December 12 2019, 09:43

Reached NGINX. Good luck to Igor, lawsuit for 51 million rubles.

Just think – which Russian software products lead globally in their segment? Kaspersky – remember the scandal with the USA. Who else? Telegram? Abbyy and Acronis? Both seem to be still afloat, doing relatively well, and they “don’t shine too brightly”. In this list, for me, there has always been NGINX and Igor behind it (not Rambler).

December 11 2019, 00:24

Today, I decided to check out what looked like an interesting event based on the advertisement, https://aeronautsjourney.com. My friend and I spent about 45 minutes looking for it in the park. Along the way, we met a family who was also searching, a guy with a dog who insisted that there was definitely nothing like that in the park, and another guy who remembered that a tent had been taken down in the morning and showed us where.

We found it. Look at the photo on the right. I haven’t seen such a sad sight in a long time. And such a contrast to the advertising! The nearby botanical garden was our savior, which they decided to decorate with lights to charge for entrance tickets till late at night. Great idea and execution.

Here’s a video from there

December 08 2019, 13:57

Less than a month ago, I was in Warsaw at the royal museum exactly on the day they offered free admission. It seems like it was free for the entire month of November.

Then I went to Stuttgart, and there was free admission to the main art museum due to the Hermes at work exhibition, which was also free.

Today I am in Atlanta, and precisely on that one day of the month when the entrance to the main art museum is free. In all three cases, they sent me to the ticket desk to pick up a free ticket. Long-established processes are probably hard to change.