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Happy Groundhog Day

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 at 2:23pm by Pi.
Categories: Stuff, Cinema.

I hope you have a nice Groundhog Day. As usual, I’m watching the movie again. Did you see your shadow today?

Links from the other side of the world

Posted on February 1st, 2010 at 2:07pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal, Gaming.

It’s not the first package I got from overseas this year; I got the Animusic and Animusic 2 DVDs from Chris in mid January (and I’ll have to write about them!) But this package deserves an instant mention. I got it from Bwlag (real name is confidential), a great guy who is helping me in my Links golf sim series collection. Since he spent a significant amount of money in acquiring items for dumping and preservation, I offered to buy some from him so he could recover a bit. However, as you can see in the side picture, he has sent me much more than I expected. (more…)

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Xtatix

Posted on December 20th, 2009 at 12:48pm by Pi.
Categories: Moving Pictures, Arts, Technology, Unimultiverse.

I am proud to announce the first public release of Xtatix. It’s a demo pack in video format, consisting of more than 300 demos captured in AVI and MPEG, scattered among four full DVDs. You can learn more at the Xtatix homepage, where you’ll find all the info, including the lists of the demos included, and also a torrent file you can get and use with your bittorrent client to acquire the four DVDs.

Xtatix is a totally freeware and legal production so I’ve used OpenBitTorrent as the main tracker; however you’re also free to upload the torrent to other public trackers. I hope that you enjoy Xtatix whether if you’re a demoscene fan, or if you’re new to demos and you are experiencing them for the first time.

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Back In Black

Posted on December 20th, 2009 at 12:34pm by Pi.
Categories: Pi in the Sky.

Yes, I’m back. Pi In The Sky opens its doors again. Time for more ludicrously long articles about the most banal and deep things. I remind you that you can change the background in the menu at the top (random background if you’ve not selected one) and that this is a bilingual pseudo-blog, so you can change the language at the top menu too.

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Varchar vs. char

Posted on May 31st, 2009 at 3:55pm by Pi.
Categories: Development.

This week I’ve been on holidays, and although many people disagree with how I’ve spent this free time, I must admit that I’ve had a quite entertainment week programming again. I’m moving my old movies list entirely to MySQL/PHP, with lots of new stuff to allow me to better describe what I have movie-wise. Although small, this project has made me investigate some of the secrets of MySQL, including the long-time debate of using varchar versus char, or even versus tinytext/text fields. (more…)

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On vacation

Posted on May 24th, 2009 at 1:05pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal.

This coming week I’m on vacation, but with a cold. Thank you, mr. Murphy.

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Tetris shelves

Posted on May 14th, 2009 at 11:28am by Pi.
Categories: Personal, Design.

Well, finally! I’ve done these shelves during this week. I did this design myself on the weekend, spans 4×6 squares and contains the pieces L, J, Z, S and T. The main structure was done on monday, while I finished it on tuesday. Yesterday I finished putting the edges and back panels, and this morning I corrected the position of two screws which were screwing the purpose of the back panels. The structure is supported by those panels, so it can bear with being full of books. The total cost has been 58.47€, and maybe 6-7 hours of work. Not exactly ikea-cheap nor very professional either, but I’m damn proud of the result and wanting to repeat the experience.

I was planning to do something else, but decided on a Tetris theme before and after looking at this page about 30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs. However, it might give you some more ideas.

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More pics

Posted on April 18th, 2009 at 11:28am by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse.

Since I seem uncapable of creating more written work to post here, I’m showing you some pictures. First of all, behold my new Toshiba Regza XV555DG, a black 37″ television to enjoy my always growing DVD collection. Next, meet Punki, the guest we had past weekend. It’s a mix of persian with gray-tiger european, green-yellow eyes, and extra-long fur with awesomely impressive tail. He’s only six months old and still very playful. Finally, you can see the Cristobal Colon, a huge ship entering the port. Here you have two pics so you can witness its sheer size.

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Pins

Posted on April 5th, 2009 at 9:10pm by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse, Personal.

This is the majority of my pin collection. Trust me, in spanish this post is much more fun ^_^

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TZ4

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 at 12:39pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal.

Tonight I had a dream where I had frogs in my wallet. I don’t know what it means, but this weekend I got a new digital camera, a black Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4. For the first time I have a camera which takes pictures exactly as I see things.