Author.::.Savar

Very soon Turin winter Olympic Games will start. We’ll only have to spend long-lasting and honestly deserved new-year binge, celebrate Christmas meanwhile, drink and pray for the old-style chronology - and then Olympiad will begin. For some reason I have always liked winter Olympiad more than summer one. Everything happens there in a different and even more attractive way. Perhaps snow and ice make everything look smarter.

Of course, the main part of the program is somehow connected with skis and skates, but what variety do we have! And what about great number of opportunities not being used... For example, why don’t the skaters, especially stayers, each get a rifle in order to have fun while overcoming tiresome 10 000 meters? Sportsmen may shoot anywhere – there are enough targets around the race track, and the audience may be asked to buy armor-waistcoats. Emotions will be keener and the waistcoat may be of some use later. Besides, no one has ever tried to mix winter kinds of sport with summer program elements, i.e. to jumble springboard jumps with trench stand. Hardly starts the jumper, when a plate is flung at him. And the jumper should find the way to knock it down. It can be simply done with hands or hat. The result will reckon not only the quality of a jump, but the splinter-bonus (depending upon the size); if he manages not to miss the goal.

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Author.::.Maxx

By coincidence, Alexandra and I have visited Andy Warhol's exhibition in the Tretyakov's Gallery recently. Since I new little about Warhol's art, being vaguely familiar with world-known acid-coloured portraits of Marilyn and a can of Campbell soup images, I found most of the exhibition quite interesting.

One of the works I found truly amazing is "Lenin". Red-and-pink image on the black background has amazing resemblance with the body that is still in the Mausoleum. I wonder whether Andy Warhol had ever visited the Mausoleum.

This image I found on Ebay gives you a fair impression of the painting, although to appreciate it fully, you have to see the original. If you have a chance to see Warhol's exhibition, do not miss Lenin.

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Author.::.Phil

Mitsubishi Pencil Company produced ultra thin point pens. Line, drawn with such pen, is only 0.18 mm thick. I consider this news to be very important and precious as I'm nearly obsessed with thin and accurately writing devices. Those pens, which leave thick helium lines, and moreover, begin to daub my hands, cause my strong dislike of their creator.

According Cool Tool description, the pens should be used for making short lines (Japanese hieroglyphs), i.e. fused writing made by these pens might be rather inconvenient. Nevertheless, if you still hesitate about the birthday present for me, may consider such a pen to be one of the variants. (though you're a bit late )

A set of eight such pens costs $25.

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