There are a lot of important people in my comparison list they wanted to be all Attilas including Elvis, Zelenskyy, Bolojan, Dan, Lavrov, Musk, etc.. Attila rules!
10:40 I think i wrote this before, though briefly. Since there's gonna be a while until i reach that time period of my life in my recently started series of hopefully exhaustive autobiographic posts (i just started HS period), got to go through it, college and then first job at IMU in 1986.
Starting with the name itself, IMU, which is an acronym in Romanian for Întreprinderea de Mașini Unelte Bacău (Romanian Machine Tools Enterprise) which is pretty generic and personalized only with the name of the city (they were at that time more than 10 such "enterprises" in the whole of Romania, the pride of Ceaușescu, the heavy industry that cost Romania 7 years of hunger after Pacepa's defection and loss of low interest loans.
It was a heavy machine tools factory, had several thousands employees and when i came there from college (after the so called State repartition which was done by graduates choice in order of final grades) and i had some experience working with computers, one of my three projects for the final "state exam" was copying a Fortran program line by line from a book and make it run and some other earlier programs (apps).
The program (app) had about 2000 lines of code and all i had to do was enter them without mistake in the computer using a monitor and compile it.
While doing so i also had some exposure to some CAD (Computer Aided Design, PAC in Romanian, Proiectare Asistată de Calculator) activity that just started at the faculty.
I was probably the only engineer in that factory and the whole of Romania with such unique early exposure while the whole heavy industry started by Ceaușescu was dying due to lack of upgrades which were stopped due to lack of funds for further imports, like CAD and more sophisticated CNC machines.
All of those machine tools factory in Romania were under the coordination of a so call Machine Tools Central in Bucharest, and there was an older guy there with a funny name (Năsărâmmbă, which means joke in old Romanian) who has happy to see me wanting to do that and they moved me from CNC programming department to a newly form CAD department
They made me the boss there and asked me to recruit members and write some documentation so they can distribute a newer computer which was running with CRT terminals instead of punched card, and there started a war with the IT department who wanted that computer and this whole activity under their coordination.
But my direct boss was not the manager of the company but a guy on an intermediary position who looked like Ron L Hubbard, author of book Dianetics and the founder of Scientology who officially died that year. I remember at the beginning we were all crammed together in the same office.
The newly group formed was named (by me) SPAC (Sisteme de Proiectare Asistată de Calculator). Had no idea of Mr.Spock at the time).
The story is much longer but i will make it brief so i can come to the idea i had in mind when i started this entry.
While recruiting the team i asked for volunteers and a whole bunch of women came forward. I guess the guys did not want co come under my command, i was new and unexperienced, they had their pride, or afraid to fail, i don't know.
One of those women was Liliana, and i will not write here her last name but just first and middle. Liliana Sânziana.
There is in Romanian folk tradition a mid summer holiday called just like that. Sânziene. Which in English translates as Ferries and is usually celebrated on June 24 (while my birthday is June 26). I don't know much about it but from time to time she was coming at me and out of the blue started to to mysteriously smile and tell me, do you know my name is Sânziana?
Prefix Sân in this context is a contraction of the word Sfântul or Sfânta, very common in Romanian Christian mythology, pretty much the same as in San Francisco, probably from times before the f was added in the middle of the word for Saint, thus it must have come directly from Latin.
As for root ziana, it comes from the old Romanian word Zână which means ferry or deity (the word for god in old Romanian is zeu or dzau in folk language) which in turn comes from the name of Roman goddess Diana, which BTW evolved into Western Christianity in Saint Hubert, also protector of hunters, but it also reminds of the main book of Hubbard and Scientology, Dianetics.
BTW who is the woman in the picture? (Nevermind, i figured it).
But my direct boss was not the manager of the company but a guy on an intermediary position who looked like Ron L Hubbard, author of book Dianetics and the founder of Scientology who officially died that year. I remember at the beginning we were all crammed together in the same office.
The newly group formed was named (by me) SPAC (Sisteme de Proiectare Asistată de Calculator). Had no idea of Mr.Spock at the time).
The story is much longer but i will make it brief so i can come to the idea i had in mind when i started this entry.
While recruiting the team i asked for volunteers and a whole bunch of women came forward. I guess the guys did not want co come under my command, i was new and unexperienced, they had their pride, or afraid to fail, i don't know.
One of those women was Liliana, and i will not write here her last name but just first and middle. Liliana Sânziana.
There is in Romanian folk tradition a mid summer holiday called just like that. Sânziene. Which in English translates as Ferries and is usually celebrated on June 24 (while my birthday is June 26). I don't know much about it but from time to time she was coming at me and out of the blue started to to mysteriously smile and tell me, do you know my name is Sânziana?
Prefix Sân in this context is a contraction of the word Sfântul or Sfânta, very common in Romanian Christian mythology, pretty much the same as in San Francisco, probably from times before the f was added in the middle of the word for Saint, thus it must have come directly from Latin.
As for root ziana, it comes from the old Romanian word Zână which means ferry or deity (the word for god in old Romanian is zeu or dzau in folk language) which in turn comes from the name of Roman goddess Diana, which BTW evolved into Western Christianity in Saint Hubert, also protector of hunters, but it also reminds of the main book of Hubbard and Scientology, Dianetics.
BTW who is the woman in the picture? (Nevermind, i figured it).
What else i forgot to say? IMU pronounced like in Romanian, eemoo, rimes with one of the spelling of the name Ximu and that woman, officially of about my age, or 26 at the time, was looking exactly like her, Olivia and was actually 13 years older than me.
Strangely enough, she even did some work at the project she was assigned (design of technological path and machining times) by me though i did most important parts. But in the end i was told by the boss Ghivnici (pronounced Give nitch, Hubbard) to put that one aside most likely because was interfering with the established mafia starting with timing design department (normare) that was controlling the salaries in that company (they put more time for each operation and the workers were paid in number of parts, the reason IT department wanted to take that computer away from me).
Fake reporting of production in all areas, overpaying, hiring of relatives, technological stagnation were the reasons Romanian economy collapsed towards the end of Ceaușescu era. Some took personal advantage but i came too late at the party in 86 or three year before 89 revolutions. I assume all countries in the Soviet Bock including Soviet Union were in the same situation that arose due to lack of real competition, bureaucracy and state ownership of everything.
So yeah, it looks like "Hubbard" took elements from Hinduism (re-incarnation of Thetans), Sumerian (the golden star of Ishtar) Roman (Diana), Romanian (Sânziene) and western Christian mythology (Saint Hubert), Rosicrucianism (cross) and whatnot to create what he called Scientology.
I slept yesterday afternoon and evening, been up all night and slept 3 more hours this morning however i have some neurological symptoms, like my fingers were borrowed and not mine when i type here, like my head was not mine, an infected esophageal ulcer, others (did not drink at all yesterday). Could it be exposure to something coming from an exhaust during my trip yesterday from Florence to here.
Got to go outside to look for poops and/or mole holes near foundation.
12:00 PM Just found myself the next puzzle. Why the interest rates of US public debt changes constantly. A ok it's like credit card interests, only daily. However it affects heavily the stock market, as investors run from stocks to bonds and back all the time according to yields and other market driving factors.
Got to go outside to look for poops and/or mole holes near foundation.
12:00 PM Just found myself the next puzzle. Why the interest rates of US public debt changes constantly. A ok it's like credit card interests, only daily. However it affects heavily the stock market, as investors run from stocks to bonds and back all the time according to yields and other market driving factors.
10:10 It's been years since i was trying to formulate this idea in a short and comprehensive phrase but now i think i cam to some result.
"In a bipartisan political system, half of the voters must think the other half is wrong, right? They can't be both right in the same time. So half of them are wrong but question is, which?"
Let's ask AI about it before we go all mad or something.
"In a bipartisan political system, half of the voters must think the other half is wrong, right? They can't be both right in the same time. So half of them are wrong but question is, which?"
Let's ask AI about it before we go all mad or something.
That's what i thought. Democracy is not perfect. If you choose one side, you will always kiss goodbye some of the issues dear to your heart.
12:10 AM next day
Pentru noi românii de data asta răul cel mai mic a fost un profesorist. E un progres fiindcă precedentul a fost invers, cel mai mare.
Pentru noi românii de data asta răul cel mai mic a fost un profesorist. E un progres fiindcă precedentul a fost invers, cel mai mare.
