book-in-(g) knowledge

A while ago I finished reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I think I would respect anyone who have read that book.. this awsome book talks about values in a very direct way (with very indirect words) and the whole book is full of strong words and meanings. I'm very happy I've read it, I liked almost everything of it!
[definetely a must-read! A new perspective guaranteed!]

Right after that I've started reading The Sickness Unto Death (which has a very nicer title in spanish luckily.. I don't know if I would read it with that english title) from Søren Aabye Kierkegaard..The book starts very good, then it goes with a lot of great quoteable phrases but mixed content, and well, I didn't like it much at the end cause it end up focusing too much in christianity and almost nothing in philosophy.. which I kinda expected (since he was the reference of the religion-oriented existencialism), but as I said, it was over my limit..
[A must-check if you are interested in existencialism, if not, just read the back cover..]

Right now, to relax a bit my mind, I'm reading "Eve's_Diary and other tales" from Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka: Mark Twain) which seems to be very funny, so great for the trips to and from work.. :D

Cotton clouds

Today I was enjoying my own place the whole day, so I made myself time to organize and clean a bit the house as well as the info of my laptop which is also important.. :)

Then I was surfing on some of the best waves of the internet like this World's map (very nice looking map of the world with times and shadow of most countries), this website where you can check how parsimonious your moral framework is (I liked the final analysis) or the huge and amazing Wikipedia that we all know, and from where I've learned things like what is the Noosphere (very interesting concept) or the real name of Voltaire (aka François-Marie Arouet)...

While I was updating my Facebook account I thought of a quote I couldn't exactly remember so I was helped by the nice wikiquote to find it.. which also taught me another great quotes of bāpu (aka Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi).

Geek section:
I've changed the script I use to send SMS through skype (send_sms.py) making it ask for a confirmation after showing the # of chunks:

        def print_chunking(self):
                if not self.message: return
                print 'Your SMS has', len(self.message.Chunks), 'chunk(s).',
                answer=raw_input('Should I send it anyway? [y/n]: ')
                if answer != 'Y' and answer != 'y':
                        print "Aborted by user."
                        sys.exit(0)
                else:
                        print "Sending your message.."

home.es

Everyone knows how important it is to have a place for oneself..

.. a place to be yourself, to rest, to read, to sleep, to wake up late, to eat, to jump, to excercise, to scream, to be quiet, to manage your own schedule, to do almost any kind of silence or noise..

A place where you can be yourself, with pros and cons, organized|a mess, clean|dirty, healthy|junk-food-eater, proactive|lazy, happy|angry, tired|energized, talkative|speachless,..

Besides it can be a place to share, to invite people in, to enjoy with friends, a meeting point sometimes and maybe a studio or a temple some other times..

For some geeks that would be your: grep `whoami` /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $6}'

In other words, your little world.

Well, since the past few days this has been my humble abode in Tres Cantos (Madrid).