I have had weird dreams last night. About a future Greece where people didn’t use Greek anymore. About a river that became a sea with waves so high that they swallowed airplanes. Scary. I haven’t even seen 2012. But I am so worried about so many things it seems… A little while ago I heard about a movie called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ( Read more... )

I continued reading a book I had started reading a lot of time ago. It's Kafka on the shore, by Haruki Murakami. 
It's about a 15 year old boy who decides to run away from home, because he doesn't get along with his father. It's a rather weird book. The very intimate and emotional way the writer narrates makes an interesting contrast with the way ( Read more... )

While I was preparing my presentation about the Arab and Japanese views on masculinity, I came across an article about the view Japanese have of the Arab culture. I wanted to post about it earlier but I only decided to do it now :D It is a review of the book 'The Arabs: A Japanese Point of View' by Japanese researcher Nobuaki Notohara. And it was ( Read more... )

My presentation was ready in time! I found the article that helped me glue everything together the last moment, but I am finally satisfied. But I didn't get to present yesterday. Because most of the class was missing! (I will have to rant about strikes in Greece some other time) But I might enjoy some of your insights thanks to that!

Ideas about ( Read more... )

Right now I am reading The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch.
Terry Pratchett and his friends are here once more. Discworld wizards must interfere and save humanity in Roundworld again, before the next Ice Age extincts it. But the book that would help humanity's way of thinking in the right path for development and a chance to leave the ( Read more... )

Our little one becomes 22 today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAZUYA!!!

And something special for the occasion, two small excerpts from Umberto Eco's book "The island of the day before". Dedicated to our sweet Kazuya. It's incredible how it describes how I feel about him. Only the character to whom those words are attributed is not really sane - luckily I am not ( Read more... )

I was sitting calmly on my bed reading The Science of Discworld, until a while ago. I was planning to review the book after I finish reading it, but I came across a very surprising passage and I rushed into my office in order to write about it!

Well, the book is a very appealing mixture of science and usual Discworld humorous story-telling. Ponder ( Read more... )

What happens if you get Light Yagami (leave him his emotions together with his deceitful attitude) and Sunako Nakahara (without the accessories but all the scariness and asocial attitude) and put them in a live action series? You get Nobuta wo Produce, or Producing Nobuta! And you also need a third party which can act as an intermediary between ( Read more... )

Να 'μαι πάλι! Λοιπόν, ύστερα από προτροπή της sinjah βάζω μια λίστα με βιβλία που χαρίζω. Δώρο Χριστουγέννων! Η ντουλάπα και οι βιβλιοθήκες του σπιτιού είναι γεμάτα πλέον. Και επειδή είμαι πάντα γρήγορη και αποτελεσματική, να τη κι'όλας! Είναι βιβλία λογοτεχνίας. Τα δοκίμιά μου είναι σχεδόν όλα στα γαλλικά, όπως και της ψυχολογίας, αλλά αν κάποιος ( Read more... )

So glad people actually agree with me that Yoda is not that super-cute, super-wise creature everyone credits him to be! It's not just me and Mystique in the anti-yoda club!!! Besides Star Trek rules! I bought myself a big dose of ST today! The Strangers from the Sky novel and the first season of Enterprise! Interesting evening ahead! I also started ( Read more... )