Well... no, it is already quite difficult to determine what a 'step' is, so this is not the next step in the human evolution, but it is actually an idea I gathered from reading different sources... so basically is just focused in this analogy I am building up right now...
If a single-celullar being took millions of years to learn that grouping armoniously with other single-celled organisms was both a huge advantage and a high risk, but that has been worth it; how much time will take us, humans as 'individuals', to realize that competition is counter-productive, and that the next step in our own evolution is to bind ourselves as one being, as our cells did millions of years ago?
Of course, we can work in group, and as a team too, but to be honest, we are behaving more like rats, than like a cohesive group or team: at the first sign of trouble, the rats leave the ship abandoned to ill fortune. A cell cannot do that... to be part of a multi-cellular entity, means that the cell has to have ultimate commitment: If the cell next to me dies, I die as well...............; but we, as humans, just wander around like single-cellular automata, learnt, by force, that competition is the way to go, that the one that has more money/love/friends/success/internal knowledge of itself/whatever adjective or sustantive you want to put here, is the best
I just can't believe my ears. Is this the country that rules the world?
I feel like being at school, running from bullies who are so stupid to think they can do anything with brute force only.
I know not everyone is like the people here, but it seems that only the 10% of north americans are educated enough to face the world with dignity, the rest seem to thought they are educated, but... well... democracy is the open willingness to let others think for us.
Late, as always. After a month of thinking and rethinking, a bit of crying, being busy here and there and, of course, studying, I'm here again. Renewed and efervescent. Although my life hasn't changed technically a bit, I feel better and relieved. Like when you go to take a relaxing bath.
I started an study group in my college, and that was a bit time-consuming at the beginning. It's still starting (!) but here we go. This experience made me feel strange. I've never started a project in which anyone could enter an participate. All my projects have always been completely and unbelivable personal, non transferable, lonely and slow; but this opportunity has changed my point of view about a lot of things I can't enumerate, but specially, I noticed something in myself, a shiny ligth that embraces me... hahaha noonono... I'm not dying and the ligth embracing me it's just a metaphorical joke. I mean that I found myself in the leading position. Talking, breaking or dismanteling barriers, melting my own ice and freely speaking, researching... quite some aspects of me I haven't had in years! Creating a wiki was something to underline... Nobody still shares my idea and so I feel like hunting bears alone, but a document that anyone can modify, comment, complement, expand... it's exciting.
On the other hand, I've been feeling a sensation... a strange attraction to researching. Just starting in this field, but I've already shown some interest to some teachers, and so I'll begin a new project soon, just a matter of weeks, and I hope this or some derived work will be my undergraduate dissertation. What an interesting topic that of scientific research, or general reserach.
By the way... I deleted that stupid Windows from the Dell Inspiron and installed SuSE 10.1. That deserves a beer! So see you soon.
Have you ever heard of Murphy? Well, today was the day when all those laws became real. I had completely forgotten an exam, so obviously, I have not studied. At all. I remembered everything when I was arriving so I started reviewing all I could. When I recieved the questions I should answer, some points I had no idea, so what can I do but skip them? Later I began with the "easy" question. I checked my HP 48GX and everything seemed ok. So I wrote down the answer for the last question. That took me about 1 minute. Then the easy question, but oh my goodness... turning to my HP I noticed a messed screen! No hardware or software reset worked. A big laugh came out of my mouth, and everyone looked at me curiously. I could not do anything else because all the exam's questions needed at some point a complex calculation (like sums or even multiplications ) I closed my backpack, gave the answers I could to the teacher and rush out of that classroom with an unbearable anger. Physics class at 20.00? Bah. No calculator, no physics.
What did I learn today then?
Well, difficult question. Should I buy another calculator? It seems not. At home I used a paperclip and worked perfectly for resetting my HP (Murphy again), but all the software I've written it's gone. What I learnt today was my deep dependence to the calculator and the shallow use of my mind for such mechanical tasks. Well, I hate those tasks.
Veo en mis estudios el ___.
Lo veo en un constante ir y venir,
otorgar y recibir,
está, y nadie lo nota.
Lo veo en mi familia,
con mis amigos en el bar,
en los momentos de cansancio y desespero.
Pero el ___ sigue ahí, inamovible.
Pero lo que veo no es el ___.
Es una representación de él.
Siempre lo es.
Veo lo que
quiero
ver.
Pero no hay mayor maldición que el deseo.
No hay peor miseria que el descontento.
No hay peor enfermedad que la codicia.
¿Y entonces qué estoy viendo si no es ___?
Sueño a veces que estoy en el camino correcto,
pero no es así.
Nunca encontraré a ___,
pero sigo buscando
y al buscar me equivoco,
porque cuando está, no es.
Dejaré entonces de buscar.
Quizá así,
ya sin esperanzas,
algún día me halle.
¡Hola! Qué lindo día el de hoy. Las ocho de la mañanita y alistándome para salir a la programatón de hoy sábado. Ya estoy preparado: listo el biker, la bandita elástica para el sudor y las medias tobilleras.
Lo único que queda por hacer es tomarme el huevo crudo cual Rocky Balboa.
Es que hay que estar listo para la jornada... de 9 a 17 son siempre 7 u 8 horas de estar sentado en un PC haciendo ejercicio.
Hoy es además el día en que mi mejor amigo viaja a estudiar a otro país... lo voy a extrañar, pero le deseo el mejor de los viajes.
Buenos días, jueves.
Hoy es jueves y, curiosamente, se me hizo tarde para ir a la universidad, así que ¿por qué no dejar pasar esta primera hora de clase? ¿Cuál es la manía con la asistencia a clase? ¿Por qué todo tiene que ser forzado y obligado para trabajar?
No se trata de responsabilidad, pues cada uno es responsable de lo que hace y dice, y directa o indirectamente las consecuencias se ven y se pagan, con o sin consentimiento del ejecutor. Aquí el problema parece ser más bien de interés, el interés por un tema particular.
Pero no, hoy no falté a clase por falta de entusiasmo (eso es tema para otro post), sino porque realmente estaba muy cansado y al abrir los ojos ya se había pasado la hora. Qué descuido ¿no?. Curiosamente hoy es mi día más pesado en la universidad, pero curiosamente es mi día preferido. No sé por qué, ya que mi horario comienza a las 7 y termina a las 22, con un pequeño descanso entre 11 y 12. ¿Será posible que todos mis días fueran así? Obviamente me refiero no a estar 15 horas seguidas en clases, sino más bien a la productividad del tiempo; me ha parecido una excelente inversión estar ocupado todo el día, pero siento que la presión de cumplir un horario es bastante agobiante. ¿No sería más interesante hacer un horario más flexible, semanalmente cambiante, adaptable, deformable? En fín, al menos hoy estoy aprendiendo que la productividad es algo más relativo de lo que me imaginaba.
Aparte de eso hoy comenzó siendo un día bastante frío, nublado y gris. Justo como los que me gustan. ¿Qué tengo en contra del sol y el calor? Nada... nada... solo que me saltan la chispa y me pongo irremediablemente insoportable. El frío, en cambio, me invita a encontrar mi centro: por un lado hace dificilísimo salir de abajo de las cobijas, pero por otro lado, me despierta y me pone alerta, ¿qué mejor forma de encontrar el centro que viajar a los extremos opuestos al mismo tiempo?
Y bueno, ahora sí se acabó la guachafita. Ya es hora de prepararse para salir a la clase de 9.
Hoy al menos pude reactivar ciertas zonas mentales que no hacían sinapsis desde hace mucho. Creo que le estoy cogiendo el gusto a escribir, otra vez (^_^) ... ¡de nuevo tengo ideas en la cabeza! Me siento revitalizado.
¡A por ellos!
¡Ay mi corazón!
No puedo abrir la página de El Tiempo (el diario nacional más leído, pero no por eso el mejor) sin recibir baldados de agua fría cada dos líneas.
Anoche, es decir, esta madrugada, antes de dormir me encuentro con esta belleza:
"Para que el TLC quede listo en octubre, el Gobierno está dispuesto a tomar decisiones "al rompe"
Eso quire decir que actuará sin el apoyo previo de los sectores afectados, anunció el ministro de Comercio, Jorge Humberto Botero."
¿Cuál es el desespero de ambas partes? ¿Por qué tenemos siempre que elegir un gobierno más arodillado que el anterior y seguir tan frescos y sin al menos opinar nada al respecto?
Esta mañana, justo antes de escribir esto, me encuentro con otra joyita:
"Gobierno confirma principio de acuerdo para alianza entre Telecom y Telmex"
No sé por qué, pero esas alianzas siempre me han sonado a más privatización... y ojalá fuera privatización nacional, pero no, siempre nuestro pobre y golpeado país le toca venderse a los ricos de otros países, todas las ganancias que se van a producir no solo de esta alianza, sino también del día a día de nuestro "telmexcom" (mi palabra) difícilmente se van a quedar en Colombia, así como pasó con el mundo de bancos que se privatizaron y vendieron a bancos españoles en la década pasada.
Entre más globalizados estamos, más monopolizado me siento.
Ahh y ahora también el MaternoInfantil lo van a cerrar... bacano...
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Although I do not read this paper a lot, I like to do it from time to time. It's very nice to be aware of all the stupid rubbish the NorthAmerican president is doing
The Independent Media Centre. One of the most radical sites of politics and news. But if it's read carefully, gives a lot of clarifying answers and raises more questions about whow bad our world is taking important decisions.
A nice flash animation, and of course a big web site telling why not to join the northamerican army. Of course, I'm not from that country, neither I would like to, but Iraq war it's not right and also affects the rest of the world, incluiding me, so
Inverse Reality contains over 40 tutorials on many aspects of Game Programming. Webmaster is also available for questions. Source code available for DJGPP, some include inline assembly
A good starting point to ABAP programming. Part of the SAPDomain.com site. Lots of questions and tests for... OMG the certification!!! T_T. Time to study...
The former Crack Smilies, now called MySmilies, a big resource on icons for forums and chatting in general. Most are very nice collections, others are very rough or disgusting
Once one of the best forums in latinamerica about formula 1 and racing. Now it's almost dead, but some of us are still there, faithful to the original passion. Spanish only
A very good DataBase for formula 1 drivers statistics. Updating was closed a looong time ago, but still very interesting as a source for historical stats
One very, very good, but normally biased news source for F1 (mainly). It's articles are quite interesting, also because they are somehow critical into F1 management (bernie et al)
e-Tracks: World Motor Racing Circuits Guide Directory of motor racing circuits around the world. A-Z listing of tracks including every Formula 1, CART, NASCAR, IRL, MotoGP, World Superbike and ALMS circuit, from Monza to Indianapolis.
F1 Tipping is a free online Formula One prediction competition for fans. Predict the outcome of each Grand Prix as we follow the Formula 1 GP season to each race. Join in the game instantly, anytime.
A MUST for every race. Requires Subscription to the Official F1 site but it's quite interesting to watch a race and also follow times =) At least for a follower like me
OXIMORON. Web de práctica literaria. Lista de oximorons en español. Libros y literatura. Visita los blogs de nuestros autores. Escritura y escritores. Novelas, cuentos, poesias, etc...
Nuestra buena imagen en VillegasEditores.com: descubra el fascinante horizonte llamado Colombia. En este lugar, las selvas amazónicas se funden con dos océanos, las cordilleras son parques y las sabanas y ríos tienen la textura de selvas y nevados
I first saw this guy in a video of La fitta sassaiola dell'ingiuria (don not ask what does that mean because I have no answer to that). they seem to be very crazy, but I do not follow them much.
A collection of free internet radio stations. Very good indeed. Nice music, although my favourite station, Onomatopoeia, died some time ago. Still there are very good stuff in here. Check it out!! hahaha
Tutorials for learning ancient greek. Have been here some times... it looks pretty interesting, but or I am quite slow, or ancient greek is not easy to learn... I suppose a tutor would help me, but this is not one of my priorities.
Another reference point in the internet for general reading. Most of the books here are classical masterpieces, so it should be a MUST for everyone, including me ;)
Gamedev.net is the leading resource for game developers, featuring daily news updates, over 1500 featured articles and tutorials, and the most active game development forums anywhere!
I don't care if some think that worriyng about the earth is rubbish or not. I know it is the right thing to do, and as such, it is time to be concious of our mark on her face.
Have you ever heard of Murphy? Well, today was the day when all those laws became real. I had completely forgotten an exam, so obviously, I have not studied. At all. I remembered everything when I was arriving so I started reviewing all I could. When I recieved the questions I should answer, some points I had no idea, so what can I do but skip them? Later I began with the "easy" question. I checked my HP 48GX and everything seemed ok. So I wrote down the answer for the last question. That took me about 1 minute. Then the easy question, but oh my goodness... turning to my HP I noticed a messed screen! No hardware or software reset worked. A big laugh came out of my mouth, and everyone looked at me curiously. I could not do anything else because all the exam's questions needed at some point a complex calculation (like sums or even multiplications 
) I closed my backpack, gave the answers I could to the teacher and rush out of that classroom with an unbearable anger. Physics class at 20.00? Bah. No calculator, no physics.
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