Seilo @ Geeky Ogre

Lately I somehow got into some discussions about fashion. Believe it or not I might not look like it but I do have an opinion and I know what is good and what is not! Just because I don’t like being fashionable does not mean I have no clue? I was raised in the textiles and shoes business. And although I never wanted to pursue this career path I did develop a good sense of taste which I don’t apply on myself, but rather use to judge others (Yes I am a hypocrite). First things first I have to make myself clear about my stance towards dressing up. After several fashion transformations in my life from boy-bandish kind of look all the way to hip hop, I ended up with a very plain and simple look that I have been preserving for 6 years.

1. Shoes: Although I am a shareholder in a shoe business, I only have 4 shoes: Chucks, Nike, some casual normal brown shoes and black shoes for my suit ( I also have boots that just come up during the winter ). I think this is more than enough, I replace them every 6 – 18 months. I never buy shoes that cost more than 80€, knowing that the production and the shipment of the shoes cost up to maximum 5€. And no way except on the beach will you find me wearing flip flops unless I am already running around barefoot. It’s not that I think my feet are disgusting ( which they are not ), it’s just that I don’t find flip flops very practical. The clapping noise some of them do is just extremely annoying. Like high heals they limit your freedom in movement ( in this case running ) for the sake of keeping up with the fashion zeitgeist. I always wear shoes that, unless for specific occasions, I can use to undertake spontaneous activities such as running, dancing, fooling around, etc …
2. Shirts: You will never find me wearing shirts with drawings on them unless its humorous within the topic range of: Star Wars, South Park, Simpsons, Penguins, Pandas, Mickey Mouse, Futurama, Marvel/DC comics and geeky/nerdy stuff like found in XKCD. It usually because for me they make sense. I can’t wear something with a nice hot woman or paintings or weird drawings. Also wearing shirts that over reveal the label or the company name is not my thing. Nothing is better then a plain white or red shirt. I do like stripes and squares though, I can wear those. Another issue is shirts should not be too tight. I might be chubby now but I used to have a good figure. Back then I never liked wearing tight shirts. Arm pit stains are tight shirts arch-nemesis. And shirts must be below the belt. If you want to see my package just ask me to present it. A shirt revealing my hairy tummy ( which I am will never shave ) when I stretch or something is disgusting.
3. Pants/Shorts: I wear normal jeans in the winter and usually shorts in the summer. I like golfer shorts. I never wear black pants or shorts though! And no way in hell will I ever try on those skinny tight jeans some men wear nowadays. I thought tighty whiteys are not good for the “OO” (not butt cheeks btw), then why do people wear skinny jeans.

So I end up having a semi nerdy look. So what at least I am identifiable. Visit Egypt and you will notice everyone dresses up alike. My problem is that fashion keeps on changing and I really have more things to worry about than what will I wear to impress people. But nowadays I look around and see how “messed up” people dress up, it is outrageous. If they take out all this imaginary fashion stuff from their heads and look in the mirror they would be shocked. However let’s get back to the topic. Every era had it’s own fashion sense. Let me try to list them down.

• 70′s: flared trousers, platform shoes, velvets, courdroy, feather boas, shirts with big collars, think hippy.
• 80′s: general, puffball skirts, rara skirts, off the shoulder tops and legwarmers. Let’s not forget the the sexless Michael Jackson / Prince look.
• 90′s: grunge look, goth, punk, hip hop. The looks got more and more associated with music genres, probably because of MTV.

Maybe because a lot of celebrities started their own clothing lines, the trend somehow continued all the way to many teenagers who think they are qualified to become designers because:

• Their favourite celebrity started his/her own brand
• He/she once drew a shirt, jeans or dress and their moms told them it looks good.
• They dressed up well on an outing and got compliments (this is not so hard in Egypt if you just wear brands)
• They went to Italy or France on vacation (Egyptians like bragging about that)
• They saw a celebrity wearing a similar shirt or skirt that they bought a couple of weeks ago.
• They stare at themselves to much in the mirror and fall in love with their looks.

They then use daddies connections to start their own clothing line or accessories collection. Again we really don’t need more people in the fashion industry. “The more the merrier” concept does not apply in this case. I don’t mean to say that there is no talent out there. We just need to filter out the new monkey ranch and stop them from designing our clothes and shoes and claiming it to be the new thing as in fashion. Stop them before they come up with the stupid idea of designing fragrance to create a perfume or aftershave. Lately in Egypt alot of new designers have appeared and apparently were on international events etc. I had a look at their designs and wow it is random crap put together. If I had a kid trying to fulfil his dreams by becoming a designer of course I would want to help him reach for it, subject to him/her having the necessary talent. If my kid comes up with a nice drawing I will hang it up on the fridge. If however my kid comes up with a sculpture made out of a pile of shit I will discourage him taking this path. Now people who get into the designing business are usually not kids anymore, so it shouldn’t be hard for the parents to tell them “no we won’t help you out you are not talented”. But since they don’t we end up with random desingers that are tasteless and colour-blind and still considered by their Facebook friends as designers. They enjoy being complimented from other friends to boost their own egos, well guess what those are not your friends. You have never seen them wear your stuff now did you? And although going up to celebrities to make them wear your accessories is a good marketing strategy, it still does not make it fashionable so please don’t embarrass yourself by publishing those designs. You just dubbed this new era of fashion as….

“RANDOM CRAPOLA”

I am 24 now so here is a list of 24 things I need to be doing or feel like it.

1. Get all issues listed in the Zeitgeist TODO list done
2. Finish studies/exams
3. Improve my Salary
4. Visit my girlfriend
5. Visit my mom and brothers
6. Visit my dad
7. Lose weight
8. Visit my aunt more
9. Start porting at some point all Zeitgeist providers to Mayanna
10. Start working (by helping Marina) on the GNOME Shell
11. Work with C
12. Work with Mono
13. Learn to drive properly
14. Go out lindy hoping
15. Go out juggering
16. Go out karaoke
17. Traveling 1 month to India or China alone
18. Learn to play an instrument (guitar or piano)
19. Catch up on LARPING
20. Look for a Job (anything with GNOME or OSS)
21. Find a bigger better place and move out
22. Buy a hybrid car
23. Teach my girlfriend and little brother python
24. Finish a FPS Game

Now I really don’t know how much I wil lget done befroe I turn 25 but I am going for 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8  and 14 for the next two months. Wish me luck!

OK i think this is it for the next 3 days! HEere is my latest approach! Needs more love but i think it does a good job

Here is the new approach

I just tried to understand more about clutter by improving my first clutter prototype. Now I can scroll left and right! Before I could only move in one direction! Sometimes it jumps though but ends up on the right item. Will check it out later.

I am trying to find some middle ground between this view and Kalle Perssons mockup.

Here is the Video.

To sum up we finally added evolution sent mail support! Though a bit buggy it is still pretty usable. Firefox now also takes ur bookmarks into Zeitgeist. I created a new mockup of how i would like the UI to be. This will require clutter so stay tuned for the UI makeover! Here is a quick dirty ugly mockup

Another cool feature I am working on is the relationship managment! After talking to David Siegel he introduced me to predix. I did not start implementing it yet into Zeitgeist. I got in contact with my friend Diego from school and we started looking for an algorithm that can determin data relationships and behaviour patterns based on a timeline of uniformly distributed data activities. We both agreed on “A priori” being the best solution however Diego started implementing his own idea of “temprature based” relationships. As in the closer the events to each other the higher the possibility of them of being related. This was then extended by a frequency/priority variable. Its stil lnot very stable but its a good start! It managed to figure out that youtube, facebook and my bankaccount have a relationships ( I usually check them in specidifc time intervals but not in that same order )

That is it for now got to study.

go on playboy

I am amazed by wordpress. My old and first blog (seilo.wordpress.com) has been imported into this page. Kick ass. Lots of old memories and nice pictures too. I am excited like a little kid and happy too. I am cheered up after my Dell XPS M1330 broke. Stupid nVidia GPUs. Pretty crappy I couldn’t reach the guys yesterday. I need my notebook. I should have gone for a Thinkpad. Well now I am happy again, since I got WordPress to work and it was easier than I thought. Still looking for a good theme and a logo. Thursday is one of my last exams. After that its hacking 24/7.

Wohoo I managed to startup wordpress. It’s turned out easier than I thought. Now I am in bed updating using my iPod. How cool is that.

This kicks ass
hehehehe

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it turns out some dude is dressed up as a chick
and these are all filipino inmates

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Now that the iPhone is coming out, Apple introduced its newest product under development.

“iRack”

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Incredible huh?