Month: May 2020

Mount Vernon – Washington DC, 50km. Excellent day!

The docking with the ISS is currently being broadcast

Second attempt. Lift-off in 50 minutes (unless they cancel again). Moscow time – 22:22. EST – 3:20pm Watching 🙂

Yandex, that’s wonderful 🙂

Our Masha is reading Pushkin, Tatiana’s letter to Onegin. She’s memorized it, and today we went to record it in a rain-drenched forest park. More details in Nadya’s original post – send likes their way for collaborative creativity!

Should we start a YouTube channel with poetry readings in the rain? 😉

Watching the SpaceX launch to the ISS with live astronauts. For ten years, the US has asked Roscosmos to assist with sending astronauts to the ISS. If they succeed, Roscosmos will lose its biggest “client”.

Happening right now. Takeoff soon

How does it work, huh? I just made a prototype on my knees and posted on Facebook, then Facebook immediately started showing me ads for an app that can already do this https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onyx-home-workout/id1440639203

Walking in a little forest in Wilmington, South Carolina. The video features a whole family of Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants. There’s a whole clearing of them here. The Venus flytrap is only found in the wild in these places and nowhere else in the world.

It would be interesting to make scales that you simply place under the legs of a sofa, and they transmit the weight of those sitting there via Bluetooth. Based on the measurements, it could then be possible to determine who sat where and personalize the TV for the person sitting. Kind of like a box with N sensors, one for each leg. For a family of three or four, you can relatively accurately determine the weight. Well okay, unless they bring along a pack of cola, a bucket of chips, or corn, which would spoil everything. But actually, this is also a challenge: you could collect statistics for weeks and, over time, determine quite accurately even with cola and popcorn. This would make a cool startup 🙂

We made it to the beach. Myrtle Beach at one in the morning was greeted with huge noisy crowds of people on the streets and balconies, police on every corner. Around the corner, it seems a nightclub has opened, all parking lots are packed. This is because Monday is Memorial Day. Some spend the day quietly drinking Black Label at the cemetery, while others take advantage of three consecutive days off and head to the beaches and national parks. These, as reported, were officially opened this weekend.

Last night we were the only ones wearing masks. It even felt somewhat awkward. It seems they are not popular here. Social distancing? No, never heard of it. The city was buzzing to its full potential. It seems that most visitors are from places where the coronavirus has not reached seriously yet.

By the way, I’m reading “Mysteries of Sleep” by Mikhail Poluektov. On the way here, we listened to the first five lectures of “Human Behavioral Biology” by Robert Sapolsky. Highly recommend both.