Vilius' posts with tag: 2007
 Link: http://www.illy.com/wps/wcm/connect/US/illy/art/project/push-button-ho...illy’s innovative Push Button House, designed by noted artist/architect Adam Kalkin, is on display at New York City’s Time Warner Center from November 29 – December 29, 2007. Originally unveiled at the 52nd Venice Biennale in June, 2007, the illy Push Button House is a fully functional and sustainable home built within an industrial shipping container. At the push of a button, the shipping container transforms into a five-room home with kitchen, dining room, bedroom, living room and library. 
so.. which way do you spin..?
i'm seeing mostly clockwise but once in a while if i blink or close my right eye.. it does start spinning ccw. Import.flv (997 KB)
well, i spent most of the yesterday dealing with bunch of journalists/photographer. There was stress, there was fun and after almost failing the print shop deadline we had this Orange mag.
p.s. thanks to Max for showing me the ropes of inDesign..
Attachment: orange_EU-Africa_small.pdf
| Start: | Dec 5, '07 | | End: | Dec 10, '07 | | Location: | Lisabona, Portugalija |
bouncing around hostels and etc of Lisboa. still on the edge of being 'youth'...
 Link: http://laptopgiving.org/en/give-one-get-one.phpso maybe the $100 $200 laptop for kids in Africa didn't really take off (probs like.. 0 governments wanted to buy/distribute in 250k chunks). Yet, it is happening on a smaller scale and till end of 2007 you can buy one (and give one) for a total of 399$.
donated $200 are tax deductible..
| | Кажкур нетоли Балтарусиос сусиринко драугаи пиониериаи и стовыкла. Пажыгяво, паспортаво, падраугаво ир дар 10 медялю пасодино.
Велаи накти, драугу пагалба неутрализавус виена шнипа, драугас Вилюс инфилтравоси и приешу стовыкла. Каданги инфилтрация реикалас римтас - двирацю 8км вазиуоти теко тамсоя - пакелес гриовямс ир пакрумемс придарыта дауг жалос.
del daugiau nuotrauku - emaila man arba Jurgitai. |
 Link: http://slingmedia.comas some of you know I've been looking for some solution to get US tv in Europe. I think I found something promising - Slingbox. This gizmo supposed to take analog/wtvr video/audio and stream it over the net. By spec it eats at least 256kbps of the uplink.
so.. 249$ and 100$/month (60$ cable + 40$ dsl) should get me US TV in Europe, right? 149$ version might be enough for me though.
so.. has anyone played with this? i see hacking community is small but existing (slink seems to have been around for 2 years now);
anyone interested to do some testing?
I'd understand with regular cableTV it manages to get its own channel, not sure about DVR/Tivo, DVDs etc.. mean if somebody's watching some show from DVR at home, there's no way slingbox can make the DVR show something else at the same time, right? unless your DVR has two vid-outputs..
an obvious thought: I bet it could be made into a nice parental control device ;]
| | around town, old timer citroens |
| | wii, youth week, LT (BeLux) sport games II and my newborn niece Emilija |
Link: http://translate.google.comyet another very useful service from google. It should not discourage one from learning French though [it translates "Privé" as "Deprived" ;]
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with all the snow in Russia - this is their first winter olympics. AFAIK Sochi has something in common with southern California - snow/mountains only 40minutes away from beaches. Import.flv (1.1 MB)
Link: http://www.speed.befound it while searching for alternatives for Belgacom.
Looks like there are some new cool toys out there.. -- haven't played with VoDSL yet ;]
| Start: | Jun 7, '07 08:15a | | Location: | Vilnius, Lietuva |
so, i'm an uncle now - Vytas and Žana had a baby girl born this morning! Vilius dabar jau oficialiai dedė - Vytui ir Žanai gimė mergaitė!
| | Day 4. The last day in Ireland but not for me - I got one more day in Dublin. Blarney castle and stone. Legends for legends, you can get a serious certificate about kissing the stone and your received gift of eloquence =]. I guess it used to be quite an experience before they put up the protective bars and the old dude holding you up.
Since it was 4-5hours to Dublin we hit the road early. Half way got a decent highway and then Monday noon traffic jam - spent almost 2hours on that city bypass. Back in Dublin - a few beers with my classmate Martynas (aka maklaudas) - he's back to Dublin since Feb.
Day 5. Started late, got a breakfast, checked email/work, walked around Dublin - found the old Jameson distillery and Guinness quarters/district, tasted some fresh Guinness. Lunch at airport and back to Bxl. |
a 1000 army of trash people have invaded Barcelona. Next stop - New York.
 trash people in Brussels, Grand pl. in 2005
| | Day 2. My first day behind the wheel in IE. The b&b owner in Liscannor told us it was 5hours to Limerick and we should consider taking the ferry. 5hours for a mere 100km?? I expected the worst roads with speed limits of 30kmph. I got narrow, stone fenced, 50-60% curves with speed limit of 100kmph. In Ireland they seem to have three speed limits - 50, 80 and 100 - you can be climbing uphill a serpentine in first gear and still get a speed limit of 100. With such a speeding encouragements and time pressing hard, i think we got to Limerick in ~4hours; that's with ~2hours spent at Glin castle and Celtic "theme park" where i still can't believe we paid 6e (each!) to see some damn stones. Have to note - quite a few golf courses around there, freaky hilly ones too.
Limerick - a short stop, a castle (according to Laura/Silvija - nothing much of interest inside), a quick Irish whiskey tasting and Audrius takes over the driving. He had a little more trouble with that left-handed "stick shift" - kept bumping his elbow to the door. We got to Castleisland - a good 40min late to see the caves. We did get to see bunch of guys at the caves getting into trouble with 'Guarda' i.e. cops. Actually, just one of them got questioned - afaik, went too harsh on some girl, choking her a little the Homer/Bart Simpsons' style ;]
We get to Killarney, looks like a busy Saturday night there - barely find a b&b. Even harder it was to get some food. All restaurants had 1hour waiting and after probably a good hour of visiting the restaurants, I convinced our crew to have a drink and wait.. It was well worth the wait.
After dinner we ended up listening to some live music, then some more live bar singing, then at 12 the bar converted to a "nightclub". Well, there was this back room which opened up. That was quite fun.
Day 3. b&b owner strongly recommended visiting the lakes and castle so we did that. It is beautiful. Then, our plan - to circle the ring of Kerry in half a day, leaving us a few hours to drive towards west side of the island - it's Sunday and most of us had a flight to catch on Monday. There are definitely some lovely views as the road touches the seaside. Ocean and mountains.. well, I've never been to Calli...
We took a ferry to Valencia island - driving was even harder there - very steep slopes, narrow roads with no shoulders. After a few adrenaline pumping situations and views we stop for lunch at a local bar in Portmagee. Old Irish and young immigrants spending there Sunday at a pub. Bartender - Latvian, Lithuanian twins in the kitchen.. We also saw quite a few little princesses running around - first communions.
After lunch i grew seriously sleepy - so memories of the rest of the ring are little blurry. Silvija will probably remember that second half of the day - we expected N22 to be a 2-3 lane highway but all we found were 100% curved road. By 100% I mean here, not even a mile of straight line or somewhere max 200-300m visibility. I bet Silvija still hates us for starting drinking and leaving her to drive for the whole day.
We spent a night at Blarney (just north of Cork).
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| | so we flew to Ireland with Virginija and Audrius; Silvija drove down from Belfast. Ever felt confused between metric and royal systems? try living in North Ireland and traveling south, not only miles switch to km, you also have to exchange your currency (pounds -> euro). fun.
so, the road trip..
Dublin. Day 0. Irish are party people, no doubt here. You can bump into quite some wasted locals on a Thursday night. Beers are <6%, bars do close at 12-2am, action continues on the streets for a few hours. At 2am Czech-Inn was our best bet according to the local pizza vendor. So we taste Guinness till 3.30 or so.
Day 1. A decent brunch before hitting the road and we're off to west coast - Moher cliffs. Kudos to Silvija for driving the whole day heroically as we sip tasty beverages, mostly of one kind. A few pit-stops by a more or less beautiful spots and we get to see the Cliffs. Breathtaking, for a few seconds, can be a good source for adrenaline - with good wind gusts we didn't feel very safe even behind those barriers. Some head spinning from just looking down the cliffs has been reported.
Around 8pm we go to the nearest little village - Liscannor, find a cute b&b, chat with the owner for a bit and rush off to the bar for some dinner and a few more beers.
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| | Jovita&Saja in Bxl for a week, then a weekend in Amsterdam on the river of Amstel. We scored one of of these boathouses and I was told they were hard/expensive to find/rent (i think 150e/night; sleeps 4-5) |
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