Το φιτρί αγόρι (colourful life)

Is Eastern in Greece these days. It means: a lot of religious stuff, a huge amount of people returning to their home villages and food lots of food. I don’t have a place I can call “my village” here in but I “inherited” one from Stella (one in Arta).

So these days I’ll be eating a lot and having coffee and not worrying about many things (only about people I care about). No office, no 2nd job, no pollution (Internet via GPRS). Just fresh air and natural food.

When we arrived to the village we were received with fresh cuttlefish (it melted in my mouth) and some fresh vegetables. I wasn’t hungry but I had dinner (I couldn’t avoid it).

Now it smells to…. Χοριό/Village/Pueblo.

7 quirks.

I got tagged for this meme by the greek cat who saunters along Athens streets. But I was looking for a meme, so “thank you” for making my life easier choosing one

Rules.

• If you get tagged, you have to tell who tagged you and link to your tagger form your post in your blog.
• Post these rules.
• Write 7 non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
• Name 7 of your favourite blogs.
• Send an email/comment/trackback/pingback on their blog letting them know they have been tagged.

My 7 non-important things/habits/quirks.

1. I like Mechs and derivates.
2. Every time I cook something with a stock cube, I eat a bit of the cube.
3. I play with my eyebrows when I think.
4. I can sleep everywhere, from a bus in Athens to a disco pub.
5. I’m a hidden fan of Pitchshifter.
6. Music with multiple voices in different tones gives me goosebumps.
7. I love colorful underwear.

My 7 favourite blogs.

1. Nazgul - Diario de un indecente..
2. Sascha - ch-athens.
3. Kat - An American in Athens.
4. Lynn - Business Writing.
5. Guyunusita - El rincón de Guyunusita.
6. Jordi - Sin Proyecto.
7. EllasDevil - Μιλάτε, σας Ακούμε.

Also I’d like to slap reydelamirienda for having us without any light about his life in Netherlands.

Sometimes you walk in the street and you don’t pay attention to the multiple details the objects placed in your way offer to you. But also you have to stop form time to time to see what’s around you. And you can find hidden Mac fans like the one in the picture.

I went to pick money from ATM and I don’t know why, I walked around the area and found this Apple labeled scooter. As you know there are multiple places where to put that sticker.

These days have been a bit long without much sleep. At least yesterday I could enjoy the company of the International Pizza (group of friends from everywhere). We watched La Grande Bouffe. A strange film about four guys who decide to meet in a house to finish their lives eating and drinking themselves till death.

I had fun with the film. For some people some scenes can be a bit offensive, but it’s nothing disgusting, although it has some spicy scenes. The actors played really well, thus you get into the film from the very beginning and you enjoy it.

As a International Pizza meeting, we had dinner. I couldn’t make something for dinner because I arrived late at home and I didn’t have much to cook (sorry guys). But there is always a good place to order nice food

It feel pitty for the dinner. I wanted to prepare some omelettes and perhaps some fried rice, but these days I’m out of time. The film day I returned home at 8pm, but by team workmate received new specs at 9pm and stayed until 2am (joking: I guess he tried to beat my record of 2:30am). So next day was also quite long and I felt guilty (for leaving him alone) and angry (with the people who sent new specs at 9pm and expected results that day).

Now my anger is gone (but Wordpress it’s helping to get it back un-publishing my posts randomly), the dishes are clean (pic), and the house is clean a ready for another movie

Edit: more info about the event in Sascha’s lounge: here.

Sorry picture lost :’(

Today the system administrators played their part. The image you see above (edit: I lost the picture, sorry), is the example of what happened with all webpages that we (developers) visited today. They were making fun a bit with the “transparent proxy” we use when we browse in the office. All the webpages we browse pass through that system so they are able to modify whatever we see.

I was lucky in the beginning because I changed my network card and they didn’t know my “who I am” in the network. But it didn’t take much for them to check why I was browsing “normally”.

One sysadmin told me that there were two options. To turn the images or to translate the text into leet (and have something like this).

Thanks god they disabled the trick before uploading the above picture. I don’t want to imagine the rotation (to upload) and rotation (when watching it) of the poor pic