Mirko's points and mumblings

Lancia had been working undercover in a project called 037. It was a rally car based on the Lancia Montecarlo sports coupe, which had been beautifully styled by the legendary Pininfarina design studio, which was behind the design of every Ferrari built since the 1950s.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/a-classic-duel-in-the-1980s/

The story of how marshalling became virtualized

This episode is also available as a blog post: 

https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/100-articles-a-chronicle-of-the-advance-of-digitalization-in-the-process-industry/

And in LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/100-articles-chronicle-advance-digitalization-process-mirko/

A group of soldiers are firing a gun, which is angry at the sky...

The story of the Mazda 787B, the first Japanese car to win the 24 hours of Le Mans. 

The consequences of global warming are undeniable.

An experience of an 8-year-old kid, 46 years later…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2021/10/02/the-ninth/

Last Friday I was doing some research for my next article (it feels so good either writing or telling this phrase) when suddenly a message appeared in my LinkedIn account...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2021/09/27/an-unexpected-phone-call/

After watching "Greyhound", an incredibly good movie about antisubmarine warfare in WWII, I fell in love with the actual hero of the story. Not Tom Hanks, but the USS ¨Keeling¨ (call name ¨Greyhound¨), the Fletcher-class destroyer under Ernest Krause´s command, a delightful performance from Tom Hanks, who is becoming the Spencer Tracy of the XXI century. Given my current fascination with scale modelling, I got a set of Polish-made papercraft templates that will enable anybody with enough patience to build a 1:200 scale model of a Fletcher. More precisely, the US ¨Leutze¨ DD-481.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/the-great-fletcher-experiment/

This story was inspired by a discussion thread in a sci-fi Facebook group.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/the-present/

A mountaineer’s story

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2021/09/07/a-mountaineers-story-2/