{do flatlanders dream of n-dimensional shapes?}

I tried to pretend I didn’t notice but when tag count reached four it became difficult. So here’s my “seven facts”. But first, the Rules:

• Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged.

That said…

1. I’m not fanatic about optimizing code but I’ll shave every gram I can out of my baggage. Current target is a single 6kg (down from 8kg) carry-on bag for trips of indefinite time.
2. I hate being woken up by the alarm at 10:00 and love being woken up by sunlight at 5:00.
3. I’ve been a computer geek for two thirds of my life but a programmer for “just” one. What got me started on programming was building harps. (Yeah, the musical thingies.) You can go with paper calculations when making a violin (four strings) or a guitar (six), but mis-designing half a hundred strings in a harp means either a floppy sound or a very loud one… when the instrument implodes. Sometimes you really want a computer to help out.
4. I sleep on a tatami mat and walk barefoot whenever I can. For some reason small disconnections from the ground bother me much more than serious ones.
5. I’m one of the six Italians who rarely drink coffee and don’t care about soccer.
6. I know a better answer than 42.
7. I don’t like the N-things meme because I’m always at a loss when I get to the nth-thing.

And here are my victims:

1. Don, because he invited John Gilmore for a talk on the day I was leaving for a vacation, and this is my way of punishing him.
2. Peter, because he’s proof that being a superstar and an incredibly nice guy is possible.
3. Irakli, because it’s like looking back in time.
4. Simone, who knows the art of making people feel welcome.
5. Paolo, because I haven’t spoken to him in ages.
6. Oleg, because people like him is the best that can happen to an open source community.
7. Luke, because he has no clue how much of an influence he is (if I end up trying unicycling, you know whose fault it is).