About me

I love to make creative stuff with computers, so I spend a lot of time with them, trying to find out what can be done. My main tools are php, actionscript, javascript, opengl with c/c++ and some ruby. I am making sporadic incursions into python and processing too. In the past, I also used Logo (which I loved), lots of Basic flavours (including Visual Basic and even Mallard Basic), Pascal, POV and lots more things I forgot in order to make space for more stuff in my head.

Incidentally I'm a Computer Science engineer. We study things that we do not use in real life and we do things in real life which are pretty much forbidden in academic circles. Fortunately both worlds overlap in certain areas, and when they do not but almost do, we can take the best ideas from each field and make cool things.

I'm currently based in London, UK.

Things I like

Turtles, ducks, colourful parakeets (they are funny). Jasmine flowers opening at dusk. Old computer games, emulators, old computers, retro stuff, sound and aesthetics. Drawing, inking, just for fun. Taking pictures, having long walks and taking pictures. Tate Modern and its big empty spaces. Southbank. Quirky cafes. Music -- all sorts of it but probably not the one you listen in FM radio. Would rather listen to random MW noises instead. Live music. Reading; I almost literally devour every book and comic that falls in my hands, but tend to prefer Sci-Fi. Writing. Telling stories, describing a setting and establishing a certain mood in the reader. Cooking/Eating. Hearty noodles, true paella, spaghetti carbonara, green thai curry chicken, spanish omelette - with onions!, Sally Lunn's Bun, Fish and chips. Nachos. Horchata. Tea. Sweet watermelon on a warm afternoon. Apricots, peaches, cherries, empty beaches. Basking. Sitting under the shade of a fig tree. Green grass. Iceland. Hong Kong. The Eiffel Tower. Small villages. Listening to old people's stories. Hard work, passion, enthusiasm, motivation, energy and will power. Jokes and fun. Mortadelo y Filemón. Learning new words, and meanings for old words. Playing musical instruments. Making noise. Arduino. Connecting wires and getting unexpected results. Experimentation. Going to the cinema. Watching a film home. Popcorn. Sweet popcorn. The popcorn song.

Things I dislike

TV. Bullshit in general. Abuse of buzzwords in websites and everywhere-copywriting. News for news sake. Press releases posing as important, true news. Plagiarism. People who do not give credit for someone else's effort. Lack of originality. People who ReTweet, link, embed or repeat the very last internet meme they heard about instead of creating their own stuff. Sheeps. Superficiality. People who worry about the lives of walking masses of botox and silicone on two legs, aka celebrities. Hordes of tourists taking blurry, badly framed pictures that they will never remember about, standing on my way home while complaining about how bad the weather in London is. Getting asked about the weather (there are like a zillion different topics to talk about!). People who use ROFL, LOL and IMHO perhaps too liberally, even when there's nothing funny about a situation or their humbleness has been lost under their opinion. Apathy. Addicts to WOW et al. People who throw newspapers and crystal bottles into the black bins instead of placing them in the recycling bins. Consumerism.

About this site

Here's where I post solutions, ideas, tricks, errors and works in progress. I also put here my cheatsheets and other mental notes - so that I don't forget, and maybe someone else may find them useful.

Contact

E-mail
It is listas, with a nice e-mail thingy in the middle, and soledadpenades.com
IM/MSN/Gtalk
Ask me first.
IRC
I'm in #escena in ircnet and probably #ukscene or #pixel too whenever I remember about IRC
Phone
Ask me first too, but I will avoid giving you my number :-P

Please do not send me offers for building the next big award winning web 2.0 social website/community. You can't even imagine how boring is it to read the same requirements once and once again. Be imaginative and come up with something exciting, thank you.

Cybersocialising

Twitter

Follow me (supersole) if you dare.

GitHub

You can follow me at github too, but it will be a tad more technically oriented.

Delicious

My bookmarks.

Last.fm

And finally the music I'm listening to:

Not sure if I have forgotten any site... will add it if/when I remember.