Algo Pequeñito :)

Eurovision 2010 has finally ended, and I could not be happier about Spain's song

Even though it didn't win, in my opinion it should have been up with the top 4. I truly enjoyed Daniel's performance (as well as the dancers'!). What I did not enjoy though (but did laugh) was the stage invasion made by the Catalan spectator. I thought it was quite disrespectful to Daniel, but at least no physical harm was done.

It was nice to listen to a Spain song in Spanish, rather than so much English everywhere. So maybe not everyone understood the lyrics, but you can always look them up and have them translated!

How do you fall asleep?

I don't know wether it happens to everybody, but sometimes I just lie on the bed for minutes, maybe hours, and I cannot sleep. Nowadays that's not happening to me that often. But some time ago I needed to read a lot or just wait. I also happens to me when I am starting to dream and someone/something makes me wake. I have tried counting sheeps, but it's quite boring to me, I prefer just counting, sometimes it works. I have other tricks, like imagining I am flying (it really relaxes me) or that everything I can see is white or black... They works usually but they are not 100 percent accurate hehe.
Do you have any trick or method to sleep?
That is the reason I posted this, I was surfing the Internet and I found this:

Ada's translation:

while Still_Awake (Me) loop
      Sheep := Sheep + 1;
end loop;

P.S.: Maybe this is the last time I write here so goodbye to everybody and have a nice Summer.

Euthanasia for youngsters

A few days ago, I was talking to my mother about euthanasia, and I asked her not to let me live in a coma, relying on artificial machines and fluids which would come out from a bottle. If I were in such an state, I'd rather she unplugged me - I guess I'd be better off dead.

After I had said that, my mother got up, and she unplugged my TV, my DVD player, my PC, my MP3/MP4 player, my PlayStation 2, my PSP, my Wii and my telephone. Then she took my mobile phone, my iPod, my BlackBerry and all my cans of beer from me.

I almost snuffed it that day.

Thanks to Gazmira, who sent me this text. I hope it's fictional.

Frustrations

Even though all of us know that computers can be rather annoying, there are some times when we end up just puzzled. What would you think if you came across any of these?

You might not want to read all of these.

Chuck

Chuck is a comedy T.V show for lovers of anything geek or  spy/action stuff. Because basically it’s a combination of geeky computer type stuff, super spy action, ninja moves that look like combo moves from Tekken, really hot girls ninja fighting, a really cute geeky guy who is just really cute, and hilarious comedy that makes me wonder why all shows aren’t written as well.
The plot? A great one. Basically, a cute guy who works at a low class job, The Nerd Herd in a BuyMore, gets a super computer in his head after he sees all these pictures encrypted with government secrets. Now, he is in a constant state of fear as he has to help the government catch all these bad guys and make sure he himself isn’t killed.
A very good show.
You should watched it.

Serj Tankian

Hi and good afternoon to everybody again. Today, I won't speak about videogames or philosophical ideals(like I always did), Today I will speak about one of my favourite singers in the world: the libanist with armenian origin Serj Tankian, who was born in August of 1967.
Serj was in his time the vocalist of a group called "System Of a Down", a rock music group which succedeed between 2000-2005. The group, which was originally for USA, had the particularity that no one of their components was american, all of their were of Armenian origin(The vocalist: Serj Tankian, The guitarists: Daron Malakian and Shavo Odadijian and the Drummer: John Dolmayan).The group succeeded practicaly in all entire world, with a original style and polemic letters(like in songs "She is Like Heroine" or "Violent Pornography") but also letters that questioned you some concepts of our world today(for example "Question!" and "Dreaming").

Serj migrated to USA when he was 5 years old because of money problems with his family. In the school, he met his frien Daron Malakian. With him, he forms the group "Soil" with another childhood friend, but this friend suicide a few months later. 3 years later, Daron and Serj met the other componemts of System of a Down(SOAD) and form the grop. In their first disc, Serj called one of the songs "Soil" in honor to his suicide friend.

SOAD took 5 great disc: SOAD(1998), Toxicity(2001), Steal this Album!(2002), Hypnotize(2005) and Mezmerize(2005), caracterized all of them for a incredible stylesheet and a perfect harmony between all the instruments of the band.

With the time, Serj and Daron falled out between their and broke the band in 2006. Consequentelly, Serj public a disc like solist: "Elect the Dead"(2007) but he do not lost his particular syle to see the music: some polemic letters(like "empty walls") and others that could take you to reflex and send an applause to Serj ("Saving us" is a great example). In september, he will put in sale his second solo album "Imperfect Harmonies" wich will mix jazz, rock and orchestra.
Some rumors said that the group of SOAD could be reunite soon, but his second solo album confirm that the return of SOAD should be wait a little time more. Personally, I will be glad if the group will reunite soon, but I must recognize that Serj is a Genius even he work alone

Nothing more people, I will put you here a video of SOAD and a video of his solo album "Elect The dead" to check by yourselves if is best alone or in group. See you soon, guys!

Serj in SOAD:


Serj Alone:

When you feel bad , just read this...

Have you ever felt a mix between sadness and anger? Sometimes it happens to me. I use to think It's a transition between complain and step towards change those things that make you feel bad.
The problem arises when you don't know how to face this sensation, It comes at this short moment in which everything is dark and you just want to cry and let your life pass by with no sense.
Well, dear friend, waste your time crying is not the solution, sometimes it helps you to let off steam but, only crying, you won't change those things you don't like in your life.
Don't complain , Don't give up. Those things are typical of people that are affraid of themselves , people that don't know themselves.
The real strenght lies in the actions. You should do everything that is necessary to feel better: put your ideas in order and regard some different perspectives. These actions will help you realize that any problem you have is not so important to make you feel bad.
Get up, wash your face and go on. Learn about yourself, your limits and break them.
Just remember something: if you know yourself better than nobody does, you'll get the victory in any battle.
You are worth as much as you value yourself.

Why??

Why have you decided to study computer science?
I create this entry, because I would like to know why you are studying computer science.
In my case I decided to study computer science because since I was a young child (5 or 6 years old). I was interested in computers.

Please, tell me your story.

Puzzle No. 6

Last time, it was Dany who said the correct solution: the only way to avoid the garlic's smell was putting the two corks in the nose of our friend!! Congratulations to Dany for finding out the solution so quickly!

But now, the level of the puzzles will become difficult and harder to think. Are you ready for puzzle number six? Ok, let's go then:
If I give you this succession of numbers:

4 - 16 - 37 - 58 - ?- 145 - 42 - 20 - 4 - 16...

Could you tell me which is the number that must be putted when the question mark(?) is?

Clue: The Series ends in "20" and restarts again in "4".

Remember to think hard and do not look the answer!!!

Super Mario Bros: 29 Years of Fun!

Hello and good afternoon to everyone again. Today I will speak about one of the most famous videogames characters: The Mario Brothers
First I will speak about the red-man whose name is Mario. Mario made his firts appearance in 1981 in the Videogame "Donkey Kong" for arcade machines in Japan(later will be converted in a NES(Nintendo Entertaiment System) game(the first videoconsole of Nintendo) and in a remake of that game for Game Boy Advance in 2005 under the name "Nintendo NES Clasics for GBA: Donkey Kong Arcade". In that first game, Mario isn't name Mario, his name was "Jump man", which objective was rescue the princess for the Monkey Donkey Kong attack. A lot of time passed before that game and changes were arraving with all Mario's games sagas. In 1985, Mario come back to the NES with the game "Super Mario Bros". In that game, which belong to platform cathegory, was the cuase of the great fame that this character has today. The objective of that first great game was easy: jump in levels to allow all the obstacles you had in the level(like platforms, disparitys, enemies, etc to rescue the Princess Peach at the end of game. This thematic, that may cause recurrence, was an incredible success that be successfull in all the world in a little bit of time.

Years later, NES and SNES(Super Nintendo Entertaiment System) got consequences in form of "Super Mario Bros 2", "Super Mario Bros 3" and the "Super Mario Land" arc. Even today, videoconsoles like NDS(Nintendo Developer System) and Wii have consequences of that games of the 80's like "New Super Mario Bros" and "New Super Mario Bros Wii".
But of course, the success of Mario isn't only for this game. Which every generation of Nintendo Videoconsoles a great platform game starred by Mario appeared: "Super Mario 64" in Nintendo 64(1997), "Super Mario Sunshine" in NGC(Nintendo Game Cube, 2004) and "Super Mario Galaxy" and "Super Mario Galaxy 2" in Wii(The first in 2007, the second is coming soon this spring(11th of June) to us).
Now you could think: All the Mario's game are only for Platforms? Of course not. Mario has been starred a lot of sports games. If I do not remember bad, the first sport game with relative success was "Super Mario Kart" for SNES in 1992, which starred the first cover of Nintendo's official journal in Spain: "Nintendo Accion". After that, Mario has been participated in sports like Golf(Mario Golf for Nintendo 64 in 1998), Football("Mario Smash football" for NGC in 2005 and "Mario Strikers Football" for Wii in 2007) Basketball("Mario Slum Basketball for NDS in 2008), Tennis("Mario Tennis" arc, which has games for Nintendo 64(1997), NGC(2005), GBA(2004) and Wii(2009))...
Eventually, Mario try to get a fighter star in the "Super Smash Bros" arc, which has 3 games nowadays: "Super Smash Bros" for Nintendo 64(1999), "Super Smash Bros Melee" for NGC(2003) and "Super Smash Bros Brawl" for Wii(2008). This fight game isn't like other fight games because there not exist a "life bar"(that means you are dead when it's over). The clasical life bar of this games was changed by a porcentual damage. That means if you have little damage(example: 15%) your rival will have little probabilities to takes you out(the objective of this arc: tryto get your enemy out of the secreen)I will put you a Videobattle of this fantastic game under here.
Of course that not all the history of this great character, but if I do not stop writting now, the article will come to be very big!! Probably I will do a second part later.
That's all for now, than you so much for reading!!

The Environment

Nowadays the environment is being destroyed almost everywhere you look around. Acid rain has killed lots of animals and fish, the greenhouse effect is heating the temperature of the planet and the poles are melting, nearly half of the world’s rainforests have disappeared in the last forty years…and so on.
Most people are not aware of these problems. They do nothing to try to solve them. Moreover rich and powerful people who only care about their personal benefits.
In my opinion the world’s population, everybody, should bear in mind that the environment must be protected, and then keep it clean and healthy.
As a conclusion I can say that if we don’t take care of our environment we will surely have many problems in the future.

Vacations are ending...

This has been a good week, it was good having no classes, I needed it.
I have been able to sleep and meet some people I don't usually, so I am happy.
But as we say in Spain, 'all the good ends' and on Monday we will be all back to normal, boring and busy life. At least summer is close and after passing 2 months of studying and exams we will be free again.

The video is just funny and it is titled 'The Chicken Police':

The Prince of Bel-Air

Who has not heard of "The Prince of Bel-Air" starred by well-known-gorgeous-actor Will Smith? Will Smith managed to conquer the rap industry before he went straight into stardom both in TV sitcom and movies. The Prince of Bel-Air was the TV sitcom in the long-running NBC series that boosted his career. The location was in West Philadelphia, where twenty-something Will Smith, a streetwise teenager, is sent by his mother to live with his rich relatives, because she felt things were getting somewhat too dangerous for his upbringing.

Of course, wise-mouth Will proves to be quite the addition to his upper-class family. Thus creating, at first, various cultural and attitudinal differences. In the Bel-Air mansion reside Will, his uncle Philip Banks, his aunt Vivian, the butler Geophrey and his cousins Carlton, Hilary and Ashley. Each episode is filled with humor, sarcasm, comdey and a life lesson. The series is family oriented, with classy jokes. As the first season commences, Will and Carlton are merely in high school, moving on to University in season four. At its third season it was considered among the 16th most popular series, ending in its sixth season on September 9, 1996.

Job offer!

If you ever wanted to work as a programmer in the United States, you might find this job offer interesting. You need to know C++, Java and/or Python, as well as having a high typing speed, an excellent knowledge of English and permission to work in the U.S. Once you've got that, you can send your application to work as a pair programmer. And that's really an special kind of programmer - see it for yourself:

Pair Programmer is an apprenticeship position whose primary responsibility will be to support one of the company's founders - whom will call the Senior Programmer for this description - in the design and implementation of software products. The Senior Programmer will dictate code in python, C++, or other languages to the Pair Programmer.

Unbelievable. Really.

Juno

Tomorrow, 23rd March - 12:30

1.2 Classroom

Scrubs

This is a show about adults learning to be doctors, dont worry its not awful, nothing serious, well almost  never. Its an amazing drama, buts its a much better comedy and it excels on all fronts. hide show.
This is an amazing show, its hilarious, if you haven't watched it yet you are missing quite an experience. It just gets better and better. Sometimes I wonder if they are trying because it almost seems natural. The humour of this show is unbelieveble, the characters are amazing and the dynamic just makes it better.

Puzzle No.5

It has passed so many time since I published the last puzzle. My apologize for those who where waiting for a new one.
Well, let's proceed. The solution for the last puzzle was given first by David. It was easy, that is the way you had to move the horses:

The new puzzle is this:
Everybody knows that garlic has a very potent smell. One day a man brought a strange deposit with many tubes and three containers filled with perfum of flowers. The next day, his neighbour visited him and saw the deposit he were looking for a long time ago. He became furious and add to the containers some garlic in two deposits which quit the delicious smell of the flowers.
When the man who brought the deposit realised about what his neighbour did, he became sad because he look that he could not quit the garlic. To keep the container he brought two corks to put in the top of the containers, but he finally realised that the corks wouldn't function.
I have a question: If you must use the corks obligatory. In wich holes where would you place the two corks? Look at the diagram below:

A clue:
Follow the tubes with attention and you will realise about an important thing.
As always I am waiting for your answers and DO NOT LOOK FOR THE SOLUTION!!!