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Humpty Dumpty sat on a tree...

1) I showed my mom how eMule works. She asked "where does the stuff you click on go?" It was a smart question, providing she has never download a file in her life. You search, you click, and what? Well mom, there's this thing called mp3 file and this other thing called iTunes... you can use it to play mp3 files and, eventually, burn a CD that you can use on the stereo in the living room. Ah, a CD. I see.

2) I read Diari d'un professor a New York (in Spanish) and was so touched by his words that I stopped playing Marlango on iTunes. Fuck stupid Leonor Walting! (well, actually I wish I fucked her :) )

And so that's about it... good night, my dears.

I love you 20q

I thought of this concept: "question mark". Then I played www.20q.net**, see if it could guess the concept i had thought of. At question 20, 20q guessed it was "zero". I said "no". Then 20q guessed it was "photon". I said no. After 5 more questions, 20q got it right: "question mark". Many things are remarkable here, but I do remark the following:
1) I declare that a new activity has been born: if google brought with it the verb "to google (something)", now 20q will institutionalize the verb "to 20q (something)"
2) if you start 20qing, then you will find marvellous connections between words and concepts, such as the one I just found: "zero" and "photon" have many things in common, so many that after asking 20 questions you are unable to decide for one or the other,... even more, you decide first for "zero" and then... only then you say "photon" .... which all together means that "photon" is too much of an unreliable concept... you die, you arrogant physicists, you belong to the past century!
3) five questions, yes 5, only five, are enough to go from "photon" to "question mark"... man, I was right, you physicist are gonna have a hard time... tough, I say, really tough.
** (ed. note: the author didn't link (or splink, as joaquin would rather have it) www.20q.link so that it wouldn't appear as a hypertext link on the screen. That way, the author, anthropocentric as he is, wanted to "personify" www.20q.net, so that it would appear to the readers closer to a human will tears and laughs than to a webpage with titles and hyperlinks. bless you, 20q.

Rain bow

It's raining. Outside the window, I can see the rainbow while I solve some problems with the web I work for. I think that rainbow is such a poetic name. The bow of the rain. So simple, so beautiful.

Guess it!

Think of an object. Go to www.20q.net. Start the game. In 20 questions, the computer will guess the object you were thinking of. Wonders of artificial intelligence (though I thought of Marilyn Monroe and the computer could only guess Superman...)

Deep house, downtempo, fuzed jazz

So here you have me, listening to deep house, downtempo, fuzed jazz. I know practically nothing about electronic music in general, but it's some time I feel a sort of curiosity about it. I started plainly refusing it, but over the years it seems I am getting to accept it better, specially since I smoke pot and I watch a lot of digital video stuff.
I think electronic music also attracts me because it's something that didn't really exist before I was born. If you think about it, everything we do or like sort of existed before we were born, it was born, it belongs, to a different era. Cinema, jazz, blues, Capote, Salinger or Schroedinger, they all existed before the day you saw light for the first time.
Fuck, my arm hurts again, and I write with difficulty. I thought the pot will help ease the pain, but somehow it makes me concentrate on it.