Comments | applez: Milano! Che Bello!

applez

Milano! Che Bello!

Sep 04, 2006 21:39

The most important part of the trip first:A truly lovely time reconnecting with childhood friends and family-friends I haven't seen in 18 years! Sharing old memories with Francesco and Giovanni Riva, refreshing others (as Franz puts it, his brother has "an elephant's memory" - his memories of details was shocking!), and picking up where we had left ( Read more... )

ch, milano, rivas

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Milano answers back! gioogle September 5 2006, 22:34:22 UTC

A gust of wind swept through the streets of Milan, carrying old memories, new warmth, and a lot of news! Unfortunately 10 hours are not exactly enough to catch up 18 years of life (especially when all parties involved were lousy letter writers - thank god for e-mail and the internet) but still can do wonders to rekindle the fire of friendship ( ... )

Re: Milano answers back! applez September 6 2006, 15:35:31 UTC

Cheers Giovanni! :-)

SN1 - Milano may not have originally been designed for motorcars, but I found the wise use of avenues, piazze, and Metro & trams particularly good. Alas, if only there were better (and better respected) cycle paths/bike lanes.

SN2 - Alas culprit Uno was that Piccolo pizzeria place Franz recommended ... I'm sure they had better wines, and it was Larissa's & my error for selecting the "table" option. The pizzeria from the night before also presented a disappointing wine experience, again with the "table" option.* So please, no violence is necessary ( ... )

Milano strikes again! pt. 1 gioogle September 7 2006, 23:21:29 UTC

Hi Zac - you are really fast with your replies... keeping up with you is probably an almost impossible challenge ( ... )

Milano strikes again! pt. 2 gioogle September 7 2006, 23:37:20 UTC

A BRIEF RECAP OF ITALIAN UNIFICATION HISTORY (for your perusal ( ... )

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Bikes and transportation gioogle September 12 2006, 00:48:36 UTC

You are forgetting atomic-powered cars ( ... )

Re: Bikes and transportation applez September 13 2006, 08:40:11 UTC

Atomic-powered cars? Interesting, but seeing how upset the world got over the mere suggestion of an Iraqi nuclear programme (and the subsequent Iranian one), we have quite a few hurdles before that application becomes widespread. ;-)

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On a more serious note, I would like nothing more than for the world to get a lot more serious about safe reactor designs, maximum safety reprocessing, twinned with nuclear disarmament and thorough international inspections. IMHO, climate change is serious enough to warrant that radical a policy.

That might then become a very interesting source of hydrogen for the transport sector...though I surely wish we'd have more offshore wind turbine electrolysis.

Power gioogle September 13 2006, 21:49:06 UTC

As long as the cars are powered by plutonium, no harm there... it is almost very difficult to build a plutonium-based nuclear bomb without proper technology (it is tied to how plutonium nuclei interact with each other at short distances ( ... )

Re: Power applez September 14 2006, 10:02:04 UTC

Hmm...given how toxic plutonium is, I'd rather we weren't in the business of mass producing it for mobile applications like that. ;-)

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