A trecut cam mult timp de la ultima postare de afise publicitare. Prea putin timp liber la dispozitie, dar uite ca acum am gasit cateva minute sa uploadez cateva imagini care m-au socat sau amuzat din Strasbourg.
Iar nebunii astia
Priceless, speachless, is this democracy?
Cum ar suna descrierea semnului asta?
Poti sa iti legi bicicleta cu o mie de lanturi, daca o lasi mai mult de o luna intr-un loc o mananca termitele
Moto-ul multora
Hmmm… la ce va ganditi oare cand cititi titlul asta. Sunt curios, dar e complet invers de cum credeati.
Povestea incepe la cantina Alcatel-Lucent din Strasbourg. Se servea Fusilli cu sos si alte minuni ale bucatariei frantuzesti pe care nu le pot numi pe blog. Mi-am luat fusilli cu sos si parmezan pentru ca era singurul lucru care nu era in sange si manjit cu sos de melci. Plinbandu-ma cu tava cu fusilli prin sala, observ ca intr-un colt aveau bere Heineken la halba. Ochii mi s-au largit si gura facea demersurile necesare la creier pentru a indrepta mersul in dreptul butoiului cu bere. La dozator, dilema mare, nu aveam unde sa imi pun tava cu fusilli, decat sub robinetul dozatorului. Zis si facut, pun tava sub robinet, farfuria cu fusilli s-a intamplat sa ajunga FIX sub robinet, iau o halba, dau sa torn si nu curge nimic. Enervat apas mai tare! Incepe sa curga in pahar, astept, salivez, mai astept un pic plus salivat pe tricou… paharul tinde sa se umple, eu mai inchid de rotinet, dar debitul de bere ramane la fel.
Panica incepe sa se simta pe undeva pe spira sinarii, farfuria cu fusilli striga si ea ca e prea tanara sa moara innecata, paharul se umple complet, berea curgea, instinctul ancestral a intrat in functiune si am luat paharul de sub sirul constant de bere blonda. Rezultatul este evident, aveam fusilli overboard, Titanic all over again. Panicat trag de maneta dozatorului si fluxul de bere ucigator se opreste in sfarsit. In farfurie era liniste, fusilli pluteau le suprafata, alintati de vantul provocat de suspinarile mele.
Am luat un servetel si am incercat sa mai sec din lacul instalat in farfuria mea de fusilli. Cand a mai scazut debitul m-am pus la rand sa platesc, si apoi am mancat cu colegii mei. Nu a zis nimeni nimic, e ciudat… in tara mi-as fi luat baza cateva zile, aici nimeni nu a observat ca la mine in farfurie era balta si la ei era uscat. Si nu cred ca nu au zis nimic pentru a nu ma jigni, in timp ce curgea berea in farfurie, eu tipam, gesticulam : SHIIIT, FUUCKKK!! si totusi nu a venit nimeni la mine, nu m-a ajutat nimeni, nu m-a bagat nimeni in seama. Se pare ca dronele erau programate sa caute de mancare, sa plateasca, sa zica “Merci” cand li se luau banii din mana si apoi sa manance in liniste.
It has been a long time since I wrote some serious s*** on this blog, mainly due to the lack of time caused by a Master’s degree and the job I have in Strasbourg.
The embedded systems love I nurtured since the start of this blog is still with me, although now I have a more realistic vision of its real potential in a real life situation, my life to be more exact. Even though it is a very interesting domain, the fact that I don’t have millions of euros to invest in new ideas, renders my impact in this domain to be limited to this blog, and the wacky contraptions that can be made using a PIC micro and some elbow grease. That is it! There is the option of working for a company that has the power to change something, but those are rare and far between, plus the feeling of accomplishment is truly not the same.
Next I thought that the next best thing is to work on devices that are already designed, and just try to take advantage of their hardware and public. Of course Iphone comes to mind, but it is not the only player in the market anymore, since Android, Symbian opened their SDK’s to developers.
Unfortunately for the Iphone the ship has sailed a long time ago, meaning that there are already 140000 applications in the AppStore and counting. Next is the Android Market has around 60000 apps, but the trick with this is that for a developer to actually make some money he needs a bank account in a handful of European countries. Bummer! Apple just announced the iPad, which out of the box is just an oversized Ipod Touch, not bad to start with, but useless without real applications to take advantage of the untapped use case scenarios it presents.
For me, this year is all about web programming. and the subject of the next few posts will be Google’s GWT and a project called VisualLinks. It is a school project I have to do with a few of my colleagues, in order to receive some credits.
I provided a link to the Google Projects page here
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