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”

So much for dances, show us sex already!

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

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

Croatian Kraljevi Ulice and 75 cents with “Romanca”:

Turkish Mor ve Ötesi with “Deli”:

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.

Let’s depict the currents in this circuit:

We marked each current as a proportion to the one coming from A (and to B), e.g. I3=i*i3. Using Kirchhoff’s circuit laws, let’s write down the system of equations for this circuit:

i1 + i2 = 1
i3 + i4 = 1
i5 = i1 – i3
n1*i1 + n5*i5 – n2*i2 = 0
n3*i3 – n4*i4 – n5*i5 = 0

In a matrix view, the system looks as follows (we take i1 to i5 as the unknown values):

Using linear combinations of rows, we rearrange this matrix to the triangular view to get the following (I skip the arithmetical :-) calculations):

Solving the above,

i5 = x/y
i2 =(n1+n5*i5)/(n1+n2)
i4 = i2 + i5

where:

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

The desired resistance of the whole circuit is as follows:

Rc = (i2*n2 + i4*n4)*R

After replacing i2 and i4 with the found values, we get the final answer (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

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:

Lyrics:

I see your shadow coming closer
And watch you drifting out me, I know
You will make it on your own
You can run out of everything
And everything is you

I must’ve missed that you were leaving
I saw your lipstick on the mirror right here
All of a sudden it was all clear
You just ran out of everything
And everything is said

But did you know I was blind for you?
Did you know ’bout the fantasies I had?
And where the answers won’t come around
I blame myself for being me again and again

I’m surrounded by your photographs
I guess I never learn about today’s
And will I ever learn? I wonder
I would ran after anything
And anything is not you

Did you know I was blind for you?
Did you know ’bout the fantasies I had?
And where the answers won’t come around
I blame myself for being me again, again

I must’ve missed your call, I missed it all

But did you know I was blind for you?
Did you know you meant everything to me?
And if I had one more chance, this time
I would have meant the world to you

I blame myself for being such a fool

The video is mirrored by a mistake.

The original video:

Lyrics:

Well we don’t need no one to tell us what to do
Oh yes we’re on our own and there’s nothing you can do
So we don’t need no one like you
To tell us what to do

We don’t refer to the past when showing what we’ve done
The generation gap means the war is never won
The past is in your head
The future’s in our hands

Cos I’m a brat
And I know everything
And I talk back
Cos I’m not listening
To anything you say

And if you count to three
You’ll see there’s no emergency
You’ll see I’m not the enemy
Just a prisoner of society

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

Lyrics:

Твоя ль вина, что нежный образ твой
Не позволяет мне сомкнуть ресницы
И, стоя у меня над головой,
Тяжёлым векам не даёт закрыться?

Твоя ль душа приходит в тишине
Мои дела и помыслы проверить,
Всю ложь и праздость обличить во мне,
Всю жизнь мою, как свою удел, измерить?

О нет, любовь твоя не так сильна,
Чтоб к моему являться изголовью.
Моя, моя любовь не знает сна,
На страже мы стоим с моей любовью.

Я не могу забыться сном, пока
Ты, от меня вдали, к нему близка.

Original text by Shakespear:

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?

Is it thy spirit that thou send’st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?

O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake:

For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.

Lyrics: Nikolay Nekrasov

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

Lyrics:

Я не люблю иронии твоей.
Оставь её отжившим и не жившим,
А нам с тобой, так горячо любившим,
Ещё остаток чувства сохранившим, -
Нам рано предаваться ей!

Пока ещё застенчиво и нежно
Свидание продлить желаешь ты,
Пока ещё кипят во мне мятежно
Ревнивые тревоги и мечты -
Не торопи развязки неизбежной!

И без того она не далека:
Кипим сильней, последней жаждой полны,
Но в сердце тайный холод и тоска…
Так осенью бурливее река,
Но холодней бушующие волны…

Translation:

I don’t like your irony,
Leave it for those passed and those who never lived.
And for you and me, who loved with such a heat,
A have still left a small part of the feeling,
It is to early to abandon ourselves to it.

While still, so humbly and gently,
You try to make our date a bit longer,
While still i burn rebelliously
With jealous doubts and dreams,
Do not rush the inevitable goodbye.

Even without that it is close.
We are on fire, full of the last thirst,
While our hearts are filled with secret cold and sorrow.
Like this, a river is roughier in autumn,
But the raging waves are colder.