Posts Tagged ‘life’
Fun with Google Translate
I was playing with google translate, I wanted to get some turkish proverbs and translate them to english, then translate them back to turkish and back to english and so forth… Here are some of the results: Bilmemek ayip degil, sormamak ayip. Not to know not shame, shame not to ask. Değil, sormak ayıp ayıp [...]
Lightweight bomb scare at the Turkish Airlines office. (Only in Turkey?)
I went to the Turkish Airlines (THY) ticket office in Istanbul today to take care of some problems. This post is not about THY, it’s just about a stupid/funny story that happened right in front of the ticketing office. Me and my father just before getting in the office, we saw an old fashioned alarm [...]
My flight horror story
EDIT: (06/20/2009 13:30 istanbul time) I made it! I caught the NY – İstanbul flight! I’m tired now I’ll write more details on it later. Here is my story so far. My booked/confirmed itinary was DCA – Chicago O’hare – Istanbul. DCA – O’hare being at 7:40 (EST) and O’hare – istanbul at 10:20 (CDT). [...]
Documentaries
I think I’m a documentary freak… I watch a lot of documentaries of all types. Although I believe that “the reality is for the people who lack imagination”, I certainly love documentaries. Mostly I watch titles that are about the things that are not going well in the world. And I feel depressed afterwards… But [...]
Tales of Monkey Island
It looks like there is a new wave of Monkey Island series coming from Telltale Games and Lucas Arts: Tales of Monkey Island I just watched the trailer, it kind of seems promising. It looks like it will be released for PC and also for Wii. The game consist of 5 chapters. It will be [...]
Interesting article
I read an interesting article yesterday about how we interact with others information. The article is a great way of looking at the history of information. How it was delivered to us and how it will be in the future. Read the full article here. It’s a very good analysis. Here is an interesting chart [...]
24 inch iMac
I pulled the trigger on this 24 inch iMac. So far so good. I was expecting harsh battles with Leopard… But it looks like things are going very good so far. After some 8 hours of usage, I`m still happy with OS X. I have some projects in the future. But first i need to [...]
Security vs Privacy.
Here is a great explanation of Security vs Privacy. (I had to copy this image to my blog since I didn`t want it to disappear in the future)
This is my birthday Pearls Before Swine.
Stop drawing me as Andy th dog! This was on my birthday damn it!
Pastis draw me again!
It`s me: Andy the dog…
