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Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Nocturnal race

Beto and I participated in UNAM‘s nocturnal race. It consisted of a small 8 km circuit through Ciudad Universitaria.

I managed a good time of 39:56 and Beto got close behind me for about a minute. It rained on most part of the circuit and its end was kind of dramatical, since the finish line was inside of the university’s olympic stadium with all lights on. Very memorable.

I’m looking forward to next year’s edition

Friday, September 29th, 2006

First experiences

This evening I went to visit Caro & Gil. Since I had my hand immobilized for almost a month, I wasn’t able to hold my nephew since the day he was born, then came rehabilitation and weeks passed by without the chance to visit him.

Today I finally had the opportunity of doing it and -for the record- it was a short but intense experience: he puked most of his dinner (consisting of milk) all over me. It was definitely an unforgettable experience. Now I have my first story about you for sharing with you Santiago

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Sharma’s Arch project

I’ve just read that Chris Sharma sent another of his great projects. This time it was a deep-water-solo route in Mallorca, which he compared in difficulty with Realization (5.15a), another of his great projects from 2001. The details here.

Monday, September 25th, 2006

The State of the Onion 10

Welcome to the tenth State of the Perl Onion. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my methods, this is the annual speech wherein I ramble on about various things that are only marginally related to the state of Perl. I’ve gotten pretty good at rambling in my old age.

In the Scientific American that just came out, there’s an article on chess experts, written by an expert, on what makes experts so expert. This expert claims that you can become an expert in just about anything if you study it persistently for ten years or so. So, since this is my tenth State of the Onion, maybe I’m about to become an expert in giving strange talks. One can only hope (not)…

perl.com: The State of the Onion 10

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Revelation… revolution…

Another fscking awesome heavy metal night!

Beto, Octavio (with friends) & I went to see Slayer at Salón 21. There were no opening bands and the concert began at about 7:00 p.m. as scheduled.

The setlist was: South Of Heaven, Silent Scream, War Ensemble, Captor Of Sin, Necrophiliac, Spirit In Black, Born Of Fire, Cult, Disciple, Mandatory Suicide, Seasons In The Abyss, Chemical Warfare, Dead Skin Mask, Postmortem, Raining Blood, Hell Awaits, The Antichrist, Angel Of Death.

The concert was extremely good. We didn’t stop from jumping into the mosh pit, it was very intense. Just as in every Slayer concert that I’ve seen on video, the band went straight into their music, playing it with great fury. Definitely, this was one of the best heavy metal concerts that I’ve ever been!

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Genome annotation: good or bad?

Neil Saunders has another interesting post (graphics included) where he discusses about genome annotation and the responsibilities of those who do it. A must read!

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Devel::TraceUse committed

A few days ago, I sent the port for Devel::TraceUse. Today I received a notice that it was accepted and committed into the FreeBSD ports collection.

If you want to know what is it for, check out my FreeBSD ports page

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Back to Play Doh world

Physiotheraphy is getting interesting. Tonight, most of my exercises consisted of doing figures and flexions with all sorts of putty. I felt like if I was taken back to kindergarden…

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Genomes as geography?

Here’s an interesting paper on how 2 apparently distant disciplines can get together:

BMC Bioinformatics: Genomes as geography: using GIS technology to build interactive genome feature maps

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Physiotheraphy or torture?

This was my first day of rehabilitation. Even though the girl who will take care of me is a very nice person, when it comes to bending and stretching my articulations, she’s a merciless torturer. Ouch!