As long as Google is working, here’s some evening entertainment for you: enter the query ” site:rkn.gov.ru” in Google.
Or on Yandex, if Google isn’t working.
And another thing… You might not know, but if a regulator’s website publicly displays personal data (full name + passport number) and it’s indexed on Google, is that funny or sad?
Discovered yet another cool composer to play and listen to while I work. Michele McLaughlin. Such very pleasant and thoughtful minimalism. Almost everything is beautiful, but you can start listening with Irish Rain, Celtic Dream, Alone.
And here is a nice “home” concert of hers with David Nevue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTXlmmiCk7o&list=PL0cI0LsaV7p792AytBC5Mb8XkV6x4tL-H
P.S. By the way, Yann Tiersen is coming to us in a couple of months, really looking forward to that
We rent a floor in an office center. A few days ago, at the exit, they treated all tenants to delicacies and handed out branded flash drives. Once or twice in the summer, they distribute ice cream. And now they’ve partnered with a service which seemed quite intriguing, so I decided to talk about it on Facebook.
They deliver from nearby restaurants for $1.99. Normally in a restaurant in the USA, you need to leave 15-20 percent of the bill as a tip, and that’s always more than the two bucks they ask for delivery here. Plus, once at P.F. Chungs, we waited more than an hour for our turn to be served by a waiter (though, that was just one time). The only inevitable downside I see is the need to heat the food up to the very hot temperature I love, and there’s nothing you can do about it. If there’s a mix of cold salad with hot meat, that’s normal and you can’t reheat it.
But the idea is very sound. They make contracts not with EPAM, but with the office center. And automatically get all its tenants + optimize delivery.
It’s very interesting how the effects of the theory of relativity were taken into account when designing the GPS system
Major update on the Hybris blog: comparing the old CMS that has been part of hybris since who knows when, and a new product poised to replace it, SmartEdit. It seems everyone understands it’s a bit rough around the edges, but nobody has yet put it all together. I’ve dug quite deep into it, and here’s the article.
https://hybrismart.com/2018/04/21/is-smartedit-ready-to-replace-cms-cockpit/
It’s surprising that amidst the hysteria with Telegram, the news that starting from October 1st, providers must store all traffic for about 30 days was missed – this is a clarification to the Yarovaya Law. Mobile operators have already removed unlimited tariffs, and soon, providers will probably start cutting VPNs and torrents, especially in the month leading up to the receipt of documents, and there will also be fun with FullHD streaming. Details at the link.
This is how you should make vacation videos!
The FDA recently approved chameleon contact lenses. The promo clip is delightful 😉
Finished reading aloud! Harry Potter #1. A real offline book. Over thirteen hours of reading, one chapter a day. Three hundred and something pages.
I decided to read it aloud because it’s harder and probably trains some useful skills in processing English text.
Reading aloud was quite challenging at first. The difficulties were not in pronouncing the words, but in the intonation when reading long sentences. As you read a sentence, you have to understand on the fly where the parenthetical phrases are, and somehow highlight them with intonation. In our native language, we unconsciously read several words ahead or guess what could theoretically be there, adjusting the intonation accordingly. It wasn’t so easy to catch this skill in English. I only began to manage it by the third chapter.
And even after seventeen chapters, it’s still hard for me to read a page smoothly and expressively without stumbling. As an experiment, try reading this excerpt on the first try so that it doesn’t sound too monotonous (update: not the best example I found; a normal phrase;)):
Harry yelled, and the four of them sprinted down the gallery, not looking back to see whether Filch was following — they swung around the doorpost and galloped down one corridor then another, Harry in the lead, without any idea where they were or where they were going — they ripped through a tapestry and found themselves in a hidden passageway, hurtled along it and came out near their Charms classroom, which they knew was miles from the trophy room.
I chose HP because of the simplicity of the vocabulary, as the first goal was to almost never look in the dictionary, but to learn to master intonation and practice spoken English. The book itself seemed overly childish to me. They say it gets normal starting with the third one.
Choosing my next book-victim.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 