б\ть

Оказывается, по правилам техники безопасности парковать машины надо всегда задним ходом, чтобы при чрезвычайно ситуации можно было быстрее свалить.

Вот ведь, элементарно, а никогда об этом не задумывался.

P.S. “б\ть” на моём птичье-переводческом языке — это “безопасность”

xkcd’d 2

So much for dances, show us sex already!

xkcd’d

Am I the only one to see a couple dancing at doorsteps and a dazed cat watching them?

How to run a BAT file from a Unicode command prompt

For those who have faced the following problem: if Unicode is enabled in Windows command prompt (chcp 65001), .BAT and .CMD files no longer run. The solution is simple: instead of “file.bat”, use “start /b file.bat”. Voila!

P.S. The BAT file run will not support Unicode though

My two favorite performances at Eurovision 2008

Croatian Kraljevi Ulice and 75 cents with “Romanca”:

Turkish Mor ve Ötesi with “Deli”:

MIPT e-library captcha solution

Following a discussion in Reasonable Deviations, I spend some three hours solving a (quoting) “little school-level problem” posed in a weird Russian CAPTCHA system. Not that it is extra-difficult, but some people may find it interesting to see the solution of its generalized formulation, so here it is.

Problem: we have an electric circuit as depicted in the following figure:

The task is to find the altogether resistance from A to B.

The answer is (numerator and denominator split by “-”):
(n2+n4)*(n1*y+n5*x)+(n1+n2)*n4*x
—————————————
(n1+n2)*y

, where:

x = n3*n2-n1*n4
y = (n1+n2)*(n3+n4)+(n1+n2+n3+n4)*n5

The solution is after the jump.

Di-Rect – Blind for You

Di-Rect is a Dutch band with kinda boysband image, having a couple of cool songs nevertheless. Heard them first with this one on a trip to Hoofddorp, a town I love very much, adding up to my attitude to this song.

The original:

Living End – Prisoner of Society

The video is mirrored by a mistake.

The original video:

Sonnet 61 in Russian

Lyrics: Samuil Marshak’s translation of Shakespeare’s sonnet #61.

Ya ne lyublyu ironii tvoey (I don’t love your irony)

Lyrics: Nikolay Nekrasov

This song was written four years ago, a descent age for it to go public I guess.