What is your favorite drink?
Traditionally made with yogurt, water and a bit of salt. Shake before using.
Not all yogurts can be used for ayran. Those with thickening agents or added sugar don’t work well.
Ayran
Tag: dailyprompt
The drop
In 1998, I had the privilege of studying under the old accounting professor Kosta Pergelov (may he rest in peace). He would love to sneak philosophy into his lectures. One of his proverbs stuck in my mind. He would stand in front of the full hall with about 100 students and slowly yell if you can imagine slow yelling:
Colleagues! The drop drills the stone not with force but with persistence.
I adopted that in my personal belief system. Perhaps it helped that Professor Pergelov would repeat the proverb every other lecture with his signature slow yelling.
Give the drops enough time and they’ll carve a path to the stars.
For the love of cars
Daily writing prompt
If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?
I would find like-minded folks and come up together with practical ideas to reduce cars in cities. There have to be other ways to commute that don’t pollute as much and are not threatening to pedestrians and cyclists.
For example, very slow speed limit in the city, no free public parking, and stricter laws on safety ratings and vehicle size. Big trucks and utility vehicles should really only be used for commercial purposes with special vignettes.
I’m not winning elections with my agenda any time soon.
My first computer
AMD K5/90, 8MB RAM, 1.08GB HDD, 1.44″ FDD, 14″ PW DISPLAY. $460, August 1997.
It smelled like ozone. I can close my eyes and smell it. The screen was black, the case was big and white. It had no games and no connection to the Internet. I had to install software with the floppy until I purchased a printer port cable to connect to my neighbor through LTP1. It cost a fortune – 2 years of savings and summer jobs plus anything my parents, brother, and grandmother could give.
That smell… it smelled like the future.
