Links + romance

Got in today and a Valentine's card was waiting for me. Tomas said he wasn't sending me one and I told him that I wasn't either. He's sweet, but now I feel bad. Anyway, yesterday (possibly) I said I would post some links of random, interesting things. I'm in a good mood now and feel like blogging.

How I waste my time on the Internet:
1. How Putin gets to work. The Guardian newspaper over the past few months has been extremely critical of Russian politics (in particular Putin).
2. Cute video from a Lithuanian graphic design firm, Sesame Street music and how to wallpaper a room free.
3. Got this most excellent notebook from a most excellent friend at Christmas. 
4. This has been on my radar for a while now. Do you speak Ikea?
5. Men are from Murmansk. Women are from Vilnius. Slavic identity project. Although Lithuanians aren't Slavs but Balts.
6. The World has looked like a polaroid this week. Something about the light and the pink tones in the sky. But it didn't look like these polaroids. Also: polaroid are going (or have already) to stop producing film and cameras.
7. Abandoned hotel in Lithuania via smosch. I've linked Smosch before, but her blog is amazing.
8. Nice photos of Eastern Europe including the town built for the workers of the Ignalina nuclear plant.
9. Russian illustrators.

Can't say I don't share :) More Lithuanian updates soon when I actually get around to learning something. 

Created: 2008-02-13 17:40, Tags: links, post, randomness, Tomas, Comments: 0

Happy (orthodox) New Year!

I found this Soviet New Year card after January 1st, but I thought, hey, I can post it on the Russian Orthodox New Year. That is today, by the way! Yes, it probably is a bit wrong as religion was more or less banned during Soviet times, but let's not get too deep here, I just like Santa riding a rocket. Not as environmentally friendly as reindeer, granted, but now we know how all the Soviet children got their presents in just one night... :)

I got such a surprise when I got home from a dull day at work. A lovely (and heavy!) parcel from my Lithuanian friend. So thanks :) She gave me some encouragement to get on with learning Lithuanian along with some reading material, namely the very interesting (at least the graphics hehe) pravda magazine. 

Created: 2008-01-14 21:01, Tags: life, Lithuanian, post, Russian, Comments: 0