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Thu, 21 Aug 2008
Football accessories.
Got couple of new football toys.
Now I can play on wet slick field.
Always wanted to have football gloves. In the past life I was not that bad goalkeeper,
and liked it alot.
Mon, 18 Aug 2008
Football evening.
That was excellent game. And although I did not make any goal this time (we won
with 6:5 score after 1.5 hours of the game, there were two 7x7 commands),
but exactly I made our defence very strong (well, I was
the only full-back player). That was not that complex: just warm
before the game so that I had enough breathing power for the whole match, and
resist the temptation to run to the opposite gates each time, or at least
quickly return and stop attack at the beginning. Couple of goals actually I
helped to make with precise passes (I think legs started to recall it),
but I have to admit that two goals into
our gate are on my conscience: I did not quickly enough returned and made a serious
defence mistake...
I could even make couple of goals, but I prefer to think that I failed because
I still do not have spikes, so it was hard to move on the grass and make really fast
acceleration. My head game was quite precise (well, not always though),
which is only possible without glasses, so I stopped to play in them
couple of games ago. And it indeed produces very good results.
As usual I got some feet damages, but I already think, that it is quite small
problem, so pain stops just in a day or two.
That was just bloody perfect!
Sat, 16 Aug 2008
Jamming with Grange.
Well, it was not particular musical jam, since he played piano (unbelievable cool
electronic Yamaha) and I just listened, and only couple of times produced some sounds
on my trumpet. I clearly not in the shape to play 'on demand' right now, I'm too
young as a musician :)
We discussed, that except the fact, that electronic piano can sound very fancy,
no matter how cool it is, it still sounds worse than real acoustic one.
I want to get one (and to start getting some lessons with a teacher) sooner or later (and not
particulary soon, just thinking),
and really only like genuine piano sound without all those electronical fuzz around,
so will think some more about possibility to get a real piano to my loft.
Grange is playing his electronic piano
Late night we drunk a bit and played chess. We finished after 5 A.M. and had 1:1 score after two games. You know, it was quite fun, although brain did not allow think too deep into the game, so starting idea was quickly confused, then suddenly after couple of moves new one appeared, then moved to the shadow and so on. Single game I lost was quite miserable: so stupid errors... :)
Masha and Grange
I think we need to repeate it again eventually, it was great time!
Fri, 15 Aug 2008
Trumpeting in C.
Trying this monster. It is a voice party for the russian national anthem,
and since I do not understand, how voice (and trumpet) can sound accords, I selected higher part
where needed.
Sometimes it sounds not that bad, although it is definitely not very good. What would you
expect from less than 3 months of trumpet learning...
Basically I can not sound the whole part, since closer to the end lips become too tired, so
I need some small break, which definitely does not exist in the sound rythm. Also I do not know
half of the signs on this notes (well, I do not know notes at all),
so play just how I want it to sound with appropriate notes,
since I know the rythm and usually also each note duration.
Also tried Armstrong's "What a wonderful world" notes, but since I do not know the rythm and do not
have an accompaniment, it was not interesting, although I think a bit simpler than anthem.
Will try to find that song and check how I can play it.
Tue, 12 Aug 2008
I've found it!
Honda Steed will be my transport for the next season.
I could get this model right now (well, in a month or so to buy and deliver from Japan),
but very soon we will met her, an entity,
which will take 6 month of the year and is blandly called Winter, which is not
appropriate time here for two wheel transport, if it can move faster than 30 km/h.
Mon, 11 Aug 2008
Football evening.
Yes, footbal was called a contact sport not without a reason:
damaged feet and leg's muscles. It is completely not a problem
(as long as another player does not jump in creeper to the same
place where another shoes were recently) while playing,
but after the training and some rest it becomes quite uncool.
Muscle pain is actually somewhat masochistically pleasant (to some
degree of course), but bones and tendons are aching quite bad.
Well, couple of days to recover and things will be in shape again.
Maybe I will start another sport training, also contact, but quite different,
although I'm quite greedy about time...
Sun, 10 Aug 2008
War, DNS, politics, noise... I opened single point photo metering for myself.
Pretends to be interesting for me. Will post in
this tag some photos I made.
/life/photo :: Link / Comments (4)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008
Playing trumpet.
Managed to play this hit of all times and nations:
Which is a sad ballad about fir, which was moved from the forest to make people happy. It tells
us how young always green tree lived in the wild, which beautiful relations it had with the nature,
and then was killed to become a new year fetish.
And do not be fooled by the matter, that it is a song for small kids, a very deep drama is rised there.
Or something like that :)
Sound is not always very good, and the higher I can play (today I moved one note higher in the third
octave, to somewhat around trumpet D, but it is unreliable), the more complex is to play in the first or small
octave. But I practice...
Mon, 04 Aug 2008
Contact sport is not a sport if there are no contacts.
So, this foolball training brought another pain in feet,
leg muscles and a bit in my neck.
So far so good, and muscle pain is actually pleasant,
but aching bones and tendons are not that good, so now I have
several new bumps over the body...
Nevertheless, it was a good game, although I like to play
in weaker command, since I believe the only way to get new experience
and become better player is to play against stronger opponent.
The same actually concerns all other areas. Today we were stronger
by personal skills, but somewhat weaker (maybe even much) as
a command.
Sat, 02 Aug 2008
Trumpeting in C.
Today I managed to play C trumpet (Bb concert) note in third octave,
which means I managed to play trumpet notes in four octaves (from D small
to third C). This is a major progress, and although playing very high tones
is quite unreliable (I can only reliably play upto F#-G# of second octave),
as long as very low (down to small D I think its flows good).
My dissassembled trumpet
Now I'm entering next stage of the playing: to actually play and not produce a sound, i.e. being able to link multiple notes into a single melody.
I started with "Grasshopper in the grass" ("V trave sidel kuznechik"):
"Grasshopper in the grass" notes.
First half should be repeated two times (second time without one last C) before second half.
Sometimes it sounds not that awful :)
Mon, 21 Jul 2008
Foot, fingers, shins, knees, thigs, shoulder, back.
No, it is not parts of the body I know (half of it I looked
in the dictionary), it is what is being aching right now.
Its called football.
Yes, sounds a bit scary, but that was hell the super game today.
We were much stronger, but I have to admit, that mostly because we get
a right transfer decision and selected right players at the beginning,
so our previous team was strengthenen. I managed to make a goal,
couple of nice saves and even make quite technical outplay sometimes,
which was quite surprisingly, since I did not play football for 5 years.
I would not say I'm getting into the shape, but have a progress.
Fri, 18 Jul 2008
Have sent all documents for US visa.
Checked my passports and decided that if other countries allowed to let me in
with that photos, then US custom officers should not frown too much upon
current ones.
So, waiting for the results. I almost sure that I will get visa and
will met with interesting people at kernel summit and Plumbers conference,
but anyway would like to draw the line.
For instance, Zach Brown will
talk
about CRFS (as long as show
some chocolate and coctail bars around, imho the only good coctail is rum with cola
(smaller colla) and ice), so there will be something to listen.
Thu, 17 Jul 2008
Morning trumpet exercises.
Today's morning I raped ears almost two hours,
and at the end managed to play a chromatic scale (glide?)
from second octave D (E trumpet) down to minor octave F (E trumpet),
at least that is what my Korg tuner showed. Much more frequently
I was able to play single first octave (only via descended direction
though, I did not yet try to rise tones).
Korg AW1 tuner does not show octaves, but I really do not think,
that it is possible to play one octave lower than what my the lowest
sound was, but pretty sure it is possible to have at least one octave higher
than my the highest tone, so I decided that I play several tones around first octave.
Ugh, it was supposed to move earlier to the office (before heat and traffic jams),
but instead I fucked my brain via ears (and probably neighbours were not happy
either, although I did not play on the full volume).
Tue, 15 Jul 2008
Football match has made the day!
That was exceptionally bloody cool evening!
We had three teams of 6 playerrs in each and played
on a small mini-football field about 2.5 hours, each match took
either 7 minutes or 2 goals into single gates. It sucked power
so much cool, that even exceptional tireness right now brings
kind of masochistic pleasure.
My breathing system really sucks, and actually it is not a surprise,
I did not play football more than 5 years already, but nevertheless
shoes and ball are in a good shape.
I managed to damage knees, shoulder and fingers on the leg in various
'contacts' during the game, but that's not a problem.
Our team was not the best one really, but we strongly hold second place,
and actually can fight for the first one, since all our players had long
enough pauses in own games, while first team players regulary train
in its own teams (including youth football champion).
That was the super time!
Mon, 14 Jul 2008
ParaLLels concert.
Visited ParaLLels concert this weekend...
Mixed feelings, but saw lots of old friends (musicians by a coincidence), which made the day.
Sat, 12 Jul 2008
Monday evening prognosis.
It promises to be just bloody excellent!
I did not play football several years already, but I've found people,
who do like it, so our games promse to be really fun and interesing!
There are already three commands (4+1 players in the team).
This will be my first game after about 5 years of football silence,
likely there is nothing in the legs which can help playing football,
well climbing likely does not correlate with it, as long as so my experience in other physical trainings,
but nevertheless I'm looking forward this promised to be excelptionally cool game!
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
Louis Maggio trumpet school: never smile.
Tue, 10 Jun 2008
Sun and water. Sasha and Masha.
Thank you, that was great!
Thu, 05 Jun 2008
Travelling to Uganda.
Friend calls to move to Uganda this September. Promises beautiful nature a very interesting travel as is.
Thinking...
Mon, 02 Jun 2008
Trumpet kung-fu.
I think I found a way to have a progress in my trumpet playing exercises
(read: ear scratching screaming, it sounds much worse than wrong note on piano).
It is of course practice, but even without whole tube and using only mouthpiece I can train
breathing path. Musicians have several hours per day exercises, kernel hackers about half of an hour each morning
in parallel with listening to ACDC and Metallica as an alarm clock. Mouthpiece is rather quite (noticebly
louder than usual talk though), but produces about the same resistance for air flow, so I think
it is a good training. When embouchure will be stable enough I will attach trumpet, since currently
sound frequently drops and jumps. Nevertheless I got a big progress (I think so at least) after started
such trainings recently.
My home guardian Socket although does not have ears, looks like do not like it. Alhtough he only likes
to eat.
Sun, 01 Jun 2008
We won! DPQE:DGAP 81:67
Screaming, drinking, cheering...
Although I was not there today, since
some friends became ill and others moved to their tasks,
it still was really cool (yesterday).
My congratulations to the team and department itself :)
Sat, 31 May 2008
Ole-ole-ole-ole, kvanti chempion!
Match of the century - 24 hours of footbal in my
Alma Mater.
Today Department of Quantum and Physic Electronic (which I finished
do not even remember when, but I started studying in MIPT 10 years ago) play with
axes, or theirs another name: Department of General and Applied Physics.
After about half of the match we won with +18 goals (31:13).
This happens once per year and usually I tried to move to MIPT and
watch part of the game like this year. Tomorrow will move there too of course
to met with old friends and celebrate the win!
Wed, 30 Apr 2008
B.B. King bar.
A bit more in gallery.
Cool place with interesting people... Although it was a bit loud and not very convenient
to see the band, but nevertheless it was fun.
Wed, 02 Apr 2008
Climbing evening.
That was quite short although quite hard training. After
number of warming traverses I started jumping again - now
I created a 'trace' myself of the huge
horizontal negative slope, so some times I fell to the back
from about meter, which was even fun. Eventually I managed
to complete own jumping holds, which resulted in a very
rubbed fingers both on feet and arms, so essentially rest
of the training was predefined to be something trivial.
Nevertheless I managed to try some old complex start
couple of times, fell of course, but it was worth it.
Usual finish of the training - sauna - today was exceptionally
dry and hot - about 99 degres Centigrade and it was even
hard to breath, since air was so dry.
Anyway, excellent time!
Wed, 26 Mar 2008
Climbing evening.
That was hard training, since I climb once per week (this year so far) only,
I can not get my the best shape, mostly in resistance part, so fingers
were rubbed quite quickly...
Nevertheless I finished my
jumpings
and reached the needed hold. Jump actually was not that high - about 30-40 santimeters,
but it should be done from holds which are about 2 meters below the final hold,
so it was not that simple, especially when holds for arms are only 10 santimeters
higher than that for legs, and main body's chakra (it is a nice name for the ass
in my own public dictionary) really does not like to fly and wants to land.
Then I did number of various starts, some with jumps, others were just usual
complex traces without additional requirements from me...
Evening sauna, shower and great pleasure of the day.
Excellent time!
Wed, 19 Mar 2008
Climbing evening: jumping-jumping-jumping.
That was really cool training today: the most exciting
part was lots of jumps. It was not a new trace, but a special
hold on the balcony, so that it could be gotten from lower positions
with a jump. I spent more than a hour jumping from different holds
to the finish one, although did not succed in the main jumping direction.
Instead I damaged a shoulder, rubbed fingers on feet and arms, tired as
hell and got zillion units of pleasure. Also finished couple of simple
and quite complex old traces to the mix.
That was excellent time!
Wed, 12 Mar 2008
Climbing evening.
That was quite for a while that I did not climb, so today I've reopened
a season. It was surprisingly good training, although I did not that much,
but only couple of warming traverses and three new traces, which I tried before
though. One of them was noticebly complex, but extremely interesting.
For those who visit Skala-city
it is trace over yellow holds in the right corner with 6c+ category.
Complex, and I did not even expect to complete it without falls, but
everything was better than expected - of course I fell, but eventually completed.
At the I moved to the sauna and shower. Excellent finish of the day!
I like it.
Tue, 11 Mar 2008
Do you know what patience mean?
No, its not yoga, I talked with people who did it regulary... It is not talks
with trolls, they are harmless. Trying to understand VFS or ext3, which sources
are encrypted in linux tarball, is interesting. Playing chess and 'go'
is just a warming.
Real patience is checked when you are cooking a ravioli.
That is how I spent a monday:
- half of a hour to make a pastry
- half of a hour to cook up a minced meat
- about 10-15 minutes to roll up small piece of pastry to thin circle
- about 20-30 minutes to make 10 raviolis
That was a theory, in practice pastry for each third or forth 'blank' wanted to run away and pastry did not allowed to 'glue' its parts together, which took 5-10 minutes for each one to 'fix'. In some cases it ended up with smaller examples of 'Resident Evil' creatures, like which you can find at the right part of the above picture.
Looks good? And really tasty.
So, forget yoga and chess - real patience is trained by cooking.
Thu, 06 Mar 2008
Got 4 seasons of "House M.D."
Only completed half of the 4'th season...
And there is fair number of "South Park" unwatched yet.
Work seems to be stopped for a while...
Does anyone know how to watch them all not wasting a time?
Sat, 01 Mar 2008
Celebrating WiJo's birthday.
We had a small chillout in 'The last drop' and at home later (and earlier, since celebration
bagan right at 00:00, although Wijo said he was born at 10:00, that did not matter already).
Besides other interesting presents,
he got a bottle of Hennesy XO (yes, I was lazy enough and presented that simple stuff).
So had a chance to compare (before it was quickly finished) it with other cognacs
I drunk before. Well, my opinion about cognac being untasty coloured vodka was confirmed again.
IMHO Hennesy XO, VS and VSOP (Very Special Oshe Pizdets) all are not that interesting drinks,
as long as other cognacs I had. Next time
I will try Remi Martin, but think that it will be similar. Yep, I'm not a fan, but rum-m-m-m...
Tue, 19 Feb 2008
A doctor's visit.
I first time in my life called a doctor.
Doctor happend to be a nice-looking woman less than 30 years old
we nicely talked about my sickness, and how (un)successfull cure was.
Since it is first time I used some drugs (except aspirine) to cure
(I belive it is a flu) the sick, I managed to miss the point, when getting the drug
should be started, so it was not very useful. After the quick look at me
she found so many possible crappies I would have, so I began to scary.
I always knew that the less one knows the better sleep is, but after
set of questions and 'no, I do not' answers, sky became a bit less cloudy...
She gave me a list of needed drugs to get, described what the heck
it is (flu, which forced some complications: something like
bronchitis), so now I feel a bit better, but will be ill (according
to her prognosis) at least all this week or maybe a bit more.
Modulo themperature I feel not that bad, but when it starts rising
after drug (aspirin) stops working, I start feeling like shit, dejavu.
I actually tried two anti-themperature drugs: aspirine and paracetamol.
The former kicks the themperature in about 30 minutes, but frequently
this results in excessive hyperhidrosis, while the latter acts only in an hour
or so, but without any bad effects.
So, as you might notice, there are no updates about tons of my
projects
because of this fucking sick, but I expect soon to be able to kick
its ass so things would be in a good shape again.
Such (crappily forced) 'vacations' make brain to sleep allmost all the time,
so when this will be ended, I expect even higher rates and more
interesting stuff happens.
Stay tuned!
Mon, 11 Feb 2008
Climbing evening.
That was bloody excellent training, but since it was only third
one this year, I hardly can find a piece of body which is not aching right
now. Maybe ears though...
I started to climb high without usual warming traverses today, so knees were
damaged first (not counting couple of strikes by the wall and holds). Then
fair number of various attempts to finish new (quite complex though) trace
over blue holds in the right central section, which moves over the new
balcony in that area. Eventually I found the solution (although I think there
is another one, which requires a bit more power, but a bit less technique),
but damaged arms, rubbed all 20 fingers, and made arms very tired. Also tried
some interesting old traces, but since I tried them only second time, I failed.
That was ok, legs and back were not aching that time, but then I found a trace,
which made the day! Excellent complex and quite short trace in the right
vertical corner of the climbing area.
Trace requires very interesting technique almost without heavy powerlifting
movements, but good balance and stretching.
I spent more than a half of a hour there, damaged shoulders and fingers,
stretched everything which was not broken before, but completed the trace
(although only piece-by-piece, will finish it cleanly next time), and finally
moved to the shower (even sauna did not work today) as a number of separate pieces
of crap connected to each other essentially by virtue of the mind.
Excellent day, excellent time!
Wed, 06 Feb 2008
Climbing evening.
That was my second training this year - not a very huge progress
as you can see, so this training was hard. There is fair
number of new traces, most of them were quite simple, so I decided
to run several in one go without the rest in-between. Probably that
was not that good decision, since after 7 or so of them completed
after two starts I was very tired and was not able to climb good
over more complex traces. So that will be postponed for the next
training.
I bought myself new climbing shoes, which are a bit large - usually
I wear 3 sizes smaller climbing shoes, this time difference is only
two sizes, but it is my favourite shoes, so I expect very good climbing.
Anyway, tired very noticebly and that's great!
Mon, 04 Feb 2008
Return from the country-side.
We celebrated Grange's
birthday in the small wood cottage somewhere at the coutry-side,
where had a rusian bath there, bathing in an ice-hole, shashlik cooking
on the frost, musical jam (electric guitar, couple of tomtoms and a saxophone),
snow balls and wrestling, and main one: lots of friends.
That was bloody cool days, thanks a lot for organizing that meeting!
Fri, 01 Feb 2008
I officially retired.
That was fun and sometimes very interesting years,
I got lots of experience especially with 32-bit PPC arch
and various hardware.
That was good, but its time for step further.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008
Vodka, martini, absinthe.
All were damn cool. I first time tried vodka with martini,
shaked, but not mixed. Perfect. James Bond knows the things.
I mixed about half vodka nad half martini, so overall it was a bit softer than
pure fire water, and with excellent a bit dry and sweet after-taste of martini.
I recommend.
Absinthe was very good as usual too. Although it is very strong (around 70% of
alchohol) it is very tasty because of thujone (do not know real amount if it,
since usually vendors put wrong specs at bottles). It can be drunk without additional
food or drinks. Better with burnt sugar - resulted caramel adds very interesting
sweet taste.
Fri, 25 Jan 2008
Climbing evening.
That was quite small training, muscles were not tired as usual,
but fingers both on hands and feet were rubbed quite hard.
The former becaue of lack of trainings, the latter because of
huge holes in the shoes. Nevertheless I'm tired enough
to say that tis wa a very good training, which contained
number of new starts, completed without serious problems,
and number of boulderings. At the very end I started to perform
several starts of the same trace on the negative slope
and move down fom about 4-5 meters over different holds,
that was repeated in a hort loop of three rounds, which sucked
the last power and rubbed the last skin on the fingers to feel
myself comfortable. It took about 3 hours including sauna, shower
and climbing, and that was an excellent time.
Thu, 24 Jan 2008
Grange has a birthday!
My congratulations and wishes for better year than ever!
Sat, 19 Jan 2008
Fire in the office.
Not where I'm sitting right now, but couple of floors above. Smell of smoke,
several fire brigades, a lot of water on higher floors...
Crap.
Update: after some talks with security, official version is about development process,
which happend on the 5'th floor (welding of the main support columns), which resulted
in the fire around lagging, which resulted in a more serious fire on the 5'th floor.
As I was told, 4'th floor was heavily flooded (there were 5 fire brigades), but third one,
where I sat, had its electricity on, so likely nothing major happened there.
Mon, 14 Jan 2008
Climbing evening or bringing body in shape with the liver.
It was not that simple training, although I finished number
of very interesting traces including two completely new for me,
one of them I finished on-sight, another one failed since did not
know where correct holds were placed. I was quite surprised, that
I can climb even not that bad after all vacations and related
volume consumptions. I almost killed climbing shoes, so will need to
get new ones, since climbing is not that pleasant, when big finger
looks to the universe and touch the wall via huge hole.
Anyway, it was really good first training in this year!
Sun, 13 Jan 2008
I have a hacker's hat now!
It was presented to me at New Year celebration by Mephody and Irin.
People look strangely at me, fortunately I do not wear it on the streets.
It looks remotely similar to Alan Cox's
one. I do not have such beard though. And brain. But I'm working on the latter.
Abr and Tanya presented me a hugely useful thing - USB IO port system, which has multiple
GPIO and other IO output bits, controlled via USB. And it has to be soldered first. And there
is only Windows application, so this will require bits of reverse engineering (if there is no
open protocol, I did not check that though). Great thanks!
I also have a t-short with my evolution process from the monkey to the Man and then to the computer
geek.
Since I do not have a camera yet to make photos of my presents and developed appartments, but stay tuned,
it should be ready soon too...
