Adriano

I accidentally downloaded this 6-hour set instead of adding to a playlist. No regrets -- though it's all over the electronic map: chillout, trance, funk, EDM, ... - Adriano

really strong abstract expressionism combined with Nolde figurative painting -- there's a certain calmness behind the agitated surface oil. Peter Selz did an interview, published in her catalog called “New Images of Man and Woman.” - Adriano

wacky, black NYC comedy, great casting for Wes Anderson fans... "Bored to Death was an American comedy series that ran on HBO from September 20, 2009 to November 28, 2011. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames—a writer based in Brooklyn, New York City, who moonlights as an unlicensed private detective. The show also stars Ted Danson as George, and Zach Galifianakis as Ray, both friends of Jonathan." - Adriano

Great cast ... - Sepi ⌘ سپی

Mark Margolis was also in Scarface and Breaking Bad: http://www.imdb.com/name... - Adriano

"Abhidhamma Pitaka is one of the divisions of the Pali Canon recognized by Theravada Buddhism as the authoritative recension of the Buddha’s teachings. This canon was compiled at the three great Buddhist councils held in India in the early centuries following the Buddha’s demise. The core of the present book is a medieval compendium of Buddhist philosophy entitled the Abhidhammattha Sangaha, ascribed to Acariya Anuruddha, a Buddhist savant about whom little is know. Despite this, his little manual has become one of the most important and influential textbooks of Theravada Buddhism." - Adriano

moi atm, heartbleed Amazon AWS \\ more from Berlin https://soundcloud.com/wankelm... - Adriano

w/ Jason Schwartzman, and Fellini references. - Adriano

Devastating punches... but this parody is absolutely silly, esp. the ref dubbing: "You win. Perfect!" - Adriano

Fantastic insights into Rostropovich's relationship with Shostakovich and Britten. Comments from his students and his family are most interesting. - Adriano

"Mr. de Botton defended his book’s grim attitude toward modern media “The news takes us to the edge of something deeply interesting – but then abandons us to the process Aristotle calls catharsis,” he said, referring to the way modern news lays out the facts but resists coming to any conclusions or exposing bias. “That explains the background anxiety that the news consistently creates.” The premise of his book, he said in introductory remarks, is that news occupies religion’s former place in society, an idea he borrows from Hegel." - Adriano

"Ms. Merkel, who speaks Russian and grew up in East Germany, has long tried to balance a deep understanding of Russia's political interests and frustrations with a skeptical view of Mr. Putin's intentions. Her knowledge of Russia and her relationship with Mr. Putin, who speaks fluent German, thanks to his time as a KGB officer in Dresden, are now being put to their most serious test yet. In her calls with Mr. Putin, some lasting as long as an hour, the two leaders switch between German and Russian as the chancellor parries the president's lengthy statements of the official Kremlin line. Ms. Merkel and Mr. Putin often speak in German, a language Mr. Putin commands well -- but Ms. Merkel confided to Mr. Hollande over a January 2013 dinner that the Russian's "soft and low voice" when speaking in her mother tongue sometimes reminded her of a "man of the Stasi," the East German secret police." - Adriano

cf. 2014-03-13, days before the Crimea referendum on separation from Ukraine... Russia holds war games near Ukraine; Merkel warns of catastrophe! http://mobile.reuters.com/article... - Adriano

Note to historians: Merkel and Hollande did absolutely *nothing* while Putin swiftly took over Crimea. Bodes very bad for the future of continental Europe. - Adriano

"First, you calculated the "correlation of forces," to use a Soviet term, and realized that it was vastly in your favor. Who would fight you? A Ukrainian leadership in chaos? A flimsy Ukrainian army? The EU that could not even bomb Libya without the U.S. Air Force? Barack Obama's America? Then, you assessed political geography correctly. The rule is never to take on a superior enemy like the West on his own turf. You test his mettle on his periphery. The EU is an imposing economic power, but it lacks the will and the wherewithal to project its might. The U.S. has assets galore but no longer the will to act as world power. So you could shrug them off. Next, you factor in geography proper. Globally, the West is far superior to Russia, but regionally, you were the Man. You had the "interior lines," as the great Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz put it; the West was a thousand miles away. And your troops were already in place in Crimea—tanks, planes and all." - Adriano

"You Russians have distilled my wisdom into a pithy phrase: Kto kovo—who dominates whom? [T]his is why you won so handily in Crimea. There is just one problem, Mr. President. A nation's true greatness comes from responsibility. You have just reaffirmed a historic Russian habit: You would rather be the great spoiler and outsider. It is self-isolation, but not at all splendid. Good luck, Vladimir. Yours truly, Niccolo Machiavelli" [aka Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg] - Adriano

Must see. \\ "Bill Viola is one of the most famous representative of video art. A large body of his work, from 1977 to today, combining tables and monumental installations movement, is currently presented for the first time at the Grand Palais. This exhibition is organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais and Bill Viola Studio." - Adriano

just the finished the final season, which was darker than King Lear -- so posting something upbeat. It's a well-crafted remix by placeboing -- esp. Hector's ding-ding-ding and Tuco's tight-tight-tight. Seasons 3-5 remix: http://youtu.be/WzhW20hLp6M - Adriano

maybe |:-) - Adriano

waiting for the Saul series :-) while binging on HoC season 2. - Adriano

"On the eve of an important concert, Peter (Christopher Walken), lead cellist of a veteran string quartet, receives some very disturbing news. When he announces his pending retirement, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration within the tightly knit group." Hoffman plays second violin in this wonderful homage to Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 131 filled with anecdotes from Julliard, even Pablo Casals and T.S. Eliot. - Adriano

Jean d'Ormesson a été élu à l'Académie française, le 18 octobre 1973, au fauteuil 12. Ses romans échappent souvent aux conventions du genre romanesque, en particulier à la construction d'une intrigue autour de quelques personnages. De nombreuses digressions, un défilé permanent d'anecdotes où se déploient l'humour et l'érudition du normalien, quelques motifs récurrents, en font une inlassable méditation sur le temps qui passe, qui peut prendre parfois aussi l'allure d'un traité de vie : La Gloire de l'Empire, Dieu sa vie son œuvre, Histoire du Juif errant, La Douane de mer, Presque rien sur presque tout. La dimension autobiographique est toujours très présente. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Adriano

Retrouve le documentaire "Marseille : Capitale de la Rupture" ici http://youtu.be/CEg1jMeTIjQ \\ Site Officiel : http://www.keny-arkana.com - Adriano

looks delicious, some are ingenious -- nice photos + recipes. Might buy a waffle iron :-) - Adriano

"La rumeur d’une relation entre le président François Hollande et la comédienne Julie Gayet avait animé les réseaux sociaux." \\ Voir aussi http://www.dailymotion.com/video... - Adriano

"With the economy in the pits, Hollande’s approval ratings are the lowest of any President in modern French history, sinking in a recent poll to just 15%. But when Closer conducted its own survey on Friday, 78% out of nearly 32,000 respondents said that the news of his affair could only harm his credibility further." http://world.time.com/2014... - Adriano

Does this really work? - Adriano

It's a large jpeg image... I like the graphics, you'll be delighted to see it. Name other such words in the comments below: - Adriano

too bad for the italian word they choose. It's from some obscure dialect or simply doesn't exists (never heard it before, it doesn't sound even italian). "culaccino" instead is a real italian word but with a different meaning. - d☭snake

re: "cualacino," see panapo'o :-) cuz it ain't in Garzanti, Treccani, and Hoepli. - Adriano

Users now have the choice between a Taxi, a “moto” (a super comfortable motorcycle, Paris only), a Black Car, and a Van. The service will allow Uber to compete with rival smart phone apps which allow users to hail a cab with their smart phone, such as Taxibeat, which launched in Paris last December. - Adriano

2014 revision: get $30 off your first ride. [Taxi strikes against Uber across Europe ironically drove up number of new accounts by 850% :-] - Adriano

"Vladimir Nabokov observed in his novel _Despair_ that prints of this work were to be "found in every Berlin home." Many observers have interpreted the oarsman as representing the boatman Charon who conducted souls to the underworld in Greek mythology. The water would then be either the River Styx or the River Acheron and his white-clad passenger a recently deceased soul transiting to the afterlife. Greek island Pontikonisi, near Corfu, was likely the inspiration for the painting." - Adriano

... how I feel whenever I go to Isola di San Michele by boat from Venezia. Beautifully peaceful. - Adriano

"The FX team at Bank of America (David Woo, Ian Gordan, et al.) produced its first assessment in an extensive 14-page report: http://goo.gl/ktW9eb They have derived a maximum fair value of $1,300. \\ BTC cross-correlation among major assets is covered in: Brière M., K. Oosterlinck and A. Szafarz, “Virtual Currency, Tangible Return: Portfolio Diversification with Bitcoins", SSRN Working Paper N°2324780, 2013. http://goo.gl/40VIxr Despite the extreme BTC-volatilty, they claim BTC-inclusive portfolios will deliver superior mean-variance trade-offs than similar BTC-free portfolios." - Adriano

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a structure at the birthplace of the Buddha dating to the 6th century B.C. This is the first archaeological finding which dates the life of the Buddha to a specific century. \\ "Dates of the sixth century BC lend support to the longer chronology and not the shorter chronology in the vicinity of 480 BC favoured by a number of prominent textual scholars like Heinz Bechert. It is important to note, however, that such assertions require further analysis and excavation, not only at Lumbini, but also at the three other sites identified by the Buddha as places for pilgrimage." - Adriano

Lumbini is one of the key sites associated with the life of the Buddha [birthplace]; others are Bodh Gaya, where he became a Buddha or enlightened one; Sarnath, where he first preached; and Kusinagara, where he passed away. At his passing at the age of 80, the Buddha is recorded as having recommended that all Buddhists visit "Lumbini." \\ See map in Figure 1 ibid. - Adriano

e.g. "Isn't it fantastic that you can change your mind and create all these happy things?" \\ There's something very serene in watching Bob Ross paint... can't put a finger on it :-) - Adriano

Are there religions formed around Bob Ross? He's some kind of Bodhisattva. - Stephen Mack

Stephen, you already know http://dudeism.com Religion of the The Big Lebowski -- that's pretty close. - Adriano

I bet Beethoven never saw this coming... :-) - Adriano

"Lars Yencken, a machine learning researcher and language aficionado, recently created a game to test people’s skills at deciphering just a fraction of the 6,500 languages that exist today. The Great Language Game was built from audio samples taken from news podcasts in 78 different languages. Users are also encouraged to submit audio of languages they left out. Based on the game’s test results, French is the easiest language to identify, while South Efate is the hardest. When the game ends, players receive a handy summary of which languages they missed, along with information about what makes each of those languages unique." - Adriano

#later - pudra

The standard criticism of Ridley Scott's film is that normal characters do not talk as do in The Counselor. Indeed the dialogue is almost Shakespearean, for example, the telephone conversation between the Counselor and Jefe. There is also the sense of inevitable tragedy in the sense of Greek theatre. Here is my favorite excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's screenplay (which does summarize the moral content of the film)... JEFE: "The world in which you seek to undo your mistakes is not the world in which they were made. You are at a cross in the road and here you think to choose. But here there is no choosing. There is only accepting. The choosing was done long ago." - Adriano

So what about our choices into the future? Here the Diamond Dealer (played by Bruno Ganz) informs The Counselor as follows: "At our noblest, we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives." ... yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. The baseless fabric of our revels shall inevitably unravel in ways totally unforeseen. - Adriano

Nice graphic https://notegraphy.com/rsvp... by yours truly :-) - Adriano

SPOILER: it 's viral marketing at its best. Freakin' funny! Must. post. silly. stuff :-) - Adriano