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Today I feel more special than I have ever felt. Or… Well, or something like that. Thing is, there is no clear adjective for this — But I successfully finished my Specialization degree! Yes, believe it or not, today I can formally say I am Specialist in Informatic Security and Information Technologies (Especialista en Seguridad Informática y Tecnologías de la Información), as awarded by the Higher School of Electric and Mechanic Engineering (Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica) of the National Polytechnical Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional). In Mexico and most Latin American countries, degrees are usually incorporated to your...
The discussion regarding the legality and convenience of Uber, Cabify and similar taxi-by-app services has come to Mexico City — Over the last few days, I’ve seen newspapers talk about taxi drivers demonstrating against said companies, early attempts at regulating their service, and so on. I hold the view that every member of a society should live by its accepted rules (i.e. laws) — and if they hold the laws as incorrect, unfair or wrong, they should strive to get the laws to change. Yes, it’s a hard thing to do, most often filled with resistence, but it’s the only...
I love having guests give my classes :) This time, we had Felipe Esquivel, a good friend who had been once before invited by me to the Faculty, about two years ago. And it was due time to invite him again! Yes, this is the same Felipe I recently blogged about — To give my blog some credibility, you can refer to Felipe’s entry in IMDb and, of course, to the Indiegogo campaign page for Natura. Felipe knows his way around the different aspects of animation. For this class (2015-04-15), he explained how traditional ray-tracing techniques work, and showed clear...
That’s all I need to enjoy the best best party ever.
Oh! Shall I mention that we got a beautiful present for the kids from our very dear DebConf official Laminatrix! Photos not yet available, but will provide soon.
(No, I’m not talking about a future Ubuntu release… After all, what kind of weird animal would a weekend be?) This weekend we took the kids outside for the first time (not counting, of course, visits to the pediatrician). We were quite anxious… Of course, they were born somewhat under weight and at 7½ months of gestation. But this Saturday we feelt adventurous, and took the kids out for a day among people! It might not sound like a big deal, but… Well, we took a not such beautiful or scenic route: We took them to the supermarket, and had...
Once again, on March 11 I had a great guest to save me some work and give a talk at my class! This time it was César Yáñez, and he talked about memory management algorithms, emphasizing on ARC.
The video is available, both at this server and in archive.org.
Thanks a lot!
My good friend Felipe Esquivel is driving a crowdfunded project: the first part of the “Natura” short film. I urge every reader of my blog to support Felipe’s work! Felipe, the director for this project, is a very talented Chilean-Mexican animator. He has produced short animated films such as A duel and One fine day. Not only that: It might be interesting for my blog’s readers that a good deal of the work of Chamán Animation’s work (of course, I am not qualified to state that “all of” their work — But it might well be the case) is done...
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