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Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ has a very powerful opening scene: a commercial pilot is at the flight deck, making the final arrangements with his assistant before taking off, when his boss comes in to give him some terrible news: (more…)

“What was that folder thing you told me of?”, she asked me. And the rest, as it is usually said, is history. (more…)

Recently, as the issue arose at a forum, I had to explain, making it clear to myself at the same time, that my geekery level is nowadays round 3/10. Anyways, I have my gratifications now and then, like the other day, when I was trying to (more…)

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The other day I saw ‘Misery’; it was one of those classic films that by some reason you miss when in theaters, and which always feel like finding one more french fry in the box when you (more…)

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Here’s an original suggestion for thinking outside the box: how about using a different search engine? It makes all sense of the world, from the point of view of a computer being an extension of one’s own brain. O.K., so Google is the best one, its search algorithms combine (more…)

I’ve recently come to know that there is a name for what I do, which is always a very (more…)

As it was mentioned in previous adventures (for example here or here), I love walking. I love walking even in quite a hostile an environment as a big city. I find it necessary, not only for the body, but as mental hygiene. And by walking (more…)

In his classic work ‘De Bono’s Thinking Course‘, the master of creative thinking Edward de Bono (of the ‘Six Thinking Hats‘ fame) exposes a series of techniques to improve reasoning, as a sort of exhaustive “thought gym”. One of his exercises consists in (more…)