Entropy's Crypt

 

It's Monday. That means work-meeting in the morning with the prof., the assistent prof. and other 3 guys in the FET section of the group. Then grouo-meeting the afternoon.
The prof. talked about spincoating and all the fun of it... something I heared at least 5 times but of course new people in the group haven't so... I had a contest in drawing small geometrical figures on an old newspaper against a nice Romenian girl which is also new in our group. She won.

And I have an headache (I just took a painkiller actually ). I slept too little, I was up till 3:00 am and even later reading I just had to finish "Foundation and Empire" by Asimov. I also read the first pages of "Second Foundation", this stuff is addictive. Worst than Tolstoj well they were both russians, although Asimov actually wrote in English.

Anyway... "I call myself The Mule, but not for my great strenght, obviously" so ends the book I just finished

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There was something I forgot, and I did not put on the DA journal... well...
planning also a date, planning the prayer group and planning to go out with palsies while I am so busy... so.... my agenda is on fire

Also I went to a friend friday night... I had to bike a few miles to the south of the city, but luckily it was not raining. I had a good time. he's the artsy type... like all his friends, I was the only scientist there , who's the egg-head?!  Well we had fun, as much as I can have, which is not THAT much... I AM the gloomy type after all.

That is it. Ciao

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LIST OF SOME OF THE BOOKS I HAVE READ SO FAR I wish I could remember them all ^_^ George Orwell: 1984 A tale of a distropia (the opposite of utopia) where society is controlle by the Party and 'big brother'... a warning by Orwell against comunism

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carrol Mean old Scrooge is visited by the three ghosts of Christmass on the night of Christmass' Eve...

Mark Twain: An American Yankee from Conneticut at King Arthur's Court A Yankee from the 19th century finds himself in the middle ages, at King Arthur's Court.

Jerzy Kosinski: Being There An epic and deep tale about an illiteral simpleton who rises inimportant positions in society by means of misunderstandings...

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Through a 'dystropia' a view on the dangers of science and technology

Stephen King: Carrie A tale of a girl with telekinetic powers and her dreadful revenge...

Takashi Matsuoka: Cloud of Sparrows A tale of a Japanese nobleman with a prophetic gift in the firstyears of the fall of the Shogunati

Fyodor Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment Great literary accomplishmente about the crude homicide commitedby a student and it's consequences... a pearl in Russian literature

Henry James: Daisy Miller Wonderful psychological novel set around a young american girl visiting europe.

Charles Dickens: David Coperfield The tale of young David, a orphan boy in Victorian England

Bram Stoker: Dracula The most famous vampire in gothic literature & cinematography...

Honore De Balzak: Eugenie Grandet A wonderful novel about the virtuous daughter of a greedy Barrel-maker

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club The story of this book is quite similar from it\'s cinematographical version... except for the end! It's one of the best modern books of the last few years

Isaac Asimov: Foundations A MUST read. SF Triology (at first later amplified by Asimov andhis disciples).

Mary Shelley: Frankestein: The Modern Prometeus A classic tale... a scientists creates a creature that eventually rebels to its creator

Giorgio Bassani: Gli Occhiali d'Oro (The Golden Glasses) The story told by a jewish student (in first person), a n homosexual doctor and racism in Fascist Italy before WWII

Edgar Allan Poe: Gordon Pym Arthur Gordon Pym lives incredible adventures in the seas near Antartica and shipwreckes in the hellish Island of Tsalal. It describes the most allucinating and horrible moments one can live during the life on high seas...

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations The tale of a boy who is aided in his quest to become a gentleman by a secret person

Howard Philip Lovecraft: Herbert West: Re-animator The gothic tale from the prince of horror himself about a scientists who discovers a formula to re-animate the dead and starts a macabre series of experiments.

Anna Frank: Het Achterhuis (The Diary of Anna Frank) The diary of a Jewish girl hidden in a building in Amsterdam during World War II

Alessandro Manzoni: I Promessi Sposi A tales of two people who struggle to get married, set in 17th century North Italy, the first 'modern' Italian novel

Cesare Pavese: Il Fu Mattia Pascal (The former Mattia Pascal) A classic. The tale of a man who addopts a new identity...

Sir William Scott: Ivanoe An epic tale of knights and heroes in medieval England. The first \'modern\' English novel

Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston, Seagull The story of a seagull who discovers that flying is more than a means to get food. A spiritual and inspiring tale.

W. Elsschot: Kaas (Cheese) A Dutch classic about a Cheese business that goes wrong

Carlo Sgorlon: La Conchiglia di Anatai With a title that reminds a tropical setting (the Shell of Anatai) this book is set in cold Siberia just before the Comunist revolution and tells the adventures of Friulan (North Italian) people that build the famous trans-Siberian railway

Dante Alighieri: LA Divina Commedia A MUST read for the Italian literature... a tale in Lyrics overthe voyage of the author through Hell,Purgatory and Paradise...

Cesare Pavese: La Luna e i Falo` (The moon and the campfires) A novel where the main character returns to Sicily after havingfound his fortune in America and begins a useless and painful journey to find himself...

Primo Levi: La Tregua (The Truce) The sequel to 'Se Questo E` un Uomo' where Levi tells about theodyssey of his journey home after the liberation from the concentration camp...

Guido Piovene: Le Stelle Fredde The plot of the book itself it's easy to riassume, because onlyfew events truly occur, but around this thin plot an intricate moral analysis is built

Franz Kafka: Letter to the Father A letter by Franz to his father (meant to be read by the public)

Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit The tale of a girl who enters in service of a houshold with dark secrets

Flaubert: Madame Bovary A tale of romance, adultery and death in 19th century provincialFrance

Jane Austin: Mansfield Park The story of a girl addopted by her rich aunt and uncle, a superb tale by "dear aunty Jane"

Mineko Iwazaki: My Life as Geisha Biography of one of the most famous Geisha, now retired

Tiziano Sclavi: Nero A noir tale of murder and identity changes

Sienkiewicz Henryk: Quo Vadis An epoic love story set in Iperial Rome at the time of Nero's persecution of Chistianity

Primo Levi: Se Questo E` un Uomo (If This Is a Man) Levi tells about his experiences: his capture by the Nazis, thetime in Aushwitz and the liberation.

Maupessant: Tales Tales with a taste for the unusual and the grotesque

George Orwell: The Animal Farm Another warning against comunism by Orwell with a superb allegoric tale

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Counterbury Tales A MUST read of English literature

Aldous Huxley: The Devils of Loudon An historical novel about the trial and burning of a priest accused of being possesed by the devil after he seduced several nuns in the 17th century

Aldous Huxley: The Devils of Loudon The reconstruction of the mass-hysteria in 17th century France about the burning of a priest accused of satanism and witcraft

Edgar Allan Poe: The Golden Scarab A treasure hunt... with a twist!

Edgar Allan Poe: The Golden Scarab and other Tales Logical, allucinating, dark... these are the features of Poe\'stales (and novels), truly masterpieces, surpassed I think only by his poetry

A.J. Cronin: The Keys of the Kingdom The adventures of a Catholic Priest in China at the end of the Imperial age

Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis A surrealistic novel over a man who wakes up as a giant bug, signifying Kafka's isolation from the world

Isaac Asimov: The Naked Sun A SF/mistery novel where an Eart policemen is called by the Space people to solve an apparently easy case of murder...

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea A tale in a tropical setting about an old fishermen and his tragedy...

Franz Kafka: The Penal Colony and other Tales Many are the tales by Kafka... all syurrealistic and wonderful

Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray A person immortalized in a picture is everyoung and it is the picture that gets old and ugly...

Franz Kafka: The Process Joseph K. is suddenly brought before a misterious tribunal for an unknown crime...

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises A partially autobiographic tale about a WWI veteran costrained to platonic love by a wound that goes to a Spanish Festival

H.G. Wells: The Time Machine A classic. A scientist invents a time machine and travels eons into the future.

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw A mater piece! The story of a young nanny who tries to save twoyoung children from two ghosts... but are the ghosts real or only in her mind?

Emile Zola: Therese Rasquin A novel who departs from the 19th century romanticism and is thebeginning of Zola's anatomy of the human soul and passions

Sascia: Una Storia Semplice What in the surface appears to be an easy case is really an intricate conspiracy...

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Poem 8: Petali di Vetro

Poem 8:  Petali di Vetro

Ricordi, ombre senza nome
che s'allungano e scompaiono
nell'imbrunire cupo e tetro
portati dal vento del vespro
il qual carezza la mia pelle,
sporca del sangue del tramonto.
Sì, la mia mente or vagola
ne' meandri del tempo antico,
polvere cerebrale fissa,
scossa dal pensiero mobile,
danza di nebbia perlacea
che si dirada con lentezza,
cedendo alla riminescenza.
Allor piovono irridescenti
petali di vetro icastico
che su frantumano nell'autunno
della vita mia che marcisce
in uno squallore variopinto
come foglie morte e obliate
de' frassini spogli e rigidi.
In frantumi, petali di vetro,
scintille d'una fiamma nuova
la quale brilla all'orizzonte
dove il cielo incontra la terra,
amplesso immobile e beffardo,
specchio di venesia chimera
che parla di miglior vita.

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Una poesia particolare e piuttosto simbolica... spero che vi piaccia.

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Yay for Negativity

Being negatvie paid off.

Now thanks to my paranoia and woeful thinking I managed (I hope) to get my salary THIS month (or at least a part of it...)

So bugger off you positivists   cuz if I was an optimists I would srill be waiting like a dumbass.

F.

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Damn all burocrats to hell!

Damn them indeed ALL TO HELL!

Today I check my bank account and I am in RED >__>
Since I should have got my paycheck at least 5 days ago I go to the P&O department to ask.... and YES... they ARE morons. My contract says I start 1 September, and I did, yet in their PC some secretary with no brains put in the Paycheck database that I started 1st of Oktober, next month >__>

All right, I will get the money from this month (NEXT month, I hope! now apparently it is too late.. maybe they will give me part of it , but of course I'll need to run in 4 different places... ) yet it is vvery inconvenient... I really needed that money also to buy a new phone since the one I have does not work anymore....

No end of the world, but certainly irritating, especially if you needed that money hard.
And then they ask why the world is going down the drain...

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Starting on a new project, a SF-novel called "Bleak Dawn"

I finisched to read (or read again actually after many years) "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov. I have all 7 novels on the Foundation series (bought last month, aunaware of burocratic suckage). Starting now to read "Foundation and Empire".  Asimov Rules!

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Competition: The Muse for the Artist- La Musa per l'Artista

This artist is looking for inspiration and needs a muse

Competition:

Looking for a Muse to inspire the artist (me, that is). If you want to apply give your name (or nick), motivation and description of yourself and everything else you think might be necessary (thoughts, drawings, pictures, whatever you want).

Send all to my e-mail: entropy3ko@yahoo.com 

 

Questo artista ha bisogno di ispirazione ed ha bisogno di una musa

Concorso:

Cercasi Musa per ispirare l'artista (ovvero il sottoscritto). Se volete la posizione date nome (o nick), motivazione ed una descrizione di voi stessi e qualsiasi altra cosa pensiate sia necessaria (pensieri, disegni, foto, quel che volete).

Mandate tutto al mio e-mail: entropy3ko@yahoo.com 

Good Luck!

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Entropy

What is Entropy? Most people do not know (or THINK they know but they do not) so I will explain the concept, trying to minimize the math (as a matter of fact I put in only 2 equations )

It is also my favorite concept and one of the most importants in physics.

ENTROPY: (according to Boltzmann's definition) a measure of the number of possible microscopic states (or microstates) of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium, consistent with its macroscopic thermodynamic properties (or macrostate).

The entropy (fora macrostate) S is defined as:

S= k*Ln( X )

where k is Boltzmann's constant and X is the number of microstates in a certain macrostate.

Entropy can also be seen as a measurement of chaos, but chaos and entropy are NOT the same concept! Entropy is often used as a synonim of chaos in literary works, but scientifically they are two different things.


As a 'function of state' it is defined as:

dS= dE/T

where E is the energy of a a system and T the (absolute) temperature.

Entropy always increases (or stays the same) and NEVER (!!!) decreases. This is also the second law of thermodynamics, which influences all fields of physics, from quantum chromodynamics to cosmology.

{{The second law of thermodynamics is a law of thermodynamics that states that all work tends towards the production of greater entropy over time. Since the universe is tending towards a greater entropy (expanding over time, with lower energy density), all work processes within the universe also tend towards a greater entropy. The second law of thermodynamics is based on the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) and the fact that the universe is expanding.

In physics, the second law of thermodynamics, in its many forms, is a statement about the quality and direction of energy flow, and it is closely related to the concept of entropy. This law and its derivatives, such as the law of friction, define the arrow of time: most other physical laws are time-reversal invariant.}}


End.

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Poem 7 - Bellezza Vuota

Poem 7 - Bellezza Vuota


Esplode dentro di me
Questo sentimento che
Mi porta nell’oscurità
Oltre questa realtà
Dove io attanagliato
Ho qui sempre dimorato
Rinchiuso nel dolore
Mio unico dolce fiore…
Ed inni son cantati
Nel marciume danzati
Da vuote bamboline
Cosi belle e carine
Regine di falsità
Corruzione e nullità
Che portan distruzione
Lacrime ed afflizione…
Morte fossi tu fine
Ed ultimo confine
Io ti cercherei allora
Adesso, qui ed ora
Ma nuovo inizio porti
Tu, traguardo de’ sorti
Nel crudele mio mondo
Un nero girotondo…
Spirano le speranze
Antiche rimiranze
In questa sofferenza
Priva d’ogni clemenza
La morte s’avvicina
Nell’alba mattutina
E sento con furore
Il dolor che mai muore…
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Poem 6: Mi Sveglio...

Poem 6: Mi Sveglio...


Mi sveglio…
In questa stanza buia
Perso nell’oscurità
Tra queste mura sconosciute
Cerco la chiave che schiude
La porta del mio cuore
Per liberarmi da questa prigione
Ma da se stessi
Non si può fuggire
Si può solo vivere o morire
Tra queste pene
Queste orribili catene…

Mi sveglio…
E vedo gli occhi tuoi
Vedo le ombre danzare
Sulle candide pareti
In questo gioco pazzo
Che tu continui a giocare

Giorno dopo giorno
Ma il dado non getterò più
La fortuna non sorriderà più
Invece veglierò nella notte
Per fuggire gl’incubi
Che tu mi hai portato…


Mi sveglio…
Nel gelo dell’anima mia
Con solo il tuo ricordo
Di come ha rubato
La gioia e l’amore
E come hai lasciato
Solo la tristezza ed il dolore
Ma non più sentirò
Se non il vuoto che
Oramai trionfa in me
In questa stanza buia
Da dove non si può fuggire…

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Poem 5: La Bambola di Porcellana

Poem 5: La Bambola di Porcellana

Danza la luce
Sul tuo niveo volto
E si rifrangono i colori
Cadendo ne’ tuoi occhi
Ed il tuo sguardo
Nero come i cristalli d’onice
Mi penetra nel profondo
La dove nessuno osa andare
Negli abissi del cuore muto
Ed io silenzioso osservo le tue labbra
Altrettanto silenti, ma soavi e dolci
Che senza verbo parlano
Di quel che vedo nelle tue iridi
Del tuo dolore
Della tua tristezza
Che nessuna parola può esprimere
Ed in questo insano fluire
Di inutili parole
Tu sei poesia
Sei la melodia
Tra mille note stonate
E quando sorridi
Il mondo si ferma
Nel palmo della tua mano
Mentre incanti le stelle
Con la tua pallida bellezza
Che s’imprime come un marchio
Sullo sfondo ceruleo dell’universo…
Se solo i miei occhi
Potessero scandagliare l’infinito
Allora vedrei,
Capirei,
Il frammento di sole
Che porti in te….
Ma sono cieco
E solo l’odio vedo
Che l’uomo porta meschinamente
Contro quel ch’e` puro
Mai pero tu ti frantumerai
Oh bella bambolina
Mai s’incrinerà la tua porcellana
Tu splendido diamante
Non cesserai mai di risplendere
Nemmeno nel buio
Tu candido astro
Ti spegnerai…

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Questa poesia l'ho scritta per una amica, che mi aveva chiesto se le dedicavo una poesia...

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