Watched a good movie yesterday. It’s a family film, ideal for watching without English subtitles: it’s very straightforward (half of the movie is a dog talking, rated 6+).
In the film, dogs periodically die, to whom you tend to get attached, but everything ends well, and overall, the movie is very positive.
It was based on this book: https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/31218906/
https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-Purpose-Novel-Humans/dp/0765330342
The ceremonial chess room where tonight I am destined to lose twice and win once. Two losses mean 70 push-ups for the evening, 36 and 34. After this, we decided not to play anymore today #chess
In the last YEAR AND A HALF, at most 10-15 different acquaintances have called my mobile, and about the same number of strangers (including “buy insurance” and “from the clinic”). And not a single call yet related to work 🙂 If you subtract family calls, the phone functions as a player+browser+social networks+camera almost without exception. In fact, 150 bucks a month go to family communication + mobile internet + very occasional, extremely rare phone calls to various services as needed.
Internet is heavily used. This month 6 GB of data was used (unlimited). Traffic 42% goes to video. (On Android, at least you can set YouTube quality to minimum, but not on iPhone!)
SMS are free. 117 SMS this month. 77 calls totaling 159 minutes of conversations, of which about 20 are outside the family group of numbers. Usually no more than 10, it’s just that August was particularly active. All calls are also unlimited.
Compared to how I used my phone in Moscow, I barely use it here at all. I could have just kept the internet and made calls via VOIP. But that’s just me.
But really, when you think about it. It’s not even a phone anymore. It’s a microcomputer, which among other things, can still make and receive calls through an old-school channel. The word ‘phone’ is still hanging on, but probably not for long.
Working with international clients and teams, I encountered an interesting experience I hadn’t considered before: the names of the people you work with can be any pronounceable (and sometimes not so much) set of letters. Or your name might be such for them. Therefore, here the visiting Chinese and Koreans have renamed themselves with English names.
Interesting article: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2009/04/the_names_du_xiao_hua_but_call_me_steve.html
The GOT series about climbers is just the silliest. Both in terms of script and execution. It has one advantage – the next one is the finale!
UPDATE: finished watching. The last two episodes really remind me of Tolkien. They tried hard, but she didn’t give birth to her fourth (or is it already third) dragon, and I was really counting on it
Look what they’ve installed in Times Square. An LCD screen with moving elements. Looks just awesome! https://vimeo.com/229199452
The comments were amusing. I generally love dirty for its witty audience
what a cool thing! just turn on your speakers
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
And a bit of analytics: https://meduza.io/shapito/2017/08/30/russkie-risuyut-dom-bez-dverey
Generation П lives
“Overall,” Morvokin said, “it happens something like this. A person takes out a loan. With this loan, he rents an office, buys a Cherokee jeep, and eight crates of ‘Smirnovskaya’. When the ‘Smirnovskaya’ runs out, it turns out that the jeep is wrecked, the office is vomit-stained, and the loan needs to be repaid. Then a second loan is taken out – three times larger than the first. It is used to repay the first loan, buy a Grand Cherokee, and sixteen crates of ‘Absolut’. When the ‘Absolut’…
“I get it,” Tatarsky interrupted. “And what happens in the end?”
“Two scenarios. If the bank that the person owes is a gangster one, then at some point they kill him. Since there are no other banks, this is usually what happens. If, on the other hand, the person himself is a gangster, then the last loan is transferred to the State Bank, and the person declares bankruptcy. Bailiffs come to his office, list empty bottles and a vomit-stained fax, and after some time, he starts all over again.
However, the State Bank has its own gangsters now, so the situation is a bit more complicated, but overall the picture hasn’t seriously changed.”
How can this be? Three different rips (flac) of Pink Floyd WYWH on three different players (Hifiman, Cowon D2 & Cowon Z9) won’t play. Everything else by Pink Floyd works perfectly. Do they all use the same flac library? I’m about to convert them to ape. But why don’t three different rips made by three different people work? How can this be explained?
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