July 31, 2005

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.

July 30, 2005

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.

July 28, 2005

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...



July 27, 2005

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?!

July 25, 2005

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?!

July 22, 2005

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....

July 21, 2005

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.

July 20, 2005

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!