Club Admiralty Blog
A blog about life in general, in as many languages as I can manage. Ενα ιστολόγιο περι ζωής, πολυγλωσσο - σε όσες γλωσσες εχω μεράκι να γράψω.
Study in school...or else!
Sunday, Jan 31 2016, 03:30 comics, Education, Facebook, Greek, higherEd, Humor, Social Media, Ελληνικά, χιούμορ The other day in facebook this image came up in my timeline. It's in Greek, but basically the text translates as:Dad: If you don't study (hard) you will become like this guyHobo: I am professor!I guess regardless of the country, there are issues in higher education. In the US we have a high population of (low paid) adjuncts, and in Greece you have tenured folks making less than what adjuncts
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Jurassic Trek files: Quirk vs computers
Thursday, Jan 28 2016, 03:00 comics, Humor, SciFi, Sev, StarTrek, TOSThis comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun sentient computers as captors (and Kirk's flirt-with-anything attitude). Or ούτε θηλυκιά γάτα as the Greeks would say...(original archive here)

Άνοιξε και το καινούργιο κτίριο
Wednesday, Jan 27 2016, 05:00 Δουλειά, Ελληνικά, Νέα, παν/μιο Με την αρχή του νέου τριμήνου έχουμε λοιπόν και τα εγκαίνια του νέου μας κτηρίου στο πανεπιστήμιο Αυτό είναι το τρίτο νέο κτίριο στο πανεπιστήμιο από τότε που άρχισα (το 1998). Το νέο κτήριο λέγε University Hall και τα έχει αίθουσες

Το τοπίο αλλάζει
Tuesday, Jan 26 2016, 06:30 #metanastis, Βοστόνη, Ελληνικά, νοσταλγία Τα καινούργιαΌσο περνάει ο χρόνος το τοπίο αλλάζει. Τις προάλλες πέρασα από την Βοστόνη οδηγώντας, και πέρασα από μια παλιά εργασία του πατέρα μου, για το οποία έχω γράψει στο #metanastis. Πήγαινα να έλεγχο τύπου ΚΤΕΟ για το αμάξι

Now that a pissah!
Monday, Jan 25 2016, 05:00 Entertainment, Humor, Television, youtube ROFL. Not an actual movie, but it made me laugh. Enjoy the trailer for Boston Accent ;-)

That settles it! You're a Geek!
Sunday, Jan 24 2016, 11:29 Facebook, Humor, Languages, terminology Well... I guess that settles the difference. As someone who has English as a (quasi) second language, the difference was always elusive ;-)

Vintage Tech - Sony Magic Link
Saturday, Jan 23 2016, 06:30 #metanastis, Atari, panasonic, PDA, Sony, Technology, vintage, youtube What the Dedham Lechmere looked like, not in my time thoughHey there! Remember Lechmere? Well, chances are that if you did not grow up in New England you probably don't know what the heck it is, but around here it seemed like a big deal. The chain of stores went out of business in 1997, and a BJ's wholesale store was erected in the former Lechmere locationWhen I moved back to the US (oh yes,

Δέκα χρόνια twitter
Friday, Jan 22 2016, 10:38 commentary, jaiku, micro-blogging, Technology, Twitter, Ελληνικά, Επικοινωνία, ΤεχνολογίαFail Whale*Καλά ε; Πώς περνάει ο καιρός; Είναι λίγο δύσκολο να φανταστεί κανείς πως έχουν περάσει δέκα χρόνια από τότε που άρχισε το twitter. Εντάξει, το twitter δεν είναι το μόνο microblogging platform που άρχισε το 2006. Για παράδειγμα είχαμε το

Jurassic Trek files:Crabapple loves Spook
Thursday, Jan 21 2016, 03:00 comics, Humor, SciFi, Sev, StarTrek, TOSThis comic strip of Jurassic Trek tackles Nurse Chapel and Spock... Wonder why that went nowhere (and why in the JJ it's Spock and Uhura...)(original archive here)

‘Ολα πάνε στραβά
Tuesday, Jan 19 2016, 09:00 Ελληνικά, Ιστορικά, Νέα, Οικογένεια, Τηλεόραση, ειδήσεις Κάθε πρωί, μαζί με το μισάωρο που παίζω λίγο star trek online πριν πάω στην δουλειά βλέπω και κανένα μισάωρο ειδήσεις. Παλιότερα έβλεπα BBC όταν είχα καλωδιακή αλλά τώρα απλός βλέπω MEGA που για μένα κατά τύχη το πρωί τυχαίνει να είναι

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