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In my sixth year living in the USA, I finally understood why the police canine unit is called K-9.

Is there a genre such as expanding existing musical works in the same style? Something like covers, but more serious. For example, we take Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” and compose something in which you can sense a kinship, exploiting the same theme, but still a standalone piece that wouldn’t be a shame to include in a playlist or concert alongside Gershwin’s original. Covers are still the same piece, just translated into a slightly different language. Listening to the same piece in various covers consecutively — that’s not the same as experiencing reinterpretations, continuations, or sequels.

Here is an example from literature. There is “The Tale of Fedot the Daring Fellow” by Filatov, written in 1985. There is “The Tale of Yegor, the Tsar’s Support, Son of Fedot the Daring Fellow,” written by Andrey Averyanov in the same style, and it’s a standalone piece, very good, by the way. Although opinions vary. But that’s actually a good thing. The second piece is not a cover of the first.

I wonder why this is not a frequent occurrence in instrumental music? For instance, there is Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” and Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Paganini,” where the basis is Nicolò Paganini’s 24th Caprice (you’ve all heard it). That right there is a very good example. But for some reason, there is little of this sort.

I wonder why there are no bitter anti-chew products for dogs in the form of a glue stick, only sprays. The sprays give me an unpleasant cough because the aerosol hangs in the air, and the dog doesn’t care – true, he doesn’t touch the sprayed areas, but he sleeps perfectly fine nearby. And I start coughing walking many meters away. A glue stick form factor would be much more convenient. But there’s nothing like that at all.

I want to treat all the wires to make it clear to the dog that they shouldn’t be chewed. He does it very rarely and when no one is around 😦 thank God, I unplugged it before he started to chew on the plug.

Eye candy! Great music video

This car from ’51 costs as much as my two combined. And it has a lot more horsepower (most likely a V8 / ls3 / Supercharged 350ci)

I wonder, has it just passed me by, or at some point did they decide not to consider Pyotr Boborykin a classic? I haven’t heard anything about him, but the guy actually wrote a ton of stuff in the 19th century, coined the words “intelligentsia” and “nonsense-belt”. “Vasily Terkin” was his. Do they cover such things in schools?

Walked with Yuki near the house this morning. Yuki discovered some unusual forest dwellers. On the left – a Blue Jay. It’s our equivalent of crows and rooks, at least it’s in the same family (Corvidae). And on the right – some unheard-of forest creature with whiskers and a tail. Yuki and I haven’t noticed such animals around here before.

Is there an instruction on how to eat them in Russian sunflower seeds? 🙂

Hooray, I haven’t forgotten math! Can you solve it? Such a beautiful problem!