what does it mean "to be high on life" ?

Ender's Game I want to write a small note to the book that I've read recently - Ender's Game. The reading took me pretty much time, because of numerous new words and phrasal verbs. I still have a lot to write down to my flashcards program. The book is interesting, but after reading, I found the plot rather simple and naive. It is difficult to believe in three children so genius that they could beat any adult human without having any experience and never loose. I can believe in very narrow talent, but not in superman -) You will lose many times while you are learning. It's impossible learn and always win. And some times it was easy for me to foresee consequences. I found one moment very intriguing. It was about ideas that have their own life in society. One day you told one thought or idea to your friends or colleagues. They could be disagree with you that moment. But some time later you can hear how they are arguing and discussing you thought. It can be even different people. And you understand, that actually you was right but they never listen... And I think the author spend much time playing computer games ))) So, I can recommend this book as easy entertaining reading, but don't count too much on it. (I'm not sure about the last phase) PS. Maybe my English was so bad, that I haven't understood the book at all :) just kidding

bike headlight Today I tested new light for my bike. I got binding for the Chinese flashlight, that I had planned to use as a reserve diving light. But it leaked during the fist dive, so I decided to attach it to my bicycle. And it awesome bright! I shine as an automobile headlight. I clearly see all my way. Excellent!

Diving in Schelkovsky quarry. Today I was scuba-diving in Schelkovsky quarry. This pit was being used by industry to mine sand, clay and dolomite. Now it is flooded and used for fish-breeding, fishing, diving and other water entertainments. It is close to Moscow (22 km) and nice for one day diving on holidays. I visited it with my buddy Ilya. We made two dives, each for a one hour approximately. First 4 meters, the water is warm (about 20 C degree) and visibility is great (about 7 meters or even more). If you continue to descent, after thermocline you find it fairly cold for a wet suit (about 9 C). Visibility fades to nearly zero, like in a heavy fog. That's why the most interesting diving plan would be to move alongside a shore not deeper that 5 meters. There you can see fantastic submerged trees and bushes with bizarre small mussel balls. There are plenty habitants like perch, trout, catfish hiding in this small underwater forest and other freshwater little fishes. I even touched one catfish at his tail from behind and it started like a rocket! :) Also we found one arm size trout had entangled in the net. The net fence a small fish-farm region from the lake. He was hardly breathing and not moving. We set him free, but I think we were too late. He felt down to bottom upside-down, and was not moving, though was opening and closing his mouth a little. No chance... :( I find this quarry is one of the best places for diving in Moscow region. I haven't took photos, but you can find examples in this community https://www.facebook.com/groups/166843506815844/

Jacques Cousteau Today I want to write about the famous explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist - Jacques-Yves Cousteau. You might know him for his popular movie series - "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" I used to watch them on TV when I was a kid in the beginning of 90s last century. His films impressed me much, but I couldn't understand how really great had been his work. Actually Cousteau was the fist who invented aqualung or scuba and made it popular for common people. And he was the first who constructed underwater video-camera and opened the beauty of seas for millions of people. Thanks to him today I can dive myself and see the beauty of Undersea World with my own eyes. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his Calypso team made a great work to save the diversity of flora and fauna to the future generations, for us. The main point in his films is a wildlife conservation. Nowadays in spite of old TV records they are still very interesting and inspiring to see. I don't know any of modern products of that quality. If you know, please tell me. Jacques Cousteau died in Paris in 1997, aged 87. His last film was finished after his death by his son Jean-Michel. It was the film about the greatest lake on Earth "Lake Baikal: Beneath the Mirror". If you are interested in Russia, you might want to watch it.

Numbers Suddenly I realized that any executable program is a very long number itself. It seemed strange, but I've never thought in that way. And now I think it's amusing. An executable machine code is a sequence of nulls and ones 00000101.... It means that any program could be presented in decimal: For example: 4 85650 78965 73978 29309 84189 46942 86137 70744 20873 51357 92401 96520 73668 69851 34010 47237 44696 87974 39926 11751 09737 77701 02744 75280 49058 83138 40375 49709 98790 96539 55227 01171 21570 25974 66699 32402 26834 59661 96060 34851 74249 77358 46851 88556 74570 25712 54749 99648 21941 84655 71008 41190 86259 71694 79707 99152 00486 67099 75923 59606 13207 25973 79799 36188 60631 69144 73588 30024 53369 72781 81391 47979 55513 39994 93948 82899 84691 78361 00182 59789 01031 60196 18350 34344 89568 70538 45208 53804 58424 15654 82488 93338 04747 58711 28339 59896 85223 25446 08408 97111 97712 76941 20795 86244 05471 61321 00500 64598 20176 96177 18094 78113 62200 27234 48272 24932 32595 47234 68800 29277 76497 90614 81298 40428 34572 01463 48968 54716 90823 54737 83566 19721 86224 96943 16227 16663 93905 54302 41564 73292 48552 48991 22573 94665 48627 14048 21171 38124 38821 77176 02984 12552 44647 44505 58346 28144 88335 63190 27253 19590 43928 38737 64073 91689 12579 24055 01562 08897 87163 37599 91078 87084 90815 90975 48019 28576 84519 88596 30532 38234 90558 09203 29996 03234 47114 07760 19847 16353 11617 13078 57608 48622 36370 28357 01049 61259 56818 46785 96533 31007 70179 91614 67447 25492 72833 48691 60006 47585 91746 27812 12690 07351 83092 41530 10630 28932 95665 84366 20008 00476 77896 79843 82090 79761 98594 93646 30938 05863 36721 46969 59750 27968 77120 57249 96666 98056 14533 82074 12031 59337 70309 94915 27469 18356 59376 21022 20068 12679 82734 45760 93802 03044 79122 77498 09179 55938 38712 10005 88766 68925 84487 00470 77255 24970 60444 65212 71304 04321 18261 01035 91186 47666 29638 58495 08744 84973 73476 86142 08805 29443. When we take a photo of something, we just write a very long number. When we feed this number to a program later, it will interpret number to the photo on a screen. Or when we power on our cellphone, it reads in order different numbers from flesh memory and the result is - android with a lots of applications. And so on. May be everything around us are only numbers itself?

About Russian character. All Russians are different, no doubt. I will not simply enumerate well known characteristics. You can google them. I want to say one thing. From my point of view Russian soul has chaotic nature. Our element is chaos. It's very strong and powerful force, but unfortunately distractive. It usually sleeps deep inside. And it's also suppressed and restrained as by authorities as by peoples themselves. Rulers try to control it, usually without success. It gets release during catastrophic times, wars. That's why Russians believed to be the best warriors and adventurers. We are eager to happen some disasters when the forces of nature rage and crush everything. No need to take care of the little things, it is nothing in front of the power of universe. We need great idea, that would be worth to die for.

Snowbording in Moscow is Tough. Today I had a little of snowboarding. It was a good shiny day and I took my new Gopro Hero3 action camera with me. I tested the new place not far from Moscow - Dzerzhinsk. I've been there for the first time. The slopes were OK, but the lifts were something... It's a steel cable with a handle. It's very difficult to keep balance during the lifting inside a waving groove. I fell many times trying to understand how it works. Nevertheless, I overcame it and had no problems for the rest day. I had a fun today and made some video records. Gopro cam is pretty good. But if I go there next time, I will try jumps inside a giant air cushion. Slopes are boring there, they are too short.

Long-awaited package. Today I received a notification from the post office, that my package from the US had arrived. I had ordered the GOPRO action camera and some stuff for it from the US online store. It took 16 day for the package to get to Moscow from Atlanta. I was very glad to find this piece of paper in my post box. My post office is under repairs. I saw a long queue of people standing from the door inside and decided to get it tomorrow at morning.