Fun
There are my kind of people: They are actually Swedish, and that’s a Volvo BM Victor 2-cylinder diesel tractor. Very cool. Merry Christmas!
I posted this last year but thought some people might like to see it again — I recently told some Russian friends about something I did before I moved to Russia, and they asked if I’d post it on the web: Years ago, when I was an old bachelor, I had the idea that it [...]
This very interesting video looks at the wealth and health of nations for the past 200 years. I had no idea that in 1810 the average life expectancy was 40 years (though this is surely affected by high infant mortality rates).
The snows are falling and cars are disappearing. Here our car emerges from a snowy grave –
I never thought I would see something like this – Vladimir Putin singing Blueberry Hill for a fundraiser in St. Petersburg on December 11 –
I’m a dog person, and this video is inspiring –
A fat cat in a pot:
This is something I’ve thought about fairly often but could never really visualize, until now. Below are two Sun Path Diagrams, one for St. Petersburg, Russia and one for Athens, Georgia, my home towns. They show the sun path and sunrise and sunset on the longest and shortest days of the year. (I got them [...]
Here are some great pictures of our home town –
