Mirko's points and mumblings
By Mirko Torrez Contreras
Mirko's points and mumblingsNov 10, 2022
A classic duel in the 1980s
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/
100 articles: A chronicle of the advance of digitalization in the process industry
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/
Pictures from Ukraine
A group of soldiers are firing a gun, which is angry at the sky...
My summer modelling project
The story of the Mazda 787B, the first Japanese car to win the 24 hours of Le Mans.
Going through a heat wave in Buenos Aires
The consequences of global warming are undeniable.
The Ninth
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/
An unexpected phone call
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/
The great Fletcher experiment
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/
The present
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/
A nice Saturday morning walk through the most exclusive neighborhood in BA
From Blaise Pascal to global warming
Cool Car of the week
A matter of weight, or how the pound survived
Cool car of the week: Lancia Stratos HF
To mux or not to mux
The ominous Tuesday the 13th, April 2021
So, what the heck is an Alpine?
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mirkotc.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/so-what-the-heck-is-an-alpine/