July 2010

Brand new habits...

quit smoking
low fat food
almost daily jogging & exercises
German lessons, intensified...

7.7.2010
"...a new self is borne, the other self dead..."
Lou Reed, Set the Twilight reeling


Thursday July 4th, 1992.
My exam at Technical high school. I was 17.
It was 18 years ago!


June 2010

World Cup Posters/Logos

...remembering Roberto Baggio, 'Il divin codino'. USA '94.
...I was 20 years old.


25.06.2010. Hollywood Night in Rome!!!

This night will be unforgettable, thanks to my encounters with 2 of the protagonists of some of the best movie masterpieces I've ever seen...



First, I met Salvatore Cantalupo, 'Pasquale' the taylor of Gomorra.
Then I had dinner in a restaurant, right in front of Reservoir Dogs' Mr. Orange: Tim Roth.
...and at the end I couldn't resist:
Me: "...excuse me, I'm so sorry to disturb... are you Mr. Orange?"
Mr Orange: "Yes I am"
Me: "I am so pleased. Thank you"


24.06.2010. We are out of the World Cup.
But I am proud to support Italy, proud of our football style and tradition.


...Notti Magiche...


May 2010

I want to say thank you to Germany for EinStein and My Stein.
My guardian angel.
My Regine 'Shines' Stein.


I quit smoking some weeks ago. Actually I never smoked so much (3-4 fags per day)...but someone told me zero is better than four.
And some weeks ago I started a new diet, which is bringing me so far away from my usual eating habits (which were so nasty, but cool at the same time).

And, as if all this was not enough, I have decided to go running (jogging) every 2 days.

I cannot say that, since I started, I am feeling better from a global perspective, neither I am convinced that all this is really a good deal.
But I am optimistic about the future!


April 2010

The font of this site has recently been changed from Consolas to Arial


 
15.04.2010
10.30_PM...


On my personal dreamly path to the Universe and Universes, caught between the twisted Stars, Time, us and the Immense Space...
... I'm trying to understand Space and Time and Special Relativity, the principles of this Story, and how great this German was.
This videos from Youtube are quite old but really good.


Viva Napoli!
Remembering my Grandfather, and dedicated to the greatness of my land where the original seeds of pop music could be found.

'Attenti alle donne' - by Armando Gill, sung by Peppe Barra
'E allora?' - by Armando Gill, sung by Lino Paturno

'Ciccio Formaggio' - sung by Nino Taranto


We're enjoing some days of vacation across Easter. So they started well these days in Rome. One day downtown we visited the Hopper exhibition : www.edwardhopper.it and met Salvio and Daniela in Trastevere.


March 2010

Our Mollies recently multiplied themselves.
Now the aquarium looks a bit congested, like this.

 
http://abowman.com/



I've watched another Clint's masterpiece: Invictus.

February 2010

Tripping the Space Fantastic...with the Hubble Space Telescope.
This site is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I believe in the neverending Space and Time.
And I think we are not alone.

 


Yesterday I fell asleep thinking of the Universe and other Galaxies exploration, and the way Asimov opened a highway in my dreams with the ending of his Foundation and Earth
From Wikipedia I quote:
'The book states several times that the Seldon Plan does not take into account alien influences. Combined with the ending (see above), one could surmise that for the sequel, he planned to introduce aliens (almost certainly from another galaxy) who would upset and possibly destroy the Seldon Plan. It is also possible that Solarians, or possibly the merged Daneel-Fallom itself, would have turned out to be the enemy of humanity (as the last two paragraphs seem to suggest). However, all his fictional citations from the Encyclopedia Galactica are dated after the formation of the Second Galactic Empire. This meant that there could never be irreparable damage to the plan, since, eventually, it must return to its precalculated path. These citations also seem to give hints to a possible future timeline. Bliss tells Trevize that there are no written records kept by Gaia. So the very existence of the Encyclopedia Galactica seems to indicate that Galaxia hasn't yet come into existence by that point.'


When Mankind comes to a dead end street, the only thing to do is look up at the Stars.


Recently reread: The Naked Sun


January 2010


Any form of matter, alive or lifeless, solid, gas or fluid .... is made of atoms.
And electrons never rest.

Only vacuum is still.


Honestly it makes some strange effects to me to write with this new heading...'January 2010'!.
A new decade just started!
And what about the last one? What about years 2000?...gone faster than a cannonball in my mind.
This Age, years 2000...
...when the Globe hit the World Wide Web,
...when I moved to Rome,
...when I got tatooed,
...when I met America,
...when Regine appeared,
...when Missione Magliana was accomplished,
...when we become World Champions (again),
...when this site was born

A freshy Timeline HTML version is now available: to celebrate the new decade, to summarize the 'beautiful Game', to get ready with the upcoming years.