We recently already wrote about how the local Rohan drunks are being screwed over on a high intellectual level. To recap, back then a social-beer pack of Lvivske, consisting of six bottles, cost 17.95. Under the slogan “convenient and economical,” the item is being sold for one kopeck more …

Hey, you! Yes, I’m talking to you! Do you even watch where you’re stepping? What did you just step on?

A manhole cover. An ordinary sewer manhole cover. And how many kinds of manhole covers can you name? Two? Three?

Today a colleague from Wikipedia tossed me a …

The most important difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP is that the operating system’s user interface started turning its back to the forest and its front to the user. One interesting example is shown in the figure below. Windows, besides automatically changing the clocks, also uses the speech …

The other day I walk into the Klass supermarket on Zubarev St. and see this:

Buying six bottles of beer at once in a pack is a good deal for those drunks who can’t multiply 2.99 by six in their heads. Though maybe by “good deal” they mean …

And now there are fewer than 46 million of us:

*Ukraine’s population decreased by 65,770 people in August 2010 and as of September 1 stood at 45,831,408 people. *

http://www.objectiv.tv/181010/48149.html

I still remember the public service ads in the early 90s …

As a result of the traffic accident in Marhanets on October 12, 44 people were killed, when the driver of an overcrowded bus drove onto a railroad crossing. The only thing history teaches is that it teaches nothing. The next day near Kyiv, an ambulance driver drove onto a closed …

I’ve been using Microsoft Outlook for a long time, but only now noticed this little detail. The “Received” and “Size” columns aren’t aligned by place value. With dates and times it’s not so bad, but with size it’s a complete mess.

Do the designers at Microsoft …

09/16/2010–09/20/2010

I don’t get to Saint Petersburg often. The last time was in the summer of 2008, for a concert by the vocal-instrumental ensemble Metallica. This time I went to the conference “East-West. Design and Diagnostics — 2010” to give a talk on the synthesis …

On the way from my place to the center there are advance railway ticket offices. Very convenient: no need to go to Pivdennyi to stand in line; you can just stop by, get the tickets, and leave. Five minutes’ work. So I usually volunteer to buy a stack of tickets …

Our university, where I spent 11 years of my life, like any other university, has its own corporate website http://kture.kharkov.ua and corporate email in the domain of the same name. Surely from the title of the post and the first paragraph you’ve already figured out what …