From the computer to the chessboard to the amateur radio universe with Gabriele

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From the computer to the chessboard to the amateur radio universe with Gabriele

Aaron’s Opinion

1 hour 44 minutes

3 months ago

From the computer to the chessboard to the amateur radio universe with Gabriele

Here I am, as promised, with a few words about myself and my life. I am 50 years old, and I have been blind since birth due to bilateral congenital glaucoma. I spent the first 6 years of my life on a forced tour of many hospitals across Europe. My father worked 14-hour days at sea, and my mother was very young, just 21, spoke only Italian, and was very shy with little formal education. And I never slept, moving between one operating room and another, an experiment for medical students and various surgeons.

After finishing my mandatory schooling, I moved to Bologna. I taught myself computer science, some English and Spanish for traveling, and I started to get around. Africa, India, Thailand, Madagascar, the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. I got to know many other blind people and started with BXC (Baseball for the Blind), which was invented here in Bologna in 1994. I got my amateur radio license in 1996, was assigned the call sign IZ4APU, and immediately became a huge enthusiast of CW (Morse code), which I practice almost exclusively.

But my greatest passion is technology, computer science, the future, automation, languages, and programming.

I'm a fan of Star Trek and good science fiction in general. I'm an avid reader of books and a listener of podcasts.

I am not married, and I don't believe in marriage. I'm curious about the idea of being a father, but I'm also doing fine as I am now, without a partner or children: you can do what you want without having to lie and without cages made of invisible bars. I've had many romantic relationships, but I never wanted to walk the conventional path that the world expects everyone to follow. As a person, I consider myself very unconventional: sincere to an almost pathological degree, profoundly free. I thrive on the fascination of ideas and the beauty of their interplay; this is also why I believe chess is the most beautiful game ever invented by man.

All the best,

Gabe.

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