World66 - Visited Countries · 16 October 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Found this nice tool to show a map with the countries highlighted one has already visited, while reading the East from Khiva blog.
This is my current status:
(visited 25 countries – 11%)
And one can create her/his own here.
Hankook tér 1 · 26 September 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Last time I collected some other street names, now just found that Hankook Tire – who are building a tire factory in Hungary – has its headquarters at 2459 Rácalmás, Hankook tér 1.
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank · 25 September 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Hehe, tricked how many already. I write “This Page Intentionally Left Blank” in the 31337th row of every Excel table I am forwarding. These bastards are just printing it without care, resulting in a twenty centimeter thick empty block of paper.
And this guy is of course a member of HuWiCo. The group could be renamed to BOFHC.
If you are not familiar with the above, see the dedicated This Page Intentionally Left Blank site.
Triplenine geek clock · 15 September 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Yet another geek clock. This time it comes from the mysterious Triple Nine Society and can be purchased at Cafepress.
(via szaboat)
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WTFPL · 4 August 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
The Do What The F**k You Want To Public License is a free software license.
A funny prank on the GPL. Even Freshmeat has a WTFPL license category, says the site.
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Motorola V3 design background? · 9 November 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
I think I found out the origin of the Moto V3 ‘RAZR’ design – or it may be just a coincidence.
The phone is exactly the size of a PCMCIA/Cardbus slot, except it is double heighted plus some millimeters higher. If it were 3 millimeters thicker, it would just slick into the PCMCIA slot of the IBM T20.
Maybe geeky designers are hiding at Motorola?
Geeky HP service center · 1 November 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
I had to visit the official hungarian HP service center, three times, for solving a simple problem.
And the second time I noticed how geeky they are: they have a big red LED binary clock on the wall! Similar to the one offered at ThinkGeek.
I dont think many customers or employees understand it :)
Nokia street · 28 October 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
While playing around with a company search service (FN Cegtar Light) I typed in Nokia.
Looks like Nokia has two hungarian subsidiaries, Nokia Hungary Kft (Kft is similar to the German GmbH and the English-speaking world’s LLC) and Nokia Komarom Kft. The latter is located in the city of Komarom and it is a research center if I recall it correctly.
This is not really interesting until we look at the headquarter’s address: 2900 Komárom, Nokia utca 1.
Jesus, we got a Nokia street!
It is not really common here that streets are named after companies, however, some older hungarian companies do have streets named after them, like Videoton, but Nokia is a foreign one and not operating here since more than 20 years.
I am curious when will we have a local One Infinite Loop or One Tesco Way :)
Update: looks like this is old news, Index had an article about it two years ago. There is also a Samsung square and Agip street.
MPlayer in public space · 28 July 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
I had a photo lying around for months, with the plan of writing a post about it, but it wasn’t happening. It got a push today, because Arpi (of MPlayer fame) sent in a mail to the list about MPlayer occuring in a hungarian movie, Kutfejek.
So, my original post was about the pictures I took. It happened while going to a Tesco super-hyper-gigamarket for buying some chees or like that. On the bazaar way in the Tesco, there was a new kiosk machine, with the title munka.hu, which is possibly a site of the Labour Center.
The kiosk was running some kind of Linux with Firefox on top of it. It even presented some magic: while loading the browser, MPlayer was displaying an animated globe.
Creative passport · 13 June 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Yesterday after the Match issue I had looked at everything in the house under UV light. Debit and credit cards, government IDs, etc.
The best was the Hungarian passport: it has musical notes on every second side where the VISAs go! Possibly the musical score of the first verse of our national hymn. (English translation of the hymn)
However, I was not brave enough to post pictures of it, dunno what the law regarding this is.
Magiczny Czek · 12 June 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
The Match supermarkets in Hungary are running now a game where with every shopping you get a ticket. With this ticket, you can win champagne on site, or register for further prizes.
On the upper right corner, there is a red field (with the text Magiczny Czek). With a magic pen a text will be made visible on the field. The text can be either nem nyert (not won) or possbily nyert (won).
The funny part comes now: I just looked at the field under an UV bulb and voila, I can see the magic text on a not yet validated ticket. Sadly it didn’t won either.
Silent Bob uses a Mac · 30 May 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Just read an ad about Clerks II (spolier warning!) coming this summer. After some browsing, I came around Kevin Smith’s personal blog, who is the author of the movies, and also plays Silent Bob.
There is a Flickr band on the blog, featuring Bob’s working room, where a Studio Display and a PowerMac G4 is visible:
Jimmyland · 29 May 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
According to some historians, the name America itself evolved from the latin version of Amerigo Vespucci’s name, Americus Vespucius. America is the feminine version of the Americus name. The Amerigo Vespucci Wikipedia article later explains that the name Americus/Amerigo might evolved from Emericus.
There is a hungarian name – Imre – which has been translated as Emeric, see Saint Emeric of Hungary.
Fact three, there has been a hungarian singer called Imre Zámbó. He was working in the US for some time, where his co-workers couldn’t pronounce his name, thus the similarly pronounced Jimmy (like Imi, small Imre) has been sticked to him.
Fun fact: eventually we could call America Jimmyland.