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My favourite TV shows 2021 (Netflix/Prime/..)

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:34:57 +0000

Netflix aficionados, my unrequested ratings for my favorite 2020 seasons:

POTUS S8: 9/10. Amazing finale with unexpected Capitol Hill attack. Finale is a bit obvious. Characterization of the villain is a bit flat. But it kept us glued to the screen. Remember the Wall of Mexico in S4? Wow. I nearly forgot how it all started, with Obama mike drop in S1E01.
The Boys S2. 10/10. The whale scene is a stroke of genius. Homelander is much better characterized than Trump. Love it.
Brexit S7. 7/10. A much more nuanced political drama. the authors decided to have a different villain in each season. While I really loved the characterization of Ms May (the dance part was brilliant) and of the blonde buffoon (a bit copied from POTUS but with some nice gags on its own), I think the authors could have developed Nigel a bit better - these shallow villains are sooooo 80s. I believe S1 was so much better with Palpatine-style David Cameron.
Vlad S22. 9/10. Great action/political drama. The authors got it right where Designated survivors authors didnt: a perfect mix of Secret services, poisonings, espionage, fake news creation in St Petersburg, ... the geopolitical developments in Crimea, Libia and Iran are very credible - plus themes like global warming and fake news: a very nuanced leader and captivating plot. Why not a 10, you're asking? I really dont like series who protract forever: S22 now and I heard the authors just confirmed another 15 (15!) seasons until 2036.
Kobra Kai S3. 5/10. Started as a 10/10 with S1, dropped to an 8 on S2, its now getting ridiculous. Good news is, I can sleep at night whjile waiting for S4 as I know there will be a 5 and god knows how many more. I prefer Elizabeth Shue in The Boys, but always great to see her! Probably best actress of the series.
Silvio S2. I heard they're resuming this old blockbuster for a second season. This time maybe in the form of Mr President. I hope they don't copy from POTUS (which - the authors confirmed on interview - was actually inspired by Silvio S1!).

Spaghetti Bolognese don't exist!

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:07:43 +0000

Spaghetti bolognese: Everyone knows them... except Italians.

Right, read it again if you don't believe me... in Italy we don't prepare that kind of pasta.

What the hell, you may be wondering... Italy is famous for spaghetti and bolognese sauce (that we call "ragú alla bolognese" or simply ragú, but we would never mix these two things in the same dish).

Why oh why, you may as well think? I think the reason can be found in two ways.

First, they come from two different cultures. Spaghetti come from the south, where a simpler tomato, basil, and veg sauce would seem more appropriate.

Second, spaghetti are slippery, so they're not as good to 'retain' a demanding sauce as a beef ragú is. As every bolognese person can tell you, appropriate pastas for bolognese ragú can be: tagliatelle (first choice), pennette/penne/mezzepenne, conchiglie, fusilli, maccheroni, ... in general every form of 'pasta rigata' (ribbed pasta). Pasta rigata is a pasta that is not smooth, so this sauce is more likely to stay with the pasta, instead of slipping down. I think the main reason why every person from Bologna is horrified by the mere idea of associating spaghetti with our proud ragú is that we perfectly know (because everyone has made that mistake once in their life) what happens if you do that: spaghetti would ruthlessly come up your fork completely naked of any red or meaty trace... just to leave a gloomy surprise in the very end: a bloody pool of meat and tomato just looking at you as if asking "Now what?". And unless you are Italian, you don't know what scarpetta is. but that's another story.

As wikipedia (as of 19dec09) says about Bolognese_sauce:

[...] Spaghetti alla Bolognese, Spaghetti Bolognese, or Spaghetti Bolognaise in a form popular outside of Italy, consists of a meat sauce served on a bed of spaghetti with a good sprinkling of grated Parmigiano cheese. Although Spaghetti alla Bolognese is very popular outside of Italy, it never existed in Bologna, where ragú is served always with the local egg pastas tagliatelle or lasagne. Spaghetti is a drum wheat pasta from Naples, and the Naples Ragú of a meat-flavoured thick tomato sauce clings much better to slippery spaghetti than Bologna's ground beef ragú. [...]

Resources

Wikipedia: Bolognese_sauce
A video from BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8467045.stm (thanks Paul)

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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:44:43 +0000

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DRAFT Goliardia and Palladius

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:38:03 +0000

Intro

Bononia

This page aims to explain foreigners what Goliardia is and -expecially - what it meant to me in these 10 years.

At the beginning...

Via del pratello

TODO

metti un sacco di foto, metti note,s piega dal processo al perchè mi piace a tutte le cose che ho fatot visto, link al sito, ... fai una bella paginozza ;-)

The night I decided to stop smoking

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:25:49 +0000

or "How I learned to stop smoking and love Fischbach"

Sun, 2007 Dec. 2

In one of my frequent flies, I was waiting for a LONG coincidence in Frankfurt. After two hour wait, still i have nothing to do, nowhere to connect my notebook. i have a brilliant idea: i decide to smoke a cigarette! The area is interdicted to smokers, obviously, but there is a narrow cubicle where you can practice this nice sport. 2 square meters, 5 people. A door sign reads: please keep door close, or this last chance to smoke in a airport will be revoked. the craziest thing is, people passing by stopped for a while to watch this spectacle. When you get so narrow to smoke a cigarette, in an unbreathable area that YOU are contributing to pollute, ... you just long to finish it asap! its shameful! and I think that was a design choice for that cubicle. 😉
Well, i get to the hotel, little swimming and then my favorite Fischbach Pub: the Banhof! I have only one packet of Philip Morris with me, will it be sufficient? 😛As I get in, I discover that Sirchia law had arrived in Germany too!!! Not only in France (where I'm sure that the rebel character of french people will keep the existing smoking standards in public places), as I discovered in Lille, even in Germany now! my cigarettes will have to wait, and my beer becomes harder and harder to finish. 😊

Something about me

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:52:50 +0000

Intro. I'm sorry, this is definitely not a multilingual site: this is an italian site, so it was, so it will afaik. Still, I'd like to tell you something about me, so that the curiosity of most surfers - randomly fell into this crazy unconceivable site - be satisfied. Or, you can start from the photos (2006 2007 ...): there isn't much text there, and I'm quite proud of them, too. :)

What about this site?

This site is my personal homepage. My name is Riccardo Carlesso, I'm a Telecommunication Engineer (specialization in Informatics). You can learn something more about my education clicking on my CV.

I love maths

I like maths and informatics, too. My favourite school discipline is Maths. I like reading Analysis books (actually I'm writing one as well!), reading history of mathematicians, writing theorems all along my room walls, and so on. I think you'd call it addiction.

I like travelling too, pity you can't read italian because I'm very proud of my travel diaries you can find here . I hope sooner or later I'll translate them in English, 'cos I consider them Patrimony of Humanity. Not that my writing style deserves a Pulitzer, not at all. But I think that if everybody wrote about one's travel experiences, people who googled before leaving would have benefited from that ;) That's what I did before going to Japan, and the only thing thay talked about was 'gnocca' (italian jargon for a feminine synecdoche, I think you have some imagination): quite frustrating.

I'm an egotist, too: I think this is pretty much evident to non-Italian-speaking-persons, too. There's a whole division on this site regarding me myself (you probably have noticed the link is bigger than others in this article). I like humour, and I think I founded a new humour standard, but it mostly involves speaking in English instead of Italian, so I think you wouldn't appreciate it. Ah, my friends tell me that's even worse than English humour, so consider yourself lucky. 😉

I'm somewhat an artist, and I wrote some Vogon poetry in my early years. You can find it here.

Why 'Palladius'?

Well that's a good question. That name was given to me at the end of a long night, when I got admitted in a fraternity (in italian the word is 'goliardia '). The reason... well that's another story and you should buy me a drink in order to know: that's what they teach us in this world called goliardia. How I know this? Obviously, I paid much for that! For the scientific minds among you, the answer is YES: it sounds quite recursive.