keep looking at tomsk webcams
are these people I know?
do they know they are very close to my old apartment?
are they aware that they are on the internet?
I’m having trouble remembering what it was to
be in Russia.
I’m trying to remember how cold it was
the ice on my beard
girls I would look at critically
Is that the man who shoveled the snow when I lived there?
how many of those busses have I been inside?
новособорная площадь
томск, россия
Река Томь: зима
This is the closest thing to white without being artificial.
until your eyes adjust all you see is white separated by a few gray horizontal lines at various distances
and then a few small vertical brown growths from what used to be the ground.
the gray horizontal lines congeal into bursts of vertical growth
genetically, not seasonally white.
biome indicators
the white isn’t smooth, though
there is a definition to it
like lumpiness
a minor topography
dips down in the middle
where the river was
rises again on the other side
the sky is cloudy and therefore it means it is only slightly darker
than all of the other white. it shares a reverse topography with the ground
in atmospheric lumps.
Russian Words I Think Are Beautiful 7: Beetle
Siberia is so white
Taken along the bank of the river Томь.
Link: Apparently Tomsk is the Russia capital of hacking, maybe I should get lessons
“In the snow-coated Siberian city of Tomsk, one in every five residents is a student. Information security is what they excel in. But in college corridors here, students talk of hacking with respect, even reverence.”
Funny that they talk about “Tomsk University”, because there are six universities here, all with the words “Tomsk” and “University” in them. NICE RESEARCH BBC!!!! (read here)
