Would beauty transcend?
In 2007 The Washington Post asked Joshua bell, a Grammy-winning violinist, to pretend to be a street performer playing for change in the Metro. It was a social experiment for a magazine article: if a world-famous musician and his $10+ million dollar…
Monster
Days ago I realized I’ve been building web thingies since before 2000, back then I did not own a computer so I had to use shared computers/terminals at university to learn how to create cool things. At that time my…
Valley of desolation
Imagine you prepared and packed to go on adventure, to then discover the main bridge ahead is broken so you have to take a long way around it. Now imagine the situation and words in your mind while you wander…
Ligne Maginot
Ligne Maginot is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany, based on the trench warfare experience gained during World War I. The fortification is often used as metaphor for…
Look (or do) and live
This morning at church one of the messages mentioned the “look and live” story, if you are not familiar with that, it can be found in the Old Testament, Numbers 21. The Israelites were complaining or murmuring against the Lord…
Tall poppy
Desde hace algunos días en las noticas o medios sociales la gente ha estado usando el concepto de “tall poppy” (amapola mas alta que el resto) así que aprovecho de escribir algo acerca del folclore local. Tall poppy se refiere…
Gratitude
Today is the last day of the hackathon, meaning I’ve been working non-stop since 20-21 days ago to finish few things before switching jobs/contracts. I wanted to test my limits when started this mode. No shaving, no social life, it’s…
Liberty
Days ago I had a short but vidid dream, I was having an argument with the king of a fallen world, when I said: “The law does not exist to limit free men, but to limit those who break it.”…
Moving on
We are in lockdown since couple days ago, COVID-19 delta variant finally made it to the country and the government (and most of the people) were OK about going into a sharp and hard lockdown to manage this. For the…
COVID – the whatever phase
I hope to be wrong but it seems we are already living the “whatever” phase of the pandemic, where governments like England or Australia are giving up and promoting the message that “people will need to live with it”, which…
