Tuesday, September 22, 2009

How Long Can A Cat Go Without Eating



Tramonto su Salonicco
Greece is a delusion-European. I am attending a conference in Thessaloniki (ICAPS09) and for the first time I set foot in Greece. The first impression, getting off the plane, is to find in Naples Capodichino, however, as if it were 10 years ago when you had to walk the track to reach the terminal, even the heat is the same and on the bottom, to complete ' analogy, behind the town, a mountain of the same shape of the Somma-Vesuvius.
affects the noise and chaos of the machines throughout South Asia. Especially surprising signs for trade: a strange juxtaposition of greek alphabet with the Latin alphabet. It seems that in the rush to join the rest of the Western world, have made a partial transition. The writings in English reveal desire to adapt to capitalism which here loses all meaning. "Free way" and "Beauty Shop", "Helen's and other stores by the foreign name sound like us, fake, except that here the contrast with the Greek characters traditionally used makes this more obvious aping.
homeland of Alexander and Philip, now Macedonia has committed itself not to spread its culture throughout the known world or conquer the great Persian Empire, now in Macedonia is committed to giving its name to universities, airports, bridges and schools to emphasize a "copyright" apparently usurped the Republic of Macedonia, not far from care and independent Greece.
In our immense tree-monolith in front of the bay, the conference went to the big time, offering meetings with old friends and buena onda to talk. Like that, the speculation of the '70s and even helped.

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