American scientists have discovered that an excellent remedy for depression and attention deficit syndrome is tablets with the "active substance" Prozac. American scientists have most certainly also invented tablets for allergies...
When guests are over and you have absolutely no desire to knead dough and then stand by the oven, ingenuity comes to the rescue. And as is well known, the driving force of the world's progress is human natural laziness. So this time: desserts you can prepare in just a few minutes.
On the morning of the second of January I woke up with an inspired determination to realise the idea of a homemade ceiling lamp using the papier-mâché technique. It took two and a half weeks for the intended light fixture to take shape from small pieces of old newspaper, glue and paint. I am happy to explain how to make one by hand.
It has come to light that the Lotteries and Gambling Supervisory Inspection, subordinate to the Ministry of Finance, has - either by mistake or deliberately - blocked access to the VMware knowledge base using administrative resources at its disposal.
All five human senses are satisfied, and the mind rests too. Most importantly, the story told on the company's website with visual and textual elements is equally true in real life. The principle observed here is: if something isn't here, it simply isn't - but if it is, it's been brought to perfection.
There were quite a lot of LEGO cars here. Both those that had been painstakingly built and placed on the exhibition table, and the simpler ones with little motors that took part in drag racing and line-following competitions right there in the hall. But the most interesting and the main attraction for visitors was the large LEGO city.
Yet another film as a sweet course for the little worm of thought that gnaws at the mind. Not very engaging emotionally or visually, but another timely, essential invitation to think - how evil or how spineless or uncritically thinking can a person actually be in the face of authority and the crushing opinion of society.
Lumpen, or lumpenproletariat, derives from the German word Lumpen - rags, tatters. The term was introduced by K. Marx to denote the lowest strata of the proletariat. Later, all declassed elements (vagrants, paupers, criminal elements and other social outcasts) came to be called lumpen.
The article describes how WAMP and Vagrant work, the technological advantages and drawbacks of each, reasons why you may or may not want to migrate from one development environment to the other. The installation process and the problems encountered along the way are described.
Alongside the jars of strawberry, cherry, and apple jam that Mum had carefully prepared from her own garden, I found a few that had been received as gifts or brought back from travels, as they had seemed exotic enough to warrant it. So at a home gathering I decided to organise a little attraction: tasting and rating less traditional jams together with the guests.