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I stumbleupon this great site today, it’s a comic strip kind of geeky but very nice. Check out some gems.

Here is a classic Pointers
This is an exam I’ll love to take some day Substitute
This one shows how creepy some people are Paths
Sudoku
Wikipedia hard truth
Command Line Fu, sadly I know several people to whom this may happen
This one isn’t a joke in fact it’s very interesting Map of the Internet
Beliefs, creationism all the way!
Delicious
Open Source

intelligent jokes
Marketing Interview
Jacket
I can think a couple of people that will think this is me Resonance
Random Number, so yea think your function names
Nash
Romantic Drama Equation

last but not least What xkcd Means, hehe I do the last one.

and many more I read before I decided to post this so, thanks Randall I had fun

and of course here a direct link to the RSS or for the old fashion Archive

The always interesting Bruce Eckel has an article about marketing it’s call Old vs New Marketing. He has a very intesting point although I disaggre with the model he proposed at the end. I don’t think you can actually have legit market(ing) around the model, unless is some website that’s supported by ads (like everything else today). Anyway enjoy the read.

update: sorry for the crappy post, I was testing scribefire and it got directly to frontpage

this is an interesting video about science http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7044753105944203252&hl=en

- the first flew minutes explain exactly my feeling about religion
- and in the process they finally explained to me what exactly and why “the game of life” is and why it’s so important.
- now the multiverse thing, that just seems like what a religion predicts.
- after that (around 30min) it just turns into the “why if we live inside a computer”

either way it’s an interesting way to spend 49 minutes. Enjoy

Another great article I found by Issac Asimov

Currently I have several ways to watch a TV program

1. Wait for 7 days until the new episode is out, then watch it being cut by ads at the most crucial moments.
2. Wait for it to be air and then download the torrent, which will take at least 2-3 days more based on the length of my queue, given my super fat pipe of 512/128 kbps.
3. Ask someone to burn me a CD, or transfer the file from laptop to laptop, or desktop, whatever.
4. Wait for the season to be over and go to a friends house to get ALL the episodes and then waste a weekend watching them.
5. Wait for the DVD to come out and buy it online, then wait for it to be ship.
6. Wait until they pass it on local TV.

As you can see they are ordered by how much time passes in between when it’s becomes public to the time I can watch it. Also according to the maffia only the first and last two are legal, which is fine by me but here is a list of situations that although not legal in all countries are valid by human logic.

You miss the time for #1

This is the most normal thing that happens to be I just forgot about time, and in this country there is no tivo and no one in the world has VCRs anymore, and if I did I’ll probably forgot to program it to record, assuming someone ever learned how to record with one of those.

After this happens and to be compliant with the maffia you have to wait for #5 and #6, now DVD are better this day they are only out SIX! months after the season ends! and for local TV well I’ll probably have forgotten about the series by the time they get it.

so what can I do to watch that episode without missing the whole series?

Someone just told you about this cool TV series that he is watching and it’s at episode 12 out of 20

You can start watching it at episode 13 I mean it won’t matter if you have no idea how that blond girl is or why the killer wants to take over the powers of the others.

Or you could you sit in front of your friend so he will narrate the first 12 episodes, I’m sure he will do a great job at giving you every detail the original 12 hours he spend watching it had.

You want to watch a 1995 TV series because back then you missed a lot of episodes

Here maybe #6 will help you but they are probably translated by some horribly localized (not for your country) dialect of your native language.

You want to watch something from the BBC or other channel that is not on your cable provider

Sit and wait for the DVD that will never come out.

Two programs you love have the same schedule

In their infinite wisdom the marketing teams of both companies decide their best programs should be schedule at the same time so they will take out audience from their competitors.

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Now lets forget about “legal” for a minute.There is this new show in NBC it’s call The Black Donnellys. I watch the first episode and I told the story to JJ, later that day green IM me saying he wants to watch it. So I downloaded the episode so they both could see it. Conclusion I watch it legally and now I’m going to get them two more viewers for their next episode. why is that bad?Another example shows from the BBC like hustle that I love to watch and no channel transmits it where I live, by the way why o why the only give 6 episodes a year!!

Or showtime which last time I check was block for viewers outside of USA.

And of course Comedy Central which is the channel that I miss the most. And I get all the standup from a torrent.

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So please if you have anything to do with TV production could you go to the maffia and tell them to stop killing your audience and start finding ways of making you win money on the new market?

A nice video my cousing send me the other day.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3014637678488153340

I know a LOT of people have said the same thing before, but jobs has a great way of talking. Ohh by the way it has spanish subtitles if you care about it…

Hi

If your reading this is probably because of a link on my gtalk and/or msn account, just to make that clear this is my blog, the link is for the ones that do not know what a blog is; yes I like to do that a lot. Anyway I have you here to see if I can score a reader so let me tell you what this is about. we’ll actually that is what the about page is supposed to be for.

First I have to clarify why write in English and it’s basically a two part thing

• I have always said that technology’s language is English specially if we are talking about computers. I believe this is because of three things: in English making up new words is really easy, second USA has been in the peek of tech in the last century and this one is more of a consequence, by the time books are translated to spanish they are probably obsolete.
• With both my interest in software and my day job (in software) lately I have been thinking in english more then spanish.

what I normally talk about? in no particular order, well that’s what tags are for here are the more populated ones so far

• life, this is basically some reflection about something that happen it could be news or a conversation that got me thinking articles here are normally not programming related
• work, this is a two fold one is my current work
• work in air quotes, over here some stuff that should really not happen it’s my own personal version of dailyWTF, which recently was renamed to Worst Then Failure
• any name that sounds like a product (trac,TurboGears,xgl,gentoo,ubuntu,wordpress,etc.) those are normally code or usage of the program
• all the other are small things but may be worth it, just check out the archive.

So yes it sounds a bit too technical but there is no point in blogging about my dog, for those of you I got two suggestions: learning tech stuff won’t hurt you in fact it will help you in your carrier, a veterinarian that know how to hack perl is a very good assert for someone that knows what perl is. Second I’m working on an idea for a less centric community blog but I’m waiting for someone to come up with a name for it.

In general this place is good for knowing what I’m up to, in fact if you read carefully you can figure out what I’m working on, also do not expect a lot of post if you want crap just add digg to your feeds. Ahhh yes very important since your new here let me introduce you to the magic of RSS you first need an RSSreader i highly recommend google reader then you need to add the feed, after that your done. The beauty of RSS is that you get personal notifications of new stuff but without spam so it’s better then email, and you also don’t have to see the crappy layouts people use, (like this site) all you get is the content, also it’s better then just going to sites because it will stack up until you either read or delete the items, so you can pile up several articles and read them when you want. I can only tell you how RSS is good for me but you have to try it to see why it has because the application that I use the most. and yes those little orange icons ALL webpages have today are links to the feeds.

lastbutnotleastalittledisclaimerifyoucanreadthisitmeansyourgettingwhat itsays

sopleasetakethecontentbywhatitisgrammarisoverrated… so yea I better write then think the correct way, if your not comfortable with that sue me, that is why this is my blog. I have always hated having to stop and think if foo was spell correctly, now I know you have valid points but think of the keyboard it was made to be messy so it will slow you down. I consider the same for grammar.

oh by the way PR stands for public relationships. read: buzzword for talking to people, almost forgot if you do have a blog leave me a link

I just found out today that our BeerHouse was worth less then the ground it was build on. I guess this means we need a new place to take our default: clause.

More important now I have no idea how to see the waitress I like again, crap … ohh well so is life.

if anyone knows of they move or something please let me know in the comments.

I read this small post from FuManChu, in case you don’t know him he is the guy that gave us cherrypy3.0 I’m not sure if he was directing that to someone I know it wasn’t me :p But It got me thinking….

I guess my answer will be

You’re writting a program that will work forever, and I want to be homeless for the rest of my life.

by the way thanks Robert for CP3. TG2 will not be possible without it.

Lately a LOT of people at the office are into the Cube again, side note: The guy that made it up should have tons of money out of it and should probably puke when people tell him how great it is…

Someone told me the other day (sorry I forgot your name) that it may be related with a movie that’s around recently, and it could be people love to be “special”.

Now this post is really about a cool link I stumble upon. Which is the result of art + time (lots of it) + Rubik’s Cube. And yes it’s call Rubikubism, but wikipedia doesn’t knows about it yet, any takers?