Today I was installing Thunderbird on a really slow machine (Win'98!), and finally managed to read the message that flickers right in the beginning of the installation ( Read more... )

В той самой часовне, где стоит деревянный пюпитр, по которому громко стучал Джон Кнокс, призывая паству пойти и разрушить Святоандреевский собор. И таки ж пошли и разрушили ( Read more... )

У нас на факультете опять умер студент, второй за этот год. Но если первая девушка умерла "от естественных причин" у себя в общежитии, хотя какие такие естественные причины могут быть в 20 лет? - то этот погиб в Петербурге, во время учебной поездки ( Read more... )

Mass by Alonso Lobo. To be precise, Missa Petre ego pro te rogavi. One of the very, very few in which I like the Sanctus-Benedictus-Agnus part much better than the Kyrie-Gloria-Credo, though this is irrelevant to the story ( Read more... )

"Kublai Khan", a Mongolian cuisine restaurant, is every carnivore's dream. They serve kangaroo, zebra, springbok, ostrich, and (coming soon) crocodile. Shark and king prawns are on the menu, too, though I believe there could be a problem in specifying in which of the Mongolian seas they were caught. There used to be just one "Kublai Khan" ( Read more... )

Опять нашла забытые кем-то цветы, и снова у моря. На этот раз белые хризантемы.

На третий раз шутка несколько потеряла свою свежесть (впрочем, как и сам букет):


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My colleagues took me today to lunch in Oak Rooms. The waitress has honestly earned her tip with the story of the oak furtniture. She told us that both the furniture and the bar stand were made with the wood from the oaks that had been growing in the churchyard where Robert Burns wrote most of his poetry ( Read more... )

Вчера, гуляя по Святоандреевску, обнаружила на моей любимой скамейке над морем забытый кем-то букет. Шесть подсолнухов. Решила их не брать в этот раз, вдруг хозяин вспомнит и вернется, все-таки это не случайно оброненный нарцисс ( Read more... )

I often think that "bad" events that happen to people only seem that way because they lack the right perspective for their evaluation ( Read more... )

In my wanderings around Kharkov, I keep walking past a half-ruined house. This in itself is not so unusual. What makes this building special is that on its third floor someone has very recently installed three new custom-made windows with triple glazing. So recently, in fact, that they are still in protective strips ( Read more... )