Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

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Everyone ran, and I ran too! (c)

Today I found the model of my first PC, Philips P3102. That was some 30 years ago. Back then we used floppy disks, Lexicon, Slovo&Delo, Chi-Writer, Norton Commander, Volkov Commander, and DOS Navigator, ARJ archiver, CP1250 and CP866 encodings. I was working at a bank at the time, where everything was managed by Novell, and we used antiviruses like Aidstest by D. N. Lozinsky, Dr.Web, and ADinf. As far as databases go, I remember Clipper being popular. From programming languages, I used Turbo Pascal 4.0 and Borland C++ Builder. And there was Watcom C as well. But, when you think about it, there was so much local software—developed in Russia. Then, everything was overturned, Windows NT came, then XP. But that was only 25 years ago. I wonder if there will be such a dramatic change in another 25 years?

In the art museum in Washington, there is a separate section at the entrance that calibrates taste. Here’s the thing. On paper. With colored pencils. The authors are – Henri Speller (first) and Georgia Speller (the other two). Henri drew these brown women at 85 years old, and Georgia at 56 (and died at 57). And everything about them is like this. Everything.

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).