Being in America

Just watched. The genius of the Coen Brothers. The Big Lebowski is an absolute masterpiece! This year is its 20th anniversary, and I decided to rewatch it with the original English track. It’s like chalk and cheese, guys. Thanks Alex Exler for the tip today, it made my day.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/

This is the best lecture I’ve ever seen on how batteries work. Concepts, a bit of chemistry and physics, illustrated, in clear and simple language (the lecture is in Russian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FZsljHZqU

A new update on the hybris blog. A new set of groovy scripts. These scripts help to troubleshoot the hybris instance by injecting your code inside hybris on the fly. I’ve published some before, this is the part 6.

https://hybrismart.com/2018/07/20/useful-groovy-scripts-part-6/

https://hybrismart.com/2018/07/20/useful-groovy-scripts-part-6/

Two Chukchi hunters killed a walrus. The geologist sees them dragging the walrus by a tail and says, “Hi guys! Can’t you see the walrus’s tusk clings! It makes your job harder! Take it by the tusk, and things would be a lot easier for you.” The Chukchi hunters listened. They took the walrus by a tusk. It worked! After a while, one of them says, “That geologist is a smart guy. It is much easier to drag the walrus by a tusk.”. The second one replies: “Your geologist is an asshole! Look! We’ve come back to the sea!”

More: https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/russia-ukraine-and-the-caucasus/chukchis-russian-jokes-history.html

Yesterday I learned how IMAX works, the photo is from the Philadelphia Science Museum IMAX theatre.

Film platters weigh 250kg, the projector itself is about 1.5 tonnes. IMAX projectors are equipped with water-cooled xenon lamps. It was really interesting to see all this stuff in action.

I used to think that all IMAXes are digital, and it is so for years, but I learned that Digital IMAX has the same resolution as your domestic 1080P TV. Moreover, there are films which weren’t published for IMAX Digital, such as “Interstellar” or “Dark Night Returns”. The new generation is Laser 4k digital projectors which are rare, but they are much better in terms of quality and closer to 70mm IMAX.

For example, the majority of IMAX theaters are 70mm, some have Dual system (both digital and 70mm, rail system). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_venues. In our area, there are two laser 4k projectors, in the National Air and Space Museum and in Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. In Moscow, there is only one, Formula Kino Kutuzovsky.

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

Tim Schafer’s job application to LucasArts. 1989.

Tim Shaffer is a creator of “The secret of monkey island” and “Day of the Tentacle”, both are among of the most popular games in the 90s.

Алёна Владимирская – as a follow-up to your post 😉

Today.

#iamreadyforzombies

My photo from the today’s foggy hike.

A little bit enhanced #shenandoah #skylinedrive #wrongturn #welcometosilenthill