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Beeline Ukraine goes 1800 MHz

Posted in Biking by Alexander on the April 28th, 2007

В 3-х часах езды поездом на юг от Киева обнаружены каналы GSM-1800, принадлежащие сети Beeline (WellCOM) 0555, 0559

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Отправляемся в путь на первомай

Posted in Biking by Alexander on the April 28th, 2007

Это инициаторы похода

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Why they Colorize old Black-and-white Movies

Posted in Movies, Speculations by Alexander on the February 1st, 2007

The excellent “The Three Musketeers” by George Sidney (1948) on TCM reminded me of numerous disputes of colorizing old movies.

And I thought I got the idea, at least with the old movies depicting even older epochs - like in the case with the Musketeers.

See, the idea is that a color movie of 40’s is as much unusual as a B&W movie of a more recent period, like “Schindler’s List” (1993)

What is common in these two situations - the events portrayed are greatly divided from the times they are played by actors. So the purpose of the artificial addition (”colorization”) or removing (b&w shooting) of the color might very likely be an attempt of amplifying a dramatic impact on a viewer with the improbable connection of the Unconnectable (subsets of Time in this case)

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Biking season 2006: made my 2k

Posted in Biking by Alexander on the January 21st, 2007

Due to nicely warming climate this year’s biking season has already been started (it happened on Jan 18)

As always, new season start is marked by summing up the statistical data for the previous one.

So… the season 2006 had the following features:

  • Total Distance ridden: 2017.8 km
  • First ride (season start): February 17, 2006
  • Last ride (season finish): December 16, 2006
  • Total riding days: 89 (22.67 km/day)
  • Time on the go (wheels spinning): 140:12:54, or 5d20h12m54s
  • Maximum speed (downhill on the highway): 63.0 km/h
  • Average speed: 14.4 km/h
  • Maximum trip distance within a day: 62.84 km
  • Minimum trip distance: 1.78 km

Season’s graphs:

Odometer

Notice the perfect inverse tangent curve shape

Average & Maximum speeds

Note: the maximum of 79 km/h was a cyclometer’s fault which is running its 6th year on the original (factory loaded) battery.

And here’s my invention - an attempt to numerify (i.e. to represent numerically) the hardness of a day’s ride - currently it is calculated as Distance ridden times the day’s Average speed.

It seems to classify the “hardness”, or ride difficulty, or body burden caused, pretty well assuming terrains do not differentiate substantially

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Protected: Нужен совет: какие фильмы выбросить сразу, а какие посмотреть и выбросить

Posted in fun by Alexander on the December 11th, 2006

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Как ты планируешь Новый Год встречать?

Posted in fun by Alexander on the December 7th, 2006

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Президент Украины с нами!

Posted in fun by Alexander on the August 20th, 2006


Украина, г. Киев, ул. Банковая, 11. Администрация Президента Украины (или Секретариат Президента Украины)
Фото в пол-десятого вечера.

Особая благодарность Сергею вертолётчику и Виталику за помощь в организации съёмок.
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