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Nada, que a veces le da a una por recordar sus tiempos guitarreros-poperos, y se pone a escuchar a gente como Australian Blonde, La Habitacion Roja o Nosotrash.
En cierto modo son mas faciles de escuchar si llevas auriculares, ya que tienen unos niveles de masterizacion muy similares entre ellos, no tienes q estar ajustando el volumen constantemente en el ipod/rio/loqueseaqueusas, al contrario que con canciones rollo scene, que cada uno lo ecualiza como se le ocurre y es un poco caos, o te quedas sorda o no oyes nada.
Alguno de los maestros deberian dar un curso sobre compresion y ecualizacion a los pobres mortales… ;)

En fin, esto era para hacer notar que en el fondo existen grupos decentes en Spain, solo hay que apartar toda la basura comercialoide que hay por encima… :D

Parece ser (me acabo de enterar) que al fin se ha conseguido que se apruebe una ley (o algo asi) antitabaco en Spain. La verdad es que ya he perdido un poco mis esperanzas en la ley y la justicia en Spain, porque primero te dan la gran alegria (Si… se ha creado una nueva ley … patatin patatan…) pero luego te dicen que no… que ahora tienen que hacer el reglamento… que de aqui a que entre en vigor patatin patatan… tamparapam que te han visto pepe… ya sabeis…
Pero de todas maneras esta es una buena noticia! Ya era hora de que se dijera clarito a los trabajadores y jefes adictos al tabaco que ya esta bien de intoxicar a los demas. Por una vez han tomado nota de sitios civilizados como Reino Unido o Irlanda, donde puedes ir a un restaurante o un pub y cuando sales no apestas, o mismamente, cuando vuelves de trabajar no tienes que meterte tu y la ropa en la lavadora porque hacen un tufo horrible.

Viva!!

Let's say I have just come back from an event in Spain (ifparty05) and I am looking forward for the next one, although I feel really tired and sleepy. Human misteries…
Next stop will be offf, the so called online flash film festival, which is less flash-only with each new edition, I think.
Past year it was held at Valencia and I couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted because of work issues (that is: a unreasonable planning with unfeasible deadlines under lots of pressure in the middle of an unstandable july's heat. It sucked completely). But this time I have full holidays those days and the event is going to be held in the CCCB (Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona) so this will rock for sure!
As I always say Barcelona is a very nice place and I'm always willing to go there. I don't know why, please don't ask me because I wouldn't know what to answer - instead I would start saying things I like from there and most probably will derive to the eternal fight between Valencia and Barcelona, in which I am in the BCN's side, for my valencian friends sorrow, but hey… it's my opinion!
Also the new place for the festival it's very appropiate, much more than the place for past years, and the best of all… trace, also known as mr.doob is going to have a speech there with his friend inknown (which for some strange reason has not a working website nowadays), and my dear group of ultranice friends, roterfleck will have some space in the festival as well, presenting the project with a short but full of content gig, with trace making some visuals as far as I know. I'm pretty sure this is going to be a very good opportunity for us and I hope to see you all there!! :-)

ok, as lots of people are telling me that I'm not writing here since some days I have decided to do it, but about something which has nothing to do with demoscene or programming… I think for the first time in this blog I am going to comment about movies.
I don't use to watch too many movies, because doing so implies to be sitting down for at least one hour without being able to do anything else, and you can't lose the span of attention - otherwise you will get lost.
In any case those are the most recent movies that I have seen, in reverse chronological order:

• Spanglish. This was quite ok, I laughed a bit with almost all humoristic scene. Best one is the grandmother role. That's the most hilarious character I have seen for ages.
• Mar Adentro. This oscar-awarded movie didn't manage to get my focus span during the whole movie. It's ok but I don't think it should have won an oscar. Also I must recognize that I went out in the middle of the movie to have a walk, so I didn't see some of the scenes, but when I come back I didn't feel like if I had lost lots of information. Plain movie, that is. Bardem is ok there, but Belen Rueda reminds me to Lydia Bosch when acting. They are quite rigid.
• Finally, the most absurd horror movie I have ever TRIED to see: Van Helsing. It was so BAD that I couldn't finish it. I had been warned: that movie is horrible, don't see it, but the theme (dracula) was quite attractive. Oh my god, what a waste of money. The only interesting part in the movie is the music by Alan Silvestri. The rest is simply cheap special effects with bad actors and script. For example in one of the scenes the gipsy woman decides that she's going to wear some weapons with her to feel secure. So she puts over herself:
  • a dagger ~15 cm
  • a bigger dagger ~ 22cm
  • a sword ~90 cm
  • a big gun

and all of these weapons go over stretched clothes (scarlett o'hara style) with some kind of high-heeled shoes, which is what she wears even during the battles. YES! She can fight like that and she's wearing make-up in ~1800. Of course! And even more: Dracula wears what must be one pound earrings and long hair. And he also brings a kind of hairgrip. Quite stylish. I couldn't stop laughing during some scenes but finally I got asleep and never open again the movie to see the end.

See this article by mishoo: IE: Popularity theft and tell me if you don't hate even more IE.
I am wondering now if this was the cause of a project which was working under a brand new p4 machine to almost collapse the server when users browsed with their f*cking-piece-of-sh*t ie browsers. Hey… even a debian linux server couldn't resist three machines loading lots of images with ie… uurgh!
Mishoo has also more very interesting articles about ie facts, like its dangerous memory leaks, etc, etc…