Siguiendo por la linea del articulo anterior, segui hojeando libretas viejas y tropece con estos dos bocetos. Habia indicado que llegue a Puerto Rico de 7 a/nos...mi ni/nez la vivi en Long Island, NY. Mi abuelo tenia una casa de campo en las monta/nas de Vermont. Esa casa era una comoda casa construida de le/nos y tenia ese look de peliculas como Amityville o de novela de Stephen King.
En algunas ocasiones nos quedamos alla mis papas y mis hermanos. Era oscuro, con una poca luz de la chimenea y dormiamos sobre colchas en el piso de la sala. A mi abuelo le gustaban las cosas antiguas y entre ellas tenia dos querubines de bronce con ojos de cristal.
Eran bellos, pero estaban localizados justo al lado de la chimenea. Cuando mi hermano mayor y yo dormiamos en el piso de la sala yo no podia conciliar el sue/no. Sentia que unos duendes me vigilaban para robarme mientras dormia. La imaginacion de un ni/no es cosa seria.
Dije que mis primeros a/nos fueron en NY? Estaba lejos de todas estas cosas particulares de los boricuas, teniamos tradiciones pero nada extraordinario. Mi abuela irlandesa, mi abuelo italiano. Muchas historias, buena comida, pero ese angulo mistico que nos cubre era inexistente.
Entonces vino la separacion. Comenzamos los contactos de otros familiares. Comienzo a viajar a Brooklyn, Queens, Bayamon, Naranjito. Un nuevo idioma (no hablaba nada de espa/nol), nuevo todo. Y ahi entra el segundo diagrama.
La cultura boricua es rica en herencias. El sincretismo es rampante. Todo, desde nuestra musica popular como nuestras tradiciones son unicas. Comienzo en el Brooklyn de los 70. La santeria es comun. Es comun ver elementos catolicos modificados para incluir las Siete Potencias, a Santa Barbara, a San Jorge,m a Santa Marta...y hasta santos fuera del Santoral, como San Lazaro.
Asi que comienzo a ver las mesas blancas, velones y jarrones de agua para la limpia cada vez mas. En la bodega a ver los ba/nos, inciensos y velones.
Una de las primeras casas que vivi aca era peque/na y me tocaba dormir en un peque/no cuarto de huespedes que no se usaba mucho, pero que tenia una de esas mesas blancas con muchos santos. La primera vez que entre quede intrigado (y aterrado) con el cuarto porque las ventanas de metal zumbaban con el viento.
Me explico. Cada brisa que chocaba con la ventana movia las cortinas y silbaba gravemente. Como siempre habian velones prendidos las llamas se movian. Eventualmente me acostumbre y lo veia como otro elemento mas. Pero exprese la idea con la segunda imagen.
Y creo prudente dejar el post aqui. Solo describiendo las dos imagenes.
Solo queria expresar lo bello y rico del sincretismo cultural en nuestro Caribe.
Just an old sketch from an old diary. Me making comics at my aunt's house. And since this is the crappy blogger android interface i will finish here.
Updated - 04/27/2012 - Fixed on a Laptop Computer. Blogger interface in android is major suckage...
These are all from around 2010. The first one is from a time I preferred using a small vertical moleskin. I wanted to present an early version of myself or even write a true story.
Mostly, I was striving for composition.
I used to be drawing as lot of mini comics. Usually I'd sketch them on college ruled paper, ink them with whatever pen I was using at the moment (I favored the old pilo ballpoint pens, that created a small gray line.
I tried to capture my old aunt's house in Rexville. Even got an ugly rendition of Mauro (an orange tabby cat, very similar to Morris the Cat, but twice as fat).
Anyway, I've been favoring black flares and White 5.5 in x 8 in moleskins lately. They are good for painting in watercolors and some good inking.
The third cartoon was the typical philosophical discussions with the ex. Where virtuality is first mentioned. Also, a discussion of how the lastres accumulate in Puerto Rico while the hard workers and responsible citizens dwindle. It also discusses the fictitious opulency of puertoricans, courtesy of the goverment benefits...
As a bonus, I was at Biloxi MS when Calle 13 Produed the Calma Pueblo video. Watched it from my hotel room then and drew the cartoon below...
Here is the original reference, from the Poder5 battle trenches of the Charlene fiasco I was not going to mention on my previous article:
On future articles I may give more details. I have been writing extensive and very dense articles lately. I'll try to go by steps to not overload your systems. I mean, the last one had like 5 articles condensed in one!!! However, I was pleasently impressed with the google talk.
Tenia esta guardada en el tintero desde hace un tiempo. Toma fuerza hoy con las discusiones relacionadas al nuevo Codigo Penal.
http://www.vocero.com/aprueba-la-camara-codigo-penal/
El Código fue aprobado en el Senado durante la sesión extraordinaria de diciembre. Desde entonces, la Cámara realizó vistas públicas adicionales y presentó tres informes. El proyecto fue retirado del calendario varias veces porque los representantes de mayoría querían hacer enmiendas.
Entre los cambios más polémicos que realizó el Senado está la eliminación de los agravantes en delitos cometidos por razones como la religión y orientación sexual de la víctima. Estos agravantes fueron reinstalados en la versión aprobada por la Cámara. La Cámara dejó el aborto como delito y aumentó la pena de dos a tres años para los que practiquen el aborto, protegido por un caso de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos.
Prometeo, paladin del aspecto religioso, discutia recientemente en su blog la movida politica del PNP. Esa hipocresia cosechadora de votos de ser conservador, mas alla de la ley, tipificando como delito el aborto a la vez que le rie las gracias a los homosexuales.
Entonces, hemos estado debatiendo la moral de exhibir los pechos como protesta. Tuttilimundi comenta, pero no voy a traer ese debate aqui puesto que entiendo que es faranduleo. No me interesa comentar titulares de periodicos. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Y la controversia crea visitas.
[Nota al Calce: Antigonum por eso es que sites como los de Manolo y los de Vlade se brotan en visitas mientras que los nuestros pasan desapercibidos por los RSS Feeders de nuestros visitantes]
Bueno, me desvie del tema. A lo que iba. El relativismo moral religioso existe, y las opiniones que los fundamentalistas del Bible Belt toman hoy como verdades absolutas son en realidad reinterpretaciones recientes. Tomemos por ejemplo el faranduleo con el que querian enmendar la constitucion para definir el 'personhood'de alguien, una controversial medida del estado de Mississippi...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/mississippi-personhood-amendment_n_1082546.html
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at fertilization, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal challenge to abortion rights nationwide.
The so-called "personhood" initiative was rejected by more than 55 percent of voters, falling far short of the threshold needed for it to be enacted. If it had passed, it was virtually assured of drawing legal challenges because it conflicts with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a legal right to abortion. Supporters of the initiative wanted to provoke a lawsuit to challenge the landmark ruling.
The measure divided the medical and religious communities and caused some of the most ardent abortion opponents, including Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, to waver with their support.
Opponents said the measure would have made birth control, such as the morning-after pill or the intrauterine device, illegal. More specifically, the ballot measure called for abortion to be prohibited "from the moment of fertilization" – wording that opponents suggested would have deterred physicians from performing in vitro fertilization because they would fear criminal charges if an embryo doesn't survive.
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they’ll insist that it does.
That’s new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.
That year, Christianity Today — edited by Harold Lindsell, champion of “inerrancy” and author of The Battle for the Bible — published a special issue devoted to the topics of contraception and abortion. That issue included many articles that today would get their authors, editors — probably even their readers — fired from almost any evangelical institution. For example, one article by a professor from Dallas Theological Seminary criticized the Roman Catholic position on abortion as unbiblical. Jonathan Dudley quotes from the article in his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics. Keep in mind that this is from a conservative evangelical seminary professor, writing in Billy Graham’s magazine for editor Harold Lindsell:
God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: “If a man kills any human life he will be put to death” (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. … Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.
Christianity Today would not publish that article in 2012. They might not even let you write that in comments on their website. If you applied for a job in 2012 with Christianity Today or Dallas Theological Seminary and they found out that you had written something like that, ever, you would not be hired.
Por lo menos los catolicos seran retrogradas, pero somos retrogradas consistentes, independientes de modas y modernismos. Hay un fundamento moral para la oposicion al aborto. Pero de nuevo, anticipando los comentarios, sabemos que hay una crisis poblacional que si no se resuelve seguira trayendo problemas. Ese tema es otra historia.
Catholic anti-abortion views, after all, are undergirded by a long series of increasingly emphatic papal encyclicals; a natural law and bioethics tradition stretching back all the way to Aristotle; an overall theological position making church teachings on matters of faith and morals binding on believers; a relatively low level of tolerance for individual dissent; and a teaching and disciplinary system that can be (and in some parts of the country, is being) deployed to influence the views and behavior–personal and political–of the laity.
Not one of these is a significant factor for Sola Scriptura Protestants. And unlike other moral issues ranging from gay and lesbian rights to divorce to adultery, the belief in scriptural inerrancy common among evangelicals doesn’t really explain the vast gap between evangelicals and their mainline brethren on abortion. I’ve yet to read or hear a purely scriptural justification for banning abortions that doesn’t ultimately come down to circular reasoning based on the condemnations of homicide from the Decalogue onward.
Independiente de la opinion del aborto, enfocaba este articulo a la concepcion o al momento en que un alma ocupa un cuerpo y deja de ser un cuerpo extra/no o un tumor en la madre. Dos puntos aqui, un interesante White Paper del 2008, me imagino que parte del material de debate de esa campa/na del MS: http://www.westchesterinstitute.net/images/wi_whitepaper_life_print.pdf
Pero de nuevo...el punto no es cuando se concibe o deja de concebir. Llegara el punto donde el sistema, como un macro, hace el control. Factores externos como guerras, enfermedad o defectos congenitos causaran una merma en la poblacion.
Algo de bacterias y similitudes a las redes sociales:
Google Tech Talk (more info below)
September 30, 2011
Presented by Eshel Ben-Jacob.
ABSTRACT
Scientific American placed Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob and Dr. Itay Baruchi's creation of a type of organic memory chip on its list of the year's 50 most significant scientific discoveries in 2007. For the last decade, he has pioneered the field of Systems Neuroscience, focusing first on investigations of living neural networks outside the brain.
Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing
Bacteria, the first and most fundamental of all organisms, lead rich social life in complex hierarchical communities. Collectively, they gather information from the environment, learn from past experience, and make decisions. Bacteria do not store genetically all the information required to respond efficiently to all possible environmental conditions. Instead, to solve new encountered problems (challenges) posed by the environment, they first assess the problem via collective sensing, then recall stored information of past experience and finally execute distributed information processing of the 109-12 bacteria in the colony, thus turning the colony into super-brain. Super-brain, because the billions of bacteria in the colony use sophisticated communication strategies to link the intracellular computation networks of each bacterium (including signaling path ways of billions of molecules) into a network of networks. I will show illuminating movies of swarming intelligence of live bacteria in which they solve optimization problems for collective decision making that are beyond what we, human beings, can solve with our most powerful computers. I will discuss the special nature of bacteria computational principles in comparison to our Turing Algorithm computational principles, showing that we can learn from the bacteria about our brain, in particular about the crucial role of the neglected other side of the brain, distributed information processing of the astrocytes.
Eshel Ben-Jacob is Professor of Physics of Complex Systems and holds the Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics at Tel Aviv University. He was an early leader in the study of bacterial colonies as the key to understanding larger biological systems. He maintains that the essence of cognition is rooted in the ability of bacteria to gather, measure, and process information, and to adapt in response. For the last decade, he has pioneered the field of Systems Neuroscience, focusing first on investigations of living neural networks outside the brain and later on analysis of actual brain activity. In 2007, Scientific American selected Ben-Jacob's invention, the first hybrid NeuroMemory Chip, as one of the 50 most important achievements in all fields of science and technology for that year. The NeuroMemory Chip entails imprinting multiple memories, based upon development of a novel, system-level analysis of neural network activity (inspired by concepts from statistical physics and quantum mechanics), ideas about distributed information processing (inspired by his research on collective behaviors of bacteria) and new experimental methods based on nanotechnology (carbon nanotubes). Prof. Ben-Jacob received his PhD in physics (1982) at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He served as Vice President of the Israel Physical Society (1999-2002), then as President of the Israel Physical Society (2002-2005), initiating the online magazine PhysicaPlus, the only Hebrew-English bilingual science magazine. The general principles he has uncovered have been examined in a wide range of disciplines, including their application to amoeboid navigation, bacterial colony competition, cell motility, epilepsy, gene networks, genome sequence of pattern-forming bacteria, network theory analysis of the immune system, neural networks, search, and stock market volatility and collapse. He has examined implications of bacterial collective intelligence for neurocomputing. His scientific findings have prompted studies of their implications for computing: using chemical "tweets" to communicate, millions of bacteria self-organize to form colonies that collaborate to feed and defend themselves, as in a sophisticated social network.
Desvie del tema de nuevo, pero solo queria exponer que hay un orden en el caos. El sistema es fascinante ya que se ven operaciones sumamente complejas basadas solo en pequenos movimientos al azar. Un estimulo crea una respuesta.
Otro ejemplo. Cuando guias un vehiculo, y esta oscureciendo, cuando enciendes los focos? La oscuridad, un factor externo ayuda, pero tambien influye el numero de carros con las luces encendidas que ves...Un azar estructurado.
Antes de morir debatiendo hasta la muerte cuando comienza la vida recordemos que en la antiguedad se controlaba la natalidad matando al bebe con defectos o si se era varon o mujer. No era crueldad, era simplemente crear una expectativa de vida a los que tenian la mejor oportunidad de sobrevivir. Cae tambien con lo de tener la mayor prole posible era vital en una finca, no como esta vida urbana donde un hijo adicional es mucho mas costos porque no se permite o se ve con malos ojos que un hijo coopere trabajando con sus padres en las ciudades. Por ende reparten ritalin como dulces, pero eso es otra historia.
Cerrando debo disculpar la no publicacion de articulos recientemente. He estado adaptando a un cambio en el sistema operativo de mi oficina, desarrollando varios documentos de suma importancia profesional, negociando con firmas electronicas y burocracias interagenciales y finalmente me cambiaron la interfase del blogger.
Continuo en churn mode, pero simplemente tenia que sacar unos minutos para exponer este articulo de Al Jazerra que destaca el incremento en defectos congenitos en las especies pescadas del Golfo de Mejico. El golfo tenia problemas ya con las mareas rojas, previo al incidente de BP.
Mas aun, el fondo marino del golfo no es nada estable y tiene muchos liqueos de aceite.
Inclusive, los millones de galones de dispersantes como Corexit aplicados para esconder el derrame, llevandolo al fondo del mal pudiese estar teniendo un serio efecto detrimental a la cadena alimenticia global.
y la desconfianza que estas instituciones crean en el proceso para otros proyectos futuros... http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/11/los-fiascos-de-bp-y-capeco-nos-hacen.html
en aquel momento enfocaba en el gasoducto. pudiese repetir el mantra con el recuento de votos donde rojos y azules muestran los cucaracheros ajenos mientras ocultan los suyos...come lean already, you botjh have been cheating us blind!!!
Un intermedio en lo que puedo escribir de nuevo. Luego dare detalles. Tengo ideas a monton, poco tiempo. Pero basta de quejas. Algunas curiosidades del baul de backlinks:
[1] Construyendo laberintos
Me gustaba hacer este tipo de cosa pero con papel cuadriculado. He andaregueado buscando de estos en las diferentes ciudades que he visitado. Pero creo que la atraccion hacia ellas viene de la literatura fantastica y peliculas como Labyrinth, the Maze, etc. http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/maze/garden/index.htm
The next three mazes, from Egeskov Castle, Chevening House and Hatfield House, were reproduced on Saffron Walden common as part of their maze festival in 2011.
Egeskov Castle maze
The estate of Egeskov Castle in Denmark contains 4 hedge mazes (see below), of which this one (left, below), the oldest, was created in the 19th century. The maze is formed of high bech hedges. Its design is based on the Hampton Court maze (see above). While you can solve it by keeping one hand on a wall, it is not a branching maze, as there are islands in it. Looking at some possible paths to the centre, I wonder if it is suffering from extra gaps, caused perhaps by beeches dying. The quickest path to the centre (red) doesn't even into into one half of the maze. The green path seems a more sensible second half of the solution.
En temas relacionados, para enga/nar al que te roba un mapa:
[2] Trap Rooms http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/trap-rooms.html
Resumiendo: Pase trabajo en levantar un mapa de San Patricio plaza y no quiero que te lo robes. Como lo protejo...Indroduzco informacion falsa a proposito en el codigo para inducir a error...claro esta...
A number of start-up companies are charting the interiors of shopping malls, convention centers and airports to keep mobile phone users from getting lost as they walk from the food court to the restroom. Some of their maps might even be able to locate cans of sardines in a sprawling grocery store.
Whichever company can upload the most floorplans before everyone else will, presumably, have quite an economic advantage. So how could you protect your proprietary map sets? What if you're the only company in the world with access to maps of a certain convention center or sports stadium or new airport terminal—how could you keep a rival firm from simply jacking your cartography?
Introduce false information, perhaps: trap halls, trap stairs, trap attics, trap rooms. Nothing sinister—you don't want people fleeing toward an emergency stairway that doesn't exist in the event of a real-life fire—but why not an innocent janitorial closet somewhere or a freight elevator that no one could ever access in the first place? Why not a mysterious door to nowhere, or a small room that somehow appears to be within the very room you're standing in?
It seems to be a mapping error—but it's actually there for copyright protection. It's a trap room.
On one level, I'm reminded of a minor detail from Joe Flood's recent book The Fires, where we read that John O'Hagan, New York City's Fire Commissioner, used to drive around town with blueprints of local buildings stored in the trunk of his car. If there was ever a fire in one of those structures, and his men would have to find their way through smoke-filled, confusing hallways, O'Hagan would have the maps. But is there a kind of Fire Department iPhone app? Could this be downloaded by everyday citizens and used in the event of emergency? What about a Seismic App for earthquake-prone cities like Los Angeles? Going into any building becomes a considerably safer thing to do, as your phone automagically downloads the relevant floorplans. Perhaps buildings known to be fire hazards, or known to be earthquake-unsafe, are somehow red-flagged as a warning before you step inside. (In such a context, the first person to become Mayor on foursquare of every earthquake-unsafe building in Los Angeles wins cult status amongst certain social groups).
[3] Geometry of Pasta Viejito pero curioso. Realmente necesito determinar la ecuacion que define mi rottini?
Estoy en mode de repetidora hoy. Tras un increible fin de semana culminando en el dia de Pascua Florida voy cayendo en tiempo con algunas realidades. La ex sigue fastidiando, pero por lo menos se comunica mas civilizadamente. El cardenal Aponte Martinez se une a los coros celestiales, muriendo en la ma/nana de hoy. Y las cosas del trabajo me tienen atrapado en un tedio sin fin.
Llega entonces esta nota por varios canales sociales. Me hizo sonreir, y llorar, recordando las cosas que uno hacia de muchacho. En mi caso me recordo como mis amigos de la calle haciamos planos para hacer un super big wheel para bajar aquella cuesta en rexville, o como convertiamos una casucha de madera para almacenar madera en un laboratorio, un avion en marcha o una base militar.
It has been more than a week already. Decided to go diferently today. This post is brought to you by the letter M. Can you say MAP?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire, for instance, is an autistic artist with an extraordinary ability to create spectacular landscapes (at a monumental level) based on short time observation. Quite an ability if you ask me. Would he ever be an Al Qaeda target given his photographic memory? who knows?
And since the site seems to be protected by Copyright goons I won't present panoramas from his page. What I'll do is embed by reference a job he did on Tokyo recently:
The early show also covered him, here is one matching up details on a mural he was making on the East Side of NYC.
Which brings me to the next subject in question. At some point in history, it was mandatory to be able to reproduce quality maps based on handbooks. This skill required drafting maps on sheets of paper based on maps. Now we photocopy or print from the web. When I was a kid we traced them using tracing paper, pencil and then inked from places like Enciclopedia Brittanica or World Book.
[Image: Photo by 
