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Kirill Yasko

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2022-12-17EN
Books read in 2016
The file with this list has been in Drafts for 6 years… Why doesn’t this surprise me?
2020-01-03EN
Books read in 2019
Recently I came across a similar article about books that I read in 2015. It turned out that even a microdescription is enough to recall an almost forgotten plot. You can literally refresh a huge amount of information (albeit not very important) in your memory in just 10 minutes. Inspired, I quickly sketched out my reading list for the past…
2016-03-12EN
Peacemaker snot
About the kind of English I actually study ;) In an in-flight duty-free magazine my eye caught a «bracelet with healing properties»®, recommended to everyone except passengers with pacemakers. The word was unfamiliar, but I guessed they meant heart pacemakers.
2016-03-03EN
Books read in 2015
Why did I make this list? First, to brag. Second, so I would not forget. And of course to toss you an idea of «what to read». The score next to each book is less about how I feel about the work and more about how readily I would recommend it to friends.
2016-03-03EN
Retro over sad reefs
And without that, the ancient classics of «sad» metal were drawn to a very gray-haired antiquity. In 2015, the leader of Candlemass, bassist Leif Edling, organized the side project AVATARIUM, working in a softer retro theme (people in the know say that this is 60s-ish). Approximately the same way were members of Therion. In their Luciferian Light Orchestra project, they…
2016-02-23EN
By car in Spain (rental)
In the winter of 2016, my wife and I decided to bask a little in the sun and at the same time «run in» the Schengen visa by going on a trip to Spain in a rented car. This is not the first experience of auto travel, before that we traveled in this way in Turkey, Mexico and Sri Lanka.…
2016-02-23EN
Trade in trains RyanAir
The other day, I flew for the first time with the low-cost Ryanair. Before that, I had heard a lot about the fact that «they have it there, like in an electric train.» But, to be honest, I didn’t really remember what it was like an electric train there. I thought it would be somehow especially crowded — narrow passages,…
2015-12-02EN
bloody flowers
The other day, remembering how to spell flower (flower in English), I realized for the first time that this word has a root flow, i.e. «flow». Then the literal translation of the word flower will be «current» or «expiring». Apparently it is implied that the flower expires with nectar. Wanting to check if my hypothesis about the etymology of the…
2014-11-06EN
Homeland Chernobrivtsy
When I first came to India and Nepal back in 2009, I was I am touched by how many «our» Chernobrivtsy (Ukrainian name for marigolds) they have. They not only decorated home flower beds, but were also actively used in religious rituals. Garlands of bright orange flowers organically looked both at the Hindu saints of the sadhu and near the…
2014-09-24EN
Zuckerbrins won’t work?
Pelevin’s new book «Love for the Three Zuckerbrins» did not arouse any particular literary enthusiasm in me. That is, there was no mystical awe, seething joy or other strong emotions. But I liked the idea, dryly and clearly stated by Pelevin at the end of the book. An individual journey to another world through inner work. It’s almost Hinayana (the…
2014-09-17EN
Cherry is a plum, acacia is a bean.
Analyzing photos from the spring Turkish hike, I decided to read about the carob tree on Wikipedia under which we spent a couple of nights there. It looks very similar to an acacia, only the pods and leaves are larger and oilier. And so it turned out — carob and acacia belong to the same family of legumes. What do…
2014-09-12EN
10 books that were close
Today, the baton was passed to me… No, this is not about the Ice Bucket Challenge that is fashionable this season — we already have enough cold water in our lives, there is no feat here. I got a book relay race — to write about the 10 most-most literary works in my life. By the way, not so long…
2014-08-25EN
musical hunger
Life is not always full of joy and pleasure. Moreover, many of the pleasures tend to turn into addiction and a source of suffering. I’ve been literally staggering from musical hunger for the last half a year. There was a terrible lack of a fixed song, a good hit that would sit in the brain and set the rhythm of…
2014-01-17EN
Playing with papers on the forehead.
During a recent winter hike in the Carpathians amid crazy trash and hard weather, we suddenly «Drawing» a calm and sincere evening. We were sitting warm (at the weather station), full, almost dry and not too tired, there was nothing to do and we decided to play guessing games with pieces of paper on our foreheads.
2014-01-16EN
Tongue or fingers?
Sorry for the details, but while picking my teeth after a heavy dinner, I made an unexpected observation — tactile sensitivity and accuracy of touch at the tip of the tongue are higher than those of the fingers. Feeling my teeth with my tongue, I «see» them large, as if through a magnifying glass — much larger than with a…
2013-12-25EN
Books by Jasper Fforde
«It’s harmful to work a lot» — I decided for the tenth time in the evening, interrupted the heroic writing of the tour in Peru for a second and went to check the blogs of famous writers. Akunin and Pelevin were silent, but Lukyanenko pleased. And by no means by his arguments about the «Ukrainian loan», but by a tip…
2013-12-11EN
Thursday is Thor’s day
Watching my second-grader son unsuccessfully try to learn English Thursday (i.e. Thursday) I became interested in the origin of this clumsy word (do you like the sound of th?). It immediately became clear that Thursday is the day of Thor the Thunderer, and this alone was enough for me to remember this word forever. Before, I confess, I often confused…
2013-12-06EN
Youtube — time link
Let’s say you decide to share a cool video on Youtube with your friends. But here’s the bad luck — the most interesting moment is somewhere in the middle of the clip, surrounded on all sides by unbearable rotten stuff. It turns out there is a solution — you can send them a link by which the video will open…
2013-12-06EN
And the winner is…
Imagine, there is a final of some television competition. A beautiful presenter hovers on the stage in the rays of everyone’s attention. She opens the cherished envelope with the name of the winner and pronounces the magic formula «And the winner is …» (became the winner). At the moment when, after a dramatic pause, she says the name of the…
2012-05-09EN
Learning to photograph food
Before I had time to learn landscape photography (I really didn’t — I still can’t shoot for anything), chance pulled me into food photography. There have only been a couple of sessions so far, but I have already «progressed» quite a bit — I pulled a tripod off the far shelf, read a few guides, and started shooting in natural daylight.
2012-05-06EN
Flood in Nepal — coordinates of Kharapani village
I received a text message from a friend at 1 am today. He wondered if I or my tourists in Pokhara had been washed away. This is such a popular tourist town in Nepal, not far from the Annapurna massif, where we arrange trips.It turns out that today (May 5, 2012) as a result of avalanches (probably from Mount Machapuchare),…
2012-02-20EN
How to make a Stone from Svetlakov?
The film Stone failed to pass the quality check (according to the method already known to you). I did not believe in what was happening on the screen, did not turn off the inner critic. Perhaps this is partly due to the fact that my phone required attention every 10 minutes, and thus did not allow me to dissolve into…
2012-01-20EN
How to shoot from around the corner?
Everyone probably knows the story about a gun that shoots from around a corner simply because it was laid on its side… Everyone knows, but I forgot :) Remind me how it was, if not laziness.So, somehow chatting with friends, we got hooked on this very gun :) Ie. began to discuss a device for shooting from around the corner.…
2011-12-23EN
Official website of the school and Odnoklassniki
Yesterday I accidentally found the website of my school…. No, not like that . Yesterday I accidentally went to Odnoklassniki and was surprised to find a message there from the director of the school (I really want to write this position with a capital letter), where 15 years ago I received a start in life. The director suggested to get…
2011-12-12EN
Perfect Soundtrack
Zhenya was tired of listening to the radio and she downloaded the original soundtrack for several seasons of House M.D. into our music box. The unusual choice is easy to explain — she really liked Peter Gabriel’s «My body is a cage» (a really great song).This music played «in the background» all day long. As a result, I went crazy…
2011-09-17EN
The best toy
When my five-year-old son, after several months spent on the seas and with his grandparents, returned to the city, got into his room, he, of course, first of all climbed into the box with toys. Did I say box? In fact, in terms of volume, this crap is approaching a cargo container — we have an immeasurable amount of toys.I…
2011-09-17EN
Fires in Montenegro
Today on the radio they broadcast about forest fires in Montenegro. Podgorica (the capital of the country) is covered in smoke, doctors advise not to leave the house.We drove there at the end of August (returning from a campaign) and even then the forests were burning. The smell of smoke in the city was still barely distinguishable, and we did…
2011-09-01EN
raking
I returned from Montenegro already 3 days ago and still can not finish raking pictures (I brought about 4 thousand of them) . The process seems to be simple, but out of habit I can’t sit at the computer for a long time — my eyes turn red, my throat tickles, snot flows, my temperature rises … Maybe I have…
2011-08-17EN
Leaving for Montenegro
Today I did not sleep until 5 am — I thought what to write here… It’s a joke. In fact, the last night before a long journey, I traditionally devoted to drawing maps for GPS. It’s very reassuring and gives you confidence. Therefore, now I am so calm that I can sleep even standing up. Although deep down I still…
2011-08-15EN
The first time I shot time lapse
Time Lapse is a video with the effect of speeding up time — when the clouds rush through the sky like crazy, and people are fussing funny below. To shoot such a video, you need a tripod, a camera on which automatic shooting is possible and the sky (preferably). I have had a tripod and a camera for a long…