il Prete Rosso

Aggiacciato tremar trà neri algenti

Al Severo Spirar d' orrido Vento,

Correr battendo i piedi ogni momento;

E pel Soverchio gel batter i denti

Typhoon

Feeling the typhoon in the window of my room.

Selva

Érase que se era un joven que escribía y componía frases y estrofas para su amada, y de tantos dias y de tantas palabras nacieron junto a él malezas y enrramadas. Su cuarto entonces se convirtió en selva. Los monos y las boas se trepaban por sus piernas y se colgaban de sus brazos, más sin embargo, el joven nunca de sus cartas y versos se alejaba.

Los días y los meses pasaron; el joven flaco y cansado seguía escribiendo sin descanso. Llegaron los bomberos a sacarlo de entre los juncos, poniendo fin a las quejas de los vecinos, cuyas cocinas eran asaltadas por los tigres, leopardos y jaguares que de la jungla escapaban.

Ya en la sala, con la barba mas allá de la papada, y el cabello revuelto y desenvuelto, el muchacho proseguía en su escribanía, adornando las cartas con grabados y estocados de tinta, y de llanto melancólico y profundo por la lejanía de su bella amada... pero, de pronto pensó --¿Es en realidad bella mi amada? Hace tanto que no la veo, que apenas y recuerdo su rostro, sus razgos o sus ojos... sólo recuerdo cuanto la amo, cuanto la añoro-- Y entonces el joven perdió la opacidad de la locura en sus ojos, y con un nuevo brillo fulgurante, cortó sus barbas, peinó sus cabellos, se puso sus mejores ropas, salió por la puerta, caminó media cuadra, e hizo sonar el timbre de la puerta de la casa donde habitaba su amada.

Drinking coca-cola with ice and eating fries...yeah, the burguer was very good (loving cheap room service)

amanecer

El atardecer de Taiwan es el amanecer de Mexico. Cuando veas salir el sol piensa que del otro lado estoy yo.

after 13 shots of tequila... I think I can say I'm drung.... good night everbody.. son la neta! cabrones!!

Sadness

Today I faced my old foes: Pride, Sadness and Korean chopsticks ;)
And I had by my side my old allies: Perseverance, Endurance and Solitude.

Excellent weekend at Wu-Lai and Ping-Lin

After a very busy week at Taipei, it was time for taking an small break at the Taipei surroundings. I took my backpack, wore my excursion clothes, and had my camera ready. Me and a colleague departed on Saturday  towards the small town of Wu-Lai, where we experienced the permanent market on the main street, the Atayal aborigine food and relaxing hot springs at the Full Moon spa. We also visited the Yun-Hsien park, where you can only arrive by cable-car (The cable car station is located 1.3 km south of Wulai, just follow the signals or take a taxi. Another options was taking a mini-train, but the day we went it was not functioning, and it seems I has been like that for a while). The cable-car station is located in an small "annex" of Wu-Lai, located right in front of the Wu-Lai waterfalls; the Yun-Hsien park is located on top of the falls. The park have different amusements... nothing really interesting, but the mountain hiking! that was my favorite part of the visit and worth the NT$250 of the cable-car and park ticket.

Wu_Lai town

 Another view of Wu-Lai

 Wu-Lai power house

 Mini-train station

 Private bonsai garden at Wu-Lai town (behind the mini-train station)

 Wu-Lai waterfalls.

 view from the cable car

 view of Wu-Lai downtown from the cable-car

 cable-car

 falls at Yun-Hsien

 some Yun-Hsien fauna

 mountain hike at Yun-Hsien park

aborigine food (some ferns, stem leaves and flower buds)

On Sunday we traveled to Ping-Lin, a famous tea region in New Taipei City state. We visited the Tea Museum. The exhibition will teach you all what it needs to be known about tea, and the park backyard is a tea plantation full of hike roads, shrines and observatory decks; it's worth to spend all the morning there. if you are luck you may find the path up to the mountain peak. Ping-Lin local touristic transportation is free (or at least it was free on sunday :)), and you can take the mini-buses from the Tourism Office located across the main bridge (front-right to the museum exit). This time we took a bus to the Nam-Shan temple, located 9 Km north of Ping-Lin, up in the mountains (15 mins). The road to the temple is full of scenic views and tea plantations.. so prepare your camera at all times and fasten your belts because the drivers are wild and don't care about the extremely winding road.. they will drive as fast as they can! (yahoo!).  Right in front of the tourism office you may take a bus that'll take you back to the Xindian MRT station (in about 45 mins)

Revolution

"We are really the revolutionaries in the world today --not the kids with the long hair and beards who were wrecking the schools a few years ago." Gordon Moore, Intel founder, quoted in Fortune magazine, 1973

Good

"He who stops being better stops being good." Oliver Cromwell.

Moi

C

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

Dennis Ritchie passed away the last weekend. He and Ken Thompson received the Turing Award and the National Medal of Technology for the Unix operative system and the C programming language.

Farewell DMR

El presente mexicano no se olvida

2 de Octubre representa mejor el México moderno que el 16 de Septiembre y el 20 de Noviembre. El 16 y el 20 representan lo nunca bien consumado; que los que empiezan siempre morirán a manos de los traidores antes de ver sus sueños realidad. El 2 de octubre representa la muerte de los ideales; la decena trágica que no termina de repetirse en el día a día de los mexicanos.

Werther

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. " Goethe

Secularism

Secularism = separation of church and state

https://www.secularism.org.uk/ 

My Review of Marin Bridgeway FS Bike - 2011

Originally submitted at REI

With a touch of classic style, the Marin Bridgeway FS bike cruises comfortably on everyday jaunts and is equipped with practical features like fenders, rear rack and suspension fork.

Marin Bridgeway FS Bike - 2011

It like this bike, even with its defects

By Feliponcho from Folsom, CA on 6/17/2011

 

3out of 5

Pros: Stylish, Fast, Lightweight, Versatile, Great gears trigger shift

Cons: Wears fast, Uncomfortable, Not Durable

Best Uses: Trail, Street Riding

Describe Yourself: Commuter

Was this a gift?: No

I bought this bike one month ago. I use this bike mainly to commute to work, the bike is very fast and swift. I have received very good comments on how it looks. The maneuverability is awesome! you can do very short and quick turns even at high speed. But, I have found a lot of things that I didn't expect to occur in such a short time: 1) the nuts and bolts that holds the rear fender dropped and got lost and now the fender is loose, 2) one of the threads of the cables that is attached to the top post of the frame got broken in the very first week, so now I must be careful of not hurting myself with the loosen thread. 3) The chain keeper got wear in the very first use because it was maladjusted (got wear with the pedal pole) 4) The painting tears very easily.

Also, as previously commented, after one hour of riding, the saddle becomes unconfy. There are also other problems: 1) be sure of not buying this on-line, please go to the store and try it, because the height of the bike changes when you ride it; the suspension get lower with the rider weight, so substract 2 or 3 inches from the stated height. 2) If you use the rear rack to load some groceries, you will feel how instable this bike is.

Wow, after writing it I have realized this bike has more cons than pros, :'( sniff. Nevertheless, it looks awesome!

(legalese)

Contraparte

Me lo dices todo a mi

y creo que todo tiene que ver conmigo.

Sé que de alguna forma me afectará,

y le sacaré el mejor partido.

Estoy tranquilo porque tendré mis propias conclusiones

sin tener que pedirte explicaciones.

Lo disfrutaré

y luego traeré a colación el tema,

sólo para mis entretenciones.

Si acasó un día ya no me quieres,

no podré estar como si nada

gritaré de tristeza y conmoción,

y no podré escribir ni escuchar canción...

...si es que así lo quiero yo ;)