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El gobierno sentimental

Mónica de la Pirámide de la Luna pregunta:

Quérido Eztigma:
¿Qué es la demagogia?



La demagogia es una forma de gobierno en la que las personas en el poder apelan a los sentimientos, miedos y otras emocionenes del pueblo para ganar su apoyo, generalmente mediante el uso de propaganda.

El diccionario de la Real Academía define a la demagogia también como la degeneración de la democracia dónde los políticos tratan de mantener el poder mediante halagos al pueblo.

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¿Puede hacer un foco la diferencia?

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Hoy es el Blog Action Day y el tema es el cambio climatico. La pregunta es si un foco puede hacer la diferencia y la respuesta es "definitivamente sí". En México, culturalmente hablando, nos vamos hacia lo que es barato al momento y no reparamos en los costos posteriores que implica una compra, es por eso que la gente prefiere comprar un foco incandescente que un foco ahorrador de energía. Claro, es inevitable comparar los 6 pesos que puede costar un foco contra los más de 30 que puede costar un foco ahorrador.

Sin embargo, y hablo de experiencia propia, un foco ahorrador puede durar mucho más que un foco incandescente comprado en la tienda de la esquina y además, el costo de la energía que consume es mucho menor (no hablemos del asunto de LyF en este post, ok?). La experiencia me dice que un foco ahorrador puede durar años, AÑOS! Es decir, a penas acabo de cambiar el que tengo en mi cuarto y aproveché un paquete de 2 focos para cambiar el de la lampara de la entrada. ¿El costo? Menos de 50 pesos por un par de focos de 40 watts que dan luz totalmente BLANCA.

¿Sabes cómo puedes ayudar a combatir el calentamiento global desde tu casa, sin mover un dedo y de manera real? Manda a tus papás a comprar focos ahorradores y pon a tus hermanos a cambiarlos por tus focos de tlapalería, así de simple. Piensa global y actúa local y así estarás haciendo tu parte y además, estarás en la onda green.

También puedes reciclar tus hojas de papel imprimiendolas por ambos lados, poner tu papel de baño con la hojita hacia arriba y separar tu basura. No importa si no compras toda la idea de lo green, solo ve y cambia tus focos.

A qué hora vas por el pan?

La respuesta a la pregunta que más se ha hecho la humanidad: A qué hora sale un manato por el pan?



Un manato va por el pan a las 9:28:14!

Los palillos chinos

El Tio Pepe de Oriente pregunta:

Querido Eztigma:
¿Porque se usan los palillos en el oriente en lugar de cubiertos como en occidente?


Estimado Tio Pepe, los palillos chinos (que dicho sea de paso no solo se utilizan en el oriente) tienen dos razones de ser:

La primera, es que los instrumentos de metal, como los cubiertos, son considerados herramientas y según la cultura oriental, no utilizarías herramientas que usas para arar, matar animales o realizar trabajos para comer. En general, tratarías con más cuidado tu comida, ergo, utilizando palillos de madera. Incluso las cucharas para la sopa son de cerámica o madera, tampoco son de metal.

La segunda, que complementa la primera, es que en la cocina china, la comida debe de ir perfectamente picada de tal manera que cada trozo sea del tamaño de un bocado y que además pueda ser tomado perfectamente por el palillo, de lo contrario, se considera que la comida no esta bien preparada.

Esta es una regla de etiqueta china aclarada para nosotros por una maestra de 中文 que además me golpea, dandonos pues, la respuesta a tu pregunta :smile:

t3h Piccolo experience

When you decide to go and have a pizza at Piccolo, you probably should be ready to wait for about an hour and a half to be served, not that it's a bad thing, but some people might get a little upset about how long does it take to bake a pizza. You have to consider one thing: Piccolo's pizzas are hand made, they're not made of precooked frozen dough, but fresh. Yes, every pizza is a fresh made pizza, with top quality ingredients if I may add.

I don't have anything against commercial pizzerias, it's just like we've found out recently, handicrafts are sometimes just better.

If you decide that time doesn't matter and that j00 want a really good pizza, you'll endure for an hour and a half if you're lucky, but if not... only Frank knows.

But in the end, it's worth the wait. A portion of sphaghetti and a couple of b33rs later you'll be eating one of the best pizzas you've ever tasted. One pizza whose ingredients are perfectly chopped down so they're evenly spread all over the surface of the irresistible cheese layer.

Sometimes you won't even finish the pizza if you don't choose wisely among the 5 different sizes they offer.

I'm not writing this because I rarely pay when I visit them nor because I made their website. It's just that it's the only pizza that you can refrigerate for 24 hours, take it out of the fridge, eat it without any reheating and it's still delicious.

Too bad that you're not in MX City to try them. However, I'm getting ready for the 2009 menu!

Hologram

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Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three dimensional.

Security holograms are very difficult to forge because they are replicated from a master hologram which requires expensive, specialized and technologically advanced equipment.


In MX City, a special hologram is given to every motorized vehicle that passes the Green vefification. Coco 1.0 is an old car that has a lot of trouble passing the verification and it always requires a lot of engine work. Today I payed for the last time, before Coco becomes beach-bound (it's going to live in Acapulco next December).

It is always very expensive, since bureaucratic operations in MX always require a lot of paperwork and of course, this time wasn't the exception: the license plates change caused more trouble and paperwork, so there went yet another 120 USDLL, spread between the government, verification centre and mechanics.

Luckily, this is the last time.

Don't drink and drive

A supermarket trolley is a cart supplied by a shop, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping, and often to the customer's car after paying as well. Often, customers are allowed to leave the carts in the parking lot, and store personnel return the carts to the shop.


What many people don't know is that you can actually drive such carts, just like I did at P.C.

However, it is important to keep in mind the safety rules that apply to any wheeled vehicle. As Nancy kindly showed us during her presentation, by crashing the trolley shown in the picture... while it was driven by me!

It was so much fun that it needed a post on its own!

Attaboy

at-ta-boy

exclamation
an informal expression of encouragement or admiration, typically to a man or boy.

noun
a piece of encouragement or congratulations, esp. a letter; our boss will write you guys an attaboy.

ORIGIN early 20th cent.: probably representig a casual pronunciation of that's the boy.

Alebrije

An alebrije is a brightly-colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical animal-like creatures. While Pedro Linares first used the term to describe his papier mache creations, it is now commonly used in reference to the Oaxacan woodcarvings popularized by Manuel Jimenez.

The other day, Viole and I saw an exposition of this sculptures made out of trash and recycled bottles. Today I found a picture.

The Maya and the end of the world

Estamos en el ultimo Katún de la Gran Era Maya, en diciembre del año 2012 entraremos a una nueva Gran Era. Este evento ocurre cada 26 000 tunes (un Katún corresponde a 20 tunes y cada tún dura 360 días) o aproximadamente 25 650 años. Por lo que se acerca uno de los sucesos de mayor trascendencia a nivel global y así como se celebro la llegada del año 2000 es necesario comenzar a preparar la fiesta para recibir al nuevo Gran Ciclo Maya.


The expected date for the Mayan cicle to end is around December 21 (not 12), 1012. The Maya civilization thought that this date would mark the transition between the current Creation (fifth) and the next.

Although some metaphysicists claim that this year marks a global change of counciousness in mankind or the end of the world, nothing special will happen, except maybe that 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record is expected to pass Earth at 26.8 million kilometers (which is the asteroid expected to hit the Earth); a galactic alignment between Earth's equator, autum equinox and winter solstice; the 2012 London Olympics; presidential elections in MX (two years after our history owed civil/revolution war) and the expiration of Kyoto Protocol.

So, don't panic, we'll be fine.

Ah, y si a alguien le interesa, las vacaciones de Semana Santa del 2012 empiezan el 2 de abril ^.^