Recently, I’ve watched the “Stalker” again, the 1979 cult movie of the cult Russian director Tarkovsky. The screenplay has been written by the most influential russian science fiction authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, based on their “Roadside Picnic”. In the movie, there is the Zone, an area full of strange and dangerous natural effects that cannot be explained by …
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Kübler-Ross model
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kübler-Ross model, commonly known as the five stages of grief, was first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying”. It describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or …
One thing chinese is missing to be lingua franca
English is lingua franca de facto. How Chinese compares to it? Like in English, you have to learn around 800 words to be able to participate in conversation in the minimum level and around 5000 words for common daily usage. Like in English, the grammar is pretty simple, words are not changing depending on how you use them, …
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Some Silver Age translations
It is surprisingly hard to find enjoyable english translations of Russian Silver Age poetry. While it is an important topic (and personally, my favorite) in the Russian culture and particularly in Russian poetry, Silver Age seems to be largely unknown outside.
Essence of a blog
Some people think blogs are electronic diaries, others see them as a publication format. Both are wrong. Blogs are something in between. They are neither private nor public.
I’ve almost missed an anniversary
Since yesterday I work for five years for Axinom. This is the second-largest period of time of working for the same company in my whole career. To beat the record, I need four more years.
Change happens
When I’ve got my firt box of visit cards, the first thought was “what a waste, I’ll never gonna need it”. Really, in the world, when you’re trying to hide and protect your email address from spammers as good as possible, the idea of giving out your contact informations to unknown people seemed ridiculous to me. Nevertheless, I …