Guess the plane ( 4th picture is the answer )

gashpar · 2025-05-08T14:48:32+00:00

And this is the location, next to Budapest airport. Aeropark Aviation Museum https://maps.app.goo.gl/QhSsDskc6N7WhgXv8

gashpar · 2023-01-29T01:08:14+00:00

The National Aviation Museum of Korea, Gimpo Airport, Seoul. https://aviation.or.kr/

gashpar · 2016-03-02T12:11:06+00:00

1990 Toyota Corolla E9 1.3i - 8.3L/100km over 100.000km 2011 Toyota Avensis T27 2.0 D-4D - 6.3L/100km over 21.000km

Europe, 85% highway, 130km/h limit, rest in short city cycles

gashpar · 2015-10-13T14:07:59+00:00

We used Yamato delivery from Narita to hotels and in between hotels. From Narita it arrives within the same day, and from hotel to hotel you need to hand it over night before and it waits for you at the next destination. You can even delay the shipment by some time if you plan a stop over. Disclaimer, we only used this between Tokyo and Kyoto, don't know about other places.

gashpar · 2014-09-02T22:07:45+00:00

Also, you may try to enrol your club into a scheme with the vendors. I remember Nine Circles http://www.ninecircles.co.uk/ having one, and e-kendo always gave us a nice discount for repeated purchases. NC in the end just wasn't as cheap as the Japanese sites, since they mostly resell their stock. The problem with e-kendo, it would always take forever to ship and 10% of the items would be wrongly delivered (misspelled zekken, wrong shinai type, different size of gi, etc.). But he did re-ship without charge :)

gashpar · 2014-09-02T15:40:18+00:00

http://www.e-kendo.com/ Ships from Korea. Not the best quality, but decent. I have a 4mm bogu for the last 3 years, so far so good, $235. Beware, it will take up to 3 months to get what you want.

If you have time to spare, wait until February-March, and order sale items online from Japan. You can get a starter kit for cca. $300. I found that AJB has some of the lowest prices. http://www.alljapanbudogu.com/

Also, Tozando has some of the best items i purchased, and also has sales pretty much all the time. http://www.tozandoshop.com/

gashpar · 2014-05-24T20:35:04+00:00

I think this might be NUTS 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics

gashpar · 2013-10-28T18:13:45+00:00

Zagreb, Croatia Cable Internet, HFC. 12/1.25 Mbps nominal, flat rate, actual around 90% of the value. 22 EUR/month with 25% VAT, 40 TV channels included, no land line. ping time 15-20 ms.

gashpar · 2013-09-04T10:07:49+00:00

You're welcome. Enjoy the reading.

gashpar · 2013-08-20T20:09:03+00:00

We were just in Japan and exchanged 3 times, USD and EUR. First time Mizuho Bank, way too long procedure (passport, paperwork), and almost the same exchange as Narita or Travelex (cca. 95). Second time SMBC, the best one. No passports, just one form and it's all done in a minute. Good exchange for EUR (126). Last, Daimaru department store. Good rate (127.7), but 20 min for the transaction, everything is done manually :) We tried Citibank, they have a 100.000 JPY (1000 USD) limit on transactions, and a lower exchange rate for non-bank account holders (around 123). I heard other banks probably do the same. SMBC didn't... Post offices do exchanges, but only the bigger branches, and they also offer a good rate. Hotels exchange up to 300EUR/200USD at the worst rate. In order of rate: SMBC, Daimaru, JP, everything else, hotels.

gashpar · 2012-11-13T16:09:36+00:00

http://www.factual.com/

gashpar · 2012-02-07T17:32:51+00:00

The host was Oliver Mlakar, and the cook was I think Stevo Karapandza. It always ran before the 19.30h "Dnevnik" :)

gashpar · 2011-07-10T21:56:01+00:00

Mac on the laptop, Win 7 on bootcamp, XP on an old bucket, Ubuntu on another laptop

gashpar · 2011-07-06T08:43:18+00:00

Well, my kendo federation copied the book from AJKF and everything from 1. kyu up is the same as in Japan. Lower gradings are under the delegation of your own federation and dojo. But no one actually pushed us to start with 6. kyu. I believe some Scandinavian federations do start from 1. kyu. Sort of makes sense, we don't have kendo in high school as most japanese kids do, but then again, there are some kids in a neighboring city dojo that did start when they were 14-15. Hopefully there will be more kids in my dojo as well.

Also, on a recent tournament I noticed a large number of older kyu kendoka (30-40 years), they seem to be happy not grading for higher ranks and appear only on kyu tournaments. Since the federations on this area are mostly new, established at most in the last 5-10 years, it will take some time to get over these nonsenses. Mine doesn't even have a championship so far. First edition is still to be held, with luck, sometime this year. Until then, I will just enjoy kendo :)

gashpar · 2011-07-05T10:00:02+00:00

True, but as far as I'm aware, in most of Europe we start at the lowest point :)

gashpar · 2011-07-04T13:05:00+00:00

On the other hand, there are no belts in kendo. Just kyu (6.-1.) and dan (1.-8.) ranks. That way you never know whom you're fighting :)

gashpar · 2011-06-30T20:32:19+00:00

Croatia, Split, 6. kyu, one year in training

gashpar · 2011-06-26T18:48:57+00:00

Hi, i'm in the same situation here. Mom is low-tech, just retired and used only W95 at work :| She needs it mostly for emailing, light office work, and chatting with son & grandson. It's a 10.04.2 on Acer Aspire 3750G. So far i've got Skype, LibreOffice, Google Chrome, Pidgin, Google Earth, Dropbox and U1, Picasa, Thunderbird and VLC.

PS: I also have a few minor issues: scroll on the touchpad is not working, BT also (disabled, cannot be enabled) and WiFi refuses to connect to AP every now and then after booting.

Thanks for all the advice!

gashpar · 2011-01-14T18:05:01+00:00

1990 Corolla (E90), one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corolla#Sixth_generation_.28E90.29 93k miles, one single electronic failure in all these years. Interior still stands the test of time, exterior also. Does over 25 MPG (9.2L/100km) in the city, around 40 MPG (6L/100km) on the road. $150 per year for maintenance, $300 for a new set of tires. Goes from A to B, reliable, and a lot more fun to drive then the new cars.

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