I’ve been a great fan of 24 since its first season, years ago. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the first season, and also the second and the third. However, the show has been moving towards full improbability with the latest seasons. I think I also watched season 4, and then …
more ...I am an enthusiast mountain bike rider, but because I seem to be affected by a number of injuries associated with slow recovery times (my old age plays a big part here, as it is physiologically proven that is faster to recover from a broken bone when you’re 20 …
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Day 303/366 - Dead on her feet (by Great Beyond)
Oggi parlavo con amici delle campagne pubblicitarie per la sicurezza stradale, mettendo a confronto quelle italiane (personaggi dello spettacolo e dello sport che si ficcano in auto dicendo “oh andate piano pero’ eh”) e quelle inglesi (video crudo di ragazzina …
more ...Why the iPad is a potentially groundbreaking platform, despite the accusations of being ‘only a large iPhone’.
Just read this old piece written in 2003 by a (very smart) tech blogger; it’s about user interface defects as heritage of early computer hardware limitations, such as …
more ...Beatiful photos here: http://nsmb.com/3326-dorado-tested/.
They convey an intense idea of action with those blurred backgrounds and the rider not quite in focus above the panned trails; I also like the tight shots and the washed-out colour palette.
And speaking about the ‘look’ of these images, I couldn …
more ...Avevo da tempo in casa una versione di Alice in Wonderland annotata da Martin Gardner, famoso editor della colonna di giochi matematici di Scientific American.
Sono al capitolo VI (“Pig and Pepper”), dove Alice chiede al Cheshire Cat:
more ...“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from …
Training with my fixie at the Idroscalo. In the foreground, my red San Marco Concor; back there, the mountains that you rarely see from this very polluted and hazy city — the Grigne. Training was: 15 series of friggin’ fast spins (around 100 rpm), 15” each, followed by 45” of slower …
more ...“This report relates the results of an advanced, quantitative seismic characterization of the Alpha field, through simultaneous elastic inversion, rock physics modelling and stochastic classification. In the absence of any reliable geophysical data, the opinions and interpretations presented in this report were invented. However, due to the uncertainty inherent in …
more ...Customer says, “Waiter, taste this soup.”
Waiter: “Is it cold?”
Customer: “Just taste the soup.”
Waiter: “Didn’t you order the chicken noodle?”
Customer: “Taste … the soup!”
Waiter: “O.K., already. Where’s the spoon?”
Customer: “Aha!”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-onlanguage-t.html)
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