domingo, septiembre 26, 2004
Another boring post
sábado, septiembre 25, 2004
Awful day...
martes, septiembre 21, 2004
If I were God and could change things...
Haven't you ever wanted to change something in this world or something on yourself? What would you change if you where God?
You can listen to "Bloodhound Gang - Hell yeah" for some ideas.
If I were God, the first things i'd change would be me. I know i am too centered... I would like not to be. I keep trying to loose it a little cause I have had days in which I did not eat, doing something "important"... like reading reference book for some computer language. Physically, I would change my eyebrows, both of them are like forming a straight line. My eyelids suck, one of them is larger than the other; it makes my eye look small, so that would had been a must. When I used braces my inner lip got somehow dammaged... so, my upper lip got a pointy end; When I have a serious face, my mouth looks like a turtle's. My hair... what could I say about it... it's to rough, it does not allow me to handle it ok, can't even handle it good with special hairgel. Maybe my lack of sport liking comes from me having a almost plane feet, which makes me get tired more quickly; "Perfect" feet would't hurt.
Changing the world of today is impossible. I would have to be a strict God to be hable to punish bad actions... that would be impossible because I give in too easly :S. But i would surely change the way history evolved
What would had you changed?
jueves, septiembre 16, 2004
Money is not everything
Damn, how much I hate the phrase in the title, mostly because I know it is not true. MONEY IS EVERYTHING! With money you can buy yourself the things that you really like and the things that you really know will make you happy, if not, at least some temporary happiness. Without money… well, you suffer to hell because you can’t even buy a coke to your girlfriend. That is if you had enough money to buy a ticket for the city-bus to go to the other side of town to visit her.
Well, I feel awful. Yesterday my mom told me she couldn't support me with 100 pesos (less than 10 USD) a week. She said that since I started hanging out with Grissel I had been asking her for $400 pesos a month, not $200 that I used to for busses and whatever else I wanted or needed. This is so lame, I will have to visit her 1 day a week, not 2 as I had been doing lately. With $200 pesos you do practically nothing… subtracting $100 pesos on busses, that’s $50 pesos a week to spend on her. Gasoline, here in México, is too expensive; I can’t afford to fill the tank… I’ll have to wait till my mom sees I consumed it in school rides so she sees the need for me to half-fill it again.
Saturday or Monday? What's the best day to pay a visit to her? I'll have to choose one of both... stick to it and visit her on the morning and end the visit at the night. At least 8 hours to compensate the days that I don’t see her. No more going to the restaurants, movies, ice creams, malls, cheap places, etc, unless I starve to death at campus and save the rest of the money that is meant for food.
Social stereotypes suck. Most girls don't suffer this economic problem; their stuff gets paid by the man, in most of the cases. Most discos have this small cover fee for women (if any) and men's fee is skyrocketed. Nice restaurants deliver different set of menus; a normal menu with bloated prices, on things that women usually select, for the men and for the women a different set of menus without prices which feature all the expensive food.
I'm not against it... but... why should we men pay skyrocketed-bloated-prices just to have a nice evening with our girl?Whooha! Independence Day!
Dammit, I had written a large block of text about my thoughts on Independence day... the text was deleted somehow when I selected it to copy paste it with this picture... couldn't recover it. I won't write it again... it was too large and spontaneous. Bad luck for me... and you. Conforme yourself with this picture.
miércoles, septiembre 15, 2004
New Mail - GMail!
Gmail is awesome.
Thanks Callahan for inviting me to create a gmail.com email address, I had been wanting so much an email account from there.
Gmail offers 1000mb (practically 1gb) of email storage, 500 times more than hotmail and 50 times more than yahoo mail. It also has a conversation-based storage of emails, meaning that each reply counts as being from one conversations, so, its all stored in the same conversation; no more date-based storage. The interface is so easy to use, so friendly, nice looking, fast and simple that hotmail and yahoo look like both being deep in a big hole. There are shortcuts for each common action that you will do in gmail. If you have contacts in your address book, when you compose a message and start typing a name or email address gmail shows a tooltip text with autocomplete options based on the text that you have already writen.
There are several thing that I did not like about GMail. Its address book is one of them. In it you can't store an alias (nickname) for a contact, physical addresses, birthdates, phone numbers, cellphone numbers, category nor a picture for easy person recognition. I would have liked that the contact list (address book) would be outlook based. Gmail does not show how much space does an email occupies in your account, it only says how much space have you ocupied of your practically 1GB cuote.
It would be nice if I found a link to a 'suggest a feature' page.
Anyways, what do you expect from a beta test email webservice which offers 200x more storage than the world's leading email webservice?