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In Reply to: Where is GNAT? (nt) posted by Victor Khomenko on June 30, 2000 at 17:29:23:
Hi, Victor
Just kidding, I'm just back from a two weeks vacation.Three GREAT days in Moldova, lots of wine and such.
Then breakthrough into mother Ukraine... in the wrong
place for russians to cross the border. Darn, a border!
Between Moldova and Ukraine, a completely new concept
for me. Made it like a real spy, if only spies do it
in a company with their wife and daughter. Paid 20 bucks
to some unknown soldier to avoid meeting Gussinsky. :(Then Zaporozhje and absolutely fantastic week on Asov Sea
near Primorsk. (Un)fortunately, no cinema or TV there so
I have nothing new for you about films. Well, I have something
for your wife about books. Here's the guy, Sergey Luk'janenko.
Mostly he writes some fiction crap. But he has also some
antiutopias which impressed me enough to recommend 'em.
Most of the titles successfully escaped my memory, here's
the one: "A train to the warm place" ("Poezd v teplyj kraj").
It's a short novel, try to find his book containing it,
most probably there will be his other similar stuff.
regards, gnat
***Just kidding, I'm just back from a two weeks vacation.Sounds lovely. At least someone does it. Somewhere out there there is a whole another world, where people take vacations, go to movies, have sex lives...
I recently spent some time in Japan and I guess that does qualify as some mixed time, but it is already well behind us and I have been digging since then. Harder than ever in fact. I suspect you now get your share of digging too.
***Three GREAT days in Moldova, lots of wine and such.
Never been there, been around but not there.
***Then breakthrough into mother Ukraine... in the wrong
place for russians to cross the border. Darn, a border!
Between Moldova and Ukraine, a completely new concept
for me.For the fellow Americans, this is like suddenly having Check Point Charlie on I-95 between Delaware and PA. Yes, quite a concept...
***Made it like a real spy, if only spies do it
in a company with their wife and daughter. Paid 20 bucks
to some unknown soldier..."Unknown Soldier?" You mean the one whose tomb is at the Red Square? So now he gets up occasionally and collects bucks at border crossings. I think this is as good a symbol of new times as there has ever been. How ironic... Maybe he also sells the flowers that Pioneers used to bring him.
BTW, don't mean any disrespect to the soldiers, just all that symbol stuff...
***to avoid meeting Gussinsky. :(
Who is that? I have been detached, as you can see.
***Then Zaporozhje and absolutely fantastic week on Asov Sea
near Primorsk. (Un)fortunately, no cinema or TV there so
I have nothing new for you about films. Well, I have something
for your wife about books. Here's the guy, Sergey Luk'janenko.
Mostly he writes some fiction crap. But he has also some
antiutopias which impressed me enough to recommend 'em.
Most of the titles successfully escaped my memory, here's
the one: "A train to the warm place" ("Poezd v teplyj kraj").
It's a short novel, try to find his book containing it,
most probably there will be his other similar stuff.Thanks, I will definitely mention that to her. She uses ANY excuse to call Victor Kamkin. I say: "Honey, could you get me something about Mishin?" Next day - BLAMM!! - a 100lb box is by our door, and there are volumes, volumes, volumes... plus that 100 page tiny book on Mishin... "But Honey, I thought I asked me to order something!"...
I know fully realize that the TRUE reason we set up our daughter to live separately was so she could take over her room and turn it into a Delaware filial of the Soltykov-Schedrin library. She is about out of wall space there, and I suspect I will be following my daughter soon, perhaps asking her for an asylum, so my nice office with big windows could also be used to hold thousands and thousands of mostly Russian books. Ah, yes, and those GARDENING BOOKS!!!! The constant, non-stop horror of having them all over the place, all with dozens of bookmarks in them!!! The constant anticipation of boxes and boxes of plants arriving, and me digging, and digging, and fertilizing and weeding... So on Saturdays I excape to my office, there is no one to bother me and she knows I am "working" so I am not be be disturbed... She is such sweet lady...
Any plans for visiting the New World? You can stay in that library/guest room, watch the deer from the window and melt surrounded with all those bookinist treasures. We will take you out to do some digging... on Saturday, while I am in my office "working"...
Hi, Victor> > >
I recently spent some time in Japan and I guess that does
qualify as some mixed time, but it is already well behind
us and I have been digging since then. Harder than ever in
fact. I suspect you now get your share of digging too.
< < <Japan? I suspect it had something to do with a company which
name starts and ends with 'O', right? :)You're 200% correct about digging. Damn potatoes need ALOT of it!
> > >
***Made it like a real spy, if only spies do it
in a company with their wife and daughter. Paid 20 bucks
to some unknown soldier..."Unknown Soldier?" You mean the one whose tomb is at
the Red Square? So now he gets up occasionally and
collects bucks at border crossings. I think this is
as good a symbol of new times as there has ever been.
How ironic... Maybe he also sells the flowers that
Pioneers used to bring him.BTW, don't mean any disrespect to the soldiers, just all
that symbol stuff...
< < <I knew that you'll catch my drift. Guy looked like he
can sell not only flowers, but his whole motherland.
> > >
***to avoid meeting Gussinsky. :(Who is that? I have been detached, as you can see.
< < <He's an owner of local mass-media empire. He was arrested
recently and it was a REALLY big scandal around it. I'm
detached as well, so dunno the details.
Your wife obsession with books reminds me my earlier years.
Now I'm rather in the latent state of it. The cure that
worked for me was re-readind of what I already have. For
example, the one I've read during vacation. Just plain Gogol,
just ubiquitous Dikan'ka and Mirgorod... gee, what a book!
One that makes me feel that my own bookshelves are worth
exploring more than those in the shop...
> > >
Ah, yes, and those GARDENING BOOKS!!!! The constant, non-stop
horror of having them all over the place, all with dozens of
bookmarks in them!!!
The constant anticipation of boxes and boxes of plants
arriving, and me digging, and digging, and fertilizing and
weeding... So on Saturdays I excape to my office, there
is no one to bother me and she knows I am "working" so I
am not be be disturbed... She is such sweet lady...
< < <I'm more lucky than you. My SO does most of the gardening
work herself. Could be something about my digging skills...
I always have problems doing things more complex than
a pit digging. Lots of brute force though...
> > >
Any plans for visiting the New World? You can stay in that
library/guest room, watch the deer from the window and
melt surrounded with all those bookinist treasures. We
will take you out to do some digging... on Saturday, while
I am in my office "working"...
< < <Thank you for nice invitation. Sounds tempting, especially
considering that digging with guests usually 'degenerates'
into shashlyk and some good drinking IME. :) So I guess
that you won't need "working" on that Saturday. Well, I'll
remind you about this invitation when (if) I visit your
neck of woods. But don't hold your breath, since I'm basically
one laaazy homesitter.
"- Budete u nas na Kolyme - zaez'zhajte!
- Net, uzh luchshe vy k nam."
(from Brilliantovaya Ruka IIRC).
Ohh, I just noticed we're in Films, not Outside. OK, as an
anti-offtopic, some films info for you. I've read recently
that Solaris is now available on DVD. The picture is restored
from negatives under the control of that guy Yusov who made
the original one. Sound remastered into 5.1.Anothe one is Thomas Crown Affair I watched recently. Beautiful
picture. Story... mmm... kind of extremely lightweigted 'Crime
And Punishent'. I mean EXTREMELY... and wit a happy end of course!
Nice music by Legrand, with the only caveat - I think it should
have a spanish flavour during the chess scene. Spanish because
they seemed to play a spanish game. Love the scene anyway...
"I Lensky peshkoju lad'ju beret v rasseyan'i svoju."
regards, gnat
***Japan? I suspect it had something to do with a company which
name starts and ends with 'O', right? :)That's it...
I knew that you'll catch my drift. Guy looked like he
can sell not only flowers, but his whole motherland.LOL! Sounds like they are doing pretty god job.
***He's an owner of local mass-media empire. He was arrested
recently and it was a REALLY big scandal around it. I'm
detached as well, so dunno the details.Yeah, I recall the name now.
***Your wife obsession with books reminds me my earlier years.
Now I'm rather in the latent state of it. The cure that
worked for me was re-readind of what I already have. For
example, the one I've read during vacation. Just plain Gogol,
just ubiquitous Dikan'ka and Mirgorod... gee, what a book!
One that makes me feel that my own bookshelves are worth
exploring more than those in the shop...Yeah, but you probably don't get Kamkin catalogs every week. One would have to have iron will not to respond to them. I would like to see you surrounded with all these temptations.
***I'm more lucky than you. My SO does most of the gardening
work herself. Could be something about my digging skills...That must be the way you swing your pick.
***I always have problems doing things more complex than
a pit digging. Lots of brute force though...So you take refuge in FFT butterfly coding... Do you have picture of Landau on your wall?
***Thank you for nice invitation. Sounds tempting, especially
considering that digging with guests usually 'degenerates'
into shashlyk and some good drinking IME. :)You've go THAT part right. Except lately we have done more lyulya kebab. You just can't stop eating them...
***So I guess
that you won't need "working" on that Saturday. Well, I'll
remind you about this invitation when (if) I visit your
neck of woods. But don't hold your breath, since I'm basically
one laaazy homesitter.Well, put it in an old konyak bottle and hide it under your bed until ready.
"- Budete u nas na Kolyme - zaez'zhajte!
- Net, uzh luchshe vy k nam."
(from Brilliantovaya Ruka IIRC).You do remember correctly. All-time classic. We constantly borrow from it: "Idiot, babe tsvety, detyam morozhennoye!"
***Ohh, I just noticed we're in Films, not Outside. OK, as an
anti-offtopic, some films info for you. I've read recently
that Solaris is now available on DVD. The picture is restored
from negatives under the control of that guy Yusov who made
the original one. Sound remastered into 5.1.Sounds worth investigating. Let me know if yo hear about DVD "Waterloo".
As far as not being Outside, it is quicly becoming Felix' whining and crying place. My hope is he's gonna get tired of nagging.
***Anothe one is Thomas Crown Affair I watched recently. Beautiful
picture. Story... mmm... kind of extremely lightweigted 'Crime
And Punishent'. I mean EXTREMELY... and wit a happy end of course!
Nice music by Legrand, with the only caveat - I think it should
have a spanish flavour during the chess scene. Spanish because
they seemed to play a spanish game. Love the scene anyway...
"I Lensky peshkoju lad'ju beret v rasseyan'i svoju."Thank you and have a good day.
Hi, Victor
> > >
***Your wife obsession with books reminds me my earlier years.
Now I'm rather in the latent state of it. The cure that
worked for me was re-readind of what I already have. For
example, the one I've read during vacation. Just plain Gogol,
just ubiquitous Dikan'ka and Mirgorod... gee, what a book!
One that makes me feel that my own bookshelves are worth
exploring more than those in the shop...Yeah, but you probably don't get Kamkin catalogs every week.
One would have to have iron will not to respond to them. I would
like to see you surrounded with all these temptations.
< < <OIC. Looks like you're doomed. Luckily I don't get catalogs.
And have to walk at least 20-30 minutes to visit the shop.
So my lazyness usually provides an extra-protection. But
anytime I visit a shop I leave it with a purchase. Gogol
doesn't help.
> > >
***I'm more lucky than you. My SO does most of the gardening
work herself. Could be something about my digging skills...That must be the way you swing your pick.
< < <Exactly. She always complains that places where I digged look
like after an earthquake.
> > >
***I always have problems doing things more complex than
a pit digging. Lots of brute force though...So you take refuge in FFT butterfly coding... Do you have
picture of Landau on your wall?
< < <No Landay. Once there was a Brezhnev' reproduction on the
wall near my workplace. Looked great and gave a lot of fun
to my friends but for some strange reasons boss asked me
to remove it...Your idea about FFT makes sence. But I see it slightly
different. Thing is, all this Fourier 'entomology' is quite
close to the top limit of my brain skills. So there isn't
much left for digging. :)
> > >
***Thank you for nice invitation. Sounds tempting, especially
considering that digging with guests usually 'degenerates'
into shashlyk and some good drinking IME. :)You've go THAT part right. Except lately we have done more
lyulya kebab. You just can't stop eating them...
< < <BWAHAHAHA! You've just made it even more tempting right now.
Lyulya moved significantly to the top of my preferences list
during last year. Coincidence? Hmmm...
> > >
Let me know if yo hear about DVD "Waterloo".
< < <OK, I'll keep looking. Oh and I forgot to mention that the
Crown Affair I was talking before is a '68 version, not the
recent one.
> > >
As far as not being Outside, it is quicly becoming Felix' whining
and crying place. My hope is he's gonna get tired of nagging.
< < <You lost me here. I simply can't imagine Felix getting tired of this.
Are you sure that we're talking about the same person? :)
regards, gnat
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