■ Introductions
Name's Paolo, I'm a 26yo medschool undergrad with a strong passion for
neuroscience, infectious diseases and pathology. I live South of Rome,
in a nice area known for its cuisine and its compelling landscapes. I've
grown up in close contact with nature and will hardly tolerate spending
more than few days in the frantic and polluted life of the Italian
capital city.
■ Beliefs
While I lean towards atheism, I find it hard to identify with it, as I
retain some sort of spirituality and veneration for the inherent mystery
of life. I like to think all creatures are linked together by the steady
stream of becoming.
From a philosophical and ethical standpoint, I may consider myself an
existentialist or a postmodernist, given my sympathy for Simone de
Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida and alikes. However, it must be noted that
those definitions are burdened by non-negligible semantic limits.
Politically speaking, I have no serious interest in current politics, I
often tend to catch up on news late, and that's indeeed a bad habit of
mine. That said, I sympathize for anarcho-socialism, and I like the idea
of communalism and cooperatives, although I reckon such models would
prove hard if not impossible to apply on a larger scale to the reality
of modern countries, at least not in the short term, and not without a
profound and radical change.
I am vegetarian, looking forward to turning full vegan in future. My
choice was driven by both ethical and ecological considerations.
■ Plans
I'm currently working on a thesis which involves the use of voxel-based
morphometry (MRI post-processing) to study the impact of chronic pain on
certain brain areas among people struggling with trigeminal
neuralgia.
In keeping with this, I hope to become a neurology
resident next year, providing I will score high enough at the national
exam.
I would love to go on trip, alone as I've done in the past, possibly
using an Interrail ticket or even better by getting involved in
something like WWOOF. This is, obviously assuming the pandemic will be
on the verge of its demise somewhere in a not too far future.
■ Pastime
I like classic literature, but also sci-fi and post-cyberpunk novels
(currently onto the 2nd chapter of the Altered Carbon Trilogy), as well
as seinen/psychological manga. I'm also an avid poetry reader.
As a former inline hockey player, I like hanging around town on
roller-blades. I also love skiing, swimming at the lake, especially at
sunrise, walking and mountain biking in woods.
I'm addicted to music and my headphones never leave me no matter where I
go; there's always a good soundtrack to accompany my journey. I'm
especially into progressive rock and metal, but also appreciate indie,
folk, blues, reggae and classical music.
I have a strong interest in computer science, UNIX, FOSS, networking,
privacy, self-hosting, decentralization, lisp, retrocomputing,
alternative protocols, (Free)DOS gaming and development. My home server
consists of a bunch of ARMv8 boards running NetBSD. My inclination for
minimalism eventually led me to discover communities revolving around
public access unix shells, like SDF or GREX, tildes, newsgroup servers,
Gopher/Gemini, BBSs and XMPP.
I like cooking (simple dishes from the Italian tradition, sometimes
adapted to be vegetarian) and I've been told I'm actually a good cook;
well, I won't deny good feedbacks are always welcome!
■ Misc
