Video!

Edit: here are all the pictures from today and a few days ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26490626@N08/page2/

Around 11pm May 8th 1945, the Fascists officially surrendered to the Allies in WWII. In the US, there are several holidays to commemorate those who have served in wars, or are still serving, but we lack any particular WWII remembrance day. Rhode Island is the only state to have a holiday commemorating Victory over Japan, due to the disproportionate number of young men sent off and lost to the pacific theater.

In the Soviet Union, more than 27 million lives were lost during WWII, and a large portion of the war was fought on their own soil. For this reason, the Russians call it the Great Patriotic War. Victory Day is celebrated, in usual Russian tradition on local time, May 9th. 23:05 May 8th Germany was around 1:05 in the morning the next day in Moscow.

This year is the first show of military might since the fall of the USSR. jets, tanks, rockets and about 8,000 soldiers marched through Red Square saluting the new inaugurated Russian President, Dimitry Medvedev. The new President didn’t say anything controversial as was expected (Or as his predecessor, Soon-to-be Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, would have done). Instead, he only vaguely hinted at Russia’s disdain for the US and US foreign policy.

As promised, here are some pictures. I didn’t get to sit in any tanks, but I wasn’t crushed under any either.
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Extending my quiet and humble return to blogging. I’ve changed my LifeWikified template. I know, big whoop, 2 seconds of my life wasted, why bother. Well, at least I’ve done something today.

Whenever I Stumble Upon something I fancy, I’ll link to it from my wiki. If you need an occasion to buy me something. I’ll be 24 in late June, Christmas is next but if you want to save up and get something really cool check this out:

I’ll be 10,000 days old on Friday, 11/11/11.

If you’re reading this on LJ, I’m glad I’ve still got friends I’ll be cross-posting everything on my website to LJ (assuming the plugin I just)

• Tanks in Red square as per Mandy’s request. I hope to have at least 1 picture (me foreground, tank background probably not actually in Red square, although me in tank would be cool too).
• My Bike, and the weather
• My plans for the future, to get feedback

That is probably enough for one sitting, while I could make a huge list, then it would become daunting and I’d never get to anything. How’s that for getting things done started!

Between this:

and this: