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1. Cut; 2. Bend; 3. Fun

Posted on September 27th, 2007 at 4:06pm by Pi.
Categories: Stuff.

Poseable Paper Pope. It’s only missing Palpatine’s dark robe.

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¿Cómo andamos de muebles?

Posted on September 21st, 2007 at 7:50pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal.

A ver, yo tengo una cama de tipo nido en mi cuarto, pero la verdad es que hace años que no la necesito. Después de mucho discurrir sobre el asunto, he decidido deshacerme de la cama inferior. Tiene patas plegables, un lateral de madera (pino claro), el somier es de láminas de madera, y tiene un colchón que aunque delgado, es de muelles y bastante decente. Aunque tiene muchos años, está en buen estado. Si alguien la quiere, que me dé un toque, si no pues la tiraré.

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Diseños minimalistas para obsesivo-compulsivos

Posted on September 19th, 2007 at 5:57pm by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse, Untranslated.

Hay una especie de contradicción entre mis gustos y mis instintos. Yo sé que hay por lo menos un par de lectores de este artículo que son, o se comportan, como obsesivo-compulsivos. Pero aunque no lo seas, reconocerás a un tipo de gente que, por mucho que intente lo contrario, siempre acumula cosas. Revistas, libros, pegatinas, juguetes, piezas de ordenador, más libros y revistas, trastos viejos, bolas de billar, recuerdos de los que se han olvidado los orígenes, cosas rotas o estropeadas que “ya arreglaré”, relojes que nunca se volverán a usar, camisetas de cuando éramos quinceañeros, veinteañeros, treintañeros… (more…)

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Jimi Hendrix anniversary

Posted on September 18th, 2007 at 8:10pm by Pi.
Categories: Music.

Today is the 37th anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix, who passed away at the age of 27 during the early hours of September 18, 1970. (more…)

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Ikeargh

Posted on September 18th, 2007 at 7:32pm by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse.

I’m not much of a fan of this kind of places, but I’ve been looking at the 2008 catalog of Îkëå and while most of it is repeated and simple stuff, there are some good ideas. While I’ve heard that Ïkèå malls are traps and dangerous for people who don’t like being among many other people, I wouldn’t mind going one of these days to the local Ïkêå, and maybe inviting to some Burger King (fries optional) to whoever comes with me. Believe it or not, I’ve not been yet to the Ìk€å yet, but maybe in a couple of weeks I’ll pay a visit to buy some absolutely tasteless swedish style potato chips. Not.

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Dune

Posted on September 18th, 2007 at 7:51am by Pi.
Categories: Cinema.

Dune
Science-Fiction. USA, 1984
Director: David Lynch
Writers: Frank Herbert (original novel), David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Kenneth McMillan

Dune is based in the inmense novel by Frank Herbert, although it should be considered a free version due to the amount of changes from the original storyline. Nevertheless, Dune is a cult film, with impressive visuals and compelling drama. (more…)

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Fallingwater

Posted on September 15th, 2007 at 11:22am by Pi.
Categories: Arts, Unimultiverse.

Anyone who has read Hyperion Cantos, will have been overhelmed by the amount of references to poetry, literature, science, history and, well, any field of human arts and sciences. One doesn’t understand really the pain of John Keats until his biography hasn’t been read. The same happens at the beginning of The Rise of Endymion with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, simply known as Mr. Wright by Aenea and the students who appear in the start of this book. Well, Wright was the designer of the fabulous Fallingwater, a house build in the woods and over a waterfall. Today the house is a museum, but those who can visit it, can witness the awesome sheer beauty of it in this Fallingwater in 3D video.

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MAME is a condom

Posted on September 13th, 2007 at 7:45pm by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse, Stuff, Untranslated.

I wrote this about the beginning of 2006, probably January the 22nd, on the now defunct mame.net boards. It was a response towards some troll who wanted to tell us what MAME is about, which IMHO is a very rude form of being idiot. Some people found this analogy both clever and fun, and since I have nothing special to say, I’m reposting it here. I haven’t changed a single word from the original post.

> Anyone who says mame is about documenting hardware and not playing games is a
> hypocrite and talking bollocks.

Well, let’s see if I can explain this to someone who is shortsighted. I mean shortsighted because you only see MAME from your point of view, that’s the point of view of someone who only wants to play the games and doesn’t give a damn about anything else. (more…)

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Overheating and dust

Posted on September 11th, 2007 at 8:37pm by Pi.
Categories: Technology.

After my memory upgrade of yesterday, I got a couple of random crashes and resets. First I thought that the DIMM was bad, and I started a test using Memtest86. Then I realized that the only change I did besides putting a new DIMM was closing the computer case. It was a simple matter of overheating. (more…)

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Memory lane

Posted on September 10th, 2007 at 7:55pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal.

Well, I’m not exactly talking about memories, rather about memory. In a violent frustration attack, today I bursted out of my home with all my savings, which allowed me to purchase a single 512mb DIMM. It’s a shame, because 1gb DDR was even cheaper, but my motherboard only allows 164 pins DIMM modules. In any case, the spending proved instantly useful, as now I have enough memory for everything to run smoothly. Even NFS Most Wanted goes better, and eMule walks softly among the thousands of sources I have right now. (more…)

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