Afternoon nap

I'm a vampire.

I'm simply not a morning person. I like nights, I don't like sleeping early and neither do I like waking up early.

I can't seem to help it. Night are much more relaxing. Even if I have to wake up early I can't sleep before 1 am.

So, obviously, I get very sleepy on afternoons. And sometimes I take a little nap...except it's not so little. More like a 4 hour nap...and, naturally, that makes it way harder to sleep early...

New discoveries

It seems I may have misjudged Netflix México.

When I first tried it, I saw a couple of series just for testing and they were both dubbed, and I assumed all of them were going to be like that.

Well, not really, in fact, most have multiple audio tracks and subtitles :). When I was home sick all day, I watched Netflix nonstop. Discovered a couple of series I hadn't heard about. Breakind Bad and Weeds. They're pretty cool, and even better with no commercials :D.

I hope I don't become a Netflix junkie though, haha.

Random pic, it doesn't get more generic than this:

Sick indeed

Well, I spent all day today in bed. I wanted to go see Caifanes but didn't feel well enough :S

And just to put a random picture, a little Iron Man on a wall. Took it on Saturday

May be getting sick

I have that feeling in the throat you get when you know you're about to get sick. Maybe I should stop turning on the A/C in my room at night, now that it's not unbearably hot...but I can't get myself to do it yet, I love having the room cold so I can cover up :).

I'm going to do a Screencast on some JavaScript code. Today I started with the "pre-production." I'll post about it here when I'm done. Though it may take some time cause I'm still not very experienced in recording and editing and whatnot.

I hung out with the friend (Valles) we didn't hang out with yesterday (cause he couldn't go to the reunion). Went to the mall, knowing we weren't going to buy anything, just look at stuff. Then to play pool :D. It was pretty empty, maybe I should start going on Sundays.

Halloween is not very far away

The band Enanitos Verdes gave a free show in the city, for the ongoing Chihuahua International Festival (FICH), and I didn't have plans to go see 'cause I don't really like them. But a friend (Mamer) told us to go with him. But by the time we got there, it was over, haha. I blame that on Mamer because he told us pretty damn late.

We just saw people leaving :P

Then we went to Mamer's house to hang out, and we starting discussing The Bible (they are both Catholics, I am not :P).

Birthday presents

Today I got my presents from Mari and my uncle Gustavo :).

Opeth's "Heritage" & Symphony X's "Iconoclast". New music for my car :D

Just one more page

I've been reading a lot in my phone. With the Kindle app. And the "pages" are so short, you read one in mere seconds, it's so easy to just say one more page. I read like 25% of the book I'm reading today, though I'm not actually sure as to how many normal physical pages that is. In the app it just says, location 6000, 75%. I don't know how that 6000 is measured, I think paragraphs.

I had to change the text to white with a black background, not because I like it more, but so that it doesn't use as much battery.

No pic today at all, I can't even think of a random think to take a picture of in my room.

Stuck in my own world

Today there were a bunch of motorcycles parked outside the office where I work:

I never really found out why, or who did they belong to.

When I'm at work, I don't really pay attention to anything that happens around me. I almost always have my earphones on, so even if somebody at work was talking about why the bikes were there, I didn't listen.

I was like that when I didn't have an office, and now more so that I have my little office...but I've always been like that. I cannot work and talk at the same time. I really need to concentrate and I may come off as a jerk, cause I seem pretty cold, and I always give very short and to the point answers...but if I'm on a roll at something I'm programming, I can't really take a break to tell you a story, or to listen to something lengthy, I need to finish what I'm doing...

Couldn't take it anymore

I thought the Facebook app on my phone was the one at fault for not giving notifications. Today I noticed the Google+ app stopped doing it too. And some of my settings weren't getting saved.

I honestly didn't know how to fix it, or what was causing it. So, being the computer person that I am, just did a factory reset on my phone, haha. I still don't know if it worked or not...I'll know in the morning.

Good thing is I didn't lose the root permission on my phone AND the Talk app (the one that actually got me to root the phone) wasn't deleted, so yeah, at least I won't have to deal with that again...

I keep forgetting to take pics...so here's another random one from my room:

There are 3 of these around the house...apparently they are needed everywhere

Why all the hate?

Google+ and Facebook today made a bunch of changes. I like that :). To me, days like today are considered good news days. I open up Google+, and almost half of the people I've circled is sharing the same link, new features added to Google+. And then I see a link explaining Facebook changes.

I for one like the changes. But yeah...Facebook users can be so bitchy!!! They always hate everything Facebook does (ok, not everybody, but the ones that speak up about it). They hate the fact that Facebook makes changes. How does Facebook dare make changes without their permission??? Yes, some features are a little bit more useless than others, but to go ahead and threaten to leave FB just because they're making changes??? Come one people!!! They're trying new things, not all of them are going to work out, but they can't stay the same forever. They don't want to lose absolutely no ground to Google+, which I don't think they're doing, but if they didn't do anything at all, they probably would.

You CAN dislike a change, but you don't have to be a dick about it. So, they added "smart lists", so fucking what??? Don't like them??? Don't fucking use them!!! No need to create a group called "Stop with all the changes!!! I don't like them!!!" Not gonna get you very far. If you're going to give feedback, try to at least use a little your brain, just a little, that's all I'm asking, who knows, you may even make sense when you write. Give constructive criticism. This is an example of non-constructive criticism: "The new chat is so stupid!!! Fix it!!!"

Faisbuk users r so gay!!! <--- That's pretty much how every one of them sounds.

Aaaannnnnd, now that my little rant is over. My phone that I almost swallowed works again, haha.

I have to take off the battery so the alarm won't go off...

And it's now sitting there, all useless. It's been working for weeks but I didn't have a pic for today :P

Immorality?

New Dream Theater CD came out a week ago. In case you didn't know, I'm a bigtime DT fan. BIGTIME.

Having it come out so close to my birthday (which was today) was pretty cool. I figured I could have somebody gift it to me. Sure enough, Mari offered to do it, and I was not going to listen to it till she gave it to me.

But then, I found out that my brother (Diego) bought the CD from iTunes. I didn't know he was going to buy it, nor did I ask him to. But he likes DT too, so it seems logical for him to do so.

Now, I don't have a lot of experience with iTunes, but from what I played with it last night, I came to the conclusion that I hate it. I wanted to transfer the songs to my phone, cause there's no point in buying it myself (well, I'm pretty sure DT wouldn't mind). Only cause it's digital doesn't mean I can't "borrow" it from my brother. But it's so fucking hard to keep iTunes synced in various computers. I wanted it in my laptop so I could sync it with the rest of my music, and not the rest of my brother's music, but I wasn't able to do it. So... I downloaded it from other "sources."

Was I wrong in doing that? I only downloaded it cause my brother bought it. I want to support the artist. But I don't want to re-buy the album just so I can have it in my laptop. But this wouldn't have happened if iTunes wasn't retarded. Anywho, I don't feel morally guilty at all :).

Check out who started following my blog:

WTF?

I went to his bio, and he writes awful!!! Ok, Kold_whatever, if you're a real legit person, I'm sorry, I have absolutely no respect for you...but thanks for following my blog though :)

Lazy sunday indeed...

Well, just as I said, today was a very calm and relaxing day.

Slept like 12 hours, woke up at 2pm. That always makes me feel very guilty, like if my day has been wasted...even though I would have probably done nothing productive. Stupid brain, so easily deceived.

My day consisted mostly in reading (and of course eating and going to the bathroom, but I figured those were a given). Also, looking for a Bible in the house to look up ridiculous passages. Nobody could tell me where the one we have is...that's how much The Bible is read around here.

If you ever wondered what a "human seat" looked like, wonder no more:

Busy weekend

I've had a somewhat busy weekend.

Friday: Mexican holiday which, of course means, no work. Saw a movie with friends, Tenampa made me a pasta that I love too much for my birthday and a cake. Gave a super express crash course of PHP sessions in the company we work at. And went to play pool at night with Fani, her bf and a friend of hers. I drank a little bit, and that's why I was in no condition to drive home, so I spent the night again at my aunts'. But I had to go to work early, so that night's sleep was just like 3 and a half hours.

Saturday: Work from 8am-2pm. Learn that Mari was going to ditch me even though she came up with the idea of doing something for my bday. I went to the movies anyway with some cousins, saw "Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night" (which for some strange reason is called "Actividad Paranormal 0: El origen" in Spanish)...all I gotta say is, it's not my cup of tea, did not like it. Also, the people at that particular showing were being douche bags, they kept talking very loud, and laughing at things that weren't supposed to be funny. It pissed me off. The movie is Japanese, so it's spoken entirely in Japanese. But since the stupid people at the theater apparently find other languages funny, they even laughed at how one of the protagonists said "sister" in Japanese. Yeah, totally stupid. Then went dancing at night...don't know why, I just did. Probably won't do it again for some 10-15 years.

But now it's time to sleep, knowing I don't have to wake up early. And to enjoy a peaceful and relaxing Sunday ...

Another short one

I am again not spending the night at my house, I am about to fall asleep but don't want to miss a day haha, so, good night or good morning people :P

There is Netflix after all

In México that is. The selection of movies/series though...needs a little work.

I honestly had no idea, but while listening to a podcast, I heard about the Netflix Android app, and while trying to download it and failing miserably (cause I'm not in the US...yeah, makes no sense, since the service itself is available in México), I went to the website and found out about it :).

Besides the selection being kind of poor (mostly on series; there are lots of Mexican soap operas, which make me want to hurl just by reading the names), the couple of episodes I've watched of series just for testing are dubbed...that's a no no for me. The movies are subbed, at least.

Now, changing topics a little, can you try to make sense of what Mari was trying to say here?

I cut out my parts, but if you follow the "conversation," it's actually not hard at all to understand. This last one though, I actually just got it as I was writing the blog, haha.

Facebook hates me too

You already know Google hates me.

Well, I think Facebook hates me too...or maybe it's still Google's hatred towards me.

I have an Android phone, and I installed the Facebook app on it. Supposedly it gives you push notifications when you get a notification on Facebook. I don't get any notifications...

At first I thought it was my phone, but then a friend of mine who has the exact same phone told me that he DOES get notifications. Hmmm, could it be because I rooted it? Facebook and/or Google, cut that shit out!!!

Another random pic:

How many customers do you think this attracts in one hour? My guess is -5

Redesign

This is just an entry to say I've redesigned my blog. I (as many developers) suck, SUCK, at design, so if you please won't laugh at my face when giving constructive criticism. This will not count towards my post for the day.

Now, enjoy the rest of your life :)

Playing in dangerous waters

You may remember that I once (or maybe more times) mentioned that I like to play with pre-final versions of software...


Well, today they released the Windows 8 Developer Preview...I'm downloading it, but I'm hesitant as to whether I should install it or not. One thing is to install an alpha version of Opera, or the Canary build of Chrome, if they don't work, I'll just uninstall them...


But Windows 8, now THAT's scary. I'll probably end up doing it, cause I'm too impulsive when it comes to these kind of things (and many other). I guess I just wrote this to psychologically prepare myself.

Just short of 5GB...and it's 80% complete as I write this.


I also finished reading "God, No!". Today I started reading "God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible" by CJ Werleman (another e-book Diego bought, I'm starting to dig this Diego-buying-me-reading situation we got going on here).

Offline...apparently

Google deleted my Talk contacts...WHAT...THE...FUCK!!!

Ok, I'm not really sure what happened, I can't blame Google just because, but I know I didn't do it, so the next logical entity to blame it on is Google.

I look at my contacts list, and I see 4 people...that's it. It seemed very strange that nobody was online, I always had at least like 8 contacts online (and lots offline). I tried searching for a contact (Mari in fact, cause she's the one who told me I'd been offline for a while, when she knows I'm online 24/7), and yup, she wasn't there. Am I going to have to re-invite people to Talk just to start seeing if they're online again?

NOT...COOL...

I'm too lazy to do it, I don't even remember most of my contacts email addresses...I'll add 2 or 3 people tops...but yeah, Google, if you're reading this, make it right!!!

And just to not leave the post pictureless:

$100 pesos coin...not very common (and not mine either)

Short one

I'm spending the night at my aunt Maribel's, so I'll just keep this one short haha

Socialize, sleep and socialize again

By the first socialize, I mean, hanging out on Google+ with Angélica and Chuy :).

When I got home from work, I couldn't help but fall asleep, I just didn't have the energy to stay awake. I was writing in my other blog, fell asleep, and when I woke up, the text I had written wasn't there anymore :S.

Then I hung out with my friends from school. But friends from 4 years ago, the ones I met when I was in my first semester. Since we all have different majors, I don't see them at school anymore (well, I only see one of them at school in my Sociology class, which is a hoot thanks to him). Played some pool :D. And had a great time overall, they bring out the crazy in me. I don't even have to drink to act all crazy and stupid...though maybe all the sugar from the Coke has something to do with it....

Now, I hope I don't fall asleep again...I can't really afford to miss work again, they'd probably fire me if I did...

(I'll update this post with pics tomorrow when my friend sends me the pics he took with his camera)

Tethering

I was messing around with my phone, tapping here and there, downloading this and that, messing up some stuff, you know, the usual. And I was near my laptop. I usually mess around with my phone when I'm not near a computer. So I came to a menu in my phone that says "Tethering and portable hotspots". I had seen it before, I knew I had to test it out someday...and that day was today. (Blogger is being difficult and won't let me put a link in a word...so I'll just link to the Tethering Wikipedia article in here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering)

I thought it was going to be a pain in the ass to set it up cause I've heard horror stories about it. But nope, it was painless. First I tried tethering, I just plugged my phone to my computer via USB, tapped on a checkbox in my phone that says "USB tethering" and that's it. I now was connected to the internet on my computer through my phone's 3G.

The Wi-Fi connection in my house is 'Valencia'. You can even see I'm connected through a wired connection in the icon.

 Next, creating a hotspot. Equally as easy. Just choose my connection name and password, tick the checkbox that says "Mobile AP", and boom! My phone is now a wireless hotspot (named Sergio). I connected my laptop and Diego's phone to it to test it out, and it worked perfectly :D.

Having two adjacent connections called "Sergio" and "Valencia" was totally coincidental :P

On a different note, apparently Facebook really misses Mari's alter ego Supermari... I couldn't tag her by typing her name, I had to actually write '@supermari' for Facebook to know who I was talking about haha.

Note: I, myself, don't even know why I didn't take shots with my laptop instead of taking the pics with my phone...I guess I forgot at the moment that the computer could do that...

My new game is...

...Dead Space 2.

A survival horror action/shooter game. Mari lent it to me over a week ago, but I just started playing it. I played the first one some months ago on PC, and I gotta say, my accuracy is way off with a controller. I played too many games in a row on my PC that I feel the need of a mouse and keyboard to aim and shoot, haha.

I spent waaaaaaay too much time editing this seemingly uninteresting video. For some reason Ubuntu always acts weird when I'm doing something late at night. And I don't even know if it has audio, haha.

I shot the video way too high, there's lots of black on the bottom of the video. I know it's not a professional video or anything, but still...

Am I an atheist?

Why, yes I am, thanks for asking :). Are you?

I started reading Penn Jillete's "God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales". Diego bought a digital copy from Amazon, installed the Kindle app on my phone just to test it out and left it logged in so I can read it whenever I want on my phone (not ideal, perhaps...but it's something).

It was actually convenient today at work, cause I was reformatting the computer I use at work, and while I was waiting for it to finish, I was reading the book :).

I also have 5 2x1 entrances for the movie theater that I have to use before October 20th...I just need to trick five people (or any combination of less people but 5 times) to go to the movies with me, I'll just tell 'em I'll buy the tickets, and just buy theirs and get mine free, hahaha, nah, not really...maybe :P

That little yellow triangle...

...you know, the one in the Windows' connection strength...

It's never good, seeing it is like finding out you poured cereal in a bowl only to find there's no milk in the fridge (weird analogy, and not a very good one, I'll admit it).

Except it's much worse...I can live without cereal...I can't live without internet...

Love & Hate

Sunday, the only day of the week I get to wake up as late as I want (well...except for yesterday when I fell asleep). The only day I practically have all for myself. When I usually go to the movies with my dad, or just chill at the house, play a video game, catch up on my feeds, stuff like that...

I like Sundays, they're relaxing, and they get my mind off of everything else (not that I'm stressed, or have problems in my life, but still, that feeling is nice).

Now, something I don't like: homework...

Not only do I not like it, I loathe it. I would be such a better student if I didn't have homework. I don't like feeling 'forced' to do something I don't want to, cause on the long run, if I didn't learn it voluntarily, I'm probably going to forget about it. I know, homework has its purpose, you can't really learn just by dedicating 4-5 hours a week to a subject...but this doing homework thing...I just don't have it in me...never have, probably never will.

I procrastinate hardcore when it comes to hw, and I usually get distracted learning other stuff, practicing other stuff, reading about other stuff (most of that 'stuff' is programming-related)...

...and what really sucks is having a shitload of homework, and having to do it (well, more like, pushing it back to) the day I usually use to relax :S

And Google couldn't find the people I've circled on Google+, haha:

Fell asleep...

...and didn't go to work :/...

My alarm rings for 10 straight minutes, if I don't turn it off, it won't go off again...and yup, for 10 whole minutes I didn't listen to it, haha.

I don't like to post about the same thing as Tenampa or Mari (in case whatever they post involves me too)...but I seriously couldn't think of anything else besides the darts, cause it was the most entertaining part of the day. I know there's nothing wrong with posting about the same thing, but I still don't like to do it :P.

Here are my two 27s :)

Here are a couple of videos, skip to 0:23 on the second one:

And a random pic of me on a scooter:

Near death experience

Not really, but when driving Tenampa to his house we came across a group of guys and what most likely was a dead man on the floor...

It was dark and I couldn't distinguish what it was until we were very close...and they all stared at us...it...was...scary as shit...

I imagined one of them pulling out a gun and point it at us...for one short moment I really thought that was the end...but I snapped out of it and turned to whichever street I could find...

Also, we went to play pool :)

Locked out

I still don't know why they did it, but from 6:00pm to 6:25pm the computer lab was locked...a bunch of people had class at 6. People just standing around, not knowing what's going on, waiting to enter:

I also found out that there are very little books about Web Development at my school:

"What about this Analytic Geometry book?" "Just put it with the JavaScript books, nobody will notice"

And that's why I have to learn by myself and not in school. I'm pretty sure they are dated too...and that's a big problem for a topic like Web Development. It's not like it's a Calculus book, or Chemistry...where a book published years ago will be just as useful as a book published today...but take JavaScript for example (since the majority of books in the pic are of JS), you'd have to get a new book like every two years, cause the language itself keeps changing and so do the web browsers. Some books may even have code that by today's standards are considered bad practices or even deprecated...and this is true for almost every current programming language there is.

Creepy room

The room next to mine gives me the creeps, I think the bogeyman lives there......:P

This pic doesn't seem frightening, but that's only cause I used a flash, it's usually pitch dark, and you can't walk at all, who's to say there's not a spider nest or somethins...

Plus, it's full of useless crap: empty drawers, an old as fuck computer, a box-spring, a very old mattress, lots and lots of boxes...there are a couple of Saint Seiya figures...but I think they're humanly impossible to reach...why must they be in the farthest corner???