Aigarius Blog (Posts about humor)

Poetry night - Space

Aigars Mahinovs — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:08:09 GMT

A bi-lingual poem created on inspiration from Debconf15 and in honor of Debconf Poetry Night by Rhonda

Du ...

Du hast ...

Du hast apt ...

Du hast apt gebrochen!

Reconsider your disk usage,

And APT might work again.

(as usual - licenced as CC-BY V3+ or GPLv2+)

New Nokia games coming

Aigars Mahinovs — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:04:39 GMT

Warning, this post is COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL, do not spread outside of authorized corporate internal communication channels.

Today Nokia will announce that in order to increase investor confidence and foster brand loyalty all Nokia Symbian phones in the world will receive two free Nokia-themed games.

The first game will be Angry Nokias - Nokias have discovered that other phones are taking their market share away and now they are very, very angry! Fling cool and shiny Nokia phone and destroy the competition. Complete all free 30 levels and be first to collect all golden Ovi's by gathering MeeGo and Windows Phone 7 logos in the levels!

The other game that is sure to be an instant hit among true Nokia fans will be the Nokia Ninja - you are a humble user and sales people are throwing phones at you - all kinds of phones. But beware - most of those phones are not Nokias! Use your finger to slice trough the competition, rake up combos and achievements! But be careful - you do not want to slice trough a Nokia phone! Only trough instant brand recognition you can rake up truly great scores in this game.

Nokia - connecting people.

(P.S. Check the date)

Paris Hilton

Aigars Mahinovs — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:08:21 GMT

... I find that I am actually respecting her after this.

Note: her energy policy is actually equivalent to Obama's "last resort" energy policy.

Fastforward to January 21st 2009 ...

Aigars Mahinovs — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:05:48 GMT

"... Today is the first day in office for President Barack Obama ... In other news, Hillary Clinton is still on the campaign trail and is not giving up ..." - best ever joke about the current US election. I think it was from The Daily Show, but I cannot be certain.

Baby Jesus violation meme

Aigars Mahinovs — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:04:24 GMT

Most absurd religious bullshit in long time. Baby Jesus cries like being stabbed in the eye with a fork. It is like a sweet gay love orgy between baby Mohamed, baby Jesus and baby Abraham while baby L. Ron Hubbard films it all and baby Buddha gives artistic directions. Wouldn't you want to see that Holy Trinity? Just as real and inspiring as the other one. Baby Jesus is a fictional character just like Donald Duck or Terminator, get over it.

If your personality is fully determined by several thousand years old megalomaniac fantasies to the point where you are unable to accept satire about it, you might have serious psychological issues and should seek professional help. If people get seriously offended at anything written online it is their own personal psychiatric problem. The fact that such irrational over-offensiveness is promoted in US. Opinion is an opinion even when stated as a fact or amusing expression or observation. Being offended by an opinion is a clear sign of lack of personal integrity and self-awareness. Don't enforce your own psychological deficiencies on others or baby jesus will cry like he crapped his pants before the age of diapers.

I'm blue!

Aigars Mahinovs — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:11:11 GMT

In the last day of Lastguru's visit, I convinced him to go to The Blue Man group performance in the New London Theatre. The performance was just great - a combination of rhythmic music, dramatic light and a hilarious comedy show. Just wonderful!
There was a lot of classic Blue Man moments - weird looks, colour-splashing drums, rock concert movements, textual and emotional sketches with the audience and the great "You Are LATE!" intermission. It really was 100 minutes of pure fun.
And best of all, on the exit I was given a special ticket with which I can get back in again for free if I bring a friend - yay!

Howard worldwide

Aigars Mahinovs — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:09:02 GMT

I am hooked. I love to listen to Howard Stern. Up to now I have been doing it quietly by downloading it from P2P ever since I heard about him from a 60 minutes appearance just before moving to satellite radio on 1st January of 2006.

Finally Sirius started transmitting their radio stations to the Internet (for a fee). 13$ a month is not cheap for Internet radio (that is common to be gratis), but Howard Stern makes up for every penny of that with 5 hours of great talk show 4 days a week. And the dozens of other channels are just bonus.

If I were in the coverage zone of the Sirius satellite, I would get a receiver and look forward to the Stiletto, but as I am in UK, I have to make do with the Bittorrents shared by a highschool janitor and now with live streams from Sirius.com for 13$ per month. Luckily, the streaming works perfectly in Linux.

(I did have to supply a USA address when registering, so I gave them the address of Google headquarters :))

One more case where a gratis P2P downloads create a devoted fan and generate a sale.

Now I am just relaxing and enjoying channels 100 - Howard, 9 - The Pulse, 12 - Super Shuffle and 33 - Area 33.

Bug hugging?

Aigars Mahinovs — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:09:07 GMT

Hmm, I wonder if in the bug squashing parties one can eliminate bugs by hard random hugging?

For those who care about flamewars!

Aigars Mahinovs — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:06:40 GMT

This MUST stop now! If every DD would express his opinion and anger and frustration on the thread, then it would be the mother of all flamewars and it will suck the life out of all other Debian lists and stop the development outright. Flames shall not pass!

In case someone did not get the joke - it is fun. Join the fun. Display all the traditional flamewar tactics and frases in absurd and hyper overstated ways. Let off some steam in a fictional debate about nothing. Have a bit of fun. It is curiose after all.

Fun group photos

Aigars Mahinovs — Sun, 21 May 2006 05:05:19 GMT

The next day after the main group photo we decided to try and make something that is more funny and more sunny, so we decided to try to make a group photo in the pool. The event was completely voluntary and meant more for fun. At first we tried to create a shape of the Debian swirl in the pool.

It really was the real thing: the shape was never perfect or to the spec, more people were coming in all the time, some people stood back and watched, some sprayed others with water, some tried to organize, some almost drowned ... all in all just like the Debian project. :)

After that we also took a simpler group picture in the pool

After I left, a flame^Wsplashwar ensued. Loads of fun.