Well it actually happened. I met the mayor of Cluj-Napoca yesterday. Obviously nobody in the administration has discovered my “secret identity” yet LOL. This is a part two of a story which began here but I need to rewind to the very beginning. At some point in the past, someone in the mayor’s office in Cluj decided that it would be a good idea to … Continue reading At Play in the Glass Hall of the Lord of Cluj
This has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen and it’s all a creation of a Hungarian university here in Cluj. The Facebook page for the people who made this can be found here. What you’re looking at in the video is a visual representation (on a very small scale) of a sorting algorithm. This is the process by which computers organize … Continue reading Data Sorting Dance
There’s an old adage that seems to get more true the longer I live, which is that only atheists read the Bible. Now I’m not an atheist but I never fail to be amazed just how poorly most religious Christians understand the central text of their faith. You can say what you like about Jews or Muslims but in both of those faiths there is … Continue reading Homosexuality in the Bible
As you probably know, the holiday of Easter is rapidly approaching. This year is kind of cool because it’s being celebrated on the same day in both the Romanian Orthodox tradition as well as the other kinds of Christianity, including Catholicism and Protestants. On many years, Hungarians (and others) celebrate it one week while Orthodox Romanians use the old calendar and celebrate it on another … Continue reading Vine Iepurasul!
A word you will often hear in Romanian is fleac (flay-ock) but what does it mean? Probably the most accurate English translation would be the word bagatelle, which today sounds fairly archaic and the only place I ever “heard” it regularly was in a Norwegian book. A more modern translation would be “a trifle” or perhaps the word “nothing”, as in the following exchange: Lady: … Continue reading Word of the Day: Fleac
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