Author: Rauf Aliev

From the bus window today.

2.5 hours by bus, then another 40 minutes by a different one, then 10 km on foot, and I’m in the Tatra Mountains, Morskie Oko. It is said to be one of the most beautiful mountain lakes in the world

Continuing the restaurant theme, I’m dining at my favorite Corleone

I would kill those who make such timezone selections. It’s the twenty-first century, Tesla, gravitational waves, SpaceX has relaunched a spent rocket, a computer has finally beaten humans at Go, yet in Windows for setting a timezone you need to remember the UTC offset or a typical city for it.

Why not incorporate a complete list of major cities into the system and create a convenient directory? There are only about 500 cities in the world with a population over one million, and around 5000 with more than 100,000 inhabitants.

I thought it was in America where the portions are big. And there was an extra large option on the menu, but that’s not the one I chose—I went for a smaller one. Find the glasses)

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Getting ready for takeoff. Right in front of me on the mat, a Muslim is praying. Polite, apologized before and after. By the way, do they carry a compass with them?

Funny, the word apparatchiks in English doesn’t need decryption

I recently read a Facebook post saying that if you break a thermometer, you must call the ghostbusters who will carry out the demercurization of the area and save your life. Crawling around with a piece of paper and gathering the beads is just foolery, apparently. It suggests that you can’t scrape it all up yourself, and only professional help can save the space and its inhabitants.

I decided to see what it’s like here. Everyone seems to be obsessed with such problems. Each similar incident is blown up to the scale of a cosmic problem and there is always a company offering professional help with the consequences. But somehow, mercury removal services are hard to find.

Just for fun, try to find at least one American organization that performs demercurization of premises. There is Poison Control, but as I understand it, they focus on giving the right advice and helping the caller if necessary. If you manage to find an organization (surely there must be one in the States), try to find their prices.