Perhaps, the only interesting detail to look at the winning Oscar list of each year is the short animation section nominees. Some years this Oscar goes to a western author, but I love when it goes to an Asian author… then I try to find the short on Internet, expecting a beautiful flow of images,… Read More »
Why am I keeping this amount of bottles in my freezer? Freezer (and fridge) are designed to keep the inside content cool. But it’s funny to realize that most of the content is air. Each time you open the freezer you force to move the inside air with the outside… and the inside temperature rises.… Read More »
When I moved to my new apartment I decided to live alone, but sometimes it’s a bit boring. However I didn’t expect to create a space for her, until I met her some days ago while shopping. And now I have a new reason to live! She is Spaniard, from Salamanca. She is dancer, with… Read More »
“NAIVE. Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren’t naive.” – Piet Hein It’s curious to see that some very logical people are poets and abstract creators (maths, music, games, etc) at the same time. Peeking at Piet Hein’s biography, inventor of the game of Hex (also independently invented by John Nash),… Read More »
Intriguing sentence! But I should add: if you (like me) are in the 10% of the people with more than 120 IQ, 90% of the people are “worse” than you… really? Could you visualize the faces of 10 friends and say 9 of them are “idiots”? Ok, now I see what you’re thinking: “but I… Read More »
Speaking with a friend, an old game came to my mind. 15 years ago I started playing “Elite II“, a space trade game, probably one of the firsts where there is no final objective, just interaction with the world. You could trade items between star systems, do all kind of jobs, improve your ship getting… Read More »
What was I doing during the shortest day (in Northern Hemisphere) of the year? Enjoying the “code coverage” used in testing, while traveling to my hometown by train for Xmas. Testing, code coverage… what’s that? you ask. Let me explain. A really important part of developing code is testing the code you write. It’s the… Read More »
All of us, Spaniards, usually make jokes about Spanish problems saying this sentence. But I didn’t know it is actually a quote from Alexandre Dumas! I discovered this surfing on an interesting blog about maps. Have a look also at this Atlantic-Mediterranean map.
This is a post about tech books. Sometime ago I discovered that Internet is not, and should be not, the only information source for an IT professional. It’s a good place to search for technical reference, to scan for chunks of information, but definitively it isn’t a place to read long texts. Books are the… Read More »
This title is a bit pretentious, but “Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects”. Concretely it’s a collection of 18 abstract videos where the image plays with the music (or probably just the inverse). Let’s see one of… Read More »