Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Television

I don't have a TV right now. But back when I lived with my parents, while cooking and eating I used to watch the soul-edifying EuroNews channel. I often quoted it in the spirit of “our European Commission protects us.” Once I tried to find out if I could watch it over the internet, but I only found a paid service – jalipo.com (whose website currently displays a weird message).

However, a recent second attempt succeeded. First, I went to the site of one of the early p2p TVs – joost.com, but there the channel is presented as separate shows, and in English on top of that. But then I had the bright idea to search Google using the keywords p2p tv, rather than just “euronews online broadcast”. And happiness ensued. As it turned out, EuroNews is broadcast by the service https://livestation.com, and even in Russian. Plus, it uses Silverlight, which is ideologically native to me (which doesn't matter, and it seems they've already dropped Silverlight anyway).

So now I can comfortably learn what the Eurocrats have dreamt up again to restrict the megacorporations , how farmers are saving electricity  and why the new European SC (spacecraft) is glitching out.

Almost like in the song “Radio Amateur” by the band Nol.

My soul aches with indignation,
It's scary to turn on the receiver:
"Duran Duran" and "Iron Maiden"
Prevent me from living in peace.

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House, M.D.

I don’t know whether anyone has noticed, but the characters in House, M.D. have “speaking” surnames. Foreman is a foreman. Chase is game (the meaning that fits best).  House himself, as everyone knows, is Holmes, and Wilson, accordingly, is Watson.

By the way, my favorite character is Dr. Cuddy. As House says, she’s smart and funny. And beautiful, too. In my opinion, neither Cameron nor, especially, the cutthroat bitch is beautiful, and they’re not particularly cool either. Thirteen is all right, though.

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Death Note Anime

Oh, forgot to mention. While I was on vacation, I watched the Death Note anime. The Japanese really are amazing. In the track serving as the background music in the first season's intro – English swearing, even though the anime is clearly for teenagers too. In the second season it gets even more fun – everything turns into heavy metal with growling. Can you imagine something like that in Russian cartoons or TV shows?

As for the series itself, it is very decent. (9/10)

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The Move

What follows is such a boring daily life update that it makes your jaw cramp, so you're better off not reading it.

I moved. Spent the entire weekend washing, fixing things up, and getting everything into decent shape. Luckily, to the right of my building there's a store called “I000 sīkumi”, meaning “A Thousand Devils' Odds and Ends”. The first digit in the name is written exactly as I typed it.

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LJ