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Comment on Cretans want better roads by stavros

stavros — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:18:56 +0000

Well said

As a Cretan, I can confirm all you say about the drivers’ attitude.

I’ve got another question you could add in your list:

- Do you realize that those red octagon signs that say “STOP” are NOT advertisements for the namesake brand of condoms? They are really traffic sings and you people are meant to respect them and actually stop to check!

Comment on Henry Miller’s Greek dream by Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:25:35 +0000

Luc,

Your last sentence is extraordinarly elipitical. It fails to note what happened between the conclusion of World War II and the entry of Greece into the European Communities (1981?), that being AMURUKU, a series of surreptitous interventions following the post-War British decampment that culminated in the American-backed “Regime of the Colonels”, of which I am absolutely certain you are aware.

Ever seen a movie titled “Z”. I’ll never forget that last line. It was the culmination of a list of “things” banned in Greece by the Regime of the Colonels. The list goes on and on. The last item banned is “THE LETTER “Z”"

I rose from my folding chair at the Stamp Student Union Theater and and shouted, again and again and again, ‘Z Z Z Z Z Z Z “.

I wa salive then.

Tom

Comment on Henry Miller’s Greek dream by Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:43:05 +0000

I’m not certain where this e-mail is headed (in both senses of that phrase), nor where it will be posted but, for what the opinion of Thomas Joseph Moribund Hoffman is worth (to be brutally self-reflective, it’s not worth a piss in an alley), I posit Henry Miller as one of the primary, if not THE primary, 20th Century American contributors to the English language and world literature.

Remember no HM, no Beats, no Burrows, pehaps no Kesey. HM is the bridge from Whitman to 20th Centruy American Literautre. His originality was born of joy and suffering, hate where hate was due and love where love was ineluctable, and, always, he remained at extremes, where everything is thrown into stark, painful or joyful, relief. There was on ewriter of his caliber of his generation, a french fellow name of Celine.

I am not in the least surprised that Luc has found in Miller a brother. I cannot thinik of two more consanguinous piles of mad flesh.

Henry Miller won’t save your life. But, at least, you’ll find yourself lead by a writer who saved his own life. And that, of course, is our purpose here.

Have I interested you? THe best was to begin is with HM’s beginning: “The Tropic of Cancer”.

Tom Hoffman

Comment on iPhone 3G first impressions by luc

luc — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:45:20 +0000

@graffic Sure, I’ll do that, but I don’t think it will serve your purposes. After 3 weeks usage I still have less than 25MB data traffic in. I always try to hop on a wi-fi network if at all possible. The fact of the matter is, I didn’t even *want* a 3G iPhone, the first model would have been fine for me (even though I might have regretted not having location services), but this was what I could get at a very reasonable price. Τι να κάνουμε;

Comment on iPhone 3G first impressions by graffic

graffic — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:14:20 +0000

Being you somehow a power user in computers, I’d like to ask you about how much data you consume.

I mean, after one or two months to make a post here with the data you spend in a month.

For now I have a 5GB plan, but with a computer and I can do more than 10MiB per day if I do some flickr.

Thanks

Comment on Cretans want better roads by dr. mike

dr. mike — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:37:10 +0000

Typical greek answer to te above: It’s our mangia to commit suicide bringing down along all you antigreek swines! You just can’t stomach our - way-past - splendor!
In reality now, maybe you guys, and girls, should be academically teaching on the subject of “Modern greek stupendous stupidity”. Congratulations, keep it going!

Comment on iPhone 3G first impressions by Luc

Luc — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:36:00 +0000

Commenting from the iPhone on my own article

Comment on iPhone 3G lands in Greece by iPhone 3G in Greece | Cretan Chronicles

iPhone 3G in Greece | Cretan Chronicles — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:13:30 +0000

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Comment on iPhone 3G lands in Greece by Greek driver

Greek driver — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:06:46 +0000

I got a nice new phone as well!
Mine, have a heated screen so I can use it as sous-verre to keep my coffee hot! Plus, Have a Zillion pixel cam so I can take photos of stars better than the Huble’s ones! Plus, plays all kind of movie files and project them on the wall, in imax dimensions!! Other features: baby-sitting, fire alarm, gas detection, blood presure monitor, glycose metter, and much more that i need time to find out, by reading the 26.000 pages manual! Unfortunately, the forgot to include the option to make and receive calls, but they said on blogs that they will fix it in a future new version!

Comment on iPhone 3G lands in Greece by luc

luc — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:37:57 +0000

@porcupine It is a powerful image isn’t it, cutting an invoice? I got a new 3G enabled SIM card for the iPhone, but I kept my old number. It took about an hour for the new SIM to take over my old number.