Alyo's blog

Couchsurfing has become a profitable organisation?

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000

From an e-mail you get as a new-joined memeber:

[CS msg: Hikecrazy] Hi! Welcome to CouchSurfing - Greetings from San Francisco!
Finally, you might have heard or might hear in the future that CouchSurfing has recently changed its status from a non-profit organization to a B corporation, which is in fact a for-profit company. It is important to underline that CouchSurfing and its base services remain still FREE to use: so far the only OPTIONAL paid service is the verification service.
//Ciao! Jon

Now, this is all fine and dandy, untill you get a bit more into the thing; another couch-surfer (or at least somebody with a CS profile) says:

don't touch the couch request-button! It has finally been decided: CouchSurfing International Inc. has been denied charity status, as many of us have predicted would happen since 2007. It's official now: Couchsurfing can no longer pose as a charity, but is forced to admit it's a hardcore commercial business. Don't be fooled by the claim that CS is 'a socially responsible B corporation'. This only means they bought a B-Labs certificate, and has no official status whatsoever. CouchSurfing is commercial. This is a big step forward. Now the bunch of incompetents that call themselves the CS management (...)
//NLSSMT ; http://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=1TL0TF5&from_search

Ach, weel, what can we do? As long as CS isn't buying blood diamonds in Africa, cutting down the forrests in Sumatra, etc. Or is it?

Naši otroci ne bodo nikoli ...

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0000

Polno je stvari, ki jih naši otroci ne bodo nikoli. Nekaj jih je odvisnih od konstantnega spreminjanja - okolja, odnosa ljudi do le-tega in tehnologij. Navsezadnje tudi zaradi evolucije, ki gre svojo pot (in vsake kvatre "ustvari" nekaj novih ter "pobije" nekaj starih vrst).

Poleg desno prikazane fotke, naši otroci ne bodo nikoli vedeli, kaj se je bilo fino igrat s frnikolami, ko še ni bilo računalnikov in si pač a) bral knjigo, b) se učil/delal nalogo, c) se šel na dvorišče igrat, d) šel na izlet, e) na izvenšolsko aktivnost. In opcija c .. je bila mega! Že mi, vem, da smo počeli manj kot naši starši, smo bili bolj elektronski in bolj škatlasto-omejeni.

Ah, no, pa saj - tempus fugit in mi bomo z njim šli. Nekam že, nekateri že. Navsezadnje naredimo nekaj tisoč kilometrov vsako sekundo po našem vesolju. Ha, eppur si muove!

Dear 16 year-old me

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:19:00 +0000

Malignant melanoma ...

http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/dear_16yearold_me

Ultimate 1 - kako bi ga opisal?

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:17:00 +0000

How would you describe Ultimate to someone who does not know it?

Ultimate is a combination of three sports: 1) American Football - the field set up is similar, with end zones at either end, and the object is to advance the disc into one of those while preventing the opposing team from advancing it into the other. 2) Basketball - the person catching the disc can not run after gaining possession, instead they must establish a pivot foot at one spot on the field while they look for a teammate to throw to next. 3) Soccer (or proper football! :) – lots of sprinting, changing direction, and moving without the disc to create spaces on the field which your team can attack.

From the interview with Greg Conelly, a.k.a. Scoops, found on Ultimate Slovenia's web page: http://www.ultimateslo.si/novice/scoopscamp2011intervjuzultimategurujem

To take the Black

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:43:00 +0000

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

The Oath of the Brothers of the Night's Watch of the Wall of Westeros. Link here.

For the past half a year, these books have been ruling my waking hours, commanding the spare time I had. Loved every minute of it! (Although Geroge R. R. Martin could, every now and then, leave out some of the descriptions of the feasts they are having within.)

SLOVENSKE SVEČE GORE V NOČ

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:48:00 +0000

V SLOVENIJI NI KRIZE!
Kako lahko kupimo največ (predragih!) sveč per capita, če je pa TAKA kriza!
Al zdej vsi moljo poleg svetim Trem še k vsem prednikom, ki jih imajo?
"Oče moj, ki si v grobu, pomagaj mi plačat račune ..."
http://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/slovenci-porabimo-23-milijonov-nagrobnih-svec-letno.html

Ej, Mopped! spletna stran

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:21:00 +0000

Zdravo!

Zaživela bo spletna stran Ej, Mopped! No, je že, samo je še v procesu "pimpanja"!

Tako da - dobrodošli na strani in pridite nazaj, ko bo še hujša, najhujšejša!

KulLaži, fotografska razstava Ajde Tomazin

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:31:00 +0000

Dopadel se mi je spremni tekst k razstavi, komentar Ajde Tomazin. Pa tudi razstava je kar fletna pejte pogledat. V kavarni KUD-a FP je.

/.../ Razstava želi reflektirati današnjo družbo, ki je obsedena z dogajanjem v življenju drugih.
Kdo žura, kolikokrat seksa, kdaj gre na morje, ali je v odprtem ali zapletenem razmerju, koliko ima FB prijateljev ...

Ljudje obožujejo, da razgališ svojo intimo, svoje življenje, pa tudi, če jim v naslovu poveš, da so to laži. /.../

KulLaži, fotografska razstava Ajde Tomazin
KUD FP, Karunova 14, Ljubljana

Music ...

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:51:00 +0000

Music. You just gotta love it.

For its elegance, its fluidity, tranquility it brings.
THE SOUND.
Simply ... music.

Generacije

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:35:00 +0000

Konflikti med
generacijami so stari
toliko kot civilizacija
sama. Na štiri tisoč let
stari glineni ploščici
piše:

Današnja
mladina je nemogoča.
Ne pozna nobene
odgovornosti in
spoštovanja, po glavi ji
rojijo same neumnosti.

(Ujčič v Hozjan, 2010:
47)

Zahvala in krik na pomoč iz Nubskih gora...

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:02:00 +0000

ponedeljek, 18. julij 2011 @ 05:03 CEST
Uporabnik: Pozitivke
Pozdravljene kolegice in kolegi, ljudje odprtega srca!

Že kar nekaj časa sodelujem s Tomom Križnarjem pri njegovih prizadevanjih pomagati Nubam, prvobitnemu ljudstvu na meji med Severnim in Južnim Sudanom, ki je navduševalo že znano režiserko Leni Riefenstahl.

Kot verjetno veste, se je pred kratkim Južni Sudan po uspelem referendumu odcepil od skupne države, ob tem pa so nastale hude težave za staroselce, ki jih sedaj želi oblast Severnega Darfurja iztrebiti v (seveda prikritem) gnusnem genocidu. Tomo je bil več ali manj edina tuja priča dogajanjem v Nubskih gorah, kamor s Klemnom Miheličem redno dostavljata majhne vohunske kamere, s katerimi imajo sedaj domačini možnost svetovne medije sami sproti obveščati o grozodejstvih, ki se jih vrši nad njimi.
http://www.hope.si

Ena izmed zelo "učinkovitih" metod ustrahovanja je načrtno posiljevanje tamkajšnjih žensk in deklet ... Odkar se je razvedelo, da so tam prisotne kamere, so se posilstva zmanjšala na minimum. Humanitarni koordinator Sulejman Jammous je povedal, da te kamere bolj učinkovito ščitijo prebivalstvo kot vseh 20.000 vojakov Združenih narodov, ki so tam stacionirani.
Po razpadu države na dva dela so sedaj začeli z dodatnim vsakodnevnim intenzivnim bombardiranjem civilnega prebivalstva, ki se zato skriva v votlinah ob strupenih kačah, kjer se počutijo bolj varne kot ob pobesneli zveri, ki se ji reče človek ...

Nismo odgovorni le za to kar počnemo, temveč tudi za to, česar ne storimo.
(Jean B. Moliere)

V včerajšnjem telefonskem pogovoru mi je Klemen Mihelič povedal, da takšna kamera stane le okoli 10 do 25 evrov.
Če ste se uspeli vživeti v trpljenje Darfurcev (pa čeprav so "tam nekje daleč" - "kaj nas pa briga"), si prosim vzemite čas in si oglejte spletno stran http://www.hope.si, kjer boste našli več informacij o dogajanju v Nubskih gorah in navodila kako donirati za nabavo potrebne telekomunikacijske opreme.

Hvala že vnaprej,
Thomas Cuk

P.S.: Nikoli ne bom pozabil prizorov iz dokumentarca o ameriškem osvobajanju internirancev iz nemških koncentracijskih taborišč. Takrat so Američani okoliško civilno prebivalstvo ponekod vodili na ogled notranjosti le-teh. Večina jih je bila zgroženih ob videnem, saj so zatrdili, da niso vedeli, kaj se je v resnici tam dogajalo. In jaz jim to celo verjamem. Nekateri so zagotovo vedeli več, a so pač malce zamižali in si rekli: "Pa saj ni tako hudo!" ter zadevo potisnili v svojo podzavest.

Če odkriješ resnico, a ničesar ne ukreneš, nisi pogumen.
(Konfucij)

P.P.S.: Verjetno vas je velika večina gledala znameniti Schindlerjev seznam. Si predstavljate Oskarjev pogum, da je to storil? Če gledamo s pravnega stališča je bil kriminalec prve vrste, veleizdajalec svoje države, saj je hudo kršil (takrat) veljavne zakone. Za nas pa je danes občudovanja vreden posameznik, ki si je drznil zoperstaviti se obstoječim moralnim vrednotam in svoja duhovna obzorja razširiti na še neodkrita področja – uspel je začutiti stisko drugih, njemu sorodnih bitij, čeprav so se od njega ločili po rasi in veri.
Upam in verjamem, da bomo kmalu kot človeštvo dozoreli in začutili še druga bitja, ki se ne morejo sama braniti, saj ne morejo niti govoriti. A za to bomo najprej morali ozavestiti premagati še eno novo oviro: ločevanje po vrstah - spec(ies)izem.

Vse misli, ki imajo velike posledice, so vedno enostavne.
(Lev N. Tolstoj)

Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:23:00 +0000

August 4, 2011 | ISSUE 47•31

WASHINGTON—After months of heated negotiations and failed attempts to achieve any kind of consensus, President Obama turned 50 years old Thursday, drawing strong criticism from Republicans in Congress. "With the host of problems this country is currently facing, the fact that our president is devoting time to the human process of aging is an affront to Americans everywhere," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who advocated a provision to keep Obama 49 at least through the fall of 2013. "To move forward unilaterally and simply begin the next year of his life without bipartisan support—is that any way to lead a country?" According to White House officials, Obama attempted to work with Republicans right up until the Aug. 4 deadline, but was ultimately left with no choice except to turn a year older.

Word of the Day, WOTD 4

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:20:00 +0000

unencumbered (by):

en·cum·ber
[en-kuhm-ber]
–verb (used with object)
1. to impede or hinder; hamper; retard: Red tape encumbers all our attempts at action.
2. to block up or fill with what is obstructive or superfluous: a mind encumbered with trivial and useless information.
3. to burden or weigh down: She was encumbered with a suitcase and several packages.

Re: Home computer in 2004

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:34:00 +0000

V moj inbox je prišel mail s spodnjo slikico ... ob čemer sem mlajše bralce liste:) spomnil na to, kdaj se je kaj, kar je danes povsem samoumevno za "razviti" (razvajeni) svet, začelo.

Ne sam hitr - expresno. A si predstavljate, da je Youtube "prišel ven" šele 2005. leta?

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.^[3]

in Facebook, ta Veliki Brat interneta, katerega mecen je bila tudi CIA?

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.^[1] As of January 2011^[update], Facebook has more than 600 million active users.^[5]^[6]

Obadva citata sta iz Wikipedije, za katero pa sama pravi:

Its 18 million articles (over 3.6 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site.^[3] As of May 2011, there were editions of Wikipedia in 281 languages. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger^[4] and has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,^[2]^[5]^[6]^[7] ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers.^[2]^[8]

Staruhinja tale wikipedia, a? :)

Razlikovati med tem, kaj govorijo in kaj res ...

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Po katerih proizvodih Slovenci najpogosteje povprašujejo?
Treba je razlikovati med tem, kaj govorijo, da bi želeli kupovati in tem, kaj res kupujejo. Ko jih sprašujemo po njihovem mnenju, želijo imeti domače meso, mleko, med, vino - tu izkazujejo veliko pripadnost domačemu izvoru.
Ko pa opazujemo njihovo vedenje v trgovini, ta njihov entuziazem, pripadnost domačemu izvoru zbledi. Pogosto niti ne morejo izbrati domačega mesa, ker trgovec ponuja uvoženo.
Potrošnik pa ne vztraja in ne zamenja trgovine zato, da ni našel trgovca z domačim mesom. So pa potrošniki pripravljeni zamenjati trgovino, če jim ta ne zagotavlja priljubljene blagovne znamke kave, brezalkoholnih in alkoholnih pijač.

Iz Delove priloge "Posel in denar" (hecno ime, a ni?), dne 13. 6. 2011,
članek z naslovom
"Slovenija postaja odlagališče hrane nižje kakovosti"
Aleš Kuhar, agrarni ekonomist (vau, fancy)

Piflar

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:03:00 +0000

Nikol si nisem mislu (OK, prejšnji teden si nisem mislu), da bom (ta teden) kdaj napisal tale stavek:

D-tubokurarin je kompetitivnih inhibitor ACH-ju na nikotinskih receptorjih v postsinaptični membrani motorične ploščice.

Nicotine - nikotin

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:26:00 +0000

Nicotine, alkaloid obtained from the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum is TOXIC to many animals, because it mimicks the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACH) at NEURO-MUSCULAR junctions (motorične ploščice na stiku živca in skeletnih mišic). (//Eckert animal physiology)

Ni čudn, da si mal počasen, če kadiš.
Še sreča, da se nanaša na živali, kar pa ljudje itak nismo, anede.

Lol, tole pa piše na wikipediji, pod njegovo toksičnost.

The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[55][56] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice.

No, pa da bom fer: "It is unlikely that a person would overdose on nicotine through smoking alone, although overdose can occur through combined use of nicotine patches or nicotine gum and cigarettes at the same time.[57] Spilling a high concentration of nicotine onto the skin can cause intoxication or even death, since nicotine readily passes into the bloodstream following dermal contact."
in še:

Though the teratogenic properties of nicotine may or may not yet have been adequately researched, women who use nicotine gum and patches during the early stages of pregnancy face an increased risk of having babies with birth defects, according to a study of around 77,000 pregnant women in Denmark.
The study found that women who use nicotine-replacement therapy in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy have a 60 percent greater risk of having babies with birth defects, compared to women who are non-smokers, the Daily Mail reported. The findings were published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Introducing: P.I.E.! (Posts In English)

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:54:00 +0000

Dearest Blogosphere and the people roaming the internet aim(less)ly (?), boy, do I have news for you!

I made a new label: PIE, posts in English,
so you can easily access the posts that you can actually read, without the crappy translation from Google Translate or your best neighbour, who just happens to speak Slovenian.
And since you might search wide and far for those ... here comes the PIE! ;) Awesome.
(And pretty meaningless:)
(But hey! you have to organise your life. Someday. Gotta start small.)

"SO WAS RED"

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:41:00 +0000

Ne morem si pomagat, pač je Shawshank Redemption res en najbolj kul filmov. Sploh, ker ne samo, da igrajo vsi verjetno, pa da ima glavno vlogo Tim Robbins (mnogi se ga morda spomnijo iz filma o Einsteinu (I.Q.), k je poziral za fizika, da bi očaral Meg Ryan, Einsteinovo (Walter Matthau) hčerko;)
Zanimivo je, da sta bila oba posneta oz. nosita letnico 1994. Ha, kot mnogi udeleženci slovenske odprave na Jamboree 2011.

No, fino je tudi, ker so lepi kadri, zanimiva zgodba, ki je zaokrožena celota, poleg tega sta pa v en tram vrezana dva stavka: "Brooks was here" in pa:
"so was Red".
Zakon. Glejte, ne bo vam žal.

...
In ko sem že pri letu 1994. Kot poje Sinatra in po njem Robbie: "... It was a very good year..." Kajti istega leta so luč kinematografov ugledali tudi: Tom Hanks v Forrest Gump-u, pa ajde, Tim Allen je 'posnel' The Santa Clause, ki se itak vrti vsak Božič. Ko smo že pri ta hecnih, tudi Jim Carrey in Jeff Daniels sta bila pri tabutastih z Dumb & Dumber-jem, Keanu Reeves in Sandra Bullock sta se gledala v Speed-u, Samuel L. Jackson in John Travolta pa sta med drugim nosila jamajške kratke hlače in citirala biblijo v Pulp Fiction-u. Pol so bli še drugi filmi (in to kopiram samo iz strani iMDB, torej gre samo za ameriške filme, čeprav stran trdi, da je pač internet movie database. Huh.), kjer so se pokazali kaki Ethani Hawki pa Winona Ryder, pa Kremenčkovi so prišli, pa take fore.

Aja, pa Disney's The Lion King, ki mislim, da je še zmerom najdonosnejša risanka vsehhhh časov. (Ne vem, kako je s Shrekom. Ah, ne - Wikipedia pravi, da ga je Nemo prehitel. Pa čeprav z eno miceno plavutjo.) 1994 RULZ!

Word of the Day, WOTD 3

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:12:00 +0000

is maelstrom, meaning a large... whirlpool oz. vrtinec, vojna vihra.

Zeppelin xkcd

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Zeppelin on Xkcd.

Človek in zver - volk

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:11:00 +0000

Iz oddaje:

Človek že dolgo verjame, da je najinteligentejše bitje na svetu ... zato sobivanje z zverjo ne bi smela biti nerešljiva težava. Ampak samo ... izziv.

http://tvslo.si/predvajaj/clovek-in-zver-izobrazevalno-dokumentarna/ava2.104698120/

Word of the Day.2

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:59:00 +0000

To harken (hearken)

27. april ...

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:16:00 +0000

Tovariši, spominjajmo se dni,

ko so v uporu

zagorela naša v robstvu

izmučena srca in so se

za splošno ljudsko vstajo

stisnile naše pesti.

Napis na kamnu ... kje pa ne vem. Lahko pa pobarate njih.

Word of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Aljo) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:59:00 +0000

... is shibboleth.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shibboleth