Author: Rauf Aliev

We have a concert here now!)

Amazon Dash. Somehow it passed me by. The idea is simply superb.

Dash Button – a small device with the logo of the product that can be ordered by pressing the only button present on the case. The Dash Button attaches to any surface using either double-sided tape or a hook (both are included in the package). With the Dash Button, you can now order “consumables”: personal hygiene items, food (including pet food), cleaning supplies, and such.

The button costs 5 bucks.

Interesting hack: it can be repurposed for unofficial personal use. https://geektimes.ru/post/269008/ The principle is as follows: pressing the button activates a Wi-Fi client, which sends a push request with the button’s ID to Amazon. Amazon knows who it came from and immediately dispatches laundry detergent.

So, the hack involves the button connecting not to a WiFi point but to a server running Ubuntu, which, instead of letting it access the internet, makes it do something else useful (like ordering cookies to your office). This requires a bit of knowledge in administration and programming.

http://www.amazon.com/dash-button

Hm, the Washington Balalaika Orchestra concert. You really can find anything here.

http://www.forumdaily.com/event/110589/

This is how a music lesson goes in the car school (see pictures on the blog)

There is also a separate class where they play violins and similar string instruments.

Since Masha didn’t play either a wind instrument or the violin, she will have to learn how to use this Percussion Kit (see pictures on the blog)

It will have to be rented for home practice. So soon my piano will have some “friends”.

Quotes from Steve Jobs from The Lost Interview

“…I sold my Volkswagen bus and Steve Wozniak sold his calculator and we got enough money to pay friends of ours to make the artwork to make a printed circuit board.”

Here’s another interesting story:

I read an article when I was very young in Scientific American and it measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet.

So for bears and chimps and raccoons and birds and fish—how many kilocalories per kilometer did they spend to move—and humans were measured too, and the condor won.

It was the most efficient, and mankind, the crown of creation, came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list.

But somebody there had the brilliance to test a human riding a bicycle. Blew away the condor. All the way off the charts. I remember that this really had an impact on me.

I really remember this, that humans are tool builders and we build tools that can dramatically amplify our innate human abilities. And to me, we actually ran an ad like this very early on at Apple that the personal computer was the bicycle of the mind.

Ha-ha) this is the official Instagram of Russia’s Ministry of Culture:)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCaKeO6SXM6/

“– The sovereign has left us, we are perishing,” the people cried out, “who will save us now from the invasion of enemies? We will remain, like sheep, without a shepherd!

Clerics, boyars, official people – all began to beg, to implore the metropolitan to mollify, to plead with the sovereign not to abandon the kingdom.

– Let the sovereign not forsake the state, let him punish his evildoers. In life and death, God and the sovereign will decide! – was heard from all sides.

– We all, with our own heads, – the boyars and serving people added, – follow you, holy one, to bow down before the sovereign and lament.

– Let the tsar only point out his evildoers and traitors, we ourselves will exterminate them! – the merchants and people shouted.

The metropolitan immediately wanted to go to Ivan the Terrible, but at the general council, they decided that he should stay to guard the capital: disorders were already beginning due to lack of leadership. The clergy and boyars went to Alexandrovskaya sloboda to bow down to the tsar, to implore him on behalf of all of Moscow to return to the throne. Ivan the Terrible received the envoys and listened to them. Praising him in every possible way, they begged for the sake of holy icons and the Christian faith, which could be desecrated by the heretic enemies, to take power into his hands again.

– And if, sovereign, you are disturbed by treason and vice in our land, – they added, – then let it be your will – to punish and pardon the guilty and to rectify everything with your wise laws!”

Who remembers how it all ended when Ivan agreed not to abandon the royal post? 😐

https://meduza.io/news/2016/02/29/chechenskiy-ombudsmen-priravnyal-otstavku-kadyrova-k-massovomu-narusheniyu-prav-grazhdan?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=share_fb&utm_campaign=share

In Washington, near the Reagan airport, there is a recreational area where planes dump leftover fuel… Oops, I’m saying something wrong – it’s a place where locals relax – playing badminton, walking their children, and so forth. And above them, literally over their heads, a plane flies by every minute.

After a plane flies over, for several more seconds a distinct sound emanates from nowhere above their heads, generated by the air vortex lifted by the aircraft. It’s quite unusual when the sound comes from a place where there is nothing. Sometimes the vortex is visible, then it resembles a small tornado, but this requires dusty weather.

http://beinginamerica.com/2016/02/29/gravelly-point-park/

Visited the aerospace museum in Virginia today. Read about the aircraft that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, the plane that flew around the world, the space shuttle, Concorde, and the beautiful Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird standing there

on my blog http://beinginamerica.com/2016/02/28/aeromuseum/

Got the plates! By the way, front plates are not provided at all by the designs of many American cars, and according to the rules, the plate is attached to the bumper either through holes drilled by the owner or through a plastic overlay that clips on.