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Ova maca zasluzuje pravog vlasnika (ovaj, mislim, batlera). Ustavno pravo svake mace je da ju se mazi.

Pat the cat

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, kako je slatkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 

Kaže maca, mani miša, mene mazi.

De su joj uši 

Da, takve su one. Imam neke u ponudi akoje neko zainteresovan 

Pa jesam li ja jedini koji ne obraća pažnju na mačku??????????????????? 

Quote from: Barbarin on 30-10-2012, 17:20:00De su joj uši 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Fold 

A twelve year old boy used his Dungeons and Dragons manual to help his fathers research and wound up as an author on a paper published in a journal from the Royal Society.


A evo i tog članka!

Omg, upoznao sam Meha! 

Nastupiće smena paradigmi!!!!!!!!!!11

Ili bar generacija!!!!!!!!!!!! Nešto se mislim, FatherJape svira bubnjeve deset puta kraće od mene a verovatno najmanje pet puta bolje, dakle i jeste vreme za smenu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Inače u životu deluje nežnije nego na forumu, ali to svi već znate!!!

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 13-11-2012, 00:07:15
Inače u životu deluje nežnije nego na forumu

That's what she said!1!1!!!

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 13-11-2012, 00:07:15
Inače u životu deluje nežnije nego na forumu, ali to svi već znate!!!

Ali samo ti smeš da kažeš!!!!!!!!1

Pa, kako bi on rekao, ja nemam nikakav vested interest tu, pa mogu da pravim opservacije bez mnogo brige!!! Nežan je to čovek, NEŽAN!!!

Zakk mi je skrenuo pažnju na ovo: Paolo Pederaci, autor mnogih indie/ eksperimentalnih/ browser igara, od kojih je najpoznatija možda Every Day the Same Dream, ovde izlaže svoje viđenje seksa u videoigrama i prilično je zanimljivo (ne kopiram ceo tekst jer ima gomila slika i klipova u istomu):

Fucking polygons, fucking pixels: On procedural representations of sex

Zašto disonantna muzika smeta ljudima koji nisu ja:

Why dissonant music strikes the wrong chord in the brain 

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  The common aversion to clashing harmonies seems to be due to mathematical relationships of overtones. 

Many people dislike the clashing dissonances of modernist composers such as Arnold Schoenberg. But what's our problem with dissonance? It's long been thought that dissonant musical chords contain acoustic frequencies that interfere with one another to set our nerves on edge. A new study proposes that in fact we prefer consonant chords for a different reason, connected to the mathematical relationship between the many different frequencies that make up the sound¹.
Cognitive neuroscientist Marion Cousineau of the University of Montreal in Quebec and her colleagues evaluated these explanations for preferences about consonance and dissonance by comparing the responses of a control group of people with normal hearing to those of people with amusia — an inability to distinguish between different musical tones.
Unpleasing sounds Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes that 'sound good' together, like middle C and the G above it (an interval called a fifth). Dissonant chords are combinations that sound jarring, like middle C and the C sharp above (a minor second). The reason why we should like one but not the other has long vexed both musicians and cognitive scientists.

It has often been suggested that humans have innate preferences for consonance over dissonance, leading some to conclude that music in which dissonance features prominently is violating a natural law and is bound to sound bad. Others, including Schoenberg himself, have argued that dissonance is merely a matter of convention, and that we can learn to love it.
However, there has long been thought to be a physiological reason why at least some kinds of dissonance sound jarring. Two tones close in frequency interfere to produce 'beating': what we hear is just a single tone rising and falling in loudness. If the difference in frequency is within a certain range, rapid beats create a rattling sound called roughness. An aversion to roughness has seemed consistent with the common dislike of intervals such as minor seconds.
Yet when Cousineau and colleagues asked amusic subjects to rate the pleasantness of a whole series of intervals, they showed no distinctions between any of the intervals. In contrast, normal-hearing people rated small intervals (minor seconds and major seconds, such as C–D) and large but sub-octave intervals (minor sevenths (C–B flat) and major sevenths (C–B)) as very unpleasant.
Out of harmony Then the researchers tested how both groups felt about beating. They found that the amusics could hear it and disliked it about as much as the control group. So apparently something else was causing the latter to dislike the dissonant intervals.


Those preferences seem to stem from the so-called harmonicity of consonant intervals. Notes contain many overtones — frequencies that are whole-number multiples of the basic frequency in the note. For consonant intervals the overtones of the two notes tend to coincide as whole-number multiples, whereas for dissonant intervals this is no longer the case: they look more like the irregular overtones for sounds that are 'inharmonic', such as metal being struck.
The control group preferred consonant intervals with these regular harmonic relationships over artificial 'consonant' ones in which the overtones were subtly shifted to be inharmonic while the basic tones remained the same. The amusics, meanwhile, registered no difference between the two cases: they seem insensitive to harmonicity.
Co-author Josh McDermott at New York University reported previously that harmonicity seems more important than beating for dissonance aversion in normal hearers². In the new paper he and his colleagues argue that the lack of sensitivity both to harmonicity and dissonance in amusics now adds to that case¹.
Diana Deutsch, a music psychologist at the University of California at San Diego, says that the work is "of potential interest for the study of amusia", but questions whether it adds much to our understanding of normal hearing. In particular she wonders if the findings will survive in the context of everyday music listening, where people seem to display contrary preferences. "Rock bands often deliberately introduce roughness and dissonance into their sounds, much to the delight of their audiences", she says.
Sandra Trehub, an auditory psychologist at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, agrees, saying that there are plenty of musical traditions in which both roughness and dissonance are appreciated. "It's hard to imagine a folk tradition based on something that's inherently negative," she says.
But McDermott says that the results do not necessarily imply that there is anything innate about a preference for harmonicity, and indeed he suspects that learning plays a role. "Other approaches will be needed to address the innateness issue," he says.
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Naravno, ovo i dalje ne opovrgava citiranu Šenbergovu tvrdnju da možemo da naučimo da volimo disonancu.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digital_elysium/sets/72157626213515542/with/5504666171/

Ti... naučnici... evo čime se bave:

The Sunny Side of Smut  

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For most people, pornography use has no negative effects—and it may even deter sexual violence
By Melinda Wenner Moyer
   
   
It used to be tough to get porn. Renting an X-rated movie required sneaking into a roped-off room in the back of a video store, and eyeing a centerfold meant facing down a store clerk to buy a pornographic magazine. Now pornography is just one Google search away, and much of it is free. Age restrictions have become meaningless, too, with the advent of social media—one teenager in five has sent or posted naked pictures of themselves online, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
With access to pornography easier than ever before, politicians and scientists alike have renewed their interest in deciphering its psychological effects. Certainly pornography addiction or overconsumption seems to cause relationship problems [see "Sex in Bits and Bytes," by Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld; Scientific American Mind, July/August 2010]. But what about the more casual exposure typical of most porn users? Contrary to what many people believe, recent research shows that moderate pornography consumption does not make users more aggressive, promote sexism or harm relationships. If anything, some researchers suggest, exposure to pornography might make some people less likely to commit sexual crimes.
Does Porn Harm Women?
The most common concern about pornography is that it indirectly hurts women by encouraging sexism, raising sexual expectations and thereby harming relationships. Some people worry that it might even incite violence against women. The data, however, do not support these claims. "There's absolutely no evidence that pornography does anything negative," says Milton Diamond, director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "It's a moral issue, not a factual issue."
In 2007 researchers at the University of Zagreb in Croatia surveyed 650 young men about their pornography use and sex lives. As they reported in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the scientists found that users of mainstream, non­violent pornography were neither more nor less sexually satisfied than nonusers. Both groups felt the same degree of intimacy in their current or recent relationships and shared the same range of sexual experiences. But when it came to violent or fetishist porn, the groups diverged. Consumers of these types of pornography appeared to masturbate more frequently, have more sexual partners over the course of their life, and experience slightly less relationship intimacy than their nonviolent porn–viewing counterparts.
Regular pornography use does not seem to encourage sexism, either. In 2007 Alan McKee, a cultural studies expert at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, designed a questionnaire to assess sexist tendencies. He enclosed his survey in shipments of pornographic material distributed by a mail-order company and also posted it online. Responses from 1,023 pornography users indicated that the amount of pornography the subjects consumed did not predict whether they would hold negative attitudes toward women. The survey respondents who were most sexist were generally older men who voted for a right-wing political party, lived in a rural area and had a lower level of formal education.
But the questionnaire may have missed a key nuance. In a study published in 2004 in the Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, researchers at Texas Tech University administered a different survey to male and female college students and found that although consumers of pornography did not display more negative attitudes toward women, they were more likely than other respondents to believe that women should be protected from harm—what the investigators call "benevolent sexism."
Self-Medicating with Fantasy
Perhaps the most serious accusation against pornography is that it incites sexual aggression. But not only do rape statistics suggest otherwise, some experts believe the consumption of pornography may actually reduce the desire to rape by offering a safe, private outlet for deviant sexual desires.


  "Rates of rapes and sexual assault in the U.S. are at their lowest levels since the 1960s," says Christopher J. Ferguson, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M International University. The same goes for other countries: as access to pornography grew in once restrictive Japan, China and Denmark in the past 40 years, rape statistics plummeted. Within the U.S., the states with the least Internet access between 1980 and 2000—and therefore the least access to Internet pornography—experienced a 53 percent increase in rape incidence, whereas the states with the most access experienced a 27 percent drop in the number of reported rapes, according to a paper published in 2006 by Anthony D'Amato, a law professor at Northwestern University.
It is important to note that these associations are just that—associations. They do not prove that pornography is the cause of the observed crime reductions. Nevertheless, the trends "just don't fit with the theory that rape and sexual assault are in part influenced by pornography," Ferguson explains. "At this point I think we can say the evidence just isn't there, and it is time to retire this belief."
What if it turns out that ­pornography use actually reduces the desire to rape? It is a controversial idea, but some studies support it. Work in the 1960s and 1970s reported that sexual criminals tend to be exposed to pornographic materials at a later age than noncriminals. In 1992 Richard Green, a psychiatrist at Imperial College London, disclosed in his book Sexual Science and the Law that patients requesting treatment in clinics for sex offenders commonly say that pornography helps them keep their abnormal sexuality within the confines of their imagination. "Pornography seems to be protective," Diamond says, perhaps because exposure correlates with lower levels of sexual repression, a potential rape risk factor.
A Personal Concern
Repression seems to figure prominently into the puzzle of pornography. In 2009 Michael P. Twohig, a psychologist at Utah State University, asked 299 undergraduate students whether they considered their pornography consumption problematic; for example, causing intrusive sexual thoughts or difficulty finding like-minded sex partners. Then he assessed the students with an eye to understanding the root causes of their issues.
It turns out that among porn viewers, the amount of porn each subject consumed had nothing to do with his or her mental state. What mattered most, Twohig found, was whether the subjects tried to control their sexual thoughts and desires. The more they tried to clamp down on their urge for sex or porn, the more likely they were to consider their own pornography use a problem. The findings suggest that suppressing the desire to view pornography, for example, for moral or religious reasons, might actually strengthen the urge for it and exacerbate sexual problems. It's all about "personal views and personal values," Twohig says. In other words, the effects of pornography—positive or negative—have little to do with the medium itself and everything to do with the person viewing it.
This article was originally published with the title The Sunny Side of Smut.

Web pornography's effect on children 

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Although research is scarce, investigators see links between young people who access Web porn and unhealthy attitudes toward sex.
By Tori DeAngelis
Monitor Staff
November 2007, Vol 38, No. 10
Print version: page 50
   Finding pornography on the Internet is as easy as Googling the word "sex," as the 40 million Americans who visit porn Web sites each year can attest. Critics worry about online pornography's effects on adults' work and family lives, but even more about its impact on children and teens.
Despite the handwringing, however, only a handful of investigators have examined the validity of these concerns. Many are reluctant to explore the topic, thanks to its morally loaded nature, the methodological challenges of Web pornography's effects on children studying an underage population, and the difficulty in showing whether exposure to online porn actually changes sexual attitudes and behavior.
"We need a lot more research to keep tabs on this phenomenon and to separate hype from reality," says sociologist David Finkelhor, PhD, director of the University of New Hampshire's (UNH) Crimes Against Children Research Center and a lead researcher in the area. To give the issue some perspective, his team has examined a variety of social trend indicators during the time that concerns about Internet use among the young have risen--between 1996 and 2005--and found that teens are actually displaying healthier behaviors in domains that might be negatively influenced by greater access to Internet porn.
"There have been drops in crime, drops in teen pregnancy, increases in the number of kids who say they're virgins, declines in various kinds of victimization and less running away," Finkelhor says. "You have to hold that image on one hand as you're confronting all of the things that are happening online."
That said, a few studies are beginning to show relationships between Web porn use among young people and sexual attitudes. For example, those who frequent porn sites more often are more likely to view sex as a purely physical function and to view women as sex objects. They're also more likely to hold such views if they perceive the material as more realistic, research finds.
Who is affected?
Each year about 40 percent of teens and preteens visit sexually explicit sites either deliberately or accidentally, studies here and abroad show. In a study in the February Pediatrics (Vol. 119, No. 2, pages 247-257), for example, attorney Janis Wolak, psychologist Kimberly Mitchell, PhD, and Finkelhor, of the UNH center, found that 42 percent of a nationally representative sample of 1,500 Internet users ages 10 to 17 had been exposed to online porn in the last year, with two-thirds reporting only unwanted exposure. In fact, the incidence of unwanted exposure has risen for this age group, from about 26 percent between 1999 and 2000, to 34 percent in 2005, the team has found.
Perhaps not surprisingly, boys are much more likely to seek out pornography than girls, and use increases with age, research finds. In the UNH team's study, for instance, 38 percent of 16- and 17-yea-rold male Internet users deliberately visited X-rated sites in the past year, compared with 8 percent of girls. Similarly, Australian sociologist Michael Flood, PhD, of La Trobe University, reported in the March issue of the Journal of Sociology (Vol. 43, No. 1, pages 45-60) that 38 percent of boys and 2 percent of girls ages 16 and 18 deliberately accessed such material.
Teens' sexual attitudes
Because all published studies about the influence of Internet porn on teen attitudes are correlational, researchers can't say for sure whether access to Internet porn causes certain attitudes and behaviors, emphasizes Jochen Peter, PhD, a communications researcher at the University of Amsterdam. But he and colleague Patti M. Valkenburg, PhD, are finding some intriguing links.
In one study surveying 471 Dutch teens ages 13 to 18, the researchers found that the more often young people sought out online porn, the more likely they were to have a "recreational" attitude toward sex--specifically, to view sex as a purely physical function like eating or drinking.
In the study, reported in the December 2006 Journal of Communication (Vol. 56, No. 4, pages 639-660), the team also found a relationship between porn use and the feeling that it wasn't necessary to have affection for people to have sex with them. Boys were much more likely to hold these views than girls, and they tended to hold these attitudes more strongly when they perceived the material as realistic, the team found.
In a related study in the March issue of Sex Roles (Vol. 56, No. 5/6, pages 381-395), the Dutch team found a link between the type and explicitness of sexual media the teens saw and their tendency to view women as sexual "play things." The more explicit the material viewed, the more likely young people were to see women in these ways--and Internet movie porn was the only media type to show a statistically significant relationship, they found.
Another study not yet finalized will likely add more rigor to the way such variables are measured. Emory University health psychologist Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD, and colleagues are using high-tech software to capture which and how many sex Web sites 560 young people access over 16 months. The team also will survey the teens every two months on their sexual attitudes, onset of sexual behavior and frequency of sexually risky behavior.
Proactive parenting
Most likely, many factors can buffer young people from online pornography's negative effects, say researchers.
Psychologist and technology researcher Larry Rosen, PhD, of California State University, Dominguez Hills, is looking at one such shield: parents. In an as-yet-unpublished study, he found that young people's actions on MySpace--including looking at others' risqué poses, displaying their own and tapping into porn links--are strongly influenced by parenting styles.
His team asked parents and young people to rate the way parents monitored young people's computer use, dividing parents into four categories: authoritative, combining warmth and control; authoritarian, melding control and low warmth; indulgent, displaying warmth and low control; and neglectful, combining low warmth and low control.
Authoritative and authoritarian parents were much more likely than indulgent or neglectful ones to limit their youngsters' use of MySpace, for example by keeping tabs on their children's MySpace pages and requiring them to keep the computer in family rooms, the team found. In turn, the teens appeared to internalize those messages by, for example, not looking at suggestive poses of fellow MySpace users as much as those with indulgent or neglectful parents.
"Basically you're looking at clear, obvious differences in parenting styles, even in what kids see on MySpace," says Rosen (see "Creating a space for MySpace"). "These kids have rules, and they're following those rules."
Protect or educate?
It's too early to say what these findings mean--or even what to do if clearer results are shown. Some, for example, believe that being sexually curious is part of the developmental process and that Internet porn is one, albeit problematic, way to satisfy that curiosity. And it may prove nearly impossible to completely prevent it, says Peter.
"When teenagers are old enough to be interested in sex, they are competent enough to find ways to access Internet porn," says Peter. Hence, "our research is motivated by educating young people rather than protecting them," he says.
For example, one databased educational effort could be to counsel teens that online porn "is one very specific notion of sex and sexuality, and may not correspond with what they, and most adults, experience in their sex lives," he says.
Others, though, suspect that frequent exposure may erode young people's ability to see the opposite sex in a wholesome way.
"We don't really know, but we suspect that exposure to, say, 10, 20, 30,000 pages of pornography may bias a young person in terms of what they consider a normal relationship," says DiClemente, who says it will be up to policymakers and parents to decide what to do if that turns out to be the case.
What is clear to researchers, though, is the need for more research. Their wish list includes a more detailed look at the effects of online pornography on young people under a range of exposure and family conditions, more longitudinal studies and a closer look at how inadvertent exposure may affect the young.
Tori DeAngelis is a writer in Syracuse, N.Y. 

QQ i majko! Samhau, aj lajk it!!!!! Potpuno mi ide uz karakter! I horoskop!
(bolje ovo kod tebe nego kod D.)

Fancy living Iron Maiden style?
    Steve Harris is selling his house,
    (football pitch with home and away
    changing rooms...etc)
http://bit.ly/RkLOAy

Moćno izgleda, ali moćna je i cena.

Lepo izgleda. Ali poskupo.

81 INCH PRIME ASS !!

zašto niko nije obznanio ovog cara?

Dejvid Vong je napisao možda najnegativnije intoniran inspiracioni tekst u istoriji univerzuma 

  Odličan tekst. Ništa ne pokreće ljude bolje od šuta u zadnjicu, makar i verbalnog.

Kao neko ko prati Vonga, Čiza (i kolegu Pinkertona) već skoro deceniju, čitajući njihovo genijalno i često poludementno pisanje i glupiranje po Internetu, moram da kažem da me malo brine što i Džon Čiz i Dejvid Vong poslednjih par godina u svojim tekstovima zvuče kao očajni sredovečni ljudi (obojica mlađi od mene, pritom) koji su nezadovoljni svojim životima (iako su neka vrsta Internet selebritija) i pokušavaju drugima da pokažu, kroz pisanje puno saveta ali i gorčine, kako da ne završe kao njih dvojica. Mislim, Vong deluje malo pribranije mada uz sve što piše imam utisak da je jako nezadovoljan time gde je sada (iako je uspešan pisac, po čijem se romanu snima film, urednik relativno uspešnog sajta), a Čiz je prepun priča iz svoje prošlosti koje su užasne - nasilje u porodici, alkoholizam, siromaštvo, razvod - iz kojih se, eto izvukao, ali ne deluje zadovoljno iako sad radi ono što je uvek želeo...

Ne znam, mnogo se brinem za te ljude. Oni su mnogo dobrog učinili za ovaj svet... Posebno se posramljeno osećam što sa zakašnjenjem shvatam da je Džon Čiz svoje najbolje, najduhovitije radove napravio dok je bio hronični alkoholičar koji je zapostavljao svoju porodicu.

Quote...Džon Čiz svoje najbolje, najduhovitije radove napravio dok je bio hronični alkoholičar koji je zapostavljao svoju porodicu.

можда жали за тим временима

Ne zvuči kao da žali, naprotiv, zvuči kao da ga je sramota svega toga. Ali mene je sramota što često pomislim da mi nedostaju takvi njegovi radovi.

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 18-12-2012, 14:29:45
Dejvid Vong je napisao možda najnegativnije intoniran inspiracioni tekst u istoriji univerzuma 

Ja nisam redovan čitalac Krekta, ali posle ovoga želim njegove bebe!

Pa, da, da. Zgodno je onda da znaš da mu je pravo ime Džejson - dakle PROROK!!! A i da je jedan seksi madrfakr:

Quote from: дејан on 19-12-2012, 12:22:48

Quote...Džon Čiz svoje najbolje, najduhovitije radove napravio dok je bio hronični alkoholičar koji je zapostavljao svoju porodicu.

можда жали за тим временима

joj, pronadjoh se u ovoj mehanovoj mudrosti!!!! ego works!

Quote from: Dacko on 19-12-2012, 08:45:25
  Odličan tekst. Ništa ne pokreće ljude bolje od šuta u zadnjicu, makar i verbalnog.

ah dacko,
gde su tu empatija i altruizam???!!!!!

Quote from: Father Jape on 19-12-2012, 14:41:07

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 18-12-2012, 14:29:45
Dejvid Vong je napisao možda najnegativnije intoniran inspiracioni tekst u istoriji univerzuma 

Ja nisam redovan čitalac Krekta, ali posle ovoga želim njegove bebe!

na otimačinu djece se narod mršti, sam' da znaš 

Quote from: lilit_depp on 19-12-2012, 19:50:53
ah dacko,
gde su tu empatija i altruizam???!!!!!

A gde je empatija za finog dečka koji obećava?

Quote from: lilit_depp on 19-12-2012, 19:50:53

Quote from: Dacko on 19-12-2012, 08:45:25
  Odličan tekst. Ništa ne pokreće ljude bolje od šuta u zadnjicu, makar i verbalnog.

ah dacko,
gde su tu empatija i altruizam???!!!!!

Nadam se da nikog nisam nenamerno dovela u zabludu da te osobine posedujem. 
Od empatije nema vajde, od dobro usmerenog šuta ponekad bude. U životu sam dobila nekoliko i veoma su mi koristili, za razliku od tapšanja po ramenu, vajkanja i saosećanja.

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 19-12-2012, 11:51:29
...moram da kažem da me malo brine što i Džon Čiz i Dejvid Vong poslednjih par godina u svojim tekstovima zvuče kao očajni sredovečni ljudi (obojica mlađi od mene, pritom) koji su nezadovoljni svojim životima (iako su neka vrsta Internet selebritija) i pokušavaju drugima da pokažu, kroz pisanje puno saveta ali i gorčine, kako da ne završe kao njih dvojica...

Lično zadovoljstvo ili nezadovoljstvo nema mnogo veze sa tim šta je sve čovek postigao u životu – ako si svakog dana negde gde ne želiš da budeš ili radiš nešto što ti se ne radi, slaba vajda od toga da sebi ponavljaš: ,,Ja sam uspešan pisac, ja dobro zarađujem, ja imam ovo ili ono, upravo ovo sam hteo da budem pre pet ili deset godina." To što neko ima objektivne razloge da bude srećan samo mu još pravi osećaj krivice što se tako ne oseća, što je, doduše, opet dobro kao izvor humora, koji i ne nastaje usled veselog, supersrećnog, zadovoljnog pogleda na svet. Psiholozi su to dosta proučavali i objasnili kako to da stvarno postoje ,,siroti mali bogataši" te iz čega u stvari izvire suštinski osećaj zadovoljstva u ljudima, pa tu nabrajahu sve i svašta što nema veze sa slavom i novcem (premda ipak ima veze sa izvesnošću da će ga svakog meseca biti!), da bi umuljali i jedan zaključak koji malo poništava silne knjižurke o samopomoći: ljudi se i rađaju s određenom predispozicijom da se osećaju srećno, i prirodnim baksuzima svakako je teže da zadovoljstvo uoče u malim stvarima, pa se upravo takvi ljudi češće bacaju na razna stimulativna sredstva. Stoga nije ni čudo što je i tvoj omiljeni kolumnista stvarno bio vedriji i smešniji u alkoholičarskom razdoblju (makar duhovitost najčešće izvirala upravo iz nekog nezadovoljstva), dok se meni, kao srodnoj namćorskoj duši, ipak više sviđa u poslednje vreme, tako razočaran i ,,sredovečan", dok svima prenosi tradicionalnu roditeljsku, mentorsku, učiteljsku itd. pouku ,,nemoj da završiš kao ja".

Ali oni su u teoriji sad baš gde žele da budu. Dakle, Vong je uspeo da svoj hobi pretvori u profesiju - napustio je stari posao i sad može da krekduje i piše knjige po ceo dan. Čiz se skinuo sa alkohola, prvi put u životu ima posao gde solidno zarađuje, piše uglavnom o svom životu i radi od kuće koliko hoće i kad hoće, ima verenicu koja zna tačno ko i kakav je itd.. Morali bi da budu zadovoljniji 

Da, pa? Kad si namćorasti duhoviti pesimista (a ove osobine idu u paketu kod silnih pisaca komičnih tekstova i komičara uopšte), konačno ostvarenje cilja jednako je razlog za nezadovoljstvo kao što bi to bilo kad bi se ispostavilo da je cilj potpuno nedostižan.


Zaboravih: oni su sada očito tamo gde su želeli da budu, što ne znači da već nemaju sasvim drugačije želje, verovatno po starom dobrom ,,nikad srećan nikad zadovoljan", što mi deluje kao verovatnija osobina stvaralaca u bilo kojoj oblasti nego ono ,,kad si srećan i kad želiš, s drugim deli sreću tu".

Dobro, ne mogu ja sad da sa sigurnošću objasnim šta se s njima dešava i zašto i kako to izlečiti, samo velim da mi je teško zbog njih    Ipak su ti ljudi mnogo učinili za moj život.

Čuh juče na jednom podkastu, na muzičkom ekvivalentu Kickstartera Dave Weckl i neki lik imaju mali projekat:

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/daveweckl

Dakle nisu samo velikani sveta igara odlučili da skoče na te taljige. 

Nisam neki ljubitelj Weckla, ali dobro, sve što ljudima pomaže da opstanu u ovakvoj klimi je ipak dobrodošlo.

Kome treba još inspirativnih tekstova sa krekda, evo mu:

  The 6 Most Aggressively Badass Things Done by Pacifists 

A za Džona Čiza u raspojasanom izdanju:


The 5 Most Hilarious Abuses of Video Game Glitches 
Neki od ovih videa izazivaju bol u stomaku od smeha.

smatrajte se upozorenim

Zarđali Ekser - Oldtajmerka (Official HD video spot) Novo 2012. U spotu igra Suzana Mančić

"Hanna" scribe Seth Lochhead has been hired to pen the script for the film adaptation of popular PS2 video game "Shadow of the Colossus."

The story follows a man named Wander who must travel across a cursed wasteland and defeat sixteen creatures, known as the colossi, in order to restore the life of a girl.

Josh Trank ("Chronicle") remains attached to direct the project and will oversee the writing of the script.

Justin Marks penned an earlier draft back when the project was set up in 2009. Kevin Misher is producing.

Da, upravo sam to čito na Jurogejmeru. Frenkli, ne vidim kako ta igra može da funkcioniše kao film - sem kao praktično nemi film koga bi režirao Takashi Miike - ali nek im je sa srećom...

Nego, da ja pitam nešto konkretno. Da li bismo i kako mogli da organizujemo gostovanje Washtub Jerry-ja kod nas. Čovek svira na koritu.

Pa, zavisi koliko para traži za nastup i kakvi su mu uslovi, ako je jeftin, sigurno bi ga neki promoter doveo.

Ako je Charlesu teča, onda mi je Jerry praktično familija. Čovek je inače elektroinženjer i na opservatoriji Ft. Davies na Roki Mauntins zadužen za praćenje kretanja Meseca. Pojavljivao se jednom na TV i tom prilikom objasnio da on ne bi imao posao da na Mesecu nije postavljeno ogledalo sa koga reflektovani signal prati, te je to jedinstven dokaz da je čovek stupio na Mesec. Slušao sam ga i gledao kad se popne na korito i cima sajlu sa Porshea, dok mu snaja svira na klaviru. Svirao je jednom sa simfonijskim orkestrom dal' u Karnegi ili nekom drugom Hall-u. Sve u svemu, pojava je, a pre nedelju dana, u Pensacoli, mi je rekao da bi rado došao da svira u Beogradu, jer sam ga zaludeo pričama o njemu. Naravno, mislim da bi najmanje trebalo platiti njemu i njegovoj ženi avion, a ja bih ih smestio kod sebe. I, naravno ranio bih ga. Ti bi ranio Jane jer je ona vegetarijanac! Ha!

Vegetarijanka, štaviše!!!

Pazi, dok sam zarađivao ja sam se povremeno i upuštao u organizovanje koncerata, nije mi bilo žao da gubim pare. No sad, kad ne zarađujem, ne smem, tako da, moraće neko drugi.