My Formula for Rating Films (and Movies)

I’ve had a long-standing desire to visualize what goes on in my head at the moment I rate a film. What came out of that can be seen below, along with all the explanations.

The secret formula of the Krusty Krab

Formula #


Formula
Don't be intimidated by the huge formula.
At the very bottom of the page, there's a working calculator you can jump to by clicking here.

Notations #

Core Score #

In the Core Score, 5 values are arranged in order of priority: from the most important to the least significant. The priority is described by the weight coefficient in each of the points.

Bitcoin: buy, hide, and forget

Recently, Bitcoin reached a value of over $100,000 USD — congratulations to everyone!

In 2017, when I was in college, a couple of months before the then Bitcoin surge, I had a choice: upgrade my dying HTC One X+ to an iPhone 7 or buy Bitcoin with all the money I had. I chose to upgrade my phone.

Did I know that it would reach 20k at some point? I didn’t expect it. Did I know it would grow so much in the long term? Always. And I’m sure it will be worth even more. Do I regret my choice? Yes.

Collective meditation will begin in...

My journey from meditating "just for fun sometimes" to a daily 7-year practice, a long break, and coming back.

The full habit of meditating for 15–20 minutes every morning and evening started forming on December 5, 2017. Before that, I might meditate once or twice and then return to it only a week later, or something like that.

As a child, I also tried meditating a couple of times, but I didn’t think it affected me in any way. I was simply imitating what I saw in cartoons and comics.

My Everyday Carry (EDC 2024)

I emptied my pockets in case anyone was thinking of robbing me and didn't know what I (usually) carry with me.
Stuff on the table
Mint tin with various small items
Cardholder
Coin pouch
Work gloves
Wallet
ID card and key holder
Keys
Kershaw Shuffle II TAN folding knife
Casio AE-1200WH-1A watch
IPhone 8
Book
KZ ZAR earphones
Passport
Flashlight
Whistle
Matches
Lighter
KNIPEX Cobra XS pliers
Power supply unit
Notebook
Regular pencil
Colored pencil
Parker Jotter ballpoint pen
Smaller notebook (field notebook)
Sunglasses
Glasses
Tape measure
Tissues
Zip ties
    1. Cardholder
    2. Coin pouch
    3. Mint tin with various small items
    4. Work gloves
    5. Wallet
    6. ID card and key holder
    7. Keys
    8. Kershaw Shuffle II TAN folding knife
    9. Casio AE-1200WH-1A watch
    10. IPhone 8
    11. Book
    12. KZ ZAR earphones
    13. Passport
    14. Flashlight
    15. Whistle
    16. Matches
    17. Lighter
    18. KNIPEX Cobra XS pliers
    19. Power supply unit
    20. Notebook
    21. Regular pencil
    22. Colored pencil
    23. Parker Jotter ballpoint pen
    24. Smaller notebook (field notebook)
    25. Sunglasses
    26. Glasses
    27. Tape measure
    28. Tissues
    29. Zip ties

A mint tin containing various small items.

A mint tin containing various small items.

Don't depend on streaming and don't forget to download your favourite songs to your drive

Sometime in early April, I spent a week downloading a couple of hundred albums from the internet onto my SSD and then organising them and filling in basic metadata.

A long time ago, back before 2015 when I discovered Spotify, I used music streaming in its manifestations such as SoundCloud, Bandcamp and genre-specific communities on VK. Prior to that period, though, there was a brief time period where something was downloaded in 127kbps.mp3 format during a limited home internet connection.

Home Gym '23: What's changed in a year

It’s been almost a year since my longtime friend from my student days Vlad and I started setting up a small sports corner in one of the rooms of my apartment. Now, looking back, I think it is possible to make a retrospective and summarize some results.

Script supervisor (and later composer) on the production of Zhenya Malakovich's "Three Aliens" short film

Summer is over, and I thought I’d write a few words about how I got involved with Zhenya Malakovich’s short fiction film with the working title “Three Aliens”.