happy punk

This has been a nice weekend: Cinthia and Joshua were here, so we hang out a while.

In friday we had dinner in the fancy Marco Polo trattoria, then we went to the plazuela to dance and drink 20 beers. Were nice, but Jackie didn't like the exhibicionism of a couple girls who showed tanga and tits... hahaha... I just loved it.

In saturday I went to school because I helped in a robots demostration. Later we went to the cinema and watch Voces inocentes. Such a great movie. Everybody must watch it. Later we stop for a coffee, and then grab more beers in a rock bar, where the band ("zona") play awsome! Live n' let die ruled... and a lot of Heroe's songs.

Today, we where all hang over, so made the meal. Delicious.

Now Cinthia is gone. We need a new house-mate...

Finished my homework: A Naive Bayesian classificator in Matlab.

Diary of an obsesive guy

I've found a jewel: El sistema de tipos y objetos de Glib (in spanish!)

Pressure is everywhere: glib, thesis, coursework, iedf's electronics ballots, AI lab... I need stop, start ignoring things and do the important stuff.

Gave my 2cents for the gesture recognition project, being part of the gesture database.

love...

wow! glib's in a rocket

Read this thread. I'm breathless.

Even if it doesn't work out, the simple opportunity is amazing.

sleep walk

Let's see: woke up, got dressed, shop groceries, do some python stuff, played freeciv, drank some beer in los Arcos and that's it.

home alone

Jackie went to DF, so I'm alone. Not a bad saturday, but no a good one either: no wine, no party...

• Finished my work with player/stage gentoo's ebuilds.

• Read some of 1984.

• Wrote a sketch about knowledge economy, for my Investigation Seminar.

• Modified a little the Coral's router ACL in order to permit sucorreo do http conexions without pass the proxy.

• Watch Last exit to Brooklyn. Tough movie. Tralala's history shocked me.

• Cleaned the bathroom and my room.

• Gave some money to Pame. She didn't have enough for her bus ride. She gave me a tasty strawberry yoghurt.

• Cooked a delicious chicken with mushrooms.

• Played with feedparser.

Gotta sleep. Haven't shaved and the beard itchies me.

Ego-image

The already visited countries ;P

Emmanuel Goldstein

Varias cosas hoy, y estoy agotado, por eso no quiero pensar mucho.

• Primer commit al CVS Player/Stage. Un pequeño y tonto cambio, pero el primero al fin.

• Estupenda plática sobre el "Marketing de la Innovación"

  Hoy en día, la palabra innovación es portadora de esperanzas y de perspectivas de crecimiento social y económico. La innovación constituye un factor de competitividad y es por ende uno de los pilares estratégicos de las organizaciones públicas y privadas a nivel mundial. En México, existen diversos mecanismos y estructuras de fomento a la investigación científica y el desarrollo tecnológico (ID), en aras de hacer de la innovación un motor de desarrollo. Pero la innovación no es únicamente el resultado de una decisión estratégica. Es el fruto de un proceso frecuentemente largo, errático, difícil de controlar y de planear. Por otro lado, la innovación no se administra tan fácilmente como un producto o un servicio nuevos. Su puesta en el mercado es fuente de perturbaciones, tanto en el seno de la organización que la desarrolla como en el entorno en el cual se va a incorporar. La palabra innovación designa pues, tanto el proceso de innovar como el resultado de este proceso. Entender cómo estos dos aspectos afectan las administración de proyectos de ID es capital para lograr construir un engranaje sustentable entre el mundo de la alta tecnología y el sector productivo. El Marketing de la Innovación es una metodología eficaz que ha sido probada en países como Francia, tanto en corporativos privados como en grandes centros públicos de investigación y desarrollo tecnológico, para aportar elementos de comprensión y de respuesta a esta problemática.

• Vi Closer. Me gustó, a pesar de ser, a mi juicio, muy moralista: el tentador pierde.

Lo vi en planetalinux:

pienso en ti con mis manos

I would like to say all I done... but it's very few, don't even remember.

This is a good reading: Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit.

Last night I was playing with python, my intention was write a web file fetcher, and I rediscovered the reason why I don't like the language: it's documentation. If you read it carefully, your code doesn't work, you need to search for the "issues". So I waste 3 hour of sleep in order to write this:

import urllib2, base64
atomurl = 'https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/index.xml'
def get_atom(username, password):
req = urllib2.Request(atomurl)
auth = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]
req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % auth)
fh = urllib2.urlopen(req)
data = fh.read()
fh.close()
return data
def main():
print get_atom('ceyusa', 'mipass')
if name == 'main':
main()

Reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, I found a few known names, like big brother or Emmanuel Goldstein. Great book.

Working in my thesis proposal... again

Finishing the last details of my thesis proposal. A lot of pressure is coming. I'm scare.

Nothing more to say.

No reason

No big deals today: woke, made some jogging, went to school (mental note: I've to look for Alejandra Pacheco), worked on my uncerntenty assignment... and that's all.

I'm feel proud of the padwan's hack.

taking your life in your hands

Wow! I finished a great book. It's full of beautifull things: Abraxas, Cain, love, lonelyness, wisdom, illumination. Hermann Hesse just kicks asses.

Right now I'm trying to communicate with an old love. The willing, the desair, the determination and patience are the ingredient of the recipe.

So, here is the count:

• Faust - Goethe (12/2004 - 08/01/2005)

• Arrancame la vida - Angeles Mastretta (09/01/2005 - 12/01/2005)

• Demian - Hermann Hesse (12/09/2005 - 16/09/2005)

Story line: a guy, Emil Sinclair, who met and was saved from a bully by a boy named Max Demian. He taught him the value of thinking by ourself, be filter of the world, just like Nietzsche used to say. Then they split, Sinclair went to high school in other city where he passed to the dark side of his being, been an alcoholic, almost dropping the studies. But he saw a girl who never met, but she save he. Been a new man, and in the university Sinclear met again with Demian and his mother. They taught he more great things, Sinclair become one of them. Sinclair felt in love (always was in lover, even before meet her) of Demain's mother.

The book finished when both boy go to the war.

The part I liked more was when Frau Eva (Demian's mother) tell him about the love, which you don't ask or demand, you must feel it and you should be sure that person will love you back, without doubts. Then, the rest, is only two willings gravitating each other closer and closer.

Now let's talk about the rest of my humanity: did some jogging, cleaned the house, eat hamburgers, and then hang out with Jackie and Fabian: shoppings and cinema. My credit card was rejected! I gotta check that tomorrow.

We watch Meet the Fockers... well you get what you pay.

You must read this: Free Culture. Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002.

Wild drunk

The last friday was the robotic group's workshop. It was nice. The bad thing was the schedule: from 10am to 6pm... 2 hours for meal. Conclusion: everything is good, but we need more work.

Then Héctor, Sergio, Antonio and I met at the Antonio's place, drank beer and then rum. Antonio trusted us his biggest dream: be a Coke's bear at christmas... (no comments).

The hang over was terrible, headache, vomit, dizzy, sleepy... but today we have another meeting: food & beer. Drank only two beers.

Reading Herman Hesse's Demian. Good stuff.

I'm a CSI

Now I'm on track again in the master. Trying to get back to coding way of life.

What I did:

• My adviser, Morales, invited Sergio and me to his lecture "Learning Machine Seminar" for PhD students. It's about critical analysis of papers. Looks intersting.

• Did my robotics resarch group's presentation.

• First class of Investigation Seminar II. Now we have more homework.

I've the impression of more things to say, but I don't recall'em.

Hugo: the squid did it again: cached your xml, so the syndication of your page got delayed. I'm thing that it works right now.

The phrase of the moment: Para vivir en este pinche país hay que estar loco o pedo, from Arráncame la vida.

blogging, which is present progressive

The second book of the year:

• Faust - Goethe (12/2004 - 08/01/2005)

• Arráncame la vida - Ángeles Mastretta (09/01/2005 - 12/01/2005)

The story line is about Catalina Guzmán a woman who got married with Andrés Ascencio been yet quite young. Andrés fiveteen year older, who fought in the revolution involved in the post revolution politics, being governator of Puebla state and then staff of the president. Andrés was a violent man, who alway cheat on her, bringing her the children of his others affairs. Then Cati met Carlos Vives, the director of the National Philarmonic, with who had an affair. Andrés tolarated this situation while he thought Cati was a spy, because Carlos was member of a comunist union, but finally Andres ordered the assasination of Carlos. Cati learned to live with this man, until he died and the book finish. The story of a intelligent woman who live in wealthy and power, trying to find love and comprehension.

In other order of ideas

• Worked in laplace

• Razonamiento con incertidumbre

este cuerpecito mío que se ha convertido en río

• Met with my adviser: 3 month to do the thesis... stress. This friday is the robotic workshop... an offer to administer de AI lab...

• Installed ubuntu in laplace... another ubuntued machine!

• Jackie is sick, Héctor is sick, Sergio is Sick... I'm sorrounded by sick people...

with a gun in his hand...

same old, same old

• Configure the mac with ubuntu as access point

• Pame borrowed money from me

• Read

• Got and Gnome Applet idea: gmail mailbox notice

• A crazy guy put some GA in kernel for tuning

• Celebremos 100 de la teoría de la relatividad

The second day on paradise.

• Read Angeles Mastretta's Arrancame la vida novel
  
• Drank vodka
  
• Did shoppings
  
• Drank wine
  
• Watched TV
  
• Read
  
• Installed Ubuntun in my PowerBook G3
  
• Set up the hostap driver in the new Ubuntu installation

Pam showed up in the house with her mother and little brother. She asked me for the Jackie's cell number.

First book of the year!

Faust - Goethe

I should not recommend this book as basic literature. The most difficult, boring and complex books I ever read were written by germans: Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

The basic story line is about, Faust, a great wise man (alchemist, philosopher, etc) who was tempted by the devil (Mefistofele), so he exchange his soul for a moment of passion and love, and he got it with Margaret (Gretchel), but she got pregned, and Mefistofoles took away Faust to the Walpurgisnacht, meanwhile Margaret died by the shame of be a single mother.

Then Faust met Helena of Troy, and he ask to Mefistofele for her love, and he got it... again... but whe Faust died Gretchel was who defended he front the Virgin Marie, so Faust saved his soul.

I'm in Cuernavaca

6 hours of travel, in a bus with 2 babies crying and moaning... such a pain...

the lasts day on paradise

At morning came to Coral; read mail and news; bought some underware and parfums; visited the Quixmati folks; my parents invited me to eat some sea food; Julio asked to me if I could accomany him to Huanimaro; got back quickly in order to watch The Invencibles with Vanessa, with a dossis of coffee later; finally fixed some bits in the email server of PCD.

Bebe - Malo

Apareciste una noche fría,

con olor a tabaco sucio y a ginebra,

el miedo ya me recorría

mientras cruzaba los deditos tras la puerta.

Tu carita de niño guapo

se la ha ido comiendo el tiempo por tus venas,

y tu inseguridad machista

se refleja cada día en mis lagrimitas.

Una vez más no por favor

que estoy cansá y no puedo con el corazón,

una vez más no mi amor por favor

no grites que los niños duermen.(x2)

Voy a volverme como el fuego,

voy a quemar tus puños de acero

y del moraó de mis mejillas

saldra el valor pa' cobrarme las heridas.

Malo, malo malo eres,

no se daña a quién se quiere ¡no!

Tonto, tonto tonto eres,

no te pienses mejor que las mujeres.(x2)

El día es gris cuando tu estás

y el sol vuelve a salir cuando te vas,

y la penita de mi corazón

yo me la tengo que tragar con el fogón.

Mi carita de niña linda

se la ha ido envejeciendo en el silencio

cada vez que me dices ¡puta!

se hace tu cerebro más pequeño.

Una vez más no por favor

que estoy cansá y no puedo con el corazón,

una vez más no mi amor por favor

no grites que los niños duermen.(x2)

Voy a volverme como el fuego,

voy a quemar tus puños de acero

y del moraó de mis mejillas

saldrá el valor pa' cobrarme las heridas.

Malo, malo malo eres,

no se daña a quién se quiere ¡no!

Tonto, tonto tonto eres,

no te pienses mejor que las mujeres.(x2)

Voy a volverme como el fuego

voy a quemar tus puños de acero

y del moraó de mis mejillas

saldrá el valor pa' cobrarme las heridas.

Malo, malo malo eres,

no se daña a quién se quiere ¡no!

Tonto, tonto tonto eres,

no te pienses mejor que las mujeres.(x2)

Malo, malo malo eres

malo eres porque quieres

Malo, malo malo eres

no me chilles que me duele

Eres débil y eres malo

y no te pienses mejor que yo ni que nadie.

Y ahora yo me fumo un cigarrito,

y te hecho el humo en el corazoncito. Porque malo, malo malo eres ¡tú!

Malo, malo malo eres ¡si!

Malo, malo malo eres ¡siempre!

Malo, malo malo eres.