May 27 2018, 17:50

About half a million bikers today converged from across the country in Washington to honor the memory of those who died or went missing in action during war. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, but today there was a parade of these motorcyclists: they rode through the central streets. Many alongside the U.S. flag carried the black POW/MIA (prisoners of war / missing in action) flag. Many of the participants are veterans. The first image shows a Polaris Slingshot.

I can’t even imagine how to organize an event for half a million people.

What was the largest event in Russia? I only know about “Monsters of Rock” in Moscow in 1991 (Metallica, AC/DC and others), which also had around half a million people. And then there were the rallies in 1991 with a similar number of people gathered together. Could there really have been nothing bigger?

May 23 2018, 14:25

Just spent half an hour driving a Tesla 100D.

The experience was certainly pleasant, but overall the wow factor came only from the autopilot and auto-parking. The rest is pretty much the same as a similar class BMW or Audi. I didn’t try the sport mode, there would definitely be another wow factor there, but I am a calm driver: over two years I never sped up over 120 km/h because there was no need.

The autopilot is very pleasant. The car maintains a distance by itself, stays in the lane, and gives warnings.

To own a Tesla, you need your own house. Charging from city outlets is not an option at all, incredibly slow. There are no Superchargers in our area yet because all the buyers have homes, and that’s sufficient.

We’ll wait for Model 3 and the infrastructure. They say the third one is much simpler.

May 21 2018, 18:19

Lisa brought a Yearbook from school. This school issues such a 300-page album every year, incorporating all the past events in photos and facts. Here is Lisa on the Sophomore page. Here the parents bought an ad at the end to thank the kids for finishing school.

Surely, something similar exists in Russian schools too, but in the States, it’s a well-established tradition by the school, whereas in Russia, photographers earn extra by finding their way into the principal’s office before the end of the year, and the school usually doesn’t care much.

Lisa has been buried in that book for an hour now)