Charon's activity.log

Track of the week

charon — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:38:56 +0000

Cyantific – Mirador [Play]

I was about to declare the track of last week, but then I decided not to do so as the track sounded a bit like oldchool (yes, it was released in 2001!) J Majik ft. Kathy Brown – Love is not a game. But now after hearing it again in BenXO show I know it deserves the title.

Charged

charon — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:42:34 +0000

Another great cinephile experience performed by Cinema Royal – Metropolis in high-voltage measurement and testing lab.

There is some coverage by Czech TV too.

Regular desk phone with YouTube, but …

charon — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:01:57 +0000

Regular desk VoIP phone with YouTube? WTF! I could not belive it, but I have seen it myself – GrandStream GXV3175 phone featuring touch display and YouTube as one of the “apps” on it.

I could understand clock or weather widgets on the screen. Maybe even a currency converter, but who would watch the videos on desk phone? The answer was much simpler than I though – nobody, because it did not work with any video it offered and I tried. It just does not work, all my attempts ended up with “Sorry, this video contains content from other sites” message. Come on.

And that is not the only issue with the phone from what I heard from my colleague who bought it as a gift to his parents. Apart from crappy touchscreen technology and weird UI I experienced while trying YouTube, he told me the main problem is it can not receive calls, it just does not ring :) Oops.

Twin Peaks like breakfast

charon — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:27:07 +0000

I went by chance into the folder with old unnamed photos and found a documentary picture of a Twin Peaks like breakfast we made with the colleagues in CZ.NIC. If I remember correctly it was on Friday. Does it mean anything for the Friday tommorrow?

Should I have a coffee “black as midnight on a moonless night“? Or does it mean just to double check there is no fish in the percolator before having a cup of coffee? Or maybe there will be new issue of Flesh World magazine available?

Track of the week

charon — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:34:46 +0000

Amit ft. Rani – You look better dead [Play]

Trip report

charon — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:37:43 +0000

Let’s compensate a bit the sunny day today by a couple of dark and cold images from a trip to Kost couple of weeks ago. Kudos to Snapseed by the way.

Fixies in Prague

charon — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:59:51 +0000

Yes, they are here too! I have seen a fixie near Vysehrad today. A decent one as you can see bellow. Respect. Brakeless would probably be more hard core, but to me just riding a fixie in Prague is hard core enough. I can’t imagine myself to ride my usual trip I do on MTB on fixed gear or even brakeless. Average 8.1% climbing within Zizkov tunnel and then even more climbing of various steepness up to Zizkov tower . Then a downhill back home often fuelled by couple of beers … no thanks :)

Google ala Jan Kaplicky

charon — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:08:17 +0000

I feel like flying in too…

charon — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:52:19 +0000

Why don’t you call me i feel like flying in too … you know what i mean this electric stream.

Flying car, Watson doing taxes or edible tablet?

charon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:43:49 +0000

The funniest comment I found after new iPad announcement yesterday is in the article iPad Innovation: Diminishing Returns, Or Exceeding Expectations? The author says the innovations are not really the innovations in terms of a breakthrough as Apple claimed during the keynote many times. And he adds: “Apple is going to have to introduce the flying car, a Watson in human form that can do my taxes, or an edible tablet before we’ll feel emotionally moved enough to pay attention.” I’m definitely in favor of edible tablet. I suggest vanilla and blueberry flavor to start with.