Bateria, bateria...

Just arrived from Lisbon where I watched a band playing live. They played ok as they are still starting, but this isn't about that.

The groove from the drum player was enough for a guy spend half of his time at the cafe screaming "Bateria! Bateria!"... it was hilarious.

For those who can't speak portuguese, "bateria" means "drums". The drums and the bass were the grooviest instruments but I think their option of improvising in every tune (making each last almost 10 minutes) somewhat inneficient as it prooved to be cut the dynamic of the performance.

I left early but, when I got home some minutes after 3am, I could still hear the guy screaming.

Red ink

What does red ink mean ?
Desire, lust, passion or a sign of miseducation.

In fact, who cares ?

I remeber that when I was young (err... I'm still young), when I was about 6, teachers would strongly welcome us only to use the red pen to paint or to underline text.

Today, everything seems to be losing rules and, quite naturally, a multitude of colours entered the market color spectrum. Using all kinds of color on paper, in emails, you name it... it's a standard. But I'm sure there are those who are conservative enough to consider red a forbidden colour. When ink is concerned, of course.

INK + PAPER

I just rebembered the "ZX Spectrum" days.
Eight colours (foreground = INK; backgournd = PAPER) and one could only use two for each 8x8 square.

10 CLS
20 INK 3; PAPER 0
30 PRINT "Hello world!"



Those were the days !...

Time = ?

What is time ?

The scientific definition says "the second has been defined to be the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom".

Does that change, in any way, what you think time is?

It doesn't matter that much if you can explain things theoretically. It matters more what you do with it.

Especially time.

Again, monday is...

Monday is monday. Again.

The last week saw me running and (almost) flying to make ends meet. They haven't met yet, but we're almost there.

This week, the challenge is the same.