Doing some Sunday morning random surf on the net, I found somebody trying to take pictures of streets named after mathematicians in Paris. I started wondering how many streets could I find here in Barcelona with the same subject… No Gauss, Laplace, Euler or Pointcaré… just Archimedes, Pythagoras and some more greek friends. Obviously, with… Read More »
Here comes the summer! And the best way to survive it is by drinking fresh anisette with lemon. The recipe: – The juice of 1 lemon (if it’s home cultivated, the better) – 2 spoons of sugar – 1 drop of anisette – 2 ice cubes – and water Mr. Summer, please come in!
FlickrBlog has reminded me that today is Earth Day, with a post including a precious quote: “May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.” United Nations Secretary-General U… Read More »
I don’t know why, but I subscribed to the weather forecast of some European cities where some friends live. It seems like looking at these, I magically connect with their moods. Today is a great sunny day in Barcelona, but it’s an even sunnier day in Alicante, so my family is probably enjoying a nice… Read More »
This weekend I’ve been playing Go for full-time, in the Barcelona’s Go Tournament. The venue was really close to home, only 3 minutes walking, and maybe this is the reason that I had a good tournament. Finally my score was 4 wins from 5 rounds, but the best thing is that I think I’ve played… Read More »
Some weeks ago it was quite rainy in Barcelona. We had some continuous rain, and it’s a bit strange. On my balcony something green started to grow in a small rectangular pot that we have there. I thought they were only some mint plants, but when I tried to smell their leaves, I discovered they… 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 GaudÃ’s spirit. Gaudà 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 »