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Monday, 29. March 2004, 05:50:13
disclaimer, myopera
I work for certain educational institution and the opinions expressed in this blog usually don't (well, actually never) reflect those of my employer. This is a personal blog with my personal point of view but sometimes it tries to be useful, therefore the information is provided "as is" and without any warranty.
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Friday, 18. July 2008, 15:48:51
travel
after 24 hours on the bus, we got down at playa del carmen and met federico and his sons. We're staying in a rather nice hostel and are about to go and get some low budget breakfast. It's really hot in here but manatito says it will be cloudy today.
After a long walk last night we got to see everything there is to see, so I don't know what are we doing today. I'll post something in a couple of days.
Wednesday, 16. July 2008, 17:14:10
travel
For us the trip to Playa del Carmen starts today. Manatito and I are expected to spend the next 24 hours on a bus and Tio Pepe will pick us up tomorrow at the bus station.
This is the first time that I travel along with those guys and I expect it to be quite an experience because Manatito is very calm and organized and Tio Pepe isn't, so I guess it's going to be interesting.
I'm afraid that Playa del Carmen is so small that there isn't even a Google Map for it so, I hope to log on during the week and post something and I really hope that the bus has a power jack or else I won't be able to see all the movies I've got on my iPod Touch.
Anyway, I guess the monk33s are getting their vacation after all!
Manato, ya vámonos!
Tuesday, 15. July 2008, 23:57:15
T3h Monk33 Seri3s
Yesterday, while driving over Eje 2 Norte,
Viole and I saw a monkey -very similar to the one depicted below- cuffed to the back of a pickup truck.
The monkey seemed to be riding the truck against its will and we immediately tried to call the cops and inform them about the monkeynapping in progress, however, the police car guarding the bank at the corner of Eje 2 and Eduardo Molina seemed to solve the problem before we made the call.
This is an alert for everyone to keep good care of your monkeys, as the wave of
crimes against them has been uprising.
I demand the immediate refill of the mug of every monk33 being held in the seb33r room.
Tuesday, 15. July 2008, 04:40:05
list, myopera
I'm on a myOpera blogging strike until the following demands are solved:
- I want my Opera Magazine
- Monk33s should be given a one week vacation at the beach
- I want to become MOTW before 2009
Monday, 14. July 2008, 16:30:45
travel
Tio Pepe has been on the road for about 19 hours (of the expected 24), at 3 am this morning he was at Villahermosa, Tabasco. Manatito and I will be catching up on Wednesday.
The last time he went away, we barely arrived to the bus station on time but yesterday we had perfect logistics and the trip started very smoothly. We went for the tickets about a week ago and
Manatito bought our plane tickets on Friday, benefiting from electronic transactions. He's also borrowing my card to buy stuff from Amazon (cuz Thinkgeek... well you know).
So, we met at 1 to have lunch at Piccolo and later went to the airport to buy some books so Pepe would have something to read (regarding books, I promised Frank I'd read "Of Mice and Men" during the summer and iTunes gave me "The Alchemist" for free), afterwards I drove him off to the bus station, with plenty of time to buy some batteries and something to drink. I'm confident that traveling along with Manato will be and enriching and very organized experience.
I'm also moving on forward with my Ghibli list and I plan on watching one on the bus on Wednesday and one on the plane next Thursday.
Anyway tio Pepe, I hope you had a nice trip and see you on Thursday.
Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 15:28:50
Yesterday I was trying to buy some stuff at ThinkGeek, a Lab Beaker Mug and a couple of tees to be precise, and to my surprise, I couldn't complete the checkout because they're no longer shipping to MX and PayPal didn't allow me to ship to a different country than mine.
It is sad, but I understand that my country tries to reduce the importing of Chinese products charging stratospheric fees for them and this are sometimes payed by Thinkgeek, so it was really no good business for them.
I fortunately found my mug somewhere else, but it's really sad that I won't be able to buy thinkgeek stuff again.
Monday, 7. July 2008, 15:31:52
I honestly like buying original DVD movies and records but what shoud I do when I go to Mixup and find that they don't have the titles I want and that one of them, if brought to me, costs around 40 usdll? Ok, the quick answer is going to Tower Records, where they'll probably have 2 out of 10 titles I want, and because of their costs I'll only be able to buy one.
I went to Fedeslavia and for what I would have spent in one movie at Mixup, we bought 20 DVD clones (and asked for a couple more)!
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.
Saturday, 5. July 2008, 04:58:59
Movies
I'm writing this post with a roll of sushi in one hand and half a litre of Heine in the other (ok, I put them down to write). At first I wasn't interested in the work of Sofia -daddy's girl- Coppola until I was almost forced by Federico to watch her movies.
The first one I saw was the Suicide Virgins and a few weeks later Marie Antoinette and today I finally finished watching Lost in Translation (I started watching it at work, but today I finished... I've been very distracted with the Ghibli movies) and I really liked it.
After watching Lost in Translation all I wanted to do was visiting Tokyo and eat Japanese food. I have a crush on Japan.
I really loved the premise of the film, how strange can you feel in a place where no one speaks your language or you really can't understand what's happening around you. You sometimes need a partner to be with you while you both explore this new, different world and in the end you obviously end up bonding.
Ok, I'm just being random and this Heine is not going to drink itself so, watch her movies, watch her daddy's movies and if you can avoid it, don't watch most of her cousin's movies!
Wednesday, 2. July 2008, 05:59:17
Movies, list
Studio Ghibli, Inc. is a Japanese animation film studio, and previously was a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten.
I intend to watch all of their movies and cross them out of this list, Studio Ghibli is dubbed as the Disney of the East ^_^
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (released before the formation of Studio Ghibli)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Grave of the Fireflies (shown alongside My Neighbor Totoro)
My Neighbor Totoro (shown alongside Grave of the Fireflies)
Kiki's Delivery Service
- Only Yesterday
- Porco Rosso
- Ocean Waves
Pom Poko
On Your Mark (short music video shown alongside Whisper of the Heart)
- Whisper of the Heart
- Princess Mononoke
- My Neighbors the Yamadas
- Ritual (live-action film produced by Studio Ghibli's live-action offshoot, Studio Kajino)
Spirited Away
Ghiblies Episode 2 (shown alongside The Cat Returns)
The Cat Returns (shown alongside Ghiblies Episode 2)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (co-production between Studio Ghibli and Production I.G)
Howl's Moving Castle
Tales from Earthsea
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Tuesday, 1. July 2008, 05:25:49
Spoil3r
Tuesday, 1. July 2008, 01:42:26
Sinusitis is an inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, which may or may not be as a result of infection, from bacterial, fungal, viral, allergic or autoimmune issues. Newer classifications of sinusitis refer to it as rhinosinusitis, taking into account the thought that inflammation of the sinuses cannot occur without some inflammation of the nose as well (rhinitis).
I was supposed to be getting surgery for that but after receiving a second opinion, it seems that it won't be necessary. I'll have to take medicine, though.
Monday, 30. June 2008, 07:37:10
I was the lucky one who got to sacrifice for the team, everyone who comes after me will benefit from that particular choice. Now my head hurts. I really needed to hear something different from "sorry" and to say that I'm not interested in being the rock on someone else's shoes.
I get what my role on the team was and now I know that at least sacrificing me WAS WORTH IT.
Thursday, 26. June 2008, 20:01:20
Gadgets, Teaching
Today we worked very hard: social service boys were playing PlayStation, I was watching Lost in Translation on my iBook, Alice and Paty were having breakfast and Gus was at the bank.
I feel so productive!
Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 20:55:03
Spoil3r, posters, myopera
While playing at Kirbyland Arena. Proudly recommending Opera!
Sunday, 22. June 2008, 21:21:10
Quotes, Teaching
Aprendían a leer, escribir y contar. No utilizaban papiro porque era muy caro, ellos usaban placas de caliza pulida. El escriba Amenosa decía a sus alumnos: "Escribe con tu mano, discute con los más sabios que tú" y la formación era rigurosa diciendo: "Si te descuidas durante un solo día serás golpeado, el oido del joven está en su espalda, sólo escucha a quien lo golpea".
Thursday, 19. June 2008, 18:53:58
Software, Apple
At school we have a computer virus epydemic and since I have a Mac it doesn't affect me. I'd love to run my server on Linux but I guess that Windows 2003 is all that I'll get in vacation. The point is that everybody's USB drives are infected and whenever I have the chance I try to clean them using my Mac.
Today, I found about
ClamXav.
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
It is great to check and clean my USB drive after using it on infected computers and in this way, I could handle a vaccination campaing among my fellow teachers and students!
If you're a Mac user, give it a try, don't become careless about other people's infected files, because they don't affect you doesn't mean that you can't infect other poor Windows soul (which they deserve for using that OS).
It's free and open source, BTW. Oh, and I spent all morning drinking the Chai tea Manatito gave to me yesterday ^_^
Thursday, 19. June 2008, 01:17:24
Spoil3r, posters
Wednesday, 18. June 2008, 23:16:58
Teaching
Last Monday,
Federico called me and told me that the lab server was sending a Blue Screen of Death message at boot, I told him to leave it alone and that I would check it today. Today I found that the server had a printer port error and that several machines (including the server) were infected with the VB.vob.1 virus.
So I cleaned everything up with Avira and finally got the server up and running again, and now that the semester is over, we need a new screensaver, the countdown was really a hit and the students loved it ^_^
In the end, everything worked out right and it wasn't as difficult as I expected. The best news is that they promissed to upgrade my server during vacation
Monday, 16. June 2008, 19:04:52
I dreamed about you, and me and us. I dreamed a desert and a starry sky. Everything impossible, everything unreal, the darkness hit the ground like a hammer on my foot. Your eyes, staring to the nothingess of the neverending sky, not a tear, not a word.
Where are we? Where am I? Where are you? I just dreamed of you and there was a tornado, a movie theater and a piece of pie, the lady selling bubblegum on the street warned me about the tornado and told me that you were waiting for me, standing there, by the door of your school and so we ran from the storm. Did I drive? Did you? We were safe at the movie theater, and even he told us that he was surprised to see us there, we didn't know how to answer.
It was a desert with a starry sky and I was lying there, stateless, faithles, no words broken, no need to speak with bittersweet tongues of fire. And I looked to the sky, looking for the tornado and it was gone, so were you.
Time to wake up...
Just one more minute, or two, or another dream so she can stay tonight but tonight is over, as the wind up toys wind down muffling the sound of a life hidden underground.
The other day... something happened.
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