Friday, November 30, 2007

Telovadba #39

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (z obrati)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (z obrati)
  • 6+5 z 10 kg uteži.
  • Matranje 7,4/10 Razen hypergravity, postaja ful preveč izi.
  • Počutje: Močno. Če se pripraviš na 5 pol maš pa energije za še šetsti dvig, te ful napumpa s samozavestjo. Ful čudn.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

It is all about pictures

  • Even if someone wants to screw with you, he is going to take a look at the pictures first.
  • A professor, testing if I was the author of a "homework", listed through all 19 pages of a picture perfect work (excerpt from my previous faculty) and asked stupid questions about them. Most "tested" people got one question or less. I got four.
  • Obviously sometimes durign lectures, it is better to keep quiet and not show him he is wrong.
  • Now all I have left is to wait for the numbers... :).

Telovadba #38

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (z obrati)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (z obrati)
  • 5+5 z 10 kg uteži.
  • Matranje 7,6/10
  • Počutje: Pred izpitom ful paše si mal dvignit agresijo in samozavest z utežmi.

Telovadba #37

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (z obrati)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (z obrati)
  • 5+5 z 10 kg uteži.
  • Matranje 7,6/10
  • Počutje: Pred izpitom ful paše si mal dvignit agresijo in samozavest z utežmi.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

How clear is a mirror other hold up for you?

  • "You are unpractical" (agricultural context).
  • "The presentation was great."
  • "You have very beautiful eyes that would fit perfectly with a blue-silver tie."

Telovadba #36

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (z obrati)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (z obrati)
  • 5+5 z 10 kg uteži.
  • Matranje 7,4/10
  • Počutje: Mal razbremenit možgane je fajn. Dans pa sam še 6 ur dela!

Still true (Laws are still made this way)

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck

Monday, November 26, 2007

Telovadba #35

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (z obrati)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (z obrati)
  • 5+5 z 10 kg uteži.
  • Matranje 7,4/10
  • Počutje: Mal razbremenit možgane je fajn. Zdej pa sam še 8 ur dela danes.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Just a few ideas that need to go out of my head

  • ...so I can start working.
  1. Create small, portable, cheap models similar to this concept. Get a pseudo scientist to develop a method of achieving optimal/work concentration and sell the product as a efficient test method.
  2. Rent small rowing boats on the coast. Pendollinos (or something) are gay. Try t be original and add aquaskipper and perhaps a hydrofoil sailboats. Decrease the sot by icluding ads on the rented equipment.
  3. Get Istrabenz (or other investors) to build a big aqua park at our coast (doesn't have to be right at sea) and save the future business.
  4. Convince BTC that skydiving wind tunnel would be economically feasible. Use trademark, image and completeness arguments.
  • ...ok now I can finally go and complete the things that need to be done.

Telovadba #34

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (z obrati)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (z obrati)
  • 5+5 z 10 kg uteži.
  • Matranje 7,3/10
  • Počutje: Po pavzi je delo precej lažje.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Online legal manual and lectures for employees

  • A whole new digital world. So many questions.
  • But so little answers.
  1. Study about all legal potential legal issues of online world. Be extremely practical.
  2. Find and collect interesting examples (both legislature and other practical advices).
  3. Create a neat, short presentation. Focus on practical areas.
  4. Write and publish articles in smaller magazines.
  5. Use an organization with some references as a solid basis for marketing. Make sure its web page is perfect.
  6. Look for mistakes done on web pages or leaks that surfaced in the media and then sell them your services.
  7. After your brilliant presentation is complete, make sure you have lots of practical project offers.

Friday, November 23, 2007

When you feel really down.

Remember that you were the winning sperm! One out of 100.000.

The bitch started moving...

  • ...counterclockwise. She moved clockwise before. When I was reading this description...my left brain hemisphere took over. Weird feeling. (click on the picture to see how oriented you are and visit the source too see the description).
  • During meditation and hypnosis, the left frontal lobe becomes more active. And people become happier...
  • Wouldn't it be great to learn how to consciously change the dominant hemisphere?

Time management scheme

The most depressing week of this year (my life?)

  • From friday to friday.
  • Not enough sleep for all the wrong reasons.
  • Worrying about sick people.
  • Sleeping too much and then doing to little.
  • Not even getting contacted about a business proposal. Starting to doubt my future, weighing the options.
  • Watching myself change because of all the above reasons.
  • And of course the fucking depressing November weather.
  • But everything is about to change. TONIGHT.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

What personal leadership is all about

The cold age in my home

  • The heating system failed. In the morning it was fucking cold.
  • Well at least I felt it that way, because there was only 17 C inside.
  • Which got me thinking...how soft have I (we) become? And how very dependent on gas and oil companies?

Telovadba #33

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Matranje 7,3/10
  • Počutje: Fajn. Danes zaradi počitak izpustil hypergravity...čeprov me bo pomoje popldne prijelo, da še tisto naredim.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Stop the employee overburn

  • Some people tend to work so hard their work efficiency and eventually their life crumbles.
  • Maybe a "smart" internet solution might help improve the situation.
  1. Learn about the consequences of working too hard.
  2. Create a web page that gives advice and very graphical warnings. Make it fun and serious.
  3. Focus on getting the how much do I work data...user input (simple task bars...) , calendars (outlook, Google calendar...). Then process it based on the collected data. Create automatic java and/or e-mail and/or sms...warnings.
  4. Be obsessed with security and constantly work on improving the idea.
  5. Work with social network pages...create a workaholic app.
  6. Use the collected data for focused marketing. Banners...

Copy the austrian appartment renatal model

  • Slovenia has so much to learn about tourism.
  • And we should learn and copy from real professionals. The Austrians. Every village has its own information system to enable room booking.
  • Basically, a small village in the middle of Austrian nowhere has a better booking system than our capital.
  1. Learn how their system works. Use the...its a school assignment excuse if needed.
  2. Go to a company that is capable of building such a system and offer them your experience. Get a partnership contract for the project.
  3. Sell the project to municipalities (over 200 potential customers), maybe even separate towns.
  4. In time offer the government to create a national system. Cooperate with foreign accommodation services.
  5. Make sure your partnership will be given the system support contract.

Telovadba #32

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Štemanje z 10kg utežmi (5 biceps + 5 triceps)
  • Matranje 7,2/10 Če se človek namreno razjezi, je ful lažje...ne čutiš.
  • Počutje: Ne več tko zlo jezen.

Don't let the flow suck you in

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

Being proactive

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Importance of critical coprehension

Egoistic use of central heating

  • This one is for the egoistic, capitalistic bastards.
  • In winter residents of a building have to pay for heating. Heat=money. The more you use, the more you pay.
  • However, the consumption measuring usually depends upon the surface of the flat or the results from heat meters.
  1. Attach pieces of copper onto the hottest parts of heating systems. Usually the hot water pipe. If you don't have direct access to them, use the radiator. (This isn't about aesthetics, be creative about that!)
  2. CPU cooling systems would probably work best - old ones can be very cheap. To improve the heat sucking, make sure the fan on the cooler is on.
  3. If you want to be fancy attach it to something that produces current form the difference between cool and hot. (Not sure if it exists or how much it costs).
  4. Enjoy the feeling of screwing your neighbors! (Next time just install a bigger radiator, you geek!)

Telovadba #31

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Štemanje z 10kg utežmi (5 biceps + 5 triceps)
  • Matranje 7,6/10 Predvsem zaradi obteženih ramen.
  • Počutje: Fajn. Pozitivno. Težje naloge (+10kg), ki jih uspešno opraviš zaradi več truda, ti dajo več občutka zadovoljstva.

Making scientific articles useful

  • All serious magazines make their articles publicly available some time after publishing it. The reason is that they can make more money off them if they "give" them to the public and increase their reputation, goodwill...in the public eyes.
  • Everyone who works in science has to publish articles or they lose their researcher status. But oftentimes in our national magazines, these articles get printed, the authors get their points, a few readers read them and then they get hopelessly lost in the old physical issues of these magazines. Sometimes libraries have them, sometimes they don't.
  1. Offer national and foreign magazines that publish the articles, to post their content on an organized web page...where their and the authors name will be visible.
  2. Deal with all the legal (copyright) issues. Personally I would recommend a CC model of license with some modified conditions.
  3. Go through their legal forms and modify it for them.
  4. Post the articles on an organized and search-able page. (Optional: Use the dlib.si or other similar project as your database, maybe even wiki).
  5. Earn some revenue on each of these steps (get paid for the organization and project management), try to get governmental, EU and private sponsorship.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Second life embassy

  • 4,1 million users and growing.
  • Furthermore, these users are on the cutting edge of technology. Even oxford lectures are held in the digital world.
  • These users have much weigh in real life. They must know bout your country!
  1. Create a second life account. Play it until you know the game in detail.
  2. Offer your government (some political connections might help), to coordinate the establishment of its embassy in the game. (Estonia, Sweden and some other advanced countries have already done that).
  3. Get paid for your promotion (if i feel Slovenia got 200.000€, we seem to have quite some money).
  4. (Optional): If you have no life or a job...you should become a professional player and start trading with digital real estates. (A woman form USA already earned over a million $ that way).
  5. Think of other ways of applying real life to digital life and making money!

How to deal with capitalistic arguments

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson

Telovadba #30

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Štemanje z 10kg utežmi (4 biceps + 4 triceps)
  • Matranje 7,6/10 ...Če se pripraviš na tri ponovitve in potem narediš 4 se ti zdi četrta velik težja kot, če bi se mentalno pripravil na 4 ali 5.
  • Počutje: Ok. Telovadba prijazno poboža ego.

Politics. Why should we care?

Source (CC)

Try considering PMS effects!

Patriotism

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. - Orson Welles

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Alone with your body and its flaws

  • Imagine having very high blood pressure, your hearth throbbing, head and chest hurting at every heartbeat.
  • Your mind filling with questions related with possible stroke and death. The end.
  • But worse then that, the feeling of being alone. Without someone close to you caring.
  • Loneliness getting deadly...

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Telovadba #29

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Štemanje z 10kg utežmi (5 biceps + 5 triceps)
  • Matranje 7,6/10 Mam počasi rad uteži.
  • Počutje: Fajn, se je dan začel?

How small is the world?

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. - Steven Wright

Why are other people laughing when you say something?

Friday, November 16, 2007

Telovadba #28

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Matranje 7,3/10
  • Počutje: Fajn, zbujen. Hypergravitacijskemu treningu sem se odpovedal, ker imam malo čuden občutek tm okrog 15-20ega vretenca. Najprej zdravje.

http://www.pritozbe.si/

  • Bought new furniture and are disappointed with all the defects of the delivered product?
  • Water leaking into your newly bought apartment?
  • Has your car broken down too fast?
  1. Create a web forum (it must be based on the B2C principles)where people can complain about products.
  2. Use categories used on big C2C web markets.
  3. Add legal and practical advice on what to do when things go wrong (following categories).
  4. Get funding from the state or consumer organizations. (Association with a special significance, would work quite well here)
  5. Ads.
  6. Grow to services and when you gather enough data, create ratings.

Second opinion

  • Entrepreneurs and big businesses alike, need to develop new projects all the time. Without them they become uncompetitive.
  • Planing is crucial to achieve the set goals.
  • For effective planning as much data and information is needed.
  • In the process of gathering of all this data, people oftentimes grow too attached to the project.
  • That means that they inherently become too subjective to do their job optimally.
  1. Create a catchy web page (probably needs to be national, because of legislation and terminology).
  2. Offer the most basic business plan planner (a simple java application).
  3. Because no matter how much data you have in the end you must estimate certain measures...use the concept of (now dead) google answers, where users asking questions offer a reward for an alternative business plan, that companies can use to optimise theirs.
  4. Be obsessed about information and legal security or others won't be willing to exchange their ideas and data.
  5. Get a cut from the rewards and add targeted ads.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Run and hide, she is coming!

Waiter and salesmen clothes

  • Square meters of ad surface. Right?
  1. Find a good design team.
  2. Cooperate with someone who can make normal quality clothes cheaply and rather quickly (on the east).
  3. Market your services / products to big companies and bar owners.
  4. (optional) Start small by having sexy T-shirts for bars. (For example: Print original beer ads on them...)

Telovadba #27

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Štemanje z 10kg utežmi (4 biceps + 4 triceps)
  • Matranje 7,5/10 Tut na uteži (baggage), se človek navadi.
  • Počutje: Fajn. Drgač me malo skelijo oči. Mam tko bl na pol odprte.

Everybody lies

  • Day or night...everbody lies.

Who/what is screwing with our collective minds?

For natural science topics

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas H. Huxley

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

My comment of national politics

Cowards?!

How much work is really needed?

Improving vocabulary and feeding the poor

  • FreeRice.
  • And I don't really care how much money the web page operators earn. This page is great if you feel like your English vocabulary has gotten somewhat stuck.
  • Furthermore, it is a great place to send people who are talking about how we should feed the hungry.
  • Personally, I dread the German version! (Probably wouldn't reach vocabulary level 21 there :) ).

Need to buy more stuff!!!

Telovadba #26

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Štemanje z 10kg utežmi (3 biceps + 3 triceps)
  • Matranje 7,6/10 Z utežmi (baggage) je življenje velik bl zajeban.
  • Počutje: Fajn. Velik energije.

www.tiha-masina.si

  • Afternoon activity with growth potential.
  • Most computers I have stumbled upon are horrifically loud.
  • Very bad for your nerves and productivity...
  • And most people who try to fix the problems themselves screw up.
  1. Learn everything their is to know on this topic (won't take too long). Get some partners. Buy a noise meter, to show improvements in dB.
  2. Buy some material to fix the problem on e-Bay.
  3. Create a simple web page with some advice (to show you know stuff).
  4. Market your you bring it to us and we fix it fast and cheap. Remember your price must be lower then the price of components + trying to fix it themselves.
  5. Use different mediums for point 4. Forums, ad words on local search engines, viral marketing...would probably work best.
  6. Don't forget about liability issues. Prepare.
  7. Try to grow and sell your services to companies. Silence their machines for personal use over weekend.

Ku-ku clock with brain

  • I hate being awoken by the noise of an alarm clock. It isn't healthy.
  • I also hate to oversleep. Being late or feeling somewhat dizzy also doesn't make a perfect day.
  • Needed amount of sleep varies from individual to individual. But it can be calculated and the calculations can be adjusted.
  • Most of us also set our alarm clocks when we go to bed.
  • Combining all of these concepts:
  1. Find advanced ku-ku clocks manufacturer, that produces clocks that wake people with the simulating sunrise. You know a light getting stronger and stronger...and then a positive melody starts to play.
  2. Make sure it is really smart, so you can program it in a way that allows you go to bed, and it calculates how much sleep you need. So you are always woken at the correct time.
  3. Get some quasi researches done into how healthy that is.
  4. Use social pyramid and some bio-energy bullshit to market it. To ensure correct operation of such "bio-machines" establish a bio-balancing mechanism - which is really cheap. (The idea is to help people calculate how much to sleep and sell them bio-services...)
  5. Connect with the bio society and do the marketing for them.

Look at the previous post

  • The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. - Joseph Conrad
  • Women, not men!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

It's genetic

Cell phone usage in the future

Telovadba #25

  • utranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Matranje 7,5/10
  • Počutje: Vroče + kronični muskelfiber. Zanimivo.

How much do you want it? (update)

Monday, November 12, 2007

Communicate persuasively

How much do you want it?

Brain splattered over cold pavement

  • Do you drive? If no, stop reading.
  • Do you drive after work, at night? If no, stop reading.
  • Do you sometimes drive tired, with sore eyes? If no, stop reading.
  • Do you ever think of what might happen to you it you do drive tired, with sore eyes?
  • Well I saw one guy today. He ran over another unsuspecting pedestrian. Hopefully the doctors will help him to full health.
  • What would happen to the tired driver if he killed him on the spot or worse, make him a paraplegic?
  1. He would probably suffer from horrific moral hang over. Which can't be treated with aspirin.
  2. He could potentially go to jail. And serve five years or maybe even more.
  3. Many other thinks...which actually seem quite unimportant because of the first two points.
  • Do you think of the possible consequences of a moment of lapsed concentration behind the wheel?

Working a bit too hard?

  • For me, the thin line is crossed when I go to the bathroom to shave and then start washing my teeth. Again.
  • But on the other hand, it must be good for the teeth.

Telovadba #24

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Matranje 7,4/10
  • Počutje: Ful mi je vroče. Nimam pojma zakaj.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

www.oglasevanje.si

  • Some ads in newspapers or on web pages are horrible. Bad. Downright annoying.
  1. Register a domain. Create a web page that has a register of all possible individual to individual ad posting.
  2. Have your customers write to you (fill a form) on what they want to advertise...are they selling a house, offering massage service, changing car tyers?
  3. Find creative students and offer them a cut (or per hour salary) for every good ad they write. Slowly build a database of effective ads. Enhance pictures they send you. Make sure you include the feed back option. (for example: offer you customers discounts on next services if they fill a short interview on how their ad worked).
  4. Create ads for individuals and post them on chosen mediums.
  5. Charge a small cut for your services. (If it costs too much, you won't be worth it!)

Certify national software

  • There is no organization that would be willing to inspect and certify home made software.
  • Which is a shame, because I believe the market exists. Especially the government that spends tons of money on bad code, has probably learned from experience and would pay that extra 5% to get the software double checked.
  1. Establish a company, find some experts...probably not full time. College professors and assistants would probably be very nice targets.
  2. Outsource testing.
  3. Market it to both vendors and buyers.

Finishing free drink and check

  • Today at Chinese restaurant I was impressed by the idea of a finishing drink.
  • It is a very polite way of saying drink this, pay and get out, thus freeing capacities.
  1. Think of drinks that might work at other kinds of restaurants.
  2. Find a wide variety of glasses.
  3. Put all of that online.
  4. Sell the idea, the glasses and drinks to other restaurants.

What is digital piracy? No, really...

  • This policy of Canadian police got me thinking.
  • Although the source of this information isn't what you would call totally credible, the information it contains for me is.
  • It is next to impossible to go after file (or P2P) sharing, because every time you come up with a great idea on how to stop it, the users have something to fight it. Of course, that won't stop RIAA and similarly friendly organizations from trying to use technological measures to stop it. Oftentimes illegally.
  • But there is something much worse going on. Someone has been playing with our minds!
  • Since I know it, modern pirates were people who sold you CDs... (of software, music...), that they stole form others. In other words if they are earning money by stealing from copyright owners, they are pirates. Lending your friend a copy of a book or computer game without making money, was never called piracy. Until today.
  • File sharing is more and more often uncritically called piracy, by organizations representing copyright owners interests. It doesn't matter if 13 year old kids don't sell copies of music over P2P, if it can hurt the interests of big media companies it is piracy. Period. End of discussion.
  • The most worrying thing about that is, that some legislators (USA) have also accepted this view. And so have some big media companies, that affect public perception. (and are owned by...who?). That is why single mothers are rather easily found guilty of "piracy" and are condemned to fines exceeding 200.000$. Get those piratez!
  • I support the prosecution of people who sell other peoples creative works for money. Get those pirates! As for file sharing...I don't think that the majority of people in our society (that in fact do share files) are drinking rum, screaming arrrgh and enjoying booties.

Weird choices

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. - Andre Maurois

Telovadba #23

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse 2 iztegnjene noge + 4 desna rotacija telesa + 6 noramal + 4 v levo + 2 iztegnjene...
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (glej zgoraj)
  • Matranje 7,5/10
  • Počutje: Mam musklfiber od tazaresnega plezanja.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Grave thoughts...

  • Some people like to light candles. Or dance on graves.
  • But sometimes finding the remains is hard or next to impossible. So there is much less burning and dancing as people would like.
  1. Get graveyard maps with locations of the graves. Get it online and enable search. Organize graveyards...
  2. Add ads. Try to get financial support form the authorities.
  3. If you fail at getting financial blessings, expect some legal problems. Prepare.
  4. Update regularly.
  5. Cooperate with social networks so people know when and where to go when some people leave to "other networks".
  6. Try to live with yourself.

Telovadba #22

  • Na tako lep dan se ne spodobi telovaditi v zaprtih prostorih.
  • Zato sem šel raztegnit svoje ude na rimski zid.
  • Do tja sem v enem kosu (nihče ni gledal) pretekel 200m. Dobr bo za ponovni začetek tekanja.
  • Potem sem splezal po Janezu tja in nazaj.
  • Ker nisem imel dost sem splezal kocko med obema, potem pa do vdrtine na Marjanu in nazaj.
  • PS: Nisem kot bi rekel Jelinčič: pederaš, toplovodar, ritopik, topli bratec...imam pa resne pomisleke o tistem, ki je poimenoval smeri na rimskem zidu. Sploh, ker je poln lukenj. Fuj. :)

Most politicians and news reporters do it all the time

  • A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell
  • Thats not to say they are stupid. Right?

Democracy

  • Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. - EB White

Balanced communicator

Friday, November 09, 2007

On human body

  • Took one hour to chill out in front of a quality documentary. Here is what I (re)learned:
  1. Men produce over 1000 sperm cells every minute.
  2. Human body consists of over 100billion cells.
  3. Brains define who we are. Our personality.
  4. Brains are very flexible and susceptible to change.
  5. There are monks that meditate for half an hour under a frigid waterfall every day.
  6. Meditation switches (in 20 seconds in experienced monks) the brain activity from right frontal lobe to left one...thus changing serious, worrying thoughts to happy, relaxed ones (left frontal lobe).
  7. 3 minutes of meditation 3 times a day can have very positive effects on ones psyche and health. I will give this one a go.

www.bitch-slapper.com

  • Finally another global idea. (If you use any of my ideas and succeed, I will be very proud of you. Furthermore you can give me 5% of the revenue, invite me to the management of the firm and buy me a beer.)
  • People in general are lazy when it comes to doing chores, homework assignments, work assignments, work outs...and sometimes we need that extra helping kick in our lazy ass.
  1. Register the above domain and enable users to register as mamaslappers and lazyasses (can use more normal terms if you think that would work better).
  2. The system should process the assignments and alarm the slappers to write their asses a juicy message if they didn't do what they should. The check system of providing proof should also be included.
  3. Use the standard ways of getting money from web pages.
  4. Connect with biggest social networks and create joint projects (apps) - follow the example of iLike on Facebook.

www.vozni-redi.si

  • Some people actually still use public transport.
  • They also use internet.
  • Public transport organizers usually don't have the incentives to make scedgules really user friendly.
  • There is lots of software that gather data from other pages.
  1. Create (learn from other foreign models) a system that collects all the data.
  2. Make it really user friendly (pictures, schemes...).
  3. Register domains. (vredi.si, vr.si...) and if you feel successful- a trademark.
  4. In time add different transport types (trains, coaches, private transport...) so that someone who wants to travel on a desired date has a direct comparison.
  5. Add ads.
  6. Market. Focus on search engines.

Passively cool (or warm)

  • The idea is very much simple. Engineering probably isn't.
  • If the sun shines stronger it is hotter, but there is also more solar power for cooling.
  • The idea is not to cool huge skyscrapers...but to constantly use solar power to cool or heat spaces toward desired temperature.
  • Install it (on the roof), set the desired temperature and forget it exists.
  1. Follow the prices and development of such systems.
  2. When the time is right (electricity gets expensive enough) start importing.

Telovadba #21

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3) - no ja skor.
  • Matranje 7,5/10
  • Počutje: Ok. Najprej se mi skor ni dalo, pol ti pa kr neki manjka...kt pri tekaški zasvojenosti.

Extremes hurt

We all make mistakes

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Warm drinks for cold days

  • You have probably seen or heard about people selling drinks in many tourist destinations. Personally I remember men selling tea on Moroccans beaches.
  • I believe this concept could also be used in more modern cities.
  1. Find an appropriate back pack/equipment for serving. Don't forget nice recyclable and sterile looking cups. (maybe packed in PVC).
  2. Have a vehicle parked near your "business location".
  3. Wear an appropriate costume and target places with money...lunch hours next to office buildings, later shopping malls...
  4. (Optional): Market drinks or services for other companies by giving away free drinks in cold winter...
  5. Get all the permits (or pray the inspectors don't get you).

Bombe na sodišču!!!

  • Ob takšnih novicah se človek najprej malo nasmeji, ko si predstavlja tožilce in sodnike kako v haljah skačejo skozi okna.
  • Po kratkem razmisleku o tem koliko to dejansko stane (delovne ure kvalificiranih pravnikov in ostalih, zaupanje v sodstvo, stroški policijske akcije...), pa nisem več tako nasmejan. Do takih klicev (če malo pošpekuliram) prihaja , ker:
  1. Obdolženi mislijo, da se bodo izognili sodni obravnavi (bo preložena) in ne bodo trpeli posledic, ker jih ne bodo ujeli.
  2. Nekateri uživajo v za......nju sodstva in policije.
  3. Se nekaterim sodnikom tisti dan ne da delati (priznam, absurdna misel).
  4. So začele pripravništvo res lepe diplomantke - bombe! (...še bolj absurdna misel)
  • Situacija pa se je zaostrila že do te mere, da sodišča pred pomembnimi ("velikimi" ) obravnavami z dodatnimi varnostniki pregledajo in zaščitijo sodne dvorane in njihovo okolico, kar pomeni, da se obravnava tudi v primeru bombnega alarma ne prelaga, ker lahko z dovolj visoko stopnjo gotovosti vedo, da "tista dvorana ne bo eksplodirala".
  • V primeru, da bi bil na odgovornem položaju, ki bi preprečeval takšne preplahe bi se poleg sedanjih ukrepov lotil še dveh stvari:
  1. Na novinarski konferenci bi medijem predstavil primere, ko so bili klicatelji ujeti in bodo primerno kaznovani (generalna prevencija in pošiljanje simbolnih sporočil družbi).
  2. Policiji bi predlagal, da postane še bolj učinkovita s primerjanjem časov preplahov z razpisanimi (na spletni strani sodišč) obravnavami. Verjetno pa bi bilo smotrno tudi takšno metodo pojasniti medijem. Morda bi se poleg "to je kaznivo..." v člankih pojavil še kakšen članek o tem, da vas bodo verjetno dobili. (Odločitev za klic (verjetnost) = zagoržena kazen krat verjetnost, da te dobijo).

www.nabij.eu

  • Get a nice, short, still available (for not too much $) domain name. (Eu or com is usually easier to get if you are an individual).
  • Learn java or find someone who knows it well and plan a nice simple web page. Let it be about posting ads online, but instead of the old boring model let it show stuff as it would show on a real board. Furthermore the posting should be as simple as dragging objects onto drawings in diagramming tools.
  • Don't forget to add smart search functions that only display sought categories.
  • Charge € for larger than ordinary pin ups and add ads.
  • Get it online cheaply (partner with some smaller hosting provider).
  • Market it and hope it looks good enough for the consumers.

Telovadba #20

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • Matranje 7,3/10
  • Počutje: Malo bolj zbujen. Malo musklfibra. Mogoče kasneje še štemanje z utežmi.

Two unconnected and unsupported facts

  • Humans work 20% more effectively when they are observed by someone they don't know.
  • It takes a mere 250Mbit of sensory input to overwhelm a nervous system of an average human individual.
  • Interesting, isn't it?

Buses and car parks

  • Are unusual places for having sex, but quite appropriate for making money.
  • Not with sex. But with wending machines.
  • I feel that many of us would be willing to buy that cold drink during a hot&sweaty traffic jam...or at least some chewing gum to offer to your co-passenger and ease his breath. As for parking lots, that would be continent.
  1. Find suitable (small, but rigid) machines online. Or find someone who could produce them.
  2. Make a business plan.
  3. Go to public transportation office and car park owners and offer them your solution. Its a win win win, because they improve their services, their customers get better choice and you get a cut.

Small business principles

  • The main idea comes from Seth's blog.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Telovadba #19

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • 2 + 2 hypergravity.
  • Matranje 7,4/10
  • Počutje: Fajn. Malo me skrbi kr se mi zdi, da sem si površinsko natrgal - je ena rdeča črtica ratala, pa malo me skeli- mišico pod levim komolcem. (ko končam še medicino, bom lahko napisal latinsko ime).

Work less, work good

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Telovadba #18

  • 3x štemanje bicepsi z 10 kg na hrbtu.
  • 4x štemanje tricepsi z 10 kg na hrbtu.
  • Počutje: Kot Stalone v Cliffhangerju :). Hyper-gravity-trening pa definitivo pomaga, če ga delaš pravilno. Drugače si pač zjebeš komolce.
  • Če si malo načet je verjetno res boljše počivat, da telo pride k sebi. Jutri pa zares (ne stranka)!

Living of a blog

  • I am grateful that some people are trying to do exactly that. Quality "free" content for all. Nice. Information communism with a sprinkle of abstract level (ads) of capitalism?

On how to act on special occasions

  • People are always nervous when dealing with unknown.
  • May it be a wedding, funeral, celebration or something in between, the result of that nervousness that someone does something wrong (no bonton) or feels so tight he doesn't enjoy the occasion (which is the point of the celebration, right?).
  1. Go to one of the classes organizers and offer this kind of tutoring. Arrange for them to do the marketing and provide facilities. (Optional, organize it yourself).
  2. Create a simple slide show, which is fun and explicit...use pictures and diagrams. Focus on how things progress, basics of good manner. Then have either group drills or offer individual classes (where you also help with speeches and stuff).
  3. Market your services...focus on spreading the word.

Planz

  • Failing to plan is planing to fail.

Monday, November 05, 2007

BB of democracy?

Night of internal torture

  • One of those rare nights.
  • I had severe difficulty falling asleep from 24:00 to 1:00. I just felt funny, anxious, uncalm.
  • At 5:00AM I was abruptly awoken by neck pain.
  • Which soon turned into a round and round head pain. Excellent.
  • I took action. Half of aspirin. Didn't do shit for 20 minutes...took another half.
  • Still nothing.
  • The throbbing feeling started to spread to my abdominal muscles. I started feeling like a drug addict without a dose. Horrible cramping feeling. Couldn't lie in bead, so I walked around a bit. Kids don't do drugs, the downside must be far worse than the up side.
  • After watching people get up and go to their boring jobs at 6:00AM, I slowly in some moderate pain, I finally fell asleep.
  • Woke up with a slight cold. That is it.
  • Here are my speculations on how I got this phenomenal (one night stand) cold:
  1. Genetic predisposition.
  2. Overstraining muscles (climbing and stuff) which in turn let the infections in.
  3. Getting some sort of fancy virus or bacteria form someone watching the same slid show on Saturday.
  4. Hot muscles + burja (cold wind) on Friday's climbing trip.
  5. Combination of all of the above.

Mistakes as part / end of life

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken

Do you have any facts supporting that?

  • I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • On effectively attacking idealistic cases...

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Just connect it

SafeSun tanning equipment

  • I got pale. There is not enough sun to get a tan.
  • I hate solariums. They are 1. unhealthy, 2. smelly, 3. expensive, 4.inconvenient (Optional: 5. gay).
  • I was also thinking about what I would sell to Americans, the country of countless can holders and plastic ....something.
  • Combining these stupid thoughts gave this result (garbage in - garbage out?):
  1. Take an ordinary set of foldable glasses for faster face tan. (I saw they use it in american movies- I feel like Borat now).
  2. Get a bored scientist. (Lots of them in Slovenia at the moment).
  3. Cooperate with him to manufacture the same stuff with added ray absorption or something that prevents too much damage to the skin. It should auto adapt to the lightness - like some fancy eye glasses do. Furthermore add a new way it is folded or something.
  4. Write a very good disclaimer! + If possible, patent it!
  5. Get in contact with someone who can organize mass production and marketing.
  6. Enjoy your cut.

Bad habits bite (not turning the lights on)

  • Someone (not me) got used to not turning the lights on. Because they weren't needed for something done with such routine.
  • Life is a funny thing, because routine is often broken by external intervention.
  • And these situations really make me laugh.
  • Comedians aren't really funny, life is!

Chocolate dragons of Ljubljana

  • All the tourists must bring something home. Even from Ljubljana. If it represents the city, so much the better.
  • Mozart "balls" :), may be great for Salzburg, but Prešeren "balls" just suck for Ljubljana.
  • The solution is quite simple:
  1. create (or get someone to do it...in one form or another) some designs and concepts of the product. (a big chocolate dragon the size of easter rabbits, small chocolate bars, milka size...). Green dragon giving you power...sonds just right. Even the kids will love it (hopefully).
  2. go to Rustica or some other great chocolate producers. Make sure it is exclusive. Gorenka probably won't cut it.
  3. present them the idea in a very professional way (with NDA agreements) and offer to market/distribute it for them (they do the production you do marketing and distribution).
  4. secure a brand name. Go for OHIM registration.

www.illwear.com

  • What to wear. A hard question, especially when you have tons of clothes scattered across the whole apartment. Or even more of them.
  • It would help to have a digital collection of all your clothes...neatly organized.
  1. Buy the above domain.
  2. Create a user friendly web page.
  3. Make sure the page is very logical when it comes to personal wardrobe classification, is very easy to add new categories and adding pictures or descriptions of your stuff online.
  4. Also make sure to add dates of when the item was added to wardrobe. (you know that clothes don't get better with time).
  5. Add direct ads to online and of line clothes shops.
  6. Try to collaborate with social network pages (to prevent friends from buying same stuff) and add new features with time (fashion advice, alerts...).

Telovadba #18

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse (3 + 5 + 7 +5 + 3)
  • Matranje 7,4/10 .
  • Počutje: Boljše. Telovadba pomaga, če se počutiš malo ranljivo.

Reasonable belief?

Underpowered? Resort to last resort.

Putting compliments into perspective

  • If you invite friends and family to your place and show them your new kitchen that you designed and bought...
  • Or if you buy new shoes, would your girlfriend say the color is off, or they could be used in a circus? (Note: I didn't buy any new shoes recently!)
  • Would they ever say it is hideous?
  • Probably not.
  • Always recognize the subjective nature of the opinion or compliment.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Iter by itself

Iter = way, path...

Toooo much orange juice?

New medical equipment shortens waiting rows?

  • Every time health minister or director of medical facilities ceremonially puts new medical equipment into use there are always big words of how this will reduce waiting rows for at least three months.
  • Funny words, really. Because they say that for last five years patients had to wait for treatment for a year (hearth surgery, cancer treatment...). In other words they will wait for only 10 months from now on.
  • Which is illogical, because if the flow of patients is relatively constant (rows data for the last five years...) and you increase the "production" capacities (from 4 machines to 5), the waiting rows should diminish in time.
  • But they usually don't because of other deciding factors like doctors willingness to work (use the new tools) and the amount of money used for this kind of treatment (these two are very much correlated).
  • On the bright side...patients do usually get better treatment (on new devices). But the bottom line is that in the end it is all about money and how much we are willing to give it to others.
  • I will go out and say that only 2% of people actually think about this topic in this way...and most of them are probably making nice profits selling medical equipment to the state.

Muskelfieber

  • Is a perfect German word (I hope it is) for muscle ache.
  • I'd expect it to be mainly because of yesterdays climbing trip. However:
  1. My middle finger hurts from finishing Mcrae Dirt (PC game) in one day (5:30 playing time) - I got ill and angry and had relatively nothing to do.
  2. My arms hurt from helping a friend move to a new apartment (carrying five suits on clotheshangers in one hand is really hard.)
  3. Well, maybe my hands hurt a little bit because of climbing. But it was worth it. Furthermore, because of climbing I have gotten strong enough to open the jar of pickles all by myself.

See what other people are doing

  • When taking out the trash I took a glance at the stickers on the walls next to the entrance. Here is what they are offering:
  1. Massages (25€ per hour + 15€ for a face massage...Still I can't help but wonder how much Sasho charges for erotic massages. I bet ladies over 60 just adore him).
  2. Instructions for less gifted students...10€ per hour...and not worth my nerves. Explaining how to solve x + 2 = 6 for the tenth time is probably a blast.
  3. Moving services...great business. The problem is that most people forget about the amortization of their spinal column.
  4. Same applies for painters, carpenters, wood workers...the only difference is that they should also amortize lungs.
  5. Adventure agency which takes you to exotic trips to hills and dips around Ljubljana each weekend. I like the idea, but hate its marketing approach.
  6. So if I were to choose one of these professions, I'd be a plumber. Lest work for most added value.

Telovadba #17

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse
  • Matranje 7,7/10 . Muskelfiber od vsega hudega.
  • Počutje: Dobro. Telovadba pomaga pri borbi s prehladom.

Friday, November 02, 2007

Sinergy (or when people work together)

Facilitating (climber) needs

  • Climbers aren't generally rich. But they spend quite a lot of money on their equipment, beer and in some cases accommodation.
  • So I can't understand some local landowners of estates near climbing walls, why they are refusing to create some extra revenue form their visits. At the moment they are, by rule either trying to get money of them the easiest (most ineffective) way - charge them for parking or are trying to get rid of these weird people. Here are a few of mine win-win ideas:
  1. Let them park for free, but sell them beer and put a free donation box for maintenance there.
  2. Open a "hostel" (upgrade your barn a bit). Make it cheap, but get the revenue by selling hot showers...
  3. Put free benches and other relaxation facilities on site (similar to relaxation benches on Šmarna gora or at the coast). Make sure they have enough ads of climbing equipment printed on them. And that these shops pay for them, because it is in the end the best way to really get in touch with your future customers.
  4. Sell that piece of land to someone who will actually know how to use it and buy something peaceful elsewhere.

A classical one on thiefs

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop

Telovadba #16

  • Plezanje, črni kal. Toplo jesensko sonce + pogled na morje + kalamari.
  • 5 smeri. (več na plezanje.net) Ena po vpenjanju še top rope. Ugotovitev: Če se potrudit plezati s stilom in sproščeno je 100% lažje.
  • Počutje: Zelo fajn.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

I need it...soon

Advice on buying big.

  • I don't like it when experienced salesmen (professionals) screw ordinary people.
  • I especially don't like it when they screw them over when they are making the greatest investments of their lives = car or real estate.
  1. Register a catchy domain, that tells you will find free advice and info. on big buys.
  2. Get some books, study them and publish the advices. Make sure you use the google principle when creating the homepage, so everything is easy to find (don't put tons of stuff and links on one page.)
  3. Create a forum and invite experts to answer questions there. Good posts should be rewarded.
  4. (Optional) Add the option of users rating their salesmen. Furthermore, from the begining you specialize in a couple of interesting issues (like reclamations and claims).
  5. Get ads and possible government funding (as an association with special purpose).

Drawing #2

If you don't know what it means look at the file name!

Drawing #1

  • I was always bad at drawing by hand. Now it is time for me to try and see how much better I can get with computers.
  • Here is my first drawing and it has a "hidden" message. Can you read it?
  • (A great (public) speaker has a lot of knowledge and a storytelling talent. If one is unbalanced, he is not great.)
  • If you want to see a pro doing something similar, I recommend indexed.

Best profit margins

  • are to be found in businesses that don't yet exist or are too dirty or morally sensitive.
  • First example is production of urns and coffins. Form what I've heard (unconfirmed) they sell with over 400% margins. Nice.
  • Dirty businesses. Treating garbage or other kinds of wastes also has very high margins.
  • And I shall not go into marginally legal activities like lending money or running a pawnshop.
  1. Fuck dirty, immoral, or dead...it is about money right?

Telovadba #15

  • Jutranje radosti
  • Piramida štemanja za tricepse
  • Piramida štemanja za bicepse
  • Matranje 7,1/10 . Počasi premalo.
  • Počutje: Dobro. Rutina, se mi je zdela prelahak, ker sem se vnaprej prepričal, da bom spočit ali pa ker sem dejansko bil spočit (včeraj zaradi prehlada pavza). Go figure.