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Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge

Това е мотото на рекламна кампания на голяма международна банка. Накратко, идеята е, че на различни места по света има различни символи и код на поведение за най-различни ситуации. Например:

HSBC flowers

Мотото ми се е набило в главата от списание, в което всеки месец имаше публикувана различна версия на тази реклама. Не си спомням за примери на „local knowledge“ с Япония, но едва ли рекламната агенция не се е възползвала от толкова богата на различия култура. Елементарен пример… цитат от Уикипредиа:

Japan and the V sign in photographs

One account of the V sign’s use in portrait photographs claims that during the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Hokkaidō figure skater Janet Lynn stumbled into Japanese pop culture when she fell during a free-skate period—but continued to smile even as she sat on the ice. Though she placed only third in the actual competition, her cheerful diligence and indefatigability resonated with many Japanese viewers, making her an overnight celebrity in Japan. Afterwards, Lynn (a peace activist) was repeatedly seen flashing the V sign in the Japanese media. Though the V sign was known of in Japan prior to Lynn’s use of it there (from the post-WWII Allied occupation of Japan), she is credited by some Japanese for having popularized its use in amateur photographs.[25] According to another theory, the V sign was popularized by the actor and singer Jun Inoue, who showed it in a Konica photo camera commercial in 1972. Japanese may also be associating with their onomatopoeia (gitaigo) for smiling. The number „two“ is „ni“ in Japanese, and the onomatopoeia for smiling generally begins with the sound „ni-“, such as „niko niko“ or „niya niya.“ [26]

Това не е майтап. Всеки, който е бил в Япония го е видял освен това Уики е подплатена със снимков материал:

Victory

Victory

„Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge“… изплува в съзнанието ми в доволно неподходящ момент. Е… Всеки, който е бил в България го е видял.

Posing for a picture...

Posing for a picture...

Temperatures in my city in my lifetime


People usually have subjective perceptions for quantities and values. Yet somehow I felt that despite all that global warming talk skewing my judgment, I cannot be completely mistaken.I remember longer winters with more snow and colder days. I remember clear-cut seasons, with definite spring and autumn. Could all this be just a creation of my imagination, especially when taking into account the childhood memories involved ?

I resorted to making a humble test of my memory. I obtained the day by day max temperatures (in Fahrenheit) for my city since I was born (1979) from NOAA. This is a matrix of numbers 27×365 – dull and uninspiring. Then I used Graphis to breathe life into the data.

If you know what you are looking for you can probably see the trend. Going into the new millennium summers seem to be generally warmer. The average temperature also seems to have gone up.

The meaningless plot

P.S. This is really very unscientific. Not trying to prove anything here, the plot was done primarily for fun.
P.P.S. Will make a better plot some day, time permitting.

Bulgaria is a…

Ако мислите, че Давид Черни се занимава единствено с изкуство, дълбоко се лъжете. Приносът му към подобряването на качеството на интернет търсачката google е не по-малък. Просто идете на google.com и напишете следната фраза: „Bulgaria is a“. Google suggest дава най-точния отговор.

Bulgaria is a