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Almeno l’itagliano… Impalalo!!!

Posted by gufodotto on February 18, 2008

Tanto x ripostare qua qualcosa che mi ha fatto ridere quando mi e’ arrivato via e-mail… l’N-esima catena umoristica…

1. Mi puoi disinnescare la segreteria telefonica? (Ordigni moderni…)

2. Soffro di vene vorticose. (Sarà un ballerino…)

3. Di fronte a queste cose rimango putrefatto! (Che schifo!)

4. In farmacia: Puoi darmi un ‘una tantum’? (forse si chiama ‘tantum verde’?)

5. Quando muoio mi faccio cromare. (Valido!)

6. Arriva il treno, hai blaterato il biglietto? (…..)

7. Come faccio a fare tutte queste cose simultaneamente?
Dovrei avere il dono dell’obliquità! (la torre di Pisa???)

8. Un’onda anonima ha travolto i surfisti. (e nessuno la sa riconoscere???)

9. Almeno l’italiano… sallo! (Eh…)

10. Basta! Vi state coagulando contro di me!(trasfusione?)

11. E’ nel mio carattere: quando qualcosa non va, io sodomizzo! (Stategli lontano!)

12. Anche l’occhio va dalla sua parte… (Si chiama strabismo…)

13. Non so a che santo riavvolgermi. (Una videocassetta devota….)

14. Avete i nuovi telefonini GPL? (No mi spiace solo benzina!!!)

15. Il cadavere presentava evidenti segni di decesso. (Ma va?! Strano)

16. Prima di operarmi mi fanno un’autopsia generale. (Auguri!)

17. Vorrei un pacco di cotone idraulico. (Ha una perdita???)

18. Abbiamo mangiato la trota salmonellata. (Ancora auguri!)

19. Vorrei un’aspirina in supposte effervescenti. (Quando si dice faccia da culo…)

20. Vorrei una maglia con il collo a volpino. (Non era lupetto?….)

21. Devo andare dall’otorinolalinguaiatra. (che dire…)

22. Ho visitato palazzo degli infissi a Firenze. (….si ci sono infissi alla finestre e allora??)

23. Vorrei una pomata per l’Irpef. (Herpes è difficile…)

24. Se lo sapevo glielo divo! (Ovvio…)

25. Usare il DDT fa diventare più grande il buco nell’Orzoro. (Addio colazione)

26. Tu non sei proprio uno sterco di santo. (Meno male…)

27. Tu l’hai letto il fu Mattia Bazar? (Antonella Ruggero???)

28. E’ andato a lavorare negli evirati arabi. (Contento lui…)
29. Lo scontro ha causato 5 feriti e 10 confusi. (Uno dei confusi sei tu??)

30. A forza di andare di corpo mi sono quasi disintegrata. (O disidratata??? Alla faccia della diarrea!)

31. Mia nonna ha il morbo di Pakistan. (….)

32. La mia auto ha la marmitta paralitica. (…e al posto dei cavalli ha le sedie a rotelle??)

33. Verrà in ufficio una stragista per il tirocinio. (Si salvi chi può!)
34. Sono momentaneamente in stand-bike. (L’attesa in bicicletta….)

35. Che lingua si parla in Turchia? Il turchese. (…è logico)

36. Davanti alla sua prepotenza resto illibato. (….si….)

37. Scendi il cane che lo piscio. (…guinzagliato però!!!!)

38. Da vicino vedo bene, è da lontano che sono lesbica.(Aiuto…)

39. C’è una peluria di operai. (Che schifo!!)

40. E’ inutile piangere sul latte macchiato. (Meglio farlo su un bel cappuccino…)

41. Sono sempre io il cappio espiatorio (L’impiccato)

42. Beviamo una Magnum di Kruger. (salute)

43. Signora, vorrei 100 grammi di prosciutto senza polistirolo. (…che faccio un po’ fatica a digerirlo…)

44. Mi sono fatta il Leasing al viso. (..pensavo un mutuo…)

Ed infine (AUTENTICA sentita oggi in uno studio medico)….
“…. ci ho l’ernia letale”

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Every little helps…

Posted by gufodotto on February 15, 2008

On 15/02/2008, An ingenuous friend wrote me:

SE GOOGLE AVESSE UNO SCHERMO NERO, VISTA LA GRANDE QUANTITA’ DI
PERSONE
CHE LO USANO, SI CALCOLA CHE SI RISPARMIEREBBERO CIRCA
750MEGAWATT/ORA.

COME RISPOSTA A QUESTO GOOGLE HA CREATO UNA VERSIONE IN NERO,
CHIAMATA
BLACKLE, CON ESATTAMENTE LE STESSE FUNZIONI DI QUELLA IN BIANCO, CON
UN
CONSUMO DI ENERGIA MINORE… INOLTRE STANCA MOLTO MENO GLI OCCHI!!!

FALLO SAPERE E USALO, OGNI PICCOLA COSA CONTA.

http://www.neroogle.it

Scusate il francesismo, ma che coglionata.

La lampada dietro al mio schermo LCD resta accesa sia che il pixel sia bianco, sia nero.

Il colore e’ dato dal pixel stesso che filtra la luce, facendola passare o meno…

Nel caso dei tubi catodici vale la stessa cosa, visto che il consumo principale e’ dato dal tenere il cannone elettronico ad alto voltaggio, non dalla corrente effettiva sparata contro lo schermo. D’oh!!!

Ma chi si inventa certe cose?

Luca

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Let’s try to embed a podcast

Posted by gufodotto on February 14, 2008

The one from The Economist, for example:

It works!!!

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Gufodotto’s Shared Items

Posted by gufodotto on February 12, 2008

Look up there…

Since I often comment about news I read on the i.net, and now I don’t get much time to wrte on them, I put up a new feed burner with a few of those I think it would be nice to share with you. It’s all thanks to google’s reader, which I restarted using since my blogroll was getting too long to keep a daily eye on all of them…

On the diary side of my life, I managed to start correcting the paper and hopefully will get it done by the end of the week. If I can get away from the internet, that is…

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New Blog on the block

Posted by gufodotto on February 8, 2008

I just discovered Desktop Tales, a blog (in Italian) where marco publishes, among other things, the comic strip with the same name, featuring a Mac and PC commenting current news from the computer world and not.

I loved it, so I thought you may want to have a look too.


Thanks to [Emo] for spreading the news.

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Big Scarlet A

Posted by gufodotto on February 8, 2008

I’ve pasted a big scarlet A in my profile. For the non-cognoscendi, this is to show to everybody on the planet (well everybody with an internet connection) that I am an Atheist.

Yes, one of those godless creatures that only rely on their own judgement to act morally and make the world a better place, out of personal interest and not for fear of punishment.

With this, I mean not to despise people who feel that belief is important in their life, and certainly I don’t want to stay on the side of those who assert religions are at all costs a bad things. I believe that they have a certain value, if nothing else as a way for humans to cope with a very very complex and indifferent universe. It must have had an evolutionary advantage, otherwise it would not be here. Or to be more precise, what caused religions to develop in our minds must have ALSO had an evolutionary advantage. May be religion is just a side-effect of arts, or story-telling?

Alas, I hope it’s just a short transitory phase in our evolutionary path… Kind of teenagers’ mood swings.

But back to the big scarlet A, you can click on it to get one yourself. Or not. Your choice.

Posted in atheism, diary, evolution, internet, religions | 2 Comments »

Infrared photography

Posted by gufodotto on January 30, 2008

I recently heard on the naked science podcast that pointing a remote control to my camera phone I could see it flashing, because the sensitivity of the CCD inside extends to the near-IR.

It wrks! And it gave me a terrible case of cognitive dissonance to look at the remote through the screen, then with the naked eye, then with the screen again and so on. I just could not believe it, PhD in physical chemistry notwithstanding my mind was not prepared to accept it.

Anyway, the cool factor of the thing pushed me to show it to all my friends (real, as virtual) and to look on the i.net for more info about it, and possibly for how-to on how to build a proper IR-camera.

I discovered that few of them IR-capable cameras are sold, mostly for forensic use, possibly because you can see through clothes. In general, CCD are screened against IR not for this reason, but because the color yield is altered by the IR noise.

Anyway, there are plenty of descriptions on line and may be this evening I’ll buy a 9.99 EUR webcam to open it and remove the IR filter. I already have a ten diode IR lamp at home, so may be it’ll be enough to get nice pictures of my house in human-eye darkness.

More to follow!

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LolCats!!!

Posted by gufodotto on January 25, 2008

I discovered yesterday this fantastic internet phenomenon of taking pictures of animals and adding funny caption to them, most often in a degenerate, gangster-rapper-like form of English language.

Here’s one example: funny pictures

It has been hard to get back to work after seeing the first few, yesterday.
In between the piccies I also found a funny movie posted on youtube:

So go here for moar funny pictures.

Posted in animals, crazy, fun, internet, piccies, youtube | 2 Comments »

YouTube/FaceBook cross posting

Posted by gufodotto on December 4, 2007

Here’s an example of what Internet 2.0 can do in terms of rapid dissemination of content: I join a group on facebook, where I see a youtube link which I promptly reference in my own blog: Cool uh? Not nearly as cool as the plant in the movie itself, though, a species of mimosa which folds her leaves when touched…

It apparently belongs to the Triffid family, of Sci-fi fame.

I, for one, welcome our shy motile plant overlords!!!

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The Decline and Fall of the Animal Kingdom

Posted by gufodotto on November 28, 2007

Carl Zimmer has a new story up on WiReD.

The Decline and Fall of the Animal Kingdom

Incredibly interesting piece detailing how the glorious animal kingdom decreased in size and importance in the last decades.

Courtesy of facebook which let me know about it.

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