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Jaime Roos Canario Luna - El grito del canilla

Hace muchos años que no escuchaba esta canción. La combinación audiovisual logró desarmarme completamente en cuestión de segundos. Hay algo ahí que me mueve.

My life is an episode of "The Big Bang Theory"

I've known this for a while now. Since moving to Redmond, my life has officially become an episode of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. This is most probably related to the people I associate with (mostly people from Microsoft), and their very peculiar quirky personalities.

I don't consider myself a nerd or a geek or whatever. My friends from college don't consider me that either (which might explain our own common level of geekness). It seems however that Microsoft is a geek magnet - at least in my experience.

I had the following conversation with a coworker over IM:
Me: <url to something funny about topic X in which both my coworker and I are involved>
Coworker: Hi - whats that?
Me: hi - it's an xkcd strip about <X>
Coworker: ok...and this is regarding?
Me: I thought you would find it amusing
Coworker: Sorry but I am not getting the context
you wanted to chat with me or some one else?

Morale of the story: Comfortable social interactions are a highly treasured and rare commodity in my world.

Growing up, I played a couple of video games from the Final Fantasy franchise, namely FF4 and FF Mystic Quest (which I did enjoy quite a lot, despite the general consensus being that was pretty much the worst game ever). I used to play for hours uncountable. When some of my new friends told me that there was going to be a Final Fantasy concert in town, I just stood there with a blank stare. I did not get it. Final Fantasy is a series of video games. Now, these games might have had some great soundtracks, I frankly don't have any recollection of them whatsoever. In any event, the following ideas just didn't make sense in my mind:

• People care about a video game this much


• People care enough that the production company hires a full symphonic orchestra to play this game's music


• That they expect enough people to fill up Benaroya Hall


• That the Benaroya Hall actually was filled with FF music fans

I don't know if it's how my brain is wired or what. This just doesn't make sense to me. Soundtracks are kind of a watered-down version of "the real thing". They are supposed to help carry a story forward, but somehow are not "worthy" to stand in their own right as independent works of art. Well, it seems these people think they can and do.

Tócame el Windows

No sé como explicar esto...o sea...no sé. Lo que mas me gustó fue el SFX de "new device arrival" :-)

Nuestra Forma de Hablar

What happens when a fly falls into a coffee cup?

The Italian - throws the cup and walks away in a fit of rage.

The Frenchman - takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

The Chinese - eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

The Russian - drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

The Israeli - sells the coffee to the Frenchman, the fly to the Chinese, Buys himself a new cup of coffee and uses the extra money to invent a Device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

The Palestinian - blames the Israeli for the fly falling in his coffee, Protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives.

And then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, The Chinese, and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that He should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian.