Month: December 2018

I’ll tell you, there’s no better urban transportation system than in the Netherlands, especially in Amsterdam. The quantity and quality of options to reliably get from point A to point B are off the charts in my personal rankings. Maybe it’s because I only see the good side. Huge respect for the bicycles. In Amsterdam, where the weather is just as bad as in St. Petersburg, and they manage to keep it without any mud or bad vibes—impressive. Though, I still don’t know what happens here when it snows.

Visited the Boijmans Museum. There’s a great Rubens exhibition here

Clothes hanger, inside – storage for bags (somewhere there is my backpack). Mind-blowing

Well, here is modern art from me

Visited the modern art museum in Amsterdam. And the Banksy exhibit, where I accidentally bought tickets. Banksy is wonderful, but brief.

a meter-long chandelier, hanging above my bed. The view from the pillow

My desk is by the window, and during moments of contemplation on what to write on a slide, I look out with interest. For the second day, I have been witnessing some bizarre scenes. At night, some guy’s bike broke down. In the rain. Another guy arrived, hoisted the first one – with the bike – onto the rear rack, and this construction went off into the horizon. I didn’t manage to capture that. And just now, I saw a rollerblader, in the rain, down the center of the road, at a red light. Skiers probably passed by here too.

An interesting list of English words that can mean opposite things when taken out of context.

Such instances occur in Russian as well. For example, “чайник долго остывает” = “чайник долго не остывает”, and adjectives like “оригинальный”, “традиционный”, or “лихой”

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/

Can you explain why phones (both Android and iOS) sometimes connect to unfamiliar networks without my permission? It seems wildly like a security flaw. You set up a network which phones connect to automatically, displaying ads on the auto-login page. But since I’m not the only clever one, there are obstacles. What do you think they are? What causes these connections? Surely it’s not just identical SSIDs?

What a great idea