Tag: facebook

Our two cats

To my surprise, I found that drawing cars is more difficult than drawing faces. I tried to sketch our RAV4 “quickly” but got the proportions a bit wrong. The challenge is that you draw the car standing next to it, and because of this, the perspective distortions are much stronger than with smaller objects at a greater distance. Additionally, the shape of a car is defined by a continuous array of intricately inclined planes and transitions between them, rarely aligning with the lines of perspective. Plus, specific details distinguish the car against other brands, and I still need to figure out which ones, other than the front of the car. Overall, it’s an interesting exercise that is still challenging, but I will keep trying. Luckily, there are always enough parked cars on the street.

It seems that converting from direct to indirect speech is no longer a problem. It’s interesting why it still isn’t being integrated anywhere.

I’m a few years late with videos about robotaxis on city streets, but just in case someone hasn’t seen it yet. There are quite a lot of these little cars. Well, how many… to film them, you need to wait about 15 minutes in the city center – at least one will definitely pass by. Not in the center, it might take a bit longer. Primarily, you see the Cruise (GM) and Waymo (Google) cars. They operate day and night, even during rush hours. You download the app, place an order, and off you go.

Do some groundwork.

A very interesting guest – religious studies scholar Konstantin Mikhailov. I really dislike Sergey’s way of communicating, but it’s bearable since Konstantin mainly does the talking https://youtu.be/VvfatIyKDl8

https://youtu.be/VvfatIyKDl8?si=gYRoCkQpTqNwdKAo

Restaurant lounge

First time seeing a motorcycle with a trailer

And today I still have to go to the airport. And explain to their dogs why I smell of gunpowder

#clayshooting

It turned out that two years ago, GM recalled all 100% of the electric Chevy Volts produced, which is about 142,000, due to battery fires when charged to 100%. By the way, when this was discovered, the company asked not to fully charge and to park the cars outside. There’s a bit of confusion here – there’s a Volt and there’s a Bolt. The Volt is very popular—in fact, by the end of 2019, it was the best-selling plug-in hybrid in the US market. It seems the conversation was actually about the Bolt.

I also liked: “GM says the battery itself is safe, and is avoiding using the word ‘recall’ by calling this a ‘customer satisfaction campaign’ to ‘provide peace of mind to customers.’ This reminds me of something.