an observation — the lamps shine not downward but upward: this way the light doesn’t hit your eyes directly, yet provides enough illumination by reflecting off the ceiling.

Miles, pounds, Fahrenheit…

There is so much to do that there is not always time to write down thoughts when they arise. And then you forget them.

Paper sheet sizes are different — trying to photocopy something from A4 is a whole task. Dates are …

When the fairly large BILLA supermarket was long under construction in Zaporizhzhia and then finally opened, it became something of an upscale place and a symbol of “eliteness” — perhaps because it was a branch of a Kyiv chain, perhaps also …

So you scroll through Facebook’s friend suggestions — and suddenly people I don’t even know have more mutual friends with me than those I’ve known for a long time…

The digital age changes behavior, changes the frames.

You can …

Back in 2007, when a friend helped me move, thanks to his exceptional packing skills, all the belongings from a one-room apartment fit into a Slavuta car. Running on gas… True, there was no furniture, but there were two adult bicycles.

The next move …

Only in times of crisis — when, for example, “everything is terrible” — does it become clearly visible how seemingly insignificant efforts lead to results. And what you couldn’t do at all yesterday, or did only through pain, today already …

1 kg == 3760.50 UAH == 133.53 USD == 0.007012 BTC

Old age begins with pills on the bedside table)

I’ve long wanted to support this service with a small contribution — I’m perfectly happy with the free ad-supported version, I even disabled my ad blocker on their site.

Finally today I bought an annual subscription — in honor of Halloween …

AWS CloudFront locations show the centers of civilization. You can see that India has it, while Africa does not. Same for northern Nigeria…