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A Brief History of Time's soundtrack
I discovered Philip Glass in 1992, in my Lycée years (secondary school in France) in a beautifully shaped building
that was inspiring for the aspiring scientist.
New Year's Greetings (2016)
The Laussy del Valle family presents you their first New Year's wishes. They are the first because Julia wasn't yet born last year and we weren't a full family without her, who, by Spanish custom, links our name with a soul.
My August reading list: in relation to the Plaza Mayor
In the two weeks of holidays we have in August this year, I will be reading:
- Cuentos del Zodiaco, Fernando Sadot.
- El Hormiguero, Fernando Sadot.
- Terminal Plaza Mayor, José Antonio.
- Sombras de la Plaza Mayor, Rosa Huertas Gomez.
- Rooftoppers, Katherine Rundell.
All these books are related in some (sometimes very indirect) way to the Plaza Mayor de Madrid.
August 1, 1914: as seen from one hundred years.
How do you like your Sherry? Without police intimidation.
When Canalejas was shot in the streets of Madrid at the hands of an anarchist, he was alone. Even if he had been a criminal capitalist (it appears he was not), he died a victim. He was a prime minister.
Per qualche dollaro in più
This morning I filed in a complain at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid train station, one of the many daily examples where ferocious capitalism raised its head way above common sense.
Death of Alain Resnais
The French director Alain Resnais died yesterday.
New Year greetings (2014)
Regardless of a gloomy situation and of everything bad that may/could/can/will happen, one has to strive to be happy, resolutely happy, hopelessly happy, I therefore wish to wish you (no pun intended) a Happy New Year.
To emphasize that, I'll put it apart and in the official languages of our little group:
- Feliz Año Nuevo.
- Bonne Année.
- С Новым Годом.
- Feliz Ano Novo.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
It is great whenever a scientific breakthrough is so big that everybody knows the Nobel prize will be awarded according to the original wish of its atoning patron: to honor those who during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.
Ô malheureux mortels ! Ô terre déplorable !
Voltaire wrote Candide from the shock of hearing about Lisbon's earthquake. This emotion was probably fueled by his rivarly with Rousseau on the question of Christianity. Voltaire's grief was, really, religion.
Spanish manifestation against austerity and corruption (23F)
There was an important demonstration in Madrid and other Spanish cities yesterday, to protest against austerity and corruption.
New Year greetings (2013)
Operation Pillar of Defense
These are some personal thoughts motivated by the Operation Pillar of Defense [1]:
The peace Nobel prize 2012
Today, the European Union was awarded the peace Nobel prize [1]. The merit was "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".
On what is art and what is not
There is something of cosmic proportion in this story. In the now famous village of Borja, a fresco from a minor artist, Elías García Martínez was defaced by a local resident, Cecilia Giménez, an Octogenarian who, in good faith, decided to benevolently restore the painting to preserve it from humidity.
Happy Hacking
Stallman is one of the rare alive persons I see who can assume the role of a morale conscience for our contemporary world and much troubled society (!?) He is the genuine intellectual, achieved scientist and cold tempered social activist entitled to carry this much needed virtuous, wise and timeless truth that the rest of us can rely upon.
Onyx, 20 January 1998, 9 July 2012.
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
Saint Francis of Assisi.
Onyx, the Yorkshire terrier of my mother, passed away. Five years after her. Five years alone as they were inseparable companions, and the loneliness of the little dog ever since always echoed a bit of my own.
GEMA or the modern slave trade
The copyright business is to intellectual production the same atrocious deformity as slavery was to the physical integrity of people in the past centuries.