I am a reluctant citizen of facebook .

One of my favorite spots on earth is Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. Coincidentally, I was born and raised there . It has less than 10 streets with a slope of more than 10 degrees. That's a carefully designed feature, so that everyone can see everyone else when we go out for coffee. Still, some people make fun of the flatness, I believe because they are jealous of us being able to see mount Olympus (known as "home of gods") literally from our balconies. Indeed, I have had lunch and occasionally gone clubbing with the godess of wisdom Athena, I've even met Zeus (once king, now president of gods), but somehow Aphrodite avoids me persistently.  Larissa's suburbs extend to hundreds of kilometers, and they include a town called Athens in the southern suburbs, and a town called Thessaloniki in the northern suburbs.  Larissa has a couple of millenia of notable history in theatre. A proof is the ancient theatre , right on my home's street. During childhood I got to see a few great plays. I also got to see a few great games, as Larissa is home of a historic soccer team . It didn't really use to be historic when I was born, so I got to see some history making too.

Another favorite and beautiful place where I spent summers and holidays is Lampero, Karditsa, Greece, where my father grew up, and where I last exercised my voting right in 1996. Lampero has more than 20 streets with a slope of more than 20 degrees. It also has less than 22 streets total. That's a carefully designed feature to keep people fit and therefore alive for ever. Indeed, I've met  people there, whose estimated age is at least 200 years; a somewhat old lady across my grandparent's house is curently expecting her great-great grandchild. Lampero is near Plastira's lake , an artificial lake where among else, there used to be a military airport, and my grandfather owned a small piece of land. It's becoming increasingly touristic, as Greeks -especially people from the southern suburbs of Larissa- realize that Greece has its own Alpes.

As of 2010, I've lived an estimated 33.333% of my life in the great city of Pittsburgh, hanging out mostly around Carnegie Mellon University . Pittsburgh is a cool and occasionally cold city, especially recommended if you're younger than 25 or older than 35. In 2010,  I intend to leave temporarily, as I am approaching 25. After I leave, the Steelers will realize how much they need me, since they've won every single one of their four games I've watched, including two superbowls. They will offer me a huge contract to get me back in town just to watch games.  For future recollection, I've kept a small collection of Pittsburgh moments taken from PostGazette.

It's getting old, but I still find it somewhat entertaining when Google changes its logo. I am curious about Fortune Cookie statistics, so I was keeping a collection of some cookies I received. From the size of the collection, you can tell I obviously haven't had too much asian food in my life, but enough to have witnessed the same cookie appearing twice on the same table. I am really bored of boredom, which is informally defined as the high entropy state of our state of mind as a function of our social interactions. In heterogeneous groups of loose acquaintances, the lack of affiliation forming material is very striking - and you notice it when the conversation converges to food and restaurants. In my effort to combat these awkward moments, my favorite weapon are off-beat comments or citing weird and popular science articles . I am very analytic and I believe in science, which however sometimes fails...