Since Bhu'jadto absolutly adores Pluto he always drags his best bud Kwei to Plutos place to spent time there. Even though Kwei found it pretty boring and annoying at first, they did take a quick liking to the nearby lake and the easy to catch fish there. (They also tend to bring along Kweis sister whenever they don't wanna babysit her)
Что такое Gwei? И другие единицы измерения Эфира (wei, kwei, gwei, microether, milliether)
Что такое Gwei? И другие единицы измерения Эфира (wei, kwei, gwei, microether, milliether)
Поскольку курсы криптовалют, включая эфир, очень сильно взлетели с момента их создания, то размеры транзакций очень сильно уменьшились. Чтобы было удобнее обозначать мелкие транзакции, ввели много мелких деноминаций (единиц измерений) эфира. Забегая вперед, скажу, что Gwei – это одна миллиардная доля эфира. А теперь подробнее обо всех деноминациях.
Определение “Wei”
Wei – это самая мелкая…
Что такое Gwei? И другие единицы измерения Эфира (wei, kwei, gwei, microether, milliether)
Что такое Gwei? И другие единицы измерения Эфира (wei, kwei, gwei, microether, milliether)
Поскольку курсы криптовалют, включая эфир, очень сильно взлетели с момента их создания, то размеры транзакций очень сильно уменьшились. Чтобы было удобнее обозначать мелкие транзакции, ввели много мелких деноминаций (единиц измерений) эфира. Забегая вперед, скажу, что Gwei – это одна миллиардная доля эфира. А теперь подробнее обо всех деноминациях.
Определение “Wei”
Wei – это самая мелкая…
Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration
New York, 1984. Fifty-six-year-old Andy Warhol’s star is falling. Jean-Michel Basquiat is the new wonder-kid taking the art world by storm. When Basquiat agrees to collaborate with Warhol on a new exhibition, it soon becomes the talk of the city.
As everyone awaits the ‘greatest exhibition in the history of modern art', the two artists embark on a shared journey, both artistic and deeply personal, that re-draws both their worlds.
Paul Bettany plays Warhol and Jeremy Pope plays Basquiat in Anthony McCarten’s thrilling drama, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
hannahmayaea: The Collaboration closing performance speech from @paulbettany!! 💗🎨🎥 just loved this show!!!!!
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(Pease disregard the small interruption at the end as we picked up a pair of glasses and gave to an usher)
Why do we waste so much time with sorrow and pity for ourselves? It is true now that we are [mature], but not so long ago we were helpless messes of soft flesh and unformed bone squeezing through bursting motherholes, trailing dung and exhausted blood. We could not ask then why it was necessary for us also to grow. So why now should we be shaking our head and wondering bitterly why there are children together with the old, why time does not stop when we ourselves have come to stations where we would like to rest? It is so like a child, to wish all movement to cease.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1969) by Ayi Kwei Armah
yeah so this is the first genuinely bad book (not just one that i wasn't feeling) i've read in a while. bad like i was trying not to dnf, but i was also picking up this book every chance i got just so i could finally be done with it and not have to read it anymore.
the missing american is 500+ pages of a whole load of nothing. if it had gone through any sort of editing or beta reads this could've been cut down to 200 pages, easy. all you'd need to do is cut out the multitudes of unnecessary, poorly fleshed-out characters, for one. there were so many that i genuinely had to take a moment to reorient myself every time yet another character was introduced, or we circled back to a character and i had to stop and think, "wait, who is this?" (after a point i no longer cared to do the mental jumps required and just rolled with it).
for another, you could cut out some of the convoluted, and ultimately irrelevant storylines. there is a storyline in here with an autistic boy called kojo and the autism centre he goes to and how they're trying to raise funds for it and they're donating ipads... i'm genuinely wondering why it was in there at all. if you cut out that entire storyline, nothing - genuinely nothing - would be lost. or how about if you took away the half-assed romantic storyline between the so-called protagonist emma (who honestly is just a cardboard cut out of a character) and the guy who i don't even remember the name of. or maybe even the sa storyline and its half-assed resolution. please, kwei quartey, you could've taken your pick. i saw someone's review of this book that reads "For the first third of the book you may be wondering what all these seemingly disparate happenings in very short chapters have to do with each other, but everything will be tied up neatly by the end." no, they absolutely will not be neatly tied up.
and while we're focusing on the editing this story clearly needed, how about some attention on the awful stilted dialogue. lack of characterisation is one thing, but unnatural conversations to boot is just too much to bear. someone's father literally dies, and i swear to you it didn't even feel like they were all that upset. wtf.
all this and i'm not even going to mention the misogynistic and ableist undertones (and occasionally overtones) running throughout this novel. or the weird obsession bordering on fetishisation of a white american guy with black ghanaian women. or the reference during an extremely odd sex scene to a woman's "pleasure grotto".
i normally try and find at least one good thing to mention about books i don't like, but i'm genuinely at a loss. i just don't want to think about this book anymore.
"Let there be love" @ Tricycle theatre - London, 2008.
Also, some reviews:
"Maria, his Polish home help, is his salvation. An oddball obsessed with Ikea and Madonna's Like a Virgin, she is also kind, credible and utterly endearing. It is a wonderfully written part, brilliantly brought to life by Lydia Leonard. She is physically lively without being annoying (tricky on stage), in a performance that radiates human warmth and even a bit of saintliness." (x)
"The sensational Lydia Leonard as Maria has a wonderful accent with that open delivery of one not being ashamed to voice what she really believes is right. She seems too good to be true but she actually is that good and generous natured. " (x)
"Lydia Leonard plays Maria with boundless energy and perfect Polish accent. Somehow she conveys the cyclical nature of struggle and hurt in her past whilst also exuding boundless joy and selflessness." (x)
It is our destiny not to flee the predators’ thrust, not to seek hiding places from the destroyers left triumphant; but to turn against the predators advancing, turn against the destroyers, and bending our soul against their thrust, turning every stratagem of the destroyers against themselves, destroy them!