It keeps being unseasonably cool (certainly the coldest June I remember here and people who live here for over a decade say the same) with temperatures barely going above 30oC and it seems to be connected to unusually high amounts of rain. It's nowhere near the disaster level like in Central Europe earlier this month but with streams of rain water ( Read more... )

The problem with languages are not just how they differ. Sometimes it's what's similar. All Indoeuropean languages started from the same root language and then in Europe they kept exchanging and borrowing words and using Latin and Greek to create new ones. But then the words that used to be common start to change meaning. First slightly but then ( Read more... )

It looks like the summer heat and humidity I finally coming to an end with a little cooler air flowing in. The last few days reminded me about everything I hate about summers here. The heat, the humidity, the inability to sleep. I had to turn the AC back on just to cool the bedroom enough. I was made to be Northerner. I can't sleep when I'm ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the wedding day. It was everywhere all day long. Well, it was everywhere for a while now but the last week it was slowly culminating and yesterday it was just insane. I find it hilarious that Americans were so overtaken by the whole thing over 200 years after they made sure it was not their royalty. Including the constant reminders ( Read more... )

I planned to get me some of the Giant Microbes for some time. I already got a Yeast from my brother for my defence. But I always wished for Syphilis and Malaria. And here they are:


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Nikita had Russians today and I couldn't stop myself from correcting them. My Russian is poor so just think how glaring it was.

( Spilers for Nikita 1x15 )

Peter Jackson is confined to house arrest by his doctors so the cast had some free time to go and meet the media and the whole half an hour media conference is available on the interwebs. It seems they really enjoy New Zealand this time of year. Magically transported to summer and having a great time. Although I was a bit surprised that only Aidan ( Read more... )

A song about Stanislaw Lem - most famous Polish SF writer who died 4 years ago. Based on a famous poem about death of Polish war hero Mournful Rhapsody in Memory of Bem by one of the most famous Polish Romantic poets Cyprian Kamil Norwid.

Mournful Rhapsody in Memory of Lem by Homo Twist:

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It's time to die so die fear - no walls can stop you.
Hospital ( Read more... )

I finally finished my poster. I can relax now. Think only about unimportant stuff. So I spent my evening looking through trivia.

I'm watching The Gates and I like it. I like the backstabbing behind smiles and everyone's dirty little secrets. But this is not a review and there's no place for serious stuff in this post. So in the episode before last ( Read more... )

When the asthma let go I got headache. It was really bad yeasterday and today. I think it was combination of pressure changes and all the drugs I've been taking lately. Especially since many of my muscles got very tense and I couldn't make them loosen up. But it finallly let go. I'm just so tired now. I hope that my acclimatization period is ( Read more... )