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As Jim Anchower says, sorry I ain't rapped atcha in a while. Truth is, the demanding mistress that is HITLER KAPUT! has been a real beotch lately. We have a big test screening this afternoon with a couple hundred people. As such, we've been working like coal miners to get ready. The cobbled-together Avids we're on have been behaving poorly. They deserve a Stalinesque purge. I want to see these machines on a work detail in Siberia.

This is a typical Russian thing. Russians are often spectacular at theory. They are great at philosophy. They are brilliantly educated. But when it comes to actually doing the practical work of engineering something, there is often a half-assed, half-measured approach. Why do it right when you can do it weird? In the case of our editing systems, we have a faux-Unity shared project involving one set of media being used by two machines, one of which is accessing it via a LAN. Are you kidding me?

So in a couple of hours I'll be sitting in a Moscow theater with a bunch of people watching this semi-subversive take on the Russian experience in WWII. Marius expects to be banned from the country.

Anyway, while you're waiting for a more substantive entry, here are a couple of photos of Moscow's voluminous stray dog population. As the aforementioned Don Hannah knows all too well, many Eastern European countries are a bit of an ASPCA/PETA nightmare. Strays are everywhere.