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Do you cry at the movies? I do.

We just finished watching The Notebook, and while we were at it I felt the scratchy knot in my throat, and just couldn’t help it. Sometimes I even cry watching Star Trek.

The thing is that I like being overwhelmed with emotions, I like those embarrassing tears. Do you cry sometimes? (2)

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Autumn

I can feel the breath of autumn on my skin. It makes me sad, because the warmth of summer is over. It brings the feeling of anticipation, because I love golden beauty of the nature getting ready for dormant months (the leaves are still mostly green tough). Autumn used to smell for me like crispy apples, rain, wet oak-trees, decaying colorful leaves, and fresh chestnuts. Now I’m not sure anymore. Need to try to figure the New York’s autumn scent out.

In: Life In General
Time: 12:34 Comments: 2 Comments Post a Comment

Таня says:
November 7, 2007 @ 13:45

А я еще пока осенью думаю о Минске и студенчестве. Вспоминаю канал, как мы заселяемся в общагу и все только начинается. Наверное, пройдет какое-то время и эта стойкая ассоциация со студенчеством пройдет. Но пока очень и Минск идут вместе в моих ощущениях осени…

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November 8, 2007 @ 17:43

Я тоже осенью всегда вспоминаю о Минске. Первое сентября, желтые клёны, антоновские яблоки, ожидание холодов, колючие ёжики каштанов (помнишь, как много каштановых деревьев в Минске?), шуршащие листья под ногами… А еще день рождения. Он мирит меня с ноябрём. Но ноябрь- это уже совсем другая осень - холодная, голая, серая.

I have been working on a new design for the site for the past week or so. I’ve made a lot of progress and got all the major design elements down including the layout, but I seem to be having problems with minor details. For example I can’t think of a good placement for the author avatar in the new implementation, however I feel that it’s been a great addition to the old design, usability-wise that I don’t want to leave it out. Need more time I guess. (0)

I stumbled upon the TV show “Heroes” a couple of times during the past week. I saw a moment from one episode on TV and then saw 1st season for sale in Best Buy. We decided to order the show on Netflix and saw that we can watch instantly through the site. We’re up to the 10th episode in two seatings. The show is very interesting so far. (0)

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Domain Mania

Rubinary.Com I’ve been trying to come up with some permanent domain name for my and family personal sites and e-mails with no results for a while now. Yesterday I mentioned this to Artem, who immediately registered his last name as a domain. Lucky him. Mine (last name and all possible variations) were taken a long time ago.

Artem proceeded to hook up his domain to Google Apps per my suggestion, which was exactly what I wanted to do. E-mail on my own domain through Gmail interface. For free too.

Either way, I pretty much gave up on the “name” domain and complained about it to Alex. He spent a while coming up with all kinds of ideas when in the end he came up with a bit of gem: rubinary.com. It’s the next best thing to rubin.com itself, I think. Has a name in it with a suffix which suggests a place for Rubins (as in planetary), and has a word binary in it. This is a binary — digital — virtual ‘verse we’re in after all, right?

This is where it all ended. Domain is registered and that’s what I’m going to stick to for the foreseeable future. All the members of the family are hooked up with personal emails as well. Those who know me well won’t have a problem figuring out what my new e-mail is.

P.S. Looks like Alex ended up with a domain of his own after all too.
P.P.S. No more confusion with zeros in DR2ooo.com. New domain points to this blog as well.

In: Software Tags: domain, Google
Time: 19:00 Comments: 2 Comments Post a Comment

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Alena’s Kitchen

Over the past years Alena has cooked so many different and delicious things for me that no restaurant can compare or compete.

All this time I have been taking pictures, and Alena posted some of them, but a lot of them were collecting virtual dust in the depth of our hard drive folder structures.

I decided to put them all together in a separate gallery and make it public.

I’m sure Alena will be glad to share a recipe in case somebody likes how something looks like. Just ask.

In: Food & Dining Tags: cooking
Time: 14:01 Comments: 8 Comments Post a Comment