Was playing with Gertrude, my LEGO trebuchet yesterday and decided to make this video of quite crappy quality. Should've blogged it yesterday, but it somehow slipped my mind.

Edvard Drugi je stara zares stara igra, ki jo je napisal Christopher Marlowe v elizabetinskih časih zgodnje moderne anglešÄine, korzetov in umazanije, veliko umazanije. Imela je že veliko reinterpretacij, eno od njih v ljubljanski Drami.

Niti sanja se mi ne kako dolgo je že v repertoarju, vendar sem jo šel gledat prejšnji petek. Zastonj. Ja, prijazni gospodje in gospe gledališÄa so talali po dve karte za eno od štirih predstav vsem lastnikom abonmajskih vstopnic. Eden takih sem bil tudi sam in tako sem izbral Edvarda Drugega, ker mi je bila od vse izbire najmanj poznana.

Drama je bila, nepresenetljivo, nabito polna s samo dvema meni znanima praznima sedežema v, na srečo, taki poziciji, da sem lahko prestavil svojo rit v iskanju boljšega pogleda. Res bi bilo treba nekaj storiti glede vidljivosti v tej stoletni hiši … Kakorkoli, predstava je bila razumsko dolga in zanimiv ogled. Igralci so spektakularno uprizorili tako staro predstavo in celo pomanjkanje scenografije je dodalo pridihu elizabetinskega dvorišÄa. Občutek je bil pravi, čeprav je bilo prvič videti zadnjo steno odra malček dolgočasno.

Ko je glavni igralec, Škof, slekel vsa oblačila, je bilo vse skupaj nekako presenetljivo, saj se kaj takega nedvomno v pravem časovnem obdobju ne bi na odru nikoli zgodilo. Ko pa so ga začeli stresati krči in je njegova oprema letala naokoli je stvar skoraj prestopila v polje grozljivke. Ampak kaj čmo, tako je pač moderno gledališÄe, nagota povsod.

Edward the Second is an old play, a very old one indeed, written by Christopher Marlowe back in the Elizabethan times of early modern English, corsets and dirt, a lot of dirt. The play has been reinterpreted many a time, one of those being by the local playhouse.

I have no idea how long it's been in their repertoir, but I went to see it last Friday. For free. Yes, the lovely gents and ladies of the playhouse gave two free tickets to a choice of one of four plays to whomever was in posession of a season ticket. I was one of them and chose Edward the Second because it was the least known to me.

The playhouse was, unsurprisingly, packed full with only two empty seats known to me, luckily in such a position I could shift my arse to them and get a better view. Something should really be done about visibility in that 100 year old building … Anyway, the play was reasonably long and very fun to watch. THe actors did a spectacular job of interpreting such an old piece and even the scarcety of the scenography brought out that elizabethan theater flavour. It felt right, even though seeing the very back wall of the stage for the first time was a bit boring.

When the lead actor took off all his clothing I was taken by surprise because I didn't think anyone would put nudity in a play of such oldness, because it would not be done back then I don't think. When he went into convulsions and his equipment jumped around … it was a bit odd to say the least. But c'est la vie, that's modern theater for you, nudity galore.

Heh, pripovedovanje vsega, kar je treba povedati si je iz kronosa vzelo večji presledek od pričakovanega. Vseeno, naprej na našem poslanstvu za svetovno prevlado.

The Willows je revija, ki je pred nedavnim izdala svojo prvo inkarnacijo in naročil sem jo še isti dan. Na žalost je njen prihod trajal nekaj več časa zaradi nekakšne napake na njihovem koncu in ker, kot kaže, sistem za pošiljanje sploh še ni bil vzpostavljen, ko so naročila že sprejemali. Ampak ne zamerim jim, tako ali tako nisem imel časa brata niti, ko je končno prispela.

Izdaja se je ponašala s čudovito črno zunanjostjo z belimi slikarijami in pisarijo in je s svojim pogledom instantno privlačila. Branje me je popeljalo naravnost nazaj v dni Lovecrafta in Poeja, čeprav Poe teoretično ne spada v ta žanr. Zgodbe so predstavljale prav prijeten izbor, moji komplimenti uredniku. Dodatek kratkih poudarjenih citatov v telo zgodbe na vsaki strani je revijo prijetno poživil in ji pridal tisti duh po poznem 19. stoletju.

Najbolj mi je bil pri srcu dodatek ene ali dveh izmišljenih reklam, ki so časovnemu obdobju odlično pristajale. Pristanek na teh straneh je resnično polepšal moj dan, saj so bile postavljene v parodičen ton reklam, ki bi jih taka revija resnično lahko vsebovala. V končni fazi je bila revija prijetna oživitev pozabljenega žanra; druga izdaja bo zagotovo romala v moj poštni nabiralnik. Priporočam vsem, da si priskrbijo svojo.

Wow, continuing with saying the things that must be said took a longer gap in the chronos than anticipated. Anyway, onward on our quest to world domination.

The Willows is a magazine that had put out its first issue not long ago, and I ordered it on the very first day. Sadly it took a bit longer than that to arrive due to some mistakes on their side and the fact that the shipping system wasn't even set up yet when they were already taking orders, but I don't blame them, I didn't have time to read it even when it did arrive.

The issue bolstered a lovely black exterior with nice white imagery and lettering, it was instantly enticing and captivating. Reading it took me right back to the days of reading Lovecraft and Poe, even though Poe doesn't technically fit the genre, whatever. The stories were a very nice pick, my compliments to the editor. The addition of short emphasised quotes contained within pages of each story was a nice touch I think and it really gave the magazine that late 19th century flare.

My biggest favourite was the addition of one or two mock advertisements that seemed to fit perfectly into the time and coming upon them really brightened my day as they were set in a mocking tone to somethign that could actually come up in such a magazine back in the day. All in all, this was a nice revival of the forgotten genre and I will be buying issue two when it becomes available. I suggest everyone else to do the same.

Zadnje čase se je nabiralo veliko stvari, ki bi jih bilo treba povedati, a zelo malo časa za početje le-tega, tako da skušajmo to popraviti s prvo pripovedjo v kronološkem redosledu in potem druge v najkrajšem možnem času.

V sredo sem nepopravljivo skvaril svoje računalo in bolj ko sem ga skušal popraviti manj stvari je delovale. Iz teh kaotično fatalnih razmer je zrasla moja odločitev. Spremenil bom okus pingvinov, ki upravljajo male zobnike v diferenčnem stroju pod mojo mizo. Lotil sem se dolpotega Kubuntuja.

Takoj sem opazil, da v osnovi delujoča inštalacija Kubuntuja traja le dobro uro ali dve v primerjavi z Getnoojevima dvema dnevoma. Kmalu sem tudi opazil kako hitro taista inštalacija raste in se debeli v nekaj bolj po moji meri, paketki so se nalagali in postavljali s prav všečno frekvenco.

Nastavljanje mojega ATIja X1600 v dvoekranski način je potekalo malček hitreje kot poprejšnjikat, okoli dve ure igračkanja, predvsem zaradi shranjenih konfiguracij od prej in verjetno nekaj izkušenj, ki so mi bile ostale. Naslednja stvar na agendi je bila nastavljanje zvoka na malo boljše performanse, v katerem trenutku je sovjo debelo grdo glavo pokazala največja linuxova pomankljivost – ni preprostega načina za nastavljanje zvoka, sploh. Trenutno lahko, kot kaže, izbirem med pravim dmixom ali 5.1 zvokom.

Največja težava, ki jo imam s Kubuntujem, je da iz nekega sumljivega razloga ni repozitorijih ni Opere, zakaj ne, ne vem. Velik problem je tudi težaven postopek za usposabljanje mp3 in nasplošno multimedija podpore. ÄŒe je to neka distribucija za začetnike, zakaj vraga je torej potrebnih toliko majčkenih korakcov za dosego tistega kar naj bi vsako namizno računalo zmoglo?

A lot of things to say have been piling up lately and not much to say them, but let's try and remedy that by commencing with the saying of the oldest in a chronological order and then try saying the others as soon as technically possible.

On Wednesday I borked my computer into a irredeemable mess of turd. The more I tried fixing it the less stuff was working. It is out of these fatal conditions that my decision arose. I would change the flavour of penguins that run the intricate little gearsin my difference machine. And thus I downloaded Kubuntu.

Right away I noticed that a basically working installation of Kubuntu only took me about an hour as opposed to two or so days with Gentoo. The next thing I noticed was how quickly the very same installation rose and grew to something more my taste with packages downloading quickly and all that. Lovely.

Setting up my ATI X1600 for a dual screen setup as I had before didn't take as long as it did the last time, only about two hours of tinkering … possibly because I had saved the configuration files, yes quite possibly, but they didn't work right away, still. The next thing to do was configuring my sound to work a little bit better and here's where the only very major drawback of linux rears its ugly head. There is no simple way of configuring your sound for 5.1 and proper dmixing. Right now I can only have either dmixing or 5.1, oh well, we'll get her configured.

The qualm I do have with kubuntu is that for some suspiciously odd reason the Opera browser cannot be installed in a simple manner and some other important things aren't in repositories. Also why in the world don't mp3s and other multimedia work right out of the box. This is supposed to be a newbie distro right? Why then so many intricate steps to get the most basic thing of a desktop computer working? Why!

Zadnje dni študiram kot nor ampak to ni tako zanimivo, nočete vedeti.

Poleg učenja še gledam veliko prijetno ukradenih Mladih zdravnikov (Scrubs), ki bi jih ne bil ukradel, če bi naša televizija nanizanko lepo predvajala, sami so si krivi, da ne gledamo njihovih reklam. Šesta sezona je odlična in je morebiti celo moja najljubša. Vsebuje prečudovit zgodbeni lok, ki se razteza čez vse epizode. Na splošno se opazi, da so v vsaki naslednji sezoni epizode bolj medsebojno povezane.

Zanimivo je opaziti kako so vsi mislili, da bo to zadnja sezona, saj je vse skupaj posuto z obujanjem spominov na zadnjih šest let skupnega življenja. Vsi pa vemo, da se v nanizankah to pač ne dogaja, če se le-te ne bližajo koncu. Veseli me, da bo še ena sezona.

Ampak zakaj je bilo potrebno stvar končati na tako bednem mestu? Lakotim po sedmi sezoni pa je še niti snemati niso začeli!

Been studying like mad for the past few days but oh that's not too interesting you don't want to know.

Apart of studying I've also been watching a lot of lovably stolen Scrubs, I wouldnt' steal it if our television would air it but hey, they're stupid and don't, their fault. So season six is rather awesome and jsut might be my favourite yet. The story arc is pretty nice in this one as it stretches pretty much the whole season. I've in general noticed that with every next season the episodes are more intraconnected.

It's interesting to notice how everyone thought it'd be the last season becauset here are many parts where people reminisce about the last six years of their life together and characters in sitcoms simply don't do that if it's not about to end. I'm glad it didn't.

But why did they have to put such a huge cliff hanger in the end? I'm hungering for the seventh season and they haven't even started filming it yet!

This video shows the future. It is a 20 year old future, but still the future even now. It's a coffee table, display, user interface hybrid and I believe it's looking very useful. Due to posture issues it can never replace a computer, but for a tool at meetings and such it definitely looks awesome.

Wonder what happens when you spill the coffee though.