Month: November 2022

Right after arriving in the US in 2016, I walked through Walmart and recorded the prices (left half of the table; has become cloudy and yellowed in places over time). The recording was poorly done, as neither brands nor quality can be seen. Well, it is what it is. Today I ended up in Walmart again, and I took pictures of the prices for the same assortment of products.

And here’s what’s interesting. For some products, like apples, bananas, milk, tomatoes, potatoes, the prices have not changed at all. Almost nothing has fallen, and where it has, I attribute it to differences in quality. For the remaining products, there’s roughly a 30 percent increase. For instance, chicken and eggs went from $2.58 to $3.98. I used the cheapest for comparison, although in fact I never bought non-organic—organic costs almost twice as much.

Comparing prices outside the US is difficult, even though I tried in 2016. For example, unwashed potatoes weren’t available for sale even then, and now they’re not even sold loose.

It’s also worth noting that the selection of products I’ve mentioned here is not at all similar to what a typical Walmart shopper takes from the grocery section of the store.

Yuki collected his first thousand likes (in 4 days).

The dogs were asked to create an original artistic portrait. Here you go, Yuka! #NoFilters

Yuki has a hygrometer built into her nose. If her nose is strangely black — then it’s raining

Our dirigible has found its emotional balance and is now traveling all over the floor. It’s raining outside, the pressure dropped, and it soa-red

As I look at modern artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, I think to myself that the only thing left of the old good visual art is modern architecture. It doesn’t require understanding of context or the inner feelings of the author, which are supposed to explain why their ugly paintings deserve attention. Today, I was deciphering the art of Francis Bacon. And one might also recall Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Twombly, Warhol, Rothko.

Architecture simply delights with interesting ideas and expressiveness, and almost never do even the boldest experiments evoke strange feelings.

One of the channels on Telegram, which greatly distracts me from work during the day—

P.S. Also, my Lisa will soon have completed half the journey to becoming a licensed architect 🙂 Lisa, hello!

Today, I noticed that Marilyn Monroe’s mole in Warhol’s work and in the film is in different places. I don’t know why you need to know this, and why I needed to know it, but it turned out that it moved from the cheek to the chin in 1959.

Finished reading! Quite a useful book. I’ll post some excerpts in the comments.

Indeed, in all the teams I’ve been part of, I’ve encountered a wild mix of cultures. For example, I’ve been heading a project at Mercedes Benz for almost three years now. I work with people from India, Colombia, Germany, Brazil, the USA, and some of them have also moved and adopted a foreign culture, gradually replacing their own. So, it is possible to make some conclusions from such a mix about how to interact considering the cultural context, but they are unlikely to work. And it has been like this in all other projects since 2016. But I still find it very useful.

Next in line are American Nations and Endurance.

Indeed, yes.

I asked midjourney to draw a life-weary Cheburashka with oranges. Seems like it turned out alright