Archive for September, 2009

thoughts on the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh

Friday, September 25th, 2009

I only joined three public protests in my life.
The first protest was happening in February 1987, socialist Romania, under the dictatorship of Ceaușescu, in the city of Iași, a spontaneous protest ran by some (a few hundred) of the “Al.I.Cuza” University and “Ghe. Asachi” Politechnical Institute students, asking for a better administration of local resources [...]

the G20 meeting agenda

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

first, a vocabulary fix:
“stand out from the crowd”:
this applies only if you belong for the moment to an uneducated the crowd; if the crowd is educated, you want to belong to it; whatever your status is, this expression is a bootstrap proposal.
“market knows better”:
If A can’t predict B, then of course one can say B [...]

intalnirea de 20 ani, concluzii din mers

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

O bună ocazie să zic ceva recapitulativ conaționalilor:
Am plecat (fără bursă, fără pile, am aplicat direct pe oferte de pe web, tot în cercetare) din România în 1999, din poziția de cercetător în fizică la IFT Iași, de oboseală: Statu’ Român ne hărțuia cu finanțarea și salariile din 1996. Planu’ era să’mi iau un mic [...]