The Sony Vaio (aka $2800 Paperweight) Blows Up Again

This lemon of a computer has cost me about three months now of lost productivity. It started about a week ago – the same damn error message I started getting back in May.  "RAID Volume 0 Error.  Back up your data immediately." After spending...

Red Fox Pelts

Stalins Bunker_1139 Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This was a rather sad sight – in the Moscow flea market, they have many skins of dead and/or endangered animals for sale. Of course, if a foreigner were to try to take them out of the country, they might get in...

Deep Inside Stalins Bunker

Stalins Bunker_1278 Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This is one of the most unsettling places I have ever been. Deep under a quiet street in Moscow, capped by a 30-foot thick barrier of solid steel and concrete disguised as an apartment building, sits the bunker that...

Free Weed! Free Weed!

First we’re gonna download the show off BitTorrent, and then we’re gonna go out and get some Cheetos, and some S’mores, man … oooh! And don’t forget the Doritos… So amongst all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over illegal...

Moscow caviar smuggler

Moscow caviar smuggler Originally uploaded by Wordyeti How do you say “Yeeeee-ha Bubba!” in Russian? And where are the water skiiers?