Prague in the summer

I have my eyes set on Prague for the summer holiday, and I have enrolled my minions in said city to be on the lookout for a decent apartment to rent. Ideally I have this vision of a huge apartment overlooking the river, a place which I can turn into party central for a month or so. Good music, good food and good conversations all through the night... ahhhh.

I am therefore enrolling even YOU, dear reader in my apartment project. If any of you have knowledge of a suitable rental space in Prague this summer, gimme a holler in the comments section. I am available from the last weekend in June till mid August, but I hope to have an agreement of rental nailed down as soon as possible.

These are the parameters of my search, the things that an apartment MUST have:
- At least two bedrooms. I'm probably going to have guests coming down from Norway and possibly other places.
- Two toilets, with at least one shower.
- A decently sized living space. The whole apartment needs to be at least 80 square meters I think, possibly upwards of a hundred.
- Fully furnished (I can't be dragging chairs and tables with me from Norway). I need some equipment in the kitchen too and a working fridge.
- Parking space. Not necessarily connected to the apartment but something not too far away from it.
- Everything paid for in the price quoted. No hidden costs, no extras.

Negotiable points:
- WIFI. I could always find a cafe, but it's practical to have a working internet connection in the apartment.
- Length of stay. Ideally a month. Could be as little as 3 weeks, could be as much as 6 weeks.
- Location. Again, ideally central - meaning Mala Strana, Stare Mesto, Holesovice and parts of Nove Mesto. But I'm open to other locations if the place is brilliant.
- Price. Ideally, as low as possible, hehe... but I can go up to 25 000 koruna for a month.

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I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
- John Stuart Mill

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Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden

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If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
- Thomas Jefferson

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes

I rule

Go and take this quiz. If you get every question right, you are a godlike being and worthy of my friendship and the adoration and envy of all. If you fail, you're a miserable mortal, and along with 98% of the American population a moron. Heh.

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While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
- Gerald W. Grumet

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
- Marshall Lumsden

Numbers

I weighed in at 116,7 kg this morning - just 1,2 kg more than I weighed before I left for London in December. Tomorrow I'll start exercising again. Wheeeeee!

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Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Samuel Johnson

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
- Francis Bacon

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Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
- David Ferrier

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- Diogenes

B12

Went to my doctor last week and it turns out I have a B12 vitamin deficiency. I arranged for someone in the health faculty at school to give me the injection (I first asked if maybe some pupils would volunteer to poke a hole in me, but it seems we no longer educate for that profession), and showed up yesterday with my B12 in small glass bottles. I had read the small stuff about the medication, but I failed to understand the meaning of the term "intramuscular". Basically, it means you get a shot in the ass, not in the arm... as I got the injection high on my left buttock. A Swedish friend of mine says "intramuscular" means it should be possible to set the injection in any muscle, but either this was the correct muscle or I've been royally had by my colleagues...

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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome

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The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
-Al Capp

Facebook

I have reluctantly signed up for Facebook, and I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Everything about its smirky, user-unfriendly, intrusive, cuntfaced existence makes me loathe it. Jury's still out on whether I keep it or not, as of now I am only using it to feed my blogposts to a larger audience.

I keep getting silly suggestions for "friends" to add - people I haven't seen or heard from in years keep popping up, and I WILL NOT consider them friends of mine - not then, not now, not EVER. Same goes for the chat function, I WILL NOT chat on Facebook. I have Googletalk, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo, thank you very much. If that doesn't suit you, fuck off.

Worst of all is the inane chatter people use Facebook for. I have been following, with an equal mix of unbelief, horror and loathing the minute details shared, the boring facts of uninteresting, little lives regurgitated ad nauseam and finally the insane games people play on there. I don't give a flying fuck if you've found a pot of gold, want to send me roses or that you were tagged on someone else's photos. How the fuck do I turn it OFF? How do I weed the 99% that's utter rubbish from the sadly few, interesting little pieces of useful information on people's pages? Head, meet desk.

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It's not the monuments that teaches us history. It's the ruins.
- Carl Hammaren

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As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
- Voltaire

Special re-run

As a public service to my loyal readers I present you once again with my artistic masterpiece, "Muhammed, the ass-fucked prophet, here seen impaled on a Halliburton oil pipe". This post is of course a follow-up to the "I'm Kurt Westergaard"-post of last week.

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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
- Peter Sellers, "Dr. Strangelove"

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There are two rules for success. . .
1) Never tell everything you know.
- Roger H. Lincoln

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People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
- Wilbur N. Nesbit

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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
- Miguel de Cervantes

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No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
- Scott Adams

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A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

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It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Andrew W. Mathis

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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London

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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
- Robert A. Heinlein

I am Kurt Westergaard

In solidarity with the Danish cartoonist attacked in his home a few days back, I reproduce the drawings of Muhammed. The title of this blogpost is of course a reference to the famous "I am Spartacus"-line from the movie (and also to "I'm Brian"...).

Unlike some commenters in the Norwegian media who stress they don't find the drawings offensive or have no desire to offend, I would like to repeat this: I find the whole concept of religion offensive and repulsive and I find the religion known as Islam to be especially contemptible, moronic and dangerous. I piss on "the great religion of Islam", I spit on its "holy" writings and I fart in the general direction of its followers.

The drawings:


Westergaard's drawing:

Quote of the Day

All in all, I can't say I believe in god. If, in fact, I ever find out that he does indeed exist, I think I'll stay away from him, because if he's responsible for half the things he gets credit for, he's got to be one mean son of a bitch.
- Peter Gether

Cunting moron

We have a quick break in the program for today's staff meetings. The first half of the day is a seminar by a cunting moron named Arnt Sæther who is charging good money for spouting gibberish, telling lame jokes and generally behaving like an asshole. It's incredible how much time and money is wasted every year on stuff like this all around the country. We've got meetings and seminars and inspirational talk coming out our collective asses and it's enough to make me want to go postal.

Update: Lunch is over and were going to dept. meetings. These seminars where some cunt like Sæther talks for eons about nothing at all makes me almost homicidal. I just want to put on my brass knuckles and go to town on his face.

Quote of the Day

"It’s snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven’t had an earthquake lately."
- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the pooh"

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Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Ambrose Bierce

Status report 3

Headbanging to Guns & Roses with some Poles now... this night is already legendary...

Status report 2

Just finished singing my way through most of Joshua Tree with a couple of Americans. This might be one of the best nights ever.

Status report

It's 10:56 PM and I've got a bar full of people headbanging to Enter Sandman. I rock.

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A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry

What a night

Tonight I've been DJ-ing for a few hours. Hooked my laptop onto the sound system and let it rip - mostly rock, like WASP, Queen and Pink Floyd. I had the distinct and hysterical pleasure of watching a Polish guy headbang to Metallica's "Sandman". The Poles were a nice bunch, as were a group of Italians. We chatted about everything from Berlusconi to Italian food to soccer in the early 80s. We shared a dislike of the French and a love of Juventus (a Turin soccer club). Good times.

The Germans, as usual, were not so nice. I dunno... when people become hideously drunk and instead of politely asking me, start TELLING me what they want to hear, I go into asshole mode. Ugh. On the bright side, some of the Krauts were polite and they all seemed to love my chocolate.

Anyways, I've been entrusted with the music for all of Saturday night and it's going to be a blast - good old rock & roll, baby. DJ Ghost in da house! Wheeeeeeee!

Party in Prague

Things are changing down here in Prague. The owner of the hotel building (an arrogant asshole if ever I saw one) has taken over the hotel as of today. He's already started firing people left and right. We don't know how long the Brick Bar has left - a month, maybe two. Sad times.

On the bright side we had a helluva party last night. I'd brought tons of Norwegian chocolate, cut them up and placed them in two huge glass bowls on the counter. They were a huge success. At midnight we went up to Letna Park to watch the Czechs go apeshit with dangerous missiles. Needless to say there was drunken debauchery everywhere. The only actual Czech person in our group, Jana, had of course brought some rockets. Here are the pics:


Spencer lighting the fuse.


The Beauty and The Beast... Jana and Spencer.


Chris, a Texan and Socrates, the Mad Greek


Bethany (sp?) and Travis, two nice Americans I met.


There was a full moooooooooooooon last night. Aooooooooooooo!

Quote of the Day

Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli