Yet another c25k report :)
As stated on their website, C25K is a fantastic program that’s been designed to get just about anyone from the couch to running 5 kilometers or 30 minutes in just 9 weeks. I completed it in 6 weeks and 3 days but I was not a true potato couch, though. :) I don’t have a [...]
A tentatively nightfall runner
I like nightfall running and, while the darkness lets me breathe better, it also helps me not to look so clumsy. :)
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 [...]
