Category Archives: life

Oct
27
2009

“A Universe From Nothing” by Lawrence Krauss

A fascinating talk about the origins, state and future of the universe by Lawrence Krauss, a brilliant theoretical physicist, author and professor, given at this year’s Atheist Alliance International convention. Some quotes and moments I liked very much, with their time in the video: Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. [...]

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Oct
22
2009

Some constructive criticism for a change…

Ten thousand cars are exported on a daily basis from manufacturing plants in the U.S. alone. Yes, I made that figure up, but you can be sure it’s a shitload of cars. All those cars have to go somewhere, and most end up being sold to countries whose road transport system is—in the parlance of [...]

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Oct
09
2009

Audiogalaxy: the P2P music revolution

Little bit of history Back in early 1999, I was just finishing elementary school. My family had recently acquired our very first PC and the Internet proved to be much less boring than I had expected it to be. I was just getting into listening rap music and the MP3 audio format was by then [...]

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Oct
06
2009

The importance of goals

No, I’m not talking about football (soccer, for you mentally-challenged gringos), but the kind you set and (try to) reach. Personal objectives, if you will. If there’s something I’ve consciously learned from my mother is just how important it is to have a clear set of goals defined in order to reach any sort of [...]

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Sep
30
2009

This country is a joke

And anyone who’s ever realized this is either: a) taking advantage of it. Good for you and go fuck yourself! b) long gone. Yuo=smrt. c) too frustrated trying to change things. Good luck! The other folks either: a) are ignorant. The uneducated, never-left-this-place, don’t-know-how-to-swim(!), eight-kids-to-a-household, fuck-me-it’s-a-hurricane masses, which correspond to roughly 80% of the country, [...]

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Sep
27
2009

The Vastness of Space

It boggles the mind just how big the universe is. Our best estimations peg it at around 14 billion light years—a number limited by our own imagination and capacity to see light reflections. The best answer to satisfy our inquisitive nature is usually found in religious texts of our own authorship, instead of factual data [...]

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Jun
25
2009

Michael Jackson: My favorite hits…

There’s not much I can say about the recent events. Suffice it to say that he will be dearly missed. There won’t be another one like him for a long time. I’ll let the music speak for itself. :’( 2009-10-09 Update: Grooveshark has, for some reason, removed most of the songs from my public playlist, [...]

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May
27
2009

Tributo a Tool en Cinema Café

TOOL MUTHAFUCKAS!!!* * (OK, so it’s not Tool, but it’s the closest you’ll ever get in D.R.)

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May
26
2009

Cage – I Never Knew You

Never was a fan of Cage; the whole shock-rap thing never impressed me. What did impress me was seeing this very nicely directed video (who knew the Transformers kid had the talent!), and the change Cage has gone through, both physically and lyrically. This dude went from being an overweight thug “wigger” whose lyrics included [...]

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May
19
2009

License to breed

This is something I’ve been in favour of for a few years now, and when I recently touched the topic at work, I decided to jot about it here. As far as I knew, this was an original idea of mine, but judging from a quick Google search, it seems other folks have thought about [...]

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