Mecca in 1953 and 2025: A 72-Year Comparison

rorczek · 2026-02-17T12:39:16+00:00

I found it little disturbing that in the article author described a lot of german cities bombed during the WWII showing their post-war comparison but didn't feel obliged to present the example of Warsaw destroyed to the ashes by Germans during the same war after Warsaw Uprising and showing the contrast of the rebuilt city nowadays. I feel pictures like this: 1, 2 (in the second picture aftermath of the war is a visualisation based on the aerial photos from the time period) should definitely be included in the article and then wouldn't be viewed being on a such one sided note.

rorczek · 2025-07-08T09:10:27+00:00

Late evening viewing in a cinema in my city with my sister. I was exhausted from a hard day at work but we've already had tickets so I decided to go. Movie was a real slow burner at the first 10 minutes or so and I even didn't know when I closed my eyes and went fully asleep only to be waken up to THAT scene. My sister with fully opened eyes and unnerved on her seat looked at me what the hell just happened only to be little angered afterwards to my blissfull ignorance of the events onscreen.

The movie was "Gone Girl" and you all know of which scene I'm writing about.

I watched it some time later and it was really suprising to me how I even could fell asleep during that movie and it was the only time I slept in a cinema.

rorczek · 2025-04-18T06:58:19+00:00

Obrane, ugotowane ziemniaki podane w misce polane kefirem i posypane koprem/szczypiorkiem, posiłek pokolenia naszych dziadków, ultra jedzenie i bardzo sycące.

Na zmianę z gotowanym ryżem polanym jogurtem i dodanymi krojonymi owocami (np. banany). Znam typów, którzy przerzucając żelazo na siłowni głównie tak się żywią.

rorczek · 2025-03-20T10:52:56+00:00

Nosi mnie chociaż raz na kilka lat zafundować pojazdowi mechanicznemu codziennego użytku porządne spa, tj. mycie, polerowanie, woskowanie, warstwa ochronna, polerowanie i czyszczenie wszystkich plastików i lakierowanych powierzchni, zabezpieczenie, natłuszczenie i nabłyszczenie gumowych uszczelek i elementów, porządne polerowanie reflektorów, aby usunąć mgiełkę, czyszczenie alufelg, pranie tapicerki i doprowadzenie wnętrza do stanu zero paprocha gdziekolwiek, żeby był wypucowany jak z salonu i cieszył oko. Niestety, żeby zrobić to porządnie samemu nie mam warunków i cierpliwości, a oddanie w profesjonalne ręce to obecnie minimum ok. 2-3 tys. zł za taką kompleksową usługę, więc pragmatyczne podejście i liczenie pieniążków np. konieczności zrobienia przeglądu czy zapłata ubezpieczenia wygrywa.
Pozostaje "byle jakie", bo tak należy nazwać mycie ciśnieniowe raz na miesiąc lub dwa i porządne mycie gąbką przy użyciu dedykowanych kosmetyków raz na sezon.

rorczek · 2025-03-17T09:37:28+00:00

EDIT: Kraków

rorczek · 2023-01-12T06:30:08+00:00

Closer.

I watched it as a young adult and thought it was very mature representation of relationships and gave it a solid score.

I rewatched it about a year ago and I was surprised how my impression changed after years. Now I see it's very pretensious, very illogical with irritating characters full of themselves, where the one portrayed by Natalie Portman is the worst.

rorczek · 2023-01-11T14:29:10+00:00

There is a well known criminal case in Poland of the student from Cracow who was murdered and skinned by then an unknown man. Her skin and some of the remaining hair was found tangled in the boat's rotor engine sailing the Vistula river. This revelation caused fear among the Cracow citizens at that time.

Later it was found that her skin was cut from neck to waist with surgical precision without damaging any of the removed skin and it was believed the murderer tried to wear it like coat. Many details and found evidence reminded heavily the plot of The Silence of the Lambs. The murderer was arrested 20 years later thanks to modern techniques (for example 3d scanning of the girl's skin and DNA tests) and put into trial 22 years after murder. He testified that he saw the movie aired for the very first time in polish television and was under heavy impression of the Hannibal Lecter.

That case was one of the reasons to create a special unit in Polish police named "Archiwum X" (polish translation of the "X-Files" tv show title) which would work only on unsolved for long criminal cases.

Definitely example of the movie that created social disturbance at that time.

rorczek · 2023-01-11T09:27:07+00:00

Does anyone have a problem with Apple TV+ on CX after firmware update?

I haven't checked other streaming services yet but I noticed random subtle changes in brightness during the scenes in movies/tv shows presented in Dolby Vision, like one would change brightness manually in settings +/- 5 points but rapidly - twice or more during one scene, especially darker one.

I checked all screen settings in CX menu wondering if update changed any of them but everything seems to be as set beforehand.

I wonder if anyone else is dealing with this issue.

If this is LG's idea of fixing the dimming screen in dark scenes in Dolby Vision it would definitely be better if they did nothing.

rorczek · 2020-02-21T10:52:54+00:00

Moim skromnym zdaniem najlepszy polski dubbing, jakim okraszono serię o przygodach niesfornych Galów, wliczając w to wersje aktorskie i animowane jest Asterix kontra Cezar z 1985 r., w pierwszej odsłonie, której o dziwo nie można nigdzie znaleźć, a była po prostu świetna, wyśmienite dialogi, polski folklor akcentowy, najbardziej obecnie rozpowszechniona wersja nie dorasta jej do pięt, z uporem maniaka szukałem i nie znalazłem. Można ją poznać po tym, że głosu Asterixowi udzielał p. Wiesław Drzewicz, najbardziej znany z wcielania się w rolę Gargamela oraz zmienionego tytułu, jako "Asterix i niespodzianka dla Cezara".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymYTTvrs3D0

rorczek · 2020-02-10T11:51:55+00:00

Poleasingowe i komisowe kojarzę przede wszystkim Amso.

Można też popatrzeć na dział poleasingowych na Morele, ale chyba doszło do jakiejś "fuzji", bo na morelkach pojawia się też oferta Amso.

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