Monday, August 31, 2009

Videocracy - Italy has been sinking since I was born

I haven't been blogging very much lately, also because during summer there is tons of fun stuff to do outdoor and I already spend most of my day at the office in front of the computer (like now).

I just want to post here the trailer of Videocracy, a documentary (which is different from a fictionary movie) about Italian video-informations over the past 20 years, describing Berlusconi's rise to power.
It has English subs. There are no actors, all the characters are real. The man speaking in the car is Fabrizio Corona, a photographer who took pictures of celebs and then blackmailed them.
See how he describes himself...

Jeez, where are the Allies? Someone please rescue us!

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Throttle Valve Control For Fission Heated Simple Closed Cycle Gas Turbines

The best way to lower construction and operating costs is copy the successes and avoid the failures of other projects. That is easy to say, hard to accomplish. As I dug into more details about combining atomic heat with Brayton cycle gas turbines, I opened my research aperture as wide as possible so that I could find out what made both simple cycle combustion gas turbines and light water reactors

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Missing granny

My paternal family came from Fiume (now Rijeka, HR), a town where several cultures and populations crossed and lived together. Nothing can replicate my grandma's kitchen, its taste, its consistency and flavour. I still remember some of her dishes, but a lot I forgot, too.
Now I am surfing to look for Croatian recipes because the only Croatian recipe book ever written in Italian is odd - I have it. It doesn't even mention quantities, temperatures and times.

I have to try to do Pasticada which is basically a roasted meat sauce with big pieces of roeasted meat, used as a sort of mixed dish together with gnocchi. My grandma served it like this, although I found several different pictures and way to serve it.