Southern border
Even though the most Southern place of my life is somewhere between the latitude of Joshua Tree National Park and Newport Beach in Southern California (say, 33° North), regarding my Country, I’ve never been further south than Rome since a few days ago when I visited Crotone. Where is your Southern border? :) Update (2011-10-30): [...]
Wooden bricks
A few weeks ago, I joined my son while he was playing with wooden bricks and I ended up having even more fun than him. :) A steam engine The Pythagorean theorem :) The Temple of Madness (not that far from an average temple, though) :) A rocket A wooden bricks factory :) Remains of [...]
Wives and numbers
An online friend, tired of being single, wrote to me this saying I’ve never heard before: A life without a wife is like fifty without five I completed it writing the following short funny poem. :) A life without a wife is like fifty without five… but even being marri-ed you didn’t get hundr-ed
Blog Action Day: water
Having registered this website on the Blog Action Day, I’ll try to write here some notes about water and I’m going to be brief: I’ve never seen two men fighting for an uncooked potato and I wish I could end my days without such a scene in my memory; most farmland here has been turned [...]
Time to leave
They can’t wait for the {night, weekend, holidays, retirement} to begin. Are they waiting for their own death too?
Renewables won’t push the bad guys out
Someone thinks that a world with its entire energy needs completely satisfied by renewable sources would eventually become an only good people place: what a naive and irrational fallacy! Technology doesn’t change us that much.
I want my money back! :)
A few days ago, Slashdot pointed out that the massive computers of the top investment banks failed their World Cup predictions: we are talking about firms like Danske Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and UBS. Now everyone on Earth knows that an octopus correctly predicted six eight matches in a row. Hire that beast or [...]
Time Lapse Across America
Counting out a well known 3D science fiction movie, though it’s 9 minutes in length, Time Lapse Across America is the most interesting film I’ve seen in the just ended first half of 2010: it’s a coast to coast trip made with pictures taken every 15 seconds. It might recall your last trip in the [...]
Caring about what?
I spent most of the last two days helping my mother after her cataract surgery so only yesterday evening I noticed the statement of our friend Carl-Henric Svanberg: as everyboby knows, he said that “We (BP) care about the small people”. Was it just a weak sentence of a non mother-tongue speaker? Perhaps, but even [...]
Drown
My doubts are gone and it’s clear to me that I’ve got a problem with violence and, more generally, with strong emotions: I’m not sure if the recent birth of my son is connected to it, still it’s a few months that I haven’t been able to watch movies anymore (how could I find a [...]
