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The one who controls the past controls the future and the one who controls the present controls the past, and we all who don't control the present don't control anything.


Traveling in California during the time of Coronavirus

31 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Hi everyone! This weekend I went with my son to Fresno to pick up some things from his apartment, including 12 rolls of toilet paper. Now in this sense, we are well protected from the virus. They say that the next two weeks will be decisive. We shoul...

Crazy dog

27 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

  A hotel guest came out to the street and noticed that next to the hotel doorman there was a cute puppy. "Does your dog bite?" he asked the doorman. "No," answered the doorman. The hotel man then bent down and telling the dog gentle nothings attemp...

A typical commute

24 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

  I used to work in West Hollywood and work in Orange County. That's around 45 miles. So, considering the congestion on freeway 5, I had to take off at 6 AM to arrive at work close to 8 AM. Then, leaving the work at 5 pm I was back home at 7 pm. Luc...

Traveling via stamps Israel

23 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

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translator

20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

When translating I use an automatic translator but with caution. Often what comes out from it makes no sense. Language often is a reflection of cultural patterns that are specific to a particular culture and cannot be translated directly. Here is an...

Split

20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

A reverse split is a process by which shares of corporate stock are effectively merged to form a smaller number of proportionally more valuable shares. Like if you have 1000 shares that cost $10 reverse split will make you have 100 shares at $100 dol...

The standoff at the river Ugra (Continuation)

7 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

  Hi there, In the previous post, I talked about the quarrel between the Great Duke of Moscow Ivan the Third, and the Mongol Khan Akhmat.  You can read about it here I stopped at the point when Akhmat was threatening the Russians to cross Ugra once...

Beach towel

6 Mar 2020 1 minute read 5 comments mgaft1

When I was five or six years old, I had my first real awareness about the spender of the United States and it happened because of beach towels. Some kind of old man came to our small room in Moscow. He spoke broken or rather half-forgotten Russian, a...

Eye witness

4 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

What did I witness? Many things and nothing. Nothing overwhelmingly original. Nothing worth mentioning. That is to say with the eyes of the body. And yet I saw lots of interesting events with the eyes of my mind. Those events were produced by electri...

Show me the way home

4 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

  Once I read a story by Somerset Maugham about a man born in London who, in the position of a ship doctor, traveled the world. Once he has gotten off the boat in Alexandria, Egypt. To make a long story short, he quit his job and stayed in Alexandria...