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Arcobaleno
May 21, 2015 // Posted in weather | No Comments
It was sunny this morning, and then started to rain… And then the sun came back again… Ideal situation for a rainbow, and in fact, before dinner, we noticed this lovely and coulored rainbow. Something magic for a baby like Lorenzo, really surprised and excited because of this.
Pompieropoli
May 19, 2015 // Posted in Lorenzo | 2 Comments
Lorenzo, as almost all the little boys, love firefighters. So, last Sunday, we had to go to Pompieropoli, an event where actual firefighters introduced little boys to their activities. And Lorenzo, as expected, was very happy about this experience.
Semplicemente Linux
May 16, 2015 // Posted in Geek | No Comments
mencoder tv:// -tv channel=0:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1:normid=5:input=0:width=720:height=576:norm=PAL:fps=25:alsa:adevice=hw.1:forceaudio:brightness=0:contrast=0:hue=0:saturation=0:buffersize=256 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=5:threads=2:turbo:nochroma_me:vhq=0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -endpos 04:10:00 -o output.avi
To grab video and audio from old origina VHS (Disney movies) and convert them in digital format is something tricky. But we need to do that to save some old VHS while our old VCR is still working. We bought this hardware, and we gave a try in Windows environment, but we were not lucky. Some issue with the audio, or some issue with the compression. At the end we moved back to Linux (a new Debian 8 running on the old Toshiba U305) and following this link, with a simple command line we were able to do the job. Thanks Linux!!!!
mencoder tv:// -tv channel=0:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1:normid=5:input=0:width=720:height=576:norm=PAL:fps=25:alsa:adevice=hw.1:forceaudio:brightness=0:contrast=0:hue=0:saturation=0:buffersize=256 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=5:threads=2:turbo:nochroma_me:vhq=0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -endpos 04:10:00 -o output.avi
Una Fede di passaggio
May 16, 2015 // Posted in friends | No Comments
We met our friend Federica at the supermarket. She is usually living in France now, but she is spending a short period back in Pavia, and after meeting her, we invited her for a pizza. She acceptede, and she made us very happy. Lorenzo in particular enjoyed her presence, because she was very nice with him, with also a special gift. Thanks a lot, and good luck, dear Fede.
Venticinque anni fa…
May 12, 2015 // Posted in celebrations | 1 Comment
Last Sunday we met, at lunch, a bunch of old schoolmates. Twenty five years ago, the sacchibelli’s adult male component was ending the high school, and we decided to celebrate this anniversary. Many school mate were missing (so we will try to repeat the experiment in the future), but it was really nice to see again these friends. We often agree that “time is flying”, and again we had a demonstration for that; it seems yesterday, we were dudes, and now we all are men or women, still with a lot of enthusiasm, but facing any kind of issues. Life is not always easy, but remembering, with a bit of nostalgia, our past experiences, was a a nice experiment.
Quarantaquattro
May 2, 2015 // Posted in celebrations | No Comments
Today the sacchibelli male adult component turned 44. It starts to be a big number, but to celebrate it with Lorenzo and Beatrice so close, and with Silvia taking the picture is the best gift I could imagine. Thanks!!!!
L’elefante di Napoleone
May 1, 2015 // Posted in animals, Pavia | No Comments
Today, walking through the center of our town, we met a big elephant… Obviously it was not alive, but it was stuffed. It is a gift from Napoleon to the University of Pavia, and after many years, it is now in exposition at the University. Lorenzo was really impressed. And I think that we will come back many times to meet it.
Ritorno allo stadio
April 30, 2015 // Posted in family | No Comments
When I was a baby, on Sunday, I used to go to watch A.C. Pavia, the local soccer team, with my uncle (zio Piero). Then we stopped, for many reasons, but after roughly 35 years, last weekend we decided to come back to the stadium, bringing with us little Lorenzo. Today “zio Piero” is a 83 y.o. uncle, but he is in a great shape, and to come back with him to watch Pavia Calcio was a nice experience, and we felt a bit nostalgic… Please note that Pavia Calcio won, and it still could win the tournement and go up to “serie B”.
L’ultimo post?
April 23, 2015 // Posted in Geek | No Comments
No, non abbiamo intenzione di chiudere questo blog, anzi… Ma come vi abbiamo raccontato qualche post fa, abbiamo sciaguratamente accettato (2 mesi fa) di passare a un nuovo provider (sia di telefonia che di connessione a internet). Gli intoppi allora descritti sono aumentati e ora siamo al punto che domani verremo scollegati dall’attuale provider e collegati a quello nuovo. Col piccolo dettaglio che il modem che avrebbero dovuto spedire, e senza il quale la connessione e’ inservibile, non e’ mai arrivato, nonostante ripetuti solleciti… Cosi’ se spariremo per qualche giorno, sara’ solo per questa maledetta transizione di operatore…
We are not planning to switch off this blog in any way, but we are a bit worried about the migration to the new internet provider. The switch should happen tomorrow, but we still didn’t receive the modem, so we risk to stay offline for a while. But don’t worry, we will be back.
Today little Lorenzo turns three. He is our baby, so it is natural for us to consider him a special baby. But he is really special. Thanks for transforming our life, for giving us, every day, a special happiness (together with a big chaos).











