In a desperate attempt to escape the last minute study rush for tomorrow’s test (eOperations / Supply Chain Management) I decided to post the first in a, hopefully, long series of posts regarding stuff I find online and in the world every day (or so), dividing them into ups (things that excite me, make me go awwwww, make me happy…) and downs (the opposite, things that repelled me, made me angry, or sad, or outraged).
So, let’s give this a spin and see where it goes.
Today’s downs:
- http://napoli.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/6482639 (in Italian but there’s no need for
The full footage of the death of a Rom in Naples. He’s been shot during a shooting between some Camorra (the local Mafia) intestine fight. I heard about it on SkyTG, but when I found it online I knew I had no reason to watch it, but I did anyway. I don’t know if it’s because I’m curious or what else. Maybe it’s the unquenchable thirst for reality shows that we have.
It left me with a really unpleasant feeling. It’s not gory or violent per se. You just see a lot of people fleeing the street, inside a metro station. Then you see this wounded guy limping, helped by his wife or girlfriend or whatever. Everybody gazed him and kept fleeing. I wonder what I would have done.
Then he collapses and all you can see is the desperation in his woman’s eyes, her movements, her shaking.
I don’t want to talk about mafia, or his ethnical heritage, or the appropriateness of putting someone’s death on show. I just don’t like the feeling I got from it, that’s all. - eOperations: the day before the test is always a painful drag.
- STS-127 launches tomorrow and I won’t be able to provide live coverage in Italian with my podcast/web TV project Astronauticast. Again, stupid eOperations.
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Today’s ups:
- By 9AM I was already up and running, I had completed a chore I’ve been pushing ahead for a while and I had a nice walk in the neighborhood. I’ll move soon to a new apartment, 1 km away from here. I’ll miss this place and I had a good time walking around in the still not too hot morning
- I might have had the last Skype conversation with my girlfriend befor her return from her year abroad. She was talking using her laptop in a running train in Denmark. I liked the idea. And I like when she’s happy about what she’s doing.
That’s it for tonight. I should figure out some kind of template to make this process a little more streamlined. Until next time…
Stay tuned, more to come.