The world is swarming with incompetents…
Some time ago, during a job interview, I was asked at the end why in some version of my résumé I wrote in the soft skills section “attention to detail; […]
View ArticleNolite mittere high-tech ante porcos
Following a recent post of mine, I kept reading a number of reviews of recent smartphones, and I’ve been taken aback by the degree of shallowness and sheer stupidity encounter […]
View ArticleThe myth of the well-administered German city
I’m sure you might misunderstand this text, so let’s put it upfront: Leonberg (71229) is a charming little town in Baden-Württemberg. There are many other lovely little towns in the […]
View ArticleInissia Kapselmaschine, was sonst?
There have been years since various capsule-based espresso systems became popular even in the poorest countries of the EU. I remember a certain moment when the Dolce Gusto Piccolo had […]
View ArticleThe coffee saga goes on
My post on Nespresso-compatible capsules has become unmanageable because of its too many updates. I myself cannot use it as a guide anymore! As I’ve discovered some more […]
View ArticleLearning a language in 200 hours?
German is an impossible language. Right after I got the Zertifikat Deutsch B1, I forgot half of what I’ve learned. This is in part because all the methods […]
View ArticleUntil further notice…
…let’s consider the contents of the previous posts as outdated. For the time being I have no motivation to correct or update them, nor to add new posts.
View ArticleCarracci—what else?
I failed to update the blog with the coffees I’ve tried since the last post on this topic. I’ll only tell you what I settled for: Carracci. Despite […]
View ArticleShould you live with no sense of smell…
…you’d be missing quite a lot. I happen to be a person to whom the olfactory and the tactile senses are crucial—not that I could imagine myself blind […]
View ArticleThe day the Chinese puzzles took over
I’m really furious when people don’t bother to look for the original source of whatever they’re posting on the Internet (I feel I have a duty). I’m also […]
View ArticleChoosing the right poison
About one week ago I had exactly 50 types of tea at home. By tea, I don’t only understand black-oolong-green-white tea, but also the various plant infusions that […]
View Article24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools
Since I already posted today on an issue involving both logic and common sense, here’s another one, in the context of a human tragedy in Romania where it […]
View Article2020: The Year The World Ended
Friday 13 sounds like the best day for expressing some thoughts regarding the state of the world in the times of the COVID-19 outbreak. (And yes, I know: […]
View ArticleBeyond the Point of No Return: We’re Losing the Battle
Not only it’s “not just a flu,” but we’re going to lose the battle: instead of taking stronger measures than China, we’re babbling here in the “civilized” West. […]
View ArticleI really don’t have what to do at home
That is, not counting the thousands of e-books, the thousands of scanned comic books, the thousands of movies (MKV/MP4/AVI), of music (MP3), etc. Tens of thousands of each. […]
View ArticleEnd of World Diary N°3: China Just Won
These days 99% of everything seems to be about Covid-19; when it isn’t, it’s even worse: staying of home has revealed our weaknesses, and our expression in the […]
View ArticleEnd of World Diary N°4: Le monde est tellement con, yet the future is...
I hesitated quite some time before starting this post—more than three weeks, actually. The world seems so stupid—in some regards, even more stupid than it was in the […]
View ArticleMon héros, le Pr Didier Raoult
Entretien exclusif accordé à Apolline de Malherbe, sur BFMTV, diffusé le soir du 30 avril. On y trouve énormément de bon sens, et également du savoir. On en […]
View ArticleIn omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)
Sono nato inglese ma morirò italiano, said five years ago the most famous language teacher in Italy. Nobody thought though that this would happen so soon. Here’s a […]
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