[en] Thoughts on fragility
I am no longer a child but I am still in a constant state of awe. There are so many things in this universe that are just plain bigger than me, and I realize that every day. The thing that surprised me these days is how much work people have put throughout the ages into achieving the current state of progress and how much they keep putting in pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
I am amazed at how much work goes into things which seem small and simple such as organizing a conference or running a bar and then I totally speechless when I think of the amount of work and thought that goes into building and managing a big company or developing amazing technologies such as android or .NET.
And then I think of how I am supposed to build on the shoulders of the people before me and face up to the challenge of rising to at leas their level. But then, the entire development of humanity is incremental. We, as a specie, could not have evolved in any way past what we were thousands of years ago without tools, or, more precisely, tools to store, transmit or share knowledge. I remember in of those bad, cyberpunk movies from the Escape from LA and Escape from New York, they had some system that blasted some kind of EMP pulse over the entire world and destroyed every single type of electronic machinery. Basically, it sent people back to the prehistory.
And I'm thinking how fragile the entire progress of the humanity is, how small we all are and how little we need to disappear as a civilization. It's going to be a miracle if it all sticks together until the 24th century...
[en] Stop that man!
If you've read my blog, and especially the posts about my travels you know that I'm no stranger to extra security checks as my vibrant personality seems to always activate the alarms. Well, this time it was in the Bilka supermarket just outside Århus.
[en] My trip to Romania – part 2 – Romania
This is the second post in a series about my summer in Romania, click to read the first part, Getting there or the third Back to Denmark.
You know that feeling when you go away for a while and then come back to your town and look around to see if anything changed? And most of the time nothing has changed, but there is this feeling of change or, rather, outlandish although nothing is changed. Well, it wasn't like that for me, the town looked almost exactly as my memory recollected it, but compared to the memories of myself which I can find on almost every street downtown, it seemed that I had changed...
[en] Business Academy’s Intro Trip
I'm writing this short post to let everyone know that the Student Council in the academy has posted information about the intro week activities we have planned for the new students and the intro trip.
The trip is going to be awesome as the council has planned all kinds of games, activities and a party. But if you're not a fresher then you're out of luck, this is a freshers only trip.
So, go to http://akademiraad.dk/introtrip/ and check it out.
[ro] Redesign pentru automatele de bilete de tramvai Arad
În recenta mea vizită în Arad am observat că în multe stații de tramvai sunt prezente automate pentru achiziționarea biletelor. Am fost foarte fericit să văd automatele și să număr rapid pe degete avantajele pe care le aduc:
[en] My trip to Romania – part 1 – Getting there
This is the second post in a series about my summer in Romania, click to read the second part about being back in Arad, Romania, or the third Back to Denmark.
I fell asleep at about half past one, woke up at half past two, left the house at 40 past 3 and walked to the train station. The walk was nothing special and neither was getting on the InterCity Lyn for Copenhagen.
[en] Travelling again
I'm leaving Romania tonight and I couldn't be happier to do so. The main reason is the heat here which I'm apparently not used to anymore. Also it seems it has paid a role in my not feeling well at all these days.
I hope I'll have a non eventful journey back to Denmark and I'll come back with a post on my journey to Romania after I've gathered my thoughts and lessons.
[ro] Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier
Știam de film de ceva vreme și azi mi-am făcut timp să-l văd. După
[ro] Prezentarea de la conferința Edmundo
Mai jos am inclus fișierul prezentare pe care l-am folosit la conferința Edmundo de la Timișoara din 10 Iulie. Conferința era pentru viitorii studenți la faculate în Danemarca și conține o mulțime de informații practice. Mai jos e fișierul prezentare:
[en] About time
I think it's interesting how people always get nostalgic about the past. No matter how bad the times were, the human mind seems to want to always remember the good things and record them in better good light. Thinking a bit about the recent history here's how it looks in my mind:
- the 2000s were times of new technologies, new games, laptops and awe
- the 90s were a bit disoriented, simple and musical because of the walkman (yes, where I grew up the walkman was big in the 90s)
- the 80s were electronic and birth time of hip hop, they were Michael Jackson, cyberpunk and popular rebellions
- the 70s had weird glasses, weird clothing, lots of weird movies about crime, they looked simple, non technological times in a way, on the other hand space seemed just like the patch of land next door
- the 60s were confident, hippie and a continuous race to do more
- the 50s were the times of the teenager revolution, rock and roll, Beatles, Johnny Cash and Elvis
- the 40s were all about the war and ending it
- the 30s were swing, end of prohibition, end of mafia and end of jazz
- the 20s were jazz, suits, glamor of the night and prohibition
- the 1910s were the first taste of world war, disorganized and sad years
- the 1900s were the years of breakthrough discoveries: flight, restricted theory of relativity
- the 1890s seem simple, they were the times of cars
I wonder why the only people excited about the present are always marketing people. And I know that us technology people are often excited about the future, but why is it that ALL people long for the past and why is it that the past always seems simpler? Even recent times, such as last year or the year before that seem better.
How about you? How does the last century look like to you? And why do you think people tend to long for the past?