Il Nittalope

As this story of relocating to the East, the far East, is slowly fading away, I started to think about my life. I am a 38 years old man from Italy, who at 30 changed his life, moved to a foreign country, Greece, and started a new life. After 7 years as a software developer I entered the fascinating world of tourism. And now, 8 years later, where am I? What have I become? Did I changed a lot? I became somebody else? To answer that questions I should try to understand what I am now and remember how I was then. Now I am a man approaching the forties with a wrecked body and a still young appearance. The soul is somehow high the 35% of the time, my imagination has faded a lot, my intelligence... where never there to help too much. I'm becoming more spherical, in a lot of ways, not the last the physical way and this is bothering me a lot. I'm trying to revert this changing, but my body is not helping me. All of the battles I had (and most of them lost) in sports are now com...

Yes, after my final words one week ago, I decided to have some new final words and remain in Paris. Why?!? But because Paris is the Metropolis of LOVE, that's why! Don't you believe me? You are right... After I decided to go, some things happened and I decided not to go. One of the things is that well, they didn't really want me that much.  The second thing end most important, is that I didn't want to go that much either. Yeah, it was a great experience, great jump in career advancement, big everything but... was those things the things that I wanted? I sat down and started to think and discovered that, as in the past 30 years of my life, I didn't needed more money, more power, more career advancement (it is that a thing?!?). In the last months in Paris I found myself thinking about a house in the mountains, woods nearby and nice walks in the mountains by some mountain stream, or a house nearby the sea, with woods nearby and some nice walks by the sea. I...

So, some explications are needed. I've moved to Paris in November 2012 to be nearer to civilization and parents and friends. After some struggling looking for a job I ended up working as a receptionist in a fine and nice 4 stars hotel in centre Paris. It was not ideal but it was not bad at all. Not too much work to be done and fairly paid, and the colleagues are nice too. I started working there in February and since then stopped looking for a job. The idea was to settle down a bit and then looking for a better position: assistant front office manager or front office manager in some bigger hotel. And then come Wednesday June the 26th. An email was sent to one of my one thousand address and I answered. They said they found my CV on a french site on which I looked for jobs in the past winter and if I was interested in such an experience as working as Front Office Manager in their hotel. Only problem was that the hotel was located in Kuala Lumpur. I answered, more or less just ...

Yesterday night I, as usual, has problems sleeping and so I watched almost all of the game between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat. I missed 2/3 minutes in the second quarter and the beginning of the third, until around 6 minutes left (well, lets say half of the third). I will say in advance that I'm a Lakers fan since my youth, but that I really started watching NBA only with Jordan and his last three years with the Bulls. And also that I think that LeBron James is an incredible player that everybody in the league management wants to succeed. This said the night was simply incredible. The Bulls played a strong and gritty game, Noah was simply unbelievable with his heart and energy on both ends on the floor and that Butler is a HUGE player. I've read a lot today about this game: the Heat were rusty, they played flat and all of these kind of things. Maybe it is true, but I think that the truth was the Bulls simply played with more earth and brains. Bosh, Wade, Le...

Finalmente, dopo giorni drammatici, é stato eletto un nuovo Presidente della Repubblica. È stato eletto alla sesta votazione, con 700 e passa voti. Qualcuno si è lamentato di questa votazione, antidemocratica e golpista (poi, più tardi, semplicemente "golpettista"...). Ma, se non sbaglio, il Presidente della Repubblica, in Italia, deve essere eletto dal Parlamento+Senato+Rappresentanti delle Regioni in plenum e con voto segreto. Quindi da gente eletta dagli italiani, che li eleggono in maniera democratica. Quindi dove è la mancanza di democrazia in questo? Poi, il buon vecchio Napolitano ha preso più di 700 voti quando il quorum era di 504, non male, una vittoria schiacciante! Ma non solo, un numero di voti che sarebbe stato sufficiente anche nelle prime votazioni, quando invece che il 50% sono necessari i 2/3 dei voti, che sarebbero stati 668. Quindi vittoria schiacciante! Solo 337 non hanno votato per Napolitano. Tutto il PdL e tutto il M5S? Mah... forse. Comunque è ...

Questo è un post che volevo fare già da qualche tempo e credo che oramai sia tardi, ma lo scrivo lo stesso. Il buon Grillo e tutto il cucuzzaro di suoi seguaci e non ci hanno inondato di richieste (ci a noi attento Popolo Italiano) di togliere il finanziamento ai partiti. Per qualche settimana è stata la cosa più importante di cui si potesse discutere. Chissenefrega se le industrie non funzionano, se i giovani non hanno lavoro: per risolvere tutti i problemi italiani la soluzione era togliere il finanziamento pubblico ai partiti. Io non sono d'accordo per 2 ragioni. La prima è che non voglio un sistema americano dove in politica ci entra solo chi ha i soldi o solo chi ha qualcuno dietro che i soldi glieli dà. E non voglio nemmeno che siano solo Grillo e Berlusconi a poter fare politica in Italia (li ho presi a esempio, uno è un miliardario, l'altro lo sta diventando...). Il finanziamento pubblico ai partiti dà, in linea di principio, la possibilità a gente "normale...

So, it's been around 5 days that I've finally got my lifetime's desired Linux laptop. I've been torn for months between ZaReason ultrabook and the Dell XPS 13. The truth is that I'd loved to have the ZaReason one for two reasons: - to help a small manufacturer - for the double hard drive, one SDD and one "spinning", giving to opportunity to have high speed of the OS and high capability. But they would not deliver outside US and so... I've started following the Sputnik Project and... same problem! They would not deliver outside the US!! But... one lucky day... Barton's blog ! And in two days I bought the laptop online! YEAH!!! When it arrived? Five days... after... the... day... I... bought... it!! YEAHHH!!!! So, now it's about 2 weeks that I've got it and it's... GREAT! The screen is simply gorgeous, it's 1980x1080, clear and luminous at every angle, the keyboard is lit at three different steps (lit, half and off), the ...