Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Which Actress Has Smelly Feet

Continuum

Everything flows ... continuity is a characteristic of the time, at least as we know it and without going into too much sophistry of physics. It simply means that tomorrow the sun will rise again, and it will not be too different from today. Forse noi saremo differenti, la coscienza del tempo che passa lascia sempre il suo segno, una tacca in più, un istante in più, un altro po' più avanti. La chiave è il segno "più" che viene comunemente incaricato di indicare l'avanzare del tempo: è come se ricordassimo a noi stessi che andare avanti è comunque sinonimo di crescere, di aggiungere, di guardare in alto. Tornare indietro è concesso raramente, e mai in termini assoluti: tornare sui propri passi è comunque un movimento in avanti nel tempo, perciò non ti bagnerai mai nelle stesse acque di un fiume... esso scorre, per l'appunto.
Why, then, to celebrate the anniversaries? What actually occurs in a system where everything is constantly changing? Why include the "keyframes" in the unstoppable flow of things, buoys immediately abandon the current, to which we can not even ever again? What makes a date, a symbol does not exist in nature, something that gives us a sense of the cycle of repetition, of finding a known point, to come back to hang on for not having the anxiety of being scattered into the unknown ? True, there is a cycle of seasons, the Earth revolves around the sun in a closed orbit, and so forth, but in fact even the cycle of seasons, including the orbit of the Earth are never exactly equal to themselves: the sun, tomorrow will be different. So? Why leave a trace that can never be followed?

Well, I can think of one thing: for two points passes one and only one straight line. What are guesses? Let me explain. The living creatures on our planet, they all, more or less, a feature that distinguishes them from inanimate objects: memory. From that instinctive, dare I say planned, insects and single-celled creatures to that of dolphins, elephants, and humans. The memory is where those "keyframes" acquire meaning, where, looking back in time, you can see strada che hai fatto, le svolte, le incertezze e le direzioni che hai preso, fino ad arrivare dove sei ora, in questo preciso istante. Guardare indietro, però, non può essere fine a se stesso: sarebbe come voler guidare in retromarcia, osservando la strada solo dagli specchietti. E comunque andando indietro... io credo che il significato sia un altro. Per due punti passa una ed una sola retta. Che punti? Beh, i più ovvi: il tuo stato presente e l'ultimo ricordo che ti interessa ricordare, l'ultimo "keyframe" che vuoi prendere in considerazione. E la retta a cosa serve? Ad indicarti la strada.

Certo, espresso così può sembrare semplicistico, troppo lineare (Linear? Look well ...), a kind of determinism led to excess. But I am convinced that is exactly what happens. Although more than you could straight talk instead of curves, cones of probability of trajectories ... that can often seem intricate and absurd as the sticks of Shanghai. And, just as often, require the same patience and a steady hand to be brought to reason. All, however, passes through a single point: now. Now, at this very moment, as I write, while you read, both while we move through time and space.

No ònfalomane (from the greek "omphalos" navel), not I think that I, or anyone else, is the center of the universe, in fact I am convinced that the universe exists because of the relationships between all points, thanks to the very existence of these points, which create the plot of this 'Now, moving all together, some in one direction, some in another. But everyone forward. Everyone's on. Some of the same ahead. Other opposing forwards. Will continue.

So let us mark with another mark midnight on December 31 of this duemilaeotto and go forward.

Happy New Year to all.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

How Microsoft Track Licence

Overall

È tempo di bilanci, il nuovo anno ha già suonato il campanello, tra poco entrerà in casa, sarà nostro ospite per un anno intero, bisogna preparare la stanza. Chi ci lascia, invece, sta presentando il conto: partita doppia, dare ed avere, col conguaglio di fine anno. E quest'anno, mi sa, siamo andati pesantemente in rosso. Investimenti sbagliati, speculazioni azzardate, economia creativa, molto creativa, quasi cretina, un vortice di cifre da capogiro che si sono volatilizzate, svanite nel nulla, un castello di carte che è miseramente crollato al primo soffio di vento. La piramide era rovesciata ed ha perso l'equilibrio. E pensare che la fantascienza l'aveva previsto, almeno... Dunno, I do not remember, but I think not less than twenty years ago. It was an old Urania, the title was "snowball" effect, and assuming the collapse of the global economy, which, after frantic search, he stated he had left by not buying a fridge ... Part science fiction was that all off again after the government (U.S., needless to say) with the last remaining liquid money in cash, financed that purchase, and the chain miraculously left the matter up. Pure fiction, of course.

The bottom line, however, was absolutely guessed: the intrinsic fragility of the western economy, changeable as the weather, and with the same probability of being planned or scheduled. Meteorologists, however, depart with the knowledge that their work can be undermined by the beating of wings of a butterfly, and the complexity of the weather itself is far from fully understood. Parties, mainly, by the knowledge that there is a "world system" which includes and encompasses any single molecule present on our dear old ball of mud, then nothing, absolutely nothing, is irrelevant, or secondary, or irrelevant. Alone, we can not understand everything, we can not create a system that can understand everything, then we start with a heavy handicap of knowledge, planning, capacity action.

A rational person, on average, with this in mind, certainly not cease to act, it's stupid to stay paralyzed by fear of failing, but it certainly would act with more humility, knowing that the error, always there is a direct result of human actions: the presence of at least a Plan B is absolutely essential in any situation. The reversibility of their actions is still advisable to go back and take another route is not a stigma, and the humility to admit mistakes is a prerequisite of intelligence. The other is to learn from mistakes. You the only way to grow.

But this year's budget is in red on this side: I have not heard a word of humility, quietly, and I see a tendency to learn noteworthy. Yet, mistakes are macroscopic, almost gigantic, and have left visible traces of their origin ... the feeling is that people desperately clinging to their seats, not to lose even an ounce of power, control, wealth, which also denies the evidence, at the expense of everyone else. I do not know you, I'm starting to piss me off, people like that.

All in all, therefore, the budget this year I could still define a substantial unknown: what we see? As we learn? We are poised between the arrogant complacency of too many in their thirties and the stubborn stupidity of many, too many sixties. The first, to compensate for the absolute lack of security, seek, create the key points that anchor, the latter to cover the absolute idiocy of certain choices, forcing the system to remain standing, without understanding that never sticks to the produced more milk a cow.

In the middle, between a rock and a hard place, there are those like me. The children of the economic boom of the twenties eighties, those who have seen the rise and fall too small to do something, and are now too old to take bold initiatives. Those who have waited in vain to make decisions, who have been ripped off in parts, which has lost pace, and has skipped a generation. It is not a general jeremiad, but the knowledge that through our being between a rock and a hard place has lost its meaning, simply in order to transform a shapeless buffer between an irresistible force and immovable object. In fact, to put it to Forrest Gump, I feel a bit 'bruised ...

But like the old blades, Japanese, or Arab ones, od un semplice coltello da cucina, l'essere tra l'incudine e il martello vuole dire forgiarsi, temprarsi, diventare più forti, taglienti, flessibili e resistenti... alla fine della fiera, quelli della mia generazione sanno di poter affrontare qualunque cosa, e di fatto lo fanno tutti i giorni, sanno essere pazienti, sanno mantenere la calma... però il proverbio recita "guardati dall'ira del paziente": dunque, forse, è ora di farsi girare un po' le palle. Tanto per mettere i puntini sulle "i".

Per adesso, però, mi siederò sulla riva del fiume, ad aspettare. Il tempo, si sa, risolve molte cose, chissà che non risolva anche questa. In If you like, give him a hand ... my way.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

What Does Herpes Look Like On A Mans Balls

Dear Santa ...

could not miss the "letter" ...
Although I have little time, about half an hour for lunch is part of the family, I have to leave two two lines, reflecting a Christmas in times of crisis.

So, dear Santa, do your duty to see, and bring some 'of hope, a bit' of serenity to all those who really need it. Today the sky is gray, damp cold permeates this strange Christmas spirit, but I know that beyond the clouds the sun continues to shine. Maybe a little 'indifferent to human affairs, but shining. So go ahead, anyway, and try to enjoy today, because as a wise saying of the cartoons, "yesterday is history, tomorrow is unknown, but today is a gift ... that's why is called the present. "

Well, today is the twenty-fifth of December duemilaeotto, then:
Merry Christmas to all!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Best Floor For Small Kitchen

time to time

Give it some time: take a break, stop and think, or just wait for a chain of events started to follow its course. This, in my opinion, the meaning of a place so common as to be granted. However, proprio il suo essere scontato non dà la misura esatta di quanto sia in realtà disatteso: chi ha tempo, ormai, di attendere? Chi sa, conosce ed applica questa antica massima con cognizione di causa? Il luogo comune più contrapposto a questo è che tutti andiamo di fretta, ma anche qui i pareri sono discordi.
Saper attendere, come saper correre, la pazienza associata all'adrenalina, il cambiare stato con un semplice atto di volontà: in una parola, il controllo delle proprie emozioni e delle proprie reazioni è uno dei punti centrali del "conosci te stesso", ed è, non a caso, uno dei cardini di tutte le filosofie orientali. I admired so much in the West. Without, of course, understand a fig tree.
Still, some indication of the way from Asia we have known how to make and to implement systems for us to understand more: just think of that wonderful manual of survival is "Zen and the 'Art of Motorcycle Maintenance "(which, damn it, I just lost in the library), where the most common practice in the industrialized West and related materials, maintenance of a mechanical means, meet all the techniques and the art of control of emotions typical of Zen and many other disciplines.
Here. The detachment from emotions, their control does not mean they do not necessarily want them, despise them or wishing to depart from them. It means, to me, having so many as to require a way to make a profit, not to be overwhelmed, to appreciate the right of each flavor, and having deep knowledge.

Someone calls it simply patience.