March 08 2018, 20:07

Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Remarque. It turns out that in literature, commas after introductory words are not used (at least by Remarque, and at least in the 1930s. “To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool”, all of these sentences starting with In the..

Here’s a post where I opened the topic:

https://www.facebook.com/raufaliev/posts/10156058721527368

February 28 2018, 20:12

Check out how the vehicle registration renewal works here. One of the conditions – passing an eco-friendliness test for emissions. You can go somewhere, and they’ll measure it for you in five minutes and give you a paper. Or you can go nowhere: RAPIDPASS will just send a letter to the owner of a randomly encountered vehicle on the road, via mail, stating that they ALREADY measured the emissions when you drove by the probe with a camera, and now for 28 bucks they’re ready to send this document to the local DMV. Or it sends info that everything is bad, and you need to go get treatment.

I just paid. And yes, you can also pay for the registration through the net, which I did too. And here’s the funny part: they give a ONE percent DISCOUNT on registration payment online. Not a surcharge, a discount!