Odrezani

Pa so nam podrli cesto … (Kanalizacijo delajo, končno.) Do nadaljnjega naj naši obiskovalci prosim parkirajo v dolini.

They are building new sewerage system on our hill and we are cut off from the rest of the world … [Now we just have to add water and alligators and we’ll be completely secure :).]

Vabljeni na koncert

orkestra Simfonika to soboto popoldne ali zvečer. Program in vabilo na: www.simfonika.si

Jazz valček tokrat ni na sporedu, ampak je tu samo za okus :D

Paradajzki & vrt

Ne, to niso naši iz semena vzgojeni paradižniki, te smo kupili v vrtnariji. Naši so taki:

No, those are not our home-grown tomato plants. Those above came from the nursery, ours are still very weak:

Cela žalost. Tako lepo smo skrbeli zanje, pa se nič nočejo razvijati. Ta na zgornji sliki je daleč najlepši, ostali so še slabši.

We are very disappointed – they started growing so nice and then they just stopped and nobody knows why :(

Zato pa je vrt letos lepo urejen. Tak je bil v soboto, danes je povsem namočen od dežja zadnjih dni.

On the other hand, the garden looks pretty as a picture this year

Aprilsko branje

	Holly Black, Justine Larbalestier, Zombies vs. Unicorns »In the center of the carnage sits Flower, with what looks like leftover raccoon all over his snout, and his chain lying in crumpled chewed-up chunks at his hooves. Flower looks at me, proud as punch, and thumps his tail against the earth.   Flower? Try Flayer.   My killer unicorn is finally living up to the name.« Antologija zombijskih in samorogastih zgodb, izmenično. Dobri pisatelji, dobre zgodbe, dobro branje.
	Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code »To make a long story short, today's dominant technology for concurrent programming—locks and condition variables—is fundamentally flawed.« Knjiga, ki sem se je lotil s precejšnjimi pričakovanji, pa bil zelo razočaran. Še enkrat se je izkazalo, da večina odličnih programerjev ne zna pisati, če že znajo, pa so njihova mnenja o »zanimivi in lepi« kodi taka, da to lepoto in zanimivost vidijo le sami.
	Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light »Where the orange mushrooms grew taller than a tall man, and wide enough to shelter several from the rains; now, Sam had taken that branch of the roadway; here, he had stopped to fix a sandal strap; at this point, he had leaned upon a tree, which showed indications of housing a dryad....« Na oddaljenem svetu ostanki človeške ekspedicije razvijejo civilizacijo, dobijo »super« moči in postanejo skoraj bogovi. Vsaj nekateri, večina živi v neindustrijski civilizaciji. Križanec med F in SF, znanostjo, budizmom in hindujskimi bogovi. Na trenutke skrajno zmedeno, a ker je dobilo Huga in bilo nominirano za Nebulo, mora biti dobro ;) Bral sem jo davno nazaj, pa je nisem nič dojel; zdaj sem jo bral ponovno, pa mi še vedno ni pretirano sedla, se mi zdi preveč zmedena. wiki
	Roger Zelazny, Doorways in the Sand »Because of the peculiar outline I had regarded, I was not completely surprised when I raised my head and saw a six-foot-plus kangaroo standing beside the wombat. It considered me through a pair of dark glasses as it removed a sandwich bag from its pouch. "Peanut butter is rich in protein," it said.« Zelazny lahkotnejše sorte, z vesoljci in iskanjem izgubljenega dragulja. Napisano v enem šusu, brez popravljanja, pa se to nikjer kaj dosti ne pozna. Lahko bi bila osnova za prav dober film (ki pa ni nikoli nastal). wiki
	Gordon R. Dickson: Childe Cycle [Dorsai!, Necromancer, Soldier, Ask Not, Tactics of Mistake, The Final Encyclopedia, The Chantry Guild] »And that's how it's been with everything else the individual, and therefore the race-animal, dreamed of—warmth when it was cold, coolness when it was too hot, the ability to fly bird-like, to cross great distances of water dry-shod, to hear and talk at as great or even greater distances, to block pain, defy disease and death. In the end, it's added up to one great desire. To be all-mighty. To be a god.« Serija o dobi, v kateri se Zemljani razseljo na 10+ planetov in razvijejo specializirane kulture – bojevniško, filozofsko in religiozno. Začne se kot tipična vojaška štorija, pa se kasneje razvije v bolj filozofsko razmišljanje o možni prihodnosti človeštva. Zgodba je zanimiva, še bolj pa me je zainteresiral Dicksonov razvoj skozi leta. Prve knjige (Dorsai! je bil napisan leta 1959) so po današnjih standardih popolnoma šovinistične – ženske so obrobni liki, edina omembe vredna religija je krščanstvo, znanost je v zadnjem planu. Zadnji dve (1984 in 1988) pa sta bistveno različni, še posebej opazna je močna ženska vloga; postanejo skoraj glavne akterke (z izjemo glavnega junaka, ki povezuje vseh šest knjig). Konec žal izvisi v zraku, ker je Dickson umrl, preden je uspel napisati zaključno, sedmo knjigo. wiki

Še vedno berem: Beautiful Evidence

Bastia, Korzika [2]

Še »retuširan« pogled na isto mesto.

Bastia, Korzika

Več slik na http://picasaweb.google.com/gabr42/BastiaKorzika.

10 minut na dan - Art journal every day (19)

Pomladi so take morilske sorte, že itak se povsod vse živo dogaja, zadnja leta me pa izmučijo še alergije na cvetne prahove … niti ne vem, na katere. Včeraj sem na kolesu ujela neki v oko in do zvečer sem imela oči ko angora zajec … mah … ena stran na dan ohrani zdravnika stran? Tako nekako.

Springs are utterly busy, and May being my birthday month probably contributes to that, I don’t get any break for the first two weeks. I managed to squeeze in some AJ time, it’s also for the sake of sanity. And the fact that in the last years I became allergic to some pollens, doesn’t help much, my left eye is creepily bloodshot …