Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
How about a translation or at least the gist of it? One of the related videos is also of her and apparently her child has leukemia and it's asking for help.
When the war starts, the radio announcer goes on for a while speaking in a somber tone of voice. This is the broadcaster Levitan, a very famous man in the former USSR. He was similar to Walter Kronkite here during the Vietnam War. Every day he would broadcast the latest news from the front, the losses, the names of the cities that've fallen to Germans. This particular broadcast, the most famous of them all, tells all the citizens of the USSR that Germany crossed the border at around 4 am on June 22nd and so on. Then, soon after, a scary-sounding song follows sung by a male chorus. This is the most popular Russian patriotic song of the WWII. It calls on everybody to rise up and destroy the oppressor while burning with righteous zeal. Finally, the last, melancholy and very pretty song comes along and you can see a little baby in his crib and a mother's head. It's sung by a soldier in a hole in the ground who is thinking of his wife and a child. It's a beautiful song, just writing about it gives me goose bumps. Soon after this song starts, the whole place goes up in smoke. And that's the gist of it.
Multi touch does seem somewhat inferior to this lady's abilities.
5 comments:
Quite incredible! Thank you for putting it up on your blog. I only wish you could understand the words...
How about a translation or at least the gist of it? One of the related videos is also of her and apparently her child has leukemia and it's asking for help.
Who needs multitouch anyways?
When the war starts, the radio announcer goes on for a while speaking in a somber tone of voice.
This is the broadcaster Levitan, a very famous man in the former USSR. He was similar to Walter Kronkite here during the Vietnam War. Every day he would broadcast the latest news from the front, the losses, the names of the cities that've fallen to Germans. This particular broadcast, the most famous of them all, tells all the citizens of the USSR that Germany crossed the border at around 4 am on June 22nd and so on.
Then, soon after, a scary-sounding song follows sung by a male chorus. This is the most popular Russian patriotic song of the WWII.
It calls on everybody to rise up and destroy the oppressor while burning with righteous zeal.
Finally, the last, melancholy and very pretty song comes along and you can see a little baby in his crib and a mother's head. It's sung by a soldier in a hole in the ground who is thinking of his wife and a child. It's a beautiful song, just writing about it gives me goose bumps. Soon after this song starts, the whole place goes up in smoke.
And that's the gist of it.
Multi touch does seem somewhat inferior to this lady's abilities.
Thanks very much, that does add a lot to the experience.
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