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A lot of people have been asking us what have we been up to here in Vancouver in the past couple of months. Well, we’ve been really busy building our new product - a Social News Reader - and we’re finally ready to share it with the world!
As of today we’re starting to send out invites to people…
We just sent out the first batch of private beta invitations for Summify! Wanna get one too? :)
Those who have not taken the time to explore the wonderful world of philosophy may consider it as having very little practical value or benefit in the real world. Nothing could be further from the truth. The word philosophy is derived from the Greek words “philo” meaning love and “sophia” meaning wisdom. Therefore it is the love of wisdom and the seeking of knowledge in understanding the nature of the universe, man, and the human condition. What could be more relevant? How does philosophy contribute…
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Those who have not taken the time to explore the wonderful world of philosophy may consider it as having very little practical value or benefit in the real world. Nothing could be further from the truth. The word philosophy is derived from the Greek words “philo” meaning love and “sophia” meaning wisdom. Therefore it is the love of wisdom and the seeking of knowledge in understanding the nature of the universe, man, and the human condition. What could be more relevant? How does philosophy contribute…
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We have great news to share with you: Summify is now officially in private beta, starting today, 23rd March 2010! Woohoo!
After weeks of hard work we finally have something that we can share with more people! It took us a full week of “intimate” beta to detect and squash all the major bugs…
Wohoo! This marks the end of a long, tiresome but really fun sprint. Go ahead, have a look! I hope you’ll like it!
In Canada ice hockey is a BIG deal. Besides being the official winter sport, most of the development of modern ice hockey happened here. The first organized indoor game was in Montreal, 1875. The rules of the game were codified by Canadian students, and the first ice hockey club was funded in Montreal.
Today I witnessed the 2010 Olympics hockey final for the gold medal between two old rivals: Canada vs USA. The game was epic! US tied the score only 25 seconds before the end of the match, thus extending the game in sudden death mode. Finally, Canada broke the tie and secured the 2010 hockey gold medal.
As a foreigner in Vancouver, I was very impressed with how Canadians celebrate this sport and I captured a few pictures and videos to show you.
Here’s a bunch of Canadians in a pub at the beginning of the game. Nothing really going on, somebody taking a call, just chillin’.
Now here’s what happens when Canadians score! You’d better turn down the volume by a few notches. It is LOUD! :)
Let’s go out and see what’s going on on the streets!
“Go Canada!”, high-fives, free hugs, and loud cheers all around. The streets are full in the middle of the day!
Vancouver is going crazy!
This guy was arrested for a minor offense - he climbed on the bus station. :)
I’m happy to be in Vancouver in these moments! It’s moving to watch thousands of people celebrating together. It’s not good times that test the strength of a country but they do show how Canadians truly love their homeland.
Cea mai mare ambiție în viață a lui Brown e să fie original, iar metoda sa de a deveni original este să ia ceea ce nu este original și să facă invers.
Dacă lui Brown i s-ar da o planetă a sa proprie ca să facă ce vrea cu ea, el ar numi ziua - noapte și vara - iarnă. I-ar face pe toți bărbații și femeile sale să meargă în mâini și să-și dea mâna cu picioarele; copacii săi ar crește cu rădăcinile în aer, iar cocoșul bătrân ar trebui să facă toate ouăle, în timp ce găina ar sta pe gard și ar face cucurigu. Apoi s-ar da cu un pas înapoi și ar spune:
- Vedeți ce lume originală am creat; e în întregime ideea mea proprie!
Un citat dintr-un roman simpatic: „Arta de a nu scrie un roman”, Jerome K. Jerome :)
Reading this book was an amazing experience! The main story revolves around 3 couples: Tomas (an incurable womanizer) and his loving wife Tereza, the same Tomas and his mistress Sabina (an aimless artist), and Sabina with Franz. (a moody and indecisive professor)
“characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.”
As the story unfolds the author pauses frequently to contemplate intriguing philosophical questions. The motif is The Difficult Resolution: whether people should be weighted down by meaningful and responsible living or act freely, carelessly, but ultimately with no consequences on the world around them.
“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they are. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, […] his movements as free as they are insignificant.”
“What shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
Perhaps ironically, all important resolutions in the life of the characters, all irrevocable decisions with profound consequences are done in a careless blink of a second.
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”
The central setting of the novel is Prague in the spring of 1968 when the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to halt their attempts of political liberalization. Telling the story of this agitated period, Kundera has numerous occasions to contemplate on the absurdity of the communist regime.
“the [communist] regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.”
”[…] theory of socialist art: The Soviet society had made such progress that the basic conflict was no longer between good and evil but between good and better. So shit (that is, whatever is essentially unacceptable) could exist only on the other side (in America, for instance), and only from there, from the outside, as something alien (a spy, for instance), could it penetrate the world of good and better.”
This was a tremendous novel and some of its questions kept me thinking long after closing the book. I really enjoyed the style and I’ll definitely look into more writings by Milan Kundera.
