Author Archives: Dragos ILINCA

It’s here, isn’t it?

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: June 3, 2009
You will exist in physical isolation. People will be all around you, but they’ll all be oblivious of your physical existence, and you of theirs. You will communicate your thoughts as a stream, following strict rules. That will constitute your role in making this new reality possible. If you don’t participate, you don’t exist. You will experience reality [...]
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Second Week Of Training

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: February 13, 2009
I was in Bucharest during the second week of training. My schedule was different than the routine I had in London. I barely realized that because of this, I skipped a run. S: 3mi M: 4mi S: - L: 6mi The 6mi run seemed incredibly easy. On the last mile, I felt as if I could continue running for at least a [...]
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The First Week Of Training

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: February 6, 2009
Everything started Friday, the 23rd of January. Vladimir and I went for a run. One lap of the Greenland Docks seemed like such a long distance. We started at a pretty fast pace that, by the end of the run, had got even faster. I never paid any attention to the distance or the time [...]
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Reykjavik, Day 1

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 25, 2008
8am and so much for sleep. We had to pick up our rental car from SIXT at 10 am. I remember being so excited about that a few months ago…to cover the whole of Iceland’s Ring Road in just a week. Now I felt like an idiot for committing to pick the car up so [...]
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First Night in Reykjavik

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 24, 2008
It was 22:30 in London. I was making my way to a train that would take me to Stanstead Airport. From there, RyanAir would get me to Berlin by 9am the following day. A full day of walking around Berlin, feeling sleep deprived and a 3 and a half hour flight later, we touched down [...]
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Heima – At home

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: July 24, 2008
Last night I watched Sigur Ros’s documentary called “Heima”. It’s currently ranked the number 1 documentary on IMDB. I had some expectations and what I got was totally different. The documentary is about Sigur Ros’s tour of Iceland. They played a series of free, unannounced concert throughout their home country, Iceland. The documentary focuses a lot [...]
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The Virtual Vacuum

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: July 22, 2008
I remember one night, a few months a go. It was about 10 pm and I was at home. I had not written an article I was supposed to publish that day, so I was working on it on my laptop. I don’t usually work that late but this was an exception. As my eyes [...]
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Just testing Twitter updates from uberVU

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: June 30, 2008
Twitter updates from uberVU
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Gregg Bleakney: From Alaska to Chile, biking

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: June 3, 2008
Meet Gregg Bleakney. Avarage software salesman, in his 30s. Why should we care? Because he pedaled the whole Pan American Highway, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. This trip took two years of hardship, peril, adventure and self-exploration. Many could say “2 years, that’s a lot”. Or “That’s too dangerous”. Or “He threw [...]
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What happens when people communicate face to face

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: May 21, 2008
We all feel on an intuitive level that when we talk face to face with somebody, a lot more than the words bouncing back and forth is being communicated. There’s been a study that has been quoted by lots of people regarding this fenomenon. The study says that communication is made up of: 55% body language 38% [...]
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