Fuck all the fonts that write "I" "l" the same. Klingon speakers would approve.

This has annoyed me on Grotesk-type fonts (Arial, Helvetica etc.) ever since. Write Illinois, you have |||inois (Illi), or at extreme cases ||||NO|S. I thought pI'qaD was pl'qaD. One might distinguish it if they know the syllable structure in Klingon.

In Times, you have troubles of telling apart "1" and "l". That means "1 l" (1 liter) or "l1" (field L1) will be read as "1 1" (one one or eleven).

The worst are the fonts, in which there's written with a | these characters: 1, I, \ (in italics), |, l. That's why I like DejaVu Sans Mono, Consolas and similar, also for their fixed width, so I can navigate between the text more easily and ASCII art on occasion. I don't care it might not work for you if you have your font configuration set otherwise, because you are just dumb if you don't realize what are you losing by not using fixed-width fonts. IBM PC used a fixed width font which looked quite nice.

GNU Unifont is a special case. It is partially proportional since it uses 2 various character width, 8 and 16 pixels. The only downside of this might be the Unicode implementation of full blocks and their shades (░, ▒, ▓, █), which are not explicitly meant to span wide (but are needed with other box drawing characters to be the same width) by the original Unicode specification, but in ANSI they were the same width as a single space. In the place for that space there is "ideographic" or just fullwidth space ( ) on Alt+12287. That means the ANSI art needs to be run trough a filter to display it correctly, especially to fix the distortion by width, when the ANSI art becomes 2x as wide after the space replacing phase because of that. Many fixed width fonts compensate for this by making these simply half-width just as the normal space. The Unicode should really be updated with half-width full/upper/lower/left/right blocks/shades and clarify which one is which or something to stop this mess.



This blog had one font dependency, which is not available on Windows XP and prior: Consolas. And that web font edition doesn't apparently contain the block characters and Czech accented letters. In Chrome these get replaced with ones from Times New Roman (or what), which is not a monospace font although it fits well, so the block ANSI gets fucked up. Replacing with Inconsolata didn't solve the block characters problem, even if the font itself read better (Consolas fit more content at comparable width - 12px Consolas vs 14px Inconsolata). But nowadays every at least a little normal person is using Windows 7 or newer. I'm going to upgrade to Windows 10 when it comes out, until that time, I have to stick with XP because 7 ceased working, including the installation DVD. Maybe it suffocated in it's own feces of log files and crash dumps, the only 300-GB harddisk having only 2 GB free. They were pirated anyway, and they are going to be unless I get them somewhere OEM, when not with lots of crap I can't uninstall, I then format the HDD in about 2 years time and put here a pirated but a better working version. To fix this aforementioned font glitch, you can find a Windows 7 computer, copy the font to a diskette (it's not that big) or flash drive, transfer it on your XP machine and install it there by just trying to copy it in the Fonts directory or control panel. I have switched to Inconsolata because of greater line spacing, Consolas would read more difficult. And this is going to be very important when I will publish my sci-fi novel.


Yes, this blog has been quite less active. Have this thing and stop being sad. I have many school essays to publish here.

Landkratzende Betonschlange - Ein Lied von der Mauer

Es gibt so wenig Deutschen Posts an dieser Blog, deshalb ich mehr Anzeige aus Moldova als aus Deutschsprächige Länder habe. Diese Gedicht, die ich in ein Lied machen wollte, war in langweilige Deutschstunden zu 25. Jubileum der Berlinmauerfall geschrieben, wie meistens meiner Fremdsprachgedichten.

LANDKRATZENDE BETONSCHLANGE

Oben Ruinen der Stadt Berlin
ärgert sich schon nur Stalin.
4 Ds aus Potsdammer
Konferenz sind die Wörter,
mit 1 hat Stalin gröser Problem:
"Demokratisieren", na sie sehen.
Er isoliert uns von den West,
das ist überhaupt nicht best'.

Wer wird unser Land
in Verwenden zu führen?
Der möchtet ein Wand
in mittels uns bauen.
Diesen Leute sollten nicht mehr
davon uns geboren sind,
denn unser Leben wird leer
bekommen fast ganz geschwind.

Die Betonschlange erreicht hoch,
Untergrund gibt hoffe doch,
auch der Amerikanischer Internet,
wen wird er noch nicht censoriert.

Der Krieg hat schon geendet,
Nazis hatten nicht gewinnen,
jetzt jemand andere startet,
Stalin soll seiner Tod finden.
Wir wollen zusammen sein,
(aber) dann dieser Höllmensch verdammt
tritt mit seiner Mauer ein,
zerstört, (zerbricht,) zerkratzt unser Land.

Unser Freunde aus Ost
und auch ihre aus hier
aber für welche Kost
reparieren wir die Verlier?
Wie Nord- und Südkorea
unser Deutschlan verteilt ist,
vor der Krieg war es besser,
jetzt gibt es hier nur ein Mist.

Wie die Wand krätzt der Stadt,
kratzen wir sie anstatt.
Einingkeit und Recht in Freiheit
diese sind doch nicht so weit.

Zerkratz die Wand!

Vereinig Land!

Die Betonschlange erreicht hoch,
Untergrund gibt hoffe doch,
auch der Amerikanischer Internet,
wen wird er noch nicht censoriert.

Wie die Wand krätzt der Stadt,
kratzen wir sie anstatt.
Einingkeit und Recht in Freiheit
diese sind doch nicht so weit.

Oben Ruinen der Stadt Berlin
ärgert sich schon nur Stalin.
Wer wird unser Land
in Verwenden zu führen?
Der möchtet ein Wand
in mittels uns bauen.
Doch dieser Höllmensch verdammt
zerstört, zerkratzt unser Land.

Earth settlement holes - there's a lot of space left

Because the humankind struggles to establish a colony on Mars or Moon and the Earth seems to be overpopulated, we need to make use of some less habitable areas. This will kind of prepare us to cope with the Mars desert, which is even less habitable.

The sea level is also rising. Someone is needed to dig an ocean trench somewhere to lower the sea level at least a bit in order for people not to lose Maldives, Bahamas and other islands, like the private Caribbean or Pacific ones. So the artificial trench should be supported by their owners or they will lose their islands under water. The sand or gravel dug up might be used to make some land near the other land, as the water there is shallow. Or bring it to the space and make a small planet with it and kick it to orbit either Sun or Earth as another Moon. Even there can be built a base on it.


Deserts

What if a part of Sahara desert was built a little wall around and it was proclaimed the biggest sandbox ever? How about mine all the sand outside of it and put there solar panels and under their shadows let there be built a city like Las Vegas, which is entirely in Nevadian desert? The water would be taken from underground and it would be used very seldom, because everyone would drink imported Coke or beer instead. People there could have some kind photosynthesis apparatus (mitochondria and a DNA patch) implanted in them, so they would be greener, and require less food when in the country, not under the solar panels. I might found a company for it, Getman Genetic Engineering. And if Disney knew something of Goethe's Faust, they would send Elsa of Frozen there to cool it down a bit for her to come to highest enjoyment (like intellectual orgasm). Cold as hell indeed it would be. What a nice oxymoron Yoda pun.


Mountains

You know what would be the ultimate nature fuck? Building a highway to the Mount Everest. It would go by the ridges with some bridges (rhymes) and connect to existing roads. On the cap there could be a hotel, restaurant, viewpoint, meteorological station, telescope like on Mauna Kea, and even a small town scattered along the ridges. It would seem futuristically romantic, wouldn't? You could take your girlfriend and your pickup lines there. Never mind there's not enough oxygen concentration for you to breathe, wanna have a seizure, like, at the Mount Everest dubstep party? Other mountains could also be inhabited the similar way, for example K2, McKinley, Mont Blanc, Mount Elbrus and many others. For heat generation we could utilize Justin Bieber. Unfortunately this pun works only in Czech, where warm/hot (teplý) means gay and not sexy/horny. A band called Nightwork makes use of this feature in a song "Globální oteplování" (Global Warming for incompetents).


Underground

In the Mockingjay book, the people in former area of District 13 are living underground. Why not to have some underground cities too when the air is polluted with smog? These would draw fucking horrible on the maps if they were under another city. But hey, there are 3D maps to cope with this. It might not be complicated as such if the buildings were built with basement deeper and the streets being right above, as are highways in Japan present in stacks. The overall structure of such buildings could resemble a hair growing out of the Earth. Diagram time!

Mile high surface part, 2 km skyscraper is theoretically possible
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Subway, sewers, underpasses, tunnels, underground city overpasses
-----------------------------------------------------------------
100 m part in an underground city with just no sky
-----------------------------------------------------------------
more subways, sewers, underpasses, overpasses and tunnels
-----------------------------------------------------------------

another optional underground city layers, each at about 100 m

-----------------------------------------------------------------
final layer, no subway this time, it'd be pointless
-----------------------------------------------------------------
worms & moles tunnel systems as they were banned from the above
-----------------------------------------------------------------
stone which acts like hot iron because it's really hot there
-----------------------------------------------------------------
liquid stone AKA magma

So altogether, with 2 underground city layers the building could have up to 2,5 km from the 1st floor to the roof (or antenna tip). This means that for a 3 m high floor and 1 m thick ceiling, it would have 625 floors. There should be a pipe elevator in the building with built-in dishwasher and toilet for people to vomit in, especially if one happens to press all the buttons, if someone hadn't the idea to make a floor choice to be realized through a numeric keypad, instead of over 600 buttons.


Ocean

There is more water area than shore in the Earth, isn't it? Then why don't we make a network of floating islands? These would serve as something like another continent in the Pacific Ocean if they were placed close together. Also the underground cities could be below the ocean floor around the shore, too. A greenhouse in the Mariana Trench would look pretty nice. This would somehow increase the sea level (Archimedes law), so the water could be pumped out and could be frozen and put to South Pole not to bother people who own a private island or live on Maldives by sea level rise. Eventually the perpetual temperature might lead to the ocean water boiling out more, therefore the levels will be actually lesser and Sahara will be finally entirely green, although with temperatures like 370 K. Specific flora and fauna would have developed by the time. On the downside, there would be very humid environment so everything will rot more quickly and electronics will have increased malfunction rate, especially the clothes manufactured by child labor in Bangladesh and hard drives made in Thailand. In such an ocean you could boil spaghetti and while doing so, pretend to summon the Flying Spaghetti Monster.


Siberia

I don't think Putin gives a serious fuck about this cold piece of land, considering the fact, that he gives a fuck about Crimea and Ukraine. While in the Siberia (as well as Antarctica) there would be no way for making bioproducts as there's just too cold, the only thing that is needed to accommodate overreproducing people is literally any piece of land that wouldn't sink immediately because of the rising sea level. The global warming would make temperatures that are currently about 240 K more like 270 K (I won't give you it in Celsius nor Fahrenheit) so there wouldn't be just ice in summer. It's interesting that in Google Earth the Siberia is green. Like all the ice melted. Somewhere in the middle of the Siberia there could be also a big volcano to which people could throw mind-controlling accessories, such as wedding rings. Besides, it would warm the land a little further in the neighborhood of it and make it good for farming some crops like cannabis for everyone to be happy and laugh Putin in face for not supporting such a strategical plant from which the following can be made: joints, ropes, shirts, ointment, seasoning (not just to smoke it) and of course money from selling joints in a fashion similar to cigarettes or alcohol and exporting it to other countries, where it's still illegal. It might be as strategical as potatoes. If Putin was at least a little immigrant-friendly (with such a land he has to be, especially when Russia's inhabitants number decreases), he could attempt for some external colonization by elderly people from former Soviet Bloc states who feel like they are dying during hot days and don't know what to do with their Russian they learned in school.


Antarctica

Only continent that has 0 permanent inhabitants. Of course the Indians, Aztecs and Mays would have gotten here by some time through the South America, if the white people haven't murdered them. Now the largest "city" is only the McMurdo-Scott station with around 500 non-permanent inhabitants. But because even Metallica has had a concert there, it means that there actually is an audience. Or was Master of Puppets sung just to the continental iceberg? The Antarctica Treaty people should make sure Antarctica is recognized as a standalone country of no- and everyone. Like Somalia, which hasn't got a internationally recognized government. The land of frozen water and penguins (read Linux), where people can build their goddamn Snowmen and Igloos and watch the stars (trillion star hotels, huh). Let those people searching for totally new land go from snow quarry to building site to bring material for their über-awesome Igloo or maybe even a snow castle. There already is an internet connection, because there are research stations. There even is a single ATM for this continent for those people whose plastic cards have not already broken from the local weather. I feel the Antarctica is something like America was in 16th century and the colonizers have a new chance not to screw everything they could up, as they did also in Africa. It should be like Australia, entire piece of land being one state and eventually there could be a international ceremonial South Pole zone free for everyone to travel into and where international treaties could be signed. The continental iceberg and snow allows for a reliable drinking water source, just as ordinary streams do, because it's sterilized by the UV rays not blocked by the ozone hole and the environment is not as polluted. What about an Antarctic iceberg water just right into your house?

Hustodémonsky krutopřísná básnička a pětilístky

Měli jsme něco napsat o jedné hodině češtiny (červen 2014) tak, aby 1. písmena řádků dala slovo. Já si vybral case-insensitive řetězec znaků "hustodémonsky krutopřísné". Použil jsem přitom pár slov (usichá a cihlofon) z Getmanovského slovníku, aby se mi to líp psalo. Trošku to zlehčuje občanskou válku v Sýrii, Islámský stát a jiné dlouhotrvající konflikty na blízkém východě.



Halí člověk do hávu,
usichá si zábavu,
sympatie s Islámem,
tatatata navzájem.
Objevení síly cihlofonů,
dokonce i spojenectví ufonů.
Éčka když jsou ve stravě,
moralisty dohání to k otravě.
Oni nesnesou E621 a 627 v jídle,
neumí si to představit v tom jejich sídle.
Satanovy potraviny dávají nám sílu,
kam naše prostředky z černobylu
ytterbium rozšižovat budou.

Kdy z války nechcípneme nudou?
Rudý prapor přítěž činí nám tu též,
upni se na křesťany, komouše neřeš.
Tyto lidi vysávej,
Otravný kebab všude nacpávej.
Pro ně nová kultura,
řeže do nich do ruda.
Í em pí na ně důsledek dost velký má,
svoje elektro nemít, pro ně pohroma,
nebudou mít čím trávit volný čas,
éto bylo, obézní budou zas.



Pětilístek:
Téma
Jaké to je (2 příd.jm.)
Co to dělá (3 sl. ve 3. os.)
Alegorie (opis, indiánská jména, +/- 4 slova)
Synonymum



Jídelna
předražená, nacpaná,
smrdí, zdražuje, odpuzuje,
odporných organických sloučenin výdejna,
prokletá místnost.

Žvýkačka
gumová, chutná,
žvýká se, tahá zuby, plive se,
pochoutka bohů
od Američanů.

Naše třída
stmelená, upovídaná,
hlučí, baví, provokuje,
naše smečka vlků 4letá,
kolektiv náš pevný,
26 ze 32 přijatých.

Naše třída
znuděná, hlučná,
sedí, spí, nepřítomně kouká,
ta, která nejvíce rozumu má,
včelí úl.