Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Sitting with my daughter, playing chess, her music is blaring from the phone, and suddenly my watch shows this. Well, how should I interpret this. Guess I’ll go put them on charge or something

Yuki has a very interesting “program” at work. After eating, especially a hearty meal, he always activates the “let’s play” mode. It can turn on at other times too, but randomly, while after eating—it’s always. It looks like this: he brings a toy and sits down, looking at it. After about five seconds, he loudly tosses it and then sits again, obviously waiting for someone to pick it up and throw it to the far corner.

A very unusual movie. Measured, sad, and smart. The entire film is set in one café, all ninety minutes of it. The entire film consists purely of dialogs (and nothing else). But it is filmed magically, highly recommend.

At least three actors from “Perfect Strangers” by the same director, a film which we watched a week ago. Also a very good film — a remake of Quartet-I’s “Loud Connection” which is significantly worse (although it stands out among Russian films of the last 20 years overall).

Oh, what a cool thing there is. Such an awesome startup! It’s just a pity that all locations are far away (8 hours by car).

Here’s a guy sharing his experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM84hHIDato

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlvvSCmYsog

Right after arriving in the US in 2016, I walked through Walmart and recorded the prices (left half of the table; has become cloudy and yellowed in places over time). The recording was poorly done, as neither brands nor quality can be seen. Well, it is what it is. Today I ended up in Walmart again, and I took pictures of the prices for the same assortment of products.

And here’s what’s interesting. For some products, like apples, bananas, milk, tomatoes, potatoes, the prices have not changed at all. Almost nothing has fallen, and where it has, I attribute it to differences in quality. For the remaining products, there’s roughly a 30 percent increase. For instance, chicken and eggs went from $2.58 to $3.98. I used the cheapest for comparison, although in fact I never bought non-organic—organic costs almost twice as much.

Comparing prices outside the US is difficult, even though I tried in 2016. For example, unwashed potatoes weren’t available for sale even then, and now they’re not even sold loose.

It’s also worth noting that the selection of products I’ve mentioned here is not at all similar to what a typical Walmart shopper takes from the grocery section of the store.

Yuki collected his first thousand likes (in 4 days).

The dogs were asked to create an original artistic portrait. Here you go, Yuka! #NoFilters

Yuki has a hygrometer built into her nose. If her nose is strangely black — then it’s raining

Our dirigible has found its emotional balance and is now traveling all over the floor. It’s raining outside, the pressure dropped, and it soa-red

As I look at modern artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, I think to myself that the only thing left of the old good visual art is modern architecture. It doesn’t require understanding of context or the inner feelings of the author, which are supposed to explain why their ugly paintings deserve attention. Today, I was deciphering the art of Francis Bacon. And one might also recall Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Twombly, Warhol, Rothko.

Architecture simply delights with interesting ideas and expressiveness, and almost never do even the boldest experiments evoke strange feelings.

One of the channels on Telegram, which greatly distracts me from work during the day—

P.S. Also, my Lisa will soon have completed half the journey to becoming a licensed architect 🙂 Lisa, hello!