Archive for June, 2006

podul jalniciei

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Film pe B1:
Florin Piersic e securist de hotel, are ticuri din reţeta actorilor de pe vremea aia: când gândeşti, îngustezi ochii un pic, a efort să vezi la distanţă, când gândeşti intens te ciupeşti ostentativ de buze; tot timpu’ ăsta păru’ţi stă streaşină. Ce face un securist de hotel:
- cotrobăie prin dulapuri, unde găseşte din […]

per stupid capita

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Have you listened lately about your country’s ‘economic’ growth? 8%, 2%…?
Well, if in your country 10% of the people own 90% of the property, then if you’re among the 90% of owners of the rest of 10%, you should be rather happy when your country’s growth is 0% or negative. Not because those rich […]

Hermes 0.9.9 released

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

This version comes with a more scalable font handling mechanism, although there still are some (less used) encodings to be added.
Examples of LaTeX articles converted with this version are available here.
Enjoy.

science fiction and the red lights district

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

A long time ago, people used to cultivate or hunt, they needed to eat so they could enjoy the life they happened into. Being nature as it was, careless about them, it used to rain or not at random times for random durations. The results of their hunting and cultivating where random as well, and, […]

Hermes 0.9.8 released

Monday, June 5th, 2006

phew, lots of changes in the font handling matter, besides cleaning:
all (well, most of the useful ones, the 7., 8. and 9. maps) the standard named fonts (according to fontname) are now mapped (not tested thoroughly so let me know if you find something wrong); some of the fonts with special names are mapped also […]

democrit

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

de n’ar fi fost ăsta, am fi alungat ş’acuma muştele de pe baclavale, între doi bobi zăbavă la cioace despre durerile de dinţi. şi nici n’ar fi fost mare tragedie lipsa lui dacă ne’ar fi zis d’zeu’ local cum să facem să nu ne fie frig atunci când e.
fapt e, verificat, că, deşi d’zeu’ local […]

friendship

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

and yes, friendship is as Ash Ra Tempel sings it is.