Month: September 2018

So that’s what you are, northern reindeer!

The first painting I saw today. Mark Rothko, “Untitled” and another, Pat Steir “Magic Nightfall”

You might not like iPhones all you want, but having 82 percent battery left after three hours of YouTube videos compared to my old Samsung is just out of this world. Also, I’ve forgotten to turn off the camera many times (it wasn’t recording, but it was displaying the camera’s view). It never led to any noticeable battery drainage.

An intriguing lecture about poisonous and hallucinogenic mushrooms, as well as toxins from them

an interesting lecture on global warming

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=SXIh7VHLEoI&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7VGtgSUB8DM%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded

@[1637446765:2048:Tae Youn Oey] They exist! Letterpress printing has been used in China since 1040 AD. Thousands of tiles, immense manual effort, for over a thousand years.

http://idsgn.org/posts/the-end-of-movable-type-in-china/

I wanted to write that the use of eye tracking mechanism in phones will be common in a couple of years, but I decided to search online to check if there was anything on the topic. And here is an excellent study, with an analysis of options and ready solutions.

https://medium.com/@taolu_99738/developing-of-eye-tracking-application-for-smartphone-b875c50ee0c3

Walking home from work, and Mars stares at me from the darkness

Interestingly, why does the phrase “в соцсéти” make you want to ask “where to?” (send, post), whereas the phrase “в соцсети́” prompts the question “where?” (found, met)?

“The Large Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” edited by S.A. Kuznetsov suggests varying the stress depending on the preposition: about сéти, but in сети́. Are there similar examples in Russian where only the stress changes during declension?

The hurricane with its downpour reached us tonight. Something suddenly escalated.