Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 72

Columnas y artículos publicados en 2011

People enjoy writing with Twitter’s arbitrary 140 character limit. I suffer when I have to write a column with a 900 word limit. Limits suck. Comments JZA 2011-03-21 22:35:12 **Too many words ** Maybe u should recollect your thoughts. Only way I can see 900 words is by doing too much explaining on the process.

Some years ago, I faced a 900 word limit for the first time. My question to the editor: Can I write the column in German?

Quite probably, the best thing got for myself during the last year was my Kindle. I just love it! It has changed the way I interact with knowledge, and saved me from hours of boredom. But it has also taught me the value of scribbling along the book pages and of underlining passages. Yes, I hold a deep regard for my regular (paper) books, and I never scribble on them, not even on text books. In any case, I can scribble on a post-it or something like that. Still, when you underline or comment on a passage in the Kindle,...

What‽ Yes, I have not used this kind of outfit for over 20 years. And I hope it will be 20 more years before I do it again. But today, I was seen like this in public. Why? Well, I won’t explain the whole background yet again — I did it a bit over a month ago in this same space. Much much in short, I never attended university, so –after many years of working without any formal validation for my knowledge– I followed the CENEVAL Acuerdo 286 procedure to get a “Software Engineering” title and the corresponding cédula profesional....

Copied over from Win! section of the Failblog

As you know, I very often advocate using the bycicle as the main means of transportation in Mexico City. The city is very apt for biking through it, and contrary to the fears of mostly everybody, the city is neither aggressive nor as dangerous as people say. However, I have seen cyclists which seem to be looking for the best ways to be hit by a car, or to hit a pedestrian. Yesterday, I read this note in La Jornada: The local Environment Secretary calls cyclists to respect vial regulations. Many cyclists assume they are a special case of pedestrians,...

Hrmh… I am listening to a local news radio station. Of course, what I am about to write lacks information and insight — but it follows a conversation I have had with several groups of friends. Our de-facto president has decreed that the tuition for private schools will be deducted from the Impuesto sobre la renta (revenue/profit tax) up to a given tuition level (IIRC up to MX$2000 a month per child per school). The interviewed subsecretary said they expect this deduction will reach MX$13,000 million, around US$1,000 million. This is, about a third of what is assigned to the...

At Sandino Araico’s house, February 2011.And yes, not a drop was wasted.

In Spanish, “alcantarilla” is the sewage systems, or any canals made to carry away dirty water… Would you dine here?