Dragon*con 2009

Gambit and Rogue

Howdy geeks of the universe! I took some hot pictures from Dragon*con 2009, enjoy
Please help out to complete the names of the superheroes (or super villains)

How to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew (and how it may explode)

Continuing with the second video of Drivenet’s Quasi-Suspense series, we proudly present a thrilling video that shows how a bottle of wine may or may not explode while trying to open it without a corkscrew. Enjoy!

GT Buzz Icon Set for Mac

After frustrated attempts of finding a cool GT-Buzz Mac Icon on the web, I decided to make my own.

The following icons should be used for non-commercial personal purposes only.

Ever deaf, ever blind, forever numb…

Sick planet, sick humanity, stop!
the pleasant illusion, our consciousness rots
time repeats itself, in a fast spiral, downwards it goes

Jumping High – recurring dream

Caballitos de Totora. Huanchaco, Perú

Ever since I started skating, when I was an adolescent, I always had this dream that I could make the craziest tricks  when I would jump using my skates. It felt as if my jumps lasted so long that I would gain consciousness of those instants and would allow me enough freedom to move as I pleased. So being conscious of this ability, I jumped, spinned, did flips without the fear of falling in the ground and hurting myself. During the dreams I would perform several jumps consciously in locations that I frequent in the real world.

Now I am older and have stopped skating. But in one than more occasion I have had this dream where I can perform jumps similar to those I had during my skating days, this time, without my skates. One day I dreamed that I was in a highway, in a section that looks a lot like the section between Divisa and Penonome, with long straight roads dissected by rivers and with green trees on the sides of the road. This dream took place in a highway section nearby a river, and in the middle of the road, there were long vessels made out of woven straws,  just like the peruvian “caballitos de totora” except that these where really long and very flexible.  

Fix xterm launch from Terminal.app in Mac OS X 10.5 (display error solved!)

Ok, so recently I started playing with ported apps on Leopard using Fink and Macports. Specifically, I installed the ARB Package as indicated in http://greengenes.lbl.gov/mlds/.

In one of the steps of the painful procedure it is suggested that launching xterm from the Terminal.app should be enabled, so this is how I came across this techie challenge. After upgrading to the latest version of X11 from Quartz, and after installing Mac’s Xcode tools. I proceeded to launch the X11 Terminal window from the Terminal.app command line, by issuing the following command:

xterm

But I got the following error:

Raining in Paradize

One day in paradize

Around 5:30 a.m. we took off from Peter’s house towards the Panamanian Paradise called San Blas by the Spaniard, or Kuna Yala by their righteous indigenous owners. By car we left the city and we got to the protected indigenous territory, with the sun rising on our right side, and the marvelous hills covered by dense tropical forest. Sporadically tucan birds would fly on our side, accompanied by curious monkeys that would get their morning snack from the leafy trees.

Fields of Dreams 3 of 4 – Partying in Panama (2005)

So back in the day when we did not have the Little Pentagon (the new US American embassy in Panama) lying in our backyard, there was a spot were kids mainly from the former Canal Zone (Zonians) would have lots of fun parties. The following is the third out of four videos that documented our adventures. This one is on our way back, enjoy!

Note: for an amplified enjoyment of the video you might want to turn on the closed captions (CC button on the right bottom corner of the video screen)

Ostriches chasing humans in Panama! (or maybe not)

Beware, ostriches!!!! Here I give you another jewel from the past. Check out the wild life from Capira, Panama. Enjoy =)

Vida Salvaje en Panamá: Nativos panameños son perseguidos por avestruces (o tal vez no).
Wild Life in Panama: Native Panamanians being chased by ostriches! (or maybe not)

This is the first video on Drivenet’s Quasi-Suspense Series.

Ashes in the Fall

Yellow Fall

Well it seems that fall is almost gone, but I managed to enjoy it more this year. Yup all those gloomy thoughts of loosing the greenness of the Summer and Spring for the dreaded green-less winter were replaced by a new appreciation of the colorful fall.