I began snowboarding on the 13th of March. So far, I’ve spent a total of eight days on the board (spread on 3 weekends). In these eight days I’ve taken 8 hours of private lessons with two very skilled (and patient) instructors of the Val di Fassa Ski …
more ...I discovered this Withings wi-fi body scale after reading this tweet by Neven Mrgan:
My weight report for 2010: http://j.mp/eypTcB Executive summary: could be better, could be worse.
It sounds like a great tool to track your body weight: compare it to what I’ve done last …
more ...Somehow (twitter maybe ?) I’ve found the transcript of an interview to Bob Dylan which appeared on Playboy in 1966.
So1, I don’t know if Bob Dylan was totally out of his mind or if he was just playing crazy, but this 1966 interview is brilliant stuff.
For …
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I have sketched a series of yoga poses that I follow as a daily exercise.
I thought they might be of interest to someone else as well, so I’ve put them on this Flickr set.
Farewell, Facebook (by aadm)
I got very bored with all this facebook craze lately so here’s what I did last June.
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D’estate si riesce ad apprezzare Milano; vai ad uno dei cinema all’aperto come quello del Conservatorio, ti vedi un film italiano, simpatico e non pretenzioso (mai l’avresti detto, è di Salvatores), giri in bicicletta senza rischiare di essere stirato. A volte, Milano è bella.
more ...Leggevo questo articolo: Going Where A Lot of Other Dudes With Really Great Equipment Have Gone Before, di John Tierney (New York Times, 26 luglio 1998), e trovo questo passaggio che dà praticamente una giustificazione antropologica al desiderio che noi abbiamo di comprarci chiodi, martelli, piccozze, abbigliamento in tactel, etc …
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“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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