November 28th, 2008
(4 Votes)
I was thinking about not posting about this … but what the hell. Earlier this month I had the “pleasure” to check out one of this countries medical facilities. In not so many words I’ve had surgery. I’ve had a major fight with my appendix and he had to go.
It all started with a pain one morning that was bearable but wouldn’t go away … so I decided to go to the hospital. I’ve arrived at 8 AM and for the next five hours I was moved back and forth between the hospital buildings. I had x-rays, ecography, blood and urine tests. I was examined by four different doctors, all saying it’s food poisoning. In the end I was sent to the infectious diseases wing to spend the night there. In all this time I was getting weaker and weaker, at the end I could barely walk.
My father[1] felt the need to step in, this had gone the wrong way for too long, and asked to transfer me to the surgical wing where he used to work before he retired. He called former colleague to examine me and pointed out that I needed surgery right away. He believed I was misdiagnosed and this was a case of atypical appendicitis.
- My father is a retired surgeon, a specialist quite known in the international medical world [»]
September 30th, 2008
(2 Votes)
Two days ago, a private held company succeeded called SpaceX in launching the first privately developed rocket into space. After several (some very expensive) failures, they’ve finally made it!
If some of you fail to understand the huge significance of this moment let me make it clear for you: The space race has entered the private sector. The cost of sending a 1kg into space is $22.000 at today’s costs. Basically, to send an object into space costs almost the same amount in gold. This company with limited resources, has succeeded in putting a vehicle on a precise orbit around earth and plans to slice this price in half[1] … manned missions will follow.
It’s started :).
The Lion.[2]
- A space elevator would make space feasible from a commercial point of view. [»]
- The song to this post is: Sophie Zelmani – Going Home. Open “Lion’s Radio” and scroll down to listen to it. [»]
August 25th, 2008
(5 Votes)
Yes, it’s true, my hair color has changed: it’s blond now. Well kinda’. It’s more of a greenish blond. I think I mentioned my friend, Soso the hair stylist, in an earlier post. Well he needed me again and this time it was a lot easier to say yes. I just was damn curious … sorry :).
June 23rd, 2008
(5 Votes)
Something’s changed. And this time I don’t mean something deep, but straightforward … I look differently :). Why is that? Well there’s a story behind it:
One day as I was sitting at my desk I received a call from a friend of mine, who happens to be a hair stylist. He needed someone (I don’t know why that someone has to be always me!) to work on for a show and the deadline was 5 days away. And I found myself saying “Yes” for no obvious reasons … Didn’t knew what I was putting myself into. The process was the most interesting experience tough. I never knew how much work goes into such a thing, didn’t know how difficult it is to get the color you want, the glow, that you need some math, some color knowledge and some drawing skills to pull this out. The end result you see bellow took about 7 hours.
January 30th, 2008
(6 Votes)
Today I’ll just show off … After long eBay searches and unsuccessful bid, sleepless nights, desperate longing, etc. I finally managed to replace my old phone. And as you may imagine I didn’t replace it with any phone … I replaced it with The Phone :). So to make things short I am now the happy owner of an iPhone!
I can tell you that after a week I still didn’t get bored with it. It continues to make me feel good, providing me with: excellent Internet surfing capabilities, clear and perfect music as only an iPod can, good e-mail and RSS reader, innovative bubbles text messaging and the list could go on. The only thing I’m missing is my synchronized Outlook tasks list, but I can live with that for a while as new software for this marvelous device pops up every day.
A very good read about our lives and the 9 to 5 job. Tribal Workers: