[243] Curioser and Curioser Rant

Ante las aventuras mas recientes del candidato a la alcaldía de San Juan, Hector Ferrer se comienza a cumplir mi negativa y nefasta opinion de que la campa/na que viene no sera para elegir el major candidato sino que se circunscribira a quien quede en la papeleta.

http://elname.com/2012/02/apacible-replica-robotica-de-santini.html

Comenzaron desacreditando a Garcia Padilla con los viajes, los mismos hipocritas que aceptan kick backs todos los dias y tienen grandes deudas a grandes intereses.

Ahora usan la excusa de la separacion de la familia Ferrer para sacarlo de carrera.

Estos son los mismos de no metan la pata en san juan o que investigan caprichosamente a una figura de intachable moral como el juez Denton.  I mean, everybody fibs, everyone has a kickback every now and then.

Moral en calzonzillos, si preguntan mi opinion.  Se podra declarar una candidatura desierta si no hay un candidato u obra digno de ser electo?  Si no, deberia haberla.

Bueno, en temas relacionados he tenido que estar discutiendo de varios temas con la ex esta semana.  Ironicamente todavia recibo sus llamadas y textos, la tengo en mi lista de friends de FB, etc.  La relacion tiene que mantener ciertos detalles en beneficio del menor (que ya tiene la estatura de la madre y come como llaga).

Ella sigue todo este ambito de politica y discutiamos sobre los 5000 gatos que protestaron por el gasoducto (de nuevo).  Ella entiende que todo esta peachy porque asi lo dicta Luis Fortu/no Burset.  Curiosamente compara a los buscones como la UTIER, Casa Pueblo y Luis Gutierrez con este video de Spin Doctor’s – Cleopatra’s Cat.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-14210971/spin_doctors_cleopatras_cat_official_music_video/

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858619733/

Cleopatra's favorite cat

Got his hands on Caesar's spats

The heat was on as you could see

So he front 'em to Mark Antony.

Said, "My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me."

Caesar had an eye for clothes

He saw them spats and said, "I like those."

Caesar had no thing to say, except,

"Jesu Christi Domine,

Et tu, Brute,

Jesu Christi Domine,

Et tu, Brute."

The senate tried to sympathize

It was the cat they should despise

Informant told his whereabouts

Centurions to seek him out

Centurions! There go the centurions.

Brutus had to turn his head

When THIS cat done went and said,

"If he's got this thing for shoes,

He just might be ambitious, too.

They got holidays all in his name,

And all a tyrant needs is fame.

Those fascists don't play pretty games

Egypt is the place to be...

But Rome is a democracy.

Rome!"

Caesar never got them back

'Cause they killed his ass in the second act.

Brutus spoke, then Antony:

Said, "My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me.

Friends, Romans, can't you see

My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me

Egypt's biggest rivalry:

Cleopatra's cat and me."

Entiendo que lo que quiso fue comparer a los buscones con Cleopatra y sus maquinaciones. 

http://www.elnuevodia.com/comienzalamarchacontraelgasoducto-1194605.html
http://www.primerahora.com/masivamarchacontraelgasoductoensanjuan-615783.html

Aun asi, quede impresionado de su comentario tan rebuscado.  Pero de nuevo, synchronicity…relacionemos esa cancion a la pelicula de Cleopatra, donde Elizabeth Taylor estaba a todo lujo y fue por a/nos una de las peliculas mas caras en la historia del cine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film)

sobre todo, cierta entrada a roma que Madonna copio en el halftime 2012

http://youtu.be/jw9VjbgFI0g

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2012/02/237-leech-queen-passes-torch-again.html

En cuanto a la exactitude historica aquella pelicula se basaba en las historias de los triumviratos, la quema de la biblioteca de Alejandria o los ides of march de la obra de Antonio y Cleopatra.

Por si no lan hecho chequeense a Kate Beaton y su blog Hark! A Vagrant.  Muchos chistes de contexto literario e historico.  Como la muerte del Cesar:

http://beatonna.livejournal.com/146806.html

O Wuthering Heights:

http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=322

http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=323

http://beatonna.livejournal.com/153250.html

Les dejo detalles adicionales del emperador Augusto y de Antonio y Cleopatra por W. Shakespeare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra
http://www.gradesaver.com/antony-and-cleopatra/study-guide/section3/

En otro giro la version de Asterix estaba sumamente entretenida cuando ni/no…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_Cleopatra

The book begins with an argument between Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Julius Caesar, in which Caesar belittles the accomplishments of the Egyptian people. Infuriated, Cleopatra makes a wager with Caesar promising to build a new palace in Alexandria within three months. Cleopatra summons Edifis, who claims to be the best architect in Egypt. She promises Edifis that if he builds the palace on time he will be covered with gold; if he fails, he will be a meal for the sacred crocodiles.
A worried Edifis thinks he needs magic to help him, enlists the help of the Gauls, Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, and Dogmatix. Thanks to Getafix and his magic potion, the work goes forward on schedule, despite multiple attempts by Edifis's arch rival, Artifis, to sabotage the construction after Edifis says he doesn't want to get help of them. Artifis tells the workers to demand less whipping, which would slow construction. However Getafix gives the workers magic potion. Artifis bribes the stone-delivery man to throw his quarry away, before Obelix beats him up, causing him to reveal the truth, a henchman tries to lock the Gauls inside a pyramid but Dogmatix helps him find his way out, he tries to frame the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra, but Getafix makes an antidote enabling the Gauls to eat it, then cures the taster and claims eating too much rich food was giving him a bad stomach. Edifis is kidnapped and hidden in a sarcophagus in the house of Artifis, but Obelix frees him. Artfis and his henchman are forced to work on the palace, but without magic potion.
Just before the palace is due to be completed, Caesar intervenes by sending legions to try to arrest the Gauls, after he realises the three Gauls are in Egypt when a spy disguises himself as a worker, and sees the effects of the magic potion. The Gauls fight off the Roman soldiers, but the commanding officer proceeds to shell the building with his catapults. In desperation, Asterix and Dogmatix deliver the news to Cleopatra. A furious Cleopatra then hurries to the construction site to berate Caesar. Caesar's legions are required to fix the damage they caused (without any magic potion to help them) and the palace is successfully completed on time. Cleopatra wins her bet and covers Edifis with gold. Edifis and Artifis reconcile and agree to build pyramids together, and Cleopatra gives Getafix some papyrus manuscripts from the Library of Alexandria as a gift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_Doctors
A la misma vez que puso ese video de analogia ella cambia su logo de FB por un angel dentro de dos piramides formando una estrella de David.  Mi reaccion inmediata al simbolo es la presentacion de Moebius sobre el Incal y aquella pelicula del quinto elemento…

Previamente:

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/09/201-moebius-sur-letoile.html

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/04/escapismo-con-luc-besson-y-adele-blanc.html

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2009/11/moebius-arzach.html

Por si acaso, aqui algo mas de L’Incal y dos preproducciones para una pelicula basada en la serie.  De vez incluyo una foto que presenta las dos piramides…De moebius, ese flikr set da una idea de su arte.

http://kaleidascope-dayzero.blogspot.com/2011/11/incal-and-man-forgd-mindicles.html

http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/magazine,moebius/Interesting

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3625/3361662442_4d11858725.jpg

Cierro demostrando mi curiosidad y obsesion con tonterias solo para decirles que estas maquinaciones no son nuevas.  Y que nos preparemos que la campa/na 2012 va a ser mejor que rolaccion…
http://www.pulsorock.com/foro/archive/index.php/t-129881.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

Lecciones con Gutenberg - Ir un Paso Adelante

Mi articulo anterior mencionaba como CSA se ha convertido en el San Pedro, con las llaves para alcanzar los fondos ARRA. Montados con los combetes del PNP, sobreviviendo los a/nos del PPD y ahora en retorno del PNP. Esta criatura esta exenta de partidos. Como ha logrado sobrevivir en estas condiciones? Quizas porque su presencia es esencial. Quizas porque crearon una dependencia (en el sentido positivo) de su informacion y al salir de ellos todas esas cosas positivas se pierdan.
Es complicado. No se puede explicar algo asi en terminos de blanco y negro. CSA, como cualquier firma vela el interes comun, pero siempre y cuando ese interes le deje una ganancia. La caridad asi, desinteresada dejensela a las Universidades o a los voluntarios idealistas. Asi que en vez de seguir explicando aspectos de la conducta humana hablemos hoy de la historia de Gutenberg, la primera imprenta y como fue que Gutenberg sobrevivio, a pesar de tener a sus enemigos tratando de destruirlo. Gracias a Codex xcix por otro maravilloso articulo.

http://codex99.com/typography/62.html
Movable type was around long before Gutenberg. Bi Sheng (毕昇) was printing with ceramic type in China ca.1040 AD. In Korea Choe Yun-ui (崔允儀) used metal type to print the Sangjeong Yemun (詳定禮文) in 1234 and Laurens Janszoon Coster, in the Netherlands, was reportedly printing with wood and metal type as early as the 1420s. So, if Gutenberg didn’t invent movable type, what exactly made him such a big deal? The answer that is he was the first to solve all of the technical steps necessary to make printing economically feasible. He perfected a usable press, developed an oil-based ink suitable for metal type, and perhaps most importantly, invented a simple hand-held mold that allowed hundreds or thousands of individual pieces of type to be cast from a single matrix. His process, which remained essentially unchanged for 500 years, may very well be the most important invention in history.

Mmm. Suena conocido. Gutenberg no trabajo algo absolutamente nuevo. Los chinos y koreanos ya usaban tipografia movil. Ya tenian papel. Inventaron la tinta. Gutenberg lo que hizo fue combinar todos estos elementos. La tinta correcta. La tipografia mas conveniente. Moldeo en metal para ser mas permanente. El marco y la prensa. Un trabajo increible, aunque otros hayan preparado elementos. Su originalidad estaba en siempre estar un paso al frente de los demas. Buscando salir de la Zona de Comfort.

Si yo fuese alguien como CSA no picaria adelante con cosas como los Sistemas Geograficos de Informacion (SIG), lo ultimo en CAD o las ultimas tecnologias en mis proyectos? Eso entonces crearia una dependencia en mi, sobre todo si esa informacion que genero es mia por ser mi propiedad intelectual. Hasta ahora, es eso malo? Si tuvieses la oportunidad, no harias lo mismo? La tabla esta rasa, como decia en un trabajo previo. 'El que pica alante pica dos veces'

Pero volvamos a la historia de Gutenberg. Esas tecnologias son caras. Innovar cuesta tiempo y esfuerzo. O haces algo para salir del embrollo, o alguien mas grande y listo que tu va a querer comerte y arrancarte lo que tanto te costo. Algo asi como sacarte de carrera y a un tercer plano cuando tus contrarios estan al poder. Miren lo que le paso a Gutenberg:

Near the end of Das Werk Gutenberg was deeply in debt and in 1455 Fust sued him in Archbishops court, claiming misuse of funds. Fust won the case and took control of the press as well as half of the completed books. Just as Gutenberg’s life’s work was being completed he found himself locked out of his own shop. Fust quickly formed a new partnership with Schöffer and they became the first important printer in Europe. They printed, among other things, the Mainz Psalter in 1457, the Rationale Divinorum Offciorum in 1459, and Cicero’s De Officiis in 1465. Gutenberg on the other hand spent the rest of his life one step ahead of debtors prison. With the partner Conrad Homery he opened a new shop and printed the 36-line Bible between 1458–60 and the Catholicon in 1460. He has exiled to Eltville in 1462 by archbishop Adolph von Nassau only to have the archbishop recognize his achievements three years later, when he was awarded the title of Hofmann. He died in Mainz on 3 Feb 1468.

Que clase de individuo! Le quitaron las prensas, pero no el conocimiento de la tecnologia. Lo buscaron llevar a la ruina, pero su conocimiento tecnico no solo le hizo superar a su enemigo, sino que se convirtio en realeza (Hofmann es un titulo de realeza belga, equivale a ser un Sir ingles). Estar innovando le sirvio de arma a Gutenberg. Un buen trabajo le precedio.

Algo asi como lo que le esta pasando a CSA. Su buen desempe/no en proyectos previos le ha abierto puertas que otros envidian. Mi preocupacion por CSA no es que dude de la capacidad tecnica y logistica de la compa/nia en cumplir su encomienda. Es que es Juanito velando la Gallina de los Huevos de Oro. Demasiado poder, controlado por unos pocos. No fue eso lo que hizo la AAA cuando le regalaron la infraestructura a ONDEO? No fue algo asi los fast track del Superacueducto? Pero ahora creo que es tarde para actuar, nos pasara lo mismo de la historia. Arrancar a CSA, en algo tipo caceria de brujas lo que hara es sacar a una empresa que ha hecho mucho para mejorar las cosas en la AAA, aunque eso implique bloquear el paso al resto de la libre competencia.

Dejo a CSA ahi, sigo con la historia. Algo mas de los chinos y la tipografia:
http://blog.databazaar.com/2009/02/who-invented-movable-type-printing.html

Mas de Gutenberg aqui:

http://www.biographycentral.net/johann-gutenberg.php

En otros temas, la Junta Examinadora de Operadores ha abierto convocatoria de Revalida de Operadores de Agua Potable y Aguas Usadas. Justo a tiempo para eso encontre este RSS Feed con un Curso Abierto de Tratamiento de Agua Potable, es britanico, pero es muy bueno...

open rss feed water
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/2457/formats/T210_1_rss.xml

convocatoria
http://www.pr.gov/Estado/inicio/OperadoresPlantaTratamiento.htm

Avancen que la Fecha Limite es el 28 de abril. El examen es a finales de junio.

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Random Stuff

Have been very busy these last few weeks. Therefore I have not been able to post anything new, except the ocassional youtube video on Facebook. Here some interesting finds I have stumbled upon the Web:

# 1 - Stray Bullets

http://www.innocenceofnihilism.com/SBFREEREAD.html

Someone posted the first four issues of this polemic comic at the above listed site. A very pessimistic view of life and with issues that criticize many evils of our society. Reminded me of Visual Arts Bookstore in Condado.

# 2 Nineteenth Century China Tradition

http://www.bc.edu/research/chinagateway/culthist/dianshizhai.html

These short stories presented by Chinese Gatewway provide insight to Chinese Culture on the Nineteenth Century with Dianshizhai Pictorials. These images presented a history or a moral (a dated moral analogous to Victorian England morality).

These vignettes reminded me of Rafael's Tufi/no's excellent series of serigraphy's of the Plena in Puerto Rico. Don't know Tufi/no, here are some of his most known works (Note: AutoPlay Music) including Cortaron a Elena.

http://www.prfrogui.com/fortune/galeria_22.html

#3 - Alternate View of the Water Crisis (Non Crisis)

Everyone gives as a fact that the water will not be available within 20 years and compares water to a fossil fuel. Water cannot be unavailable given the large amount of it, and the effect caused by the water cycle, where seawater is recycled by evaporation and rain. The actual problem is of infrastructure or making the water available at hard to reach areas. These areas are reserved for the poor and helpless, that are always exploited in these issues.

I may not agree with all the points of the writer but he hits hard on the real issues behind the water. Corruption and Unaccounted Water Losses (sounds familiar to PRASA?). Reuse and proper treatment of residual water is critical. That is why a good sewer system is required. Puerto Rico has the opportunity to enter into this market if we switch from primary discharge regional wastewater plants and enter the advanced treatment with nutrient removal systems. This will be discussed on further issues of the Alcantarilla.

Here is the original article, check the presentation and the comments made in favor and against the speaker.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/16/is-there-really-a-wa.html

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Stray Bullets David Laphan Comic Controversy Art Visual Arts Bookstore Dianshizhai Pictorial China Society 19th Century History Tufino Plena Puerto Rico Cortaron a Elena PRASA Reuso Agua Asit Baiswas Water Scarcity Water Management