His Name Was Sonic

Today, I found a hedgehog on a busy road.



I took him home (riding on Metro throught the whole city), showed him to Jitushka and the dogs, tried to feed him and then let him go.



Note that if I'd left him alone in the first place, he would be certainly killed by cars.

Photos Of Cute Small Animals

In its infinite wisdom, the Municipal Transit Authority of Prague requires each and every dog in tram, bus or Metro to be muzzled. The result? Chucky is a ninja!



And Albert doesn't care, as always...



Full photoset is here.

But that's not all! Today, when riding the bike in Letná park, I found exceedingly adorable kitten!



Her photoset is here. Remember, each time you masturbate, you kill one of these! (Or not?) Anyway, I was very tempted to take her home but remembered what Kryspin did to Albert and Chucky.

And, of course, the cutest small animal of them all is Jitushka and you are lucky she's not camera shy:



P.S: I also found this absolutely amazing dog on Flickr...

Buy A Cute Syphilis For Your Friends

Or Ebola, Black Death, HIV, Rabies, Malaria or anything else. They are all here and they are cute.

P.S: If you are Czech, you can order locally!

Shouldn't You Drive a Taxi Instead of Reading This Blog?

I swear this happened between me and an unconspicuously looking taxi driver today (it was in Czech, of course):

Taxi driver: "Have you seen that new Fabia? Bitchin!"

Me: "I know it's a model of car but you really didn't pick the right topic for this conversation, as I am not even sure which pedal does what in a car. If you want, I can talk about movies or computers with you."

Taxi driver: "Oh yeah, I've done some IT shit some time ago but about the time they released Linux Kernel 2.2, I said fuck it, there is no money in this, and started driving a taxi."

Also, he played the games I wrote for ZX Spectrum in the 1980s.

On a different note: This is how unknown girls whom I get heart-shaped lollipops from look like, which means I am probably luckier than most of you (but not lucky enough).



And that's all I'll say about that.

Lollipop From The Heart

Today, I got a lollipop. My sister delivered it. It was from her co-worker whom I never met. She supposedly thinks it looks like my dogs.



It doesn't.

Heart-shaped lollipop from an uknown girl... Is this supposed to MEAN SOMETHING?

Like Crack, Only Cheaper

Another stop during my investigation into MMORPGs: Maple Story. This is an amazingly popular MMORPG supposedly with over 50 millions of players worldwide! In contrast, World of Warcraft "only" has about 8 million players. So why did you never hear about it? Because it's originally Korean and was only released in English about a year or two ago (after already being a hit in other Asian countries).


What's interesting is that Maple Story has deliberately pixelated hand-drawn ("8-bit retro") graphics and the game is presented as 2D side-scroller (also very "8-bit retro"-ish). In other words, it's exceedingly cute and clean, with no bothersome 3D controls.

It's fairly standard fare. You have to download about 500MB client (Windows only!) and then kill hundreds and thousands of monsters in what basically looks like cute shareware scrolling game. There are all the usual shops with equipment, teleports, leveling up, special events etc...

You can play for free but if you want to own a virtual pet or some extra special equipment, you have to pay in cash.

The problems: Some English texts look awkward and have errors in them. The instructions are sometimes insufficient. For example, I didn't know that there are different worlds and your character cannot be moved from one world to another. That means, after I reached level 16 (after 15 hours of playing) in the "Bellocan" world on "Maple Global" server, I discovered that my friends are in fact playing in different world and if I want to meet them online, I have to start playing in their world, with a different character, from scratch. The different worlds seem to be completely similar in their contents. They only exist in order to handle the amazing number of people playing. And still, some locations seem rather crowded (and this is in the newest, the least populated world).

Again, as with Second Life, I don't expect to devote my life to this game. But if you don't know what to do with your spare time and you like big-eyed pixelated sprites, you might give Maple Story a try.

By the way, if you enjoy larger pixelated things for your apartment, you might enjoy www.pixelblocks.com.

Man's Best Krysarik

Wow, I love my Chucky but it seems someone has taken his love for Prazsky Krysarik (Prague Ratter) much farther and created a homepage for his! Not to mention that he took his dog to China with him. Check out especially the photos.

Kryspin knows how to hide

And I thought I left him on the balcony in that awful storm...

Yeah, but is he gay?

We've got a new neighbor.

He cannot measure up to Albert but he looks cool (detail).

Hello There, Hello Kitty

Today, I discovered that the single most important post-Communist shop has finally opened in our country, in the Letnany mall.



Their selection is rather good. It closes on December 31 and should reappear somewhere near the center of Prague in January or February.

Animal-Themed Blanket