The local newspapers in Italy’s smaller cities and towns advertise with eye-catching headline boards, designed to be as sensational as possible. Usually one board reports two headlines of the day or week, and sometimes the juxtaposition is unintentionally funny. The headline above says: “Struck by a toilet seat thrown from the train – Priest collapses … Continue reading Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines
Countries Beginning with I: The Trailer This is not all the videos I’ve made to date (for both work and fun), but … it’s 531 of them, some as old as 10 years (recovered from various sources). From one of my YouTube accounts, in reverse chronological order of posting. Running Without a ZFS Root Pool … Continue reading Whole Lotta Videos
Childhood As a child, I was accustomed to drawing attention because I looked different from most of the people around me: I lived in Bangkok, where Thai women were constantly pinching my cheeks and exclaiming over my fair skin and blonde hair. I assumed they were merely intrigued because I looked strange to them. I … Continue reading On Having Beauty
My daughter began riding at age eight at the Centro Ippico Lombardo, a stable and riding school near Milan’s San Siro stadium. This was around the same time I was starting to learn to shoot and edit my own video, so I was able to document some of her earliest events. Some of this old … Continue reading Centro Ippico Lombardo: Gara Sociale 1999
The Betrothed, in 10 Minutes I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), considered the first example of the modern novel in Italian (though the language is a bit antiquated today), is a story every educated Italian knows well, in part because they study it in school. We heard a lot about it in Lecco in particular because … Continue reading Learn Italian in Song: I Promessi Sposi in Dieci Minuti
