Ars Technica destroys the iPod nano

No, really.

butterfly tango mix

butterfly tango mix, originally uploaded by Taly@.

Gardel + sunday + moi = disaster
(see above) hahaha

If you´re a masochist, listen to the song here.

I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today

No rain has to be one of my favorite songs of all times.

***

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

I like watchin' the puddles gather rain

And all I can do is just pour some tea for two

and speak my point of view

But it's not sane, It's not sane

I just want some one to say to me

I'll always be there when you wake

Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today

So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I don't understand why I sleep all day

And I start to complain that there's no rain

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake

And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape

escape......escape......escape......

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

ya don't like my point of view

ya think I'm insane

Its not sane......it's not sane

***

It is 22:07. I´m still on the newspaper. I´m starving. And I´m ok.
I realized today that if I call a person, they always think something is wrong, or I need something, or the sky may be falling. I don´t need anything. I´m ok. I just wanted to make sure you were ok. I´m pretty sure I´m the worst friend in the world, that doesnt mean I do not think of you probably several times a day. Not just because I never call. I have others ways to call. I´m always there, and the few for who I´m always there, know it. I´m always there, but I´m also in the moon. And do not know very well the earthy communication standard human methods.

Rebel with a lab...

Ow.

ID @ EDGE

Worth reading, if time to spare.

If this is the future, I do not want it :P

Nooooooooooooooo!

Who wants to be an Internet Chief Evangelist?

Oh well, Google has already hired... Vinton Cerf. No less...

140 mins +

Cómo hace que no iba al cine un miércoles.

Hoy dejé que me arrastraran. Última función.

The brotherhood of war.

I left reviews to Mr. Karreau... All I´ll say is that it is bloody, it reminded me of Saving Private Ryan, Medal of Honor and just how stupid war is.

Not that I needed any of those.

I hate it when the drama music is too obviously manipulative. Like people, now is when you´re suposed to feel sorry for them. If you´re gonna cry, now is the f´n time... And in this filme, it is. Oh well... I suppose it has its strenghts, only it was late and I was terribly tired.

War is terrible. I really didnt needed to watch another war film.

Like if the news werent enough...

Anyway.

You know you want it...

The all brand new and shiny iPod nano

GULP tiene nuevo look...

Así es, el grupo de usuarios Linux más cool de México está "up and running" again, doing the mambo thing...

Hay que inspirarse más con las encuestas, la del liderazgo espiritual del "chayo" estaba genial... jajajaja

Crazy people...

But... It is indeed awesome. I watched House of Flying Daggers, and played Ridge Racer on it.
I fell in love. I haven´t ,though, used the WiFi browsing capabilities with the 2.0 firmware, but, I still want it. Heh. $250 down...

>:*)

Weird Days (cellphone-o-less)

Hoy ha sido un día extraño desde el momento en que me desperté. ¿Ya saben como hay días en que un montón de pequeñas cosas salen mal desde que uno sale de la cama? Y es uno "de esos días"... Pero hoy todo ha sido al revés. Con pequeñas sorpresitas agradables. Oh! Funciona! Ah! Ya era hora. Y una sensación general de bienestar tan extraña... A ver... ¿estoy tomando drogas? No. A no ser que el Syncol y los antibióticos cuenten como tal. Lo que sí es que ayer me escapé temprano de la oficina. Aproveché para dormir un rato por la tarde. Visité una amiga (y sí, me senté en el porche de su casa a platicar un rato, de trivialidades, de nada, del pueblo), llegué a casa y (sabía que no podría dormir) tomé (con placer, sí con placer) un líbro de filosofía que tengo a medio leer. Me perdí pues en Spinoza, Kant, Schiller... Iba a empezar con Hegel cuando me di cuenta que era la una (en el teléfono que por cierto, tenía olvidado en la cama desde el domingo por la mañana, bendito silenciador, y una disculpa a quienquiera que me haya llamado, pero no soy esclava de esa cosa, no soy -no quiero ser-, esclava de nada). Hora de cenar, pues, y de tratar de dormir. Algo ligero. Y a ver, qué me podría dormir... Tomo un libro de cuentos mexicanos con prólogo de Monsiváis. Dicho y hecho, no soporte el prólogo, a las tres páginas puse el libro encima de uno de Cortázar, y subí a perderme en los brazos de Morfeo. El único hombre con el que me interesaba dormir. (Siempre se hace el difícil).

Worldwide Naked News (+ kazaa)

[blusa]

Jacques Chirac ya está mejor.

[shoes]

Oct 19 <--Juicio de Saddam.

[medias]

"Katrina", castigo de Dios: Al Qaeda. (I knew it)

[falda]

En Alemania probablemente gane Shroeder.

[bra]

Video de neptuno. Yei. Hubble.

[panties]

Meh. ¿Así funciona Naked News? ¿O cuál es el orden?

De todos modos aquí va la fascinación por el ícono del "Che", que NYT recoge en un artículo: Lo que sea que haya sido, ahora significa sustancia de paquetes vacacionales para turistas, y uno de los más populares atractivos de Cuba.

Tons? La cosa es completa?

Anyway, yo más bien estaba pensando en esa frase de "dice mi mamá que siempre no", ahora que Kazaa resulta que siempre sí es ilegal, bueno, en Australia. Digo, ahí es donde lo prohibieron. Quiero decir, la aplicación la deberían eliminar de la faz de la tierra por nefasta y spaywarienta, ¿pero realmente tienen la culpa del uso que le dan los, ahem, usuarios? Ellos habilitan la tecnología. Este, hablando técnicamente, los que cometen el acto ilegal son los usuarios... ¿Qué no? Bueno, el caso es que o filtran todos los contenidos protegidos, o se atienen a las consecuencias.

En Australia, es ilegal. Que tal...

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My life sucks.

Fan Mail (I wish)

HOLA COMO ESTA ESPERO QUE BIEN.....!!!!!!!
YO SOY DE NOGALES SONORA ME LLAMO XXX Y ME GUSTARIA TENER MAS
INFORMACION SOBRE INFORMATICA POR QUE TODOS LOS LUNES OCUPO ESA INFORMACION
Y AQUI SIEMPRE ESTA LA MISMA INFORMACION Y SI ME PUEDES ENVIAR LA
INFORMACION O BIEN YO TE ESCRIBIRE DESPUES.

BYE
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GRACIAS POR SU ATENCION

o.o

sh*t! The online edition. But girl, you can always download the PDF´s. Besides, who is the mean teacher who forces you to read such a horrible thing every monday.

Now I feel bad.

Fake?

Esta mañana me enviaron este screenshot de un supuesto hack a la página del gobierno de Hermosillo. Quesque tomado alrededor de las 2:00 a.m. Piden un proyecto que facilite la adquisición de portátiles para jóvenes con buenos promedios. Ámonos, jajaja.

Fake?


A propósito de hacks, aunque no tiene nada que ver, la columna de hoy de FDX, como siempre, rulz. (men, I miss my APEX!) And just to digg a little bit more (I am a pain in the ASC..II), did you guys saw how much will it cost to Sony the Blu-Ray on the PS3? I, for one, am betting on the Xbox 360 for my future winter lonely nights of dork entertainment.

Howl´s Moving Castle

A must see.

Can robots have emotions?

Dylan Evans thinks so.

NutWorks (Issue 26. July, 1989)

Highly recommendable reading.

FYA ;*)

Birthday Girl

Nah. I prefer chocolate cake. But I did liked my pink plastic phone to the right. I was three? Four? Anyway. I´m officialy 30 now. Still deep down (actually, not so deep down haha) I still am this little girl. In many ways, I have preserved the spirit. That has to count, right?

BTW I was really testing the cake mom made for me. I gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars. ;*)

Thank you for the best whishes to whoever read this. C´mon, I know you do. (You better do!!!)

I would like to think the best is to come yet. ;*) Here is to that. If not, I´ll still celebrate wth a bottle of vodka. I just hope I dont end up drunk singing old mexican songs.

Well. That´s it. They are playing "Las mañanitas " now... Stop it.

Gonna make me cry, goddamit.

:P

Forecast (Rain. No matter what)

Well, first of all, some background: Tomorrow is my birthday. Normally, that´s enough to put me on a bad, cranky mood. Now. I seem to have a hormonal revolution. That is, on top of the normal chronic depresion, insomnia, mental disorders and the like. I know. Sh*t.

The thing is I dreamed I was killing myself. Not really killing. I was more like, opening my entrains with a knife. I suposse I wanted to put out my organs, like if they were lego or a puzzle, and then put them back and sewing my belly with a needle.... BUT... I didn´t had any entrains. I had... cherries. I know. Blood and cherries. Also, plums. Yeah. Plums. Bloody ones. I kept putting them out, and it seemed to be a tree. I mean, I wasn´t. It was like a vision of branches and everything. Even flowers and blossoming. But wasnt it strange that the fruits were inside????

Anyway. This day is a rollercoast so far. I have been angry, sad, and I have cried before 2:00 pm. That cannot be good. Wasn´t I supposed to get some joy (excuse me, I meant, "exaltation episodes") too? SOOOO? Where are them?!

F´n head chemicals of hell.

Solve et coagule.

Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society.

Fantastic essay.

Vintage Mexico

There is something about this ads/posters that I find fascinating.

I remember when I was like ... maybe 9? We used to go to a ranch, property of an uncle, and there was this little house there -where the people who took care of the ranch lived... really simple people-, it was so old. And you could still see adds like these. And oooold calendars. Actually, in some stores on the road to the little town where my parents live, it is possible to see this "vintage" adds, specially of cigarettes and drinks (coke etc)...

whew. I can almost smell the places...

People will think you´re ordering books!

New subcategory on Amazon.

>;*)

No it´s not a joke! :P

Réquiem for a PowerShot [RIP]

Ahora sí se murió mi cámara digital.

>:*(

Lo siento por mis fans de flickr... jajaja


(yo sabía que esta cámara iba a terminar mal)

Hoy intenté tomar una fotografía, y nomás no funcionó. Intenté otra vez. Y nada. Continué intentando un poco obsesivamente. Nada. Muerta. La sepulté en la alfombra de las escaleras. Recibirá los funerales de la inercia. Y además la ley del hielo. Todos los días subiré y bajaré la escalera, y ni siquiera le dirigiré una mirada (bueno, quizá la miraré una o dos veces de reojo, pero no se dará cuenta) y se quedará ahí, empolvándose...

Parece que es mi manera de lidiar con las cosas que no sé como manejar.

Luego. Estoy segura. Un día llegaré con una cámara digital nueva, con más zoom (SI!), con mejor resolución. Porque además, qué son 2.0 megapixeles en estos tiempos. También con mi aspiradora. Y tirar mi amada ex compañera inseparable de aventuras (es un decir)a la basura será un triple salto mortal moral con los ojos cerrados.

Lo haré.

Pero todavía no.

the CREATURES in my head

Interesting site.

spaguetti schism

Ow.

I will meditate on this.

Determinismo genético. Dos links.

Yo diría que éste y éste.

Anything better out there?

Pausa (IAQ)

{trance.streaming}

Reasons Geeks Can't Sleep

11. Not because of caffeine. Just can't stop thinking about coffee.
10. Converting MP3 collection to OGG taking longer than you thought.
9. Dorito crumbs on sheets cause unbearable itching.
8. Borg costume needed redesigning because it just wasn't realistic enough.
7. Had to keep checking the torrent to make sure it was still downloading.
6. Too scared to sleep after watching "Hackers" and knowing they can make more movies like it.
5. MMORPG withdrawal causing uncontrolable shaking.
4. Removed your bed to make room for the server rack.
3. Years of living underground have made your eyelids translucent.
2. Watched special edition of Star Wars and still pissed off over Greedo shooting first.
1. Had to sell bed to buy new graphics card.

Meh.

:*/

twinkle twinkle little star...

*sunday streaming*

I only draw nude women :*(

See?

Anyways. Music of the day, here, here, and here.

The mad tea party...

Favorite scene. Ever. Chapter 7...

“Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t think—”
“Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

Feelin retro?

Our beloved Mario Bros will be 20 years old next month. I´m working on some 80´s games thingie.

Any references I should know about? But not now, because I´m hooked up with Space invaders...

what?!

Sinfest (doin the Webcomics thing)

Sinfest, indeed. See (a) (b) and (c), specially c, but I would recommend start in the beggining...

$ your soul! ;*)

Wikipedia entry here.

The new tamagotchi?

Check out nintendogs here. >:*)

I said yes. Dammit.

> To: Maria S. Arvizu
> Subject: Invitacion
>
>
>
> Maria del Socorro Arvizu:
>
> Mi Nombre es XXX, Soy de Cananea Sonora, y
> actualmente estudio 8vo Semestre de la carrera de Ingenieria en Sistemas
> Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Cananea ITSC Soy
> una persona que leo sus Documentos en El Imparcial en la Seccion de
> Informatica.
>
> Le mando este email para ver si le gustaria participar la 4ta semana de
> Septiembre En el simposium VECSA de nuestra Institucion impartiendo una
> conferencia sobre Tecnologia.
>
> Me gustaria mucho que me respondiera este email para saber si podra
> asistir y asi poder informar a mis compañeros de Comite VECSA y asi
> podernos poner de acuerdo con usted.
>
>
> Mucho gusto haber podido comunicarme con usted.

@.@

I was like, no, no noooo! but my mouth said yes of course. I f´n hate my mouth. Well anyway, I hope it all goes well...

Let´s play... PastMaster

Try the history channel game here

I´m stronger on technology.

Wanna play?

Pentagrama (crepuscular)

Iba a decir que hoy me sentía como una canción de los 20´s tocada por un organillero a la luz de la luna en una plaza desierta.

Pero NO.

Era más bien algo así como las notas melancólicas, pero irreconocibles,que un borrachín le arranca a una armónica para un concierto de medianoche que solo escucharán los insectos que merodean la banca que le sirve de refugio.

En realidad, es un silbido callado, que interrumpe el canto de los pájaros por la mañana. Las aves se detienen a escuchar, perplejas. Las nubes hacen una pausa. El anciano, con la mirada fija en un brasero, silba una canción extraña.

Revuelve las brasas, y una pequeña lágrima se asoma al pantanar de tragedias que exorcizan sus ojos.

Resbala, y se pierde en una arruga, pero reaparece en la comisura de la boca.

El viejo continúa silbando su canción. Su canción triste y extraña.

El fuego crepita. Las nubes continúan su viaje por el cielo, y los pájaros, incrédulos, baten las alas remontando el vuelo...

Google Talk!

It was true!YAY! My first Google talk will pass to history as a complaining that I can´t change my nick. Does anybody know yet how to do that?

Thanks, FD! And... Kajun, for the invites ;*)

I saw the servers working functional yesterday, it was possible to use them with any Jabber compliant client, like GAIM. Lots of people were using it since the related post at digg :*9

Good bye MSN :P

Intel Developer Forum SF 05

It´s all happening here.

What is weird is that now Apple users must keep an eye on this roadmap...

o.o

Otellini talks too much and says to little. But from what I get next generation will be more on the side of the architecture of the Pentium M, wich BTW, was developed on Israel. As in, more performance per Watt is the king now. So, forget Ghz. Oh... Who does he remind me??? Oh yes, Steve Jobs on his kenote at MacWorld. So cute. They are kinda holding hands, using the same marketing buzz words...

Meh.

Webcast here (but it is not available yet)

Google Desktop 2.0

I know. A bit late. But I had orders to "rest" (ew) so now I´m about to YES! install Google Desktop 2.0 in my PC.

Like a good girl, I first read the Google Blog post about it to know what do the team has to say.

Pretty much nothing. So now I hurry up to DL site.

Uh. Oh. MSN Search Desktop is SO going down...

Old. School. (gadgetry and flesh)

This retro post of Engadget reminded me of this other thing.

Yes! ASCII prOn!

Hahaha.

What?!

Books (¿espejismo?)

Ayer terminé de leer "Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate". Ed. Alfaguara. ¡Un regalo! ¡Yay! El libro fue escrito por Roald Dahl. Y hasta ahora caigo en cuenta que es el mismo autor de los cuentos de Matilda. Aw! Me encantaban los cuentos de esa ratoncita. Peor aún. No había caído en cuenta que se trataba del autor de "James y el Melocotón Gigante". Vaya. Qué divertido. Es divertido leer literatura juvenil entretenida de vez en cuando.

Y digo entretenida porque el otro día empecé a leer un libro que se llama "Artemis Fowl" que tienen mis primos, y bueno, apenas pude soportar las primeras páginas. Lo peor es que ya va en la tercera parte y creo que hasta película van a hacer. Ew.

En fin, lo que ocurre es que el susodicho regalo (gracias, gracias) me recordó otros libros que me han regalado en algún momento de mi vida, y que de alguna manera significaron algo para mi.

Y pues. Son muchos. Uno hasta se repite. "El Principito" me lo regalaron cuando estaba pequeña, era un libro con la portada azul, de los económicos, con ilustraciones de un sólo color. Ese hasta tuve que forrarlo. Luego, muchos años después, me lo volvieron a regalar en un cumpleaños, esta vez una edición especial. Creo que ha sido -es- uno de mis regalos favoritos.

Pero regresando a cuando era pequeña, otro libro que fue a dar a mis manos fue "Platero y Yo", de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Una joya. Hermoso. Poesía hecha prosa. Fue una tía. Luego mi abuela paterna me regaló "Corazón", de Edmundo de Amicis. Es una especie de telenovelón, la historia de un niño y sus amigos en época escolar, con algunos cuentos/relatos inmersos en la misma trama. Han de saber, entonces yo era toda una niña buena ehhh? Digo, para que entiendan la clase de lecturas, si es que alguien ha llegado todavía hasta aquí en este post. (en serio, it sucks, and it gets worst, please stop now). Esto es el mainstream. Del underground ya hablaré en otro post.

Mi abuela materna nunca me regaló un libro -ella apenas completó la primaria, y la primaria de entonces eran como dos años, -o tres-, excepto por una especie de folletin "para aprender inglés" que andaba vendiendo alguien de puerta en puerta. Ella me lo compró. Y allí comenzó mi entrenamiento empírico en el idioma inglés. No me quejo. La pasta era de cartoncillo. Las letras de la portada eran rojas, verdes y azules. Las páginas interiores eran viles copias de hojas escritas a máquina. Seguro que con una Olivetti. Leche, milk. Agua, water. Fresa, strawberry.

Y todavía retrocediendo más en el tiempo, cuando tenía, yo que sé, tres años, me regalaron uno que era una especie de ABC. Llevaba un burrito en la portada, que era verde. Y cada página estaba dedicada a una letra. Con un dibujo alusivo, y una frase. Esto, combinado con esas letritas de colores chillones que mi mamá me hacía formar en un pizarroncito, definió, supongo, mi gusto por las letras. Le mots. Una bendición y una maldición.

Mi último libro/regalo favorito no está bien escrito, es apenas una recopilación. Pero en lo que respecta a libros/regalos favoritos que esté bien escrito o no, no cuenta. Lo que cuenta son las cosas que evoca.

Y este libro lo estoy leyendo despacito. Casi, casi no quiero que se me acabe. Dentro de sus páginas están dos tickets de avión. Dos tickets usados. Ese ligero y agradable mareo después de dos copas de vino tinto. De un buen vino tinto. Y el leve destello, probablemente fugaz pero increíblemente esperanzador, de una luz al final del túnel.

Sick (soñando con un caldo de pollo)

¿Acaso hay algo peor que estar enferma de gripa y con un terrible dolor de garganta, nariz irritada, dolor de oído y todos los agravantes durante el verano en Hermosillo?

No me contesten.

12 years old

I was going to post about the 12 year old guy who killed himself in his room because he was afroid of the punishment his parents would give him after he crashed the car.

But I thought, the hell with it.

There is no way to think about this in an euphemistic way. It makes me angry. It rushes blood to my head. And, at the same time, I want to push it away of my mind. I want to get rid of it. I know, but I dont want to.

It is almost like I can´t deal with it, with these, things. o.o

Why do they fucking index that into the technology news?

I know. Is weird. It is like the world hurts me. I can´t stand it. I already know all of that is happening. And it hurts everyday. To read about it, it is like adding more sand to my grave already too filled.

what can I do about it. what can anybody do.

Graphic Novel + Shared Autorship

The concept is interesting. Take a look here.

Vía if:book, who has an excellent post on OCW, btw.

Done updating

From now on, I´ll be the one to yell at if that site is not updated (self assignment, as I´m tired to hear people complaining). One thing that I mostly hate (update, not the complaining, that is actually beyond hate... hate is not enough word to describe it), but anyway.

¿On what basis should I update it, I ask? Twice a day? As of I have the information? (too freaky) Besides, the system is sooo slow... What would be a good framework to do this, really? Update, say, at 8 am and then at 3 pm? Any suggestions? No? WELL it is not like I am going to do it as you say anyway...

Talking about ADD, I´m now into Wikimania. I think wikis are great. Have you guys read the Wikiquote site? No? Well here is a good place to start.

Back to my own private desk-hell.

Happy Hardcore! Oh, yeah...

FDX

En este link se pueden leer las columnas semanales de FDX, una de las pocas personas cuya amistad considero invaluable, y a quien debo muchísimo.

Ya leí tu columna sobre los blogs, ¿eh? Es cierto lo que dices, son caóticos -te dan dolor de cabeza?? jaja-, pero de una u otra forma se han convertido en un método de comunicación extrañamente efectivo, y no necesariamente en un sentido práctico, aunque también pueden llegar a serlo...

Hmmm Ultimadamente -ya me salió lo pueblerino jaja- , escribir sobre blogs (eww) está baneado en este blog, por redundante, y aburrido. Además me da alergia :*)

FD, leo tu columna todas las semanas mwahahaha!!

Revenge!!!!

Open letter to the Kansas School Board.

Hahahaha...

I´m converted!!!

Taxidermia

Me siento, nada más y nada menos, que como una lágrima disecada.

LinuxWorld (best of)

This is a must read.

Where is Coffeeanica????

So... I´m Talya, and I´m a stinking coffee addict. It has been only a couple of days since I quitted, and my head is absolutely killing me, like never before, and trust me, it has been really HARD before.

My back neck is killing me, the tension is built in my muscles and I feel like I´m going to explode. I´m super thirsty and I can´t sleep at all. This is really weird. My mouth is dry...

Plus, I´m drowsy all the time, and unable to concentrate. See I pass the coffee machine now, and stop only to fill my arrowhead bottle with more water. eww. water. so... my life sucks, and I can´t have coffee anymore.

Sh*t.

God Bless the IRC

Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.

I never thought I´d say this, but...

I finally DL "The curious incident of the dog at midnight" at Undernet #bookz. It is sweet. I have the rar now.

Of course I wish I had the papercopy instead, but, I haven´t seen it here have you??????

Yeah! From the wish list to my little yellow carpets ;*) Here is to guilty pleasures.

bird and moon

Haunting little comic. Here.

>:´&

omfg

ipod baby? give me a f´n break...

This is too much.

Call me Catherine...

What took him so long?

Das keyboard

I am writing thid without looking at the keybard.

Hum.

March of the penguins...

A documentary by Luc Jacquet.

Watch the trailer here.

Official site here.

LinuxWorld {I like it hardcore} <-click here

It starts today at San Francisco.

Behind the scenes blog here.

Around 11,000 gathering there...

What looks interesting, so far:

Splunk
http://www.splunk.com/

(this will be updated)

Fillerbunny (genetically engineered)

Aw. Can you believe this lovely little thing?

Fillerbunny is a small, pink cartoon rabbit. You know the kind with giant eyes, huge buck teeth, and head that is bigger than its body. His entire purpose in life is to be cute and entertain the reader with his exploits. Unlike Jhonen's other page filler Happy Noodle Boy, Fillerbunny tries to make the reader smile in between convulsions from the numerous injections he receives, and the occasional begging to have someone kill him.

Wikipedia entry here.

O.O

I love it.

Goddamit!

A Rubik's Cube can have (8! × 38−1) × (12! × 212−1)/2 = 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different positions (~4.3 × 1019), about 43 quintillion, but it is advertised only as having "billions" of positions, due to the general incomprehensibility of that number. Despite the vast number of positions, all cubes can be solved in 29 moves or fewer.

Ok. I can´t f*cking solve it. I´m way getting into the obsession phase...

Sh*t. Must... do it...

O.O (oui, ces´t moi)

Laudate Dominum 031pe, originally uploaded by Taly@.

I was doomed from the beggining.

I see it clearly now.

The glasses had no glass. That explains a lot.

>:*)

The little black box...

¿What will it be, the little thing next to the big screen from where the kids of 2008? 2010? 2015? can control everything -movies music data- on the living room?

Will it be ubicuous?
Will it be a monopoly?
Will it came from the computer industry, or the CE, or the cable companies?
Will it be cool? It has to.

Will it let me burn Plan 9 into a DVD no matter the format it is in on the hard drive?

Have I said already how much I hate ants?????

Is it true?

"The best thing for being sad... is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.

"There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting..."

-T.H. White, The Once and Future King

*BTW. I have been reading and reading science blogs all night (don´t ask) and happen to notice that I found not a single one in spanish, at least not in the subject I was following the thread of on blogsnow, wich is the new stupid "idea" of Bu$h to teach ID in schools. Usually, when I follow threads on any tech story, I find at least three or four blogs on spanish, but none this time. Too bad, I guess.

Then I realized I was writing this in english. And switched.

ENTONCES... ¿Enseñar creacionismo ("diseño inteligente") y evolución al mismo tiempo, para que entiendan "de qué se trata el debate"???? ¿Qué le pasa???? Espero que Fox no tome prestadas estas ideas.

¿Saben qué es lo peor? Lo peor es que yo no soy científica. Ahí si saben de alguno que se ocupe de divulgar estas cosas online, me avisan.

The 16 mm shrine (loserdom!)

OMG. ¿The next Filthy Critic?

Ash Karreau hate films, and soon you will too.

Visit his blog here. ;*)

Some gems, and I quote:

The best performance of the picture comes from Karen Black, but this may be because pretty much everyone else in the film is awful, and she shines in comparison, kind of like watching amateur porn on the internet and fixating on the one girl who’s an amateur by choice, not by virtue of bad skin and a thyroid condition.



Written by Roald Dahl, the novel is one of a series of children’s stories that seem appropriate for kids at first but clearly exhibits the kind of violent creepiness most often seen inChristopher Walken films and John Wayne Gacy’s paintings of clowns .


Actually, he’s not even that popular, it’s just that he’s infiltrated into the ranks of cult directors worshipped by snotty video store clerks hoping their nerdy taste will somehow elevate them to Quentin Tarantino status in the eyes of the attractive waitresses from the all-night coffee shop next door.


...sort of like a Tarantino movie but without the occasional amoral bloodbath to liven things up

Aw! Sweet bitterness. I´m his fan.

And I stop to complain...

Stayed up too late. Too much alcohol in my system. I open my eyes. I´m alone. Grab something to eat. Grab something to read. I feel retro. I will have the first encyclopedia in the second row, thank you. They´re all red and shiny. I think nobody ever has even opened this one. "Language and..." Oh. Interesting. Semiotic.

"De este modo, el signo linguistico queda constituido por una doble realidad mental..."

(double? that´s so... 70´s)

But they caught me... I keep on reading.

"El complejo sistema de la lengua es una herencia que recibimos de las generaciones anteriores, la resistencia colectiva a toda innovacion linguistica, debido a la necesidad de comprensión del mensaje antes aducida, hace que la inmutabilidad sea característica sustancial del signo linguistico".

Meh. I like neologisms.

I can´t stand, though, some words people use daily this days. Some people. Most. "chilo", for example. What is up with that word? They use it for everything.

Then, some others that are more inherent to the social environment, I guess. Like "pistear", or "chingo", or "fregazo", or "cochis" -es que yo elegiría automáticamente la palabra cerdo-.

Does that make me a liguistic snob?

And.

I dont know what to think of the people that always answer with the same strings of words: "Ya ves". "A poco si". "Pues que bien, no?". ETC (you know what I mean)

I mean. (in case you dont know hehe) Are those SUSTITUTES of ideas? Like, I dont really know what to say or the fuck I dont understand a single word of what she is saying so they just reply with those same standard safety nets for their ignorance?

Or they just think is not worth it to say more than three words?

On the other hand, there is the people that goes on and on talking nonsense. Who am I to judge anybody right?

BTW. Hendrix rules.

War, ceasefire, endgame [IRA] ¿?

All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms.

"There is also a universal responsibility to tackle sectarianism in all its forms. "

Full statement at the Guardian.

The Irish Times here, and the BBC take on it.

30+ years...

Viaje al Centro de la Tierra

Oh. And this (First measurements of Earth's core radioactivity) out just the day I started reading the novel of J.V.

Believe it or not, I haven´t read that one. I know. I know. You´re supposed to read this one when you´re 12 or something. But my readings have been rather chaotic. Nietzche, Goethe, Novalis, Cervantes at 8. Verne (second one), Feynman, Jenilek, Hesse (I lost the count one) at 29.

What? I´m in chapter 19. As a matter of fact, the only book I have read from J.V is Around the World in 80 days. Actually one of my favorites. Ever. Makes me smile just to remember some lines.

Yeah I´m the uncoolest person you´ll ever meet.

Look, we are cool!

Ok, so the new Windows Vista (eeew, just to write that makes me vomit) beta is out now.

They said august 3, but releasing it today a few days (three) before makes them look cooler, I guess. Look, we have it ready before we said!!!

Ahem. Not delayed for three years, right???? people is stupid, right? *cough*

Of course, it has nothing to do with the investors meeting tomorrow, right?

Plus, no more mr. nice windows updates -aka patches for our crappy software- for you people, not without us peeking into your machine at least, oh well, only the security ones, that´s right, we are that generous....

Ugh.

CETYS Tijuana en ImagineCup 2005

Representando a México en la categoría de Software Design.

La final se llevará a cabo en Yokohama, Japón, a finales de julio.

You go, guys!

Mac Mini, iBook mini upgrades

VR of the new Mac Mini, with Apple accesories.

Aw. The iBook is too cute.

Would people buy these, or rather wait til the switch?

Webcams for the Congressman

Ok. So they are installing cameras. Webcameras? To see what´re they doing (they, the damned asholes who seat there for a couple of hours -you know, they need their nap-, go to the best restaurants and drive suburbans with our money).

I say, they should better set up this equipment in the monkey cages at the local zoo.

They do basically the same anyway. At least we can have a little respect for the monkeys.

WHAT?!

The world fastest...

Japan wants to build the world fastest supercomputer...

"Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene"

The article here.

To do what? Simulating the formation of galaxy and the interactions between a medicine and the human body. They say.

Everybody loves Raymond (Eric)

Oh. A cute new little geeky comic I didnt knew about. (bet you didn´t, too)

bitter. yummy.

Apple: Off the map

(the Microsoft way)

Ok. Was someone excited about this whole mapping thing?

Light of a Fading Star

The things I get in the mail... Flogging Molly, soon in San Diego, CA.

They have a nice & light flash player on the site, with some full songs of the new album.

Hm. I dont know exactly why. But I like them. >:*)

Percepción

No, I didn´t knew. How was I supposed to know? I dont live in the real word, you know? Things like this, I´m not aware off...

Ask to me about the Hesse novel I´m reading... Or, what is the last thing I´m trying to understand about the man -in a philosophical sense, of course-. Tell you what, you can even ask me about the last gadgets, or the trends in technology. I even care more about the leaves the wind is playing with... Or sexuality, you can ask me about that. I´m open to all subjects known to men!

But the real world, as in, you know, well, like this one thing?

Forget it.

Oh yes, I´m making a documentary on it. What?!

Saturday Night (I can´t leave)

I FUCKING HATE MY DESIGNER!!!!!

Wasn´t Longhorn cooler anyway?

Windows Vista.... Ewww

Is it normal to wake up thinking on sex, then, the existance of God, then, the weird dream I just had, then, the movie I´m about to see, then jump out of the bed with an "I just missed the appointment with the doctor again goddamit!!!!"

Grandma-> Yeah, but you were up in the computer until past three in the morning, didnt you?
Moi-> Uh. Yup. Ugh. I guess so. Hum.

Uh? Brain... Needs... Food... Coffee... (drink of the gods, at least the gods who are cranky in the morning//QC, OC)

Pi Aproximation Day

Well, today is Pi Aproximation Day, and here is some great music to celebrate it.

Do not miss the "State Garden" soundtrack.

So great.

Should I talk about my break down? Nah....

Google calls it...

Cool commentary

We call it... BS!

:*)

So, deer park, uh? August, then.

The Double super Secret agent...

I just love this guy animations. Here is the last one.

What a joke.

Random (Waiting in my desk)

Hoy por la mañana olí mis manos. Es por la posición en que duermo, cuando despierto, siempre están cerca de mi nariz. Las olí, pues. Es un acto reflejo, sin querer. Es más, para cuando me doy cuenta, mi cerebro ya está registrando a qué huelen. Y olían a galletas de vainilla y azúcar. Hmmmm. Yummy. Y ahora, sentada en mi escritorio, esperando que me entregen una página, oscurezco un poco la luz en mis ojos ( a mis ojos no les gusta la luz) los entrecierro y otra vez, sin querer, vuelvo a oler mis manos. Esta vez huelen a talco.

¿Estoy desvariando?

My selection from FlashForward 2005

Craziest. The triple triple uh!

Fly me to the moon (y el blog de moda)

Fly me to the moon.

Y el blog de moda. (tech, I mean)

Mood: Laconic.

>:*P

ACTUALLY...
I forgot about this. When all you get in the e-mail is an e-mail about Aronofsky being at Comic-Con to promote "The Fountain". What! The Fountain! I didn´t knew he was making a new movie! Hmmm Oh as I was saying, when all you get blah blah Oh Forget it.

Last night, I saw "El tambor de hojalata" again. What a master piece. I love it. I feel so much like Agnes eating the fish...

Biotech (uh oh)

Why in the world did I selected biotechnology as the subject of my next article, only God knows, but the fact is I did, and now I´m hooked up with it. It is, indeed, fascinating. As I kept reading I was full of mental Oh´s and Ah´s. Even some Oh Wow´s. So... Better share the love, right?

First, I came across this article on a new Institute for Genomic Medicine open in Texas.

Lexicon is a pioneer in gene trapping technology and will use $35 million of the grant to make two copies of its knockout mouse embryonic stem cell library that will contain 350,000 cell lines. A knockout mouse is a mouse with a gene that is "turned off" so scientists can find out the function of each gene.

Yeah.

Then, the article "More time needed for biotechnology debate"...

Pre-implantation diagnosis should not be allowed. Pre-natal testing should be allowed if there is a possibility of the parents passing on a genetic disease to their children. Polar-body biopsy should be allowed only in the case of a serious illness. Human cloning should be prohibited on all counts, even for therapeutic purposes.

Oh...

And then the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, with its Biotech 101 Guide and the reference to the Biotechnology Industry Organization at Bio.org. (Nice set of milestones 2005 here, btw)

The original intention of the article is a question. Are we culturally ready?

Weell. Are we?

Best post... EVER!

Here.

>:*D

Telepatía

Hm. I was truly sad last night. So sad, that the rescue gang came to my aid and virtually dragged me out of the house into a club (what an eww club btw).

I had have no food in the whole day, and there I was, sitting in a bed (yes, a bed) watching stupid people performing "their moves" and trying to get something not too bad for my poor organism at the bar.

Well I finally survived the night, but the post is not about it, the post is about... The lecture! Yeah. There was this girl in the car with us, boy she was nasty, a friend of the girlfriend of my youngest brother, and she kept talking and talking about her new cellphone and that it had "blutut", so I say, if you can tell me what Bluetooth is, I´ll buy you a beer.

So she starts her lecture... "It is like to connect, to make phones work like... Like telepaty, you know???"

Ohhhh The enlightment!!!!!! I almost cry of laughing.

what?!

Laurie Lipton

Cute & Creepy stuff. Here.

Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds

Here.

>:*)

Nonsense? Yes, please.

The (long) trailer of Katamari Damaci. (We love Katamari).

Agh. Redacción.

Me levanto de mi escritorio porque tengo sed y alguien me asusta con un qué bonita te ves hoy! Eh? Había gente aquí? Ugh. Aparentemente, sí. Por ahí. Ah. Iba pasando justo frente a al menos 5 individuos. Lo miro de reojo y sigo caminando hasta mi escritorio.

Me sigue.

¿Te enojaste porque te dije que te ves muy bonita hoy? ¿Porqué te enojas porque te digo que te ves bonita? Mira, a mi no me gustan las mujeres, asi que es un cumplido en serio. ¿Por qué no me quieres?

Fuck off.

A world with three sunsets

I should move there.

:*(

biocomputation (or... life from scratch)

Normally, new life is created via reproduction, with each generation passing its genes on to the next. But Dr. Venter aims to bypass that process by manufacturing a complete set of genes, or genome, of a single-cell bacterium in his laboratory.

The guys of Edge on biocomputation. Interesting, as always.

Hot coffee! (mod)

Soooo... Now you can get a mod to have the grand theft auto characters have sex. (Story here)

And they may change the rating now...

wtf?

We´re talking of a game in wich you can kill people in the streets just like that. Brrrrrraummm. Dead. Oh and you can came back and finish them up again. I have seen my little cousin do that to women. And laugh. Well... I dont know what to say.

It reminds me of Team America. The funny puppets having sex, so offensive, nevermind the real violence. That is not offensive, that is funny, huh.

I wonder what is their rate for the last suicide attack in Israel.

Mature, for 17 and up?

A Manhatan project for bioterrorism...

What would it look like? Story on The Scientist.

Interesting, uh.

Strike. (whatever)

Qrio. Sports. Anything to keep attention of what is really important, uh. Or is it? I have a big purple bruise for trying to hit a ball. A soft ball. It came in an unexpected direction. I was so ready to hit it. Like, 1 mt away from the place where it actually hitted me. Was I wrong placed? Was the ball a mistake? Was I supposed to know it would have such a twisted change of direction even tought all the others were the same? I don´t know. It was fun, thought.

I like bruises anyway.

Good morning London* (what´s next?)

*and why do we act as if nothing was happening? :*(

I´m alive

Insomnio 037, originally uploaded by Taly@.

(and sort of back)