Random facts about me
My handwriting is a disaster, no matter how much I practice calligrahy it remains terrible. I need to take efforts to decyper my scribbles, but I realized that I remember information from the shapes than from the letters themselves.
My first PC was Radio RK-86 when I was 4 years old. It had 1.7 MHz CPU and 16 KiB of RAM and used magnetic tape reels to store data. It required me to learn Assembler commands to run anything on it.
I have mild deutan vision, which means I’m extremely slightly color-blind. The green cones in my eyes detect too much red light and not enough green light. In reality it’s not even noticeable and doesn’t cause any discomfort in daily life. However, I do get a little nervous when I see Ishinara tests at the driving licence medical examinations.
I have a perfect pitch. I can play or write down a tune immediately after hearing it for the first time. When I listen to a piece of music, I ‘pronounce’ the notes in my head. I can also isolate a particular instrument from a composition and listen to it separately. When I stop thinking I usually hear random music. Usually it’s something I’ve heard before, but sometimes I compose melodies unconsciously. This can be really annoying and distracting, as I have very little control over it, and the ‘sound’ in my head sounds almost real.
I’ve watched McKenna’s Gold more times than any other movie. At one point this was the VHS tape around, so I rewatched it again and again, until video piracy became a real thing in post-Soviet Russia.