Category Archives: life

Dec
26
2011

MOG first impressions

I’ve been using Grooveshark since 2008 and haven’t had much complaints after moving to their premium service a year later. But recently, the disorganization (duplicate tracks, mislabeled or wrongly tagged tracks), plus the very low quality mobile streaming (even on WiFi) has left me searching for an alternative. Enter MOG. While definitely not a newcomer to [...]

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Jul
03
2011

Favorite chiptunes

I have already written a bit about the demoscene and chiptune in the past, but I had to write a separate post about these two tunes I keep coming back to whenever I need a fair dose of nostalgia and optimism. I haven’t heard a lot of chiptune, nor do I know much about the [...]

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Jun
23
2011

Manifiesto zapatista

Politics doesn’t interest me at all, but I was just listening to Manu Chao’s Clandestino for the umpteenth time, and this quote from “Welcome to Tijuana” rang a bell as much now as anytime I’ve heard it before. Nuestra lucha es por el respeto a nuestro derecho a gobernar y gobernarnos, y el mal gobierno [...]

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Jun
21
2011

Approximate Analogy

When you ask me whether I believe the god in the Bible is real, and I answer “No”, if I ask you—a Christian—whether you believe the Hindu god Brahmā is real, and you answer “No”, then you have a good reference of my position.

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Apr
07
2011

Session log of an insomniac

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Apr
06
2011

Driving: Vancouver vs. Santo Domingo

Just sayin’…

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Nov
16
2010

Cristo viene… ¡esta vez sí!

Hoy, en pleno disfrute de un tapón típico de S.D., me topé con esta joya: Resulta ser que el sitio web que anuncian es real (no lo linkeo para no contribuir con su SEO). Allá pueden ver todo tipo de información relevante… si vives en el mundo bizarro. Lo que no me explico es cómo [...]

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Sep
22
2010

On ignorance

Does it ever bother you how little you actually know of everything? It pisses me off how ignorant I am of SO MANY things. Actually, even when I start learning about something new, I get easily overwhelmed about how much “stuff” I still have left to discover. It’s like thumbing through The Art of Computer Programming [...]

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Jul
06
2010

Realidad absoluta y creencias

Hoy en el trabajo tuvimos una discusión bastante interesante y acalorada que empezó con temas religiosos y terminó con temas filosóficos. La religión de por sí despierta muchas opiniones fuertes tanto a favor como en contra, y siempre es un poco controversial—por no decir contraproducente—debatir este tema. La idea con la que terminamos, y pienso [...]

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May
12
2010

Immediate knowledge

I am certainly not the first one to suggest this idea, so pardon my ignorance, since I currently have little resources to do a proper research. But the idea is this… At some point in humanity’s near future, we will cease to have the need for traditional education systems that have been in place for [...]

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