whaack[asciilifeform]: a nice link for the Costa Rica frequenters / habitans here: https://www.imn.ac.cr/imagenes-sat/IRVISCR.gif <--- constantly updated gif of last 10 or so satellite infared images, spaced ~10 mins apart, played in sequence
whaack[asciilifeform]: habitants*
whaack[asciilifeform]: howdy
awt[asciilifeform]: Good morning whaack
awt[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot[asciilifeform]: Current BTC price in USD: $20101.04
whaack[asciilifeform]: awt: morning awt
whaack[asciilifeform]: just got back from a surf trip within the country
whaack[asciilifeform]: we passed by Dominical twice, pretty cool to see many of the vendors there accepting bitcoin, even if it was in the lightning network form
awt[asciilifeform]: Oh I went to a cafe there that accepted bitcoin. Actually ran into the owners in Santa Ana.
whaack[asciilifeform]: Mono Congo? Fuego?
awt[asciilifeform]: Mono Congo
whaack[asciilifeform]: nice, they had some great food there
whaack[asciilifeform]: i met a very bright 13yo kid there, he has a large vocabulary for his/any age , his mom has taken him traveling all over the world, never put him in school and moves a library with him
awt[asciilifeform]: Lucky kid, except for perhaps the absent dad
whaack[asciilifeform]: they started talking to me about bitcoin and then after a very extended conversation they invited me to Citrus in Ojochal, incredibly good restaraunt
whaack[asciilifeform]: awt: yup, quite lucky kid, not sure exactly the details of his relation with his dad other than the dad lives in Turkey. I will probably try to get him communicating with me via Pest soon so he may pop in the channel sometime in the near future
awt[asciilifeform]: I hope he joins.
awt[asciilifeform]: Surprised to find no mentions of Pyotr Wrangel in the logs
phf[asciilifeform]: вот он, застенков мститель, боёв ваятель - в чёрной чеченке, с рукою на рукояти
awt[asciilifeform]: saving everyone a trip to google translate, which doesn't help: "here he is, the dungeon avenger, the fighting sculptor - in a black Chechen, with a hand on the hilt"
phf[asciilifeform]: that's why i've not even attempted to translate, it's a particularly gnarly tsvetaeva poem, with a chapter about wrangel
phf[asciilifeform]: man, that google translation is awful, i'm just going to do meaning translation then,
phf[asciilifeform]: there he is, the avenger for the interrogation rooms, the sculptor of battles - in a black woolen coat, with a hand of on the hilt
phf[asciilifeform]: was trying to find the canonical english name for his coat (it's variously named from or after the various caucasus tribes that wore it, tsvetaeva in her poem calls is "chechenka" after chechens, but in russian it'll be more commonly named "cherkeska" after circassians), and was reminded again that wikipedia is trash, but
phf[asciilifeform]: it's particularly bad now when it comes to politically charged topics. all kinds of retcon and propaganda in the articles related to cossacks
awt[asciilifeform]: Couldn't find any of the garments you mentioned but Pyotr is in there: http://alethepedia.com/?p=35188
phf[asciilifeform]: http://slavhistory.ru/up/photos/album/jul17/170720_2313.jpg kuban cossacs wearing cherkeska
phf[asciilifeform]: and nikolai the second wearing the same outfit (his was red though) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48050981657_06e2f9a58d_o.jpg
phf[asciilifeform]: wrangel in his canonical "black baron" outfit https://r4.mt.ru/r1/photo3A1E/20277048642-0/jpg/bp.jpeg
phf[asciilifeform]: also you'll have better luck finding it, if you search for "черкеска"
phf[asciilifeform]: those chest decorations are measured gunpowder flasks for muzzle loaders
phf[asciilifeform]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Pyotr_Wrangel_1920%2C_painting.jpg
phf[asciilifeform]: oh there's a straight to the point wp article on the subject of that tool https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazyr
phf[asciilifeform]: a ru article about subj, with pretty photos https://coonwood.ru/psychology/skolko-gazyrei-dolzhno-byt-u-chechenskoi-cherkeski-iz-istorii-cherkeski.html