| Part of a lyric from Joaquin Sabina…
This goodbye doesn’t veil a see you later,
this never doesn’t hide any I wish, these ashes don’t play with fire, this blind man doesn’t look backwards. This notary signs whatever I write, This post is dedicated to all of you reading this from Sweden. |
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3 comments April 17th, 2003
| Would you ever compare a diet with a negative-feedback system? John Walker, founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD, thinks overweight problems can be easily faced by studying their transfer function and solving them as traditional engineering systems. He does even provide a bunch of computer tools that will help you track your weight loss on a daily basis from an engineering point of view.
My favorite quote: There is a difference between eating a varied diet and chowing down on a cup of lard and sugar once a day. Programmers know this instinctively: they balance their daily menu among the four major food groups: caffeine, sugar, grease, and salt. It’s very worrying that I feel identified with all these… |
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Add comment April 14th, 2003
| The first lift of the so called space elevator has already been planned. On July 1st, 2018 an elevator guided by a thin cable (some centimeters thick) and built by LiftPort will go up to 15000 kilometers away from the Earth.
The main benefit of this would be inexpensive delivery of satellites to space. What is more interesting to me is that it will supposedly make space trips affordable for almost everyone. Not surprisingly, there is already someone making profit out of this. You can read more on space elevators at how stuff works. |
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Add comment April 13th, 2003
| Folding@Home is a distributed computing project aimed at understanding the process of protein folding. This will allow to find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. If you have ever considered to donate your unusued CPU time, this is obviously one of the best ideas. |  |
2 comments April 7th, 2003
| I don’t know much about architecture, but I can’t stop admiring Calatrava’s works, some of which include the Alamillo bridge in Sevilla, some auditoriums in Valencia (his birthplace), the Art museum in Milwaukee and the Pavillion in Basilea. I’m now looking for a flat and I wish I could find something like the Turning Torso. It is an awesome skyscraper for residential use designed by Calatrava and being built in the Swedish city of Malmö. |  |
4 comments April 6th, 2003
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You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part. |
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