Personal
Some trivia, in random order.
- There exists an asteroid 7258 Pettarin, apparently named after the amateur astronomer Enrico Pettarin. I have no direct connection with him. I do not have any relationships with Guido Germano Pettarin, Germano Pettarin, nor with the football player who has my same first name.
- I do not use social media platforms (Meta/TikTok/X/etc.), except for LinkedIn. So beware of requests for friendship from someone claiming to be me! (And please do not send me the stock invitation to set up an account.)
- During high school, I was used to play tennis on the beautiful clay courts of my hometown but after a knee accident I switched to amateur road biking. In my last season before University, I covered nearly 10,000 Km in a year. Now I switched to spinning and indoor rowing as my daily physical activities.
- I enjoy cooking (especially baking cakes and pastry in general), visiting art museums and collections, reading (preferring essays over novels and poetry), watching movies (especially spaghetti western movies or Sergio Leone movies), and listening to music.
- My mother was born in Rigolato, a small village near Sappada, in the most Eastern part of the Dolomites. I still spend part of the summer vacations there, doing maintenance at my grandparents’ house and woods, and /hiking.
- Since I moved to Turin in 2017, I started hiking in Piedmont and Val D’Aosta.
- I really enjoy learning about linguistics, typography and human traditions across different cultures, especially drinking some good tea or coffee.
- First computer: an Olivetti PC with an 8088 Intel processor (4.33 MHz), 512 KB RAM, 20 MB HDD, EGA 16 colors graphic card (circa 1990).
- Current PCs: Lenovo ThinkPad P14s (Linux) and Lenovo ThinkPad L13 2-in-1 (Windows).
- Other PCs: I still use daily my old Lenovo ThinkPad X260, and still keep a Lenovo ThinkPad X120e, an Asus EeePC S101, and a 2011 Mac Mini converted to Linux, all in working conditions. And lots of Raspberry Pi boards, of course!
- A valid English anagram of my name and surname is triptane bloater.
- While in the U.S., for nearly 10 months my housemate was Andy Pavlo, from whom I learnt all I know about baseball and street jargon. Quite surprisingly, I managed to avoid that trip to a shooting range…