Brilliant

The Americans have freedom, The Germans — beer and bacon, The French have haute couture, The English — the finest stadium.

But your average Ukrainian Excels at something else instead. He has a long and elastic Patience, like none you’ve seen.

Say …

Bluetooth Woes

I’ve been puzzling over this: why didn’t the phone’s manufacturer give it the ability to act as a Bluetooth receiver?

I’d happily lie on the couch and watch a movie through my favorite wired headphones — without a cable running …

Winter stockpile.

We’re not afraid of any crisis — we’ve stocked up on salo!

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True, it might not last the whole winter, but still — when there’s a little box like that sitting in the fridge, somehow your soul feels a bit lighter and warmer.

Radio, Drugs, Rock-n-Roll

Radio Rocks was so great when it first appeared — pure music, no shows or ads. Just music. 24 hours a day of proper rock. Can you imagine?

But little by little ads started showing up — taxi companies at first, then more and more, and now it’s simply …

Filesystem Tuning

I got fed up with Mint running slowly, especially compared to the beast of a machine at work.

Added the noatime,nodiratime options to /etc/fstab and ran the following command I found:

tune2fs -O has_journal -o journal_data_writeback /dev/sda5

to disable the …