I swear it was unintentional. Second post straight after [this one where I blurbed about my next camera](({filename}2010-08-19-my-next-camera.md), and here it is, the GF-1 in my hands.

So how did it happen: I spent last weekend in Livigno for some mountain biking. On Sunday afternoon, half an …

I have sketched a series of yoga poses that I follow as a daily exercise.

I thought they might be of interest to someone else as well, so I've put them on this Flickr set.

I've stopped using my old Nikon D70s after it gave up once again during my last vacation (random failures in recording the photos on the flash card). For now I'm stuck with another remain of the past (Canon Ixus 60, small point-n-shoot with a 6Mp sensor) and my iPhone 3Gs …

Una bici dall'Africa, fatta di fil di ferro e perline.

Anzi, terza, o quarta. Diciamo meglio: seconda bici da vero offroad, senza contare la vecchia Merlin da trail¹.

Una seconda bici da affiancare alla mia Transition Covert insomma.

All'inizio avevo pensato ad un mezzo pesante da discesa pura, dopo aver provato la Mongoose Boot'r al Cimone bikepark; questa prova …

Ottobre 2009, nasce la mia acciaio; preparata con cura da Ciclistica¹.

Taglia 53, tutta nera: guarnitura, raggi, freno, pedali, reggisella. Una bellissima pipa in titanio 'grammo' e infine la sella rossa San Marco Condor.

Il rapporto e' un 46x17; che a me non dice niente, essendo abituato ai 2x9 …

Farewell, Facebook (by aadm)

I got very bored with all this facebook craze lately so here's what I did last June.

Using everytrail for iphone: the app shows for this particular trip 33km in 1 hour and 19 minutes with a resulting average speed of 25km/h.

The same trip displayed on everytrail.com is 1 hour and 46 minutes long, however, which makes for an average speed of 18.6 …

I am wondering about the next iPad. What is available now is certainly enticing and must be a joy for light computing / intense internet reading. I do have limited budget, however, and think that probably the iPhone 4 is a better way to spend my money. But I look at …

Ieri sono ritornato in pista dopo quasi un anno. Anche quest'anno Mugello; come iniziare meglio la stagione? L'anno scorso uguale: prima volta che scendo in pista col 999, mi vado a infognare al Mugello. Pista facile e invitante per iniziare, col suo rettilineo infinito, i saliscendi e le curve cieche …

D'estate si riesce ad apprezzare Milano; vai ad uno dei cinema all'aperto come quello del Conservatorio, ti vedi un film italiano, simpatico e non pretenzioso (mai l'avresti detto, è di Salvatores), giri in bicicletta senza rischiare di essere stirato. A volte, Milano è bella.

The creators of Lost, in an interview given in 2005 (right after the conclusion of season 1):

The survivors will not learn they are part of some dastardly experiment, or discover they are in purgatory, or wake up from a bad dream.

(The Laws of the Jungle by Lorne Manly …

Leggevo questo articolo: Going Where A Lot of Other Dudes With Really Great Equipment Have Gone Before, di John Tierney (New York Times, 26 luglio 1998), e trovo questo passaggio che dà praticamente una giustificazione antropologica al desiderio che noi abbiamo di comprarci chiodi, martelli, piccozze, abbigliamento in tactel, etc …

I've been a great fan of 24 since its first season, years ago. I've thoroughly enjoyed the first season, and also the second and the third. However, the show has been moving towards full improbability with the latest seasons. I think I also watched season 4, and then I don't …

I am an enthusiast mountain bike rider, but because I seem to be affected by a number of injuries associated with slow recovery times (my old age plays a big part here, as it is physiologically proven that is faster to recover from a broken bone when you're 20 than …