March 21, 2005

March 17, 2005

Prozac Gum

-You have all this pain because of the way you are.
-Nice, mom.

Here are the slides of the conference "The Semantic Web is here", by Eric Miller at the Semantic Technology Conference.

It´s not here at all, but anyway.

How about the "emergent" one? Hum.

Quite a challenge to try to write an article on this subject. I mean a brief, newspaper reader friendly one. But. You know. Whatever it takes to keep my mind apart from the issues.

Rule #1 to survive life: Know that it is a joke. A bad one.

March 16, 2005

Ex Boyfriends List

From: Richard Stallman
To: mkhenley@prodigy.net
Subject: Application for membership in Ex Boyfriends List

After reading what you've said about your Ex Boyfriends List,
I wonder if you could tell me how to apply for a place in it?

My motivation is not that I would like the cachet of being on the
list. Rather I hope that the application process, of being judged for
a place on the list, could be exciting or even joyous. If it takes you
some time to decide whether I belong on the list, I won't mind
waiting.

I'm aware of the theoretical possibility that the process might not
reach a conclusion, that I might remain permanently in limbo pending a
decision about whether I am to become "ex". I know this is unlikely,
and I'm willing to take the risk.


For information about me, see my personal site, stallman.org.
My work is described in www.gnu.org.


Aww Stallman!!!!!

March 15, 2005

Bionic Mix

-I like how natural you are.
-I´m actually an android.

Been following the SXSW thing. Found THIS site among the winners... I thought some of this short films were amazing. But dont take my word and see 4 yourself.

You cannot miss "POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English", thought. So click on #16.

Rule #1 to survive dating: Throw up first, avoid soberness & keep your mind in a box. Ooops. Those were three I think.

What a disaster.

March 14, 2005

Donald Knuth

-Do you believe in God?
-Yes I do.

When he needs computer power, he just call the folks at Google. He wrote "The Art of Computer Programming". But of course, you already knew that, didnt you? ;*)

Our good old Knuth on NPR. Listen to him here.

March 12, 2005

The Strangehood

Big Brother like being - Expect the unexpected...
Lady being held hostage with a bunch of people - How predictable...

Lines from The Strangehood, machinima made with The Sims 2. Watched it for work, not for fun. Obviously, although I had a small amount of it. Want the link?

Google it.

Rule #1 to survive working @ newspaper -> Learn to ignore people

February 27, 2005

Sueños

1

Un montón de hojas secas, con esos colores ocres que tanto me gustan, se arremolinaban bajo el sube y baja. Llegaba a un jardin. Era tarde. Era otoño. Mire el sube y baja y desee subir, pero no había nadie más. ¿Cómo podría? No había forma de balancearse sin nadie más. El sube y baja estaba ahí, grande e inutil. Nadie venía a jugar. Y yo me eché a llorar, sentada bajo el sube y baja, revolviendo las hojas secas.
Fue entonces que la vi. La luna, enorme, en el cielo, parecía un fotomontaje. La silueta de un árbol, completamente desnudo, se recortaba en su vientre. Y de él pendía un columpio.
Un columpio. No necesitaba un compañero de juegos para un columpio... Podía impulsarme sola... Me levanté y fui hacia él. Use mis pies para impulsarme y poco. Dejé caer mi cabeza hacia atrás y sentí la brisa mientras comenzaba el vaivén. La luna me miraba, el árbol bostezó. Y una ráfaga de viento alborotó las hojas secas, levantando columnas danzarinas con los colores del atardecer, en el jardin, gris como las nubes tras las que la luna, por momentos, palidecía.

The last tear was dry, and I`d keep swinging. Back and forth.


2
Me parece que fabriqué un humanoide. Parecía realmente humano, aunque su rostro era inexpresivo. Lo bañé y lo cambié. Me pidieron que le cambiara la camisa. Criticaron la forma en que cuidaba de él. Cambié la camisa. Lucía realmente bien. Lo entregué.

3
Llevaba zapatillas de ballet y un delantal blanco. Su rostro de madera parecía esbozar una sonrisa. Era una marioneta. Suspendida por hilos atados a sus manos y pies, cuya cabeza caía, de lado. Dormía. Pero empezaba a despertar.

February 24, 2005

wtg?

Google just said,
Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in a minute or so.

I've come not to expect fallibility from Google. Reading that message was like looking at the sky and seeing an announcement that the Sun had experienced "a temporary error".


I am quoting Doc Searls, from his blog here

It has never happened to me yet =)

Undying Love

February 21, 2005

No, really

¿Lágrimas de lava volcánica? ¿What was I thinking? Hahahaha Ok. Maybe I was drunk. No I wasnt. Oh Uhm. Maybe drunk of emotions. Hmmm Yeah Perhaps. Ok, I´ll forgive me and move on.

Er... How about "vodka tears". Or... "abstract tears".... Yeah. It can definitely get worst. Enough already.

I am a bit sad, so I will do what any normal freak would do, drawn myself at work. Work Work Work. So... LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. That will be my subject today. And tagging. But tagging is boring. Aww anyway, this application won the best open source solution and best of show at the LinuxWorld Excellence Awards. Yeah, it is a free content management system. It seems to be pretty good. Seems like Open Source app namers are very into latin stuff. Samba, Mambo... =) What´s next? Tango?

Jeez.

I need a beer or something.

No, I need to sleep.

Yeah. That is what I need.

February 18, 2005

Tiza

Esta soy yo. Corazón de plomo y lágrimas de lava volcánica. Es mi alma solitaria la que danza en la oscuridad de la noche, susurrando tu nombre a las estrellas, al borde del abismo, rozando la locura, ardiendo en una hoguera de hielo.

La Separation

If I am a puppet, and there is a puppeteer, I want to tell him to go fuck himself.

Wonderful piece of music here.

February 17, 2005

One with the freaks

Well now I am hooked up with some of the webcomics I read about. Here is a list of the best of 2004 according to The Examiner.

I particulary enjoyed Copper... But certainly all the others deserve a look.

Sense of the Comic

I read the essay "Sense of the Comic" from Edward G. Ballard while writing an article on webcomics. Found it really good. But the most interesting thing is that it is part of the Dictionary of the History of Ideas, a compilation of essays that truly promises fun late readings.

Five out of five stars. ;*)

February 16, 2005

*Despair

n 1: a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute" [syn: desperation] 2: the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well [ant: hope] v : abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!" [ant: hope]

Don´t Panic



The trailer of The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy is here. The first one is in the official site of the movie. Yeah, that with the song "And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..."

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