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Reuniting Liza with Her Beloved Cat: A Family’s Journey | August 24 2024, 21:26

They cleared out everything from Liza’s closet and took her favorite cat. Now the daughters have moved away: one lives in Italy, the other – in Blacksburg. The kitty lived with us for eight months, now we are taking him to Liza. Yuki said he would provide moral support.

Contrasting Portrayals of Kensington’s Plight | August 24 2024, 16:47

One really good thing about Kensington — this incredibly criminal neighborhood of Philadelphia, just teeming with dying drug addicts on the streets, a couple of hours away from us. Varlamov traveled there to report on “Kensington: Zombie Apocalypse in the Middle of the USA”, and after seeing Peter, watching Varlamov is revolting. Such different approaches to the same topic. Varlamov presented the neighborhood as a form of entertainment, while Peter shows what life there is like, from a very kind and humane perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWGwCbSUECw

Unearthing Hidden Horrors in Unaudited Projects | August 24 2024, 15:41

I’ve noticed time and again that if I perform an audit on any part of a project where no one before me has, I invariably stumble upon some horror. It’s almost worth taking bets on it soon.

Simply take something that’s been somewhat working for years, that no one has bothered to look into because it works, and you’ll discover that a process is being triggered 50 times when once would suffice, or there’s a security breach, or something else.

The reasons for this are usually an excessive adherence to the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” principle, and not enough attention paid to “what could go wrong” during the development phase. It’s just that things “going wrong” don’t always lead to noticeable problems. If you have five million products in your catalogue, 10,000 broken ones hardly make a dent. Until some customer reports it, that is.

Maybe I should have gone into testing? I’ll go check what courses are available.

Cat Watches Movie: A Tail of Distraction and Departure | August 24 2024, 00:32

My animals have discovered the television. Yuki is sad. Tomorrow, her beloved cat is leaving for a very long time, and they’ve also put this cone on him. I put on a movie for him. He’s been watching for more than an hour. The kinaesthetic cat came, and the movie got a plot.

Paul Cornoyer | August 21 2024, 14:10

Paul Cornoyer is an intriguing American artist from the early 20th century, primarily celebrated for his depictions of New York, although he portrayed other U.S. cities as well. One of his artworks featuring a green house has a “twin” in the gallery, and it is captivating to observe how the scene changes under varying weather conditions. In his creations, people always play a crucial role in the urban landscape. Moreover, it is important to highlight the numerous experiments he performed with his artistic techniques.

Similar posts can be found under the tag #artrauflikes, and at beinginamerica.com, in the “Art Rauf Likes” section, where all 102 posts are available (in contrast to Facebook, which tends to neglect or overlook nearly half of them).

“Pay What You Want” Model at Museums | August 20 2024, 18:19

I’m heading to the Folger, it’s a museum. In Washington, almost all museums are free, but this one has an interesting “Pay What You Want” concept. When purchasing a ticket, there is a field for the amount and the quantity. The suggested amount is $15. You can pay nothing. The Metropolitan Museum in New York used this model for a long time, now it only applies to locals and students.

It’s worth mentioning that many other museums operate differently. There, you need to buy tickets, but there’s no coercion. For example, at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, you can enter and immediately go to the gallery. There is no one checking tickets. But in the most conspicuous place, there is a spot where tickets are sold, for a high price — $23. Interestingly, many such places have a cunning method — you first go to the shop (obviously, no ticket needed for the shop), and then from the shop, you move to the museum (the shop is so far from the ticket booth that often no one sees it). I once used this method (although, I had actually bought a ticket the day before; the ticket is only valid for one day).

How to Use ChatGPT for Reading Aloud Text in Any Language | August 19 2024, 17:43

If you need your phone to read any text in any language, with good diction, and not like a robot, there is a convenient feature: send the text to ChatGPT (app) preceded by the prefix “return this exact text to me”, and on the returned text, click Read Aloud. I haven’t tried it on very long texts, but it easily could last for 15-20 minutes.