Θα παρατηρήσατε (ίσως) πως έχω ξεκινήσει ένα φρεσκαρισματάκι στην εμφάνιση της σελίδας, ξεκινώντας από την κεφαλίδα (header - μετάφραση?) της και τη λαοφιλέστατη δημοσκόπηση, της οποίας τα αποτελέσματα έχουν προωθηθεί σε 2 ανεξάρτητες εταιρίες (VCPR, Moutron Analysis) και τα οποία θα μοιραστώ μαζί σας μετά τη σχετική ανάλυση. Τις επόμενες μέρες, +ΙΜΤ+ θέλοντος & καιρού (χρόνου δηλαδή, όχι καιρού με την έννοια των επικρατουσών κλιματικών συνθηκών - but I digress) επιτρέποντος θα πέσουν και άλλες αλλαγές. Ευχηθείτε μου καλή δύναμη καθώς βουτάω με το κεφάλι στα μυστήρια του κώδικα HTML του template...
που αντιστοιχούν σε περίπου 180 χλμ. αστικής & περιαστικής διαδρομής σε 12 ώρες, υπό καταρρακτώδη βροχή (χτες) και ήλιο, ζεστη & 95% υγρασία (σήμερα).
Μα τον Αγ. Χριστόφορο (μεγάλη -με το συμπάθειο- η χάρη του) δε θα ξαναπιάσω τιμόνι για αρκετές μέρες ακόμα.
Θα σκίσω το δίπλωμα μου (μόλις τελείωσω με τη βρώση του καπέλου μου). Πρέπει να ξαναπάω μία ακόμα το σιρκουϊ Ν. Ερυθραία-Βαρυμπόπη-και πίσω (χλμ. 15)!!!
I made this as a gift for a friend of mine who goes to London for studies:
01 Queen - Bohemian rhapsody 02 The Beatles - Come together 03 David Bowie - Space oddity 04 Pink Floyd - Wish you were here 05 James - Sometimes (Lester Piggott) 06 Rolling Stones - She's a rainbow 07 The Smiths - Bigmouth strikes again 08 Troggs - Wild thing 09 Morrissey - Everyday is like Sunday 10 James - Getting away with it (all messed up) 11 Placebo & David Bowie - Without you I'm nothing 12 New Order - Regret 13 Morrissey - First of the gang to die 14 Levellers - Make you happy 15 Pulp - Common people 16 James - Laid 17 Belle and Sebastian - Another sunny day 18 Oasis - Don't look back in anger 19 British Sea Power - Please stand up 20 Cranberries - Zombie 21 Franz Ferdinand - Walk away 22 Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I love you less & less 23 Oasis - Wonderwall 24 Stereophonics - Dakota 25 U2 - Beautiful day 26 Pulp - Razzmatazz 27 Fiona Apple - Across the universe 28 Dido - White flag 29 Kooks - She moves in her own way 30 Goldfrapp - Caravan girl 31 Coldplay - Viva la vida 32 Monty Python's Flying Circus - Always look on the bright side of life 33 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (reprise)
Any remarks, suggestions, omissions et c.?
I'd love to share it with you, say in RS or something, but it's laaarge (200MBytes) which, with my connection, means several hours of uploading. Plus, it's a personal gift, OK? So bugger off!
Inspired -in my usual thieving adaptive way- by Phil Plait (of Bad Astronomy fame), I celebrated the non-end of the world with the following:
Of course I had to see it every time I'd be in front of my PC, so it ended up as a wallpaper, here [left click, Save As...] kindly provided to the Dear ReaderTM to use.
OK, I see too much Lost [check], I use Google for obscure and/or useless searches [check], my lame puns link to Wikipedia articles [check], I read xkcd fanatically [check] *and* I use Photoshop to edit the sketches [double triple check].
Yup, I am a big time geek.
Oh, and I obviously hate the bitch. Her face makes my dry heave. Her voice is like ground glass in my ears (ground on the inside of my ears, that is) and her manners wake up the spree killer inside me.
And -one *last* thing, it must be the 5th update by now-, I trully apologize for using the devil's own font on the Holy Grail, but I didn't really have any other options for emulating Randall's handwriting. And after all, Comic Sans was made for comics, duh!
Tomorrow at 9:30 Central European Time (10:30 local), as you may know, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will "turn on", i.e. its main proton beam will circulate for the first time through its entire length, achieving energies far higher than any other accelerator has reached before.
It's official: there's nothing dorkier than theoretical physicist rapping
This, as well as the ultimate goal of the entire experiment (finding the elusive Higgs boson -a.k.a. "The FSM particle"- something perceived as an act of hubris by many) has led to speculation about whether the world is about to end in a freaky high energy physics accident.
I, for one, believe that all this was prophesied a long, long time ago (1979!) by the great & late Douglas Adams:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
There is a third theory which suggests that both of the first two theories were concocted by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the universal level of uncertainty and paranoia and so boost the sales of the Guide. This last theory is of course the most convincing as The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the only book in the whole of the known universe to have the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on the cover."
*OK, in fact the first collisions, where anything could **theoretically** go wrong are not scheduled till October 21st or so, but I will not let this mere technicality stand in the way of fear-mongering. OMG PANIC PANIC EVERYONE!!!1!
