This evening Jordi and I went to the first demo of the famous Tenori-on in Barcelona. During the presentation everybody looked at the charming machine intensely, almost ignoring the man who was showing the details. The good part was after the speech, when we had the opportunity of holding this instrument and play a little.… Read More »
Yesterday Jordi and I were discussing about a recent Graham article on “Cities and Ambition“. Briefly it says that cities transmit you a message, and depending the city it can be things like: “be smarter” (Cambridge), “get money” (New York) or “change the world” (Silicon Valley). Inhabitants of each city show some of these feelings,… Read More »
While my plants grow and grow, and are eager to the arrive of summer, Rubén told me about a website, a la 2.0, to keep track of your gardens and plants: My folia, where I’ve created my garden profile. There are too few people at the moment, so the magic of 2.0 doesn’t work still.… Read More »
Last week I’ve been quite busy. I had a small project in mind. Briefly, the idea is to search pictures that match the songs you are listening to. And present them with some visual beauties. I named this project as: ImageWorth, try it out! It gets the “recent listened tracks” list from your Last.fm account,… Read More »
It’s incredible, but my bike was stolen today. Incredible because it was next to the main entrance of the University, in the center of the city, and was stolen at 14:00. How can anybody cut an iron cable, untie it and get the bike without being noticed by anybody? Next to the main entrance of… Read More »
Why my hand is full of skin wounds? (No nasty thoughts, please). Because I’m learning to climb. Some weeks ago I discovered a “climbing gym” near home, a place full of climbing walls. Instantly I decided to join an introductory course: my legs are in shape (thanks to the bike) but my arms and hands… Read More »
I’m really busy. Perhaps too much to be unemployed. Or maybe due to this… – Preparing trips to Madrid (next weekend), UK (June) and Canada (July). – Managing lots of things in the Go Spanish Association committee. Moreover I’m in charge of the national selection, which will take part in the 1st World Mind Sport… Read More »
While I was flying to Corcovado, in a small airplane, I had the opportunity of looking at the instruments in the cabin. I knew the functionality of some of these flight instruments because I “studied” them when I was a child, from the heavy MS Flight Simulator 4.0 manual. It’s interesting to discover that when… Read More »
Today the International Go Federation announced an anti-doping policy to be used in international competitions. Despite Go is defined as “a low risk sport”, they will check your blood or urine. So, time to discover if green tea is on the Anti-Doping Agency’s drug list. Anyway, I suspect that some university tournaments might be cancelled… Read More »
Some years ago I went to Syria, and when I came back, I felt that Europe is a too squared place. Too perfectly designed. Last Thursday I arrived to Madrid, from my 2 week trip to Costa Rica. In that country people have enough money to live, but not to choice among lots of things.… Read More »