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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.
Politics and Language
The videos of Gaddafi's demise have been a great shock for me. The images themselves were not the most shocking, though, the real shock came from the concert of congratulations that accompanied the news of Gaddafi's death. I would have like to read consternation, outrage, condemns and reproving. Not even stopping long on such supremacist uncouthness as Clinton's "hilarity" (we came, we saw, he died [1], you can compare this impromptu spontaneous reaction to her sober official statement [2]), how can a man be lynched and all our leaders deliver victorious speeches and manifest outright satisfaction?
I do not want to delve much into the political issues, which are complex but more importantly, are really not the point. I would just summarize here what may be can be agreed upon by most.
Potentially offensive or inappropriate
Images and even videos showing the fall of Gaddafi bear a mention or another along the lines of "content is potentially offensive or inappropriate. Viewer discretion is advised."
Today I am 34
When Nabe got 33, he went to Jerusalem to get baptised. A mystical move which he recounted in an essay, L'âge du Christ:
- C'est fait, ça y est. Je suis rené, j'étais mort, je ressuscite. Tout peut commencer parce que tout recommence.
The dawn of Google+
Google started, less than a couple of weeks ago(i), a revolutionary service: its social networking platform Google+.
Happy 30th birthday Elena!
Today is Elena's 30th birthday!