Curiosities

Playing on freerice is very entertaining, cause sometimes it brings along words of whose existence you could have never dreamed of...

One example I just came accross is the world 'nosegay'.. Never heard of it and sounds rather strange to me...

Could you have guessed that in fact it is not at all related to anything illegal or indecent but just means 'bouquet', so literally refers to something that pleases ones nose? (Taken the original meaning of 'gay' this seems actually quite reasonable.. but as language goes, the semantics shift around a bit, causing the odd confusion ;)

Lackenfest 2008

The day started with some really tired people..



But this experience surely was made to wake them up:


See... here I present to you the bus drivers of the day!

Blind Husbands

I want to point out one event to you which takes place in the scope of the Festival Bolzano Cinema:

next Friday, the 18th of April
at 1800
in Capitol Cinema

there will be the presentation of the re-edited and re-musicated film “Blind Husbands” (1918) which was written and directed by Erich von Stroheim.

As I have mentioned to you in an earlier post, one of the musical projects I joined was the recording and performance of the new soundtrack, composed by Tiziano Popoli. I have heard some parts of the new mix and seen some preliminary version, however the final result will only be shown on that day. Furthermore, everyone attending the event will obtain the DVD for free :)
Hope to see you there!

(This link gives some more information in Italian)

Birthdayparty

Last night Tadas and me celebrated our birthdays. It was a really nice party, can't in fact remember one I enjoyed so much in quite some time. The games were very funny and luckily (even though some poor people missed out on that fun) enough were present to free the two of us from the dark dungeon. Very many thanks for this one! :) When midnight approached I got an amazing surprise: people had joined for a fantastic present, a real guitar!! I'm still so happy and keep annoying my neighbours trying to learn Eric Clapton songs....
As proof of our newly gained freedom here a picture of happily saved birthdaykids.. :)

beatles go baroque -- youtube player

The latest possible moment

What is it about that particular moment that people so often try to push each and every decision until it is reached? In some very hairy issues it might be useful, I suppose, because you need to know more about your situation to get a better estimate. However, in daily life, it does not seem to pay off that well, especially if it results to postponing and accumulating things that have to be done nevertheless. Additionally, this phenomenon becomes even more frustrating the more people are involved. Even though there might be a common goal to be achieved, noone seems willing to decide and passes around responsibility, sometimes even despite knowing more than others. So I just wonder what it is that makes people so scared on making even the smallest decisions that would maybe cause a temporal loss of complete freedom for about 5 minutes..

One possible birthday wish..

some people have asked me if i had some wish.. i found one thing that i would really enjoy... if you're interested in what it is you can follow the link...

Denglish

Petition for a soundbased spelling of this language...

Nachtrag..

now, after my presentation, i will ask you one big question: what happens after the thesis defense?
--- easy answer: the preparation of the next one, it's obvious...! and there we go...




(other topics where proposed, however they were too cruel or too creative :P)

Invitation to dinner or why Bolzano needs an underground!

see for yourself! wouldnt you want to participate? cheers!