Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

For some reason, street corner circus acts are popular here in Bogota. In the left video, a guy is juggling (without much skill; I can almost do the same). In the second one, he’s dancing with hanging dolls (I’m not even sure if I could do that). Probably, the fact that someone pays for this means people aren’t spending their last penny on it.

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Hello from (not) sunny Colombia! Since Instagram is reportedly broken, I’ll torment you with photo reports from local Bogota restaurants. Might as well, since I have to wait for the food anyway. I ordered Udag Sambal ikan with Chinese beer, let’s see what that’s like. The beer is well above average.

Tourism here is poor, but the taste is good. All hotels are setting empty, restaurants are empty too.

If anyone has been in Colombia, in Bogota, share what there is to do, otherwise I’ll have to spend the entire weekend working in the hotel.

there is something unfair about this. T-Mobile sent me a letter stating that my data, such as my immutable SSN, might be in the hands of malefactors because T-Mobile dropped the ball on something. There’s a 99% chance that nothing will happen, but there’s still that 1% risk of identity theft – when malefactors try to take out credit in your name (it never actually causes real problems, as it’s easy to prove you didn’t borrow anything, but it’s still unpleasant). The only effective protection against this is to enable a Lock on requests to credit bureaus. We have three providers: TransUnion, Equifax, Experian. I haven’t checked the others, but just for TransUnion, it costs almost $25 a month (not just for the block, but the block itself isn’t sold separately). Maybe someone local knows something.

I don’t understand why others mess up, and I have to pay

This pup needs its own Facebook or Instagram. I have no place to store all these videos anymore. In the first one, we let him out in our backyard to run around and go crazy. It’s fenced, safe. He started playing the hunter. No rabbits? A tail and an owner will do.

In the second one, he stared at the ball groggily for a while, deciding whether to kick it or not. He hit a door spring, discovering a new brrrr-sound. He amusingly played with it for a long time – that’s when I ran out of space on my phone.

I wonder, what did the first humans do with their toenails? Okay, you could bite off the ones on your hands since there were no scissors yet, but the toenails? Again, there were no stones or asphalt; they would wear down extremely slowly when rubbing against the ground. Running from predators or chasing them with such nails would certainly be inconvenient. The only reasonable explanation is that relatives, friends, and partners gnawed off each other’s toenails.

As the saying goes, two moves are equivalent to one fire. This year, it’s already the second one. But this time, to our own house! The garage is completely packed with stuff, despite the fact that all the furniture we have is just a table and a bed, and they aren’t in the garage. And once we arrived with just six suitcases…

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Very intriguing. Probably the best video for an introduction to the most “murky” part of physics. Quantum mechanics, Young’s double-slit experiment, interference, the observer, superposition, Einstein, Niels Bohr, Hugh Everett, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, and even natural selection. Truly very interesting and presented in an accessible way.

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