I am a basketball addicted, an amateur photographer and an information technology worker.
Who am I?
Talking about yourself is really difficult, I don’t know where to begin, so I try with “100 things about me” method:
[work in progress 55/100]
- My name is Luca
- My surname is Zappa
- I was born in Erba, Italy, on November 25th, 1975 at 6:30 p.m.
- I’m a Sagittarius
- I’m currently working in Reply
- I don’t believe in horoscopes
- I live in Italy
- “Luke Hoe” is the english translation of my italian name :-)
- I studied computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano
- I am a software engineer
- I love internet
- I love basketball
- My favorite Italian basketball team is Cantù
- My favorite NBA team is Utah Jazz
- My favorite NCAA basketball team is Utah Utes
- My favorite basketball player is Michael Jordan
- I love dogs
- I play (bad) basketball, I am a guard
- My favorite soft drink is coke
- My favorite alcoholic drink is Mojito
- My car is a
Volkswagen PoloAlfa Romeo Giulietta - Sydney is the best city in the world
- I like travel books
- My preferred travel writer is Bill Bryson
- I love Lonely Planet travel guidebooks
- I’ve been on the internet since 1994
- I wrote my first email in September 1994 (to myself)
- My first browser was Netscape Navigator
- Now I’m using Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefoxand sometimes Internet Explorer Safari - My first email address was lzappa@varano.ing.unico.it
- My greatest basketball moment is during the 1992 Korac Cup Final in Cantù when Pace Mannion scored four 3-points shots in a row
- My first flight was on July 1993, when I was 17. Four flights in a day (two Iberia and two Delta flights): Milan – Madrid – New York – Dallas – Las Vegas
- The cheapest flight I have ever bought is from Milan Bergamo to London Luton with Ryanair (two-way for only 2 €)
- My first computer was Commodore 64
- I wrote my first program in Basic
- I am an IT consultant
- I work in Milan
- My favorite programming language is Java
- My favorite Java editor is Eclipse
- Google is the best search engine
- My favorite tennis player is Andre Agassi
- I’m not related to Frank Zappa
- My first motorcycle was Honda Camino (terrible)
- I think that Grand Canyon (Arizona), Bryce Canyon (Utah) and Uluru (Australia) are fucking amazing
- The countries I have visited are Italy, Switzerland, French, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, Australia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Russia, Japan
- My nicknames are Luke, Frank, Onippaz, Tons, Sindaco, Zap2.0, Zaps
- My favorite food is polenta with cheese
- I think open source was, is and will be the wealth of the information technology
- I think I’ll never finish this list
- My first blog was powered by Blogger, now I’m using WordPress
- My digital camera is a
Nikon Coolpix 4300Casio EXILIM EX-Z1000Canon EOS 500D - My photo taken in Kakadu National Park (Australia) is been published in a book: “The Legend of the Dragon”
- I switched to a Mac in January 2008 and I fell in love with it
- My mobile phone is an
Apple iPhone 2GApple iPhone 3SApple iPhone 5 - I also own an iPad, an iPad Mini and a Google Nexus 7