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Senior citizens and computers

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:15:37 GMT

When we talk about computers, we usually forget one user group senior citizens. Few days ago I met one lady who is over 80-years old and she is so keen about computers. She was so wonderful when she realize that her notebook had WLAN, because now she can use internet from living room couch, how comfortable. She told me that
among other things she like to use Messenger and Skype, because her children lived so far away. So, her notebook made her days little bit easier and funnier.

I was so astonish when I saw reactions other (younger) people when I told about her. "She is so old, what an earth she do with computer??" "Hmmm, does she surf around XXX-sites all night long *heh-heh*?".

I felt so offend. Why? Because I saw her joy, she was succeed to conquer her fear to use technology.. Something which she thought she wouldn´t never learn to use.

All this new and wonderful technology around us... Is it privilege of young people? I doubt it. We should remember that we will be also senior citizen in the future.

Mock Baked Potato Soup

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:30:14 GMT

I like to try new recipies, this is what I did yesterday.

Ingredients:

1 med head cauliflower
2 Tbsp chopped onion
salt and pepper
32 oz chicken broth
2 slices crisp bacon
3 Tbsp chopped chives
3 oz shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup or more of light cream
2 tbsp butter

Directions:

Steam cauliflower till tender.
Drain, place in baking dish, drizzle with olive oil and salt and pepper and broil till golden brown.
Heat little oil and sauté onions till soft but not brown.
Add cauliflower, broth and simmer till very tender.
Puree half mixture in blender and return to pot.
Add cheese, bacon, cream and chives and stir till cheese melted.
Add butter, stir till melted and serve.

Tought of the day

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:36:10 GMT

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing,
thinking or not-thinking,
'meditating' or 'not-meditating'
you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

"The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei

My selfstudies...

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:29:00 GMT

I don´t know, maybe it´s because when you come to the certain age you try to figure out what you had achieve in your life, what your major goals will be in the future.

When my mother died 1996 I had to take care more and more my father and his company because my father was not able to do it himself. His grief was so deep, actually he told me later that he can´t remember my youngest child´s christening day or anything else what happened the following year. Well, it must be hard to lose love of your life after 30 years marriage. My mother was that who kept all things going. She got answer almost every question. I must say that she left me too big boots to wear. What I mean is, even how hard I work or study I never fill her place in the family. But why should I? It took many years to understand that I don´t have to be like my mother. I don´t have to work 15 – 20 hours a day (her working moral was so strict). I don´t have to know everything. It is enough that I am good at things which I am interested in. Things like different fields of computing; open source programs, Linux, programming, etc, etc. Because my grandmother take care of me when I was little my mother had possibility to be concentrated in her work. I almost had a burnout because I tried to do too much; I tried to take care of my family and same time I worked almost 15 hours a day. Then one day I just said to my father that I can´t do it anymore I am too tired, I quit.

Oh, I should have this brake sooner. Before that I didn´t realize how tired I was or how grazy my timetable was. I was always rushing to the next place, worrying homework when I was at work and thinking work when I was at home. Then one morning I didn´t need to rush anywhere I could relax and drink my coffee, finally I got all the time in the world. But how long? Maybe I am one of those restless souls who just have to make plans for a future, learn new things, try to keep going. Well, maybe constant movement keep me tick :)

Getting started....

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:01 GMT

Well... I should study algebra, I have exam coming end of a week, but getting started is so difficult. There is so many things to do... laundry, go out with my dogs, all those interesting TV-shows to watch ( yippee, Mythbusters is coming on TV!!)... and of course writing a blog :)

I have this love/hate relationship to math. I find it very interesting, but hard to learn. I could say that I need lot of time to learn math related subjects. Like my teacher says: " There is no short paths in here, just practice, practice and once more practice."

Uh, I feel so hungry... Maybe I eat something first. If I remember right I got some delicious meat pie in the fridge... mmmmm, meat pie...

Quotes for...

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:22:02 GMT

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

-Simone de Beauvoir-

Toimittajan Technorati merkinnät: feminism,women

Friends...

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:00:19 GMT

Sometimes even cats and dogs can be best friends.

Maybe this is good example about toleration and friendship.

In my class I have noticed some levels of misogyny, because there is only 3 women it is so easy to diminish us. Most of men don't even speak to us. It seems to be some kind of "generally known fact" that because we are women we can´t know anything about computers *Excuse me, what did you just say??!!* All this because one male student thinks that women, sexual minorities and foreigners (in this case incomers) are so much lower than him. Other male students don´t say anything that can interpret otherwise... Groups, big or small, always need leaders to show course. But I think this is not right goal. One of us just said that if she must be here alone she couldn´t last a week in these classes. I mentioned about this situation to one of my teachers and he just said:"Unfortunately this is male dominant line of work. But you did know this fact before you start your studies in here, didn´t you?". Well, we have to remember that even teachers are just humans, right?

Well, maybe this is just something about my person... I can be quite a hag if someone keeps molest me long enough. Especially, when my sex and/or orientation are used against me.

Sisters, keep your spirit high!

That ain't easy...........

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:09:06 GMT

At the moment I am looking for a job. It feels a really frustrating when you have to write job applications and CVs for a several places, go to the interviews and then become rejected. All people around me say that I am a lucky one, at least I was called in job interviews. Well, they are right... but just now I don't feel like it.

Tomorrow I start all over and keep searching....

Have a nice weekend!

The Nightsky

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:49:05 GMT

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Clouds appear
and bring to men a change to rest
from looking at the moon.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Deep, dark monsoon clouds
Like the anger in your eyes
Dissolves in tears.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oh no!

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:25:33 GMT

This is going really hilarious. My father just said that he disapprove my favourite hobby computing. It's always the thing. There was a time when I liked photographing very much, that wasn't good thing. It doesn't matter what I do, but if it is something that I like to do as a hobby then he start to complain about it. Why? Just because it is not a real job, it is not productive. He doesn't understand that hobbies are rewarding other way. To me computing is way to relax and learn new things. And contributing to FOSS is productive, relaxing, educational and my favourite kind of computing.

So let him nag........

Poem of a day

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:11:37 GMT

THOUGHTS
Thoughts are like seeds of Dandelion.
Flying, whirling playfully with the wind.
Far, far away.
AS 2007

Poem of a day

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:58:19 GMT

WAITING FOR A DAWN

Windows like eyes,
mirrors of soul.
Staring empty into the distance,
waiting for a dawn.
AS, 2007

Hey! Is that really necessary?

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:36:12 GMT

This incident just makes me so angry!!

This happened to one of my oldest and dearest friend. First of all she had really hard year. All that time (actually more than a year) she has tried to recover from uterine cancer which is spread in intestines. And when she tough that her life couldn't get worse she was raped few months ago.

Her life is a struggle, every day she have to face her nightmares and try to cope. Her fiancé have no capability to give support to her and now she need him more than ever. I don't mean that he is a bad person, but he just don't think. He just can't understand how rough her life is.

Yesterday she finally had the courage to go out with her friends. That didn't suit to her fiancé he was really angry and offencive. He just shout at her: "do you really want that someone rapes you again?". WHAT!! I just don't get it. She was with her friends in a bar near her home. (BTW, she is not a vamp. She isn't that kind of person who flirts with guys. In her situation no-one would be). When I heard about this incident I could not believe that her fiancé would be heartless brick. Where is his brains? What give him right to say so? Jealousy? This kind of jealousy is sick. It is not his birthright to dominate her and her life. But at the moment she is too weak and depressed to fight back.

Love is a strange thing. In the name of it we are ready to hurt those we care most.

But this incident just makes me so angry!

Thought for...

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:46:45 GMT

Who ranks as the highest?
One who does not harm anything.
One who never retaliates.
One who is always at peace regardless of the other person's disposition.
- Buddha

What means words geek and nerd?

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:10:54 GMT

Which one you prefer geek or nerd? What these words actually means? Actually, it depends what kind of dictionary you use. Here is some examples.

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English:
geek\geek\ (g=ek), n. 1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesguely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.

2. Hence: Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.

3. An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as, a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors;-- originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly.

Wordnet 2.0:
nerd n: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively [syn: swot, grind, wonk, dweep]

Jargon file:
nerd /n./

1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.

The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly "annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).

An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the earmarks of a bogus folk etymology.

Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.

Well these are only examples about two little words. Words which we use determine a group of people. Now some one say:"What a BS! What a waste of time!". Maybe it is, but then you have to consider one thing English isn't my mother tongue. So, this is good way to learn English ;)

Wise woman said once...

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:12:02 GMT

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Elaine Heffner

Summer holiday at last! lets celebrate :)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:50:47 GMT

Hmmm.... I think that our family will celebrate tomorrow because my kids will have 10 weeks summer holiday. All that hard work is over and they can relax for a while.

I will serve coffee (and juice) and baked ice cream.

Oven Baked Ice Cream Bowls

You will need a non-stick cookie sheet and small bowls to form the ice cream bowls.

3/4 C. sugar
1 large egg
2 T. butter, melted and cooled
1 t. vanilla extract
1/4 C. milk
1/2 C. all-purpose flour, sifted

Preheat oven to 300°F. In medium mixing bowl, beat the sugar into the egg until it is thickened and pale yellow. .Beat in the butter, vanilla, and milk. Gently stir in the flour.

Grease a large non-stick cookie sheet and spread 1.5 tablespoons of the batter into a 6 inch circle using a thin, flexible spatula.

Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove each cookie from the sheet and place directly over a clean, inverted bowl.

The cookies will fall around the sides of the bowl and harden as they cool. harden as they cool so work as quickly as you can.

The Marriage of Dawn

Wed, 30 May 2007 16:59:22 GMT

The Marriage of Dawn

Dawn dressed in darkness:
Welcomes the wedding of light.
Day and Night unite.

Gary Bryson

Hot and Sour Tofu

Mon, 28 May 2007 16:02:01 GMT

Well, I just love to cook. I like to do experiments in the kitchen. I try this recipe today and it taste very good. I have not done anything from tofu before... I am sure that I will cook more "tofu-food" in the future.

Ingredients:
1 packet/block of tofu
1 red pepper
1 large carrot
A few cabbage leaves
1 level tsp. corriander seeds

Marinade:
3 - 4 cloves garlic
2 cm piece fresh ginger
2 tomatoes or 2 tsp. tomato puree
3 or 4 dessert spoons of soy sauce
Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 cup of orange juice
1/2 tsp. red chilli powder

To prepare marinade, chop tomatoes and ginger finely, crush garlic with a broad knife and mix everything together. Cut tofu into pieces roughly 1 ( 2 ( 5 cm and put into a bowl with the marinade. Leave in the fridge for an hour or so (even overnight) or five minutes if you didn't expect to have to do this. Cut the carrots, peppers and cabbage into thin strips or matchsticks and put to one side. Lift the tofu pieces out of the marinade (don't throw it away) and put them on a plate. Heat a little oil in a heavy frying pan or wok (you really don't need much oil) and heat until the oil is smoking. Add the corriander seeds first and the tofu pieces a few seconds later, then turn the heat down a little. Shove the tofu pieces around gently and cook for about 2 minutes each side until they are starting to brown. Lift the pieces out of the pan and return them to the plate. Turn the heat back up full and throw the vegetables into the pan. Stir fry for 5 minutes then add the marinade and the tofu pieces. Stir gently, cover the pan and turn down the heat. Leave for 5 more minutes and it's ready. Serve with boiled rice or noodles. Noodles are, in my opinion, a better accompaniment and if you use instant ones (but leave out the packet of chemical flavourings) they are extremely easy to prepare while you are cooking the tofu and vegetables.

Poem of day

Sat, 26 May 2007 09:52:01 GMT

I just found this poem with attitude :) It just suits all things that has been happend lately and it made my rainy day little bit better.
Sisters you rock!

Woman with Attitude!
by Author Unknown

I shave my legs,
I sit down to pee
And I can justify
Any shopping spree.

Don't go to a barber,
But a beauty salon
Can get a massage
Without a hard-on

I can balance the checkbook,
Can pump my own gas
Can talk to my friends
About the size of my ass.

My beauty's a masterpiece,
And yes, it takes long.
At least I can admit to others
When I'm wrong.

I don't drive in circles
At any cost,
And I don't have a problem
Admitting I'm lost.

I never forget
An important date
You just gotta deal with it,
I'm usually late

I don't watch movies
With lots of gore
Don't need instant replay
To remember the score.

I won't lose my hair,
I don't get jock itch,
And just cause I'm assertive,
Don't call me a bitch.

Don't say to your friends,
Oh yeah, I can get her
In your dreams, my dear,
I can do better!

Flowers are okay,
But jewelry's best.
Would you look at my face,
Not at my chest!

I don't have a problem
With expressing my feelings
I know when you're lying,
You look at the ceiling.

Don't call me a girl,
A babe or a chick.
I am a WOMAN,
Get it, you prick?!

Poem of the day

Sun, 20 May 2007 17:23:42 GMT

Ode on Melancholy

NO, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist: Wolf's bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd: By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yew-berries,: Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be; Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl
A partner in your sorrow's mysteries;: For shade to shade will come too drowsily,; And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.
But when the melancholy fit shall fall: Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,: And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,: Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,; Or on the wealth of globed peonies;
Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,: Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,; And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die;: And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,: Turning to Poison while the bee-mouth sips:
Ay, in the very temple of delight: Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,; Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue; Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;
His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,: And be among her cloudy trophies hung.; John Keats

How do you determine what are feminists?

Sun, 20 May 2007 16:42:29 GMT

A few days ago I was talking with my friend and in some point of our conversation she said that: "It is so great that you are a femist. Actually, I really envy you for that. I really hope that I could be a femist, too. But I like men just too much!!". I felt annoyed, why? Answer is, just because me and her determine different way what feminist means. To her it means woman who just hates all men and hopes that them just vanish away. Yes, it is little bit narrow way to think (well, this is my opinion). Maybe that is why her comment made me feel offended. Does she think that I am so narrow minded? Oh no, does she really see me that way? Well, I do not think that man hater is same as feminist.

To me feminists are women who take actions for equality between genders. They are political activists commonly campaign for women's human right to bodily integrity and autonomy on matters such as reproductive rights, including the right to abort, access to contraception and quality parental care; for protection from domestic violence; against sexual harassment, street harassment, and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination. Does it sound like men haters? In my opinion no not at all.

Maybe our opinions are different, because our life experiences are also different. And that revise our view of life. How do you determine what are feminists?

Milla

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:55:51 GMT

She just love to sleep in my study while I am working.

Mummys little princess

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:07:55 GMT

At present our family life is more or less be centred around Milla. We couldn't imagine life without her.

Differences in speech

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:27:40 GMT

When I was chatting in IRC I noticed how different ways women and men talks about same issues. Subject in our conversation was, that what kind of iron people (I mean persons who participate in our discussion) use in their computers. For example one our female member told that in her computer she had a 150 Gb hard-disc. -- Ok, in that point that was enough information to me and the others -- Then one male desided tell us size of his hard-disc, so he tell us everything from size to brand. Oh, I have to admit that latter way tell us more details... Well, I just noticed that men talks more technical way. I have not noticed that before, because I haven't talk in mixed groups previously. Ok, we all know these things already from scientific surveys, but I think that was just fun to observe how much gender affect our way to talk :)