Maxim Fridental

I’ve got an electronic image frame on this Xmas.

What photos should I put on it? It looks like this typical frame people usually have on their tables in the office. But I have neither children nor wife, and I see my parents almost every day in person anyway. For some reason, I don’t have a lot of photos of my friends, nor I have my own pictures I’d like to see constantly rotating on my table.

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• @ckluis Typical american… And I'm OK making less, if a) most other ppl also make less and b) a bunch of other ppl will be much happier in reply to ckluis #
• @ckluis Sorry, wanted to say "typical american way of thinking", but this 140 chars limit… in reply to ckluis #
• I favorited a YouTube video — Clint Mansell – Together We Will Live Forever http://bit.ly/3KKEpi #
• I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — Clint Mansell – Together We Will Live Forever http://bit.ly/3KKEpi #
• "Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely any bigger than himself, and who had need of a friend" #
• No amount of sincere wishes would keep you warm at night better than a good old electric blanket. #
• So, packed the last present. Xmas can come. #
• @XaocCPS Особенно бесят недобраузеры, которые не только не обновляются через Windows Update, но и считают нормальным это делать при запуске in reply to XaocCPS #
• in the mood for a romantic story? http://j.mp/7gSHul #

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• hehe http://j.mp/8Xx1pm, but I think it's too low-tec. Let's measure humidity of the whole T and automatically spay a deo on demand. #
• News about Nexus One came just in time to reduce xmas iPhone sales. Who would buy an (overpriced) GSM-locked phone as a gift now? #
• If I had to choose just one picture fully describing the town where I come from, it would be this: http://j.mp/5YndJH #
• If Apple manufactured bikes… http://j.mp/5Y9HyP #
• Want to say thank you to @mgorbachev for the world we're living in. Cпасибо, Михаил Сергеевич. #
• @weiss_heiko Ja Und eine Schlange in der Nacht stehen, wenn ein neues Modell in die Shops kommt. in reply to weiss_heiko #

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• hehe http://j.mp/8Xx1pm, but I think it's too low-tec. Let's measure humidity of the whole T and automatically spay a deo on demand. #
• News about Nexus One came just in time to reduce xmas iPhone sales. Who would buy an (overpriced) GSM-locked phone as a gift now? #
• If I had to choose just one picture fully describing the town where I come from, it would be this: http://j.mp/5YndJH #
• If Apple manufactured bikes… http://j.mp/5Y9HyP #
• Want to say thank you to @mgorbachev for the world we're living in. Cпасибо, Михаил Сергеевич. #
• @weiss_heiko Ja Und eine Schlange in der Nacht stehen, wenn ein neues Modell in die Shops kommt. in reply to weiss_heiko #

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• Adding a printer to W7. The manufacturer's "Downloads" page states: no download here, just use the system driver. #Plug-n-Play #W7 #
• @HolgerSchmidt Telekom sollte sich endlich mit 100mbit Internet beschäftigen. Will haben, bietet hier aber niemand an. in reply to HolgerSchmidt #
• W7 taskbar and window gestures are addictive, can't use my Vista any more. #
• @XaocCPS I think Google doesn't even have know-how and culture of how to fight a strong competitor. They didn't need it before Bing. in reply to XaocCPS #
• Awesome! RT @conceptdev: Gym/shower 'air side' at int'l airport is an awesome idea for transiting. Thanks KL for making the stopover fun #
• @conceptdev I also dream of gym cars instead of restaurant cars in the long-distance and intercity trains. in reply to conceptdev #
• Got my first twitter SPAM 29m ago. Do we already need to worry about a twitter spam filter?.. #
• http://infosthetics.com/ Statistics visualization seems to be interesting (because creative), but also labor-intensive activity. #
• SmoothStreaming on microsoftpdc.com thinks my Celeron can only play the 350kpbs bitrate #need-hw-accelerated-decoding-in-SL-now ! #
• Too bad when "Agile" is used synonymously to "chaotic". Agile was born as a step FROM Chaos to Process, and not vice verse. #
• Habt ihr gewusst, dass man ein Buch aus amazon.com bei amazon.de wieder findet, indem man in der Adresse .com mit .de austauscht? #
• Sudden realization: we @axinom develop both widgets and gadgets. IE8-accelerators and slices. MSN agents. Apps for MediaCenter… #
• …Facebook apps. Mobile apps. Virtual Earth apps. Server-side apps. Client-side apps. Native Windows apps… What's next? #
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• Can I have IE8 accelerators in Windows Live Mail and everywhere in Microsoft Office please? #
• Curious what this WHAM song everyone is hating is all about, looked it up on youtube. Now it sticks. #curiosity-killed-the-cat #

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I don’t like to receive good wishes, and I wish them myself only when no other present is possible or appropriate. It is because I feel how empty the wishes are. Can a good wish change the reality?

What I need is a way to present luck in a more realistic, material way.

Money don’t buy you luck, as we all know. And a long-awaited present can only make you happy for some time, but not bring the other things we normally wish (health, love, good job, etc). So it must be something different.

I was looking to amulets, but they always seeming to be a big scam. Today I’ve realized why. If they worked, they would break the conservation law. Just like in physics, energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only changed from one form into another — similarly, I believe, luck cannot be created or destroyed, it just goes from one person to another.

So what I need is a way to give away little controlled pieces of my own luck. You know, 24 hours of “looking competent and professional”, a six-smiles-pack, or a three months subscription to “warm feet and hands”. And I’d put some really-good-mornings, heartthrobs, and look-mom-I’m-on-TVs onto my wish-list

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• After 5 years of C#, reading C++ again. Feel myself like a kid watching a horror movie for the first time. #
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• I was soo tired to see unscrupulous scam like http://j.mp/4nlbKc every day… It's part of the reason why I'm in Europe now. #
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• Important new feature in SL and .NET 4: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/Silverlight-CLR-Interopt #
• My German/English handwriting has visibly improved since I've started to learn writing Chinese characters. Nice side effect. #
• I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — Mark Gungor – Men's Brain Women's Brain – EXTENDED http://bit.ly/79PsZ #

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