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Remember how in the US when you’d see a dirty car, you’d want to write wash me all over the back windows? Yeah…come on…admit it. You know you always want to. Well, here the language is different, but the meaning is the same. I bet you a dollar you can figure out what опери ме means.
Want a new version of the Bible? Why not check out TKB. Especially for all of you Star Trek Fans (or even Galaxy Quest). Sheesh…people will do anything?
I know not everyone is a geek, but these are some classic programmimg problems that everyone learns about. I was reading this article and was reminded about them.
Dining Philosophers
Traveling Salesman
Eight Queens
Two Generals
Towers of Hanoi
I actually remember the eight queens and towers of hanoi.
With the way the airlines are going, this isn’t too far off.
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This is pretty darn cool
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This thing is made to cook mushrooms in the wild. If you follow the link, you’ll see what looks like an uppety french guy cooking his wild mushrooms. But, I think this has great application for cooking other things in the field. How about that fresh deer liver? How about trout? How about frying up a nice fresh squirel? See what I mean?
I wrote a bit a week or so ago about our water shortage here in Cacak. Well, there is an article on B92 giving some more detail about it. Just wanted to keep you up on current events here in Serbia.
[Update 08-24-2008 16:51:15] Here’s another article about the water shortage .
Here are two examples of everything that is wrong with the TSA and why they don’t really make air travel safer in the US.
I was surfing last week when I came across the site tesladownunder.com. This guy has some really neat pictures on his website that he has made from messing around with Tesla Coils. What’s a tesla coil? Well, I don’t know much, but here is the wikipedia article on tesla coils.
Here are some interesting pictures:
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Turns out they were invented by Nikola Tesla who was a Serb. Actually, the people here in Serbia talk about him quite often. He’s even on their money. I’d think that he was pretty important if he were from my country too. Turns out, he is the guy who invented AC Electricity (well, I guess he discovered it…not invented it). Thought that was Edison or someone else? Nope…turns out that Edison discovered DC electric, from what I think I understand.
So, next time you see one of those tesla coils at the next county fair you go to (or at the local science museum) think if Nikola Tesla. When you think of Nikola Tesla, think of the Serbs. When you think of the Serbs, pray for the Serbian people that they might have an opportunity to hear the Gospel and be saved.
Remember Command and Conquer I do. We spent many hours in the dorms at Marshall playing C&C (especially over the LAN). Well, it turns out that it has been released as free to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the game. Snag your own copy from here.
[Update 2012-12-26 15:56:21] The download link was broken. It did point to http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/commandconquer/download.html?sid=6178099 but I’ve removed it.