Remembered one more childhood urge: learn #shorthand.

Anything to keep my mind alert and flexible.

400 years old invention.
Clip from Hayao Miyazaki’s
https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Rises

Additional lines on the cursor are at sqrt(4/pi) distance from a main cursor line. Which allows for surface of a circle to be calculated at a glance along this arrow.

sqrt(1.25^2+2^2)=

10 kinds of ignition fluid (starter?) in myspar.ru supermarket. I was amazed

Mechanical calculator.
For many was simpler to use than a slide ruler.
Can’t find one in Russia:-(
Very expensive on EBay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

Closest relative manufactured in USSR is available.

But when in pristine condition, costs around $400

https://www.avito.ru/moskva/kollektsionirovanie/arifmometr_feliks_sssr_1820814441

Measles?
Suspiciously regular spots though..

Month into ៚⇜⇝⧘⧙⧚⧛⬳〽꧙ exercises:
• writing speed is :-(
• reading speed is :-((

Audio track selection.
Russian or Russian?
(You want F* beeped or not)

Замечательный минисериал «Большая секунда», оч советую!

Potato chips experiment.
Device proved inconvenient.
No good way to fry these. They stick together both on a pan and in oil-filled pot.
No idea how to cook them separated

Funny nose-only-visible man on my school-home train today

Spring, they say? Blizzard all day. Cleaned my driveway twice today

What would you call this?
Sledgemobile?