1 hour ago I bought a bottle (0.5L) of vodka and 2L of tomato juice (the herbal tea I made beforehand). And right now I've tasted my concoction. Seems it is Ok, especially when mixing it with listening to album "Sidewinder" (1963) by American jazz trumpeter Edward Lee Morgan (1938-1972). The superb album.
vodka - 3 parts tomato juice - 5 parts herbal tea from dried hibiscus & sage - 1 part black pepper - 1-2 pinch salt - 1-2 pinch citric acid - 1 pinch (lemon juice is unavailable in my country)
What do you think about this? I have not tasted it yet =)
Mine is this: http://funkybee.narod.ru/ Frankly speaking, I got into IT when I was 36 y.o. In my youth I studied nuclear physics in Moscow's Institute of Applied Physics. And then -- what? Then I lost my bearings in the life and began to degrade slowly.
suzy.morgan.3, Suzy, the best way for you (and for any noob) is to solve concrete problems. Without knowing algorithms & their fundamentals & dynamic programming & etc you'll be nobody as a specialist. I'd recommend you, for this end, this Polish online contester: http://www.spoj.com/problems/classical/ (there is a whale of such contesters, I'm registered on ~5-8 other contesters). My account on SPOJ.com is http://www.spoj.com/users/zzz Below you can see my "To do list" - this is the problems which I tried to solve but could not (until now (btw, I'll be, in 1.5 months, 49 y.o.)).
Several years ago I even managed "to lure" into the above website Tim Peters, who is one of the main developers of Python language, actually he is the right hand of Guido van Rossum (at least, he was). His (Tim Peters') account on SPOJ.com is http://www.spoj.com/users/tesseract/ He is a true programming genius. Try to solve problem FAMILY, like he did.
Xanti: Do people still pass out drunk and freeze to death?
Uh-huh, GrimJack, it occurs. Btw, personally I'm able to drink vodka by tiny sips only, = ~20-25 ml. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Informatics#Multiple_IOI_winners What a strange country... The 1st boy in the list lives in my town (Gomel, Belarus). He is still a schoolboy, from the school #56. His parents work in our university. And I'm acquainted with his coach =)
PS: In general, we (Belarusians) like our paternalistic state, which is based on a kind of dictatorship (of course, this dictatorship is not a dictatorship a la, say, S. Hussein's regime). Also, we like when our problems are being solved by someone else and not by ourselves.
This is scary, Xantipius, this way the people become downtroden and depressed.Regardless of whether you are passionate or not, you should have a voice, and opinions. If everybody has this attitude bad people end up running the country, as several times through history, your own (as part of USSR) included.
Not all is so bad with us. People here are not as polite and cultured as e.g. Canadians, but they are very quiet and indifferent. On Russian forums there is a lot of discussions on political situations in Russia and Ukraine, but it's almost impossible to come across a discussion on the life in Belarus. There is only one problem with us: we drink & booze too much. 1L of vodka costs here ~9.3 USD.
As for Mrs. M. Thatcher: (as it was said above) she was more a problem creator than a problem solver.
I was born and live on in a very enigmatical country - Belarus. Nobody here speak Belarusian language (which is much more ancient than Russian, e.g.), nobody here is interested in any social or political activities, absolutely (incl. me). I don't mind and I don't know what is the name of our prime-minister. A different case with Russia and Ukraine.
It's the title of a composition by American jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter (b.1933/08/25). But what is this word per se? I googled it - no avail... all links point to the composition.
You can create a dummy script and keep it running endlessly, and your library will be always in memory, ready to be used by other scripts; the dummy script:
Yes, for me it obvious Robert was a hero. And his brother. In times of Kcrustchev/ Brezhnew there was not a least doubt in these men. Even these communistic ppl respected them.
If you intrerested, read abt resistence of Brest's fortage. It's really an incredible thing. Ppl wrote on walls "I'm dying but not give up". Otto Scorzeni "visited" the fortage. His conclusion was: no use. He flied back to Berlin, with report: incredible resistence. I could not crawl to them even to 2 meters. Шквал огня from the fortage.
be my will, I'd kill all these Sob's - all presz, Putin, Medvedeff, Kadaffi, Saddam Houssein, Fidel Castro etc. Russia is the richest country of the world, these swines drove it into the complete poverty.
Now I'm not civil. Until now in Russian there is a stable word "schweitzar" - for door-keepers. In early 1900s Swiss was a poorest country. They went to Russia, to earn money.
At first glance it reminds to me "The kite" by Somerset Maugham. And yes, Twain's "Tom Sawyer" is an ultra-super-incredible-thing, for all times. In the USSR it was (re)published many times, in an excellent translation by Tchukovskiy.
As to me I got tired of any movies, long time ago. Hate all of them, soviet, american, eastern european, UK's etc etc. For some vague reason I "hate" especially british movies.
Apart from... Charlie Chaplin. His "The Gold Rush" (no words). In 70s I watched it for 3-4 times "in a row". Jewish humor is unbeatable. Also, maybe, early Clint Eastwood + a couple/triple of Soviet comedies.
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Your Stack is filled / emptied like this:
1) 1, 2, 3, 4
2) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
3) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
4) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
5) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
6) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
7) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ---<--- and from this state we find the path to "T",
but cell with "5" in it is still in the stack (but should be popped up).
2. I've never met namely this habit, but, of course, there is smth similar to it (but without "secret signalling by fingers").
3. Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).
Has the Russian Orthodox church become a political power again?
Definitely not. Its train had gone for good and long time ago. Now ROC is a kind of some historical decorations. If it'd vanish into thin air the event pass unnoticed for 99.99% of Russia's population. What I think is: Kremlin doesn't simply know how to solve real problems of the society & the country, so they invent soap-bubble "problems" ("Pussy Riot", "salvation of rare cranes by Putin alone" etc). For abt 15 last years each January I hear from TV set abs the same words: "war on corruption", "this time and this year the corruption will be defeated finally" etc etc etc.
1. Say, 1 fl oz = 30 ml. Means: 6 ounces = 180 ml. Then answer is "yes". There are many russian men who can drink it (and even more) in one gulp. But usual dose of the gulp is ~2-3 ounces. It depends on the social status of the drinkers. Personally I'm able to drink in one gulp ~0.7 ounce only. Note: true alcoholics strongly prefer cheap plonk over vodka (and not because the plonk is cheaper). These our local plonks are real poison, much worse than any H-bomb. And nobody here knows how & from what it is made of. (to be continued)
Mathematician Grisha Perelman is not a pure Russian (he's a Jew), but actually he's more a Russian than many "pure" Russians, when he rejected awards and the prize's money. He was fired from Institute of Mathematics because he was constantly refusing to write monthly (or weekly?) reports on what has been done by him during last month/week.
Hmm... I like "stchi" (from fresh (not sour!) cabbage and with fatty pork). Also, I like "rassol'nik" and "stchi" from leaves of fresh-cut kettle. What else... I don't know what to say =) I don't like "borstch". The generation, which could cook our national dishes, went away.
