jake
jake
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Mine, too, have been looking good. Some have bloomed twice.
February 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
* Turn off the news.
Done

* Go outside.
Done: I'm sitting outside in my garden

* Read something not horrible.
Doing just that (rereading David Edding's Belgariad)

* Enjoy a cool drink.
Done: a double Pink Lady.

P.S.: My garden:
June 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Of course: the Pope is the religiuos leader of CATholics...
April 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam! Eminentissimum et Reverendissimum Dominum Catum, qui sibi nomen imposuit Garfieldus.
April 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A colleague from Dozza, Italy, and its home:
March 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This old songs comes to mind:

Cheer, boys, cheer: the school is burning down!
Cheer, boys, cheer: it's burning to the ground!
Cheer, boys, cheer: it's the only school in town!
It will a hot time in the old town tonight!

(from a LP from the 15th World Jamboree in Alberta, 1983.)
March 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
So, starting tomorrow, Polestar will be included in the list of terroristic organisation for attacking Tesla?
March 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
TATI 1 Las vacaciones de Mr. Hulot
YouTube video by G Cantabria
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January 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
No to mention the use of Braille characters for the "hi res" graphs.
January 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
One of my favorite tools (I still much prefer CLIs vs GUIs for lots of admin tasks: after all my first OS was an original AT&T SYSV UNIX on a 3b2 300 machine, back in 1987 when ARPANET/Internet arrived in Italy with a whopping 64 kbit/s direct link to USA...).
January 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think it's available only via snap (me, I'm a RH user): snapcraft.io/install/btop...
Install btop on Raspberry Pi using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
Get the latest version of btop for on Raspberry Pi - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats
snapcraft.io
January 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wish it was my word of the decade...
December 30, 2024 at 11:01 AM
That's exactly how I'd like to spend the next three months at least. My cats already do that most of the time...
December 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
You and about 60 millions Italians... 🙂

(BTW, portrait is of Sebastiano Venier, doge of Venice in 1577-78.)
December 3, 2024 at 6:43 PM
A perfect skyhook worth of the best Kareem Abdul Jabbar 🙂.
December 3, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Gimme eight! 😄
November 28, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Mt. Seceda, Val Pusteria, Italy. Part of Odle National Park.

maps.app.goo.gl/bZHz96CumbBM...
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November 23, 2024 at 8:11 PM
And in my garden I have a Vitex agnus castus which comes from a cutting of their Vitex, unfortunately lost in 1984, whose presence was registered since XVI century.
November 23, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Fun fact: I got my MD in Engineering in Padua and I work for Padua University since 1992. I've never visited in person the Anathomical Theatre...

But I've been several time in the Botanical Garden (another marvel built in 1545: ortobotanico1545.it/en/
Orto Botanico di Padova
The oldest university botanical garden in the world Established in 1545 to help university students study medicinal plants and observe them in vivo, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. The ...
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November 23, 2024 at 2:26 PM
The body would have been lifted up from the basement. Spectator would stood to assist. It's not so big as it appears in photo: that's an effect of the widefield lens used to capture the whole theatre.
November 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM