Exactly two years ago I was at a #muse concert, and here I am again!
The show is freaking awesome. They will be in Moscow on June 15th, wherever you’re from – I highly recommend you don’t miss it 😉
Author: Rauf Aliev
April 01 2019, 14:11
TIL that “born” (рождаться) is a past participle of “bear” (нести), when used in the sense of “being born”. However, the same PP from bear in all other senses is different – borne.
When birth is being discussed, the past participle of “bear” is usually “born”: “I was born in a trailer—but it was an Airstream.” Note that the form used here is passive: you are the one somebody else—your mother—bore. But if the form is active, you need an “E” on the end, as in “Midnight has borne another litter of kittens in Dad’s old fishing hat” (Midnight did the bearing).
But in other meanings not having to do with birth, “borne” is always the past participle of “bear”: “My brother’s constant teasing about my green hair was more than could be borne.”
The simple past tense of “bear” when no helping verb is involved is of course “bore”: “Yesterday my wife bore twins.”
The dialectical form “borned” is not standard English.
March 31 2019, 11:20
Cool Christmas tree
March 30 2019, 22:49
An interesting feature – in recent years, in fact, only my family (two numbers) and strangers who want to sell me something call my phone. And this happens to many others, so they don’t answer these calls from unfamiliar numbers at all. And I have stopped too. It seems that in my world, the mobile phone is gradually assuming the role that the landline telephone had years ago. Messengers and texts are everything for us. Contacts with the outside world – only on my own initiative. But almost always these outgoing calls go to a call center. It seems that in such a system, corporations should restructure the way they communicate with clients. They need to provide the possibility of a callback at the request of the caller, with one click. Something like an app – let it be one for all call centers participating in the program. There, you fill out a form, press the “Call me” button, and wait for a call within the next half hour. And the operator already knows what you are calling about, and speaks directly to the point of the matter.
March 30 2019, 12:36
An excellent lecture in an “Explain-Like-I’m-Five” format by Anna Urum about CRISPR/CAS and genome editing. Anna is a student at the Department of Genetics at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, and a staff member of the Cell Biology Laboratory at the Russian Federal Research Clinical Center of Federal Medical-Biological Agency, and despite her limited experience, she is very commendable
March 29 2019, 21:09
Day twenty-four, night – minus one;)
March 28 2019, 09:29
From the online store: “Your robot vacuum is leaving us negative reviews and asking to be picked up”
March 27 2019, 19:16
March 27 2019, 17:56
The uncle is very cool. Awesome ragtime performance
March 25 2019, 09:12
Today I am presenting in Kyiv (remotely).
I was there exactly six years ago, on March 25, 2013. It snowed. There was an emergency. I didn’t get to see the city because there was no means of transportation – everything was out of order 🙂 APCs helped trolleys not to slide down the hill backwards and block the passage for the few SUVs. The ‘U’ in a triangle on the APC was amusing in itself)
