Albertoblog: Io le donne le capisco al volo.. »
13Io le donne le capisco al volo..Eravamo a casa mia finché si sono sfilati tutti, ma tu no, sei rimasta lì, sul divano, hai detto che saresti rimasta cinque minuti perché così ti parlavo un po’ di musica.
Intanto c’erano quei due imbecilli, ridacchiavano e salutavano, facevano dei gesti.
Eri potenzialmente già fatta, sennò mica rimanevi: ma ti avevo inquadrata come una shampista da librerie Feltrinelli, una che prima di cedere abbisognava di cinque minuti di considerazione culturale.
Allora ti ho parlato dei miei viaggi a Vienna, delle ore passate ai tavolini dei caffè mentre i vetturini con la bombetta passavano sulle carrozzelle d’epoca.
Intanto pensavo: «Io Tarzan, tu Jane».
Ti ho parlato di un tizio che intonava lieder di Schubert per la strada e di un’arpista ambulante.
E tu: «Mi ricorda L’educazione sentimentale di Flaubert, anche lì c’era un’arpista ambulante, ed erano proprio a Vienna».
Ho deglutito.
Allora ti ho parlato del solito rapporto tra musica classica e sesso, tipo Vivace, Grave, Allegro, Adagio, Vivacissimo, Finale.
Tu mi hai detto: «È vero. L’ha scritto anche Luigi Malerba».
Allora ho pensato che tu fossi una shampista del genere che i libri addirittura li legge: per stenderti ci sarebbero volute un paio di citazioni.
Ho preso due libri e ho letto: “Conosce una melodia che suona alla spinetta con il vigore di un angelo”.
E tu: «I dolori del giovane Werther».
Ti ho letto: “Udire l’indiscutibile raggio, come dardi dorano e lacerano un meandro di melodie”.
E tu: «Uh, le Prose del Mallarmé. Che edizione hai?».
Allora ho seriamente pensato di andare a prendere l’intero Zibaldone di Leopardi (le pagine 3208-3235) ma poi ti ho guardata e, in fondo, c’era solo un attimo da cogliere.
Ti ho fissata negli occhi, ti ho chiesto se volevi fare una certa cosa con me, e intanto si rideva, dio che ridere, c’era proprio l’atmosfera giusta, ah ah.
Ti sei avvicinata, hai sorriso, e mi hai detto, occhi negli occhi: «No. Non voglio».
Siamo rimasti così.
Io Tarzan, tu editor dell’Einaudi.
( filippo facci )
ahahahhahahah bellissima!!!
il secondo per me è il suonatore di donne
si chiama The Paradox Of Choice
Bravissimo questo disegnatore !!! Guardate il sito ;-)
(via arte1misia)
Arte1misia: Evvai !!!!! Mi hanno scritto per un appuntamento per un interview in... »
Evvai !!!!! Mi hanno scritto per un appuntamento per un interview in un asilo privato dove avevo mandato la mia prima application!!!! E questo pomeriggio mi ha chiamato un numero inglese sul cellulare!!! Non ci posso credere!!! Entusiasta ;-)) Magari sarà un lavoro del piffero, magari non passo…
Aggiornamento: quando ho mandato l’application per educatore ne avevo fatte anche altre, mi avevano risposto tutti SUBITO. Un supermercato dicendomi di no ma di riprovare tipo “ritenta sarai più fortunata” :-) , ieri ancora una biblioteca per una bella position e allegandomi tutto quello che mi poteva servire…devo guardarmi la job request e person specification per vedere se per l’età potrei essere fuori… sono gentili questi brit <3 <3 <3
oggi butto già un cv come si deve!!!
…però…uh mamma *___*
6Qui inizia l’ora in cui leggo in inglese e sembra aramaico. Antico.
E da adesso anche l’italiano sembra inglese…
’notteeee
3007 all’ipercooppe quelli del Nido del cuculo
Suzi Quatro - Can The Can (1973) oddio la preistoria!!! :P bono il batterista ^ ^
1, 3 and 4
and I add 9. Thank god there are come! ^^
(via pickumater)
22
Make your own ceramic tile coasters. DIY Tutorial.
(via tutorializer)
58
Time
(via littlemisshormone)
41A Stopover....: "Crazy Thoughts" from the Visionary Steve Jobs »
Here are some inspiring Steve Job quotes:
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”
“The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They’re just like dead fish washing up on the shores.”
“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.”
“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
“Click. Boom. Amazing!”
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.”
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place – the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.”
“I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.”
“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do. We just want to make great products. (I think he means “insanely great products!“)”
“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.”
“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else. (this actually reiterates my oft-repeated mantra of “ubiquitous evangelism” in companies)”
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
“Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that inpidual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.”
“That happens more than you think, because this is not just engineering and science. There is art, too. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of one of these crises, you’re not sure you’re going to make it to the other end. But we’ve always made it, and so we have a certain degree of confidence, although sometimes you wonder. I think the key thing is that we’re not all terrified at the same time. I mean, we do put our heart and soul into these things.”
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”
“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.”
“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.” “I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.” “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
“I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.” “It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.” “Insanely Great!”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.”
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”
“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
“The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!”
“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
“If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”
“You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something…
Sincerly I haven’t to read most of them, now I put there here for find them when i’ve a little time to dedicate to
3“ Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle. ”
Steve Jobs (via flowontheroad)
23
“Citrus mower” by Christopher Boffoli. The Seattle-based artist aims to highlight America’s culture of over-consumption, using hand painted railway model figurines glued into place onto real food
(via jonwithabullet)
194The Italian pre-wedding Test »
I was a very happy man. My wonderful Italian girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married.
There was only one little thing bothering me… It was her beautiful younger sister.
My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tight mini-skirts, and generally was bra-less. She would regularly bend down when she was near me, and I always got more than a nice view. It had to be deliberate because she never did it when she was near anyone else.
One day my girlfriend’s ‘little’ sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived, and she whispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn’t overcome. She told me that she wanted me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister. Well, I was in total shock, and couldn’t say a word.
She said, ‘I’m going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one last wild fling, just come up and get me.’ I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. I stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beeline straight to the front door. I opened the door, and headed straight towards my car.
Lo and behold, my entire future family was standing outside, all clapping! With tears in his eyes, my father-in-law hugged me and said, ‘We are very happy that you have passed our little test. We couldn’t ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family.’
And the moral of this story is: Always keep your condoms in your car.
(via signorwolf-deactivated20120220)
3