Que deidad soy…

por davidgp el 08/05/2007

Nada más ver este test supuse que se ajusta bastante al ego de un blogger eso de compararse a un Dios, esto es lo que me ha salido a mí…

Which God or Goddess are you like?

Your Result: The Christian God
 

You are the Holy Lord. You are the shepherd and those that follow you are your lambs. You are kind and patient, but when need be, you are vile and creul. You are often asked for advise or wisdom, and you willingly give it. Congratulations!! You are God!!

Goddess Bast
 
Jesus
 
Budha
 
Goddess Sekhemet
 
God Zeus
 
Satan
 
You are your own God or Goddess
 
Which God or Goddess are you like?
Make Your Own Quiz

Vía: PJorge

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Otro libro que me prestó Pedro, en este caso un autor de relatos de ciencia ficción que no conocía. Me lo ha recomendado bastante, ya veremos que tal resulta.

Stories of your life

De la contraportada

«His almost unfathomably wonderful sotries tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch -and explode in your awareness with shocking, devastaing force.»

Kirkus Review (starred review)

Ted Chiang’s first published story, «Tower of Babylon,» won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won him the Hugo Adward, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Adward, the Sidewise Adward, The Saiun Adward, and a second Nebula. He won the John W. Campbell Adward for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.

Now, collected for the first time, here are all seven of this extraordinary writer’s stories-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven’s other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science to naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity wre literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the storeis of Ted Chiang. Storeis of your life… and others

«My only problem with Ted Chiang’s writing is that he doesn’t do enough of it. A short story collection from his is a real treat.»

-Octavia E. Butler.

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La vi a buen precio y es una película de Takeshi Kitano

Dolls

De la contraportada

Matsumoto y Sawako habían sido una pareja feliz que parecía destinada al matrimonio, pero las anticuadas presiones de unos padres que se entrometieron en su vida y el éxito forzaron al joven a tomar una trágica decisión.

Hiro es un anciano jefe yakuza. Aunque vive rodeado de respeto y riqueza, está sólo y su salud es precaria. Treinta años atrás, era un pobre trabajador en una fábrica y tenía novia adorable, pero la abandonó en busca de sus sueños de éxito.

Antes del accidente, Haruna fue una famosa estrella del pop que vivía un glamouroso mundo. Millones de personas la adoraban y deseaban poder acercarse a ella, ahora su rostro está cubierto de vendajes. Nukui fue probablemente su fan más devoto, y hoy ha venido a demostrarlo…

Tres historias contemporáneas inspiradas en las muñecas del teatro Banraku. Tres historias, interrelacionadas por la tristeza. Tres historias de amor inmortal.

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Cita

por davidgp el 07/05/2007

Some even see God in the iPod. Sal Sberna, the forty-seven-year-old pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Houston, has constructed and elaborate Gospel of the Gizmo in a series of sermons devoted to «iPod Theology.» He siezes on the design of the iPod to dramatize one’s faith. «The reason the ouside of the iPod is so simple to use and so beautiful to look at is because of the way they designed the inside,» he told his congregation. «And so when Jesus talks to us about simplification, it must start on the inside.»

The Perfect Thing por Steven Levy

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Teorías conspiratorias

por davidgp el 07/05/2007

XKCD: Conspirancy Theories.

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Pedro me prestó ayer otro libro de Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun. Dado que me gustó Kafka en la Orilla, pensó que sería bueno que también leyese algo de sus mejores novelas.

South of the border, west of the sun

De la contraportada

«‘Casablanca’ re-made Japanese style… It is dream-like writing, landen with scenes which have the radiance of a poem»

Helen Rumblelow, The Times

Childhood sweethearts, long ago separated, meet again and innocent love re-awakes as desire, unquenchable and destructive.

Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japa, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. together they spent long afternoons listening to her father’s record collection. But when his family moved away, the thow lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.

«A novel of existential romance… Life, Murakami dares to suggest, is complicated, and so is this lovely, deceptively simple book»

Melvin Jules Bukiet, San Francisco Chronicle

«A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful… it is startlingly different: a true original»

Nicholas Blincoe, Guardian

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Cita

por davidgp el 06/05/2007

Our main database server threw a disk and then a tantrum, so our other servers became unhappy ‘cos they couldn’t talk to their friend…

Mensaje de Jaiku mientras parecía que tenían algún que otro problema.

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Cita

por davidgp el 06/05/2007

With quantum computing comes a fundamental shift. The ability to spin up and down, to hold multiple states in superposition, to become entangled -all this is what atoms naturally do. Performing a quantum computation is a matter of jumping on the wagon and going along for the ride.

So maybe this kind of computing has always been going on. The particles that have been bouncing around since creation, fiipping each other’s sping, exchanging information, have been performing some kind of great cosmic calculation. The universe might itfself be a quantum computer. But that is another book.

A Shorcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer por George Johnson.

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Versión corta de 2001: A Space Odyssey

por davidgp el 05/05/2007

Vía: Guerra Eterna: «Cosas que hacer en sábado cuando no estás muerto»

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Ayer un amigo Pedro me ha prestado The Perfect Thing por Steven Levy. El libro habla de como el iPod se ha convertido en un icono de nuestra cultura actual. En la contraportada dicen que el icono del siglo XXI, aunque ese me parece un poco exagerado, si tal, uno de los iconos más importantes de esta época.

The Perfect Thing

De la contraportada

In a few short years a collection of microchips in a little white plastic case the size of a cigarette packet has become not just the most desirable product in the world, but also a cultural icon that actually defines our current age. A unifying symbol of the way advancing technologies are revolutionising our everyday lives. This is the biography of that object.

The Perfect Thing is the sotry of the genesis of Apple’s revolutionary iPod and its phenomenal rise. Steven Levy traces the roots of the download phenomenon with Napster and MP3.com, the seismic shockwaves sent through the music industry around the globe by the burgeoning popularity of internet file-sharing and downloads, to the creation of the iPod and the setting up of iTunes and how it galvanised the Apple empire.

He explores the wider cultural effects of the iPod: a statement of personal fashion; a point of contact with other users swapping tips and playlists; a tool that has changed the way artists make music in the first place; a multi-billion dollar brand where accessories range from replacement ‘white bud’ earphones to a full steering wheel iPod set-up for a BMW.

Steven Levy has had unlimited access to very core of Apple as a journalist for over 20 years and was often there as these things happened with Apple CEO Steve Jobs and British designer Jonny Ive -the visionaries who created and sold the iPod to the world. So, for the first time, here’s the inside story of how one little object is conquering and redefining the world.

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