Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

I ordered the Phillips 700 F32T8 fluorescent lamp from Grainger and found that the prices range from 3 bucks to 85. Google shopping shows the same picture. The store consultant can’t properly explain the difference between 7 and 50 bucks each. Apparently, the first one lasts 36,000 hours, and the second one – 45,000. Also, they have different color temperatures. Bought it for seven bucks. But does anyone understand? Why such a wild price range?

Interestingly, although every sixth person speaks and writes in Chinese, there is no decent translator for sentences from Chinese and back. The quality of all of them is such that even the meaning of the sentence is unclear.

Ah, here’s the second tune of the day. It’s by the band Mozart Heroes. They offer a mix of classical music and hardcore, as they describe themselves. Bach+Game of Thrones, Mozart+Metallica.

An interesting combination of cello and acoustic guitar.

Today’s music share – Robyn Adele Anderson, a member of PostmodernJukebox.

Here’s something nice:

We Can’t Stop

Thrift Shop

Burn

All these videos are from PostmodernJukebox. She also has her own channel – link in the post.

And indeed, the Earth could very well be flat if the space-time in which the Earth resides is appropriately distorted. In the grand scheme of things, the concept of space is purely mathematical, not physical. To equalize segments on a plane (so that they are identical to their spherical counterparts), it would be necessary to distort time in different places of the flat Earth, but for the inhabitants of this flat Earth, both spatial and temporal distortions would be difficult to measure due to the lack of a clear standard. Though there still remain complexities with connectivity. This notion even stretches to the theory of a cubic Earth.

And today Lisa flew all by herself from Moscow to Washington! 🙂 🇷🇺️🛫🇺🇸️

An interesting tool – it shows the dynamic range of your voice. I can’t sing at all, so I only managed a mere 2.8 octaves from E2 to B4, and it sounds really bad on the edges (~5 notes) and I couldn’t hit the notes on the first try. I hope nobody heard that). But overall, it’s an interesting instrument. Turns out, if I foolishly pursued vocal training, I could have sung bass) Why not give it a try?

https://www.masterclass.com/find-your-range

Especially if you sing, unlike me 🙂

Awesome a 10-year-old girl sings. Kazakhstan

The guy has some pretty good “music theory lessons” from Alexander Zilkov. Got hooked, although I supposedly know all this from school, but it’s interesting. He has other cool videos there too.

Many people are sensitive to smog, and in Krakow, it’s a real problem. The cause of the smog is that many people still heat their homes using old stoves or boilers, and all the smoke accumulates in the city. Therefore, almost 100% of cyclists here ride in masks, and even ordinary pedestrians are gradually acquiring such things. Came across a store where masks of various designs and colors are sold.

Before traveling to Poland, I hadn’t even thought that there was a whole market for anti-smog masks. Look at the variety:

Today is my last day in Poland, tomorrow I fly back to the USA.