English scratches and Italian notes written by Carlo Perassi
Stefano noted that the maintainers of archaeoinformatics have marked 22nd October as
Anniversary of the Creation of the World in 4004 BC.
How did they know that? And, even more important, how did the creator spend the summer that year? 
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Territorio musicale pubblica una mia brevissima intervista (per conto del CD al solito) in vista del prossimo Linux Day: è vero sono stato molto sintetico ma le giornate ricordano quelle di Forte Apache.
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Tangerine Dream is the name of a German electronic band founded in 1967 that I listened to for years. I wasn’t aware that, before them, it was also the name of the first album of Kaleidoscope (an English psychedelic band of the late 60’s) that was released in the very same year!
So I discovered this album by chance and I’ve really enjoyed their very clear English: as their singer Peter Daltrey wrote:
We were very song-based and my vocal style was very influenced by Donovan who had a precise way of enunciating words.
Their tracks show an unstoppable desire of composing music, testing and blending new ideas… their desire to live being shorter. Though they were mostly forgotten for decades, it’s worth listening to this album.
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Having registered this website on the Blog Action Day, I’ll try to write here some notes about the environment.
Reading The Anthropocene I learnt that:
In other words, excluding animals that live in the sea, our weight is eight times that of our wild counterpart. This data is disturbing and it can be even more frightening if you think that a TC of first world humans certainly does not have the same impact on our planet as the same mass of, let me say, lions!
To summarise, my obvious proposal is to think twice before doing something that could increase our total MTC (making thoughtless sex is a core problem of course but it is not the only one).
In addition to blogging about the environment, the second way to participate in Blog Action Day was
donating your day’s earnings to an environmental charity
so I chose to join Rientro Dolce (”Mild Return”), which is
an association linked to Italian Radicals, which concerns itself with overpopulation, the environment and energy.
It seems that the MTC numbers come from papers written by Prof. Vaclav Smil.
Thanks to Luca Pardi for having suggested the references to me.
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Il post di Dario mi ha ispirato per la descrizione di un fatto: cercherò di essere vago per proteggere gli innocenti.
Conosco un parlamentare del costituendo PD: ieri ci ha telefonato per invitarci a votare per le primarie. Gli abbiamo purtroppo dovuto spiegare diversi motivi di obiezione e, tristemente, ci ha confidato che siamo davvero in tanti ad avergli fatto lo stesso discorso. Lascio ad ognuno le proprie meditazioni.
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One week ago, the Council of Europe voted on
The dangers of creationism in education (Doc. 11375) Resolution
I want to make it easier to publicly dishonour the twenty-five members of the Council who voted against the resolution, by listing their names, countries and parties.
Miloš ALIGRUDI RS EPP/CD Claudio AZZOLINI IT EPP/CD Walter BARTOŠ CZ EDG Marie-Louise BEMELMANS-VIDEC NL EPP/CD Guðfinna S. BJARNADÓTTIR IS EDG Luc Van den BRANDE BE EPP/CD Lorenzo CESA IT EPP/CD Valeriu COSARCIUC MD ALDE Vlad CUBREACOV MD EPP/CD Åse Gunhild Woie DUESUND NO EPP/CD Iván FARKAS SK EPP/CD Axel FISCHER DE EPP/CD Holger HAIBACH DE EPP/CD Andres HERKEL EE EPP/CD Raffi HOVANNISIAN AM EPP/CD Tomáš JIRSA CZ EDG Marek KAWA PL EDG Eduard KUKAN SK EPP/CD Eduard LINTNER DE EPP/CD Mikhail MARGELOV RU EDG João Bosco MOTA AMARAL PT EPP/CD Zbigniew RAU PL EDG Andrea RIGONI IT ALDE Egidijus VAREIKIS LT EPP/CD Piotr WACH PL EPP/CD
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The TPCI October Headline is
Statistical Programming Language “R” in Top 50 for the second Month
Their September Headline was
Programming Language C shows a structural Decline now
I’m not a statistician but after looking at the C++ trend’s diagram I realized that it shows the same structural decline as its next of kin.
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Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
How to find Nick Drake’s grave
Who do you really hope to find there?
He is not there anymore nor will you find yourself by the gravestone. I always try to remember what Marcus Aurelius wrote:
Nothing should be done without a reason.
I’ve visited the graves of my friends but just once each: I believe that this rule is mainly true for the people that, still present in my mind, I’ve never ever met.
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Raccolgo qui gli aggiornamenti per la mia versione localizzata del tema scritto da Tommaso.
ChangeLog:
Il tema è scaricabile qui.
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Leggendo i referer di questo sito, ho scoperto che qualcuno l’ha raggiunto interrogando un motore di ricerca per
come posso descrivere un amico
Pensandoci, mi è venuta in mente quella storia Zen che, grossomodo, posso sintetizzare così
Studioso: «Secondo la dottrina di Tendai, anche gli alberi possono trovare la loro natura-Buddha. Mi pare strano.»
Maestro: «Cosa ti importa se gli alberi possono raggiungere l’illuminazione: preoccupati di come puoi trovarla tu.»
Studioso: «Non l’avevo mai considerata sotto questo aspetto.»
Maestro: «Allora torna a casa e pensaci sopra.»
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