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Food problems

As I often said I’m just (too) fat.
On Wednesday I’m leaving to the USA, which is traditionally considered an unhealthy country for a food point of view. This fact makes me feel in trouble, or at least I feel my health in trouble. Therefore, I will have to pay the maximum attention possible when [...]

Posted 26 September 2008 † Matteo § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (5) °

GEB-EGB finished!

It took me more than one and half year to finish that fantastic book that “Goedel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid” is.
I got it for my 21th birthday and finished it few days ago while on cruise on the Egean sea.
It gave me lots of food for thoughts and a new point of [...]

Posted 25 September 2008 † Matteo § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

GPG Key Updated (again)

My dear friend flevour pointed out a mistake on my side in my GPG key, so I had to update it again. You find it on my GPG key page.
Sorry for the noise.

Posted 23 September 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Those nights

With a dozen of old and new friends at the pub, bottles of cabernet wine on the tables and smiles on the faces.
Playing jokes while playing football in front of the Cathedral.
Laughing just to laugh, cheering up those who leave towards new harbors.
Ignoring the time, ignoring the weather, ignoring life itself but here and now.
This [...]

Posted 23 September 2008 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Back from the cruise

I’m just back from a 8-days cruise to Greece and the Egean sea.
It should have been a relaxing holyday, but I’m more tired now than when I left…
Had fun, though.

Posted 22 September 2008 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Three days in Milan

This morning I had to go to the US Consulate in Milan to get the visa. I’m in Milan since Wednesday, hosted by Max Stucchi.
On Wednesday night, GUFIPizza took place: it’s the monthly meeting of the GUFI (FreeBSD Italian Users Group) members who live near Milan. Since I was there, other members who don’t usually [...]

Posted 12 September 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Building up a castle

As you may know, starting from October 1st I’m going to live in Providence, RI, to attend Brown University as a research assistant at the CS dep.
Setting up everything is needed to go abroad: paperwork from the university, visa, accomodation, furniture, health insurance, and so on. It’s like building a castle and at the moment [...]

Posted 08 September 2008 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

GPG key updated

FYI, I updated my GPG key.

Posted 07 September 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Calver Liver with onions, Venetian style, and white figs

4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
8 onions, very thinly sliced
Salt
1 pound calves liver, thinly sliced
1/3 cup red wine
8 little white figs, sliced in quarters
Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy saute pan over a medium flame. Add the onions and cook them over low heat until they are very soft but not too colored.
Salt the [...]

Posted 05 September 2008 † Matteo § Misc § Personal ‡ Comments (1) °

New HD

My Thinkpad R50e came with a 40GB HD. Too little space for my coming needs, as the laptop (krapfengeist) will be my main technology tool while in the US.
Therefore, I decided to buy a new 160GB HD and today I configured it with GELI+Gjournal, dumped my old HD to it and swapped the HDs.
That’s it. [...]

Posted 03 September 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (1) °