september 1985.
Loba has an exhibition. A few weeks ago he came, bringing a few of his huge paintings, about 1x1,5m, to make photos of. We did that in the garage. Hung them on one of the old cupboards. Don't remember what we used as a tripod, probably grumfed* something, because we were alone in there, and there are lights on both sides. I didn't have any of the light equipment at the time, just the flash, and this is lit from left and right, so it must have been one of those "long exposure with multiple flashes" jobs.
Magi and she were probably inside. Don't know whether one of those photos made it into the catalog, or did he use them to get that gig in Germany, he had to send something. I know he eventually got it, and they spent two years there on his stipend, but that was perhaps a year or two later.
I guess we went to kantina after that, as usual.
These months I'd sometimes bring the printer from school, just to play with it - my zx spectrum with Iterface One attached or was it rather a Kempston... yup, the other one. I just had to develop a printer driver - in z80 assembler no less - though not from scratch. I started with someone's, which I retyped from a magazine, and then optimized it to fit the 256 bytes in the printer buffer (!). This way I could both download the ŠĐĆČŽ (also fit into the same 256 bytes) into the printer's memory, and even do screenshots straight to paper. Here's the Möbius leaf I made then.
This is, of course, not the central projection, the calculation would be too screwy, this is slanted parallel. But I have obviously already done the calculation for visibility of a square on the surface. I'd take two adjacent sides of such a square, and took their vector product, and calculated the scalar product of that and the vector of the PoV of the projection. If this was negative, it meant that the surface of the square is facing away from the PoV, so don't show it. This is how the backside of this leaf is not seen here (though the Moebius leaf has only one side...).
About this spring I acquired some clogs, domestic industrial, and wore them all summer. The problem was that the comrades selfmanagers weren't woodwrights, they did leather, and they didn't pick the right submanufacturer for the wooden part, it was the wrong wood, or at least wasn't done right. I got some seven-eight tiny slivers in my right heel, which started bothering me, the skin in those places swelled and it already began hurting when I step on one of those. The slivers didn't cross my mind, but I rather thought it may be some dermal problem, so I went to the hospital, guess they'd have someone there. At the gate, it was as if my dear was waiting for me, just a dozen years younger edition and with hair a bit curlier, but otherwise all of it - blonde, merry disposition, chick and a half. Still, I refrained from any advances, thanks muchly got [one] already. This girl was specializing for a dermatologist, nice coincidence, and asked me whether I was wearing clogs, right on. That cleared it, and I simply stopped wearing the pair for the winter, and in the spring bought new ones, threw the old out, end of story.
(just went to check her on the web, as I somehow remember her name, and it says she graduated in 1987, and it takes a year or two to get into a specialization, so this may have been a few years later)
End of my story. The guy whose eye the young doctoress caught was none less but another doctor, Kid himself, then also specializing something. The guy was smitten just like that, so he divorced his wife and married this one. And then a couple of years passed and he sort of saw that he fucked up. The sobering moment was when he once, after an office party, went to sleep dead drunk... to his first wife's door. So he divorced this other one and remarried the first one.
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* v. Alan Ford
Mentions: may 1985., 07-X-2024., Alan Ford, Kantina, Margita Gunaroši (Magi), Slobodan Šumić (Loba), Zoltan Čonti (Kid), ZX Spectrum, in serbian
21-XI-2020 - 17-I-2026