Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Almost

1969, the Japanese magazine Shōnen Sunday published an illustrated article “Computopia” about a computerized world of the future. The illustrations feature a videophone, a virtual school teacher, automatic iron and vacuum cleaner, 3D television, a food-warming kitchen table, and a surgeon robot.

Illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Toshio Okazaki

Rereading Sapiens. Interesting fact: it turns out that dinar, the official currency of Jordan, Iraq, Serbia, Macedonia, Tunisia, and several other countries, takes its name from the Roman denarius. Particularly interesting is that the Indians are to blame, who in the first century AD simply started minting Roman coins for their own purposes

attempt to fix the fifth

Fifth.

It’s a pity it’s too late to correct the mistakes. I’ll take it into account on the next try (update: the next attempt is attached, now there are two photos)

For my birthday, I was gifted oil paints, and now I am taking my first steps in painting. As always, the first attempts are a mess, but I need to track the progress, so I’ll publish whatever comes out. Bought five canvases, have used four so far. Attached in chronological order. Winter cottage — first attempt (terrible, terrible), summer cottage — second (slightly less terrible), grapes — third (no longer terrible but still many mistakes), and here’s the tree — fourth (today’s). I still want to add to the tree, probably need to depict some horizon behind it. Or maybe not, better to create something new.

Folks, if anyone here paints with oil, let me know. I have questions but no one to ask. How do you clean your palette without messing up the sink? What to do if the black is shiny but you need a matte color? Basically, let me know whom I can torment with questions 🙂

I wonder, will they be delivering the ammunition to the roof by elevator?

Science senses which way the wind blows and offers a battle-ready censer, practically eternal. The institute is under international sanctions from all EU countries, the USA, UK, and several other nations, so now it’s just the censer. Although, I think the main thing about a censer is its weight.

“When a mixture of propane-butane and air enters the ejector, the jet disperses within it. There, so-called little turbines whirl the mixture in opposite directions. The gas-air mixture must be evenly distributed and reach the grids. Even distribution can be judged by the uniform red glow,” explained the inventor, who works as a scientific researcher in the heterogeneous catalysis department of the Catalysis Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

I feel like Dud’ is currently observing the numbers and quotations, thinking: “I invited Eydelman, they didn’t come; I invited Parfenov, they didn’t come; I invited Akunin, they didn’t come, but it took just one invitation to the coachman…”

Ohh… What are they smoking?