Sunday, July 5, 2009

Geo-mining museum.

I really should have posted this a long time ago (we went there roughly 3 weeks ago or so…) but anyways:

the title is pretty self-explanatory, we went to the geo-mining museum here in Madrid, and it was awesome. i loved it because it was more of a guided visit thanks to our particular geologist (Isidoro) and our particular mining engineer (Pocoyó).

here are some pics of the visit:

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Theater time!

I haven’t been to the theater for a loooooong time (and by long, I mean from September 2008) but yesterday, my uncle invited my cousin and I to go watch a Cabaret called “Pasión sin puñales”. At first, I thought a cabaret was what women did in movies from the west and stuff but no, a cabaret means that there are a number of acts not related to each other.

and it was fun! there were 10 acts and most of them were really nice, except one of them, where the guy started talking for like 40 minutes and got boring in the end, but other than that, it was really nice.

If you guys want more info check the official website.

Below there are some pictures of the theater and stage (yes, it was my phone camera and it sucks)

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Dinner time!

Yesterday night we all went to a “foster Hollywood” here in Madrid and we had lots of fun.

the thing about these restaurants is that once you get a drink, you can refill as many times as you want (which meant that each of us drank like 2~3 liters of coke or Fanta) and the best meat ever (well not really, but its pretty good).

Most of us had a hamburger, except for Isidoro, that had a steak. lots of fun times.

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after that we had an Italian ice cream and then a tourist visit through Madrid’s center (the royal palace, Opera, Cibeles, etc…) thanks to Rosado. then a bus home and it by 2:40 we were there already.

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and no, they’re not gay… lool

PS: I know, the quality sucks, I did not have my phone camera properly configured… I really have to buy a good camera….

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Teleco…

OK guys, this is kinda important, I’m really asking you to be extremely sincere with this.

If you are reading this is because you have known me for some time now, so please be serious.

I am really considering leaving Business Management to start Telecommunications Engineering.

Most people, when they get to know me for longer than an hour, get to the point that I belong to sciences and Computer related things. and I’ve been considering changing for a few months now (not because of what people think, don’t get that wrong).

The problem is that I’ll have to start all over again… year 1. Of course all subjects that are “free choice” (libre eleccion) will be done and also 5 to 6 subjects from the main subject plan. I’ve heard from many people that engineers can pretty much do the same a Business manager does and I have personally seen engineers been accepted to work as business managers. although that is not the issue because is not that I want to be in charge of a business or something, but rather do something I am truly, really interested on. Science and technology.

Do you guys think the change is worth it? My parents say its ok, as long as it is what I really want (I don’t deserve to be my parent’s son, they’re far too good). But I’d like some advice from you, my friends.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

New Moon… check!


I just finished New Moon, the second book of the Twilight saga.


My opinion? it was OK… far from the first one, I hope the series are not going to follow the trend of lowering the standard Twilight set.
So no other option but to buy the 3rd! Eclipse!
I’ll post as soon as I finish it how was it.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

To KDE or not to KDE, that is the question

I’ve had Ubuntu for a few months now. I’ve had to deal with lots of issues, problems, software issues until I made it to get some decent Ubuntu installation. Now is time for change.

Now the question is: what OS now? lets look at the options:

  1. OSX86: Leopard on my Packard Bell again… it DID work, but I had some issues with the WLAN card so yeah, although the rest was smooth, it was not really worth it.
  2. Linux distribution: ok, there are a zillion distributions so lets narrow the search again:
    • GNOME: Ubuntu? I don’t really feel like it, and the other distributions are not very tempting.
    • KDE: ahhh here! here is were I am really getting interested. I’ve really liked KDE for some time now, but what should I choose?

So, any suggestions?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Ruined swimming pool

Remember in the last post I said that we were above 41º with a blazing sun above our heads? well, next day we had the biggest storm I’ve seen this year. It really was a HUGE storm, with all the wind and stuff.. actually it was a thunderstorm, so we had lightning, thunder, rain, wind and 35º of temperature: yay!

So next day, rain stopped and the sun stepped in again and after a morning in the library studying for math I headed (as usual) to the pool half hour before lunch to find it was not only closed, but also extremely dirty. not only the rain had completely taken the clarity out of the water, but the leaves and branches from nearby trees were floating around.

so yeah, not buying something to cover the pool now means the pool is closed for the rest of the year (or so it seems)

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