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Archive for September, 2006

20060909 Bath literature

This is a series of pictures shot at the toilettes of a pub in Old Street. I was so deeply moved by the message, and I also had my camera with me, so here you have the result!

Warning: depending on your specific case, this might not be work-safe.

I love old selotape!

I love old selotape

Someone proclaims her love for the most unsuspected item to think of in a night out (I love old selotape), someone else believes her (I believe you!), and someone else gets worried about the spelling of selotape (Is that spelt correctly?).

This one made me think a lot, not only because selotape is wrongly spelt (I think the right one is cellotape although wikipedia's cellotape also says sellotape is how it is known in UK), but because I tried to guess if that had a hidden message. Maybe wrapping people with old cellotape is the new sexual trend and we still don't know!!

Fuck like you're being filmed

Fuck like you're being filmed

Although being painted in a shy, pale purple, now that's a message! This one motivated a couple of replies in the following picture:

No. I don't fuck I make love / And I make love like I'm being filmed

No I don't fuck I make love / And I make love like I'm being filmed

First reply -No. I don't fuck I make love- is written with that kind of plastic paint that you used when you were a child. Then someone comes with an alternative and solomonic solution: And I make love like I'm being filmed. You can't argue against that one! So maybe that's why there are no follow-up's to the topic.

I wouldn't want to take me home

I wouldn't want to take me home

Another one which made think. Why not? Is she so drunk she doesn't want to take herself home, or she doesn't believe she is the right person to go home with - and has just discovered it in the bath, right now!?

Stop bitching, start a revolution

Stop bitching, start a revolution

Here we go with more strong messages. Probably she felt annoyed with so many trivial topics. Also I believe there's always a couple of this style of messages at every bath you go… something like Fuck the system, Viva la revolución, Hasta la victoria siempre, etc. So she wasn't that innovative at the end.

War 4 peace is like fuckin 4 virginity

War 4 peace is like fucking 4 virginity

And yes there are always mentions to war, peace, etc. But this one goes further and merges war, peace, fuck and virginity. What a bunch of controversial questions.

Alabama 3, I love you!!

Alabama 3, I love you!!

I presume this has some meaning. Which only the one which wrote the text can understand, because I particularly can't! Is there any movie called Alabama 3? and if there is, how come I haven't heard of Alabama and Alabama 2? Maybe it is a music group… yes… I just googled it: Alabama 3 is an english music group. As we say in Spain, you never end a day without learning something.

I like cocks but I think I would also like cunts. What should I do?

I like cocks but I think I would also like cunts. What should I do?

She's undecided. But she should have left a telephone number or e-mail address; these issues shouldn't be discussed publicly. Maybe that's why nobody replied.

I love Jerry

I love Jerry

She's got a clear mind. This is pure love, definitely. Innocence at its best.

Suck my tits / and lick my clit / eat my shit / and suck his duck

Suck my tits...

Modern poetry (or kind of…)

Baths are literature places, isn't it?

Baths are literature places

I can't agree more with her!

20060906 Petardo's Dance Club

Iba a dejar esto como "Sin título", pero me lo he pensado dos veces y creo que un adjetivo que le va mejor es "petardadas". O tontipop, como le queráis llamar. Allá vamos:

Glad

Este me lo ha sugerido mi hermana. Me encanta el inglés del cantante, por no hablar de sus atuendos, obviamente. Y esos efectos especiales… ¡espectaculares!

Vocoder - What happens now?

No sé por qué, tengo la impresión de que uno de los cantantes-instrumentistas, el del pelo a lo afro, es Juan Pardo. Pero a lo mejor estoy totalmente equivocada. Identificaciones aparte, no sé si me gustan mas los gallitos de la cantante o el rapeo del hombre del mostacho, que perfectamente podría ser guardia civil. Por el bigote, digo. Y superdivertido como aporrean la 303 como si fuera un teclado :D

Lo vi en Music Thing - Truth funnier than fiction.

Alaska y Dinarama - La funcionaria asesina

Todo un clasicazo para acabar; una de las letras más crueles que he oído, al tiempo que disparatada (… los disuelvo con lejía… los mato a sangre fría…). Pero es que además el vídeo es total, como el déspota ;) . Observad a Alaska deslizándose sobre esa lengua-tobogán, a las bailarinas usando una sierra mecánica a modo de barra, y finalmente, cómo se convulsiona el resto del público, siguiendo esas coreografías guatequeras que se llevaban tanto en la televisión al final de los setenta principio de los ochenta.
Éste lo he encontrado yo :P

20060905 Curso de ética blog-comentarística

Me gustaría compartir con vosotros las reflexiones que me suscitan un par de comentarios que he recibido últimamente:

Iracundo contra el mundo

Los a-teens me parecen fantasticos la unica horripilante aki eres tu y este relato

(en respuesta a Mejor que el chándal con zapatos de tacon)

Así. Sin más. Vemos que el autor, de modernísimo nombre Jonathan y residente en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, tiene una empanada mental más que notable, confundiendo términos tan diferentes como "artículo" y "relato", y el concepto de opinión personal con el de fanatismo irremediable.

Obviamente, no espero mucho más de alguien que tampoco conoce los acentos, ni otros maravillosos signos de puntuación como las comas y los puntos. Y si me apuras, el punto y coma.
Mi consejo para el señorito Jonathan es que si quiere expresar su disconformidad con algo que encuentra publicado en una web, lo haga en otros términos. Algo tal que así:

Aunque sé que tienes más razón que un santo y mis gustos musicales son para echarse a llorar, sigo empecinado en defender lo indefendible e insisto en que los A-teens son fantásticos, al contrario de lo que apuntas en tu artículo.

Este modo de proceder es mucho más elegante e incluso puede producir una cierta lástima y compasión en la que escribe, en lugar de burlas y escarnio público como el que estamos disfrutando en este mismo instante.

Se podría haber dado el caso de que optara por una aproximación un poco más sincera a la vez que literaria:

Soy un mozalbete tinerfeño atravesando una época particularmente lasciva y contestataria. Nada puede detener mi ofensiva y descuidada verborrea, excepto el deseo irrefrenable de ver mozas de prietas cachas ejecutando coreografías al ritmo de música premasticada, así que para serte sincero, me la repamplinfan tu opinión y tu persona.

Una recibe un comentario como el de arriba y no sabe si borrarlo o dejarlo a la vista de todos, tal es el alarde de sinceridad que rezuma.

Et, teléfono, mi casa!

You can have your bloddy UK! Fuck all english people. You are rubbish!!!! argggg I hate you all!

(en respuesta a Spain owns half of London), tomando el título prestado de la cosecha de mr.doob (ver comentario de Antonio Rivera en Windows Vista beta 2 goes public).

Dado que la dirección ip del comentarista lo delataba como estando en Londres, asumo que es un español cabreado con los ingleses, pero que aún no ha superado la frase de aprender palabrotas (bloody, fuck, rubbish). Y como no se entera muy bien del inglés, quizá entendió que el blog lo escribía una inglesa ensalzando la capacidad arrolladora de la economía inglesa para controlar medio Londres, tres cuartos de Reino Unido y parte del extranjero.

Supongamos que el artículo realmente destacara el poder inglés en la economía. Y supongamos que Chano, nuestro ilustre comentarista, ha tenido un mal día en el trabajo y los ingleses le caen, por decirlo finamente, gordos. Podía haber expresado su disconformidad de la siguiente manera:

I can't disagree more with your point of view. You are all acting arrogantly and make us feel terribly oppressed and ridiculously insignificant, which makes me feel angry against England.

Pero una forma más auténtica habría sido esto (desde mis escasos conocimientos de palabrotas, mal que me pese):

The English are a fucking bunch of wankers. Go and fucking eat your fucking UK, I couldn't fucking care less about it.

Cualquier tipo de aportación o sugerencia (especialmente para mejorar el inglés coloquial, que lo tengo fatal) será muy bienvenido.

20060904 Do you use reset buttons?

I have found them in some legacy code and I always tend to delete them: less elements, easier to use. Somehow Jakob's thoughts on reset and cancel buttons are quite similar to mine: I don't find the point in having reset buttons.

What do you think? If you build a web app, do you add those buttons? And if you find a reset button in a form, have you ever used it? (I think I never pressed one of those buttons intentionally but accidentally, because they were placed in the same position in which one could expect to find the really useful Submit button).
I'm intrigued about what people do …

Internet explorer in linux

IES4linux logo

IES4Linux is an script which configures wine and downloads and installs IE in your linux box. I know this is an aberration but it can also serve for making more people switch to linux while still being able to test the sites in the Cancer (i.e. Internet explorer), because of those clients which love to remain in the Paleozoic era of browsers.

You just need Wine and Cabextract which can be obtained with simple apt-gets or with the fantastic ubuntu's Synaptic package manager. Although this is better explained in IES4linux page!
I'm still very impressed with the performance of this… Last time I tried wine (like 4 years ago) it was horribly slow, and was unable of open the simplest program. Now I am able to start the browser and have a complete view of everything, even run javascript properly - everything works fine. I think it's even more stable than the windows environment :D
There's another advantage over windows: you can install different versions of IE: 6, 5.5 or 5, all at the same time. Each one is isolated from the others so it's the perfect test environment - something you can't get in windows, where it's very complicated to keep different iexplorer versions coexisting peacefully in the same partition.