Month: November 2018

If you’re going to break, might as well do it elegantly, thought our little plate.

Today is National Portfolio Day. It’s a day of the year when representatives from art colleges and universities meet with prospective students and provide them feedback, pros, cons, what to include in their portfolios, and what not. Whether to expect grants and other admissions-related advice. Each student is given at least 15 minutes of time. The photo shows just one twentieth of the space and the crowds. Many people, many colleges. Interestingly, here they almost never talk to parents at any educational institution for any reason. It’s as if they don’t exist. It’s your application – they talk to you. And today, many came with their mothers, but neither moms nor dads get noticed.

Our Climate: Yesterday and Today

Arzamas did a very cool job on “The History of Russian Culture in 25 Minutes”

https://youtu.be/cgLFTitXPdw

Apparently, there is a class of people who need a device for breaking eggs (screenshot).

The other two startups seem wildly promising to me – self healing fabric https://youtu.be/jepw1_SoPiM and foldable homes https://youtu.be/xSDsH6mwHqE

Serious People

The only store I felt like sharing on Facebook and buying half the t-shirts from)

https://www.gamiss.com/cheap/men-89/

There is a word that I write very often and almost always with a mistake. Then I notice it and correct it. But I have not been able to write it correctly right away for many years. It is the translation into English of the word “pronunciation”. Now, after figuring it out, I will write it correctly from the first try. Because I know that a trisyllabic abbreviation is to blame 🙂

Also, we recently figured out why Americans don’t immediately understand what kind of ‘fountains’ we are talking about when we mention the name of our residential complex (Fountains of Mclean). It turns out, it’s not ‘fountains,’ but ‘fan-tins’, and additionally, not ‘mclean’ but ‘mclane’ 🙂

#English

Wow, this lady is on fire (Tatiana Shmaylyuk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNtGoM3FVU

It’s like a conspiracy theory

“On The Beatles’ first British album, Please Please Me, 57% of the songs contained these and other personal pronouns, 64% of the songs on their second album With the Beatles, and 79% on their third, A Hard Day’s Night. For Please Please Me, the site recorded 325 personal pronouns within 19 minutes and 30 seconds of music, averaging about one pronoun every 3.6 seconds.”