Aniko's Birthday

I was the only one to know how to use this corkscrew.

Laboratory

While teacher was solving something with one Chinese and Finn I was walking around the lab checking ancient electronic stuff they have there.

Adobe Reader

I've been wondering recently what's the point to have preinstalled Adobe Reader in Nokia N70 smartphone? I tried to read pdf-book and immediately got tired of going left and right six times per line. I guess it's one of those useless features that makes a business device.

Firefox 2.0

I switched to Firefox 2.0 recently. Seems like without any bad consequences. Of course, all the plug-ins didn't work but the most essential ones (Tab Mix, Adblock) worked just fine. Finally some new features were introduced that I felt lack of in previous versions, especially the possibility to edit the search engines. Spell checking is quite handy also.

But still it's quite annoying that hot keys don't work in non-Latin layouts. If I need to copy a bunch of text while typing in Russian I have to press Ctrl+Shift to switch the layout, then Ctrl+С to copy, Ctrl+V to paste and finally Ctrl+Shift to continue typing. Maybe I should teach myself to use Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins as it seems like this bug is never gonna be fixed.

Hanger from Tiimari

Cemetery

It was a nice walk to the cemetery. Modern gravestones look exactly the same, nothing individual, but those old metal crosses from the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th centruy look very impressive. It was creepy to walk near fresh graves, flowers on which were not even covered with snow, but in general it was quite calming.



  



  

Holiday

Today we came from Ylläs. Mulled wine, fireplace, sauna, hiking in the forest, sausages on fire, cheeky birds, reindeers near the road… Pictures are clickable.

Relationship

Our relationship is quite unstable. We're shaking from love to hate and back so easily. Sometimes I'm thinking how could I be with her for such a long period of time and sometimes I'm wondering how could I even think about breaking up. We can be checking engagement rings one day and looking for separate apartments the next one. I wish it could teach us something but it does not. It's just suffering for nothing though having positive moments are still worth it. We're not suitable for each other at all but we're still together. Unfortunately I can't predict for for how long. I just hope for the best.

Plane models

We bought two sets. Now we have something to do instead of fighting.

TF-104 G Starfighter



F-19 Stealth Fighter

Unfortunately we couldn't find all the paint we need.

Freedom of Choice

I was trying to entitle the block with icons, which I decided to put on my site into the right column and "Freedom is having a choice" suddenly occured. I'm not Richard Stallman and I would have never made a good ideologist but this time it turned out to be not that bad.

Gulf of Bothnia Shore

We (Juk and me) went to Kiikeli today to cycle and to take some pictures. I've been mainly jumping from stone to stone and wondering where is the water slowly disappearing and Juk was mainly taking pictures. It was really nice to be out in nature for a while.





  

Foggy again

Every cloud has a silver lining

The gray day gave us a wonderful sunset. Unfortunately there are no photos worth showing.

Grayness

Kalli

Finally I copied these pics. I didn't find much interesting stuff as I've been here already and I've been to other ski resorts also. But having a short walk and a short climb uphill was better than sitting in the classroom.

It was closed but we didn't come to ski.

Crowd and me aside (on the left).

Julia and two Germans.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Obviously it was too early to start the season.

Identical twins?

Fireplace.

I would be terrified to fry something here.

Somebody didn't like this sign.

Layout

After so many years I finally came to renewing it. Soon it's gonna look like this: http://dmitry.us/new. Hopefully one day I'll start to post here more often.

Postcrossing

Finns are pissed at Americans and Americans are pissed at Finns. And the rest of the world is pissed both at Finns and Americans as the majority of participants are from USA and Finland.

But you've gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along.

Cards

My time has come. I've been waiting for it for quite a long time sending and sending while waiting and finally cards started to arrive! Yesterday two cards arrived, today three. I'm scanning them and posting here: http://postcrossing.dmitry.us/