Month: March 2018

Translators such translators

Many years ago, I conceived the idea of a special office that one could visit, say, in Moscow, San Francisco, Washington, and New York simultaneously, and hold a fully immersive, well-equipped meeting: numerous high-quality cameras behind an interactive 4K mirror/screen displaying the video feed from cameras on the other side with minimal distortion, a shared whiteboard, clear sound, microphones for everyone, high-speed internet, Microsoft Surface, the ability to send documents via express mail right away, easy parking and access, 24/7 availability, catering. Companies could “book” such rooms for important negotiations. Theoretically, a network of such centers could be established over time. Interestingly, what’s stopping this concept from being implemented?

Watched “The Shape of Water”. Everything seems fine, but there’s something off about the movie, what do you think?

https://youtu.be/Ah-VaPHflCM?t=39

I scanned a portion of my paper notes to have them all in digital form as one collection, ready for printing or opening on an iPad. I don’t mind sharing.

Here are about one hundred and fifty pieces of various beautiful+well-known+relatively simple music. I’ve compiled the notes suitable for musical school levels from second to sixth grade. The PDF is large, 263 megabytes. To download from Scribd, you need to register there (for free). You can view it without downloading as well.

https://www.scribd.com/document/373545138/Rauf-s-Collection-Sheet-Music

What’s included in my collection (unordered, varying quality):

Bistro fada (from Midnight in Paris), Stephane Wrembel

Doga’s Waltz

Chopin’s Prelude op.29 #4 in E minor

The Lark, Glinka

Song from the Secret Garden

Speak softly, love (from The Godfather), Nino Rota

Melody from “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, M. Legrand

Padam, Padam by Édith Piaf

The entertainer, Scott Joplin

Yesterdays, Jerome Kern

Amélie’s Waltz, Yann Tiersen

Hallelujah from Shrek, Leonard Cohen

Crave, Jelly Roll Morton

When the love falls, Yiruma

Moon River, Mancini

Two Nocturnes (op.55), Chopin

New Orleans Blues, Palmer

Forest Castle Waltz, Norrbak

Autumn Leaves, J. Kosma

Good Bug (from Cinderella), Spadavecchia

Our Land, Kabalevsky

Smile, Shainsky

Blue Wagon, Shainsky

Winged Swing, Krylatov

Cruiser Aurora, Shainsky

Snowflakes, Shainsky

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love, Cole Porter

Simple Solution, Pamela Wedgwood

Moscow Nights, Solovyov-Sedoy

Town, Varum

Little Prince, Tariverdiev

Waltz from “Sleeping Beauty”, Tchaikovsky

Lullaby, Mozart

Symphony No.40, Mozart

Ballade pour Adeline, Senneville

My Way, François and Revaux

Memory (from the musical Cats), Webber

Shadow of Your Smile, Mendel

If It Weren’t For You, Dassin

Strangers in the Night, Kaempfert

Melody, Gibb

Wanderers (from “In the Wildlife”), Ramirez

Lullaby, Shering

Melody (from “Love Story”), Lai

To Elise, fragment, Beethoven

Sherlock Holmes, Daschkevich

Waltz (from Children’s Album), Tchaikovsky

The New Doll (same source), Tchaikovsky

Mia & Sebastian’s Theme, from LaLaLand, Hurwitz

City of Stars, likewise, Hurwitz

Another day of sun, likewise, Hurwitz

Autumn Leaves

Elegy for the Victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami, Nobuyuki Tsujii

Fargo, theme from the movie, Jeff Russo

Romance from the movie Gadfly, Shostakovich

Melody from the movie The Professional, Morricone

Et Si Tu N’Existais Pas, Dassin and Baudlot

Smoke, Kern

Girl, Beatles

To Jazzy, my dog, Pamela Wedgwood

Soldier of Fortune, Deep Purple

Lonesome (Si Tu Vois Ma Mere), Sidney Bechet

Georgia On My Mind, Carmichael

Caravan, Duke Ellington,

Prelude in C Minor, Bach

Jazz Waltz, Norton

Michelle, Beatles

Hijo de la luna

Porz goret, Tiersen

Sherlock’s Theme (BBC Sherlock’s)

The Lark (from “In the Wildlife”)

Ragtime, Joplin

Paris. A Paris, Lemar

Lieberstraum No.3, Ab Major, Liszt

Thirty-three Cows (From the movie Mary Poppins)

Bad Weather (From the movie Mary Poppins)

The Lion and the Barber (From the movie Mary Poppins)

Winds of Change (From the movie Mary Poppins)

Jean de Florette

Lara’s theme (from Doctor Zhivago)

Theme from Romeo and Juliet, Nino Rota

Theme from Schindler’s List, Williams

Canon in D, Pachelbel

Caprice by Paganini

From Concerto in A Minor, Grieg

Chopsticks

From Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky

Nothing Else Matters

The Sound of Silence

L’Arrivee sur l’ile, Tiersen

Étude, Dvořák

Comptine d’un autre ete : l’apres midi, Tiersen

Comptine d’ete #2

Le Moulin, Tiersen

La Dispute, Tiersen

La Valse d’Amelie, Tiersen

Nocturne op.9 no 2, Chopin

Imagine if someone tried to create a Chrome mod that made the color of the tabs show how long ago they were visited. That is, you open a tab and it’s vibrant, and as you do nothing, it darkens. This would make switching between active tabs much easier: inactive ones would stand out significantly. If something happened on the inactive ones (like a message on FB), then the brightness would sharply increase.

Amusing. LEVI’s Russia on hybris or perhaps on bitrix :-)))))))))) Seems like on both

Interesting article about the construction delays in Berlin

http://mrmurtazin.com/2016/01/21/aeroport-berlin-brandenburg-katastrofa-cenoj-6-milliardov-evro/

Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Remarque. It turns out that in literature, commas after introductory words are not used (at least by Remarque, and at least in the 1930s. “To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool”, all of these sentences starting with In the..

Here’s a post where I opened the topic:

https://www.facebook.com/raufaliev/posts/10156058721527368

Excel is somehow too smart. Googled that for SQL Server, they are identical too. By the way, there’s a great article about Unicode – I recommend everyone to read it: https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/

Local Police Transport (T3Motion)