This weekend is longer, due to the national day of Catalonia festivity. I wanted to compose some music, but I had an ergonomic problem: one of my synthesizers was in an uncomfortable place. This was an excellent excuse to some DIY! Step 1: The ingredients I bought some handles and some “L” supports from Carrefour,… Read More »
I don’t really like these kind of silly quizzes, but sometimes are funny… “You fit in with: Humanism” Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not… Read More »
A morning office conversation: Tony (a workmate): Is there a PHP function to stop for a moment the execution of a page? Me: Yes, it is “sleep()”. Tony: Just what I need, to sleep a little bit. Does it work with microseconds? Me: No, it works with seconds. For example, if you write sleep(1), it… Read More »
This is the last weekend before my birthday (on Tuesday I’ll be 29). I wanted to make the most of these days doing some things… For example, on Saturday I was doing some DIY, painting a small table in blue which I found some days ago. It was not really clean, so I followed my… Read More »
Two years ago, I arrived to Barcelona to continue my Ph.D studies. Two years, how long!, who could imagine all the things that were going to happen? In those days I was looking for a programming language to “fast-prototype” my ideas. The final match was between Python and Ruby, and I finally started to learn… Read More »
I live in Barcelona, a city marked with Gaudí’s spirit. Gaudí was a wise architect who studied shapes from nature, as a form of inspiration, and he used them to create new buildings. These shapes, like spiral, helix or hyperboloid, are not only beautiful but also interesting ways to sustain a building’s weight. Both beauty… Read More »
I came back to Barcelona. Holiday time was over. Again to work, to take the metro, to cross among dozens of people in the street. When I arrived I felt like empty, but in a few hours Barcelona filled me with this magic it has. To start with, I had 3 laundries, lots of housework,… Read More »
I’m spending the last week of my holidays in my hometown, Novelda. Like every summer, I got fascinated with different demonstrations of fireworks in Elche’s festivals (a neighbour city, where some of my cousins live). I can assert without doubts “this is the land of unbeatable fireworks”. I went 2 nights to watch these fireworks,… Read More »
Finally, after staying for 2 weeks in Bournemouth (UK), I came back to Spain last Saturday. This stay was like a fire-drill (or a trial-run), a way to verify my skills with English language. I was travelling alone, I met some gentlemen Go players, I studied some English, etc. The result, as you can see,… Read More »
One of the most impossible things to find in this life is decent men’s underwear. With “decent” I mean slips or boxers which are neither flat white, nor “gay” multicoloured. Where can I find a nice green or orange slips, please? In Barcelona I go shopping sometimes, but fashion shops don’t have a lot of… Read More »