Rambling Hadrons

Gandhi II
He would smile seeing this video.
Some people with no sense of humour are not smiling. Crappy world…

Happy birthday to meee,
happy birthday to meeee,
happy birthday dear Pietrooo,
happy birthday to meeeeeee!
I gave myself as a present another 30/30 in an exam… So good!

You should emulate your heros, but don’t carry it too far, especially if they are dead
And thanks to the 1402 unique visitors of this week…

Higgs… Noether… Symmetries… SU(3)… Flavour… Color… Crap… Neutrinos… Neutralinos… Standard Model And Beyond…
Why Pisa and Roma universities have a quality of teaching surely NOT better than Padova University, but have plenty of money to send their undergraduates some months in America during the thesis?
Why Pisa and Roma universities consider the Summer Student as an exam […]

Italy has indeed a great tradition of kissing feet of priests.
Oh, well, let’s say in a kinder way: in Italy, Catholicism has verIy strong roots, deep into the population.
But Italy has also another great tradition, derived from this tradition: blasphemy!
The Italian way of insulting gods is, I think, the most powerful and suggestive way of […]

Toronto.
A nice evening, not too hot, not too warm.
You, a colleague and two girls (colleagues them too, in fact)
A few hundred dollars in the pocket.
A deep desire to be loved.
Consequently, you walk to the Pier, and go to the Dining Room in the Pier 4.
Very tasty fried calamari.
Delicious Stuffed Tiger Shrimps (specialities of the restaurant)
A […]

Fort (Port?) Huron, bridge from Canada to USA.
U.S. officer, verifying our passports: “All of you are Italian, huh?”
Me, from the car: “Yes sir”
U.S. officer, with a sarcastic grin: “Where are you directed to?”
Me: “We’re coming back to Chicago, where we work”
U.S. officer, ironic: “I see. Students? In a school?”
Me, irritated by the unrespectful behaviour of […]

SElinux is shit.
No other word about it.
Don’t use Fedora/RedHat or other distros SElinux-based. Shit shit shit.
I proudly DO NOT USE SElinux.
Unfortunately, often somebody gives me a pc with configuration problems, and sometimes it has a SElinux-based distro installed upon it… SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT
P.S. of course, in the epic battle between me […]

Just arrived home (near FNAL) from a 4 days trip to New York!!!
Tomorrow I’ll start with the pics…
Now I’ll sleep
I bought a beautiful T-shirt. Tomorrow I will put on it at work. Wondering how much time it will take to receive the complaints of some american professor full of bigotry…
Cheers
P.

I have read that India refused to join the “A laptop for 140 USD” project, motivating the refusing saying “Before giving us fashion high-tech dildos, give us school and hospitals”.
Well, if the news is confirmed, I have to say that India is a Nation that knows the words Honor and Dignity. Kudos to India.
Well, this […]