The Black Sea

I live in Constanta, Romania. My city has a rich history and dates back 2000 years…or so. Greeks founded the city, on the shores of the Black Sea, and named it Tomis.  You can still see the ruins of the old city in some parts of town. Somebody from the local History & Archeology Museum…

Where Light Casts No Shadow

Space…The Final Frontier. Or so it was at least, some 20-30 years ago. Now who the hell knows what lies beyond it. We have yet to understand our universe and most definitely we can only have wet dreams about exploring it. For now! That’s the beauty of it all. Mars today, Uranus tomorrow…one small step…

It’s a Fruit! It’s a vegetable! It’s Tomatoes!

I spend a lot of time online, either for my job, for fun, while I wait for something (I hate waiting!!), and sometimes I’m online when in fact I should be doing something else. The house won’t clean itself, for example. Stupid house! There are advantages and disadvantages to being that much online. But let’s…

Happy Friday the 13th

Let me get one thing straight from the beginning: I am European, I am superstitious…to  some degree. Ok!… Not so much. But my country Romania…it’s in a league all of its own. We have ancient superstitions, medieval superstitions, pre war, post war, superstitions born in communist era and now, as capitalism decided to settle in, we…

The Howler Monkey

These bad boys live in the forests of South and Central America. It is considered to be the largest of the “New World” monkeys, but this is not what’s interesting about them. They’re called howler monkeys for a reason: they are the loudest land animals in existence. 🙂 Their howls can be heard loud and clear…

The Jedi Archives…

Maybe you have noticed this before me, or maybe you didn’t watch Star Wars ( I personally believe everybody should watch Star Wars once!!!), but here is what i discovered: These are the Jedi Archives, as they appear in “The Clone Wars: Pretty cool , isn’t it? The fun fact about them is that such…

Here comes Santa….

Hey guys ! This is my X-mas tree! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May 2012 bring us glorious new technology,new knowledge, peace and unity, legal marijuana and 365 good days! Ladies keep it smart, glamorous and sexy! Happy drinking on New Year’s Eve and i’ll see you after the holidays. Remember…

Geeks that changed the world!

I was watching “Who wants to be a millionaire” the other night and suddenly le  wild question appears : “Who said: We live in the best of all possible worlds?” A.  Kant, B. Leibniz, C. Nietzsche, D. Traian Basescu ( president of Romania). I had no idea what was the correct answer! I know a bit…

Cartoons Characters… Trolling us waaay before it was cool.

Hey guys , look at this cool information I found while having coffee and just browsing the mighty net. The voices of all our favorite cartoons. My personal top ten cartoon Characters are: 1. Bugs Bunny 2. Dee Dee 3. Eric Cartman 4. Silvester 5. Kaa 6. Stewie Griffin 7. Baloo 8. Puss in Boots…

Chocolate Heaven

The internet answered a big question for me tonight. Existential I might say! I am here to share… Yes People such a place really does exist! For all you other addicts suck as myself  i have some valid information. This small heaven of chocolate can be found right here in beautiful old (in trouble )…

Thou shalt not eat Foie Gras

A friend of mine, that is taking a chef class,  told me about a debate that’s been going on in the gastronomical world about foie gras. I’ve had “pate de foie gras” just once and i can’t say i loved it, but I can’t say I hated it either. That was until now! “Foie Gras”…

Interesting facts about my country

I live in a beautiful not so small country in Europe called Romania. A lot of you know that Romania is home for one of the best legends ever: Dracula! But I’m not going to talk about Dracula and the historic figure that inspired this story, Vlad the Impaler. If you’re interested in this let…