Some notes

Independent counting

2011-12-02T11:24:00.001+01:00

- So Andrea , let's recall english numbers: one, two,...., ten, ele..
-Eleven, twelve, thirteen,,.. ehm
-Four..
-Fourteen, Fiveteen
-No, no Andrea, fifteen,
-Fiveteen
-Nop, it's fifteen.. and you know it, every english (speaker) says fifteen.
-Don't care, I'm not english and I say fiveteen!

Sinónimo!!

2011-11-17T12:39:00.001+01:00

El otro día me pregunta Andrea (5 años):
"Papá, ¿qué es sinónimo?"
Yo, enciclopédico, le cuento lo de las palabras con el mismo significado, etc... bla, bla...
Ella me mira con cara de escéptica y dice:
"Es que el otro día viendo I-carly iban en un avión y se tiraban en paracaídas gritando
Sinónimo!!!!

An out of context question

2011-11-17T10:51:00.001+01:00

My son just asked an out of context question:
"When Columbus arrived to America... was he jet-lagged?"
My brain halted.. how to begin to sort out this mess?

Android dreams

2011-11-11T11:11:00.000+01:00

android dreams from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

I feel ...

2011-10-25T09:06:00.000+02:00

I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me tonight....

Water watch

2011-10-09T20:23:00.002+02:00

Alice

2011-04-23T18:28:00.000+02:00

Good morning, good morning!

2011-02-03T11:23:00.000+01:00

Lyrics | Gene Kelly - Good Morning lyrics

Good Morning

We've talked the whole night through

Good Morning

Good Morning to you

Good Morning

It's great to stay up late

Good Morning

Good Morning to you

When the band began to play the stars were shinging bright

Now the milkman's on his way and it's too late to say good night

So, Good Morning

Good Morning

Sun beams will soon smile through

Good Morning

Good Morning to you and you and you and you

Good Morning

We've gabbed the whole night through

Good Morning

Good Morning to you

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In the morning

It's great to stay up late

Good Morning

Good Morning to you

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When we left the movie show the future wasn't bright

But came the dawn

the show goes on and I don't want to say good night

So say good morning

Good Morning

Rainbows are shining through

Good Morning

Bonjour (french)

*Monsour

*Buenos D�as (spanish)

*Muchas Fr�as

*Bongiorno (italian)

*Montichorno (not exactly sure what they say here)

*Gutten Morgen (german)

*Blakich Morgen (not exactly sure what they say here)

Good Morning to you

The nature of natural numbers.

2011-01-30T19:24:00.000+01:00

What's the time?

2011-01-29T18:17:00.000+01:00

Confused

2011-01-21T09:44:00.000+01:00

Just received a phone call from the director of my local bank office for a money issue... he addresses to me as dude(?). I'm confused.

Kipple

2011-01-13T12:10:00.001+01:00

Don't forget the First Law: "There's the First Law of Kipple…'Kipple drives out nonkipple'."
Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you to go bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up there is twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.

No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot.

From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Doubleday in 1968.

Borrowed from Technovelgy.

1986 Seville Math Department

2011-01-11T19:11:00.000+01:00

Thanks god, I'm not in anyshot.

Al norte, siempre al norte!!

2011-01-11T11:34:00.000+01:00

Honningsvag, Norway

A-lucinante!!

2011-01-03T14:36:00.000+01:00

Life is now

2011-01-03T14:21:00.004+01:00

IF THE KIDS - Life Is Now

They get a kick by kicking your teeth in
With a pinch of salt and a bible grin
You cannot win
They call our love a sin
Turn the other cheek
They'll break your chin

When you kissed me in that lonely street
All the windows growled and you bit my lip
You said "I'll set you free"
But windows speak
And they hate our guts
Our lives are cheap

Life is now
My life is now
Life is now
Your god is senile

Forbidden love is such an inspiration
If I'm a lamb you're my zion lion
I lick your teeth in front of anyone
Who says I'm too young for your mortal kingdom

To drive away I steal my parent's car
Buy a pack of beer
Go fast Go far babe
I burn the map and watch the northern star
Shining in the eyes of my sweet vampire

Life is now
My life is now
Life is now
Your god is senile

When you kissed me I was cold as snake
I was young but your lips had the taste of fate
You said "I'll set you free"
And windows break
So I blew them out like my birthday cake

Life is now
My life is now
Life is now
Your god is senile

So long, Professor

2010-11-18T10:45:00.000+01:00

qr

2010-11-17T10:01:00.001+01:00

qr_imagen
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Moonscape project.

2010-10-21T09:13:00.000+02:00

More coming on 20th of July what a great date... my birthday by the way.

C'mon

2010-10-17T17:38:00.002+02:00

VON BONDIES

"C'mon C'mon"

On another day c'mon c'mon
With these ropes tied tight can we do no wrong
Now we grieve 'cause now it's gone
Things were good when we were young

With my teeth bite down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve 'cause now it's gone
Things were good when we were young

Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I ever learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)

As I make my way c'mon c'mon
Through these battered nights that seem too long
Now we grieve 'cause now it's gone
Things were good when we were young

With my teeth bite down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve 'cause now it's gone
Things were good when we were young

Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I never learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)

Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I never learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)

And on this day these deepened wounds don't heal so fast
Can't hear me croon of a million lies that speak no truths
Of a time gone by that now is through

I am my connectome...?

2010-10-17T12:12:00.000+02:00

The best definition of myself known to me, so far, was "Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias". (I am myself and my circumstances). But this connectome... well, but what surprised me was to find out is that it is still unsure memories are archived somehow on the net of connections between the neurons. Are there any other believable theories?

Support Babbage!

2010-10-16T08:56:00.001+02:00

http://plan28.org/

Lost generation or generation lost?

2010-07-07T10:33:00.000+02:00

Perhaps it'd be better to be completely deaf. I've come to know, by accident (?), I'm some kind of lost, read wasted, member of my department.

Towel Day!!

2010-05-25T09:06:00.000+02:00

Liquid Polyhedra

2010-05-25T09:04:00.000+02:00

Surprise! Psycology is not science.

2010-05-24T12:34:00.000+02:00

Klein's bottle

2010-05-21T20:36:00.000+02:00

From Proof: here.

Erik's blackboard mug!

2010-05-21T20:17:00.001+02:00

Erik's blackboard mug!
Originally uploaded by ramkikura

A mathematician's dream: a coffe-blackboard mug

A quantum effect on social studies?

2010-05-21T10:04:00.000+02:00

Posted by Tao at Buzz. Goodhart's law, although it can be expressed in a variety of formulations, states that once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role. (More in WikiPedia).

Advancing

2010-04-30T06:56:00.001+02:00

Just two days ago my four years old daughter tried to trick me by using an argumentative discurse. Her sensei told her 'next session will be two hours long for whoever wants' (instead of just one as usual, extending the 1st level class into the 2nd's). Since she did not wanted to attend the two hours long class, she concluded that according to the sensei she could not go to karate at all for that day. She was casually(!) completing, in her benefit, the sensei's sentence as 'whoever wants to come' instead of, the more common sense, 'whoever wants to stay'.

Something I learnt today:

2010-03-26T08:57:00.000+01:00

Nike's shoes are not dryer-machine friendly, well... actually the machine was the one not very friendly. Now my newest pair of Nike's are my daughter's size.

Latex on Blogger

2010-03-16T09:06:00.000+01:00

Thanks to WatchMath we have LaTeX on Blogger. It seems incredible: few months ago it was almos an impossible task to put math on the net and now the possibilities are endless... well almost.

$$\pi_2(S^3)\cong\mathbb Z$$

Najwa Nimri

2010-01-29T10:20:00.000+01:00

El ultimo primate.
Llego tarde como siempre, ya lo ves
¿qué hora es?,
no quiero contarte lo mismo una y otra vez
hablo poco,
bebo más de lo debido.

No digo nada
todo en mí parece repetido
y ahora siento que tienes cara de otro.

Solo quiero estar callada
te veo fuera de foco
y te esfumas poco a poco
como el humo de un cigarro.

Y gritaré, gritaré hasta llegar a tí.
Gritaré, gritaré hasta llegar a tí.

Y si estás tan acabado,
fumigado, aniquilado,
arrasado y envasado por estar aquí a mi lado.

Gritaré, gritaré hasta perder la voz.
Porque cuando aura en voz baja
no te paras a escuchar.

Sin más estaba en luna llena
quedaba sin manada
a punto de extinción.
Oscura como mi sombra
que perdió tu silueta por error.

Y gritaré, gritaré hasta que encuentre una razón.
Soy el último primate convertido en francotirador.

Y ahora apunto hacia tu craneo
porque el pulso no me fallará,
me queda el desempate
remitido y desarmado,
mi amor no fue lo bastante.

Y gritaré, gritaré hasta llegar a tí.
Porque el tiempo nos espera y nos dará la razón.

Universidad de Sevilla: absurdo II

2010-01-25T06:42:00.001+01:00

De nuevo en los medios de comunicación. Si no hace falta ir a clase, ¿para qué necesitamos a los profesores? (¿Acaso se aprende algo de persona a persona?) Entonces, ¿cómo llevaremos a cabo la gloriosa evaluación continua que acabe con la antigualla de los exámenes si no asisten los alumnos?.....pues fácil, nos convertiremos en teleooperadoras (de ahí la insistencia en la virtualización de asignaturas). De paso, sobraremos más de uno... en fin, el sueño de cualquiera.... educación sostenible?!

Andrea's spanglish:

2010-01-24T13:21:00.002+01:00

Andrea is now learning some english, well spanglish: she sings "We wish you a Merry Reyes, we wish you a Mery Reyes.." and says "mi color favorito es el purple".

Just a question of time.

2010-01-23T20:00:00.001+01:00

I knew it: it's our fault and we're gona pay for it. WSJ's article about 'The Quants'. This just adds on a little more on the bad name that math is got and, in the large, on science. These are just tools. Now go and convince the empty headed.

Universidad de Sevilla: el absurdo.

2010-01-18T16:25:00.001+01:00

Lo leo y no lo creo. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/01/18/andalucia_sevilla/1263801264.html

Puerto Principe

2010-01-14T20:36:00.001+01:00

Yes, it works: sic.

2010-01-14T09:15:00.001+01:00

14/01/2010
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A partir de hoy, Red y Libertad

2010-01-12T15:20:00.002+01:00

A partir de hoy, Red y Libertad
Consideramos imprescindible la retirada de la disposición final primera de la Ley de Economía Sostenible por los siguientes motivos:

Viola los derechos constitucionales en los que se ha de basar un estado democrático en especial la presunción de inocencia, libertad de expresión, privacidad, inviolabilidad domiciliaria, tutela judicial efectiva, libertad de mercado, protección de consumidoras y consumidores, entre otros.
Genera para la Internet un estado de excepción en el cual la ciudadanía será tratada mediante procedimientos administrativos sumarísimos reservados por la Audiencia Nacional a narcotraficantes y terroristas.
Establece un procedimiento punitivo «a la carta» para casos en los que los tribunales ya han manifestado que no constituían delito, implicando incluso la necesidad de modificar al menos 4 leyes, una de ellas orgánica. Esto conlleva un cambio radical en el sistema jurídico y una fuente de inseguridad para el sector de las TIC (Tecnología de la Información y la Comunicación). Recordamos, en este sentido, que el intercambio de conocimiento y cultura en la red es un motor económico importante para salir de la crisis como se ha demostrado ampliamente.
Los mecanismos preventivos urgentes de los que dispone la ley y la judicatura son para proteger a toda ciudadanía frente a riesgos tan graves como los que afectan a la salud pública. El gobierno pretende utilizar estos mismos mecanismos de protección global para beneficiar intereses particulares frente a la ciudadanía. Además la normativa introducirá el concepto de «lucro indirecto», es decir: a mí me pueden cerrar el blog porque «promocionó» a uno que «promociona» a otro que vincula a un tercero que hace negocios presuntamente ilícitos.
Recordamos que la propiedad intelectual no es un derecho fundamental contrariamente a las declaraciones del Ministro de Justicia, Francisco Caamaño. Lo que es un derecho fundamental es el derecho a la producción literaria y artística.
De acuerdo con las declaraciones de la Ministra de Cultura, esta disposición se utilizará exclusivamente para cerrar 200 webs que presuntamente están atentando contra los derechos de autor. Entendemos que si éste es el objetivo de la disposición, no es necesaria, ya que con la legislación actual existen procedimientos que permiten actuar contra webs, incluso con medidas cautelares, cuando presuntamente se esté incumpliendo la legalidad. Por lo que no queda sino recelar de las verdaderas intenciones que la motivan ya que lo único que añade a la legislación actual es el hecho de dejar la ciudadanía en una situación de grave indefensión jurídica en el entorno digital.
Finalmente consideramos que la propuesta del gobierno no sólo es un despilfarro de recursos sino que será absolutamente ineficaz en sus presuntos propósitos y deja patente la absoluta incapacidad por parte del ejecutivo de entender los tiempos y motores de la Era Digital.
La disposición es una concesión más a la vieja industria del entretenimiento en detrimento de los derechos fundamentales de la ciudadanía en la era digital.

La ciudadanía no puede permitir de ninguna manera que sigan los intentos de vulnerar derechos fundamentales de las personas, sin la debida tutela judicial efectiva, para proteger derechos de menor rango como la propiedad intelectual. Dicha circunstancia ya fue aclarada con el dictado de inconstitucionalidad de la ley Corcuera (o «ley de la patada en la puerta»). El Manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet, respaldado por más de 200.000 personas, ya avanzó la reacción y demandas de la ciudadanía antes la perspectiva inaceptable del gobierno.

Para impulsar un definitivo cambio de rumbo y coordinar una respuesta conjunta, el 9 de enero se ha constituido la Red SOStenible, una plataforma representativa de todos los sectores sociedad civil afectados. El objetivo es iniciar una ofensiva para garantizar una regulación del entorno digital que permita expresar todo el potencial de la Red y de la creación cultural respetando las libertades fundamentales.

En este sentido, reconocemos como referencia para el desarrollo de la era digital, la Carta para la innovación, la creatividad y el acceso al conocimiento, un documento de síntesis elaborado por más de cien expertos de 20 países que recoge los principios legales fundamentales que deben inspirar este nuevo horizonte.

En particular, consideramos que en estos momentos es especialmente urgentes la implementación por parte de gobiernos e instituciones competentes, de los siguientes aspectos recogidos en la Carta:

Los artistas como todos los trabajadores tienen que poder vivir de su trabajo (referencia punto 2 «Demandas legales», párrafo B. «Estímulo de la creatividad y la innovación», de la Carta);
La sociedad necesita para su desarrollo de una red abierta y libre (referencia punto 2 «Demandas legales», párrafo D, «Acceso a las infraestructuras tecnológicas», de la Carta);
El derecho a cita y el derecho a compartir tienen que ser potenciado y no limitado como fundamento de toda posibilidad de información y constitutivo de todo conocimiento (referencia punto 2 «Demandas legales», párrafo A, «Derechos en un contexto digital», de la Carta);
La ciudadanía debe poder disfrutar libremente de los derechos exclusivos de los bienes públicos que se pagan con su dinero, con el dinero publico (referencia punto 2 «Demandas legales», párrafo C, «Conocimiento común y dominio público», de la Carta);
Consideramos necesaria una reforma en profundidad del sistema de las entidades de gestión y la abolición del canon digital (referencia punto 2 «Demandas legales«, párrafo B, «Estímulo de la creatividad y la innovación», de la Carta).
Por todo ello hoy se inicia la campaña Internet no será otra tele y se llevarán a cabo diversas acciones ciudadanas durante todo el periodo de la presidencia española de la UE.

Consideramos particularmente importantes en el calendario de la presidencia de turno española el II Congreso de Economía de la Cultura (29 y 30 de marzo en Barcelona), Reunión Informal de ministros de Cultura (30 y 31 de marzo en Barcelona) y la reunión de ministros de Telecomunicaciones (18 a 20 de abril en Granada).

La Red tiene previsto reunirse con representantes nacionales e internacionales de partidos políticos, representantes de la cultura y delegaciones diplomáticas.

Firmado: Red SOStenible. La Red SOStenible somos todos. Si quieres adherirte a este texto, cópialo, bloguéalo, difúndelo.

Ley Sinde

2010-01-11T10:38:00.000+01:00

A mathematician's dreamed kitchen

2010-01-05T13:18:00.000+01:00

I don't get it.

2009-12-21T09:25:00.001+01:00

I don't get it progres. On one hand future generations (unborn humans after all in the best of the possible futures) have the ''right'' to enjoy certain future climate conditions. But on the other hand, unborn humans (right on their way to be, just within weeks in lot of cases) do not have automatically the ''right'' to live. Sic.

Manifiesto

2009-12-06T14:34:00.002+01:00

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Swiss blade

2009-12-02T06:48:00.001+01:00

Why christian symbols are wrong and islamic ones are, at least, ok?

Ooops!

2009-11-04T09:39:00.001+01:00

25/09/2009
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Que maravilla de Pais: "La Junta ordena aprobar a dos alumnos que sacaron un 2 de nota en Biología | Andalucía-Sevilla|"

2009-10-08T10:05:00.001+02:00

La Junta ordena aprobar a dos alumnos que sacaron un 2 de nota en Biología | Andalucía-Sevilla | elmundo.es

Da gusto vivir aqui, estas cosas son las que mas me gustan,..

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Portugal, menos mal que nos queda Portugal.

2009-09-13T11:51:00.001+02:00

Seen in El Mundo: "Portugal is not a spanish province". What?

Forseen past and future events: not that easy.

2009-06-24T22:40:00.001+02:00

Now it is the dinosaur's weight but for sure this won't be the last predictive model under review. Actually the models are not that bad, but... But to get actual numbers you need to compute. There is the problem: computing is based on approaching an approximation over and over again. Not so long ago flaws on calculations were found on programs which ingenieers used careless for designing all sort of objects. These were no sophisticated formulae but finding square roots.

Gina says

2009-06-24T10:30:00.000+02:00

"Gina says" on String Wars reminds me of the Bourbaki phenomenon in math. Though, so far, the endings are quite different, the initial pourpouses are (were) quite similar: to clarify the topic on one hand and to set foundational grounds on the other hand. I wonder if having internet and blogs those days, Bourbaki would have ended up being "Bourbaki says" as well.

¿Un espejismo?

2009-06-16T10:00:00.003+02:00

How much real is the buzz over the net? Picture "borrowed" from The Big Picture.

Do you dream of a City at the End of Time?

2009-06-13T19:20:00.001+02:00

or Do Androids dream of electrical sheep?

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Pandemia

2009-06-12T08:21:00.001+02:00

Al parecer todo esto del N1H1 es una pamplina. A pesar de llegar a la calificacion tipo 6, los medios de comunicacion lo tratan como una nimiedad. Es increible que a todos se les pase que la OMS ha fallado en la contencion de esta enfermedad. ¿Que ocurrira cuando sea letal?

What's a no-win situation?

2009-05-31T20:51:00.001+02:00

When your wife asks you which clothing fits her best. You can feel the adrenaline. Perhaps I should get that game theory course.

Just missed Star Wars Day

2009-05-05T07:01:00.002+02:00

May the 4th be with you.

Santi Cotán para mí y Santiago Cotán-Pinto para los demás.

2009-05-04T11:44:00.001+02:00

Antena Huelva Radio- NOTICIAS -

He sabido hace apenas una semana que mi compañero de clase en los Salesianos de Huelva ha muerto. Aunque habíamos perdido el contacto nos volvimos a ver hace ya años en Sevilla brevemente. Era un chico estupendo, lo recuerdo hablando conmigo en el patio de cosas científicas y, sobre todo, jugando a baloncesto. Le encantaba tirar desde el medio campo y la encestaba, era un especialista. Siento haber perdido el contacto contigo. Te echaré de menos. Compartimos 8 años estupendos. Tu amigo, Escudero como tú me llamabas.

Who's the fault?

2009-03-17T11:42:00.001+01:00

In Ars Mathematica: "The formula who killed Wall Street". It'll end up being mine!

Krugman in Sevilla

2009-03-16T10:46:00.003+01:00

Yes, Krugman has given a talk in Sevilla. How is it no one heard about it? A Nobel prize in economics gives a talk and there is no mention on the media? It's not like a lot of personalities come to Seville. Well, it maybe because it has predicted 6 or 7 years more of crisis for Spain: not very politically correct for our progre authorities. By the way, other personality came also to Seville with no echo on the media: Terence Tao, a Field medalists. Well should join ISA.

Celebrating pi-day?

2009-03-10T11:49:00.001+01:00

http://www.ams.org/mathmedia/mathdigest/#200903-piday

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A logical approach to time travel.

2009-02-27T07:49:00.001+01:00

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/index.htm

Peter Schiff right or wrong? interesting

2009-02-27T07:33:00.001+01:00

http://www.populistamerica.com/was_peter_schiff_was_right_wrong

Imbeciles

2009-02-25T06:42:00.001+01:00

http://www.correoandalucia.com/noticia.asp?idnoticia=4424170096093094100097424170

Darwin tambien en Sevilla.

2009-02-25T06:35:00.001+01:00

http://www.institucional.us.es/darwin09/index.html

The crackpot index by Baez

2009-02-19T22:12:00.001+01:00

How could I have not found this earlier! http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

Krugman is so right!

2009-01-20T20:32:00.000+01:00

Check this http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/the-pain-in-spain/ But do not forget we had before all benefits of the EU but wasted it.

Get yourself tested

2008-12-30T12:46:00.002+01:00

Get yourself tested at BBC. It seems I'm a Mastermind! obviously they've not met me.

PS: Just found out we are a rare type of person, less than 1% of the total. That seems to agree with my neighborhood consensus.
PS2: It seems most call it INTJ.

Yeap!

2008-12-19T09:47:00.001+01:00

De Microsiervos: "Explicar la física cuántica cuantica con palabras fáciles a un lego en la materia es como pedirle a un Sim que explique a otro Sim que realmente están hechos de unos y ceros."

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Fascinating!

2008-12-19T07:09:00.000+01:00

Yesterday I saw two workmen fixing the public lights near my home. In Seville they belong, according to their car label, to the Department for Sustainable Infractstructure! Well, actually they were sustained by a ladder...

'MichaelCrichton.com | Speeches'

2008-12-17T10:05:00.000+01:00

From the page MichaelCrichton.com | Speeches:

Why Speculate?
In recent years, media has increasingly turned away from reporting what has happened to focus on speculation about what may happen in the future. Paying attention to modern media is thus a waste of time.
International Leadership Forum
La Jolla, CA
April 26, 2002

Do you call yourself film addict?

2008-12-16T21:01:00.001+01:00

Check it out at http://plutor.org/filmaddict/

Californication.

2008-12-15T12:22:00.000+01:00

You've got to love him for what he is; not his potential.

Winter at last

2008-12-13T15:04:00.001+01:00

Very close to... it

2008-12-01T10:01:00.002+01:00

I never believed I was going to get to this point. But I'm about it. About to say this is it. It's starting not to be fun. (Recall Feynmann). It's enough of receiving bad critics. I got no air to breath. Got to stop.

Bolonia's issues

2008-11-27T08:04:00.001+01:00

Due to unkown reasons for me, students at our univrsity are against the Bolonia agreement. Some of them lock themselves at the central building. (Very 1968). As a sign of protest they wrote on a wall: ¨El conocimiento no es una mercancia. El saber no se vende¨. (Knowledge is not a merchandise. Wisdom is not for sale.) I guess all this future high school teacher will be working for free.

Visiting our local particles accelerator.

2008-11-23T22:35:00.001+01:00

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Is it useful or not?

2008-11-21T11:21:00.001+01:00

Who said internet is not useful? check out this public service.

Home made EMP?

2008-11-14T13:04:00.000+01:00

Today: Bambi and Obambi

2008-11-14T11:51:00.001+01:00

I see trees of green, red roses too.
I see them bloom for me and you,
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world....

Out of common.

2008-10-28T09:56:00.001+01:00

Since childhood I know I'm not a regular person. I never fitted with the rest of kids and the adults always expected me to behave somehow differently. By the end of elementary school I figure out the best was to carry a kind of double life. It worked out well through high school and college. Still nowadays I follow the rule of not scaring out new people I meet by mentioning my professional life. It may sound stupid but the reaction I always get is the same: close to an allergic reaction. But what a surprise, that is not all. I'm odd in a surprising way: I like my job. It seems the rest of the planet hates his/her job and that's the way it should be. Now, in my conversations, I avoid talking about the need to go back to work on a paper or to class to talk about a new approach to a problem... it's a curse.

Street wisdom.

2008-10-28T09:55:00.000+01:00

Just overheard while walking on the street:

"Men who prefer small breasts are smarter."

P.S.

Obviously this scientific truth was told by a small breasted woman.

Ain't these guys stupid or what?

2008-10-14T12:15:00.002+02:00

Two days having some earnings on trade markets and the spanish media and government is like the crisis is over. It just started stupid, what's gonna happend with all the unemployment? Oh yes, just become waitress!

Music & Evolution

2008-10-10T19:39:00.001+02:00

CyberL will love this

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42?

2008-10-10T11:54:00.000+02:00

Big Bang Theory's quote.

2008-10-10T10:02:00.001+02:00

"You thought the opposite of stupid looser is community college graduate?"

Hasta la bye bye

2008-10-09T17:54:00.001+02:00

Hey M,

You may love this!

"...Zapatero is the kind of guy who reminds me of the need for smart American leadership. In fact, he reminds me of why, raised in Europe, I chose to become an American."

Nice read from Roger Cohen in the Times today: Hasta la Vista, Baby

Deja vu?

2008-10-09T10:14:00.001+02:00

Serendipity some call it. Maybe it's magical coincidence, but actually we're so much stuffed together that it's inevitable we encounter each other at every coner.

Things I learnt I hate

2008-10-09T10:08:00.000+02:00

Having grown this old, I've learnt there are quite a few things I hate. They provoke a reaction close to that of an allergy. Let's go for a list.
1 Wasting time.
2 Getting interrupted at work.
3 Listening stupid arguments.
4 Having to live repeated situations such as every year's Christmas lunch with political family.

And many more I hold for personal safety.

'Intelligent' computers put to the test | Technology | The Observer

2008-10-09T09:57:00.001+02:00

No, no, no.. not again, why pulling people's leg so often? Didn't we have enough with LHC's end of the world?
'Intelligent' computers put to the test | Technology | The Observer

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Ehm?

2008-10-03T20:36:00.001+02:00

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bitacorARP - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico

2008-05-06T22:36:00.001+02:00

bitacorARP - Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico

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Radar de lluvia

2008-04-12T12:26:00.001+02:00

NI idea por que razon el INM solo ofrece las imagenes compuestas de radar de lluvia. Esto hace dificil ver nada a nivel local. Menos mal que nos queda Portugal Imagens RADAR que nos ofrece bastante buenas imagenes desde Loule. Gracias vecinos.

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Un juez decidirá si un agujero negro amenaza la Tierra

2008-04-01T08:57:00.001+02:00

Un juez decidirá si un agujero negro amenaza la Tierra

Again and again...

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3x+1 again

2008-03-25T12:52:00.001+01:00

Back from the past, this problem shows up again. This time at God plays dice.

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Holy Week

2008-03-14T11:03:00.001+01:00

Heading to Algarve once again. Looking for peace, clean streets... and best of all none shouting spaniards nor their stressed out kids. Some free time for our Hari Seldon project. Just realized it is persistency but upside down!

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Why beer harms science - Telegraph

2008-02-19T10:50:00.001+01:00

Why beer harms science - Telegraph Impossible! I disagree, gimme my birra!

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Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks' - Telegraph

2008-02-07T10:52:00.001+01:00

Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks' - Telegraph

Why, why do they always hit on the same (stupid) spots?

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Leap seconds: missing time!

2008-01-28T10:51:00.001+01:00

And I thought this were things from the past ! http://tf.nist.gov/general/leaps.htm

Check out this

INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)

SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE

SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
Internet : services.iers@obspm.fr

Paris, 18 January 2008

Bulletin C 35

To authorities responsible
for the measurement and
distribution of time

INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI

NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2008.
The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
International Atomic Time TAI is :

from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -33 s

Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
will be no time step at the next possible date.

Daniel GAMBIS
Head
Earth Orientation Center of the IERS
Observatoire de Paris, France

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14_33_16-231207

2007-12-24T17:14:00.001+01:00

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Merry X-mass!

I cant stop.

2007-12-07T20:13:00.001+01:00

I cant stop.
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Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » Jumping the Shark

2007-12-03T10:53:00.001+01:00

Very interesting this post: Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » Jumping the Shark . One wanders whether he is himself jumping the shark...

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