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Note: While I am keeping this blog for the occasional longer piece, I have moved to Google+ (link to my Google+ profile) for the more casual use.

Moving

July 16th, 2008 andrea 1 comment

I moved out of my old apartment.

It was probably the worst in the Catalina complex. It was on the ground floor, in the shadow, on the street, near the garbage bins. Every day I woke up at nine because of the noise of the garbage men. (Descartes used to say that good mathematics is possible only if one is allowed to stay in bed as much as he wants, and who am I to disagree?)

This new apartment is a two-bedroom, instead of four.


House

Room

Accordingly, I went from 3 physicists room-mates to only one, who is a swiss-italian-american nuclear physicist who likes Rubik cubes:


Rubik

It’s sooo Caltech! (Did you know that probably the most famous cuber — for having partecipated in The beauty and the Geek, no less — was a Caltech student? And did you know that twenty-six moves suffice?)

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First post

February 20th, 2008 andrea 1 comment

Today, now that everyone else and his aunt has a blog, I give in and start one as well.

I think I’ll write mainly about my research: it will help to keep track of my thoughts and to maintain the right long-term prospective.

In 5 years I’ll be the world expert on a (hopefully not much) insignificant slice of mankind’s knowledge; it will be interesting to chronicle the journey from the choice of the topic — still unknown to me — to binding the dissertation.

I’ll also write about life1 here at Caltech, so that the people on the other side of the oceans can keep an eye on me. Don’t expect much fun: my guess is that five years here will be far less interesting than the three months I’ve been in Japan.

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