly a progressive and young person's art form, yet the messages it sends are generally as retrograde as the gruntings of an embarrassing middle-aged uncle at Christmas dinner." —Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'

From: Critics Roundup: What Everyone Said About Miley Cyrus’s VMA Performance | Vulture.com

"But you're an animal, baby, it's in your nature Just let me liberate ya!", "And that's why I'm gon' take a good girl .... I know you want it", "You the hottest bitch in this place", "But you're a good girl
The way you grab me
Must wanna get nasty
Go ahead, get at me"

Well, fine. But I follow some of the online life and news and I for one (and apparently, not for one, as it seems to resound in the comments of 'critics' linked to above) think it does create a problem - talking of one sex as Things. .. Sigh. You'll see, they'll be plenty more talk of Rape Culture in the future. Part of the future, precipitated by "meh, it's pop" attitude of today. Unfortunately. Well, we'll see. Maybe I'm just growing old and conservative (I let this be an option).

That being said, it's always good to see some humour reverberating through the digital tides and thus, a link to the Robin Thicke Blurred Lines Parody - #HungryGirl. You should check out some other titles in the flood of "Thicke Blurred Lines parody videos", like "Tan Lines".
  Resorting to humour is as always, a human response. (I believe, a much more productive one than resorting to violence, for example. Lenon agrees.) But will it be enough to save your little [baby] sister (2012, 2013), your teenage daughter, your wife on vacation? Some "reporters" just ride on the media waves ... and masses read/watch and otherwise consume it (example - "twerking" and Miley Cirus ... 'scientifically' explained).

On one hand, it is also true that nowadays, with media, the news spreads around waaaay faster. So, I guess these things happened in the past, maybe even at the same rate as they do today, only when in the past they were frowned upon or locally "contained", nowadays, they spread like virus over the net. Time will tell. Or not.



America is not the greatest country in the world (Jeff Daniels, in Newsroom)

I ... quite adore this speech.
However, it's just one little flap, flapping away in the eddies of otherwise consumer-prone, -happy, -obsessed and otherwise saturated media. In the world and in US&A.

Want additional comment? Fine, check out Times magazine covers (and their titles, the themes they promote) just here. It's fascinating to see what a) the world is "struggling" with and what Americans are have to struggle with. Curious. I wonder, who writes the media agenda. (Whoops.)



 
Will McAvoy’s Epic America Speech (a.k.a. Jeff Daniels in HBO's "Newsroom")

petek, 9. avgust 2013

Crappy blockbusters and Bechdel Test

An interesting read.
If nought for else, for the reference to the Bechdel Test Movie List. (See also below.)
The MPAA estimates roughly 600 movies will be released in 2013. At last week’s screening, while I sat eating GMO popcorn and sipping high-fructose lemonade, watching a $100 million, cliché-riddled exercise that glorified guns and explosive violence, I thought to myself: We are doomedSource.



Bechdel Test [link]
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man


Nice. And horrifying in a way. But nothing we didna already kno', right?
Also gives a nice list for movie suggestions, when a person would actually like to see something other than gunfire.

četrtek, 18. april 2013

What's wrong with Star Wars prequels?

"So. If you're Qui-Gon, what do you do when one of its parts breaks down and nobody has any money?
/.../
You don't sell the BAZILLION DOLLAR ship and buy a fleet of less pretty, but completely working spaceships. That would be too sensible. Instead, Qui-Gon, in his infinite wisdom, decides to let a nine year-old enter a podrace (which he’s never completed before) in a podracer (that’s never been tested) that - and this is a fairly important detail - was BUILT BY A SMALL CHILD on the chance that this might result in winning enough money to buy the part. What could possibly go wrong? On our planet, those kind of shenanigans gets you put up on child abuse charges."



Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/15/the-9-dumbest-decisions-in-the-star-wars-prequels?utm_campaign=twposts&utm_source=twitter

ponedeljek, 20. junij 2011

Re: Home computer in 2004

V moj inbox je prišel mail s spodnjo slikico ... ob čemer sem mlajše bralce liste:) spomnil na to, kdaj se je kaj, kar je danes povsem samoumevno za "razviti" (razvajeni) svet, začelo.

Ne sam hitr - expresno. A si predstavljate, da je Youtube "prišel ven" šele 2005. leta?
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.[3]
in Facebook, ta Veliki Brat interneta, katerega mecen je bila tudi CIA?

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] As of January 2011[update], Facebook has more than 600 million active users.[5][6]
Obadva citata sta iz Wikipedije, za katero pa sama pravi:
Its 18 million articles (over 3.6 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site.[3] As of May 2011, there were editions of Wikipedia in 281 languages. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger[4] and has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,[2][5][6][7] ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers.[2][8]
Staruhinja tale wikipedia, a? :)

sreda, 8. junij 2011

Introducing: P.I.E.! (Posts In English)

Dearest Blogosphere and the people roaming the internet aim(less)ly (?), boy, do I have news for you!

I made a new label: PIE, posts in English,
so you can easily access the posts that you can actually read, without the crappy translation from Google Translate or your best neighbour, who just happens to speak Slovenian.
And since you might search wide and far for those ... here comes the PIE! ;) Awesome.
(And pretty meaningless:)
(But hey! you have to organise your life. Someday. Gotta start small.)

"SO WAS RED"

Ne morem si pomagat, pač je Shawshank Redemption res en najbolj kul filmov. Sploh, ker ne samo, da igrajo vsi verjetno, pa da ima glavno vlogo Tim Robbins (mnogi se ga morda spomnijo iz filma o Einsteinu (I.Q.), k je poziral za fizika, da bi očaral Meg Ryan, Einsteinovo (Walter Matthau) hčerko;)
Zanimivo je, da sta bila oba posneta oz. nosita letnico 1994. Ha, kot mnogi udeleženci slovenske odprave na Jamboree 2011.

No, fino je tudi, ker so lepi kadri, zanimiva zgodba, ki je zaokrožena celota, poleg tega sta pa v en tram vrezana dva stavka: "Brooks was here" in pa:
"so was Red".
Zakon. Glejte, ne bo vam žal.

...
In ko sem že pri letu 1994. Kot poje Sinatra in po njem Robbie: "... It was a very good year..." Kajti istega leta so luč kinematografov ugledali tudi: Tom Hanks v Forrest Gump-u, pa ajde, Tim Allen je 'posnel' The Santa Clause, ki se itak vrti vsak Božič. Ko smo že pri ta hecnih, tudi Jim Carrey in Jeff Daniels sta bila pri tabutastih z Dumb & Dumber-jem, Keanu Reeves in Sandra Bullock sta se gledala v Speed-u, Samuel L. Jackson in John Travolta pa sta med drugim nosila jamajške kratke hlače in citirala biblijo v Pulp Fiction-u. Pol so bli še drugi filmi (in to kopiram samo iz strani iMDB, torej gre samo za ameriške filme, čeprav stran trdi, da je pač internet movie database. Huh.), kjer so se pokazali kaki Ethani Hawki pa Winona Ryder, pa Kremenčkovi so prišli, pa take fore.
 
Aja, pa Disney's The Lion King, ki mislim, da je še zmerom najdonosnejša risanka vsehhhh časov. (Ne vem, kako je s Shrekom. Ah, ne - Wikipedia pravi, da ga je Nemo prehitel. Pa čeprav z eno miceno plavutjo.) 1994 RULZ!

petek, 8. april 2011

Chuck Norris jokes, pt. 2

Chuck Norris can sharpen a lightsaber.

Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad.

-Whoseyourdaddy?
-Chuck Norris.
-...

Chuck Norris was once pulled over.....he proceeded to arrest the police officer.


There is no 'Ctrl' button on Chuck Norris' computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.

Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.

Chuck Norris je edini, ki ima lahko torbo IN kolo.

Fear of spiders is aracnaphobia, fear of tight spaces is chlaustraphobia, fear of Chuck Norris is called Logic.

Chuck Norris once urinated in a semi truck's gas tank as a joke....that truck is now known as Optimus Prime.

Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Chuck Norris stories.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

When Chuck went back in time to father himself, he got in a fight with himself. We know this ongoing battle as the aurora borealis.

Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.

Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience...

Chuck Norris once got bit by a rattle snake........ After three days of pain and agony ..................the snake died.

There is no theory of evolution. Ther's just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/chuck-norris-top-50-facts

ponedeljek, 14. marec 2011

Stuff ... in kako določiš čas predvajanja na you-tube-u

A ste kdaj hoteli ustaviti youtube video na točno določeni točki ... in ga poslati nekomu? Ga šerati na facebooku? Here's a way how you can do this (the talk is about how you can set the youtube video to play at a certain point ... so it begins at the exactly the same point when somebody clicks your link):

Lej, tole je fora: na koncu tvojega linka (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8&feature=player_embedded#at=171), ki je očitno tole:
 piše: &feature=player_embedded#at=171

In ker koda deluje preprosto ... če jo vidiš razčlenit in se možgansko ne upiraš neznanim stvarem ... pol vidiš, da piše na koncu:
#at=171
Hm ... in pogledam čas - je cca. 2:49.
Hm ... 60 sec. = 1 min, 2x60=120 + 51 ... je 2:49 ... 2:51 ... Hm ...
Torej, na eni točki, če čem ... na primer, ko je govora o otrocih ... na 6-ih minutah ..
6 x 60 = 360 ... Aha, dejmo probat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8&feature=player_embedded#at=360

Ta-daaaa! ;)

In še nekaj, kar ni iz story of stuff, ... je pa upam da tale punca tudi videla kaj Georga Carlina: Stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac&feature=player_embedded#at=48

četrtek, 17. februar 2011

New TRAVEL blog - Louis and The Primers

Dearest all,

I have a new travel blog, available on: http://aljobaljotravel.blogspot.com.
Oh, and mostly it is in Slovenian. XD

četrtek, 2. december 2010

Pokemon card Chuck Norris

Uffa!

Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer... To bad, he never cries.
For those of you who want to find Chuck Norris, go here.

petek, 5. november 2010

Objemi svojega bliznjega ... MY ASS!

ETO, TO MI NI JASNO: kako lahko LJUDJE POSILJAJO take maile naokoli, ko pa hocem ravnati po teh dobrohotnih nasvetih (in lastni vesti in srcu), naletim na ZGRAZANJE in GROZO?
... ce plesem, ko mi pase, je cudno, ce pojem, ko sem vesel, je noro, če bi rad objel nekoga, ker je lep dan, ker sem vesel, ker se mi zdi, da je človek potrt in rabi objem, ..., je ljudem nerodno.

In potem, na vsake toliko, dobim mail, kot ta, katerega delček pripenjam spodaj. KJE JE TU RESNICA, kje PRAVICA? "Have we turned INTO GERBILS, ladies and gentleman?" A nihče več nima jajc, da bi živel, kot o tem sanja in delal dobre stvari dobrim ljudem?
Ampak ne, LEPO in SPODOBNO pa je poslati PIVO ali CVETJE ali povabilo za neko noro dobro novo igro tipa MafiaVampireVille PO F* FACEBOOK-u? Pa a me zezate?

//Spomnite se, da daste topel objem tistemu zraven vas, ker je to edino
imetje,ki ga lahko daste s svojim srcem, a ne stane niti pare.//
//Pomnite: preživite nekaj časa z vam dragimi, ker oni ne bodo tu tudi večno.
Pomnite: recite kakšno prijazno besedo tistemu, ki vas gleda s
strahospoštovanjem, ker bo ta majhna oseba skoraj odrasla in odšla.//

nedelja, 5. september 2010

Google translate

Vau! Noro dober prevod. Gives me the chilly-willies.
 Upam, da so sprejeli moj skromni popravek. Jao, te mašine in avtomatizem. In še bi jih radi imeli več.

Če je veljalo, da je hedonizem gibalo razvoja, potem pravim jaz (in verjetno tudi mnogi drugi), da bosta istočasno hedonizem in lenoba (ter izguba zdrave, kmečke pameti) vodila človeštvo v propad in pogibel.

petek, 27. avgust 2010

Sherlock

A NEW series, launched by the BBC One Programmes, Sherlock has aired this year - July, to be exact. Novelty is that this is contemporary, so it has all hi-tech stuff it needs to have - like the captions for stuff that Holmes writes down or enters in search engines (yes!) on his mobile (yesyes;). Really cool, that. Oh, Dr. Watson has a blog, apparently (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

Here's a description that can be found on Wikipedia:
Filming took place at various locations, including London and Cardiff. The three-part series was transmitted on BBC One and BBC HD, in July and August 2010. The critical reception was mostly very positive. These episodes, along with the unaired pilot, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 30 August 2010.
The series, though I just watched one, the third, is really enigmatic and keeps you locked to the screen - 'specially if you really like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work and the previous TV/movies ... for a want of a better word, editions.

You can watch the first three parts, it's available online, just ... surf t h e  web and its channels, if you catch my drift.

Oh, and you may want to check out that blog/site Holmes is using in the show: just google it.

ponedeljek, 7. junij 2010

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. in "zobke umit pa spat" no more

Kdo jih nae pozna? Okej, bom polinkal.
Ampak - počasi gledam vse sezone, starting with numero 1.
yep, well, I've done that one. Zdej sem v drugi, ko Ross in Rachel ... umgh!
  A ste bli vi tudi slučajno stari cca. 10 let (+/- 2 leti, gotta leave some room for standard error) in so bili F.r.i.e.n.d.s.i na TV-ju? Ob RES* poznih urah?? No, well, jaz sem bil. And it sucked. Zakaj, pobarate? No, ker pač nisem mogel gledat frendsov. Pa še prestavljal so jih. Enkrat so bili ob 23.30. Uuurrgggh!
Ampak zdej ... zdej ... zdej lahko gledam anytime I want. Ker so a) na netu in b) na prenosnem disku. In c) so izpiti. Damn. No, ampak d) sej človk rabi malce odmora, taku, možganskega anede? in e) se ne more učit čist CEL dan.

Kakorkoli, hotel sem samo napisati ene dve fori iz tega dela, ki je ravno in progress (you try to be awake a week in a row till 4 a.m., studying incredibly interesting facts of life, such as biology and co. offers):

Ross: "Rachel and Julie, ... that's the problem."
Joey: "HEY! I've got two words for you: threesome!"
...
Chandler: "You still got one left, you know."
//
Monica: "OK, this is pumpkin pie, .../.../ Mocholate chip cookies, Mocholate strawberry cake, ... taste it!"
Rachel: "OMG!"
Monica: "OMG good?"
R: "OMG I can't believe you let me put this into my mouth!"
Phoebe: "Sweet LORD! Ugh! This is what EVIL must taste like!"
... :)

*Res je takrat pomenilo 22.30.

sreda, 17. februar 2010

Paco de Lucía ali Orlando Bloom goes Flamenco!

Jup, it's true, I tell you.

Paco je bil zakon. Zahvala gre meni in očetu; meni za to, ker sem pomuval in zmotiviral + šel po karte, očetu, ker jih je plačal. Paco je virtuoz in flamenco je zakon. Vsaj tako, kot ga on špila .. no, ja - pa tudi na splošno.

  Z Orlandom je pa takole: dejansko, eden izmed ploskačev (dva ploskača sta bila pevca, tretji pa .. ta-daaa!)- plesalec. To se je videlo že od vsega začetke, ker je bil slok, malce lepše oblečen in predvsem, ker se je držal najbolj pokončno od vseh ... jaiks! No, pa petke so ga tudi malce izdale;)
Zakon - je pa res zgledal kot Orlando Bloom.

Sicer pa še eden izmed bolj znanih Pacotovih komadov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s.