Ilyia Kaushansky

Me next to Love Parade sign 

First ever Love Parade in San Francisco - The Parade :) 

First ever Love Parade in San Francisco - This is me and Lesha 

In Santa Cruz with Eli Aleyner 

Excellent view of San Francisco from a nearby mountain. 

Breakfast in San Francisco - nothing better than a cold Heineken in the morning :) 

Seeing that I'm reading more and more blogs, I find it very inconvenient to visit web sites of all these blogs, just to find out that there aren't any new messages. Well, today I discovered the beauty of RSS and ATOM.

As it turns out, you can download software ie FeedReader which will do that for you. Essentially you subscribe to blogs(as if they were mailing lists), and FeedReader will pick up new posts when they are posted and show them to you. Really cool and convenient. Give it a try :) For more help see the following posting on blogger: ATOM Help

Eli Aleyner(Cunlaga) and his roomate Grisha(Greg) visited from Seattle this past weekend. It was lots of fun.

I tried my first sushi at a great sushi place Miyaki(or smthn like that) in Palo Alto. It was a real party atmosphere there, so we had a great time, and hopefully I'll be back there soon. After Sushi, we went to Ruby Skye nightclub in San Francisco. I'm really falling in love with that place. Music is good, and the crowd is awesome as well. Too bad we had to leave early around 2AM just when I was getting into the whole thing.

Sunday we checked out out San Francisco. Took some great pictures, and drove down the crookedest street on the planet(Lombard street). I'll post some of the pics here soon.

Google gives out free t-shirts to employees every few of days. This is a collection that we have amassed so far :) 

This past friday(Oct 15, 2004) I went to what it considered to be San Francisco's premier underground nightclub called Mezzanine. DJ Ferry Corsten was spinning, so it was a good occasion to check out that venue for the first time.

Up to that point I was somewhat dissapointed in San Fran's nightclub scene - the clubs are not nearly as good as in Toronto, and the sound quality usually leaves a lot to be desired. Well, Mezzanine proved to be a different beast. I really really really liked it. The sound was good, and the vibe was awesome. It was evident that people came there to party, and party they did ! Ferry Corsten was also on fire, and it seemed like he was really enjoying himself.

One thing that I found strange was that most people in the club were sober. Lets be frank here - the crowd in Toronto is usually 80% high. In San Fran it's the other way around - pretty much everyone was either sober or drunk. Nice !

In front of Google Building 

Well, Well, Well... It seems like it was only yesterday that I started studying at the University of Waterloo, but in fact it was over 4 years ago. This week I was choosing courses for my very last school term, that will start in January 2005.

As it turns out I already took all the required courses, and I only need 3 electives to fulfill my degree requirements. I took 4 courses. 2 are CS courses - Compilers(should be very hard and time consuming, but very interesting), Principles of Programming Languages(not really sure why I'm taking that one. Seems to have no practical value, but I assume there will be some cool proofs in there, so I might as well take it). I'm also taking Interviewing and Law for Math Students(both are supposed to be bird electives)

Can't say that I'm looking forward to that last term. Coming back to Waterloo, in Winter ?? Doesn't seem exciting at all. Oh well - it's only 4 months, and that I'M DONE !! YES - DONE. WOW !

This is a test to see if I can publish blog via E-Mail.. Hope it works !

WOW ! WOW ! WOW !

Holy Shit !! I never imagined that I would witness such a party in the U.S.A ! First ever USA Love Parade was fuckin' UNBELIEVABLE !!! Everybody was dancing - young and old, rich and poor, EDM fans and those who were hearing this stuff for the first time. It was NUTS !

I didn't know any DJs who were spinning, didn't catch any of the headliners, barely recognized any tracks - but none of that mattered, cause the vibe and the music were so great, that I just kept dancing from start to finish.. And so were the thousands of people who were all there(it's hard for me to even estimate how many people were there, but it felt like there were at least 100,000 thousand)

The crasiest vibe was at the Psy-Trance truck. I don't know who the DJ was, but it was some Indian guy, who looked like he just came back from GOA, and he was spinning absolutely crazy shit(Infected Mushroom style, I suppose). People were going nuts ! Pretty much everybody was sober, and I guess most of the people who were there don't even normally go to these parties, yet they everyone was dancing much harder than what I'm used to seeing at Guvernment, Kool Haus and other Toronto clubs..

One word: MADNESS !

I'm definitely waiting for next year !