Archive for 2005

Americký film: The jádro

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Po dnešním večeru, který jsem strávil shlédnutím nového amerického velkofilmu, starého šest let, předhazuji můj profesionální pohled k této věci.

Film jsem nalezl kde jinde, než v kouzelné DVD truhle u nás v obýváku a již když jsem jej bral do rukou, bylo mi jasné, že tohle nebude jen tak ledajaký “americký film”, že tohle nebude jen tak ledajaká blbost typu “Den nezávislosti”, nebo “Drtivý dopad” či snad “Armageddon”. Tohle totiž, již dle popisu, mělo být extrémní vydání učebnice fyziky pro třetí ročník víceletých gymnázií, ochuzená o veškeré fyzikální zákony, obohacená o bohatou fantazii několika lidí, kteří si řekli, že zkusí vydělat nějaké peníze. Tým, těchto asi ne příliš inteligenčně zdatných jedinců, měl na krku jistý Jon Amiel, který k digitálně versatilnímu videu doplnil i osobní komentář, kterému naštěstí ne příliš rozumím…

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Did you know…

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

…that french language does not have a word for 70, 80 or 90? For 70, they say “soixante-dix” – which stands for “sixty ten”. For 80 – “quatre-vingt” – “four times twenty” and guess what for 90. Quatre-vingt-dix!

What about your language?

Myth busted!

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

There is one funny thing, that I noticed during the time I had my arms fixed. As you can imagine, it was not easy to drink without a straw. It was rather impossible. So I had to drink everything with a straw. Coffee, tea, milk, juice and of course beer. I was really surprised, how many people think, that drinking beer with a straw makes it much stronger. Even my former chemistry teacher said so! It is just different kind of liquid transportation. So what I found out is – it really doesn’t make it stronger.

One beer is still one beer.

The only advantage

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Tommorow the casts are going to be taken out of me. I won’t miss them, though. The only thing I like about them is that you can use them as a notebook. Will have to use papers, I guess.

Timetable

Czechbury?

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

A few months ago, when I was in London, I used to buy Cadbury chocolate as I got addicted to its taste. One day I was nibbling the chocolate on the tube and there was this funny thing that I noticed. You can see that on the top of the picture – there is a czech phrase „Čistá hmotnost“ that stands for „Weight“.

čistá hmotnost

As you can see, Cadbury is an english chocolate and there is no reason for having any czech words on it. I can think of only one explanation. Nowadays, there is a lot of czech people in England and they work just everywhere. And that would be no surprise for me if one of them designed this package and thought of having fun writing something in Czech.

A visit

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Today I was on a visit in my friends place. At thr moment when I turned up he was finishing cleaning his garage – so, I had to wait a few minutes. I was just hanging around talking to him, when I touched something. Something, that made me jump.

As soon as I removed my trapped hand from the mouse trap, I started thinking about the feelings, which it evoked. At first I felt surprise. Not a pleasant surprise, because I was sure that it is no good to get caught as a mouse even if you are not a mouse at all. The second feeling was a nice surprise, that it was not really painful at all (at that moment I must have looked really stupid, examining my imprisoned fingers). The next feeling was pleasure. I realized, that it was not bad at all – it was rather pleasant.

So I decided to try that again.

It was not really that good anymore.

Picking the nose

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

This post is a reaction on JH’s Sniffing that was posted a few days ago. Someone mentioned in the posts something like “At least it is not picking the nose”. I dunno how about other people, but for me it is actually part of my hygiene. Most of people might think it is disgusting, but it is like when you say it is disgusting to clean your teeth – it is just part of your body that needs cleaning – even your teeth might look much worse than your nose!… You can even see very small children picking their noses, which means that it is natural instinct to clean our noses and our society just doesn’t respect that. On the other hand, it does not look very nice when you pick your nose during dinner or school lessons. Everyone should be forced from the early ages by their parents to clean their noses in the morning as well as to clean their teeth. I think that is the way it should be.

Nezapomeň

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

Okna tu zavírám a žaluzie také
dveře pak otvírám a boty nazuté

Tak oslepen světlem tudy kráčím
až budu znaven, krátce posvačím

I šálek svůj čaje dopiji
pak vstanu a oči si zakryji.