First trip to Russia

[Buck Turgidson]

Ok, in my continuing effort to encourage Llamavore to get a passport and venture out of his state, I have travelled to Moscow for the first time today.

On the 2 hour drive in from Domodedevo airport, past the Kremlin, to the hotel I am staying in, I saw 3 McDonald's and 2 KFC restaurants.  I felt like I was in Indiana, and was going to get mugged by some dude in a John Deere cap.  Some dude who goes by the handle Llamavore.

Interestingly, I learned that the Kremlin is not, in fact, the funny looking orthodox church-like colourful buildidng featured in the original Tetris for Nintendo (you know, ehre all the towers take off when you hit level balillion), but an only slightly more colourful version of the Pentagon, and looks like it might be a tetrahedron.  I'll have to check the shape from Google Earth.

Given that I am a history major, one of whose focus areas was the Cold War, this is shameful.  And I wasn<t even educated in the US...

Not:  (this is St Basil's Cathedral)

http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://www.my398.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/207.kremlin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.my398.com/2012/09/12/207-visit-the-kremlin/&h=768&w=1024&sz=148&tbnid=jzOocoZMrV8NUM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=138&zoom=1&usg=__wlBtUz_F5Ts45dflsMEFvStBd7s=&docid=xWAOYVnipPc3FM&sa=X&ei=c4MrUau9FMb0sgakz4Fo&ved=0CEoQ9QEwCA&dur=3733

But:

http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg&h=1536&w=2048&sz=1212&tbnid=6f59BEfbi7BZkM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&zoom=1&usg=__eiybfwWkCeN2r1YEntIvZ4StZFo=&docid=CvHwrvzjRPFDTM&sa=X&ei=c4MrUau9FMb0sgakz4Fo&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg&dur=3083

How the FUCk do you embed images?

[Brian]

well, i would start by not using the google search result url...
try this...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg/800px-Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg insted of that.

[Fake from State Jarm]

find the image itself, right click, click copy image url. in the forum post, click the 'insert image' button next to the Sp button. paste.

[Buck Turgidson]

Aha!

Not:

First trip to Russia

But:

First trip to Russia

[Buck Turgidson]

Well that was wierd.  I just had dinner with a Polish and a Russian colleague, and they spent a half an hour talking very politely to me about how many times each one of their nations had conquered the other.  Bad blood?  Nah.

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