How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.

How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.

I would'nt be posting this if I haven't tried for myself. CFLs are inexpensive (as low as 3.5 EUR for a 18W/100W equivalent bulb), quiet (no buzzing noise) and flickerless.
Their light is gorgeous, almost as sexy as halogen lamp. Incandescents are so obsolete...

In this exact moment, I am typing by the light of the mentioned CFL, resulting in a 18 W consumption instead of the 100 W halogen I were used to.

[Quante lampadine servono per cambiare il mondo? Una. Ed è quella che vedi.]

Non avrei pubblicato questo post se non avessi provato. Le lampade a basso consumo (*) sono a buon mercato (3 EUR per una da 18W/100W equivalenti), silenzioso (nessun ronzio) e senza traccia di sfarfallio.
La loro luce è bella, attraente come quella delle alogene. Quelle a incandescenza sono così obsolete...

In questo istante sto scrivendo alla luce della lampada sopra citata, per un consumo di 18W al posto dei 100 dell'alogeno a cui ero abituato.

(*) nota: in inglese, CFL: compact fluorescent lightbulb significa "lampadina a fluorescenza di dimensioni ridotte". In italiano il termine "lampada a basso consumo" implica un dispositivo di serie B, che consuma poco ma fa un po' schifo (io ammetto di aver acquistato la mia per metterla in giardino, invece è poi finita nello studio). E se la chiamassimo "lampada ad alta efficienza"?

GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Main / GNU Solfege - Smarten your ears

GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Main / GNU Solfege - Smarten your ears

I learnt music sight reading when I was 19. I was a graduate student in Chemical Engineering and I studied in the 15-minutes-break between lessons.

Linear Algebra, then intervals. Calculus, then scales.

They were stressful and consuming years. But I had never regret the time spent on sight reading. Solfege opened the door toward the music I never heard before.

If you're into music in some way, try GNU Solfege. And if you're a musician, even by Schoenberg standards, at least may be good for your disciples.

Comes in Windows and Linux flavors.

P.S.: I will never forget Master Federico Salce, former director of the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio (Bologna, Italy). He taught me sight-singing. He left us four years ago.

Chissà se in cielo passano gli who. (Wonder if in heaven they play "The Who")

Attenzione - post esistenzialista.

"E poi a quelli che non ritornano: forse lassù, certo lassù, sono capaci di non dormire mai più."

Tornare è un po' morire.

"And then to whom don't come back: maybe up there, surely up there, it is likely they will not sleep anymore."

Coming back is a little like dying.

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