Archive for June, 2008

Broken fridge
June 6, 2008

Yesterday my refrigerator died. Light was on and the freezer below was working fine. I just happened to open the fridge and wondered how warm it felt. I touched the back wall with heat-exchanging pipes and it didn’t feel any cooler than the rest. I believe the compressor is broken. 
Basically there’s nothing I can do [...]

Steve Reich Piano phase
June 3, 2008

I was visiting my friend’s place. We had some cans of beer and I wanted to show him this video. I saw he had a picture of Adriana Lima as a wallpaper. I told him that I actually prefer these dancers, even though they’re a bit older and so on.
Talking about [...]

Youtube killed an MP3 star
June 2, 2008

I got interested in Pink Floyd’s A momentary lapse of reason. It contains some of the first Pink Floyd songs I remember hearing but at the same time it is one of the two last Pink Floyd albums I still don’t have.
As a 2008 man I went to Wikipedia to read about the album. I [...]

Risk-taking
June 2, 2008

The Fourth Checkraise read a book about Las Vegas gamblers:
The most amusing single observation of the book for me was noting that every single one of these high-stakes gamblers has been broke several times in his career, but they don’t care, since there is nothing to be afraid of in being broken, because America just [...]