Some people might get scared away from parenthood by the dramatic decrease of number of movies that I watch recently. To keep them calm and demonstrate that it is actually possible to find some time for a movie or two, both Olga and I watched “Robots” today. Directed by: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha Genres: Animation, … Continue reading Robots
Browsing through the threads of LiveJournal, I came across this post. Quoting: Russian soup Russians refresh themselves with this cold soup made of ice-cold kvass (weird national drink most closely compared to non-alcoholic beer), sausage, cucumbers, onions, boiled eggs and sour cream – just imagine this horrendous concoction!!… And guess what they call this “soup” … Continue reading Russian soup
I came across an interesting tool that generates a color map for visited countries and calculates the percentage of the world seen (by country, not by area). My result is 3% with this map: The countries that I’ve specified were: United States of America, Egypt, Belarus, Latvia, Malta, Russia, Cyprus, and Kazakhstan. I’m glad I’ve … Continue reading On visited countries
I’ve installed del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress. Here is a brief explanation of what it does by the author: As you may have noticed, there are lots of little checkered images in my blog now. These are links to my del.icio.us tags. I decided it would be interesting if my blog was smart tagged … Continue reading Installed del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress
A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s by Dr. Robert Leggat. This is more of a reference of important people and processes in photography history rather than a book about the art of “recording light”.