Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sun Dec 1 09:54:18 CST 2013
Hi Arthur -- Sorry for a bit off-topic. I suppose you should hurry with your next contract if you really wanted to visit St.Petersburg, Russia - not sure if another "iron curtain" will not be risen here rather soon. Have a look what currently happens in Ukraine - live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uZtwFH4uKxk And when I have checked what they say about that events here on 5th TV channel - I have immediately remembered JOSEPH GOEBBELS propaganda methods. http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html . Well, that methods are nowadays broadly used worldwide but witnessing them here on this city main TV channel (and Russian third by popularity channel) is really sad :( I mean that. If you'd have heard what this nice looking lady ( http://www.5-tv.ru/about/person/10/ ) is talking about outer world and what kind of guests she is interviewing and agreeing with you'd believed in existence of the Devil (sorry). And when she is talking - it looks like her body, head, mouth and voice have been captured just to re-translate "the official position", she herself is looking about to go vomiting (sorry) - that's looking and sounding so surrealistic. You have to come here to see that... and only after that all the wonderful architecture and museums... BTW, currently Sylvester Stallone exhibits his art in St. Petersburg's state Russian Museum ( http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/04/travel/stallone-art-exhibition/ ). I haven't been there yet. Planning to go till Christmas. Rocky (Stallone) is my favorite hero of Hollywood action movies, and he happens to be also an excellent impressionist painter they say here... Thank you. -- Shamil Sunday, December 1, 2013 10:15 AM -05:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: >Lembit, > >I'm not sure what ZA means. Zambia? Besides that, you surely hit the nail >on the head. Of all places in the world I would love to visit, Antarctica >tops the list. However, I have heard that it is frightfully expensive to go >there, so that may have to wait for my next contract. > >All of this thread has proved most illuminating. At last count, I have >visited 31 countries, and if memory serves, I have about 160 members of the >UN to go. So I'm going to make myself a deal, here and now. On every future >contract that I obtain, I shall visit a nation that I have not yet set foot >on. > >For some odd reason, I think that I want to visit St. Petersburg next, >after Cuba. Perhaps it's because I consider Shamil a friend and colleague, >and have even hired him to do some specialized work that I could not do >myself. But first I have to go to Cuba. My romance with Cuba goes back >decades. It's time that I go there. First I have to complete the work on >this contract, then collect the loot, and then I'm off to Havana for two >weeks. No silly tourist places like Varadero for me. I want Havana. I >already mentioned Buena Vista Social Club. That's a big part of the >attraction. So also is a now-Canadian musician named Alex Cuba, who now >lives somewhere in British Columbia, and whose music is wonderful and not >even remotely like the traditional music from the Buena Vista Social Club. > > >On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Lembit Soobik < >lembit.soobik at weihenstephan.org > wrote: > >> You are sure welcome. Just let me know in time so that I will be at home >> and not somewhere in ZA or Antarctica or ... >> Lembit >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Kathryn Bassett >> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 8:13 PM >> >> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Way OT but I love you people so I'm posing >> thequestion. >> >> >> Neither of those appeals to me. I would choose the Hesse area of Germany to >> visit areas where my ancestors came from. I'd include a side trip to see >> Lembit. >> >> -- >> Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) >> "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" >> kathryn at bassett.net >> http://bassett.net >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech- >>> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller >>> Sent: 30 Nov 2013 9:06 AM >>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Way OT but I love you people so I'm posing the >>> >> question. >> >>> >>> I just landed a contract that will pay me enough for two weeks anywhere. >>> >> My >> >>> first and second choices are Havana and London. But I'm reaching out to my >>> friends on this list and asking, Where would you choose to go for two >>> >> weeks? >> >>> Answers must be a place you have never visited yet. >>> >>> -- >>> Arthur >>> >> -- Салахетдинов Шамиль