it's a small world! many of us (including myself) start enjoying drinking green tea ... S.
On May 5, 2010, at 4:45 AM, Huiqun Zhou wrote: > Although most chinese used to drink green tea, now we have vending machine > that serves > espresso on every floor of our teachoing building and Starbucks is spreading > in the city, too. > > Let's further enjoy "espresso" in a coffee house or on our super computer! > > > Huiqun Zhou > @Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stefano Baroni > To: PWSCF Forum > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:02 AM > Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] a question about the name ESPRESSO > > PPS: although a bit outdated, "espresso" is actually an adjective. It used to > mean "made on purpose" or "made on demand". This is the origin of the > expression (note the common root of the words!) "espresso coffee", which is > made on demand, rather than filtered and kept hot in a kettle. I think that > it is because of its association with "coffee on demand" that at some > pointthe word "espresso" came to mean "swift", or "quick" (because brewing > espresso coffee is much faster than making filter coffee). As a matter of > fact, the fastest Italian trains when I was a kid were named "espresso". So, > "Quantum ESPRESSO" alludes to a blend of all these meanings: tasty (as good > coffee), fashionable (as many Italian goods), user friendly (ready on > demand), swift and powerful (as espresso trains), tech savy (as Illy coffee), > a bit understating (you don't drink espresso coffee in very elegant cafes, > but you can find small coffee places with a great reputation for their > espresso), keeping awake/alive (as strong coffee should: please, notice the > contrast with "siesta"). SB > > On May 4, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: > >> PS: the one hiding himself behind the camera is Roberto Car >> >> On May 4, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Nicola Marzari wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Dear L F Huang, >>> >>> Trieste (where the code originates) is the main shipping port in Italy >>> for coffee >>> imports, and the city has a long tradition of coffee houses and of >>> coffee producers >>> (the beans themselves are grown elsewhere). >>> >>> The most famous of these companies is "Illy", that is extremely tech savy - >>> this below is an article that the company founder wrote a few years ago >>> for "Scientific >>> American": http://www.podmerchant.com/coffee/complexity-of-coffee.pdf >>> >>> What might intrigue you is that we invented the name while waiting in >>> Beijing airport a flight to Xi'an - we were in Beijing for a summer school >>> at the institute of physics (2004), and we decided to spend the weekend in >>> the old capital. >>> >>> Here is the team at work - I believe Shobhana, Ralph and Carlo are >>> missing, among those that were there : >>> http://quasiamore.mit.edu/personal/xian/espresso.jpg >>> >>> nicola >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Prof Nicola Marzari Department of Materials Science and Engineering >>> 13-5066 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA >>> tel 617.4522758 fax 2586534 marzari at mit.edu http://quasiamore.mit.edu >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pw_forum mailing list >>> Pw_forum at pwscf.org >>> http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum >> >> --- >> Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste >> http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni >> (skype) >> >> La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la >> pens?e - Jean Piaget >> >> Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments >> Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pw_forum mailing list >> Pw_forum at pwscf.org >> http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum > > --- > Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste > http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni > (skype) > > La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la > pens?e - Jean Piaget > > Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments > Why? 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