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In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)
Sono nato inglese ma morirò italiano, said five years ago the most famous language teacher in Italy. Nobody thought though that this would happen so soon. Here's a text I…
I really don’t have what to do at home #lockdown
That is, not counting the thousands of e-books, the thousands of scanned comic books, the thousands of movies (MKV/MP4/AVI), of music (MP3), etc. Tens of thousands of each. Oh, and…
24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools
Since I already posted today on an issue involving both logic and common sense, here's another one, in the context of a human tragedy in Romania where it has been…
Choosing the right poison
About one week ago I had exactly 50 types of tea at home. By tea, I don't only understand black-oolong-green-white tea, but also the various plant infusions that are actually…
The day the Chinese puzzles took over
I'm really furious when people don't bother to look for the original source of whatever they're posting on the Internet (I feel I have a duty). I'm also angry at…
Should you live with no sense of smell…
...you'd be missing quite a lot. I happen to be a person to whom the olfactory and the tactile senses are crucial—not that I could imagine myself blind or deaf,…
Carracci—what else?
I failed to update the blog with the coffees I've tried since the last post on this topic. I'll only tell you what I settled for: Carracci. Despite the fact…
Until further notice…
...let's consider the contents of the previous posts as outdated. For the time being I have no motivation to correct or update them, nor to add new posts.
Learning a language in 200 hours?
German is an impossible language. Right after I got the Zertifikat Deutsch B1, I forgot half of what I've learned. This is in part because all the methods and textbooks…
The coffee saga goes on—Summer Edition
My post on Nespresso-compatible capsules has become unmanageable because of its too many updates. I myself cannot use it as a guide anymore! As I've discovered some more capsules, it's…
Inissia Kapselmaschine, was sonst?
There have been years since various capsule-based espresso systems became popular even in the poorest countries of the EU. I remember a certain moment when the Dolce Gusto Piccolo had…
Nolite mittere high-tech ante porcos
Following a recent post of mine, I kept reading a number of reviews of recent smartphones, and I've been taken aback by the degree of shallowness and sheer stupidity encounter…
The world is swarming with incompetents…
Some time ago, during a job interview, I was asked at the end why in some version of my résumé I wrote in the soft skills section "attention to detail;…
Just saying…
...hello, I'm not dead! Not yet.