Published by gawd October 4th, 2008
in Life.
The black photo shown below is no error. It’s how it was really like.
Along with a friend, I went to the Dialog In The Dark (heb), a truly life changing experience. In a one hour tour, we were guided in a completely dark environment by a blind guide. The tour goes through 7 locations you are familiar with as a person, such as a public garden, your house and a bar. We were eight people moving around without seeing anything, only equipped with a walking stick. It’s amazing how you perceive stuff when your visual sensory system is off. Personally, I thought I’d go crazy in the first 10 minutes, and I almost did. It never grows on, and even after an hour of black, your brain still generates random white dots, trying to make up for what’s just not there.
I advise everybody to experience this. It has so many implications on your life, that you just can’t miss it.
Published by gawd September 13th, 2008
in Games.
An excellent post at Pixelation called pixelartists worldwide to collaborate in a heroic task of demading their favorite games. Follow up the original post for the full list, but here are my favorites:
Published by gawd September 10th, 2008
in Funny.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the LHC tunnel, sits and waits Lester and plays Minesweeper.
Published by gawd August 15th, 2008
in Philosophy.
The thumbnail in blue is of a photo I took in Sydney, Australia. This horrifying ad can be seen all over the city and calls people to give their friendly government-man a ring when they are -a little bit- suspicious of their friends, spouses and family members. Of all three Big Brotherish phenomenons, this one scares me the most. Think of a kid who needs some privacy and locks himself in a room to browse some adult rated websites; a husband who cheats on his wife (I don’t endorse it, but it happens and quite often). Regardless the situation, such ads discourage communication between humans and solving problems between themselves. Higher authority hould never come first.
Published by gawd May 1st, 2008
in Life.
Third newsprint to feature… me! Yeah! My friend Bianca suddenly stumbled upon a photo of me in Timeout Tel Aviv magazine. This shot was taken two weeks ago; I decided to go with my casual Threadless look. ’nuff said, enjoy the article 
Oh! Btw, I’m also happy to tell you all that my blog, this blog, the very same blog that you’re wasting your time on right now, has its pagerank rate bumped to PR5! Yeah! It means I’m important, you are my friend; so you are important as well Love you.
Published by gawd April 14th, 2008
in Life.
Right! I just made my second appearance in the newspaper. This time it’s the real estate section of The Marker newspaper (delivered daily.) Actually, it was in the newspaper on thursday, /and/ on the weekend edition on friday! What’s it all about? Read the entire explanation on the flickr photo page (just click on the image blow.)
It’s quite funny how this thing catches on. Viral marketing put to practice! Today I had another photo shooting, this time it was the casual me with my threadless panda shirt! yah! I’ll post the scan when I get a copy this weekend.
Totally forgot. My -FIRST- newspaper appearance was back in 1997 (I think.) I got first place in a programming competition (Turbo Pascal) and won my school a trophy (and got me enough money for a x2 cd burner!). The school got a treadmill, which I never got to see, cause I skipped sports class in favor of more computer time 
Oh, the irony.
Published by gawd February 17th, 2008
in Life.
I can’t get this damn song out of my head!
Yeah, I’m big in Japan, .. I mean Tel Aviv. That’s what I said. (Checking my watch,) I have been here for two weeks now! As it happens, I _walked_ to the cafe I’m sitting in right now and writing this email. Every now and then something pops up in my mind and I tell myself /this has to be blogged/. I’m a guy from a small town, and it really shows. Naivety turned into paranoid.
Too many people here. And I notice them all. I have already visited far larger cities, such as New York and Tokyo, but the noise outside is in a foreign languages and blends nicely with the white noise cars make. Where do all these people come from? Where are they going? How come everybody is sitting in cafes and restaurants at daylight, nobody’s working? I don’t get it.
Wow, there’s so much to tell, so much to show. I’ll take it slowly, here’s one photo I took. More on my flickr stream.
Published by gawd January 3rd, 2008
in Code.
My …. fifth blog, Coding Aloud has been launched. Yay!
Previously named “Code-o-strophe”, Coding Aloud is a blog aimed for programmers and web administrator. I will share as much as I can about everything I’ve been through managing my 1000 websites. First post is already up, so make sure you visit:
http://coding-aloud.blogspot.com
Published by gawd December 12th, 2007
in Life.
Total lost of momentum. I really hate it. Productivity level is a lot lower, and I can’t seem to find a way to organize and prioritize my to-do list. It’s been ages since I posted about creativity, so let me just fill you guys up with what I’ve been up to in the past 2 months.
1. Flimmr is almost ready. Need to kick things into gear and get this baby on the road.
2. My awesome Facebook framework is working perfectly, with a first use:
3. Rubik’s Cube for Facebook; turn a photo from your fb album into a rubik cube and send to other people / post to profile.
4. Call4Advice.co.il is launching soon. I’m proud of it!
5. Dumpr has plenty of new features; including a pro account!
6. RSS Feed for your Flickr contacts’ favorites (not yet public)
7. Started a new blog (not yet public) called “Codeostrophe - Coding Aloud”, which will feature plenty of how-tos and experimental things with amazon s3/ec2 and facebook.
8. Got SWFUpload to work with EC2, awesome!
Christmas is around the corner, and there are a few things I need to nail down before it hits. Plenty of work work work. Works is the only thing between me and Australia!
Hugs everybody. Send me love emails!
Published by gawd November 26th, 2007
in Life.
It has been a bit over a month since the villa security was breached and my wares stolen. It has also been a month without an entry in my blog. It all feels so temporarily. The whole work-work-work momentum has been lost, I still don’t have a camera, no playstation, my new laptop feels like a bastard child and keeps annoying me, and my home theather system is still apart and stored safely.
I have learned from this experience; I think this is what they call learning-the-hard-way. I now have insurance over my stuff, but it doesn’t keep me asleep at night. I have 3 extra keys in my keychain, my windows have been shut and locked for a month (I open the door in the mornings to get fresh air in,) every noise outside rushes me to the windows to see if the motherfuckers have come back. And I must say it’s quite difficult to gain your concentration and focus back when you have 5 cats playing outside.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But it still feels like shit. I’m scared of leaving my apartment alone, even thought they pretty much took everything that can easily be sold. Mofos. This post concludes this period, I promise I won’t blog about it again (unless it will be on the news that some asshole got electric shock from a laptop missing an esc button!)
