Reasons
Someone might ask why I haven't update this blog in a while.
The reason is quite simple:
And I'm going out for vacation from the 16th to January 1st!
I Guess Someone Got an iPod Touch for Christmas... [Charts]
45 minutes ago
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
And I'm going out for vacation from the 16th to January 1st!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Academic Transcript
This month was the first time that I needed to ask for an academic transcript in order to keep my loan. We've had lectures for less than 2 months and of course I don't have any grades yet. Instead I only got a letter saying that I'm still a student.
Also, last week there was an Autumn Beer Festival in the Uni's pub.
I got my card and attempted to try all of them, but alas it was not possible (they ran out of Erdinger). Anyway I tried a lot of them and after some thoughts, I was tempted to send my beer card so they can rest assured that I'm a good student.
Almost!
Unfortunately, I just got 6 projects before Christmas break so no more beer festivals for me in a while (that also explains why I'm going back to blogger).
Where am I?
should try to learn Chinese instead of Greek.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
E-cow-nomics
Simply amazing (because it's true), I think the mexican version would be about how they tax you for the cows, the milk and the grass they eat.
-------
SOCIALISM:
You have 2 cows, so you give one to your neighbor.
-------
COMMUNISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
-------
FASCISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.
-------
NAZISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.
-------
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
-------
ENRON CAPITALISM:
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of
credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four
cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a
Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells
the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one
more.
Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you
with
nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public buys your bull.
-------
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when the cow drops dead and get a contractor to find out why
-------
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike and burn cars because you want three cows.
-------
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION:
You have 2 cows, News limited buys them for an inflated price.
They eat clover for months and produce nothing.
Rupert gets pissed at another one of his children.
-------
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them
World-Wide.
-------
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and
milk themselves.
-------
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows. Both are mad.
-------
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
-------
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 12 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
-------
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.
-------
A HINDU CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
-------
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the
newsman who reported the numbers.
-------
AN ISRAELI CORPORATION:
So, there are these two Jewish cows, right? They open a milk factory, an
ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to
Harvard to become doctors. So, who needs people?
-------
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
After 4 weeks
I've been already for 4 weeks in the UK and I just realized I never wrote about the trip...
All started when Mundo was taking me to the SFO airport, at that moment I was homeless and had all my possessions in three bags + one backpack.
SFO airport, last time?
Nothing memorable to talk about the flight, only that watched 3 movies plus one Flight of the Conchords episode (kudos to British Airways for having such a good show in their in-flight entertainment library).
I arrived to Heathrow and made my self from terminal 5 to terminal 3, where I took the bus to Southampton. It sounds easier, but with three bags, two of them weighting more that 27 kg, it took me ~20 minutes.
Free bus!
After two hours (there were some road works), I arrived to my new home:
Glen Eyre
As an experience homeless, the first thing I did after I unpacked my things was a visit to Ikea. The place was just like any other Ikea in the states, I saw my old bed, table, futon, desk, silverware, glasses, cups, etc, etc, etc but here they charge for parking!
Atos?
Finally, I explored the town, the campus (the school's pub) and I'm glad that the coolest building is from my school.
I'll spend a lot of time here...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
