Day by day
Day by day

Day by day

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.


knitting needle

5 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

This title reminded me of the cute cartoon I watched when I was a kid. In this cartoon, a lion by the name of Bonifatsy who worked in London's circus occupying the position of a lion. Because of his talent as a performer and great working skills the...

Morning feeling

2 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

I woke up with a headache at around 4.30 AM from a nightmare. I was hiding from Nazis in some old house full of junk. Yet, I woke up when people with dogs were just about to discover me. Went to the computer and watched a video titled “How to start b...

Bandage

1 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

In the movies, programmers often presented as some sort of geniuses; kids are breaking into Pentagon databases and so on. In reality, programmers are regular people who just happen to code as their day job. In fact, I remember one colleague of mine f...

Traveling via stamps

30 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

He there! Yesterday I told you a story about how I found stamps in my garage. So today I continue showing them going through the collection alphabetically. That's how Anguilla Islands look like on the map. And this is how they look relative to large...

Found a metal chest in my garage with stamps

29 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Hi there, Recently, cleaning in my garage, I stumbled across a metal chest. When I opened it, I discovered several albums of stamps. I remembered that my mother collected these stamps all her life. She passed away in 2004. Since then we moved to ano...

iced coffee

27 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

There are various ways to determine the size of a man's hm... not sure how to say it in English so it would sound decent. Some people determine it by the size of the feet (the greater the feet size the greater...) others, analogically reasoning, dete...

Sugar cubes

21 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

While I haven't seen it done in the States, in Russia this is used to be a common practice. What I mean is to drink tea not by adding sugar to it, but by biting off the sugar cubes. Just like this... I would say more, those sugar cubes are not of pr...

Red Light

21 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Ten years ago or so I was in Amsterdam and visited the Red Light District. And of course, I saw women standing in the show-windows in their bras and underpants. To tell you the truth this didn't impress me and if not for my wife I wouldn't even go th...

Running water

20 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

I remember my house in Florida, when the clear and bright blue sly suddenly tightened with clouds of dark gray and water started falling from the sky just as suddenly and affluently. In an instance, I heard its bombardment on the rooftop and raindrop...

Filming the scene from Henry V

15 Nov 2019 6 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

This is the scene from Henty V that my son Gabe and I tried to film for his portfolio. First, a short historical excursus. In 1415, shortly before the Battle of Agincourt, the English king Henry V made a brief speech to the army under his command, em...