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Ողջույն, վաղուց չէինք տեսնվել, գիտեմ: Այսօր ուզում եմ պատմել համեմունքները դասակարգելու իմ փորձի մասին:<br />
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Ես երևի մի քիչ OCD ունեմ ու նախընտրում եմ, որ նման բաները միշտ միասին լինեն դասավորված, հարմար, կոկիկ... երբ արդեն սկսեցի ես էլ խոհարարությամբ զբաղվել ու սկսեցի ուսումնասիրել համեմունքները ու դրանց կիրառությունները.. մի տխուր փաստ գիտակցեցի: Շատերի մոտ համեմունքները պահվում են ոնց պատահի՝ մի մասը թղթե տուփով, մի մասը պլատմասե, մի մասը ապակե բանկաների մեջ լցված.. հայտնի չի թե ինչ պիտանելիության ժամկետ ունեն: Որոշ տարաներ էլ պարզ չի, թե արդեն ինչ են պարունակում՝ պիտակ չկա: Շատ համեմունքներ բաշխված են խոհանոցի տարբեր դարակներով մեկ, արդեն չի հիշվում՝ ինչ ունենք, ինչն է վերջացել ու պետք է նորից գնել ...<br />
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Համեմունքների անունները ու կիրառությունները սովորելուն զուգահեռ սկսեցի հարմար տարաներ փնտրել: Մի քանի կարևոր նախապայման կար.<br />
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<li>ապակե, կամ շատ լավ որակի պլաստմասե տարաներ, լավ փակվող կափարիչներով, ցանկալի է, որ ծակեր էլ ունենան, որոնք նաև փակվող կլինեն: </li>
<li>կափարիչներն էլ լինեն մետաղական կամ փայտից և շատ լավ որակի ռեզինով պատված</li>
<li>լինեն թափանցիկ ու պարզ՝ առանց նախշերի</li>
<li>լինեն տարբեր չափերի՝ տարբեր տիպի համեմունքների համար</li>
<li>վաճառվեն հատով, ոչ թե կոնկրետ քանակ պարունակող կոմպլեկտով:</li>
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Երկար փնտրտուքներից հետո գտա իմ ուզածին հնարավորինս մոտիկ՝ 2 չափի, պարզ, ապակուց, մետաղական կափարիչով, որ տարբեր չափերի ծակեր ունի: Վաճառվում է հատով, կամ տուփով (2 հատ): 580 և 790 դրամ, փոքր և մեծ չափերը համապատասխանաբար: Միակ թերությունը դրանց արտադրության երկիրն էր՝ որի արտադրանքից ՄԻՇՏ խուսափում եմ ու նախընտրում տեղական կամ այլ երկրների համարժեք արտադրանք: Այս անգամ խուսափել չհաջողվեց ու կոմպրոմիսի արդյունքում այդ մի սկզբունքը ընկավ երկրորդական պլան:<br />
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Տարաները մի քանի ամիսների ընթացքում 1-2 հատով գնում էի ու քիչ-քիչ համեմունքները տեղափոխում դրանց մեջ:<br />
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Երբ արդեն հիմնական բոլոր համեմունքները տեղավորվել էին, սկսեցի մտածել դրանց դասավորության մասին:<br />
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Մեր համեմունքների հիմնական դարակը խորն է: Տարաները շարվում էին ներքևում, ընդ որում փոքրերը իրար վրա.. այնպես որ միայն կափարիչներն էին երևում: Բավականին անհարմար էր, տարածքն էլ էֆեկտիվ չէր օգտագործվում:<br />
Դարակը հարմարեցնելու համար օգնության եկավ ամուսինս՝ Արեգը: Մի քանի ժամ ավտոտնակում անցկացնելուց հետո եկավ այս լուծումը ձեռքին: Փայտի կտորներից այսպիսի մի դարակ էր սարքել, որը հանովի-դնովի է: Վրան հենց իմ տարաների չափով երկար փայտեր են: Դարակի տակ էլ կարելի է շատ ուրիշ բաներ տեղավորել:<br />
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Այդպես քիչ-քիչ, համակարգում էի համեմունքները նոր տարաներով ու մտածում ինչ-որ սիրուն պիտակներ սարքելու մասին: Pinterest-ի օգնությամբ այսպիսի մի <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/spice-jar-labels-and-template-to-print.html">Spice jar labels template</a><a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/spice-jar-labels-and-template-to-print.html"> </a>գտա ու հասկացա, որ որոշ համեմունքների անգլերեն անունները չեմ իմանում:<br />
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Այդտեղ մի նոր գործ բացվեց՝ սկսեցի ուսումնասիրել տարբեր համեմունքների անունները անգլերենով ու ռուսերենով: Կազմեցի <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YjERQUajXd5fQxqhjazTn4XkS7Ad9k5Y9EwoWwi9gQ/edit">աղյուսակ</a>, ահա</span><span style="background-color: white;">գին բացահայտումներ անելով: Օրինակ, մեր տանը կար душистый перец, և կար բահար՝ տարբեր տարաներում: Ամոթ ինձ, որ չգիտեի, որ նույն բանն է, ընդ որում անգլերենով՝ allspice (էլ չասեմ, որ խանութներում 2 տեսակի բահար հանդիպեցի, մեկը հենց "բահար", մյուսը "բահար 7"):</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Հետո հասկացա որ մեծ շփոթություն կա тмин, кумин, зира, cumin, caraway, քիմիոն, զիրա, քեմոն անունով համեմունքների հետ կապված: </span><br />
Շատ խանութներում և համեմունքների սրահներում նայելուց հետո, ինտերնետային փնտրտուքներից, տարատեսակ YouTube վիդեոներ ուսումնասիրելուց հետո եկա այն եզրակացության որ՝ тмин = քիմիոն = caraway, իսկ кумин = зира = cumin = քեմոն: <span style="background-color: white;">Նման բացահայտում էր որ ծիտրոն = чабер = savory: Ծիտրոնը նաև անվանում են հայկական ռոզմարին:</span><br />
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Գտածս սիրուն պիտակները սկսեցի հարմարեցնել իմ համեմունքներին, ավելացնելով անվանման հայերեն ու ռուսերեն տարբերակները:<br />
Ստացվեց այսպիսի մի ֆայլ: <br />
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Տպեցի դրանք AG Print-ում կպչուն թղթի (sticker) վրա, այնուհետև կտրատեցի սև գծերով: Փակցրեցի տարաներին ու սկսեցի վայելել :)<br />
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Եթե հավանեցիք՝ կարող եք ներբեռնել պիտակների ֆայլը PDF ֆորմատով, որը կարելի է տպել: Եթե տեսնում եք, որ ինչ-որ հաճախ օգտագործվող համեմունք մոռացել եմ՝ գրեք,<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-74744499969336464292013-03-26T18:59:00.001+04:002013-03-26T18:59:57.258+04:00Theory of a stable relationship (guest post)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Until I find time to publish what's going on on my side, I'm publishing this "scientific paper" sent to me by a .. friend, who preferred to stay anonymous :) Let us know what you think of it in comments.<br />
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This paper describes the relationship between two human objects of opposite sex, discovering correlations between those two based on Newton laws of mechanics.</div>
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We particularly focused on gravitational forces affecting this relation mistakenly referred by general public as "addiction" as well as counter-forces that may potentially break relative stability known to public as <i>circumstances</i>.</div>
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The paper concludes on a formula derived to describe this phenomenon that can be used in the relationship science to support decisions and further development of the science of love.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">General rule of addiction </span><br />
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There are billions of study objects around the world. Some of them create families, others don't. Significant numbers of families break up after <i>t</i> period of time. The importance of this study comes even more vivid if considered that relationships between various human objects break at the stage of formulation even without reaching the state of a stable equilibrium. The phenomenon becomes even harder to analyze given that these billions of objects have over 35 billion communications daily and around 580 million people travel per day. </div>
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To understand this phenomenon, we suggest looking at the stars. There are countless space objects moving, however the universe still keeps its firm structure over millions of light years.
This is mainly happening due to the gravity forces between all objects that create network of forces to support the overall structure. This same gravity (although based on human specific parameters) creates forces between two humans to provide acceleration towards each other. This “addiction” (as we fictitiously call it) can be described by the formula below:</div>
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<i>F</i> - addiction force - is the actual force by which one object is pulling the other one.<br />
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<i>G</i> - addiction constant. This constant is not affected by any variable other than time. It can be calculated by the following formula G = B × (t<span style="font-size: xx-small;">n</span> - t<span style="font-size: xx-small;">0</span>), where B is the base underlying the relationship typically mol. mass of either oxytocin 1007.19, adrenaline 183.204, or pheromones varying between 230-280; and t<span style="font-size: xx-small;">n</span> - t<span style="font-size: xx-small;">0</span> is the total number of days in relationship.</div>
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<i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></i> - the mass of positive attitude and support provided by addicting object (further referred as addictor).<br />
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<i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> - the mass of positive attitude and support received from subject of addiction (further referred as addictee).<br />
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<i>R</i> - the average distance between addictor and addictee.<br />
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Both M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> and M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span> comprise of the aggregation of the following:<br />
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<li>level of forbearance </li>
<li>attention to its counterpart </li>
<li>quality of gifts </li>
<li>rest time shared </li>
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Thus, the force of addiction is positively correlated with the time of relationship (as provided in the <i>G</i> constant formula) and the relative weight of objects for each other, and negatively correlated with the distance between the two.</div>
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Given that there is no other object and movement around the addictor and the addictee, the addiction force described above would be the only force affecting the objects. Thus they would either pull each other until their integration into one object with no distinctive individual properties, or in case of long distance and/or negative M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">×</span>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span> product, would have insignificant mutual relations. </div>
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In reality, all the human objects spin around the world and, as described in previous chapter, have a large number of other interactions. Thus, there is another force, giving us a tendency of avoiding integration and pushing objects away from each other. In universe this rule is known as the <i>centrifugal force</i>. </div>
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In our study, the formula of avoidance provided below best describes the imprint of so called circumstances on the relationship.</div>
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<i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></i> - mass of positive attitude and support provided by the addictee<br />
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Thus we can say that there is a clear hyperbolic positive correlation between the speed of our life and the force pushing us far from our addictors. Another interesting finding of this study is that the closer two object are <span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">− </span>the higher is the force pushing to break up.</div>
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Any two human objects with positive <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></i> and <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> values are able to reach equilibrium stage at <i>T</i> point of time.<br />
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To prove the statement above, lets calculate through the formulas presented above. To reach the stage of equilibrium the addiction force <i>F<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></i> and <i>F<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> shall be equal, therefore:<br />
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As we can conclude from the equation above, there can always be a positive <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> for given distance, speed of life and duration of relationship to bring the equation to solution. The faster the environment and longer the distance − the more positive energy and care is needed to sustain equilibrium. On the other hand, the longer relationship lasts − the less <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> is required for equilibrium given that <i>V</i> and <i>R</i> remain constant.</div>
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In conclusion, this study proves, that to reach a stable relationship, it is critical of addictor itself to provide necessary <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> weight to relationship. In the meantime, both addictor and addictee can calculate necessary <i>V</i> speeds and <i>R</i> distances to leverage the lack of <i>Weight </i>at a given point of time. This type of adjustments may provide short-term equilibrium situations to free up time to recover the <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></i> and <i>M<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></i> levels. Failure of recovering necessary mutual weights of objects will lead to shifting of <i>V</i> and R values to unrecoverable margins.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-79353341333944200962013-01-20T23:35:00.000+04:002013-01-20T23:41:38.525+04:00My Top 15 Music Addictions of 2012Some of the music here was discovered via friends, who shared it. I have quite a diverse taste and I hope my post will help you to find some of your new favorite songs too :)<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>15.</b></span> <b>Kishi Bashi - Manchester - </b>lovely song.. and an artist worth checking out.<br />
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14.</b></span><b> Passion Pit - Take a Walk </b>- hipster music at its best :)) Watch the video and check out other songs of this band.<br />
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13.</b></span><b> The Sundays - Goodbye </b>- and oldie suddenly discovered by me. Great tune and very optimistic :)<br />
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12.</b> </span><b>Matt Cardle - Starlight </b>- the song and video has to do with stars, so I love it. Nice tune.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>11.</b></span> <b>Ellie Goulding - Figure 8 - </b>Love Ellie since "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBf2v4mLM8k">Starry Eyed</a>". Nice video with dubstep-ish catchy music.<br />
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10.</b></span> <b>Bag Raiders</b> <b>- Shooting Stars </b>- Great song, especially the second part :) *Stars* at their best in this funky-house track.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>9.</b></span><b> Florence and the Machine - Spectrum </b>- Florence never ceases to amaze me. The Spectrum was the best one this year. Exactly this one, not the Calvin Harris's mix played on MTVs.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>8.</b></span><b> Epic45 - Future is Blinding - </b>"You say there must be more to life than this. How much more do you want?".. GREAT indeed.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>7.</b></span><b> Ben Rector - White Dress </b>- Romantic song right in my mood. A really underestimated one.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>6.</b></span> <b>Phoenix - Too Young</b> - Great fan of Phoenix, but this song was played the most in my ears this year. LOVE.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>5.</b></span><b> Bombay Bicycle Club - Leave it </b>- My great discovery of 2012.. Listen to "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuif301F-8">Shuffle</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vglxk3JbHnQ">Lights Out, Words Gone</a>" too.. But "Leave it" caught me most.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>4.</b></span> <b>Martin Solveig - Night Out </b>- Cool video with a scooter, great song (also nicely <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCja-dHi6NI">remixed by Madeon</a>). Been listening to this a lot in 2012...<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>3.</b></span><b> Lana Del Rey - Ride</b><b> </b>- Lana -- my biggest music inspiration of the year & most listened artist. Been listening to her albums non-stop, discovering more and more great songs over several months. She's a style inspiration for me too. Couldn't select just one song from her. Here is my favorite top 3 songs of her.<br />
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<b>National Anthem</b><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>2.</b></span> <b>Madeon - Finale </b>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0h2u87JwyA">full version</a>) -- I'm a big fan of this young French boy. This song is my ringtone for a few months now. Check out his "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUBmeFn7qM">The City</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA">Pop Culture (Live Mashup)</a>", "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHs99iVpnXU">Icarus</a>" too.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>1.</b></span><b> M83 - Midnight City -</b> BIGGEST discovery of the year... My most played song, most favorite one for this moment. Check out also "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJQQrjVmQG0">Reunion</a>".<br />
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<b><br /></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-46097588871033843812012-11-18T01:35:00.000+04:002012-11-18T23:00:55.392+04:00I typed "y"... I am now suddenly, geekily and happily engaged :)<h2>
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">...or "How to propose to a geek girl".</span></h2>
The rumor spreads and everyone keeps asking - how was it? what did he say? Since it was very unexpected, geeky and with so many details, I thought it would be best to write down here and share my happiness with the world.<br />
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It was an ordinary Wednesday (November 7). The only 2 things that could be counted as "not ordinary" were the facts that <i>a)</i> I was sick and bedridden on Monday and Tuesday and <i>b)</i> my (now) fiancé was on a business trip in Stepanakert, Artsakh (or so I thought).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">The card</span></b></h3>
On Tuesday evening, while tracking his journey on <a href="https://maps.google.com/latitude/b/0">latitude</a>, I asked him to call and wake me up on Wednesday morning and so he did. I promised I'd get up soon. But since my tummy was till aching, I decided to cuddle in bed a few more minutes and eventually fell asleep again. I woke up a couple hours later to find his messages like "Asleep again?". I started to slowly dress up and get ready to go to work. My friend Lia called to ask me if I was still at home and could take the pocket books I had promised to pass to her. It was around 1pm already. Then it turned out I had to buy my dad's newspapers. So I went out, bought the papers, brought them home and headed to work. <i>(see the bullet points below the post to find out why I described these details)</i><br />
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On my way to work, next to the <a href="https://foursquare.com/v/charents-monument/4bf01aacd4f70f479b76390f">Charents monument</a> pathway, a teenage boy handed me something. I asked "what's this?", in order to avoid the religious pictures that kids give on streets and ask for money. The boy eagerly replied - "vizitka!" (business card). I took it and saw a nicely designed business card (pictured below).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the QR code reads "Will"</td></tr>
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I went on a few more steps and checked the QR code on a side of the card, which read "Will". "Hm.. Interesting", I thought and entered my office.<br />
I told about the card to Azar, my boss. My guess was, that this is some promotion or maybe a puzzle, a quest..<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">The Facebook tag</span></b></h3>
In about half an hour I am being tagged on a picture on Facebook. It was in a closed group of AIESEC alumni. See below:<br />
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I was tagged together with a bunch of other people.. It had the same logo as on the business card.. and a QR code reading "You". The description was "<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Cool initiative, guys i am sure you will like this! Detail coming soon!</span>". I started to suspect that it had something to do with AIESEC - some kind of a new project and I was lucky to get the card on the street! The comments on the post didn't shed any light to what it was.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">The hack</span></b></h3>
At 6pm I had an appointment with Kristine, Gohar and Lia (<a href="http://tedxyerevan.com/">TEDxYerevan</a> organizing team) at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tgbyerevan">The Green Bean Coffeeshop</a>. Kristine had written us a week ago asking to get prepared for a dinner with the US Ambassador John Heffern (who attended TEDxYerevan 2012). We had to discuss our possible cooperation. Kristine asked us to dress nicely, no jeans or suits -- just a cute dress. She also asked me to bring my netbook, since we had to discuss things in Green Bean, before going for the dinner. I didn't suspect anything yet :D<br />
I got there and we started to discuss our stuff. The waiter approached, and I ordered a bagel and no drink. Gohar ordered tea and Kristine insisted that they bring another cup for me to drink too, since i was recovering from cold. I got the Green Bean mug... and it had the "liveit" logo and again a QR code!<br />
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I got surprised and started telling them about the card and the picture from facebook... and then finally got to scan the code. Guess what? It read "Marry me?" ..... I blushed and smiled... and then immediately got a call from Azar (my boss), who told me that supposedly panarmenian.net was hacked and I should check it quickly and call him back, since he was outside, far from a computer. I turned on my netbook and opened panarmenian.net. I got this console screen instead (click to view bigger):<br />
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The waiter, in a white elephant t-shirt, was looking at me and smiling. She led me to the other hall of the cafe to find my Areg. With white lilies and a ring. On his knees.<br />
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We were surrounded by friends - who were involved in all this - cheering, applauding ... By that time i was blushing with my full capacity :).. shocked to find Areg to be in Yerevan and to have a <a href="http://instagram.com/p/RvfIA1RiMS/">ring</a> on my finger...<br />
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The story didn't end here.<br />
We sat at a big table with this company and everyone was telling details of the "QRաջարկություն" operation.. Something that was being planned around me for the past few weeks.<br />
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It turned out that:<br />
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<li>Areg had created a secret group in Facebook for communicating the stuff for organizing matters. Sharing mindmaps, coordinating everyone's actions for the day. </li>
<li>Areg didn't have a business trip that week. It was just to enhance the "effect".. and also have a free Tuesday for arranging the stuff. </li>
<li>Areg was near my building since early morning when he called me. He was waiting for me to go out for several hours! Standing! Tracking me on the latitude if I was still there... until his phone drained out... (<i>yep, I feel very very bad about this :(</i>)</li>
<li>Speaking on the latitude.. he did arrange somebody to login with his account on latitude on the trip to Artsakh. That's why I was seeing him there...</li>
<li>Lia called me to ask if I was at home to take the books with Areg's desperate request. </li>
<li>He asked his friend to follow me on my way to work. When i went to buy the papers, I could accidentally see them. They were hiding behind a car :D</li>
<li>They arranged someone to wait for me near Charents monument, to hand the card. She was available only till 1:30 pm. Afterwards, they were trying to find someone else and in the end approached a school boy having a lunch nearby. The idea was to suggest him some "bribe" for giving me the card. The boy politely refused the money, and after some convincing ("heeey, it's our friend's birthday, we need to give her this card, blabla") he agreed to stand there and wait, only until their teacher (who was almost near) could notice him.</li>
<li>Areg followed me on my way to work until he was ensured that I read the QR code on the card. </li>
<li>Lia had been thinking that I saw her trying to hide near the cafe at Charents monument, but in fact, I didn't. </li>
<li>Azar reported in the FB group, that I had told him about the card. He also called Areg when I went out of the office, saying "Объект вышел".</li>
<li>Kristine had made up the story about the Ambassador and asked us to dress up, because she knew that on that important day for me, I would feel upset if I wouldn't be dressed :)</li>
<li>Areg had prepared beautiful <a href="http://instagram.com/p/RvVIi9RiEu/">flower compositions</a> for the Green Bean (partly seen on the picture with the QR code mug). They are still there, decorating the tables in the cafe.</li>
<li>The hack was created by our friend Tiko and was "enabled" on panarmenian.net by Azar (CEO of PanARMENIAN.Net). It was targeted specifically for the IPs of Green Bean (Areg and Tiko have been tracking cafe's IP address for few days, to ensure it was a static one). While installing the hack on the website, Azar was testing it in our office's IPs, and as a result, the whole editorial was frustrated, unable to work while the testing and installing took place. </li>
<li>When I just got to Green Bean, I didn't order any drink, which was a little out of the plan, but thankfully Kristine managed to convince me to ask for another cup for me to drink the tea. That's when I got the mug with the QR.</li>
<li>There were actually 2 t-shirts with a pixelated white elephant - one for the waitress and one for me.</li>
<li>Areg had prepared special "Thank you" cards signed by both of us (i did it right there) for all the participants of the "operation". </li>
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So.. this is the story :) I want to thank all of my friends (and the Green Bean staff) who were involved in the organization of this beautiful day.. it's really something that me and Areg will remember forever :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-39809766475726724192012-10-21T03:08:00.002+04:002012-10-22T19:00:33.040+04:00Dalma Garden Mall: Opening of the first mall in ArmeniaThe first real mall <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/128544/">opened today in Yerevan</a>. I couldn't miss the event and since everyone is asking me how it went, I decided to make a post with my impressions and photos.<br />
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<b>The good:</b><br />
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<li>Many new franchise stores have opened and many more were announced on the doors of the yet empty areas. A good part of our population has been waiting for the opening of brand stores of Zara, Bershka, Marks & Spencer, Gap, Stradivarius, Pull&Bear, Topshop, Accessorize, NewYorker in Armenia. The full list of the brands is available in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/461660623886468/?fref=ts">description of the event</a>.</li>
<li>Many brands that already have their stores in Yerevan will have stores Dalma as well (like Mango, Promod, Clarks, Aldo, Baldi, Bata, Chocco, Yves Rocher, Sali and others)</li>
<li>There is a Zigzag megastore! yep, an electronics megastore in Yerevan :)</li>
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<li>The interior planning and design are generally good. The coffee house on the Level 1 looks really pretty :) There were a few fountains: the ones on the level 1 were with colourful lights, really cute:)</li>
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<li>A huge Zara store was opened today, with a fashion show organized in the evening. The collection was big and for almost all tastes, as always. </li>
<li>Charles & Keith -- a shoes and accessories store had a nice collection! </li>
<li>The prices (in case someone still doubts) are the same as in all other franchise stores of the brands.</li>
<li>There was a really great mood around the mall, because of the many familiar faces, music, scents, balloons and a sunny weather visible from the big windows on the ceiling. </li>
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<b>The bad:</b><br />
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<li>Unfortunately, only few stores were open today. Some opened hours after the mall's official opening. You could see the store (like Accessorize), ready, with assistants inside, but there was a security guard at the door, not letting anyone in. Marks & Spencer, occupying one of the biggest areas, has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=237551883040016&id=237172003078004">invited</a> everyone to the mall opening, but was actually closed :) with all the items set up and balloons at the door. They just <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=237934096335128&set=a.237521003043104.55296.237172003078004&type=1">replied </a>to me saying "<span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">WE ARE EXCLUSIVE BRAND..and we need EXCLUSIVE OPENING!! YOU ALL WILL BE INFORMED !!!!!!"</span>. Well, ok :))</li>
<li>I couldn't find a list of stores which are actually open already, either a timeline for those that will open soon. </li>
<li>There was a limited -- almost no food choice today. After walking around we got quite hungry, but resisted to stand in a queue for a Tashir pizza. The Coffee House didn't yet have any menu, or food whatsoever. We just took a good Molinari cappuccino, after waiting for a table to become vacant for quite a long time. Yeah, there were too many people for too few tables. But i guess it was because of the opening.</li>
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<li>Some areas in the mall (especially Level 2) were yet dusty, not yet constructed. I had a glance through the slightly opened door of the Cinema complex. It was yet just nothing but a cement :D</li>
<li>The concert outside of the mall featuring Armenian pop stars (and then a group of some 'ancient' Russian pop chicks) was totally useless. I don't think anyone visited the opening because of the concert. It just created some unnecessary noise and problems for the parking and traffic.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The concert outside Dalma</td></tr>
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<li>The website <a href="http://www.dalma.am/">www.dalma.am</a> has been down for days because of an exceeded bandwidth.</li>
<li>The small brochure of the mall with the floor plan is poorly designed. The text (in English) is awful :) or maybe it's just literally translated from Russian.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Dalma floor plan scanned from the brochure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dalma brochure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dalma Garden Mall is open from 10:00 to 22:00</td></tr>
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<b>A little background:</b><br />
Dalma Garden Mall was build by the Dalma Invest company, affiliated with Tashir Group, with a $50 million investment.<br />
The territory on which the mall was built was part of the Dalma gardens.<br />
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.. it used to be a historical monument in the form of gardens which stretched from Erebuni Museum to Yerevan Lake, then farther to Tsitsernakaberd, Hrazdan Gorge and much farther, up to Zvartnots Airport and to Echmiadzin through Argavand. It used to be a forest planted with fruit tress and vineyards, unique in their species. (<a href="http://www.ecolur.org/en/news/cities/weeping-for-dalma-gardens/4053/">Ecolur</a>)</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.ecolur.org/en/news/officials/dalma-garden-land-owners-dying-while-expecting-for-fair-decision/4215/">The land owners of the gardens have been protesting the illegal decision of the municipality for already 9 years, when they were seized their land areas and sold to new owners thus violating their rights.</a> (here is <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/arm/news/77547/">more info</a> on this in Armenian).<br />
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Dalma Garden Mall has been scheduled to open last year, or even earlier, if I'm not mistaken. It was being postponed without approximate dates for several times. Later it was connected with the fact that they want to open many franchise boutiques and months are needed to do the interior design and furnishing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">me caught by Anna from the escalator</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">me in Zara</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with my friend Emma and her bump :)</td></tr>
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Here's a <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/photoset/3113">professional photo report from the opening by PanARMENIAN Photo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-22098668422240140432012-07-27T02:11:00.002+04:002012-08-04T00:29:14.274+04:00Boost your brain this summer: Coursera, edX, TED-Ed and other online learning resources<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I declared my summer 2012 as a summer of learning. I love learning new things by myself and I have already reflected on the topic of <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2009/12/self-education-useful-tips-and.html">self education here</a> a two and a half year ago. There I listed several resources that are generally still actual, however some new great opportunities have emerged for self-learners. <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/">MIT OCW</a>, for example, seemed to be one of the greatest things, however, when digging into it, you might get just partial information (just lecture notes, just assignments, etc). I was more looking forward to a real online class, with video lectures, assignments, deadlines etc. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.google.com/edu/">Google Education resources</a></b></span></div>
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Earlier this month I learned about an <a href="http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/">online course of power searching offered by Google</a>. I signed up for it partly because of I was interested to learn the methods and media used in the course, then surely also to learn new things on search. They were 6 classes, each comprised of lessons (video lectures) and activities (quizzes). There was a mid-term assignment with a deadline and a final assignment. One could attempt to take them as many times as needed and just the highest score was being counted. The certificates were being sent out to those who got at least 75% score. I got 100% :) Now the classes are online for everyone, without the assessments, however.</div>
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Hopefully, more courses like this will be offered by Google!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://coursera.org/">Coursera.org</a></b></span><br />
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I had heard of Coursera since months ago, however signed up for it just recently, after I watched its co-founder <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/massive-online-education-daphne-koller-at-tedglobal2012/">Daphne Koller talk at TEDGlobal 2012</a> (the talk is not yet up on TED.com, I watched the webstream, <i>upd. 03.08.2012 - the <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html">talk is now live!</a></i>). There were several interesting <a href="https://www.coursera.org/courses">courses</a> starting in September, January 2013 and even later. The first course I signed up to, started on July 23 - "<a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet">Internet History, Technology, Security</a>".<br />
It features video lectures every week, quiz assignments and peer-graded assignments. The platform has a basic wiki for additional resources and also a discussion board, where students discuss various topics (except for the quiz answers :) and even form study groups (there is one for Armenians as well).<br />
I really love the coursera platform and look forward to completing several courses there!<br />
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Interesting read: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/07/17/is-coursera-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-traditional-higher-education/">Is Coursera the Beginning of the End for Traditional Higher Education?</a>, Forbes<br />
<i>upd. TED blog featured <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/01/12-great-free-online-courses/">12 great free online courses</a>. (03.08.2012)</i><br />
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This is TED's educational initiative, was presented at TEDxSummit in Doha, and launched in spring. It features animated videos on various topic that can be used in classes.<br />
Here is one of the most recent lessons: "<a href="http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-pain-relievers-work">How do pain relievers work?</a>"<br />
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First it was MITx, now it's edX - ambitiously announced as the future of online education. It's MIT and Harvard that teamed up to create online courses for interactive studies on the web, free for everyone.<br />
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Few days ago edX announced its 7 <a href="https://www.edx.org/courses">courses for Fall 2012</a> on Computer science and Chemistry from MIT, Harvard and Berkeley. Currently I'm looking forward to new courses that would be of my interest.<br />
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Interesting read: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/education/consortium-of-colleges-takes-online-education-to-new-level.html?_r=2">Universities Reshaping Education on the Web</a>, The New York Times.<br />
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p.s. Some reflections on current educational system in Russian: <a href="http://habr.ru/p/148356/" style="background-color: white;">habr.ru/p/148356/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-55323100325736636762012-07-18T01:46:00.000+04:002012-07-18T01:46:34.214+04:00Adios to my *Desire* and welcome *Simply Stunning*!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The time has come for my old Android phone to retire ... numerous scratches are reminders of the passionate kisses my phone had with the streets of Rome, Amsterdam, Doha, Warsaw, Cologne, Prague, Paris and others. The saved wi-fi networks could make a separate page in my memoirs :) -<i> TOUR_EIFFEL, Den Haag Nieuw Centraal, Starbucks, TEDx2012, The_Bulldog, ViennArt, UEFAEURO2012, MosaicHouseHotel, ictQATAR_iParks, Hilton Gdansk, ING Internet Gate</i> .... scrolling through that list always makes me travel back in memory and smile :)<br />
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My HTC Desire served me for whole 2 years.. I flashed it once with a new rom a year ago and it had a little more better battery life then. The worst thing about HTC Desires is the awfully small internal memory.. I couldn't install new apps for months.. had to constantly clear the browser cache and choose between the apps - which ones to keep. It was too annoying and I finally found the substitute :)<br />
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My A. bought himself a cool white HTC One X - the latest and one of the most powerful smartphones... I was hesitating between the X and S and eventually chose the <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-s/">latter</a>, for difference. And my geeky self is HAPPY!!!<br />
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I installed some 30 apps the first day and of course - started instagraming :D <span style="background-color: white;">I now enjoy the ICS Android and the dual-core processor performance..</span><span style="background-color: white;">The camera is just amazing.. I can take quality pictures while videoing! and it has the Beats Audio™! </span><br />
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I bought it from VivaCell-MTS, as it added me a "smart-bonus" worth half the price of the phone. I basically now have unlimited viva calls, texts and 3G internet!!!!!!! which is just awesome :) Listening to online radios on the go? no problem! :P<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-82146911200660434692012-07-02T22:59:00.000+04:002012-07-02T22:59:35.236+04:00Wanderlust<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">.at, .cz, .nl, .de, .fr, .ae, .qa, .ru, .pl .. nkr.am</span></b> :)) </blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">My check-ins from the last 6 months include this many countries :) [in reality, I didn't <i>travel </i>in all of them, .<i>ae</i> and <i>.ru</i> were transit points] .. traveling is my drug, my motivation, the trigger for my accomplishments, inspiration and for mental "restart".</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">I have estimated that I need at least 2 trips abroad a year, in order not to feel travel-sick. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">I know that I need to work hard to achieve this and I have found out which direction to work on :)</span><br />
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It's twice as awesome to travel with someone dear ;) [recent discovery, haha]<br />
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So here is a thank you shout-out for you, my dearest, for making this all awesomeness happen to me!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">p.s. <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2008/11/getting-ready-for-next-trip-beginning.html">my previous post on traveling</a>.</span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-26279734745931781702012-04-11T20:53:00.002+04:002012-04-11T20:53:57.942+04:00great'n'tough week...I'm having a TOUGH week…. And it's in a very positive sense :) <br />
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Just thought I should take time to write a couple lines for my dear blog. <br />
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Today, I've reached an important milestone. I have presented a paper at an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/189862731132248/">international conference</a> about media ethics. All the participants were YSU/YSLU professors, and the audience included some students and academic staff. <br />
My small report will be published in a guidebook for journalists, disseminated among universities that have journalism faculties and media organizations. <br />
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Later I'm going to deliver 2 sessions at a training on the effective use of the social networks for museum workers. <br />
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I have submitted an application for a very ambitious program, gathering all the required documents, writing all the statements, etc.<br />
I am preparing my documents for an even more ambitious competition :) lots of papers to gather.. and things to write.. i can make it...<br />
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Yesterday <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDk33g2MKps">I was on a TV</a> talking about the cases of companies asking for employee passwords.<br />
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Starting from today my face can be seen on <a href="http://www.hsbc.am/" target="_blank">HSBC</a> ads - billboards, web banners, and in a commercial on a TV, my voice can be heard in a radio ad :) … never thought I'd be offered to feature in a commercial and moreover, never thought I'd need to sign a document stating that I'm not a parliament elections candidate (TVs required it). <br />
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These days we are actively working on the organization of the TEDxKids@Yerevan event and another smaller TEDx event. <br />
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In my workplace, I'm managing a new big project (while finalizing the previous one) and also working on the proposals of some new interesting projects. <br />
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I am organizing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/206196332815610/">Foursquare Day 2012</a> and received a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=297661406971310&set=a.293177930752991.67306.141455465925239&type=1&theater" target="_blank">cute swag</a> from Foursquare itself and hope we'll have a great meetup! <br />
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In two days I'm leaving for an amazing new country I never thought I’d have a chance to visit. I will participate in a huge and exciting event with more than 700 participants from different countries. I will participate in some interesting and useful workshops and even make a small presentation myself. There will be opportunities to experience some amazing activities I could only see in movies before.<br />
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Besides, I'm very energetic and full of love because I have some GREAT people around me and I got convinced that the reality can feel even better than in the sweetest and cutest romantic situation seen in a <a href="http://vimeo.com/22077462">music video</a>.<br />
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I will be posting updates about my exciting activities in my FB and twitter pages and hopefully also eventually post a detailed post in my blog...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-42167670610185544702012-03-21T01:46:00.002+04:002012-03-21T01:46:53.243+04:00March EquinoxOh my... so many things happen to me daily. I'm engaged in so many activities, that I can't attempt to count all the roles I'm acting as on daily basis.<br />
Sometimes, when I'm hell tired like this, I start to look for the guilty party and eventually I blame myself for constantly challenging my own abilities and being unable to say no to new opportunities. I don't know where the limit is, but I'm nowhere near to reaching it at all.<br />
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You never know what opportunity is going to land in your inbox at any moment... --couldn't be truer!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Autobiography in Five Short Chapters</span><br />
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<b>Chapter One</b><br />
I walk down the street.<br />
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br />
I fall in.<br />
I am lost …. I am helpless.<br />
It isn’t my fault.<br />
It takes forever to find a way out.<br />
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<b>Chapter Two</b> I walk down the street.<br />
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br />
I pretend that I don’t see it.<br />
I fall in again.<br />
I can’t believe I am in this same place.<br />
But, it isn’t my fault.<br />
It still takes a long time to get out.<br />
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<b>Chapter Three</b> I walk down the same street.<br />
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br />
I see it is there.<br />
I still fall in … it’s a habit … but, my eyes are open.<br />
I know where I am.<br />
It is my fault.<br />
I get out immediately.<br />
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<b>Chapter Four</b> I walk down the same street.<br />
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br />
I walk around it.<br />
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<b>Chapter Five</b> I walk down another street.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>by Portia Nelson</i></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-53605329966310525222012-01-31T23:30:00.000+04:002012-02-01T02:25:33.789+04:00Thank you, 2011The January is almost over and I've finally got to finalize the post about my 2011.<br />
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Here are the top events that made my year so awesome.<br />
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<li>Was a trainer on Personal branding and online reputation management, on effective use of social networks and twitter in particular, did a session for a training of trainers.</li>
<li>Tuned my public speaking skills with several presentations at various events.</li>
<li>Visited some interesting locations in Armenia and met some great people.</li>
<li>Became part of the geeks community with some very cool people :)</li>
<li>Helped with organization of some interesting and geeky events like <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/04/organizing-foursquare-day-meetup-in.html">Foursquare Day</a>, BarCamp EVN 2011, TEDxYerevan 2011.</li>
<li>Did a presentation on "<a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-date-geek-girl-my-barcampevn11.html">How to date a geek girl</a>" at BarCamp Yerevan 2011, which later became viral on the web, and Slideshare's presentation of the day, of the week :)</li>
<li>Was a <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/10/guinea-pigs-in-technology-or-geek-girls.html">speaker at TEDxYerevan 2011</a>, a huge milestone reached. Met some wonderful people thanks to the event. (Side effect: made my shoe collection famous :D)</li>
<li>Had a ride on a helicopter and applied for a parachute jumping (pending).</li>
<li>Was on TV live several times... as an expert on ebooks (haha), email communication (interesting), blogger (when did i last update my blog? :D) and stuff like that)))</li>
<li>Was a maid of honor for the first time in life and enjoyed my title a lot :)))) </li>
<li>Applied for a license and became an official <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/12/im-tedx-organizer.html">TEDx organizer</a> and organized my first TEDx (out of 4 to be organized within a year) end of November.</li>
<li>Attended a live show of one of my favorite bands - COLDPLAY!</li>
<li>Went to Eurotrip - 5 countries and 8 cities in just 12 days. Saw the Paris, climbed the Eiffel, crossed the whole Germany from West to East on a car, and all of this - with my best friend :)</li>
<li>On my 4th visit to Amsterdam, I finally tried a space-cake....my advice: whatever it is... be sure you have someone to take you home afterwards :)</li>
<li>Reconnected with a special friend, who later became an even more special one to me :)
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Watch my 2011 in photos that matter :) 180 photos that showcase moments that mattered during my 2011. The music is: Coldplay - We Found Love.<br />
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I decided to actively take part in spreading the ideas of TED becoming a TEDx Activator. Now let me tell you what it is and why I'm so proud now :))<br />
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/639">TEDx Activator</a> is an experiment in partnership with the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a>, to support TEDx organizers who are using TEDx events to spread ideas in the developing world and unprivileged communities. Any community that does not have access to TED and TED.com qualifies.<br />
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TEDx - is an independently organized TED event by an individual who has to be granted a free license from TED. The event can be just viewing TED talks, or can have live speakers as well. TED rules state that if it's a full-day event, total 25% of talks have to be pre-recorded talks from TED.com.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKUodrZa8r9362FePX8FScfANTUf65D-i_A8hElsLQegWk3OOl2flN_hSVM71lwzztM2yimPSz04LBr3m-0I1feLG8UuNIZFONf7rceP114FCiGRKVrGqLRQflmWVhYZvcHmUqptwAOtR8/s1600/IMG_8233.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKUodrZa8r9362FePX8FScfANTUf65D-i_A8hElsLQegWk3OOl2flN_hSVM71lwzztM2yimPSz04LBr3m-0I1feLG8UuNIZFONf7rceP114FCiGRKVrGqLRQflmWVhYZvcHmUqptwAOtR8/s200/IMG_8233.JPG" width="133" /></a>In reality, TED is very strict about rules for TEDx and I actually enjoy being part of this!!! There is a strong community with many virtual collaboration tools which somehow reminded me of my beloved youth organization - <a href="http://www.aiesec.org/">AIESEC</a>.<br />
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In the framework of the TEDxActivator program, each of the Activators will be organizing 4 TEDx events in 1 year, for the above mentioned unprivileged communities.<br />
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The first event I planned was for teenagers of various backgrounds, the others most likely will be in the regions of Armenia.<br />
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The first event me and my friend Gohar organized on November 30, was for <a href="http://www.tumo.org/">TUMO</a> kids exclusively, named <b>TEDxTumanyanPark</b>, and made possible with the help of TEDx Activator Manager and TEDxYerevan licensee Kristine Sargsyan. It was a viewing event with the theme "Creativity in tech". We invited 100 kids (announcing it on Facebook) to the cinema hall of TUMO.<br />
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We selected 5 short to mid-length talks with many visuals. We made sure the Armenian translations of the talks (most of which were done by me and Gohar) were there and were correct. We prepared small intros for the talks and also were telling the main points of the talks in Armenian, since some of the kids couldn't manage to read the subtitles or understand the English speech. We had a great support from the TUMO staff and it was a pleasure to work with them!<br />
And based on what we heard from the kids - they really enjoyed it! I hope we will see TED speakers growing up out these kids who were just getting acquainted with TED :)<br />
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Here are a few official numbers about <b>TEDx</b>:<br />
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<li>TEDx began in<b> <u>March 2009</u></b>.</li>
<li># of TEDx events 2009: <b><u>279</u></b></li>
<li># of TEDx events 2010: <b><u>952</u></b></li>
<li># of TEDx events 2011 so far (Nov. 29): <b><u>1645</u></b></li>
<li>Total # events: <b><u>2876</u></b></li>
<li>Countries: <b><u>118</u></b></li>
<li>Languages: <b><u>40+</u></b></li>
<li>Licensees:<b> <u>3450</u></b><b><u>+</u></b></li>
<li>Videos (TEDxTalks): <b><u>10,500+</u></b></li>
<li>Across various platforms, TEDxTalks videos have been viewed over<b> <u>50 million times</u></b>. </li>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arpik/sets/72157628221088535/with/6431404083/">Here are more pics from the event</a>, made by my lovely cousin Semira Martirosyan.<br />
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<i>P.S. My status msg on FB about becoming a TEDx organizer got 120 likes and 30 comments. As it turns out, there were rumors in the city that I had quit my current job and now I'm a full-time TEDx organizer :). Dear all, i'm still PanARMENIAN Arpik and I have no intention to change my job. Being a TEDx organizer does not require full time efforts, thankfully :)</i><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-35879942550334504152011-11-10T03:26:00.000+04:002011-11-10T12:56:43.978+04:00a lunch with @dolboed and meeting @stevewoz at the airport. quite a day!<span style="background-color: transparent;">Often, when you wake up in the morning, you have no idea how many awesome things will happen to you on that day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">This week, I was invited to take part at the EU-Armenia Seminar on "Media Today" in Tsakhkadzor with many international guests and had a chance to get acquainted with </span><a href="http://dolboeb.livejournal.com/" style="background-color: transparent;">Anton Nossik</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, the <a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BA,_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87">Russian internet guru</a>. We had some interesting conversations over lunch and coffee and he even started following me on Twitter and 4sq! :)</span><br />
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You know, as a rule, I don't take photos of me with celebrities. I hate that. But i love being around them and talking to them. I get inspired by the conversations and learn a lot indeed.<br />
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Today the news broke that <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/83302/">Steve Wozniak is arriving to Armenia</a> to receive the <a href="http://globalitaward.am/">Global IT award</a> by the Armenian President. While posting a status about it I saw a Facebook suggestion to subscribe to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stevewoz">Steve Wozniak</a>'s updates. I checked out his profile and saw his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stevewoz/posts/10150450501666282">Foursquare checkin</a> that was posted on his wall with the comment mentioning his flight number and destination - Yerevan :)<br />
I couldn't miss the chance to go and meet him at the airport with friends. Despite not having any "i" devices to give him for signing and <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-thoughts-on-gadgets-and-apple.html">not quite being an Apple fangirl</a>, it was a great chance for me to meet the Apple co-founder in person :)<br />
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My friends prepared a small surprise for Woz. He was really excited to see them (and his wife and <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/richgoldman/status/134356021551435776">other people</a> there too!). He signed their iPads (they're priceless now) and got an Armenian apple from <a href="http://liamkhitaryan.blogspot.com/">Lia</a> (and <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MusikLia/status/134357652930179072">hugged</a> her:))<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">me tweeting!</td></tr>
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<br /><br />Adrineh blogged today about the <a href="http://leretourin3parts.blogspot.com/2011/11/ten-reasons-i-love-living-in-yerevan.html">10 reasons she loves about living in Yerevan</a>. I can relate to the points she mentioned but would add a new one that's very true for me: life in Yerevan is full of surprises! You can hear that a legend like Woz is coming to Armenia right on his arrival day and actually rush and meet him in the airport :)<br />
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<a href="http://liamkhitaryan.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">pics by Lia Mkhitaryan</span></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-80109073313356167262011-10-29T14:46:00.000+05:002011-10-29T14:50:31.911+05:00"Guinea Pigs in Technology" or geek girls are cool! my TEDxYerevan talk<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9db9F9po5NzOfLI6Od-vL8cbEtLGybtJ0N1g4sxFVLMZUiV1d1W0-Q01Ya86k6NHf-thGciZfrNQMxjaN9FjsoNPrTLr6DQERmiWdDKmc30hJdTdSmWLZqG-GpDL5xiY097da8HKDlkGR/s1600/IMG_7029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9db9F9po5NzOfLI6Od-vL8cbEtLGybtJ0N1g4sxFVLMZUiV1d1W0-Q01Ya86k6NHf-thGciZfrNQMxjaN9FjsoNPrTLr6DQERmiWdDKmc30hJdTdSmWLZqG-GpDL5xiY097da8HKDlkGR/s320/IMG_7029.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/09/me-at-tedxyerevan-2011.html">As I have told you already</a>, I was honored to be selected as one of the speakers of <a href="http://www.tedxyerevan.com/speakers.html">TEDxYerevan 2011</a>.<br />
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I was very excited about the opportunity and I also knew that it's gonna be a tough job. I had to pass auditions with the organizing team and prepare a talk which would be:<br />
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<li>geeky</li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfH9VX6ElqlAN9nlmJjrj3P6RJPp8rqm2JMHOivexPsN9iRIfDmWfkb4Iuy2xrpIb23W1GVqUna2J_vobqJ9N7hwnWL5QeSOCKs_bg-rWa74gzi0HmgMkaDMqJs3uTR6ZwhIopNp1lPba/s1600/IMG_7028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfH9VX6ElqlAN9nlmJjrj3P6RJPp8rqm2JMHOivexPsN9iRIfDmWfkb4Iuy2xrpIb23W1GVqUna2J_vobqJ9N7hwnWL5QeSOCKs_bg-rWa74gzi0HmgMkaDMqJs3uTR6ZwhIopNp1lPba/s200/IMG_7028.JPG" width="200" /></a>After my sudden success with the <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-date-geek-girl-my-barcampevn11.html">BarCamp's talk</a>, everyone expected of me something similar: just an easy, funny speech about geeks and dating. But I really wanted my talk to contain a personal story (like in most of TED talks), have a message and to inspire at least some people. So i had many conversations with various people, met other geek girls. My closest friends were particularly helpful as they were "working" on my talk all the way from the start to the final submission. I even organized some small auditions at in my apartment, asking for feedback on slides, texts and even my body language when talking (a friend even recorded my rehearsal on a video so i could watch myself).<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Do you know what guinea pigs and women in technology have in common?</span><br />
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This is an old joke i used to hear a lot some time ago. The popular answer is this: the common thing between women in tech and guinea pig is the fact that women are related to technology the same way guinea pigs are related to pigs. I'm here to tell you that this is complete and utter… nonsense.<br />
Let me tell you a story.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOYJJdMM64v9Ktt7BwhukKbt4p2twNN38AVyhCrtIX6Q3KLEpC-EndbkPfeuGTyMt0SU9POBzEbg8-kBsHTKnb7I4CJRa53xKyXufEFj2dtNy-vX3vBAB_a6y6YW1V0Ynlkl3CrJHm9WM/s1600/IMG_7120.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOYJJdMM64v9Ktt7BwhukKbt4p2twNN38AVyhCrtIX6Q3KLEpC-EndbkPfeuGTyMt0SU9POBzEbg8-kBsHTKnb7I4CJRa53xKyXufEFj2dtNy-vX3vBAB_a6y6YW1V0Ynlkl3CrJHm9WM/s200/IMG_7120.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="200" /></a>So it’s about a girl, who was born in a very typical Armenian family. Normally her destiny would be pictured like this: she’ll go to school, enter university, find a husband, have some kids, become an exemplary housewife who can cook excellent dolma… and work as a teacher maybe.. well, in this particular family i'm going to tell you about, things went a little different.<br />
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Something somewhere went wrong and the first signs of the troubles have started to emerge as the family bought their first PC back in 1996 and their teenage daughter started to show signs of computer addiction.. becoming a «computer rat» in their words. Her initial plans to become a journalist quickly vanished and she started to dream of becoming a hacker.<br />
Since the age of 13 she became the computer expert for her whole extended family, getting emergency calls whenever someone couldn't find a certain key on the keyboard, or couldn't change the font properties in the Word processor.<br />
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Since then, “Let Me Google It For You” has been a phrase she used a lot. Well and the RTFM.<br />
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She has been studying computer science and one day she realized that the profession she's chosen is changing her while studying databases when she was around 18 years old. She had this idea.. of being able to remember big amounts of information, to be able to connect things she heard.. and just to be able to fit in all the things she was learning. She found out how to optimize her brain's databases, arrange the tables with a 'foreign key' and index all the data, so that all the new information she gets, gets stored in the appropriate table with the keywords, and she can fetch the information quite easily. This was a remarkable moment when she realized that she somehow managed to optimize her brain the way, so she quickly connects the facts and random pieces of information and her memory is significantly improved…
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One of the happiest moments of her life was buying a laptop. She needed a portable computer that she could use it even in bed and in cafes, and when she had it, it was not very common to walk in the streets with big laptop bags yet.. and she occasionally felt herself like the<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXNNqNfQBs"> little Tiffany from the Men in Black</a>.<br />
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With the web 2.0 and new media emerging, she became an early adopter, and was labeled as a tech evangelist. One who signs up for all the new social networks, manages to be aware of all the industry news… she has built some impressive online personality with big network, and with many followers and all…<br />
She was labeled as a geek. Then she started to explore what’s in that word.<br />
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So who are geek girls?<br />
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These are the most common perceptions I’ve brought together.<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">They lack social skills, mostly hang out with other geeks</span></li>
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<li>Using a lot techno-slang </li>
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Some of these things are truly just myths. In reality geek girls are:<br />
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<b>1. Independent or better to say - self-dependent people. </b>They solve most of their own problems :)<br />
They can easily setup a home wireless network, configure a router, even without a prior knowledge in networking. They just know how to find it out digging through search results and technical forums.<br />
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<b>2. Geek girls are smart, witty, tech savvy<br /> </b><br />
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<b>3. They are gadget and connectivity dependent</b>Even though they don’t depend on other people for their problems, they are very much dependent on their gadgets and network availability.<br />
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<b>4. They learn really quickly and are actually very good at quick self-learning.</b> They know how to google stuff, or youtube things like “how to fix damaged headphones” or simply “how to gift wrap a box”.<br />
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<b>5. Geek girls are info-junkie and love sharing. </b>They have to be up-to-date with the latest information on their interest and they all love sharing information and useful hacks. That’s why they are active in social networks.<br />
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<b>6. Also, geek girls can be really cute<br /> </b>Just like socialites. Not convincing?<br />
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Well.. for the socialites we all know that they are: <br />
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Obsessed with shopping and worship shoes </span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">They actually admire lady gaga for some reason. </span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">They are obsessed with SATC show and frequently quote the heroines. </span></li>
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I know a geek girl who’s a shopaholic, with a particular passion for shoes. Well, she recently told us, she counted about 27 pairs in her 2011 spring-summer collection.<br />
And not only her… among my geek girlfriends there are ones who think that Lady Gaga is actually cool. They read Cosmo and yeah, Sex and the City is one of their favorite shows of all time, they were noted to be stylish and pretty. Not quite like the perceptions, right?<br />
Now lets go back to the girl I was telling you about in the beginning.<br />
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The netbook that’s the default accessory in her purse is actually pink. It has Google, Firefox, Android and Hello Kitty stickers next to each other. Among her 200 RSS subscriptions, there are many fashion, gossip blogs. Her smartphone has more fashion apps than you know existed J She meets her friends not by calling and asking where they are, or telling where she is. They have foursquare and other geolocation services for that. She tracks her not suspecting sister with the google latitude she had setup on her cellphone.<br />
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You can meet geek girls in some glamorous party, all dressed up, on towering heels, talking on her smartphone.. Explaining someone from her workplace how to fix the server..<br />
You can meet a girl restarting that damn router at a café when they badly need a wifi.<br />
This is Ani, she has written an alarm clock application for her friend’s phone, because it didn’t have one.<br />
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These girls - Nelly and Gayane, have created a very popular website dedicated to indie music all by themselves, coding, promotion and stuff. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9xggfWgqrYtQKynuw4hWqWv1HMv51DqBjPR5XZxL4iSScvchrgLPM4869JmMvjU_yyqoR3G_1VSBVHwN5DzbYEr_6ZbvtYNXfqmcTejRa405Ub9zcFhpuZ2tKsW_9sFyS9SZctO9AW5dS/s1600/IMG_7122.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9xggfWgqrYtQKynuw4hWqWv1HMv51DqBjPR5XZxL4iSScvchrgLPM4869JmMvjU_yyqoR3G_1VSBVHwN5DzbYEr_6ZbvtYNXfqmcTejRa405Ub9zcFhpuZ2tKsW_9sFyS9SZctO9AW5dS/s200/IMG_7122.JPG" width="200" /></a><br />
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Geek girls were active in Yerevan Barcamps’ organization, well; I was one of them and guess what? I was telling about “how to date a geek girl”. Somehow this presentation became a viral hit on the web, becoming the top presentation of the day, then week, then most tweeted and ended up getting about 20K views in couple of weeks. And I got featured in a Taiwanese website with a special mention of my netbook which turned out to be a Taiwanese pride. It got a huge positive feedback and I want to share some of the highlights.<br />
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When geek girl is dating a geek guy.. well. That’s predictable. They communicate via messengers (even when they are in the same room), they schedule meetings via google calendar invitations, their computers are sweetly connected via a shared folder in dropbox, and they express their emotions via likes and comments…<br />
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When geek girl is dating a non-geek. Either the guy gets paranoic thinking that their (potential) girlfriend can hack everything of theirs, starting with text messages on the phone, ending with email and social media accounts. And nothing good comes out of it.<br />
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You can never know that a pretty girl you’ll be flirting with in a bar, might have already checked your FB profile on her smartphone while you were looking away, and might have tweeted how bored she is with your conversations.<br />
But, if guys are smart enough, they start exploring her ‘territory’, signing up in the social networks she’s in, following her posts and reacting to them.<br />
If you follow these simple steps, a geek girl can give you the root password for her heart.<br />
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But actually, being a geek girl is really cool.<br />
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Being a geek girl makes you feel more confident, independent. You can solve your own problems actually. You become needed and demanded by everyone around, from your boss to your friends.<br />
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So what do guinea pigs and girls in technology have in common? Yes, they are both cute <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><br />
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We, the geek girls of Armenia have decided to establish a community of our own. So i invite the girls to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/geekgirlsarm/">join us</a>.<br />
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At last, I want to tell you that a geek’s image for girls actually comes with a ‘dumbness filter’. If you’re a geek girl, you can attract all the right guys and scare all the wrong ones <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> <br />
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Girls, enjoy being geeks.</blockquote>
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I'm really thankful to all the people who approached me, gave feedback, told me that they could relate to some parts of the talk and just told me they enjoyed it :) I'm thankful to fellow speakers for cheering me up when i was nervous and for all the support. I am so lucky to be part of this great team!<br />
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I loved this line since i first read it. I even named my tumblog like that - "<b><a href="http://arpik.tumblr.com/">Eventually everything connects</a></b>".<br />
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I love finding out unexpected connections between things that i never thought could be related anyhow. Facts, people, ideas...<br />
Actually, when i googled the phrase to find out the author, I was greatly surprised. It connected, again!!!<br />
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The full phrase is the following: "<b>Eventually everything connects—people, ideas, objects…the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.</b>"<br />
The author is Charles Eames - legendary designer.. and... imagine. I've met his grandson!!! A TED speaker <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/the_design_genius_of_charles_and_ray_eames.html">Eames Demetrios</a>. Who came to Yerevan for his project <a href="http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com/">Kcymaerxthaere</a> (I'm gonna blog about it separately).<br />
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Here's Eames Demetrios' TED talk about his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames">legendary grandparents</a>.<br />
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<li>I am from the first generation of kids of Independent Armenia to go to school in September 1991. </li>
<li>I remember seeing tanks from the window of my school (it was Charents school on Amiryan str.)</li>
<li>I remember the the war, the dark and cold years and studying under the candle light. And then one day the electricity turned back on and didn't go off again. </li>
<li>I remember watching how Lenin's statue was dismantled and moved out of the Republic Square. </li>
<li>I remember watching how the Armenian tricolor was raised on the Republic Square for the first time. I was standing there, holding my dad's hand. </li>
<li>I've seen the developing <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-2-day-road-trip-day-2-free-artsakh.html">free</a> and <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-2-day-road-trip-interesting-artsakh.html">independent</a> Artsakh.</li>
<li>I've been standing, captivated and holding breath, in front of the newly renovated Republic Square fountains for the first time admiring the singing and dancing show.</li>
<li>I've been following the preparations for the 20th anniversary celebrations and I feel proud. </li>
<li>I have seen the worst times of my independent country and me and my children will see its best times.</li>
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Few days ago friends were discussing their plans of moving to study/work abroad and have the life they deserve and want. Then someone asked me where do I want to move to? This is not a question I would think twice before answering. I don't usually go into such discussions and I never blame anyone for planning or actually leaving the country for a better life. However, for myself, I can never imagine living permanently abroad. Even in my beloved Italy. Few months at most. And it's not an exaggeration and not a selfless patriotic decision. I do truly feel good living here and I don't care about the fact that I would be earning much more and would have a more secured life if i moved to some western country.
I'm not blind and I see the development here and I see the role I can have in it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.panarmenian.net" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://stickers.panarmenian.net//indepandence/indepandence_eng.pan" /></a>There are people who constantly criticize all good and bad initiatives (some even do manage to present entirely good and worthy things from the worst possible angle), point out all the mistakes and shortcomings of the authorities, alarm about problems and spread out all the negativity. That's their way of trying to make a change. As for me, I prefer to cross the street on the green light, never throw anything on the street, admire and share news about all the good initiatives and notice the smallest steps in the development. In my inner circle of friends there are people who are optimistic about the country's future, preferred to stay and work in the country despite of the numberless opportunities to move away. They don't spend most of their time complaining, instead, they actually try to work things out and help others to work things out with a positive attitude. I know how I can contribute to my country's prosperity and I will do it. One step at a time.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is my post from 3 years ago: <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2008/09/independent-armenia-17.html">Independent Armenia -17</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com2Yerevan, Armenia40.183333 44.51666740.086285 44.3587385 40.280381 44.674595499999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-53957957011060169232011-09-17T02:25:00.000+05:002011-09-17T02:25:06.624+05:00the Cosmo girl in me has awakenedFinally I'm inspired to write another blog post. It's about my new favorite magazine - <a href="http://www.cosmo.am/">Cosmo</a>!<br />
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To tell the truth, when I first heard that there will be an Armenian Cosmopolitan, i wasn't very optimistic about that... and I couldn't even imagine that I will be buying its every issue and participating in Cosmo events with such an enthusiasm. The cosmo girl in me has been awakened :) I don't remember myself buying any beauty or women's magazines. So far, the only magazine I've been buying with this periodicity was the "Хакер" when I was a teenager :)<br />
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There have been very different responses to Cosmo's appearance in the Armenian market. Many friends of mine have been mocking the articles, titles and just the fact that "those terms" sound so funny in Armenian. But is there any other way? I imagine how difficult it is for the writers and editors to translate and adapt the materials and just to find out how those things are called in Armenian! One of the biggest impacts of Cosmo in our society will be for us to finally get used to Armenian language terms for things. I didn't know Armenian equivalents for most of cosmetics items and even names of clothing (դիմափոշի for румяна, ստվերաներկ for тень, բոկոտիկ for босоножка, երանգաքսուք for тональный крем etc).<br />
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So here I'm gonna tell you why I <3 Cosmo so much :)<br />
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<li>It's very professionally done. From content to the design and layout (printing quality too :))). I really enjoy browsing its pages.</li>
<li>Contrary to other beauty magazines we have in the market (which are brought from Russia), the content in Armenian Cosmo is actually targeted on us! You see the ad and you know that you can buy it here in the boutiques.</li>
<li>The fashion and beauty columns are informative, useful and with items that are accessible for us. You can see professional photo shoots with clothing that is hand picked from our boutiques by their fashion editor with prices indicated and stylists advice on how to combine the items.</li>
<li>They have a good social media strategy and a very professional <a href="http://www.cosmo.am/">website</a> (kudos to <a href="http://blansh.wordpress.com/">Shushan</a>!;).</li>
<li>They succeeded in finding their target "audience" and their first months showed us how much this magazine was demanded by Armenian young women. I'm not surprised that Cosmo is actually the largest circulation Armenian magazine in our market.</li>
<li>I'm really proud for knowing some people from the Cosmo staff personally and that's how I'm not surprised how they get such a great thing done every month :))</li>
<li>You can find useful gifts in some issues! I bought two copies of an issue that had a really cute and quality passport cover from <i>women'secret</i> inside. My mom started to read Cosmo after that :))))</li>
<li>They organize really cool events !!! :)</li>
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Last month Cosmo organized a "<b>Tropic Party</b>" in Vahakni and I went there with my cousin and met looots of friends. They had invited some beauty salons and cosmetics brands to showcase their products, had some contests and many surprises. Imagine, opportunity to have a free professional make-up (got lucky to have it!), hairdo (mine was amazing! my sister didn't recognize me at first when she saw me like that :)), free cosmopolitan cocktail (of course), great music and gifts, gifts...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">here i learned about this hair gadget which makes awesome hair :))</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this pic was featured in the September issue, I'm on it!! :D</td></tr>
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Here's Cosmo's photo report on the party: <a href="http://www.cosmo.am/am/cosmo-community/cosmo-news/7PZ96P9DNN154MZZ">part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.cosmo.am/am/cosmo-community/cosmo-news/GYLX69LB198QDZ9O">part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.cosmo.am/am/cosmo-community/cosmo-news/F9DKB7ZO59SDBE4U">part 3</a>.<div>
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After the tropic party, we learned that there will be a <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177668645635004">shopping night</a> in Yerevan</b>, for the first time!!! They managed to get more than <a href="http://www.cosmo.am/am/cosmo-community/cosmo-news/6S7L5XZMQ5FQB48O">80 boutiques and companies participating</a> and actually organized a real shopping festival for Yerevan citizens. I promised myself that I won't do any shopping before that date (financial issues, nothing else :D), but had to break my promise since I had to be a gorgeous maid of honor on my friends' wedding before the shopping night :))) [and you know, i couldn't recycle an old dress and even shoes on that wedding!]</div>
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With my <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/search/label/shopaholics%20unlimited">shopaholics image</a> known to the whole world, I unwillingly became a walking advertisement for the Cosmo shopping night :D I've been getting few questions on what it is and how it's gonna be held, every day. Calls, FB messages, in person... well, somehow i was really informed :) Hey Cosmo, I guess you owe me here :D</div>
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It so happened that had very limited finances [the shopping for wedding was... costly, to say the least :D]. As a true shopaholic, I already knew what's up in the boutiques, so the shopping night was planned to be just 'walking around, fitting stuff' kinda activity. And it so happened that at first, I got to be strolling from boutique to boutique with my awesome <i>male </i>friend :D very nice experience, I must say [well, it became a little awkward in the Etam lingerie boutique, but hey, there were few other guys in there too! :D]. Actually, in this case, I got lucky to know a guy who appreciates shopping in general and was really patient with me :)) </div>
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After that I got the chance to visit the Burberry store for the first time (memorable thing, huh) and watched my friend Ani buy a beautiful new dress with a nice discount from there :))</div>
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So how was it? as my friend Gaspar noted, there wasn't so much stir and boom during the Museum night in any year :D The central streets were flooded with groups of girls, all dressed up, with full shopping bags. Some stores organized banquets and DJs playing.. with all the stir, you could think that there have been clearance sales everywhere. In reality, there were 10-20% discounts, plus gifts, contests and a promise to be open till midnight. There were queues in front of many boutiques up to late night. I managed to do a small shopping and to have this cute star pendant from <a href="http://shop.mango.com/ficha.faces?id=53637457&state=she_077_IN#.TnMNZlS2MVs.facebook">Mango</a> as a memory from this day :)</div>
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P.S. Shopaholics among you can check out this <a href="https://foursquare.com/arpik/list/where-to-shop-for-clothes-and-lingerie">Foursquare list</a> I made of boutiques where I shop for clothing and lingerie.</div>
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P.P.S. I'm not affiliated with Cosmopolitan Armenia in any way (except for the people i know who work for it) and this isn't meant to be an advertisement. I just want to show my support for this 'project' and will continue promoting the stuff i like in my blog :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-50260566183227410802011-09-11T03:16:00.001+05:002011-12-06T01:35:58.303+04:00me at TEDxYerevan 2011Just came here to share some exciting news :)<br />
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Loooots of exciting things happened to me since I last wrote here and I'm having a terrific week now.<br />
Now I'm very close to reaching another milestone.<br />
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You know, I've always been bad at public speaking. As a shy girl since school, I've always avoided public appearances, although they somehow followed me everywhere. I always knew I was bad at it and had a big desire to improve myself, so I started to take the chances whenever I was invited to do a training or presentation. It required a lot of energy with my self-criticism and perfectionism.<br />
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I remember, at <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2009/04/barcamp-evn-09-my-impressions.html">BarCamp 2009</a>, I was just an attendee and didn't have the courage to make a presentation. Next year I volunteered for <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2010/06/barcamp-evn-10-impressions-and-pics.html">BarCamp 2010</a> and did 2 presentations, got a lot of feedback. <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-date-geek-girl-my-barcampevn11.html">This year</a> I also did two presentations, and spoke at the opening.. all in the big main hall! ...and the feedback was awesome. I am thankful to each and every one of my friends who were there, supported me and pointed me what had to be improved.<br />
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During these two years I did a number of presentations and trainings in various places and every time i've been noticing my own improvement.<br />
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Last year at <a href="http://www.tedxyerevan.com/tedx-yerevan10.html">TEDxYerevan 2010</a> I watched my friend preparing for her talk and other speakers presentations and thought: hey, it'd be cool if i could grow up to be a TEDx speaker :) ...<br />
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<a href="http://www.tedxyerevan.com/speakers.html">so here I am</a> :) in a great company! looking forward to September 24 to present my ideas on "Guinea pigs in technology" ;))<br />
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and btw, it will be held in <a href="http://www.tumo.org/">TUMO</a>!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-51124745462092867492011-06-07T19:42:00.119+05:002011-06-11T15:23:34.655+05:00How to date a geek girl (my #barcampevn11 presentation)This is the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/arpik/how-to-date-a-geek-girl">presentation</a> and slide notes for my <a href="http://barcamp.am/">BarCamp EVN'11</a> talk.<br />
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A certain person, who considers himself as ‘definitely not a geek’, inspired me to start writing a blog post about this, which was never finalized and published before this… but while i was trying to chose a presentation topic for this barcamp, and had two serious topics in mind, well… 2 days ago i had this “tadaaa” moment and that was it :) i’m here.<br />
So .. well.. i have to say.. I’m a geek. A tech-savvy, gadgets dependent, spending tremendous amount of time being connected. There’s also a term – wired.<br />
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So i’ll be telling some insights on this topic from my own experience… a little bit spiced, however ;) <br />
Just one thing before i start – you have to promise not to use any of these tips against me, okay?<br />
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These tips might be particularly useful for non-geeks as they give some perspective from an actual geek girl.<br />
They will particularly work if the girl has some initial interest in you, or at least nothing against.<br />
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Geek girls, probably not everyone, but of the type i’m gonna tell you about, are quite accessible. Meaning, they are easily reachable via some social networks, have quite a noticeable online presence. Like if you google their name, you’ll get at least couple of pages of results for her profiles, blog posts, comments etc.</div>
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One of the first things you should do is - if she has a blog – definitely subscribe to it. Find her on social networks, get on to the messenger she’s using and start friending.. but not in all places at once. <i>Note</i>: if you’re not on any of those popular networks, you should seriously consider signing up for them, that will significantly ease the job ;)</div>
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Start exploring her online personality.. her likes and dislikes.. chances are, you’ll get pretty much informed on how she spends her days, what does she do in life, etc.. </div>
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If you’re still interested in her after discovering her online personality… then you should start... interacting.</div>
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Write comments. Carefully pick when and where to comment so that you don’t annoy. Learn the netiquette and some basic ethics of online communicaton in those networks.. that’s why it’s important to observe a little bit before you act. .. so my advice here is.. don’t like or comment her every post :) or write messages like these:</div>
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Ok third.. find her. I mean find out where she hangs out. If you’re lucky enough to be mutually friended with her in Foursquare, then you’ll know when she hangs out in the evenings, her favorite spots.. you’ll find the good time to join her. If you’re lucky to be authorised to see her location any moment via google latitude.. that means wow.. she must really like you. You get bonus points for that :)</div>
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So basically, she'll appreciate a msg like- "r u still in Segafredo? can i join you? of course if i won't disturb".</div>
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..and by the way, couple of words about <b>privacy</b>. If you find out that she has started being online for you in Facebook chat, that must be that she added you to her some kind of “online for chat” friends list. By the things that are accessible for you in her profile, you can guess how much she trusts you.. if she’s a real geek, she has to have multiple friends lists with custom privacy settings, so if you see all pictures she’s tagged in, all her wall posts, profile info.. you have pretty good chances ;)</div>
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Find things that you can do that make her happy. Geek girls are not that kind of ones you can achieve by sending the standard flowers, inviting for a classic café dates.. if you notice that she’s very picky for details.. try not to do spelling mistakes when typing. That can annoy her :)</div>
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If you know that she’s an Android-er.. chances are that she hates everything about the “fruit” company and iPhones. Don’t bring that neverending “Android vs. iPhone” topic up :) </div>
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If you made a gadget/app choice because of her advice – let her know about it. You’ll get your plus points :)</div>
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You know what games i mean :) don’t leave her uncertain about your feelings and intentons for a long while. She might get pissed and take some steps. Like writing a kinda pissedoff letter, then <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-one-personal-letter.html">publishing it in her blog</a> :)<br />
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I know this list is not comprehensive and there’s still a lot to say and a geek girls can be very different… so in the end i want to give some bonus advices in case things don’t work with her after all :) or maybe you weren't meant to be together actually.</div>
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So “<b>how to remove someone from your (digital) life</b>” (without burning bridges, going brutal like unfriending) </div>
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<li>Untag from the pics that had you once connected..</li>
<li>Disable notifications for checkins in Foursquare</li>
<li>Hide/remove/block from messengers</li>
<li>Filter the emails (so they are marked as read and archived)</li>
<li>Delete her number from quick contacts, or just remove from contact lists at all, in case you get drunk and want to text..</li>
<li>… if all this doesn't work – simply do the inevitable:</li>
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Here's the presentation file:</div>
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p.s. a tip from <a href="http://twitter.com/netcrash">@netcrash</a> - buy her a domain name if she doesn't have one already :)<br />
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if you have comments or more tips, write here in the comments, i'll update the post with them :)<br />
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update 1: Lusine Barseghyan has<a href="http://blogging.bloggator.net/how-to-date-a-geek-girl/"> translated my post into Russian</a>, thanks, Lusine! :)<br />
update 2: My presentation went viral and became top presentation of the day/week and most tweeted on Slideshare! THANKS everyone! :)))</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-47246505886386510472011-04-30T22:15:00.001+05:002011-04-30T23:22:43.178+05:00Victor Ambartsumyan's legacy and my trip to Byurakan ObservatoryI have already <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-astronomy-hobby-and-international.html">told about my passion for astronomy</a> in my blog more than 2 years ago. This April 16 has been a very remarkable day for me. I had a tour in the <a href="http://bao.am/">Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory</a>. It was a press trip organized by the Armenian Astronomical Society (<a href="http://aras.am/">ArAS</a>); a step for promoting science and journalists came for help :) [note: <i>i'm not a journalist currently, but how could i resist not to go there, with the excuse that i work for a news organization... and am a blogger? :)</i>]<br />
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We learnt some amazing facts (Gayane Mirzoyan has outlined some of them in her <a href="http://gagasik.livejournal.com/173387.html">blog (Russian)</a> about the observatory, the telescopes etc. Here's my pick:<br />
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<ul><li>When first installed in 1976, the 2.6m telescope was the 7th in the world, now it's 45th... </li>
<li>Couple of years ago a small observatory was set up for educational purposes in Stepanakert, Artsakh Republic.</li>
<li>A number of international astronomic conferences were held in Armenia throughout these years, </li>
<li>In 1964 and 1971 conferences on extraterrestrial civilizations were held in Byurakan Observatory. The meeting of 1971 was the first international symposium on the problem of Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Communication with Them. Many prominent scientists, including astronomers, physicists, chemists, biologists, philosophers, and specialists of other related fields participated in the symposium.</li>
<li>Victor Ambartsumyan has been promoting Armenian language within the science academy institutions and in his will he even wrote that "everybody, regardless the percentage of Armenian genes in their blood, should study and master the Armenian language" (<a href="http://www.lezu.am/?p=223">source in Armenian</a>).</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Hayk Harutyunyan, director of the BAO</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div>There were also talks about astronomy and astrology (turns out even some journalists didn't know the difference!).. For those who don't know me well -- I absolutely hate everything connected with astrology and get frustrated to hear people confusing it with astronomy! </div><br />
<div>Here are some pics from the Ambartsumyan's worplace: </div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">the amazing portrait by my former colleague William</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After the presentations we had a tour in Ambartsumyan's house, which is now a museum. Then we went to see the pride of the observatory - the 2.6m telescope. I've been there couple of times by night and never seen it in the daylight. Turns out it was possible to get out to the balcony.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">2.6m telescope. pride of the observatory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">here is it - the largest telescope of the observatory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">the control panel of the telescope</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">me and Gayane, to whom I am grateful for learning about the press tour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the group of the press tour</td></tr>
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<div>This week I watched <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140914/">The Contact</a> again. I have almost forgotten how I loved that movie. And the next day I read in the news that <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seti_suspends_its_search_for_alien_life.php">SETI suspends its search for alien life</a> :(<br />
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</div><div>.. and I just finished translating the first Armenian TED speaker - Garik Israelian's talk about the spectroscopy and search for extraterrestrial life. Soon the Armenian subtitles will be published here. Here's the talk:</div><div><object height="326" width="446"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/GarikIsraelian_2009G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/GarikIsraelian-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=648&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=garik_israelian_what_s_inside_a_star;year=2009;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=peering_into_space;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;event=A+Taste+of+TEDGlobal+2009;tag=Science;tag=Technology;tag=astronomy;tag=chemistry;tag=life;tag=universe;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/GarikIsraelian_2009G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/GarikIsraelian-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=648&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=garik_israelian_what_s_inside_a_star;year=2009;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=peering_into_space;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;event=A+Taste+of+TEDGlobal+2009;tag=Science;tag=Technology;tag=astronomy;tag=chemistry;tag=life;tag=universe;"></embed></object></div><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-29168567846315557242011-04-14T23:56:00.000+05:002011-04-14T23:56:36.367+05:00Organizing the Foursquare day meetup in Yerevan #4sqday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3t8AOWZl1NHtnJrxckeqaZdJeuoqtv4aEPpqmQq01KN5HOrGa6HqSrSjZ5bB17rU8hbyxcxen1vhlEselfrFwraqfzd3c19VQ-lxSuuOxDGB_QPaOCafCToIX3pUoUxDWqc1vE0tdweF/s1600/4sqday-Badge-150x150.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3t8AOWZl1NHtnJrxckeqaZdJeuoqtv4aEPpqmQq01KN5HOrGa6HqSrSjZ5bB17rU8hbyxcxen1vhlEselfrFwraqfzd3c19VQ-lxSuuOxDGB_QPaOCafCToIX3pUoUxDWqc1vE0tdweF/s1600/4sqday-Badge-150x150.png" /></a>When writing <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-foursquare-in-yerevan.html">this post about a year ago</a>, I could never imagine that I'll become one of the "ambassadors" of <a href="http://www.foursquare.com/">Foursquare</a> in Armenia. Being an early adopter and a geek willing to try everything new, I'm somehow influential in the tech-related things among my friends and they often consult with me for new services and gadgets (like Kindle, Android phones, apps, tablets, geolocation services, etc).<br />
Throughout last year, I made a <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/arpik/geolocation-fun-4443758">presentation on Geolocation services and Foursquare</a> during the <a href="http://www.barcamp.am/">BarCamp Yerevan 2010</a>, appeared on <a href="http://yerevan.ru/2010/08/20/foursquare-v-armenii-ili-pautina-novogo-pokoleniya/">Yerevan.ru promoting Foursquare</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z3kZYpd2V78#t=405s">Banadzev production's Interactive program</a>, then my own <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/it_telecom/news/66356/">PanARMENIAN.Net interviewed me about the meetup</a>.<br />
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It somehow happened that I became the organizer of the annual <a href="http://www.meetup.com/foursquare/Yerevan-AM/88180/">Foursquare Day meetup in Yerevan</a> (4sq Day).<br />
<blockquote>Celebrated on April 16 of each year, Foursquare Day (4sqDay /4 squared = 16, hence 4/16!) is a chance to get out and connect with others in your neighborhood and around the world. </blockquote>I began following the <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/4sqYerevan">official 4sqDay twitter</a>, <a href="http://blog.4sqday.com/">read the blog and howto's</a> for organizers to make the most out of the meetup. I created a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200849073282283&index=1">Facebook event</a>, since it was easier to promote than the meetup page, in our case. I submitted the information about our meetup in the <a href="http://blog.4sqday.com/local/">local meetups database</a>. I also set up a Twitter account for coordination of our Foursquare activities in Yerevan - <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/4sqYerevan">@4sqYerevan</a>.<br />
I also filled a form to request <a href="http://blog.4sqday.com/2011/03/plan-your-4sqday-on-meetup-com-compete-get-swag/">a swag from Foursquare</a>, even though in order to receive it, we had to have 50 confirmed participants on the meetup.com page by April 4.<br />
Couple of days ago parents called me in the afternoon to say that I've got a package delivery home from Fedex. Turns out it was full of Foursquare goodness! A huge banner, stickers, badges as buttons and other stuff.<br />
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</div>By the way, Foursquare has been encouraging the meetup organizers to <a href="http://blog.4sqday.com/foursquare-day-proclamations/">approach our city mayors and ask them to proclaim the April 16 an official Foursquare Day</a> in our cities.<br />
Today we learned that <a href="http://blog.4sqday.com/2011/04/mayor-bloomberg-proclaims-416-as-foursquare-day-in-nyc/">mayor Bloomberg Proclaims 4/16 as Foursquare Day in NYC</a>!<br />
Somehow we thought that it won't be possible in our case.. and could take forever to reach our mayor, but maybe we should try next year? ;)<br />
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In case you are interested to learn more about the Foursquare, there's no better chance than coming to the meetup on <b>Saturday, April 16, 19:00 near Cascade</b>.<br />
<b>71</b> people are already "Attending" according to the FB event and 38 people confirmed participation on Meetup page.<br />
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If at least 50 people check in at the same place around the same time, everybody will get the "Swarm" badge for the first time in Armenia! and of course, the special 4sq day 2011 badge too.<br />
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<ul><li>Confirm your participation on the meetup page: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/foursquare/Yerevan-AM/88180/">http://www.meetup.com/foursquare/Yerevan-AM/88180/</a></li>
<li>RVSP on the FB event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200849073282283">https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200849073282283</a></li>
<li>Follow us on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/4sqYerevan">http://twitter.com/4sqYerevan</a> and the hashtag <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%234sqday">#4sqDay</a>.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">there were 2 "4SQ Day" t-shirts in the package and i reserved one for myself:) who wants the 2nd one?<br />
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-58516690115176599862011-03-21T02:56:00.000+04:002011-03-21T02:56:59.415+04:00story of one personal letter<blockquote>I've got 10 theories. Pick one or more that suit you and the reality the most.<br />
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<b>1.</b> you're an ass, that's it. a big fat ass and nothing more<br />
<b>2.</b> you hate me and try all the small stupid tricks just to let me know about it<br />
<b>3. </b>I'm just a dumb little thing making a big story out of that just one unreplied email, one stupid Sunday evening, one clearly harmless "missing in action" thing from that day in the cafe and a stupid chat message on the stupid March 8 day and I've annoyed the hell out of you already!<br />
<b>4.</b> you're awfully too busy to drop me a line that you are, in fact, busy, and we may reschedule the things we needed to discuss for next month/year<br />
<b>5. </b>you heard somewhere that i bite and kick asses of men and decided that you better ignore me than be beaten up by some geek chick<br />
<b>6. </b>you feel that you've been an ass not to notify me that you are busy when you were supposed to, then you had a sorta guilt feeling and decided to avoid me and the topic whatsoever until we both remember it when we accidentally meet again in few years<br />
<b>7. </b>you had a strange dream and woke up feeling that I have some hots for you, and I'll be chasing you all around and decided that you better avoid the whole story in a gentle ignoring way since you're just not into me<br />
<b>8. </b>you know that you were supposed to let me know that you're not coming and you were kinda sorta very busy these couple of weeks and were actually going to write me.. just now! but I was quicker..<br />
<b>9. </b>you feel oppressed and miserable when talking to me since I'm so much informed in some things that it makes you feel like a loser. and unless i dye my hair blonde and erase half of my brain's hard drive, I will you make feel like some douchebag everytime you communicate with me<br />
<b>10.</b> you are reading this thinking WTF! since you've sent me several text messages, called few times, wrote on FB, commented on my foursquare checkins and got not response. must be that it's me ignoring you.<br />
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<b>Action Items</b><br />
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<ul><li>if you feel that theories #1, #2 are more like you, then you should probably just ignore this message as well and we'll both live happily ever after and hopefully never see each other again.</li>
<li>if you feel that #5, #9 are closer to the truth then you have some clear problems with confidence and your feminine hormones are just overwhelming you right now and I better leave you alone dealing with this, not to make it worse. just forget, ok?</li>
<li>you're convinced that #3 is the case and oh, I'm a drama queen ya know.. I think I need some assistance here.. any chance you know a good shrink? [let's rule PMS out, not the case :)]</li>
<li>If #4 and #6 are close to reality, then it's better that we really flush all this story out to the toilet and go back to the day when you added me on foursquare or I friended you on FB and leave it as it was before. no reply needed to this obviously stupid message.</li>
<li>#7 Here I'd only say - "Duuuude, you're so not my type.. so calm down, it's just business and maybe I was that stupid to suppose that we could somehow be friends", well sorry to disappoint you then. I'd recommend you reading the following '<a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-friends-and-needs.html">cry of my heart</a>'.</li>
<li>if you feel that theories #8 and #10 are more like you, then you can come and talk to me this Sunday, 2pm at *****. no need to write a reply or anything. </li>
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**If you feel that I've gotten too far writing this smartass message and forgot to mention THE OBVIOUS, which shows you completely guilt-free and me (and my imagination) the sole reason for everything, then again you should probably come join me on Sunday and make me blush and cry and beg your pardon on my knees.</blockquote><br />
<b>What was this?</b><br />
my friend got an Android phone and is slowly becoming a geek. there has been some social media miscommunication between us since then. of course social networks made it easier to reconnect, however between all the Likes, Comments, Check-ins, comments on Check-ins, text messages, chat conversations, etcetera we kind of lost contact and it was actually harder to keep in touch :-D<br />
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at some point I got confused, as I didn't hear from him for a while. Since i had no clue what was happening with him and I was worried, i decided to let him know about it and at least get his attention :)<br />
* I'm publishing the letter with some modification and with his permission :)<br />
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So, if you were him, would you go? :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-78750783018202360312011-03-11T01:55:00.000+04:002011-03-11T01:55:48.188+04:00my astronaut's diplomaՆրանք, ովքեր այցելել են մեր տուն վերջին մի տասը տարվա ընթացքում, գրասեղանիս վերևում տեսել են այս դիպլոմը: Իսկ մնացածը կարող են տեսնել այստեղ`<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIxkqdOD6FypRkVubB9-EcPwzDQqa85DGdMW04FMIy0wpyVFjzR3SjIpauMEEO5yP0W9-P4L5wUptfHkczvh4vzxD3J9mq6EPftmiRR1ELGdCwzOR66ER30olHtTh_bFUOTb4RRL0GCKJ/s1600/diploma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIxkqdOD6FypRkVubB9-EcPwzDQqa85DGdMW04FMIy0wpyVFjzR3SjIpauMEEO5yP0W9-P4L5wUptfHkczvh4vzxD3J9mq6EPftmiRR1ELGdCwzOR66ER30olHtTh_bFUOTb4RRL0GCKJ/s400/diploma.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Ի հեճուկս <a href="https://www.facebook.com/500000kmps">Արթուր Պողոսյան</a>ի, այս մեկն իրական է, ստացել եմ Նիդեռլանդներում, որտեղ 9 տարեկանում մի ամիս ապրում էի: Հա, ու ես էլ մանկուց աստղագիտություն շատ էի սիրում ու Գագարինը իմ հերոսն էր :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-12369091166067864772011-03-06T02:57:00.000+04:002011-03-06T02:57:59.397+04:00on friends and needsWinter has gone for good and seems like I've survived it! The sun was turned ON as the calendar spring started on March 1 and me, the solar-battery-powered being, has been recharging quite successfully these days.<br />
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Finally had some thoughts I decided to share with my blog's readers...<br />
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I've been thinking that it would be good to have more people around me that actually care for me rather than needing my knowledge, connections or stuff like that. Every day I get emails/messages/calls asking for information or some kind of assistance and I'm gladly satisfying them within my capacity. I'm one of those pathetic beings that have hard time saying "no" and tend to put others' interests above own convenience and needs. That's how I'm programmed and I can't do anything with that. It's being very stressful, however, to notice how some people take advantage of it, sometimes maybe unwillingly.<br />
Sometimes, with this struggle to help those who need me for business, I neglect those who truly need me in a more emotional kind of way. There might be people who need to talk to me, share and discuss things, just see me... they might think I'm so busy that I can't be spending time with them and so never approach me for that <i>less serious</i> stuff. If you identified yourself with this - I'm truly sorry.<br />
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I do really really really need to feel that there are people who like me and care for me and could just call in the middle of the night to hear my voice. Or just ask for a meeting just for the sake of seeing each other, and not discussing business.<br />
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Sometimes I'm meeting people whom I need in this emotional kind of way because obviously there are things that bother me and I'd like to tell them to someone and ask opinions.. It occasionally happens that I'm meeting a new person and I feel I could tell my life's story to them, but what happens in reality is that I can't even get a chance to meet them in person.<br />
Here I'm usually becoming a victim of those "games we play" and stereotypes and can't just explain people why I need them, because what it's turning to be according to them is - that I'm fallen for them :) this kinda sucks.<br />
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I want more people sharing their knowledge, discussing things and daily learning with me.<br />
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I need more smart, meaningful and beautiful people around me, because that actually affects me, what I'm becoming!<br />
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I don't want you to have an impression that I have lack of friends or that I have any kind of problems with them :) I do have many friends and I love them all. Even those whom I haven't communicated to for ages and those who usually need me for fixing their computer related problems.<br />
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I have several amazing people around me that are always there for me and this I appreciate greatly.<br />
Most of these people receive long emails from me from time to time (usually on new years eve) and sometimes I can't keep it to myself how I love each of them. I put aside my shyness and turn the sincereness mode on the maximum level and use my writing skills to tell what I can't express otherwise.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWE3iYnlkn9tLIcohyGuBBA4fZvkS8DgQyFSugiZIbKECPqJ5YzUTkuwIBmQ5kvYqOV7DWtVPnzp68VjxVIoaHKxTxqAZiFGqBNuatIQGtnA6u4og8OGd2q93o_cNmiyN4ATatLr3BVfSa/s1600/25z55zk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWE3iYnlkn9tLIcohyGuBBA4fZvkS8DgQyFSugiZIbKECPqJ5YzUTkuwIBmQ5kvYqOV7DWtVPnzp68VjxVIoaHKxTxqAZiFGqBNuatIQGtnA6u4og8OGd2q93o_cNmiyN4ATatLr3BVfSa/s320/25z55zk.png" width="320" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185460932158702875.post-47107270215394418282011-01-21T02:04:00.000+04:002011-01-21T02:04:43.949+04:00Fight Club. my feelings about the book, quotes and some kinetic typography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrDyNqaZDfyplc6IgvpMpcS2_TENJJdfIKZO_NQDcIm2rxrWhp8M2b9M7pMtED1vL6kixSERx1dZ-vNilDT1ytP8ZbuLAWuTsqHZjNjBcUIEzVE_3TdfeAmurcU3X_SI0af1d_tI_XSt5/s1600/fight_club.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrDyNqaZDfyplc6IgvpMpcS2_TENJJdfIKZO_NQDcIm2rxrWhp8M2b9M7pMtED1vL6kixSERx1dZ-vNilDT1ytP8ZbuLAWuTsqHZjNjBcUIEzVE_3TdfeAmurcU3X_SI0af1d_tI_XSt5/s200/fight_club.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>While I was reviewing my 2010, I happily concluded that the <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2010/07/kindle-my-review-of-great-e-book-reader.html">Kindle</a> was one of my best acquisitions of the year. Thanks to it, I read so many books, I wouldn't normally read due to my stirring life. However with some geeky touch - it became possible!<br />
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One of the most notable books I've read during summer was the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5759.Fight_Club">"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk</a>. It was an awesome read.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIC5K8Csilf-Oq8ASFwTwTwTJHgsfKUjPFjAmGLvryiWxkM-IWBrx35wEsczl_OPaMfY1EUWpalOQwuHy9yIO4gAllkyv1tb1yTF8s_Fiyi3nHwdxVT1Qq46YOEat2jeZrYtXztXgdYyPJ/s1600/bookcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIC5K8Csilf-Oq8ASFwTwTwTJHgsfKUjPFjAmGLvryiWxkM-IWBrx35wEsczl_OPaMfY1EUWpalOQwuHy9yIO4gAllkyv1tb1yTF8s_Fiyi3nHwdxVT1Qq46YOEat2jeZrYtXztXgdYyPJ/s200/bookcover.jpg" width="136" /></a></div>Actually, I've been hesitating whether I should confess this embarrassing fact, but to be fair I will. I hadn't seen the movie... till last month. But I love the fact that I saw it after reading the book and that the movie was cooler than the book. Even the author Palahniuk <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia?tr0755959">has stated</a> that he found the film to be an improvement on his novel. <br />
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At first, I was unsure if it was a right choice for me to read this book. I'm generally against violence and I hate watching that kind of movies, and especially reading about it. I prefer to get some positive emotions from those things I occupy myself to give my brain some rest. But the book got me thinking about lots of stuff and even affected some of my beliefs. This is a cult movie indeed. It contained a great amount of notable quotes that were carefully copied with my Kindle's "Notes" feature :) Here are my favorite ones. I'd <b>bold </b>almost every quote here.<br />
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<blockquote>"This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you."</blockquote><div><br />
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I loved the part when the author was describing why they were attending the various support groups.<br />
<blockquote>"I never went back to the doctor. I never chewed the valerian root. This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything, people in a group assumed the worst. They cried harder. I cried harder. Look up into the stars and you're gone."</blockquote>...<br />
<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionbhsSH8p1hyphenhyphenBEloqMBRehoeFoZtnuzhr97MdLAKuajZZeqmhsTKbBhbfN-VSrVw4qsrYZe0HmbqSXfqqF34HfW2JDJRGn2c3ViZ3qwh2WjfliCjP064Sgbewkq83yRJGFv6n0KvGLR33/s1600/marla-singer-fight-club-art1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionbhsSH8p1hyphenhyphenBEloqMBRehoeFoZtnuzhr97MdLAKuajZZeqmhsTKbBhbfN-VSrVw4qsrYZe0HmbqSXfqqF34HfW2JDJRGn2c3ViZ3qwh2WjfliCjP064Sgbewkq83yRJGFv6n0KvGLR33/s200/marla-singer-fight-club-art1.JPG" width="156" /></a></div>"Marla's eyes narrow. She never dreamed she could feel so 'smarvelous. She actually felt alive. Her skin was clearing up. All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. Oh, but now there was dying and death and loss and grief. Weeping and shuddering, terror and remorse. Now that she knows where we're all going, Marla feels every moment of her life."</blockquote><blockquote>"Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't".</blockquote><br />
<b>About perfection</b><br />
<blockquote>"Sometimes, you wake up and have to ask where you are. What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler had sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. You wake up and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough."</blockquote><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote>"I just don't want to die without a few scars. I say. It's nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer's showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste."</blockquote></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJtDgyRFqYHVYRACQJ1KRyVQ_gIsEOT2T6U2aE6KQ_4zY_1ql4-psdR1TaIqVQdF68uxIyz-PYNJJMkACHIZ3s6BWBlETcvxP5beUUKrF_7U3PjOcuGBfwsyT6kW6yaR86FzCHxJkmLS0n/s1600/fight-club.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJtDgyRFqYHVYRACQJ1KRyVQ_gIsEOT2T6U2aE6KQ_4zY_1ql4-psdR1TaIqVQdF68uxIyz-PYNJJMkACHIZ3s6BWBlETcvxP5beUUKrF_7U3PjOcuGBfwsyT6kW6yaR86FzCHxJkmLS0n/s400/fight-club.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote>"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."</blockquote></div>...<br />
<blockquote>"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't<br />
May I never be complete.<br />
May I never be content.<br />
May I never be perfect."</blockquote>...<br />
<blockquote>"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile."</blockquote>...<br />
<blockquote>"Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered."</blockquote>...<br />
<blockquote>"I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit".</blockquote>...<br />
<blockquote>"Its only when you've lost everything, that your free to do anything."</blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by ~<a href="http://thewickedesign.deviantart.com/art/Fight-Club-146629945">theWickeDesign</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>I was thrilled by the scene with the supermarket guy (in the book it was in a bus). Here's <a href="http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2002/05/31/fight-club/">the big quote from the book</a>, better to read it entirely or watch the scene from the movie see below)<br />
<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Tvkx6NBWfIr0wzWZmNy8l2tmwbmxcqOhXJS9pcNb_1pED9zqi6u331eD-t3gb66hysFH_m0nVmr9QkF7BDSAFlqfywuM8evJSGo7jG2k-YoWBVS3kcL4p9OSJzUPrBjCaB1JmFLsYAQ/s1600/humansacrifice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Tvkx6NBWfIr0wzWZmNy8l2tmwbmxcqOhXJS9pcNb_1pED9zqi6u331eD-t3gb66hysFH_m0nVmr9QkF7BDSAFlqfywuM8evJSGo7jG2k-YoWBVS3kcL4p9OSJzUPrBjCaB1JmFLsYAQ/s400/humansacrifice.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>"Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you’ve ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life."</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v95ItylU2YY" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="480"></iframe></div><br />
Here is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtkz3JY3RTo">the actual movie scene in Italian</a>, in case ))<br />
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My <a href="http://arpinegrigoryan.blogspot.com/2010/12/every-path-is-right-path-mr-nobody.html">sweetheart Jared Leto</a> has a small role as "<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Jared-Leto--Fight-Club-jared-leto-464831_500_347.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fanpop.com/spots/jared-leto/images/464831&usg=__alUBQRPlPI99oYNZkEB9VcGzqps=&h=347&w=500&sz=28&hl=en&start=9&sig2=Rk6Rg0gEeY_zvFZTzMdeZQ&zoom=1&tbnid=PZUCjoY4I6ibiM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=190&ei=IaQ4TYGQGMjj4gaut8yhCg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfight%2Bclub%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D466%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C300&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=713&vpy=168&dur=1718&hovh=187&hovw=270&tx=227&ty=87&oei=EqQ4TcWfDYmFswbFm4T1Bg&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:9&biw=1024&bih=466">Angel Face</a>". His character gets terribly beaten by the "Narrator" and the following line just made me think. A lot.<br />
<blockquote>I felt like destroying something beautiful.<b> </b></blockquote>Here are some wonderful animations - kinetic typography videos made with some epic moments from the Fight Club.<br />
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<blockquote>“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia?tr0755682">rock stars</a>. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” — Tyler Durden</blockquote><br />
Yeah, and I have to mention that I'm now pretty terrified after realizing how restaurant waiters can mess with the food :(<br />
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in case you want more quotes. Here's a <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(novel)">fair collection on wikiquotes</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12801921629208472422noreply@blogger.com2