Well what do you say to this? Today after watching over 10 episodes of Simpsons (in which I forgot to turn on my mobile, didn’t check my server and it really did crash … well what would homer say? Doh), I just received a mail (no clue to which list I subscribed, but thanks god I did it ) about the Movie, well I do know about the movie since quite a while and have seen the teaser, but now the Trailer has been released! Go and see it on http://www.thesimpsons.com/ Well I sure du hope they will sell doughnuts instead of Popcorn at the movie So and instead of reading my apache security book to prevent further crashes on the server … I am going to watch more simpsons episodes

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An elderly lady phoned Verizon to report that her telephone
failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few
occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always barked right
before the phone rang.

The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to
see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady.  He climbed a
nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
the subscriber's house.

The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog barked
loudly and the telephone began to ring.  Climbing down from
the pole, the telephone repairman found:

1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post
via an iron chain and collar.

2. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when
the phone number was called.

3. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and
then urinate on the ground.

4. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing
the phone to ring.

Which goes to show that some problems can be fixed by just
pissing on them.

I found no proof if this is real, but it sure is funny!

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Just read this in Karanet I think I will have to try this next Monday when I have to wake up REAL early to catch a train to Budapest at 6 in the morning  

The plan

Make sure your PC is in your bedroom with the monitor pointed at such an angle that you can see the screen perfectly. Go to the bios of your pc. Set your PC to startup automatically by 6:30a.m. Set your alarm clock to startup by 6:20a.m. Set your alarm clock to Radio, preferably, talk radio, not music radio. Put it at the far end of your room. Download a whole bunch of stand-up comedy routines that you have not watched.
Make a link to one of them in your autostart menu. Set VLC so that it startsup in fullscreen mode. Strategically place bread and the juice beside your bed. By 9pm on the first day, swallow one of the sleeping tablets. As an optional step, put on some Jenna and squeeze out some tadpoles.

The Effect

Now what happens in the morning? By 6:20, your alarm clock goes on. The guy will start talking. This will probably not wake you, but it will disturb you enough to take you out of deep sleep into a restless slumber. By 6:30, your PC will go on. This sound alone will wake you up, because of the strong body association between PC and mental work. So you are now basically is a state of light slumber, and left alone, you would fall back into sleep. But as soon as your PC goes one, the standup comedy goes on. Well, what happens here. Even though you are half asleep, your brain will listen to some of the jokes, and as soon as one funny joke comes through, your brain will suddenly kickstart, and you will open your eyes to look at the screen. As you watch, you will discover you are thirsty, so you will drink from the water.You will discover your snack and start eating. So you are there eating and watching stand up comedy and drinking juice. In 10 minutes, you will admit to yourself - aww shit, I'm fully awake. It's friggin great, and it's such a gentle awakening. It's not like those terrible BEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEP of the alarm clocks.

Alternative

My original strategy was this - shock myself into awakening by tricking my brain into believing that something horrible was happening. So I put the sounds of people screaming and dying on the PC. Well, trust me, that's something you don't want to do. Those sounds got absorbed into my dream and for some reason, it was my family screaming and dying. Which is a sucky way to wake up on a monday.

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Tis one is quite old, but it still is funny to read

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ somuch. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. Ihave never figured out why men think with their head and women withtheir heart.

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Gallery2.2 still isn't released, but since I can't wait to see it I started to install the nightly snapshot of gallery2.2, don't worry! only on a testsystem I'm not upgrading the main gallery installation, yet.
So what's so great about gallery2.2, well actually there is no specific feature that I'm waiting for but I do bet there are a lot of things that I will like. The first thing that I noticed was that 2.2 now also knows Romanian
The installation was easy as always, but the hard part will be the upgrade, this I will test the next days to get an idea of what awaits me when upgrading the existing gallery. Didn't do that now since I only have 300mb left on my test VPS.
New modules: There is a new printing service, a Flash video player, mp3 player, replicate items (like a link only that this one really replicates (copies) the item. So and here I am now at step 9 of 11 and my installation kind of stopped activating the user modules, but that isn't something that will stop me.
Looking at the admin interface it does look a bit newer and shinier, but the first thing I saw that sounds great is the Dynamic album feature
Well, enough for now. Looks quite interesting, and as soon as I have created an testinstallation with some images in it I will post a link.

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As I already mentioned in my previous blog about second life, I kind of think that this is a bit bizarre to spend his spare time playing a second life, a virtual one. But things seem to get even worse, after Reuters moving in to second life and politics thinking about how to tax these things now a new shocking thing was announced. There will be a Big Brother show in Second life. I mean, the real big brother was extreme stupid (my point of view) but this is far beyond stupidity! Now come on, sitting around and watching strangers what they do and how they sleep is stupid enough, but doing this in a virtual world?
So what do the people, that will be chosen for the virtual big brother, have to do? Well they have to spend 8 hours in the second life big brother house! Every Day! what a waste of time!
For all of those second life addicted, go and buy this shirt

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Well I have to say at some scenes I kind of expected more from Borat, nevertheless it was a great movie and worth being seen. As I have seen the trailer I was already sure that Borat his home village was NOT from Kazakhstan, it was filmed in Romania. Not only that the people, the village and everything else looks really Romanian, I have also found an interview which confirms this.

UBS: What about the rest of the Borat family, little Vilo and the home village? Where was that actually filmed?

DM: Romania actually. We were all set to go to Kazakhstan but we found that the people from Kazakhstan looked nothing like Borat. We went to a little village in Romania and in exchange for letting us film we bought them a pig. It was actually the pig which you see Borat introducing and then later eating. It was a great day filming. Borat's wives, his mother, little Vilo were all Romanians from a strange little village we found.

But I'm still curios to find out which village that was.
Anyway, I loved the movie, I laughed my ass of and subscribed to play.com to receive an email when the DVD is out so I can buy it. Can't waiy to see the movie again, in English.

I was very curios if the scene with Pamela Anderson was prepared or if it was “real” I mean, the did run like hell. Well after a quick search on google I came across this interview

Borat tells all about the “three love letters” he receives each week from Tommy Lee’s ex-wife — “through her lawyers”

Oh and about the music, the soundtrack has several Romanian pieces like:

* Fanfare Ciocarlia

* Mahala Rai banda vs. Shantel ( Stefan Hantel, which also released Electric Gipsyland and done some great work with O.M.F.O )

And there are also a lot of nonromanian pieces on it like:

* O.M.F.O ( Magic Mamaliga, Money Boney )

* Goran Brecovic

There is also some bullshit music on the soundtrack, actually just one song which falls in this category, but I will not comment any further about it.

More info about the soundtrack also on wikipeida.

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Borat is here! Can't wait to see the movie. Reading the wiki about Sasha Baron Choen I came across the links at the end of the wiki so I clicked on Borats Myspace
Some people might have noticed that the photos are from Romania, if you didn't notice … now you know! But the thing that scared me the most was the music! Well, foka wanted that "manele" gets more international, well now his wish has been fulfilled! I will report more about this after I have seen the movie. 

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