On Life Notes

I will immediately answer the question of where I disappeared for a whole year: I did not disappear anywhere. I am quietly living my life, even if it has changed a little lately.

First we need VLC. After installing it, we can send it commands from the console, including transparently for the user.

After power problems, my Sandy Bridge PC entered a reboot loop. This 2012 note records the symptoms and a BIOS hypothesis, but no final repair result.

Many years have passed since the time when I happily spent my leisure time fussing with insects during long summer school vacations.

At school, I could never get the hang of geometric proofs. I simply couldn't memorize a complicated sequence of steps, each as baffling as the last.

I took my laptop to the kitchen while waiting for the kettle to boil. Ten years earlier, using a computer had felt almost sacred. Now here I was, blogging over wireless internet.

Это сложно представить: где-то на скучных задворках одной из галактик кружилось наше Солнце, а рядом с ним маленький зелёно-голубой мирок, который мы называем Землёй.

A Hollywood star, a composer, and a wartime radio patent. Hedy Lamarr’s story is interesting enough without making her the inventor of every wireless connection.

Asked what he would do if he had six months to live, Isaac Asimov answered: "Type faster."

Sasha’s cultist gets no welcome at the lodge or library. Misha’s nun develops two phobias, then knocks off almost half an ancient god’s health in one hit.