Category: Entertaining
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Yamaha P-125 digital piano
I’ve been always fascinated by pianos; when we were kids, my cousin Lucy had one, and I remember listening her play in total admiration, but never believed I’ll ever have one. Until yesterday.
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Book: Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, I was able to travel and soon moved to Salzburg Austria, working for a high tech firm.
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Fun: Deep Thought’s Answer to … Everything
Douglas Adams, or when science fiction meets British humour: Long time ago, in a far, far away place in the galaxy, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings decide to build the most powerful supercomputer, that can answer any question.
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Book: Ursula Le Guinn – The Left Hand of Darkness
It took me two attempts to read this The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. The first time it was among some Asimov titles. Asimov’s accessible style made Ursula’s elaborate writing quite a challenge, and I could not go past the few chapters.
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Asimov: More ‘best of’ titles
After the robot stories and the reference ‘foundation’ series, I decided to also take a look at other Asimov titles, usually mentioned in ‘Best of Asimov’ lists.
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Asimov: The Robot Stories & The Foundation
During the last months I embarked on an amazing journey: to read, one by one, all Asimov‘s books part of the Robot, Empire and Foundation series.
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Concert: Dhafer Youssef – The arab minstrel who plays jazz
The Tunisian artist Dhafer Youseff embarked on a difficult journey: to present the beauty of the arab culture to the western world.
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Book: Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
On February 14th, 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwā calling for Salman Rushdie‘s death, after conservative Muslims accused him of blasphemy and mocking their faith.
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Book: Darwin’s “On The Origin of Species”
If there are not many books that can be considered having a major contribution to the mankind knowledge, then Darwin’s book is certainly one of them.
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DVD: Les Misérables – The World’s Longest Running Musical
About one week ago I was extremely impressed by some tunes I heard on the TV; it turned out to be the finale of a grandiose British show.
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