Humor - how Avalon prepared for Enlight 1997.

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Text :ZNAHAR                       
                                        
Music :ZNAHAR                       
                                        
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  To clarify the following
text I'll explain something. It happened on August 6th
thick.                                  
  Mehlis - student of technological
Institute, future programmer!!!  I,
Witch doctor, student at the Institute of Economics and
management, future manager, but current
ny grief - programmer + MusicMaKer in non-
in some way AVALONE, where it was created at that time
Demukha dedicated to Enlight 97...On-
the genus required a lot of graphics, and drawing
it was hard to do manually and therefore, to speed up
When considering the process of creating graphics, we
ran to the following procedures:          
                                        
 1. Viator draws whatit needs to be on paper.    
 2. The work is scanned.           
 3. Shadow converts this to SPECCY.  
 4. Viator fixes "it".               
 5. It turns out to be a cool picture.         
                                        
  All procedures were completed quickly,
except for one...                 
  As luck would have it, all my friends started to have
damn scanners, they all turned out to be closed
paid scanning offices. In the end
I had to take extreme measures, i.e.
go to Slavutich to visit a classmate who
I also barely caught rogo at home. Slavutich -
a city where everyone who works lives
at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.  That's what he's for
was under construction.  It is located near Cher-
Nigova and seems to be not far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. I
I recently began to conduct a sort of daily
a careless diary, and decided there briefly
describe this trip... Briefly, in my opinion,
it didn't work out so I made it separate
piece:                                
                                        
                                        
                 "...These are not buns for you 
                  stealing from the dining room!"
                                        
Woke up at 8.3O!!! Escape to Dima's house,
to go with him to his work and
take a CD with FotoShop there. It worked.
I called Mehlis and, as a joke, suggested
come with me to Slavutich. He, like
to be expected, he refused. Help momHe will cook and preserve jars.  (
"...good boy..." :).             
    I took the backpack more comfortably, put it
yes, these scary pictures, 12 discs and
ballpoint pen. Then suddenly the phone rings
background. I pick up the phone:                    
                                        
 - Yes...                               
 - Witch doctor, I’m here with the old ones,
   so let's go.                      
 - ... Well, Mekhel, you give...       
 - So when should you be at the station?     
 - Well, in general, I’ll come to you at 1O for 
   We'll finish it in half an hour, we'll buy tickets to  
 train immediately. It departs at 10.44
   Yes. Take a bobble and a nickel if you're there
   You’ll also want to feed.         
 - Well, I'm waiting...                          
 - Okay...                           
                                        
That's where I got lost...                    
  We arrived at the station, went to the ticket office,
thought tickets forfor a student to buy, and
it didn't work out... In short, we ended up in
Slavutich in an hour. No one is pro-tickets
believed and we didn’t like it: for what reason?
Why did we buy them?  We leave from
transport and look around: wok-
the hall is like a train station: some homeless person is sleeping
in the middle of the site, all sorts of “cream”
societies are creeping around us. The only one
In the city the market is located right there. Here with
That's where we started the "sightseeing"
bodies."  They began to Mehlis, as always,
look for cigarettes individually. Searched, searched
Or, they only found my classmate,
alone selling something. I decided at least
ask him where we can have the problem
decide.  He explained and we understood that
cigarettes were sold in that part of the bazaar,
where we have already looked for them.                   
                                        
 - Well? Shall we go again? Or to your buddy
 first, and then look for a cigarette
    what? - I ask.                  
 - Well..., - Mekhel answers, - let's go, I guess -
   no, straight to the sidekick...               
                                        
You had to look for the sidekick 3m to the left of
station, yellow house, in the Kievsky quarter
le. It wasn’t difficult. True, we decided
check whether this is the third house. Let's look
some guy is walking with big bags.
Time withbags in the city means local.
I decided to ask him:             
                                        
 - Listen, can you tell me where the third one is?
    house?                                
 - No idea...-without stopping bro-
   strong guy.                          
 - Yes? Strange. Mehel, this is probably not
   local.                             
 - Would you be with someone in Chernigov?
   be asked: "Where is the third house
 ?". I would have sent you...       
                                        
For some reason I listened to this remark, but
namely: at that time I was THOUGHT!!! And Amiga
(read: hardware multitasking)
was left behind in Chernigov and had to
emulate, and I started to slow down.
(It seems that it’s not iNtEl inside). In short, not
Either megahertz or megabyte was enough for me
Comrade, but instead of “I would like to hear you” I heard
generally sent" a phrase like: "Who brought you here
sent?", and immediately replied:           
                                        
 - Yes, I sent myself.                
 - Yes? - Michel was surprised.  - Yes. Almost... Okay, let's go to the yard of this
   at home and we’ll ask someone there.    
 - Let's go.                               
                                        
 I asked an unidentified woman
age where is the third house?.. in Ki-
evsky quarter?!! It turned out we were in two
re this house!                          
  And here we are at the sidekick. His name is Sergei, and
he has a fancy pEnTiUm at home
1OO, 16Ram, 1.2HDD, SVGA 2M, SoundBlas-
Tag Pro, 1O2Keys Keyboard, 2Keys My-
se,3.SFDD, scanner black and white manual and
9 pin printer. We scanned
first a photo called Znahar &
Afina & company & cold winter. Receive
moose is cool. The photo is about half the screen per-
not at all.   Well, I think there will be a maximum
half a meter.  It turned out that in the editor in
this bad picture was on the sly
reduced by 6 times so that the moisture on the screen
to say, but the real size... Then say
wow... We went into the picture viewer
(we wanted to upload it to GIF), started taking a photo
upload it.  I got ready in person
look closely (after all, the photo is half-screen-
wound), I’m already squinting in advance... It’s like...
something incomprehensible will appear on the monitor. I
I look and think: maybe some kind of glitch... But on
there are only two monitor screenshuge
nyh, barely fit into the screen... FACES!!!
Mine and Athens ((interesting, as per the passport
?): Olen, Olen, Lena, Elena, Alena or ka-
meta?  ;). About the rest I generally say-
chu... No... I'm not silent!!! Well, they have big faces
our kids went to Cherno-
byl zone... At grub I mutate-
food, but on lard, the refrigerator lights up at night
forgiving, you can’t find such...!!! And the program
Let us mock the picture parameters
ki shows: size: 1669x996 pix. 256
color (Black and white!!!).                
                                        
 - Let’s see, I suggest Se-
   rege - what a pleasure this place is
   eats.                                
 - Come on. Now, I’ll get into Norton... Yeah...
   Here...                               
                                        
I almost fell off the sofa there: 7 kopecks -
kami meters. So this size is 9x14 cm. And
me there in the folder things with a landscape sheet
yes!!!                                 
                                        
 - No, I shout, this won’t work.
   reduce the size by 4 times. I can only
   to 12 discs.                        
 - Come on, - Sergey agrees, - just me
   I don’t know how it’s HEREis being done. Although in
   basically... Well, let's figure it out...      
                                        
We sorted it out for an hour, but nothing happened
nothing happened.  (if the program
designed so that it can be used
even a fool, then... remember the law
us Murphy).   This editor is disgusting
reduces not the picture itself, but its image
on the screen. Then I was born
brilliant idea - to reduce the number
dots per inch from NOO (capitalists pro-
poured) to as little as possible. Switch-
This was done in hardware, on the scanner. Mi-
The minimum number turned out to be 1OO points on
inch  This was a natural Eureka!!!
The photograph began to take up 2OO kilos.
ramm!!!  And with the same quality! Yes!
Still, every thing has its advantages!
  The biggest joke was that
a person who has the latest SOFT does not
RAR was found.  But then it turned out that
Mehlis still (since May) has not
I put my college CDs out of my backpack
ka, snoring peacefully on the floor. There
turned out to be both RAR and Unerase. As a result, the folder
pictures (about fifty) fit on
5 discs. For the remaining 6 we recorded de-
flies (to make fun of). In my opinion PC and de-
fly - things are not compatible (the connector is not
like this). An observant person will notice:
there were 12 discs, but they recorded 11 discs...
This begs the question: whereone more
disk?  I will be happy to answer: In the disk drive
stuck!!!  We barely got it.  If not
"barely", so maybe it would remain intact -
xia... (I actually thought that I didn’t have enough
without some kind of wire cutters.)          
  Michel and I also hoped that we
they'll feed you there...                         
 We hoped...                           
 There they were deciding who would get the potatoes
clean!!!  (No, to starve de-
no... I’m telling you as a Medicine Man! ). Co-
Rather, we mocked the technology until 4
hours of the day.                              
  And I, like a true Witch Doctor, could not help but
visit a temple such as a toilet. And al-
I sprinkled the container there specifically (2 liters
kvass in the morning, but for the hungry (forever)
fish...). Mehlis did not go there. Probably
I thought there were sacrifices for today
that's enough. But in vain... Soon we said goodbye to
Home and went to continue the "inspection of the
"attractions".  By this time
Naturally, we wanted... no, not to eat,
and EAT!!! And Mehlis also ss... in general
relieve natural needs. Steel
We are looking for a place where we can buy pozh-
RAT, and “altar” for Mehlis. On the way
We decided to explore the city. It seemed to me
for a while that we are in Germany, in
Dresden.  All lawns are trimmed
Every 1OO meters there are trash cans, people are all
they walk leisurely, talk quietly,
everyone is cultural.  You have it for yourself
presentcan you???   Everyone is dressed
cultured, tasteful, all men...
SHORT HAIRCUT!!! This is generally a cat-
Mar!!  And we are walking like aliens, great
tall, shaggy, with criminal backpacks, in
T-shirts, some black ones with pictures
kami like "sadists about sadists - sadis-
there." People look at us like that, talk-
they even stop talking.. Mehlis, come on again
yell:                                 
                                        
 - Goats! What a city!!! There are no patties!!!
                                        
 - Yes!!! - I joined. - strange
   all this. And besides, Mehel, here
   there are no smokers to be seen... Who
   are you going to light a cigarette???          
 - Probably only healers live here too -
   they...                              
 - If even 1O of me lived here, you wouldn’t
   asked where the shaggy ones were...           
                                        
 Food Store prevented me from finishing my thought. We
They began to look at the doors and at the people. Oka-
It turned out that the store was closed. And people looked
shouted at us... :                        
                                        
 - E... (censored) mother!!!Pi...(censored)..
   ry!!! Well for...(censored)...!!! Where
 take some food??? - Mechel yelled.      
 - Forget it!!! You'll starve for a day... I
   I speak like a healer...I’m just like that
   I'm thinking about this...                     
 - NI-XE-RA!!! Let's go further, maybe where
   There are also stores                   
 - Well, let's go, let's go... Otherwise, people over there will look...
   are blowing...                          
 - And I don’t care...(censored)...th!!!I’m a punk!!!
                                        
  We walked another SOO meters and saw more
one food store. And this store worked
! We broke in there, and there was self-service
tion.  Some old woman walked ahead of us with
a small child and she has taken out of her purse
10 kopecks fell, and she moved on.
Mehlis immediately positioned himself behind her and
I was about to pick up a penny, and she turned around -
she wanders around and looks where her penny is
lives...And Mehlis is almost a pretty penny
he picked it up and saw that his grandmother was on top of him
looks. He'll jump up with a penny and
will shout:                              
                                        
 - And you dropped a pretty penny!!!      
And gives it to grandma. And to him:             
 - Thank you, son...                   
 - You're welcome...                      
                                        
 Meanwhile, I saw a counter with a bakery
kami and hungry such a look became their
evaluate : price / quantity * taste. Something
they all turned out to be somewhat inexpensive...
                                        
 - Mechel, look, there are buns here.  
 Let's buy a pair...                  
 - No, give me half a loaf of bread instead.   
 - Well, you need to wash it down with something, but I
   I want to drink more.                    
 - Well, let's take half a loaf, and then 
   Let's look for something to drink.                    
                                        
 We approached the bread department, and there
only "black brick" is available. Sales
tsa dumped somewhere and Mechel immediately grabbed
eat half a loaf and head out. We thought
there it was necessary to pay on the spot, and
it turned out that we could at least the whole magic
grab the zine and payyou have to pay for everything
only when exiting at the checkout. How the hell-
rum, in general. And we are so happy through
We're breaking into the cash register, and the saleswoman at the cash register tells us
                                        
 - So, guys! What do you have in your backpacks?
                                        
Michel carried half the bread in his hand and in his backpacks
We didn't have anything bad, so
Mechel sadly realized what kind of bread he paid for
You still have to type:                
                                        
 - There’s nothing in the backpacks. Only this... Half-
a vin of black bread...                  
                                        
 We paid and left. In our eyes
rushed a lonely stall with a couple of tables
near. We were a little surprised that everything
the faces were not busy and we decided this
fix the error.                       
  The table almost fell from our blow
backpacks: we take them from about five meters
they cheated. At the stall we bought 2 lemonades with
return of bottles. I thought they'd give me glasses
free. I thought wrong, and that's why...
we drank lemonade straight from the bottles...  
  Imagine the picture: two people sitting
arrogant shaggy + unshaven muzzles over a hundred
face, drinking something unknown straight from the bottle
lock, and, like kites, tear healthy food on the table
such a piece of bread. At the same time, the visual
al partaccompanied by sound :-(
complete censorship). I drink cola and na-
I'm looking for a local family. And the people in their
it's unhealthy to look at us like that -
et. Very unhealthy... And the guy is alone, mi-
my passing stare at me and looked
rit. I noticed this and stared at him.
So we stared at each other while he
did not hide behind the house.                    
                                        
 - Yes Mehel, the people here... Feel it -
   Xia, everyone works at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Maybe they all
   They generally glow at night.               
 - Yes... I just have to smoke and take a leak
   - generally lafa...                     
                                        
  We finished lunch and went to look for the “altar”.
We didn’t go along the main street, but through the courtyards,
where in theory is some kind of nook alta-
there must be a reshaped one. And there everywhere
children are walking, all courtyards are walkable, al-
watering cans in some places pass from the bench -
we are surrounded by people. We are even 2 pa-
we saw the mint. The first one is a naked man with a hundred
he is on his knees and holding something in his hands
something reminiscent.  We are this monument
called "the act of castration". The second is naked
the man is already lying down, next to him is a naked girl
in..., no - maiden..., no - woman..., no
- ... . In short, the woman is similar. And the child
there's a knock lying nearby...This monument
we called it "Gangbang".                
                                        
  As a result, we never found a ma-
lazy beautiful town of "altar", but
found one informal, or rather informal-
ku.                                     
  A girl of about 1 years old is walking
appropriate outfit to meet us. Me-
When Hel sees her, when he runs up, how
grabs your hand:                       
                                        
 - Witch Doctor!!! Yes, everything is not the same here without
   reliable!!!Hello to the informals of Slavuti-
   cha!!!- and went further, because. I walked along
redi. And the girl stopped and, apparently,
driving tightly into what was said and looked for a long time 
following us...                            
  And here we are again at the station. Here we use
Mechel's last two wishes were fulfilled.
The train is probably late as always -
la for 2O minutes. Without any incident
we arrived (sitting) home. Tickets again
no one checked, but we no longer offend
... We were glad that we returned to
CHERNIGOV!                               
                                        
 Not end.                  
                                        
 P.S. (from Mehlis):                             
                                    
                                        
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