02-II-2001.
A mailgroup formed spontaneously, with Škrba, Boća, Go and me. By some whim of history, only Boća's messages survived, the rest didn't, so it's all as if I'm sitting next to someone who talks on the phone, and repeats bits of what his cospeaker said, but I never hear everything.
It's mostly, what mostly, exclusively about exchange of music. As the guys from USquad keep coming and going, so disks are being sent forth and back (in proper order). Mostly it's Škrba who visits [my] dad, then one of them drops by to pick them up and leave what I sent. That arrives when they come to work at Zero, or rather when I go to pick them up, as Greg strategically found them lodging at spitting range from here, so as I'm already driving to work, I can drive them too. I don't really get into their block, we meet at a parking somewhere halfway. Actually, it's even a bit closer than at home, to both them and me. Except I rode a bicycle there to go to work.
A Radio zmajček was also mentioned, which was our girls broadcasting over the network what programme they put together. They even had some listeners, these things were popular at the time.
I tried the same here, bought a bicycle, and even took it to work some three-four times, but fuck that, there's a place where I exit the 250 at such a steep slope that even downshifting into the first doesn't work, I have to dismount and push it those fifteen meters. I could take the twonyniner, less of a slope there, but it's longer by half that way. So I gave up on that, and then soon after the bike got stolen.
Look at that, Walter wrote a calendar control, whoa. Except he didn't write it from scratch, it's just a wrapper around an Activex control, but he did it elegantly, you just add the button and in it need to state the field and table where the result will be written.
Željko fiddled with some mask for dragging items from one list into another, or maybe somebody else did and he was the only one who signed a comment. Each framework has one mask like that, it's something that should be given as a task for aprentice's exams. I worked some on emailing from the app, what with the attachment. And twenty years later the problem remained the same: the guards. Spam was just invented and it went wildfire all over the planet, and each admin tried to prevent its reception, and the mail server admins to prevent sending.
Advertising will kill any communication channel into which it's allowed.
I put a photo on UA (something 128 square, or maybe only 96, cropped out of the shot where I was with Zyanna before the concert at Wolftrap), so J.T. said right away „My God! It's Jerry Garcia!< g,d&r >“. Well, I said, „OK, anyone who thinks I look like something besides myself (which is good in Serbian, because "doesn't look like anything" is not an expression of originality, but rather of "ain't no good at all"), please take a turn and vote. So far I've been said to look like 3 times Rasputin (once for this picture, once for the previous one, once for face-to-face impression), 1 Jerry Garcia, plus an innumerable amount of Makarios, Marx, Turgenev, Jules Verne, Engels, and Ginger Baker (plus plus another bunch I forgot) during the first 26 years of life with a beard.“ They added Darwin, Marx (was on the list already, though undecided between Groucho, Harpo...) and Unabomber. The ZZ Top were rejected, as I never grew my beard to such lengths and even less tried to comb it.
In other news, Joška has quit Avai.
The next morning we went to Kvatro Stađone (as we named the shop where they buy food stuff from peasants from the end and not from wholesale, v. 09-V-2000.) and got what we needed. There a pearl of a case happened, when I was buying peanuts. It's fried, or rather roasted, in shell, probably by hot air, and they display it in some kind of a decorative wooden booth, you take a bag, there's a ladle, you fill your bag at will, it's measured at the register (the cash register is a scale, that's normal here). While I was loading [my] bag, some guy unrolled one bag for himself, tore it off and then couldn't open it, fingers slipping and he can't find the edge. I showed him the trick to lick the fingers a little so they stick to the bag, and opened his bag so. „That's incredible! Where did you learn that trick?“. Eh, pal, at home, from [my] grandmother.
The weather was so nice that for lunch we barbecued on the terrace. And she made mufljuzi (v. house dictionary). Then we went to Alexandria to visit Go and Ricardo. Took a series of parting shots on the parking, real group style, all of us with, of course, the current holder of the Agfa missing on each. They had just ordered a pizza, so we met the delivery while exiting, so the pizza box is a prop on almost each of the shots, looks like someone graduated and proudly displays the diploma.
Mentions: 09-V-2000., Agfa, Avai, Božidar Sokolović (Boća), Gorana Sredljević (Go), Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Greg Reubenthal, house dictionary, Joška Apro, Ricardo Manuel Bariero (Ricardo), UbiquAgora (UA), USquad, Walter Banks, Zero Distance (Zero), zmajček, Zyanna, Željko Popov, in serbian
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