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Marco Cimarosti's Personal Home Page

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting my tiny Web-space on GeoCities.

This particular page is dedicated to personal information about myself -- but I guess that this is not right the most exciting information on the Web...

If you came here from The Lowest Protocol, information about the author is possibly what you were looking for. If, instead, you have been teleported here by some search motor, sorry for having used too often the words you were looking for!

Well, my name is Marco Cimarosti, and I am an Italian baby-boomer: I was born in 1963 (September 17th: a Virgo) in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial city near Milan (also known as "the Northern Stalingrad" because of the heroic resistance that the inhabitants opposed to nazis and fascists during world war II).

I should have been a graphic designer (that's what I studied for at the high school) but, while studying to specialize in computer graphics, I realized that I was sick of visuality and loved registers and pointers. So, I dropped the graphics and joined the computer, and I am now a programmer for a living.

In the meanwhile, I kept practising the other passions of my life: a few gals, some politics, and all languages. Among languages, I always loved best the ones that use tricky writing systems (e.g. Chinese: the first language that I studied without being forced to).

OK: that's all. In case anybody has anything to say to a guy whose life only takes three short paragraphs, my e-mail is

cima@geocities.com.

Unless you are an employer, and are looking for a programmer, in which case you may be interested in my
curriculum vitae!

	Bravo! The nice litle icons that identify my sections are not the result of my toil: for these, I must say thanks (and bravo) to the authors of the WWW sites throughout the world from where I have "stolen" the pictures. And -- shame on me! -- not only I am guilty of larceny: I'm also liable of damages to art for having turned the original beautiful pictures in the background-less, hard-to-see tiny stamps that you see on my page. The least I can do to be forgiven by the clever authors (and by my guests themselves) is to give anybody the opportunity to see the unabridged pictures and the great pages to which they belong.
	The Lowest Protocol's logo is a charming cuneiform tablet from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, at the Emory University. I hope the text won't disappoint you. It reads: "For Bama: 5 qt. beer, 5 qt. bread, 5 oz. onions, 3 oz, oil, 2 oz. alkali; For Baza the menial and Lugal-sazu: the same amount, For Su-Esdar: 10 qt. beer, 10 qt. bread, 5 oz. onions, 3 oz. oil, 2 oz. alkali; For Mas: 5 qt. beer, 5 qt. bread, 5 oz. onions, 3 oz. oil, 2 oz. alkali; For Ubarum: 3 qt. beer; 2 qt. bread, 56 oz. onions, 3 oz. oil, 2 oz. alkali. Date: Amar-Suen 7, 2040 b.C." The six governor's messengers never imagined that their travel expenses would have made a much longer travel than they ever did. In 1989, infact, NASA took the tablet on a shuttle for a journey in outer space. (Why? Spaceships must be something out of my comprehension).
	This strange animal is a taotie or a "beast of gluttony". Belive it or not, in ancient China this pet, "ferocious a sight as it was, conveyed mystery and beauty". You can apreciate the full-size taotie, along with other beautiful ancient bronzes, in an interesting article in Traditional Chinese Culture in Taiwan.
	This little bronze model of a Phoenician ship is the front page picture in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). If you like archaeology or are planning a travel to Sardinia, this site is full of interesting pictures, nicely explained in Italian and English.
	When I first saw this nice view of the Taj Mahal on Information on India, I thought it was a photograph! If you need information about India, this site by Sridhar Venkataraman and its newest version by Dinesh Venkatesh, are the best places to look in.
	Will you ever be able to forgive me? I can't remeber where this little blue astroship comes from: not only the URL; I can't even tell the planet (Klingon? Vulcan? Terra?). The only thing that I can say is that is comes from the public domain pictures collection of a British university -- thanks UK!
	This famous statue of an Egyptian scribe is the logo of the Centre for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research: a software-house that any egyptologist should be glad to know about. The older icon for this sections was a picture of the disk of Phaistos: an enigmatic documents for which A. Kaulins, has an explanation.
	Last but not least, this little but necessary icon comes from the home page of my neighbour Jinming Li at Tokyo 1760.