Monday, December 25, 2006

Merry Actual Christmas

I spent the actual Christmas Day walking around Prague, taking photographs of this bleak, sad day.

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Bonus: I never knew my grandfather was such a sexy mofo. As was my father, of course.

6 comments:

  1. You might be interested in the difference between "Štědrý den" and Christmas Day (and your non-Czech readers in the fact that the former is the main Christmas holiday in Czechia, with a traditional family dinner followed by giving out the presents from under the Christmas tree).

    Damit, captcha even for logged-in commenters? This is not a nice gift...

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  2. jan vanek: Damit, captcha even for logged-in commenters?

    What the hell is "captcha"? And I was born in the good ol' USA of A, guess there's always something new to learn 'bout English from them damn czechs

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  3. from Wikipedia: "A CAPTCHA (an initialism for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human."

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  4. And I'm somethimes determined as no-human, because I'm not able to identify some of these complicated squiggles.

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  5. No harm done, cause you are no human.

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  6. anonymous:

    You are right, but why sometimes captcha believs I am?

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