Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 247

My home is still in chaos. It is almost three weeks we are covered in dust, as we are changing most of the house’s floor (after 50 years, it was really in bad shape). Terrible. Everything is dusty, everything feels uncomfortable, we cannot get good rest at any time… But well, today the workers began with the last (and largest) area, and it seems in one week it will finally be over. This, of course, has led me to bump into many things I didn’t expect to find - This is, after all, a house where my mother lived before...

Found it by mere chance, my first computer-related certificate! Most amazing thing - Look who signed it: Great Perl Guru Salvador Ortiz! Attachments (0 KB)

After many slow days at work during which I could not really focus on any given thing, I finally felt this day was worth it. I think it is strongly related to the fact that I finally brought my earphones - as I work in a public area, I have been asked to keep my music volume as low as possible. And today I feel much less stressed, and have been to work much better than other days. Good thing! I hope the trend continues and this theory proves valid. Comments Mauricio 2005-02-02 17:35:56 RE: Music helps! get headphones! :P...

Wouter was wondering about natural language processing. I have got quite interested in that field, although I also lack any real knowledge on that except for a couple of quite simple articles I have read and talks I have attended. A great resource on this is Alexander Gelbukh - I saw him at his talk in the 30th CLEI conference in Arequipa, Perú. He has some quite interesting articles about NLP on his web site, although they are in Spanish (anyway, for anybody interested: Avances en análisis automático de textos and Tendencias recientes en el procesamiento de lenguaje natural) but...

Yesterday I got my X-ray results - I am fortunately complete, no apparent injuries to my bones or discs. I got some pretty simple advice from an aunt who is a Feldenkrais instructor, and yes, it still hurts and I still look funny when standing up/sitting down, but it is getting better. Sadly, I still haven’t received the medical insurance papers from UNAM, so those MX$2300 for a complete set of X-rays were off my pocket. I’ll see what can I do to pay some other things I have pending :-/ Anyway… I’ll manage. for i in seq 1 100...

So it turns out I am a big loser, a VERY big nerd and quite a weird guy. Does not really surprise me - Well, I feel happy about being that nerdy (and, yes, I answered with the truth) - How the hell did Steve, Alexander, Per-Arne and Martin make it? My hat off to you guys! (OTOH, it should not surprise me having that many über-nerds in Debian ;-) ) Isaac blogged about lack of a way of not using possessives in English, and he says that he thinks that Spanish has the same problem - In theory, yes....

Amaya’s post made me remember one of the most stupid, boring, frustrating days of my existence. Yours, at least, doesn’t sound that bad. About two years ago, one Saturday morning, the Debianmexico crowd scheduled its first meeting - 10AM, some 20 minutes away from my home. As the only DD in Mexico, it was my task to prepare the material for the meeting. What was I talking about? A simple introduction on making .debs. By then, we were renting the lower half of a small house in San Pedro de los Pinos. The house split was strange: We entered through...

On my way to work, I went upstairs to grab my glasses. As I was going down, Tin Tan was drinking water from his plate on the middle-step on the stairs (you know, that step that is wider and the direction of the stairs changes). I decided not to bother him, skipping that step. Next thing I know, Tin Tan is running upstairs, quite scared, and I am heading downstairs, quite faster than what I intended. I shouldn’t skip over two steps while using my slippers - They do slip. I have problems with every movement. What bothers me more...

John Goerzen comments on his quest for a good alarm clock. You want a good, geeky alarm. Whenever I am away from home, I always count on echo $LOUD_NOISE_CMD | at $WAKEUP_TIME It always works. Be it at a hotel room with my trusty old laptop, be it at home with your powerful server connected to the stereo system with your favorite punk rock music, it is guaranteed to work - and, as you request, with a nice form-factor for your computer, it is as geeky as it gets. …But you got me thinking into this: I am quite frustrated....

Ok, so -effective yesterday, January 6, as we were on vacations until that precise day- I am finally hired at IIEc-UNAM (Economics Research Institute at the Mexico National Autonomous University). Life looks rosy and beautiful. Being an academic worker of a big university makes you… …Do paperwork. I spent two days preparing my workplan for this year. Then, my boss told me I used the wrong format, that I didn’t need to include the justification, only the points I intend to cover. Ok… Well, it is done now - But, as I have already worked at UNAM, I know this...