Not green? è un'ingiustizia!
A very quick update: I’ve just transferred the hosting to a new provider named Fatcow.com, that is offering me lower monthly fees, greater storage and few other goodies, but most importantly the outstanding advantage of getting an 100% green and eco friendly certification, being their entire line of servers powered by wind energy only.
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In a couple of hours, as a matter of fact, I’ll be turning 32.
After reading my last post treating this subject, back to May 3rd 2009 when I was living in Singapore, I realized that part of my actual thoughts can be conciliated with those expressed 3 years ago.
Many people say that you fully start living only at 30, others at 40 and someone else even states that real life starts at 50. I don’t know… is the increasing wiseness and self-awareness supposed to provide us with enough appropriate temperament to handle the human condition in a less reckless and more cynical view? or should it guide us towards a balanced, peaceful and not superficial, but “light” point of view?
Embracing some aspects of the existentialism, I’d say that we start getting old when we stop dreaming; when there is nothing to wake up for, when we start to let go too often and when there is nothing that can make us turn the table upside down. There is no age for feeling that no matter how forgotten it was, there is still a small fire burning inside us; a fire that if fueled, will burn as big as if we were 25 again… becasuse we’ve still got something to learn, teach, share and conquer.
May 3rd Update: Anyways… there is nothing more irritating than receiving greetings from somebody who normally wouldn’t give a damn about you, but they are prompt to send messages when there is facebook or skype reminding them about your birthday. Im confused, should I send a thankful reply to facebook or to the person…? I mean, come on, during the whole year you couldn’t care less, but magically, for one day only you’re making the effort of sending me 2 words… “happy birthday”, then disappear again for another year… fuck you and give me a break.
flyer – click & share now!
As of today, I am officially starting to divulgate both digital and physical version of the flyer related to my unstoppable search for my ideal lover. To celebrate the arrival of n. 2.500 copies of the ad at my door, I am writing this news in the hope of furtherly promote my initiative on the net.
These days stocks are falling, workload is heavy, cost of life is skyrocketing… crime, wars, natural disasters, but I’ll keep my project running no matter what.
Please, help me spreading the voice by sharing this photo containing the basic divulgation; you could do it because you feel pity for me, because you support my dream or simply because you might want to get your hands on the 5.000 euro Im offering as a reward for your effort. In any case just do it.
Im not going to make any introductory note as the project is already speaking for itslef, anyhow make sure you check out the offical website idealwoman.info so that you may realize that one of your friends could be the one im looking for.
Almost a year ago a friend of mine living in Singapore asked me to reply to this question, but the email which contained the question went soon overwhelmed by other letters. Im now feeling guilty for seeing myself postponing to offer my opinion to such an intelligent topic. So here I am on a quiet Sunday night grasping for flashes of inspiration, afraid of being hit by that terrible blank-state as if were back to high school trying to write an essay on an historical fact that I couldnt study. It must be because I waited for so long to reply, that I’m now seeing a massive stretch of readers ready to judge and whispering to each other that I’d better come up with either a short, sharp and revealing answer, or a long and complete analysis of the matter. Ok enough for daydreaming, here is my take… Starting from the basis where we all know what we are talking about, I’d say that to my logical reasoning, It would make sense to turn the question around and ask myself, would I still be the same if I hadnt experienced “happiness” to any sort of degree? It really goes beyond my limits of understanding to try finding an explanation that does not require a prior answer to another universal question. Like, can you first tell me if we are ought to be in the universe for an evolutionary purpose that leads to a total eradication of pain, as pain is scientifically considered counterproductive in the long run? Or, if we consider pain once again as a simple projection of our own representation of reality, why should our true-self be so much in collision with the subconscious? I am always good in complicating things more than they already are, but let’s get to my very subjective interpretation. If I look back in history I see uniquely beautiful creations coming out of the author’s “pain”: songs, poems, novels and so forth… well I do not need to remind you that many of those literary works were made possible by the presence of a “love-pain”, caused by women just for a change. So why was there so much intensity under the influence of that negative-connoted state while on the other extreme there were as well intense emotions but somehow not reaching to the most inner existential sphere of the individual? I cant explain why, but I just “feel” that only pain can indeed breach the understanding of our self-awareness, therefore it’s not a matter of intellingence, experience and raising our own limits, but i’d say that it’s about embracing pain and turn it into a compass to navigate the boundaries of our fragile self. And the more you are sensitive, the more you’ll se the world assuming different tones and shades, while the average “stupidly-happy” person is probably watching the the same image with less colors. And for the mass, well not more than a black & white picture. Drag your own conclusions.
Web developer's burlesque
Every time I get hired and I step into an office to work on a temporary project, they make me feel like the messiah has arrived. You can’t imagine how many times people are asking me “what laptop should i buy? which digitalcamera will do this or that? should I get an iphone or an android? why is this device not recognized by windows?” They often beg me to check their computer as soon as I get 1 minute to spare and sometimes they even ask me if I can go with them to the media store to buy a new PC… It becomes really annoying when for instance someone expects to run the latest software on a 10 years old machine and keep whining because he feels constrained and frustrated to upgrade. For christ sake dont do it then, stick to your beloved win xp and internet explorer 6, but dont complain anymore and dont watch my screen astonished telling me “I want it too…!”. Instead, do you want to be wired like a pro? Buy hardware like a pro: here is my 2012 list of the best all-around tools to be just like me. 1) Asus Zenbook – 11.6″ intel i5, 64gb SSD, 4gb ram, usb3, hdmi ; 2) Panasonic FT3 - rugged camera, waterproof 12m, freeze-proof -10℃, shockproof 2.0m and Dust-proof, full HD clips ; 3) Corsair USB 3.0 16gb pendrive rainproof ; 4) Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini with Android 2.3, the smallest smartphone currently in the market. 5) Get a fracking copy of Windows 7.
