Archive for June, 2008

Green is beautiful (and refreshing)

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Why is green beautiful?

- “It’s verdant. Green is alive, a green plant has found water - the force. This is reassuring,”
- “Green is tasty too! Lime, mint, yum! I think it’s a color that engages many senses,”
- “I can only echo what so many others here have said, green is the color of life. And of course, money ;).”

Those are some answers by Flickr members who contribute in group named same as this article. Green is absoluetly beautiful color, looking very cool and refreshing on your desktop, especially in these hot summer days (I don’t know why Microsoft insists on blue as default desktop scheme). In that Flickr group you will find 250000 of photos which can refresh your working or living space, and of course you can upload some of your shots as contribution.

Need a protractor? Print yourself one.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Computers and Internet can be helpfull in doing many of our tasks. Today I needed to calculate angle of 25 deegres, for making some panel, and figured that I don’t have a protractor to measure it. I’m not that good in DIY things, but here and there you must make something with your own hands :)

Then, few minutes later, after searching my house for old protractor from my high-school days, idea came to my mind: hey, wtf i’m searching for, I’ll print a picture of protractor, and that picture will do the job just as “real”, plastic tool. I searched the internets and found this great site with few different models of protractors in pdf format, “ready to print”. Ideally, you can print them on semi-transparent paper and they will act like real DIY accessories !

Reasons to quit smoking

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008


- Bad breath (ask nonsmoker what is like to kiss with a smoker)
- Not healthy (There are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke)
- Slow and painful death (for example male smokers are 22x more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmoking males)
- Save money (imagine what you could have bought instead)
- Stinky hair and clothes (you don’t even notice anymore, don’t you?)
- A turn off (ask nonsmoker what you smell like)
- Yellow teeth and fingers (do I need to explain?)

Choose your ideal coffin (while you still can)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

It’s good to be prepared for every situation in your life and, of course, one of them is transition to death.

If you’re one of those people who always have to be the best, to have best car, best house, best swimming pool this article is for you. It will give you the edge over the competition. Even if you can’t afford new Mercedes or Beverly Hills house, choosing fancy coffin will show to the rest of the world who’s the real master of the situation. You may even build a great tombstone or even sculpture to cement your dominance. So now it’s the right time to start saving money for “the purpose”. And psssssssssssssst, tell no one. It’s our little secret!

How can security guy piss you off

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I was shopping today with my hubby and we wanted to buy deos. Since there was no testers, we sprayed it to see if we like it.
Then this idiot (security guy) comes, saying: “are you going to buy all those perfumes?” And I (we) were like ??? What does he want? Instead of approaching with some kind of kindness and again authority (no one says he isn’t), he is acting like we were some kids, trying to steal something.
It is not about us not realizing we did something wrong. Maybe we did. Maybe we really shouldn’t spray it. But how do I know what I am buying then?? Where are f***** testers??
One thing is for sure, I know. I am not going to buy anything in Spar ever again in my life. Idiot in uniform totally ruined my shopping “experience”… whatever that means. And I am not going to pay money for being pissed off. I know many people that are able to do that for free.