Resistance training
Doctors say that for long and healthy life it is necessary to consistently do resistance training. I am feeling confident I will live forever because I consistently resist training.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Such a waste of time. PROs of reading this:1. You can say that you read it and look more… intelligent (to people who didn’t read it yet)2. You can learn more about Leo’s thoughts about Russian government, politics and economy of that time, and his opinions about Russian peasant CONs of reading this:1. Waste of … Read more
Problem with Christianity and babies
Guys in Christian countries have quite an interesting dilemma. Even if they would chain their female partner in a basement, they still can’t be sure 100% that they are the father of that baby.
M$ Bill’s influence on Covid vaccine – how hypocrisy and greed get disguised by philanthropy – Part 2
In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades. Vaccines are often given only once or twice. In many parts of the world, established vaccines cost … Read more
M$ Bill’s influence on Covid vaccine – how hypocrisy and greed get disguised by philanthropy – Part 1
On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the agency’s international brain trust knew enough to be worried. Burdened by a sense of borrowed time, they spent two days furiously … Read more
Arbetsförmedlingen is a scam
When I asked my Swedish friends and colleagues what is Arbetsförmedlingen used for, they couldn’t tell me. In theory Arbetsförmedlingen exists to find people jobs, but in reality they exist to find people jobs in Arbetsförmedlingen. If you wish to use their services be ready for following situations: You call and wait for 30-120 minutes … Read more
DELL Laptop USB issue with docking station
I have DELL Laptop Precision 7530 and Latitude 5550. And Docking Stations for these 2. I use now TB18DC docking station and from time to time when I connect my laptop (Precision) to it, my USBs don’t work … keyboard, mouse, sometimes even screens. Then I have to connect them to my laptop instead of … Read more
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Interesting book that many should read at least once. If most of us would apply just one third of principles from this book, amount of assholes in this world would be insanely smaller. “At any rate, I think you will enjoy reading this true story told by James L. Thomas, a former student of mine…” … Read more
Deep Work Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
In this book Mr. Newport is trying to convince us that meaningful work is much better than wasting time on social media, e-mails, video games and other things that most of population practices most of the day. I will put below some quotes from this book and some of my comments. My comments will be … Read more
Soft nightmare
Sometimes when I sleep I have very disturbing dream. It is about me missing a flight for any random reason like being late, lost or entangled in some bureaucracy or weird situation that I try to resolve but can’t. I never missed a flight in my life, and only once I was close to that … Read more
Foundry heat
Foundries are very hot. Most of the time they deal with molten metal, and for iron depending on type that happens from 1100 to 1600°C. But if you don’t touch or lick anything it can be fun and interesting place. So if you want to store iron, things will get hot, like this ladle. Sometimes … Read more
Kako je Zana pozajmila od Abe (How Zana borrowed from ABBA)
Prijatelj puštao muziku u kolima i krenula pesma od Abe “Lay all your love on me” i odmah mi se učinila poznata ta melodija. Friend was playing music in his car and song from ABBA “Lay all your love on me” sounded too familiar to me. Posle par minuta mi je došlo i odakle, Zanina … Read more
Mercedes E220 2.0 SW – AVIS, why did you buy this garbage?
Few of my rentals were this kind of car… Mercedes E220 with automatic drive. It was very comfortable car, but it took me some time to get used to Mercedes-style of control, specially how to choose Drive, Reverse, Parking modes. I rented one in Austria with funny registration plate W-12345 and this one in Germany. … Read more
Beer – dump
I don’t really remember how any of these beers tasted. But for the sake of collecting I will put them here. One with cool picture… One for the Christmas party… Another for the Christmas party, because one is not enough… And one more for the Christmas party, just to be sure… And one from Österreich … Read more
BMW 1 ER
And finally I got that privilege to drive one BMW (again). And I was slightly disappointed. I can’t say that anything was wrong with how it went, but it went too good. Car was just too comfortable, after 1 hour of driving in silence without feeling any bumps on the road, without any engine growling … Read more
Funny story from Detroit highway
A friend told me this one, that he heard from a friend (of a friend, of a friend….). One night on almost empty highway somewhere around Detroit a car was swerving across three-four lanes. Police got a report about this, chased and stopped the car. And conversation between police officer and driver was something like … Read more
Beer – Gurkha
One from Nepal. But not really. It is actually made in UK, and except the name it doesn’t have much connection with Gurkhas or Nepal. There is small story on the bottle about Gurkhas – Nepalese warriors and how they joined British military and brought their beer recipe with them. There might be some truth in … Read more
Superstition law
People are stupid and naive. And sometimes when faced with tragic event, or if their whole life was not the best one, people tend to be quite superstitious and easy to trick by different types of prophets, psychics, card readers, tea leaf translators, shamans and tricksters. Today the biggest problem might be that such scum … Read more
Mexican beers
Title is little bit inaccurate because I didn’t try all Mexican beers, but just a few – three (four). They were all good and refreshing, property that they own to weather during my visit which was dry and warm, 25-30°C. Indio is the first one that I tried, and it was OK. I don’t have … Read more
Beer – Benediktiner Weissbier
I have started with reviewing average hotels and average cars that I have chance to be in. This is due to my work which includes insane amounts of traveling. On my travels, specially when I am in some new area I like to order local beer. Long gone are days when I was drinking only … Read more
Taxi drivers faces
I am frequent customer of Taxi Göteborg and most of the time in front of car there is small plastic holder with taxi driver ID. I have noticed that when driver is black, he always looks completely different than whats on ID. Often I think that it is some other guy who just jumped in … Read more
Polish churches
Polish churchPolish people are crazy about religion. And also try to build awesome churches. While traveling through Poland I gathered some photos, so with this post I would like to make small collection of churches that I saw. Most of them look like space ships. Some of them look like giant erect dicks. And then … Read more
Cleverhotel Herzogenburg
Once upon a time I had to stay at this hotel. It was nice. It is outside of Herzogenburg’s city center, very quiet neighborhood and has a big parking. There was buffet type of breakfast, with usual Western European (Austrian) offer. Room was clean and comfortable, and so was bathroom. During my visit there was … Read more
My saved places
One of less creepy features of google maps is possibility to save favorite places, and I like to do that. I usually save with star each place where I was sleeping (if I don’t forget), plus there are few more that were somehow special. I also use “want to go” markers mostly for customers or … Read more
Suzuki Vitara vs Volvo V40
I was planning to make two posts, but I cant gather enough content for 2 proper posts, and maybe not even for one. So I will merge them with one click-bait-able “vs”. Because they don’t have much in common, except wheels, doors and windows. Suzuki was automatic, and I was quite happy with “anti-crush” feature … Read more
UQ Edition – Early works – Adnan’s, Mr. Whitelabel, Smack My Breathe Bitch,
Adnan’s This is one of my first audio children. It is some very soft remix of a song by some other group – can’t find original. It was made while I went to high school. Mr. Whitelabel This is some kind of remix again, earliest recorded file has date in 2003. No idea what is … Read more
Audi A3
I had a chance (again) while renting car from Avis cunts to get Audi A3 SB E-TRON with automatic transmission. As last time I couldn’t connect my phone because I couldn’t find simple Bluetooth connection. Instead of that there was some android play thing that resulted in my phone getting connected and disconnected every 2 … Read more
Are social networks good for you?
This is a serious question, and I don’t have answer to it. There is plenty of researches that say they are bad. But we all know how to use them and each of us found some good use for it. Even if it is some plain attention seeking or making some extra money, showing to … Read more
Sculpture “Survival of the Fattest”
While visiting Ringkøbing, on the last morning when I started driving out I passed by the shore of Ringkøbing Fjord and stopped the car to take few photos of water. But the really interesting thing happened when I turned to get into the car, and saw this across the street: I already knew about this … Read more
Hotel Ringkøbing
During my November visit to Denmark I had a chance to stay in lovely hotel called Hotel Ringkøbing in the middle of a village of a same name (without “Hotel” part of course). It was a nice place with big parking. Hotel was divided into different buildings with rooms in who knows how many of … Read more