Thursday, February 15, 2018

My unreasonable atraction for cars sporting double circular headlights

I realised recently that I have an fetish liking cars that have double, circular of the same size headlights.

Opel Manta A

Lancia Delta Integralle


BMW E30, E24

Dodge Challenger

BMW E9


checker taxi cab


Lancia 037 Stradale

Lancia Beta

Ford Capri

Mazda rx4

Alfa Romeo GTV

NSU TT


Renault Alpine



I am sure I forget some, but I will update as needed

Sunday, February 4, 2018

EBay and working for a retail shop has ruined shopping for me. I walk into a shop and realise that the price I am going to pay for an object is a lot higher than what the object coats to make. Includes profit of the manufacturer, transportation, packaging, advertisement, taxes, storage, profit for the reseller and of course each ones expenses. And I just can't put myself in the position to throw the money. And end up getting stuff from ebay, directly from China.
Admitedly projects that would take 1-2 days to finish end up taking months waiting for the right part to arrive. If the Chinese manage to speed up things, then they've completely won the game.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Dakar Rally,

I always thought that the Trucks racing in the Dakar rally, were similar to cargo trucks, with the back filled with supplies: Food, spare parts, diesel. It seems I was wrong.


On the following clip, at 1:07, the sky is visible through the truck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huw6Rkq5jj4


Saturday, December 30, 2017

I pre-ordered Persepolis Rising from Amazon on the 12th of November and received it on the 28th of December. Just for laughs I checked on the pirate bay to see if it was online, and OMFG it was uploaded 8/12/17, 4 days after the official release on the 5th of December.
With this kind of shitty service perhaps next time I wont bother ordering physical books.

Monday, December 25, 2017

Απαράδεκτη ποιότητα παιχνιδιού τραίνου Jumbo / very bad quality train from Jumbo stores, ΥΥ085,


Απαράδεκτη ποιότητα παιχνιδιού Jumbo κωδ: ΥΥ085, 0479213000037, batch no 20170820

μέσα σε μια μέρα χρήσης, αποσυναρμολογήθηκε το βαγόνι με τη σκεπή.
έσπασαν 2 ράγες,
καπνό δεν βγάζει, αλλά δεν έχει και οδηγίες χρήσης για το τι πρέπει να κάνεις για να βγάλει, πχ να βάλεις νερό στην καμινάδα.
η μηχανή δεν κάθεται στις ράγες, 
τα πλαστικά σπάνε σαν από τσιγαρόχαρτο.
οι ράγες δεν ασφαλίζουν και βγαίνουν με το παραμικρό.

πετάξτε τα χρήματα σας αλλού.







Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Autonomous vehicles and insurance

All this progress in vehicle autonomy, wouldn't eventually lead to the wipe out of the vehicle insurance companies?
Cause if the vehicle crashes and no human is involved, the driver can't be responsible. But the manufacturer is. Perhaps insurance companies, change focus and insure the manufacturers instead.

Monday, December 11, 2017

I am reading the news, about the extent that the rich evade taxes. Paradise papers, Lagarde list, tax heavens etc.
I wonder, what is the moral legitimacy to demand simple people to stop piracy of music and digital media in general?
The rich have the means to hide their money and not pay taxes through lobbying and laws made specificaly for them but the poor, must suck it up and pay.