X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=MayBlog;h=906df50954c651be99b6f128542bfb4bdb2dae9c;hp=1483083c8d3ca654242f4486ae74f921482d2f1f;hb=3616283a382a17827df7190393f1ff34737b07a4;hpb=23210be3772e767bc0c128ee4bb84c52cf7d0c25 diff --git a/MayBlog b/MayBlog index 1483083..906df50 100644 --- a/MayBlog +++ b/MayBlog @@ -2,7 +2,141 @@ '''Tip:''' as always, start from the bottom and proceed bottom up to keep time flowing in one direction. -=== Tue, 2nd === + +=== Sat, 5th === + +==== Cinema ==== + +There's a cinema in building 26 @ EmAiTee, and it's cheap. +I'm going tonight. + +==== Cursious? ==== + +If you're curious, my room rent is $500 per month. Utilities, + forniture and DSL Internet access are included. + +It's not cheap, but it's also not too expensive for Boston. +They told me that only Manhattan is more expensive here on +the east coast. + +==== CurriculumVitae ==== + +...is almost ready. A friend told me that I'd better have +also a synthetic resume of 1-2 pages for the impatient. +I think he's right. + +Well, I said I'd be finished by last Monday, but then I +managed to slip past my own deadline visiting NewYorkCity, +moving in my current room and in other frivolous ways. + +Now I have no excuses: the time has come. Next Monday I +''will'' write my proposal. Seriously. + +=== Fri, 4th === + +==== Exchange Rates ==== + +Looks like I'd better convert all my money to dollars *now*: + + http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/EUR/graph30.html + +What do you think about it? + + +==== StataCenter ==== + +I forgot to tell you about the kewlest building in EmAiTee: + + http://www.eecs.mit.edu/images/big-stata12.jpg + +See also: http://www.eecs.mit.edu/stata-link.html + +==== Fast night ==== + +After a long time, I finally get to (ab)use MIT's wi-fi and +barf my short-term brain buffer into my BrainDump. + +Tonight we went to an Irish pub next to Kendall, where I got +to know a few more Ximian employees. I got rumors that +the famous kernel hacker RobertLove would be there, so after +a while I turned to the guy next to me and asked: "Is +RobertLove really going to come?". And he replied: "Speaking." + +Another guy told me: "Hi, I'm BAHB". "Pardon?". "BAHB!". +"What???". Federico promptly helped me out: "Ha detto che si +chiama BOB :-)" + +The beer was good. I discovered that a BlueMoon is the +nearest approximation of a WeisseBeer I can find here, +and I'm not at all displeased by its taste. + +==== Slow day ==== + +My landlord has recently switched DSL provider and Internet +doesn't work any more: the sync light on the modem flashes. +It seems that crappy ISPs are a common disease in the States +as well. + +Yesterday, he called for service and, finally, they told him +they would send a tech today from 8AM to 18PM. They refused +to be more specific. And so I've agreed to wait here to let +the guy in... I care about it for myself too! + +==== Weight ==== + +By the way, today I'm exactly 150 pounds (use GoogleCalculator +to get it to SI units). + +150 pounds = 68.0388555 kilograms + +=== Thu, 3rd === + +==== Roxbury ==== + +They told me Roxbury is quite an infamous suburb of Boston. +And my first impression confirms that: shops are uglier, +parks and streets are somewhat dirtier (but not as much as +in NewYorkCity!) and, most importantly, some of the neighbors +look creepy. Especially in the night, streets are crowded by +people with criminal faces and many homeless. + +You know I'm not the type who's easily scared off by a bunch +of zombies, but I'll feel much better when I'll drive a car. + +==== Moving In ==== + +I've finally settled in my room. There's no need to describe the house +in detail, as it's the most typical colonial design: two floors plus +basement, front and back yards, sliding windows, wooden floors +everywhere. You've come to know them very well from the movies. + +Today I went to the mall to gather the essentials: a blankets, +a pillow case and some bath towels. The bed is comfortable and +I was quite tired already, therefore I fell asleep early in the +evening and kept on until 8 AM. + +'''WARNING: TIME WARP OCCURRED''' + +----- + +'''WARNING: TIME WARP IMMINENT''' + +=== Fri, 4th === + +Alberto: Attento a convertire € in $ perchè € si sta apprezzando,e quindi $ svalutando rispetto a €. + +Belle le foto scovate da Massimo. Have a good stay in Btn. + +Massimo: Bernie, you taught me: http://www.google.com/search?q=100+USD+in+EUR + + +Massimo: Since Bernie could not give us any picture, I had to use flickr: here they are! + +http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bernardo+innocenti + +Piro: what in the heaven is RMS doing dressed like a camp tent? :D + +=== Wed, 2nd === ==== BankOfAmerica ==== @@ -35,7 +169,7 @@ Massimo: Yahr yahr! He didn't realize they already got 4.80% of his balance from And I'll be moving in *today*! But I'm writing on Thursday the 3rd, actually (aren't you thinking fourth-dimentionally yet?). The room is nice and comes with some forniture, including a desk. It's on the second floor -of a house where the landlord lives with her wife and a very friendly puppy. I like it +of a house where the landlord lives with her wife and a very friendly puppy.I like it that way: all those houses shared by students I've seen so far tend to become unmaintained and dirty quite quickly, while this one is a real house with a fully operational kitchen, bathroom and even a clean back garden! @@ -50,6 +184,9 @@ car readily from my landlord's son. I don't know the address yet. I should, but I forgot the sheet on the table when I went there. And I can't call my landlord either because I've stolen his cell phone by mistake also. Yeah, I reckon I mustn't a good impression, actually :-) + +'''Camy''': the landlord lives with '''his''' wife + ==== Do You Speak English? ==== Some of you will be pissed off by this change, but I'm starting to make