Tuesday, July 29, 2008

One step beyond

The past month I've abandoned the so many things I have in my to-do list, and today was the perfect day to start working on them again.. so I got a few things done. And not only that, I enjoyed very much helping my to-do list to evolve, change, get bigger or tinier (impossible to empy)!

I have so much to live yet.. everyone is looking for something and no one has any clue of what do they want.. at some point I'm part of that, but today I felt very thankful for the past (not just the nice happy moments) and hopeful for the future (tomorrow will come full of changes and new experiences)!! those thoughts are not usual in me at all.. maybe I didn't wake up yet of some sort of dream.. maybe I'm starting to learn to let go..

Would it be a sign of the stability I was looking for? One thing I'm learning lately in my life is not to think about the future and try to be prepared for everything, unfortunately we need to build more and more shields while we grow up..

[No one knows what the future will bring]

One thing I have to do is to upload some pics.. I'm living the typical effect of digital cameras: so easy to take so many pictures, but then it requires so much time to organize and select them..

Sorry for my english, I'm kinda sleepy, but I wanted to publish this anyway.. :D

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Literary or rhetorical device

I'm back in 3C after 5 days of vacations in Asturias [Sat/Sun in 'La Marea' and the rest in 'Candás'].

When everyone was going away from Madrid to the North of Spain for this long weekend, I was coming back from Asturias to Madrid non-stop..

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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

Friday, June 13, 2008

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.."