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1984: Primera parte

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 2:05pm by Pi.
Categories: Reading, Books, Untranslated.

Ayer terminé la relectura de 1984, de George Orwell. Y he pensado en escribir un par de artículos sobre la opinión que me merece dicho libro. Y esta opinión es que 1984 es la mejor novela escrita en el siglo XX. No he estudiado literatura, ni escribo críticas para una revista especializada, ni siquiera he leído todos los libros del siglo XX (o por lo menos los más importantes, p.e. Ulises de James Joyce) como para estar seguro de mi afirmación; pero con mis conocimientos y experiencia de simple lector, considero que mi afirmación es cierta a nivel personal. Así que lo que sigue es mi visión absolutamente subjetiva y personal de esta magnífica novela. (more…)

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¿Cobrar por las llamadas recibidas?

Posted on June 20th, 2008 at 11:53am by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse, Untranslated.

Desde hace un par de meses estoy suscrito a los boletines de la revista Consumer Eroski. Tiene buenos contenidos en todas las áreas de consumo: financieras, alimentarias, tecnológicas, etc. Pero lo que voy a comentar ahora es un articulo en esta revista en el que Bruselas propone que las operadoras de móviles también cobren por las llamadas recibidas. No que se cambie el actual modelo de “el que llama, paga”, sino que también paga el que recibe. (more…)

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The perfect article

Posted on June 8th, 2008 at 10:27am by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse.

One of the reasons why I started this blog was saving and organizing the little articles and essays that I like to write from time to time. They could be thoughts about a social reality, or cinema critics about the last movies I’ve seen. The blog impelled me to write more, and to try to write better. (more…)

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Emotional semantic

Posted on May 31st, 2008 at 8:00am by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse.

To me, language is a barrier. We have ideas going around in our head, and we have to find the appropiate words or expressions to communicate those ideas. Many of us have found ourselves in the situation where a feeling, a sensation or an idea is clear in our head, but we found difficulties in expressing it verbally in a clear way. (more…)

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The puzzle of the mind

Posted on May 26th, 2008 at 8:43pm by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse.

In 2008, I read a book called “Sunbathing under the rain”, by Gwyneth Lewis (a wonderful gift from a wonderful friend). The book deals with the experience with depression that the author had, a welsh poetess. As poetess, she made many metaphors, analogies and other figures of speech related to depression. One of the analogies caught my attention very much, and in it she compared the emotional depression with the meteorologic low pressures, and how they, indirectly, cause the rain, because the rain is what fits the inestable void of the low pressures. Just like that, in our depressions we search for causes which fit in that void, although they don’t have any relationship. It looked to me as a very accurate concept, although not enough developed. Inspiring myself in that analogy and in the described concept, I applied it to my current situation and to my experience in searching for psychological causes for my moods, and as result, I established another analogy. (more…)

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Late anniversary

Posted on May 24th, 2008 at 5:40pm by Pi.
Categories: Pi in the Sky.

Well, I wasn’t around, or more exactly, the site wasn’t around to celebrate the first anniversary of the site. Of itself. Whatever. I thought that after such a long hiatus, I should remember and remind you the best stuff I’ve put in this site since its inception in April the 17th of 2007. (more…)

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Comeback

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 at 4:43pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal, Pi in the Sky.

Hello everyone, again. After months of laziness, I’ve decided to put up the old site while I develop the new one. Actually I haven’t even started it. Lots of changes in my life, related directly or indirectly to Pi In The Sky, have prevented me from even thinking about what skin I will use. For example, my main development platform is Ubuntu now. I’ve not even set up the LAMP server to do the stuff.

I hope the site is not too broken, nor that it’s hacked again due to another unsanitized database input in some random plugin… At least I have some new articles to put up in the meanwhile.

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City Slang

Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 7:50pm by Pi.
Categories: Songs, Untranslated.

Sonic’s Rendezvous Band
City Slang

Some dirt in my hand
A part of the land
Slip and slide communication
Downtown on the street
They measure the beat
To understand the situation
A taste on the tongue
And no place to run
With all the chances to be taken
The stranger he buys
The angel she flies
My heart is cold just like the nation
Like a dog they kick at night
Gypsy laughin’ but that’s alright
Momma’s cryin’ sister thinkin’
Well you know it’s just city slang

We road in the car
Slept in the car
All the way to the citadel
Slept on the floor
Surfed on the floor
All the way to the coronet
Rock was pissed in Paris
Mad in Madrid
Took the sonic european way
Gary and rock
Sonic and Scott
Meet again up in Ishpeming
When you hear that hammer fallin’
Ain’t no reason to feel left out
Ain’t no reason to call any names
Well you know it’s just city slang

With funky and dog
To minni and mad
All the way to the Aragon
Cleveland and Shi
Ann Harbor, Detroit
All the way back to the second chance
Je sui un son
Un otre son
Qui n’entend qu’une cloche n’entend qu’une son
Je sui le son
Je sui son son
Hey what kind of fool do you think I am
Keep a talkin’ those city dreams
Well you know allright you know what I mean
Detroit, Chicago now New York to L.A.
They all been talkin’ ’bout city slang

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Happy St. Patrick’s day

Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 9:45am by Pi.
Categories: Unimultiverse, Pi in the Sky.

Please, everyone have a good beer today, at least one for me, because I can’t go out and I can’t drink *sob*. I’m also warning you that I’ll probably take down this site for a while until I update all the software.

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Mr. Do and the postman

Posted on March 14th, 2008 at 12:54pm by Pi.
Categories: Personal.

Today I’ve received something from the other side of the pond, more specifically from Cauliflowernia. I asked Mr. Do for a favour and he added some more items in the package. One of them is a mighty great Atari Tetris (1988) bezel. A bezel is a piece of artwork which surrounds the screen in an arcade machine. The other is a great sticker with the non-TM version of the MAME logo; the sticker is about 27cm wide, I’ll see where I can put it. I plan to frame the bezel with a print of the Atari Tetris intro screen as shown in the image. I just need to decide which of the MAME overlays looks closer to an arcade monitor.

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