Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Looks a bit creepy

Kolomna

Imagine, in our county (Fairfax), schools have made the decision to OFFICIALLY grant a day off (excused absence) to students if they provide proof of participation in civic engagement activities, such as ‘marches, sit-ins or trips to Richmond to lobby legislators’.

Getting a day off is generally tough – you need to be seriously ill, involved in a court case, among about a dozen other reasons of the same ilk

Software and music for it (digging through archives of the last century)

#longing

The Miss America contest has been held under new rules for the second year. Now, instead of demonstrating their ability to walk in swimsuits and evening gowns, participants must compete by showcasing other talents. Miss Virginia, Camille Schrier, has a background in biochemistry. Camille won Miss America 2020 with a spectacular science demonstration from a children’s science program, illustrating the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. Fizz, boom! The jury was moved, no doubt about it.

Moscow metro and the jellyfish

(no longer relevant, fixed) Friends, I am currently in Moscow, if anyone has a multimeter, soldering iron & stuff, alcohol, and ideally an oscilloscope at home or in the office, and can let me use it for a bit, please let me know 😉

Sheremetyevo greeted me with Wi-Fi, which doesn’t work without a local SIM card. There, one can upload their passport and their mug, and an “AI” will tell you that at my age of 42, I don’t look like the photo in the passport, which some people have from twenty-four years ago. Ultimately, I was not allowed on the internet. I had to beg Nadya

Interesting, why does no one work on converting direct speech into indirect?

Such a development would have a large market – the same cars could read texts received more naturally.

Not “can you come by my office” from the boss, but “Rauf, your boss is asking you to come by his office”. Or “your wife is asking you to buy some milk”.

How Margulan Seisembayev sold his business, interesting