Did you know I bake cakes? No? Neither did I… However, despite your entirely justified skepticism – I’m proud to announce that at the time of this writing everyone who tasted my cherry cake is feeling perfectly normal. Hooray!!

It’s Sunday evening and you ran out of anything useful for a dinner. Yeah, you could order a pizza or something, but then you’d wait for it 30 mins or so. And your son is kranky. Sounds familiar? Yes, I often found myself in such situation.

If you have some leftovers, most importantly a slice or two of yesterday’s bread, a spoon of milk and an egg, you can make him a quick French toast. For those of you who by any chance didn’t know how to prepare this simple meal, let’s explain. Continue reading ›

We finally trashed the old car and bought a new one. There were a few accidents lately with the old Renault. Nothing serious, but once something is broken, it’s just keeps happening and there’s no turning back. We bought it last winter and this really paid off, but last month when steering wheel started behaving strange in rightmost position, i started thinking about new car. Continue reading ›

This is what my son Luka looks like in the morning when i’m leaving to work.

Here is another solution how to get some time when your kid needs your attention, but you have some other work waiting. I’ve name it “Virtual flower with a smell”.

Luka is not drawing recognizable objects yet, but he has an affinity for visual arts—at least he likes reading comics. Almost every day we spend about thirty minutes behind my drawing table, playing with those thick wooden color sticks especialy made for kids’ safety. Usually someone must be near him, otherwise he looses interest. Continue reading ›

I like reading blogs, sharing oppinions and this whole trend of internet and how it helps people from different parts of the world to get to know each other in some level. But do these all individuals have a life beyond blogging around? What’s the center of their world? Is it their own blog or…? What’s the center of mine? Thanks for asking.

Intro

This little handsome on your left is the center of our world (my wife’s and mine). I didn’t want it to be that way, but it just happened. It is that way from the first moment i saw him in a hospital (i was there near my wife during deliverance). He occupies our time a lot, but we still can manage to do some activities, besides feeding, cleaning after him and playing.

Some secondary level activites (besides our jobs and internet) are going to a movie teather, having a good time spending evening with our friends drinking red wine or beer, eating enormous amounts of chinese food and different sorts of other spicy meals, walking and playing with our dog, …

Why writing a blog?

Lately, there have been a few posts discussing about how to achieve popularity of your blog and how to become world known blogger: 1, 2 and 3. I read those posts, but felt no need to join the race (not that i think bad of someone who did, on contrary).

“maratz.com” blog’s purpose is to be some kind of my public journal. It is my public journal and honestly if someone doesn’t find its’ content interesting, probably it’s a person i wouldn’t meet in the real world neither. On the other hand, a few of you who are actualy reading it, i guess we have some similar oppinions and i’m pleased to know someone of my kind.

A few less known, but my usuals are Dexlo, Moments and Cody Lindley (no particular order).

Sharing Tips

The coding tips i’m bringing once in a while are here for the sake of my moral obligation to return something to community. If you like it—use it. If you don’t like it—that’s your loss. If you know better—share it. If you know better, but don’t want to share—get out of here, i don’t need you.

There’s often a time when something comes to my mind and i’d like to open my code editor and ‘dive into mark’, but also at this very same time Luka (the son) gets extremely hungry and therefore anxious and kind of cranky…

Well, i’m proud i found a way to make designer’s kid quiet for a few moments: prepare 1 whole egg, 1-2 dcl of baker’s flour, half teaspoon or less of salt, some chocolate (preferably Nutella), 2-3 dcl of milk and 2 dcl of water. Mix all ingredients, ’till you get a creamy fluid.

Use this to bake a few pancakes. When you’re done, put melted chocolate or Nutella on each pancake, roll them and call your precious to this delicious meal.

Additionaly, warm some milk, add a teaspoon or two of honey, and pour everything in his/her favorite cup… Perfect! Now go, go, go! You have exactly ten minutes to do some work!