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Photos in Providence

It has been a long time since I wrote about photography. When I was in Padova, my cameras were always my companions on Saturdays or Sundays while I walked around the old town center looking for good shots.
At first, Providence, at least East Providence, didn’t seem to me like a good city to take photos, [...]

Posted 09 November 2008 † Matteo § English § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Notti magiche

Me l’hanno chiesto praticamente tutti, sia prima che dopo, quindi non ho potuto esimermi (ossia non mi sono esatto (o esigiuto, Calvino lo usa senza malizia)) dal scrivere un post sulla storica notte. Come è andata lo sapete: la Juve ha vinto 2-0 al Bernabeu, con doppio magico Alex.
Sì, mi piace fuorviarvi. Ovviamente la (seconda) [...]

Posted 07 November 2008 † Matteo § Italiano ‡ Comments (8) °

Italian newspapers suck. US newspapers suggestions needed.

I really like reading newspapers, when there are intelligent editorials above all. Reading an electronic edition just isn’t the same thing, to me. But I want to read quality newspapers, and consider a publisher’s duty (and a reader’s right) the newspaper to be written in correct current but rich language, with correct syntax and an [...]

Posted 27 September 2008 † Matteo § English § Nerd ‡ Comments (3) °

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 § English § Personal ‡ Comments (1) °

Write the way you eat

I announced it before, more than one and half year ago, but now it’s real: my blog becomes bilingual: English and Italian (no, I’m not going to translate every post in both languages: it only means that I will seldom post in Italian).
For you, English readers, you can subscribe to the English category RSS feed.
I [...]

Posted 11 June 2008 † Matteo § English § Personal ‡ Comments (1) °

At last, Leica CL with Rokkor 40mm and 90mm

After having received a great present (which I will talk about once it will come back from the assistance), I felt in love with Leica cameras and with film (I’ve never used film with a serious camera before) and found and bought a Leica CL with Rokkor 40mm f/2 and Rokkor 90mm f/4.

Yes, I’m [...]

Posted 17 February 2008 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (2) °

Never thought about becoming a webdesigner…

…but now I’m busy developing two websites…
I chose to use Wordpress as CMS because I know it well enough to make it do what I want it to do and lately it became flexible enough to be more than a simple blog platform.
Side note: yesterday I injured my left foot while playing futsal: I’m now [...]

Posted 23 January 2008 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (1) °

Holiday hobbies

When I’m on holiday I have time and will to do things I’m usually too tired/nervous/lazy to do on normal days. These include:

Go on with reading “Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” (I got it one year ago and I read only half of it ATM.)
Go for a walk downtown and take photos:
 
     

 

Reorder [...]

Posted 20 December 2007 † Matteo § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (3) °

New books!

I did it: I entered the books shop “La Feltrinelli” in Padova and, as if I was caught by some kind of “reader’s raptus”, I bought any book that I felt I would like to read. Many of them could/can be found in my books’ wishlist. I bought:

Raymond Queneau, I fiori blu (trad. da Italo [...]

Posted 15 October 2007 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (2) °

Living in some kind of happy limbo

I’m half on holiday and half waiting for Tuesday 17th, when I’ll discuss my thesis on cryptography and graduate. Wow.
This means I cannot enjoy my free time as I like to, since there are always things to do: having the thesis printed, talking with my advisor, writing the presentation, preparing what I have to say [...]

Posted 13 July 2007 † Matteo § Personal § University ‡ Comments (0) °