Month: May 2020

Sometimes just a hint is enough, and the brain completes 90% on its own. Passing through St. Petersburg. Here’s Philip Morris

A crane fly buzzed in. One leg – about five cm long. Let it fly on

I don’t know, maybe after five years of living in the USA, this design has grown on me, but darn it, why don’t they make it anymore? The first photo is the GM Futureliner design from way back in 1935. Almost a hundred years old soon!

We see all kinds of houses on wheels. The best, of course, are Airstream – a real dream. They also look vintage.

Video about Futurliner:

Last evening, I wondered how difficult it would be to create a program that counts push-ups, pull-ups, jumps, and abdominal exercises, just using the camera of a phone? Naturally, it’s hard to let go of such a thought and simply go to sleep. I quickly sketched something out using OpenCV. The video shows Masha jumping, and in the comments are some randomly selected videos from the internet of push-ups and pull-ups.

Nadezhda Shulga and I try to get acquainted with the local bike trails a couple of times a week. There aren’t that many, and they will run out in a couple of months, forcing us to cycle them again. Today, for example, we rode on the WB&A in Maryland – a trail next to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s largest and oldest laboratory. I want to visit it, but now it’s unclear when it will all open again.

A couple of days before that, we rode around Silver Spring. The second video is from there. A few more days earlier, we spent in Indian Head Rail Trail. A week ago, we were in Percellville. The plan includes another ten or fifteen places, after which we’ll have to start over.

Nevertheless, a bike rack for the tow hitch is a very handy thing. Just load up the bikes, and within an hour or two, you can find trails to suit any taste. True, many are more pedestrian than cycle paths, so you can’t really speed up much on them.

Meeting place (along the WB&A bike trail)

Today there’s a new update on Hybrismart: an analysis of versions and upgrades of SAP Commerce Cloud (aka Hybris) over time.

An example of our local news. A 23-year-old dude was arrested and thrown into a detention center for apparently trying too hard to hit on some lady during a bike ride. She, smartly, sped off home, called the police from there, and provided a description of the scoundrel and his bicycle. Caught him. According to the police, it was his third attempt to draw attention. In short, they locked him up and are calling for other victims to come forward. Likely he’ll get about three years plus end up in a public registry of miscreants so the neighbors know who they are living with.

P.S. I’m not defending the victim here, whoever of the two it might be. Just an example of news you wouldn’t see in Russia.

How could I have missed this! Almost an anthem

Updated the record: 15 km at an average speed of 31.6, through about 10 intersections, and quite crowded. Percellville – Leesburg