Midnight..

It´s midnight.., and I just decided to have a break from my studing session, it feels so quiet, plenty of silence... I like that..., the only sound that I can hear are the keystrokes of this computer..., nothing more nothing less...
I have to confess that I do feel tired these days.., soooo much to study.., soooo much to do.., I just want to finish this university and have a break for a while, enjoy the small things and don´t have to be in a rush all the time..I hate that.
I´d better get going back to studies...

Cursed or Blessed?

This is an open question that came to my mind while I was talking to a friend: Is knowledge a curse or a blessing?
From my point of view I can tell that it´s a blessing, even though it has of course it´s own disadvantages.., I´ve got into a looooot of problems because of "knowledge" but at the same time I´ve got a huge amount of opportunities because of it...., so the answer to my question is that it has as everything a BALANCE (Like I always say), and if you can´t keep that balance then get prepared because problems are going to be reaching you. One good balances one bad.., which is equal to 0 !! So 0 is the answer...., like everything.., just take a look at one of the smallest things on earth: An Atom.., which is composed of positive and negative charges always looking for a balance.., and if doesn´t get it, it becomes something else.....

Short but interesting.

Pico y Placa

I drove out of the university and saw a car standing by the side of the road,
I saw it´s plate and saw that it ended in 0, wich means that it had pico y placa
today, and the "azules" where putting an infraction on him.., and I thought for
myself.., poor lady.., and continued driving..., then I started to think and
realized that today (Wednesday) I have pico y placa, so I had 2 options..., the
first one was to stop, and the second one was to avoid the law and continue on
my way to my office that by the way was quite near... I decided to stop and parked
in an empty spot of a building.., and from there I saw the road that I was supoussed t
to take.., and guess what.., at the end of it were 2 "azules"..., which means
that if I didn´t stop like I did the the most probably thing is that I would
have gotten an infraction......

Hot Chocolate

I´m sitting in my farm..., in a pretty old desk, I think I was used by
my grandma when she was young.., so I can somehow imagine
how old it is..., while it´s raining. The roof
is made of wood, so you can feel every single drop of rain that fall´s over it.
I´m already writing my thesis..., silence is everywhere.., no linghts at all in
the surroundings....
The maid just brought me a cup full of empanadas a and hot chocolate, which is perfect
because I´m kind of freezing... I would rather definetively being by the chimenee but
the thing is that my family is there and there´s a lot of noise, so I won´t be able
to get concetrated.
It´s sad to not be able to be with them, sharing, laughing, and doing all of
the things that they´re doing right now.., because this doesn´t happen quite
often...., instead I need to write this Thesis to be able to get graduated..., which by now is
47 pages long already..., and I have to add to it a lot of things that I haven´t finished
figuring them out already.., so I would say that I´m on a 35% ~ 40% of progress..

In the other hand I was supoussed to start writing again my thesis today at 1:00PM, but after
seeing david´s bicicross competence at the columbus school and getting pretty wet
I was just so tired.., so I just falled asleep until 5:00PM.... I woke up and started
writing it again.. It´s 7:22PM and I think I´ll continue until late in the night.

After 3 hours of typing, I´m posting here again...., and now I´ve written 72 pages non-stop...., which
in my opinion is a good advance....

No time at all !

With no time at all, this last weeks and weekends have been somehow the worst..., not even being able to go out, to chill out or to do just and simple nothing because of the study. My thesis is taking almost all of my time if you take in mind that it consists only of the weekends and the nights after work, with análisis numérico final work that its supoussed to be a 3 persons job actually being done only by me, because the other 2 guys are like in the stratosphere or something like that..., and if you add to all of that the normal studen life quizes and partials then my time is more than full..., and sometimes I like that but after a while I get tired of it. This week I was sopussed to start again at the gym, but my hand wasn´t that good at all, and at the same time had plenty of school related things to do and I really miss it.., maninly because I breath a different kind of air there..., my body gets oxigenated which makes me feel ok even if I´m pretty stressed out..
There´s something that I haven´t posted here already, codenamed ITP, but I don´t want to get into details upon I have something more certain that what I have now....

My last post was "Maybe" and it was yesterday.., I really liked that song.., from stereophonics.., it has a "I don´t what in a I don´t know where", I guess that´s the reason I liked it sooo much.

Maybe..

Maybe one thing
Maybe something
Maybe nothing
All I know is friend
Its nothing new

Maybe its me
What is to be?
Maybe lucky
All I ask is where
Were sposed to be

I give a lot
I take a lot
Its nothing new to me

Maybe youve grown
Am I so wrong
How longs too long
All I want is us to be happy

Maybe moving
Always proving
Am I losing
All thats meant to be?
Thats meant to be?

Ya hear a lot
Ya told a lot
Its nothing new to me

Maybe laughing
Something lacking
Always sometimes
All I hear is how, its meant to be

Maybe learning
Always searching
Am I asking
Things Ill know too soon?
Ill know too soon

We talk a lot
Dont do a lot
Its nothing new to me

I give a lot
I take a lot

Its nothing new to me

Funny Picture..

When Heading to Carambolas Rosy took and modified this picture and putted on me a kind of "mask", it was pretty funny...., she called it "Batman"....
The one on my left is my uncle Diego with a kind of modification too on his forehead.

Book : )

In spanish its called "Un mundo feliz" but I searched for it on Amazon.com and found that the name is "Brave new world" written by Aldous Huxley.

Amazon.com
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "

I finish reading it yesterday, and it like it very much...., sometimes I even think that today society shall have some of the points he describes it in the book where the concept of "individual" doesn´t exist at all, but as I said "ONLY SOMETIMES!!!" because somehow that would create a kind of order, balance and equity in this unbalanced world.

We can see in nature, ants for example since the first moment they born they already have a place and a described function in their society, for example the workers ants are going to be workers for the rest of their lives until they die, you won´t never see a worker ant becoming a warrior, or become king or something like that.., that´s how they keep their balance, and we can see that panorama in other species..., but the problem comes when the species can think and when the species can make questions about his own life..., when it sees differences...

In the other hand, a question that just came to my mind.., what would happen if in Huxley´s society people ran out of "soma"?? if for any reason the natural resources used to make it just ran out ?? I guess they would figure something else out, but in the meantime their society would become a chaos !!! So, he´s world is not perfect at all for the simple reason that people is not happy, and that´s why they need to be taking that pills all the time..., so is it really worth it to have a balanced world if people is unhappy? Switzerland for example is somehow a "perfect" country full of beauty, full of nature and with no crime, no poverty, no hunger, no nothing !!! But is the country with the HIGHEST rate of suicide !!!!!
Latin America, one of the most poor continets in the world, acording to a research is where people lives more happier !!! and if we take a deep look we have a lot of poverty, crime, and I can continue listing things here... BUT that´s what makes the difference, that´s what makes that every day counts ! that every day is different and has its own flavor !! Maybe the feeling that we don´t know how tomorrow is going to be is what keep us like that..

I guess unbalance is the price that we have to pay for being happy......

Hangover..

Today I´m a little bit hangovered....
Yesterday was poveda´s birthday.., we went to "El Sombrero" in Envigado City..., we had a pretty cool time..., the thing is that I didn´t have dinner.., so at poveda´s house I had 3 tequillas and that was enough to get me drunk.., well not drunk exactly but a little bit.
I think that the last time that I drank was 1 or 2 months ago..., so much work, so much study..., so many things...

I´m trying to work in my thesis and at the same give poveda advice on his and honestly I can´t focus.., I hate when that happens.., I mean..., being hangovered is the worst.

Tonia drove my car yesterday.., I wasn´t that drunk to not being capable of driving..., but it was just as a precaution..., it´s just so good when you have somebody that takes care of the driving..

Today is Thursday and I´ve advanced so much my thesis..., I haven´t done anything except working on it........, I need a rest.

Quote of the day..

I read it today, and found it very true in my life:

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

Surgery on it´s way..

I can see it coming and I don´t want that day to arrive..

I have this terrible pain on my right hand again, the doc says it´s because of the highly use of the computer, so I´ll have to go and do some exams on it to see if it´s necesary or not.... It feels pretty weird actually, because it´s not pain, I mean, it´s pain but not that one that is really hard on you, this one feels quite extrange, it feels like if a beam of electricity went over it..

At the Gym it´s also becoming a problem..., because in some exercises I can feel that beam and I hate it... So I guess esteban that we will have to face that.., Surgery on it´s way !!

BTW, I think I know who would like to see that surgery on live! even though it´s not that complicated I guess...jajajajja

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

When Page_Load Does / Will Not Fire!
Visual Studio At It Again :-)
So I decided I didn't have any more gunpowder in my Page_Load - it wouldn't fire!! In having problems with my default.aspx page not running the Page_Load function I found out after watching the files that Visual Studio .NET was removing my code from the InitializeCompenent() function. I am not sure why but I simply replaced:

this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);

in the function and I was good to go. Of course this also can apply if a form doesn't seem to submit on your onClick code for a button isn't running (ASP.NET onClick code). If this is the case make sure it has a System.EventHandler in the InitializeComponent() function.

Perfume..

This was funny, today I was waiting for my 6AM teacher to arrive, so I was in the outter part of the building.., while I was there a lot of people came in (Naturally) and I don´t know what happened to my nose today .., but I started to smell pretty deep every single perfume of every single person that got into the building.. Some people use, others don´t.., but then came this woman.., she was a teacher I guess, she wasn´t the most pretiest woman or something, she was pretty tough..., however the thing is that her perfume almost killed me...., I mean, it was just sooooo good.., it was like the smell of something soft, definetivelly the smell was yellow, very natural by the way....., very pleasant and ethereal.. kind of sweet but I´m not so sure what´s a sour smell, so this point it´s a little bit senseless...., I almost asked her what was the name of it....., I was dying for it.... It was like a candy, like something sweet, that tastes good, that you want to keep tasting and tasting and tasting it..... I´m sure the name of that perfume was "New West", because I remember that when I was a child one of my mothers friend used to use that perfume, and every time I smelled her I told to my mom that I wanted her to buy it.., that smell definetively kills me......, I like it sooooo soooooo sooooo much.


Then another woman came in, this time the effect was completely different..., her perfume smelled pretty bad, like hell (Well, I haven´t been in hell so..), but it was like a very artificial smell, like something extrange, without essence, without that special thing........, like sour..., like somehting that you don´t want to get into your nose..., like something that you wish didn´t existed...

3 $200 coins !

In the last week I have found 3 $200 coins in different locations of the city, one I found it in the street near my office, another one in the Gym, and the other one in mmmmmm........, can´t remember right now..but that´s definetively a lot of coincidence......, ...., why ?
Got it, i also found the other coin at the Gym too..

Maybe a magical number ?? Let´s try some combinations: 3200, 600, 2300, 5 (+ of all the numbers), 3020, 2030, 2003, 3002..., does any one of this numbers means anything to me?? Kind of cryptic though..

Paintball....

After playing more that 30 times, I had an accident.., I wasn´t hurted at all, but a friend did.... He was trying to clean his mask inside the field..., and while he was doing it a ball hitted it and one of the parts of the paintball hitted him in his eye, causing some damage on the cornea and a some other in the Retina.., the docs said that he´s not loosing his eye.., however he had today at 2:00PM an eye surgery.., I´m gonna call him later on to see how everything went....





After that incident we continued playing and had plenty of fun...

Esteban el mago..

Last weekend I went to a very poor zone of the city, this time to teach the children how to take care of their body, my part was about how to take care of their lungs..., so I did a pretty cool experiment that I did learn at the science fair a couple of years ago.., it was about showing them what happened when a person smoked a cigarrete..., so I did it using a Coca Cola Bottle, full of cotton, and in the top of it one cigarette attached, so when I pressed the bottle it throwed out air, and after that sucking a lot of it, making of course the same process that somebody smoking does. After some cigarettes the cotton started to turn yellow, thing that impressed sooo much not even the kinds but the older people that were there...





This activity was organized by "El CES", a very important university in Medellín.

+/-

I took all of these pictures last weekend in a Neighborhood called Carambolas,

located in a very poor zone of the city.
I´ve never seen before anybody so happy because he or she is going to be
photographed !! This kids enjoyed every single part of the process..., I wish
sometimes I could do the same.....



I feel a lot of sorry for them, they are children with no oportunities at all even
if there´s some people that say that they have plenty of them, a lot of missing
things on their lifes like LOVE, sometimes their parents can´t pay enough atention
to them because of the long hours that they have to work just to earn a minimum
salary (today is the day where I can´t already understand how can anybody live with
that amount of money.... and in most of the cases more than 4 people live with this
amount for 1 month), maybe they can´t eat three times or as many as we want each
day, childrens that in a lot of situations have to work just to get a little bit of
money to buy the food of the day, money that for example we spend in expensive
clothing, party, travelling, cocktails, cafés, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera....

The only conclusion that I can get here is that life is not fair.., what I mean
is.., what makes me different.., what did I do, or what did they do, or who choose
why I´m where I am, and why one of those kids is where he is ? I mean, why amn´t I
in their position and they in mine? Or why aren´t we in the same situation?? It´s
just not fair...

Why everything needs to have two sides instead of only one???....for example black
or white, love or hate, happines or sadness, hot or cold, poor or rich, low or high,
vanilla or chocholate, friendly or unfriendly, ally or enemy, live or die, give or
take, construct or destruct, breathe or not breathe, ying or yang, kill or born,
down or up, left or right, good or wrong, hell and heaven, angel or deamon, proton
or electron, known or unknow....., why aren´t we in the same position ?? in the same
situation? In the same side? In the same edge? That would avoid a lot of conflicts
and wars.... The only answer that I find for this is that we need the balance to
LIVE, YESSSS !!! but at the same time a balance that is killing us !

Some people say that freedom is the ability to choose, yes I agree with that, but at
the same time I think that the ability to choose is somehow a curse in a world where
things are NOT well balanced, like ours.... I know that choosing makes the
difference, for good or bad..., but just take a look at it from this point of view..
How diferent the world would be if we wouldn´t need to make any choice at all in
our lifes..., for the simple reason that the "choice as choice" didn´t exist at all!
No choices !! which means..., a simpler life.., somehow untasty..., but without all
the sad things that we see today...., everybody on the same situation, a kind of
global comunism, but without a top, without a government, without a board, without
rich people, without poor people.... But I guess that in this "perfect" situation I
would also find people trying to take advantage of others, trying to get more from
the others..., which if he look in the long term will get as a result the same
situation that we have today...... So then I guess that the problem is not the
balance, it´s the human kind itself...

Lizard

I was walking with a friend towards the office, I was looking the floor and I saw this small Lizard in the sidewalk, so I tried to put it aside with a my hand and I realized that it had a hand that couldn´t move.. So I took it with my hand and putted it in a safe place.....


Photographer: Camilo Duque.

Today I came by the same sidewalk and realized that it wasn´t where I left it yesterday, so I guess it got better and moved away...

While I was taking the Lizard camilo took this picture.

Sunday Morning...

This is one of those days where I´m not in a hurry..., where I can prepare my breakfast slowly, enjoying every part of the cooking process which today consisted of:
-Eggs with tomato,onions and cheese.
-Pancakes with butter and honey.
-Banana Milkshake.

Im seriously thinking on creating a time window called "Esteban´s Time" where I´m going to be unplugged from the world, I´ll turn off my mobile phone, no fixed phone, no internet...., no interruptions, no nothing.., just time for me, to think, to read, to do things that I enjoy and I like. It will be probably one hour or so....., the thing is that these days I´m doing something the hole time, no spare time at all, and that´s something that I really need.

This week seems to be a little bit more pacefully, I only have one task to give on friday which is cool, but in the other side of the coin, I have to continue working on my thesis, working on Analisis Numerico´s final project, and a bunch of other things that I don´t know where am I going to get the time to doing them...

That´s all for now..

Hope..

According to people this is the last thing that you should let go.., but for now I just decided in this exact moment that I´m letting it go......., it´s sad to accept that but not everything is the way we want...

Old !!

I was suppoused to do this post months ago.., in fact I did it but without the right pictures !
I just got them yesterday from a friend that I almost had to beg him in order to get a copy of´em, thanks for that Poveda.., you just better go an do Kung-Fu !!
This trip was in "El Peñol", a dam that is huge and wonderfull. It produces a lot of energy and years ago was a good place to go fishing, today you can catch some (Very small by the way) but not like in the old days where you could easy catch 40 or 50 in one day of a very good size.



The weather was just sooo cool, and we had a pretty good party over the deck until pretty late in the night..., one of this guys released the cable from where it was tied to (In the earth), so the people who were above it went very far away from the border (Including me), after 30 mins poveda and I realized that it was going to be a problem to get the deckback to the border if we didn´t realize something..., having in mind that the boat wasn´t repaired yet because the engine was kind of "dusty" we jumped into the water and started pulling and pulling the deck, finally after swimming 30 minutes we arrove to the border with the deck full of people (It was almost dark).
The next day couldn´t manage to fix the boat at all so we lose a huge amount of fun however that didn´t stopped us from having a good time !

BTW, I got caught in another picture sleeping..., didn´t find it so I didn´t published it here... Why am I getting caught in the pics sleeping so much ????

New Pets !!

There´s a new pet in the family, well, actually there are 2..., the first one is "Beto" a new dog (Beagle), is being shown on the picture below.., it´s just so cool that dog..., if he´s not playing all the time he´s just sleeping....., and he has this sharpy teeth that when he bites you it hurts very much.... Anyway the dog is so lovely..., everybody wants to play with him, touch him..., small dogs are just to love them.



He´s living in the farm.

In the other hand there´s "Crypto", my new fish.., it´s a Beta. The story of this fish is quite particular.., somehow I gave it as a present to a certain somebody, and then I have to take it back..., because that certain somebody wasn´t taking enough care of it.. Now it´s living in my room, near my bed...., so I feel some kind of special company each night...
I´ll post a picture of him soon.., the thing is that I´m never early at home, so taking a picture at night it´s kind of complicated.., however I promess that I will take one this weekend and post it here...

That´s all for now.

Girl or Boy.., what would you rather?

I was talking to a girl-friend today and I asked her the next question:
-What do you feel when you like very much a boy, and you want him to kiss you soo badly?
So she gave me her answer, and after that I told her what a boy feels when he wants to kiss a girl... In the end both answers converged to the same point.., however, the final question here was:
What´s worst? Being that girl wanting to be kissed?? or being that boy trying to figure out if he will or not kiss the girl (Maybe because he´s afraid of doing it)????

Also, take in mind that this question came under a conservative idea.

Napster..

Today I went to 6AM class.., the teacher never arrove (it was 6:20AM by that time), so I continued reading my book "El hombre que calculaba" which is pretty awesome and I highly recomend it ! It´s about the story of a guy who solves a huge amount of problems using only mathemathics, I wish I had read this book before starting mathemathics at school.., it makes you love them ! it´s incredible.
So as I was saying.., I started to read the book for aproximately 45 mins, after that I was very sleepy, so I went to my car and took a 1:15 nap !! then when I woke up I was late 20 mins for my next class, but it wasn´t the big deal. Now I´m just here at the office, got the notice that I got switched AGAIN of project, am I a Fireman or what ??? I definetively hate that and that is boring me so much at this work....

Regarding the title of this post, believeme, when you feel tired and sleepy, just take a small nap and you´ll wake up like having new alkaline batteries!

No title..

That´s the status of my mind right now.., I´m just soooo tired..., this week I was with a kind of cold.., I´m not so sure if I´m going to get sick or not, however I felt it. I was seelpy all the time.., sneezing..., headache..., and the common symptoms of one on those.
It´s 9PM and I don´t know if I´m going to go out or not..., I would like just to make something different, but at the same time I´m just so tired that I think that if I just step out of this door I´m going to fall asleep wherever I go...
This weekend is going to be long because monday is holiday, the bad thing of it is that I have a big exam on tuesday (Análisis Numérico) so I guess my weekend is going to be all but fun...., so when I´m not at work during the weekends I have to study.., it´s not fair..., I need some time to chill....., but as always.., it will come when the time is right...

By the window..

It´s 05:17PM, and I´m in front of my window, studying for a quizz of "Análisis Numérico" which I don´t understand even a bit... until now that things are starting to make sense.
It´s raining and I like that..., it feels very cozy, the perfect ambient for me to study, or to read a book or to watch a good movie. Talking of books I just finished "El perfume" today.., it was a pretty good book, didn´t like the end too much though..

Test...

Jajaja, I just did this test on the web (www.bbspot.com) and those were my results:


Which File Extension are You?



Which OS are You?

Caught asleep..

I was reviewing some pictures from "la caja del amor" and I found this one.., can´t remember (Obviously) who took the pictures because I was asleep..., anyway it was funnny though.

Lost !

Funny, that´s the way to describe it...
It happens that I arrove today to the university sooooo sleepy at 6AM..... It was 9:10AM and I realized that I had forgotten something on my car, so I went to the parking lot (The university has two, one in the opposite side of the other one..) and searched and searched and searched for my car...., I searched for about 10 minutes without success..., so I started to go back in time and realized that it was in the other parking lot.., so I did the traveling between them and finally found it... It was just funny to see how sleepy I was this morning...

Wishing you were here...

This is the lyric of a song that I like very much, from pink floyd..., guess why I´m putting it here !!!

Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange
a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground. What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.

Lucid Dream..

I don´t know if I hate "real dreams" or if I don´t, yesterday was sunday...., I was veryyyy tired, after working the hole weekend..., one week after another, I couldn´t be in a better shape though..., so I just had this "real" dream....., everything was just sooo real...., I tried to wake up from it but I couldn´t, so I tought: Ok, this has to be real....., it felt just so good..., then I woke up and realized that it was a dream, and that it was as real as my reality..., only that it didn´t happened on it.., what if dreams are real lifes in another frecuencies?? or parallel lifes that we just hop on them when we fall asleep ?? It´s just so incredible to think that my brain is capable of reproducing sounds, images, voices, sounds, characters, stories while I´m asleep.... How cool would it be if there were a machine where you could record your own dreams ?? What if my life is and endless dream ?? How can you tell the difference between a real dream and the real reality ? I mean, there´s no way to do it until you wake up..., and what if you wake up from this dream when you die ?? I don´t know.., those are just broken ideas that are flying by me head right now....... what if...what if....what if.....
The funny thing is that right now I´m eating a mango..., so I eat a piece of it, and my mouth send the signals to my brain telling it that it tastes yummy....., so I enjoy it and continue eating.., one piece after another.... The same thing happens on a dream.., only electrical charges that make me beleive that what I´m doing is "real", but here I come again.., what´s the definition of "real" ?? What about "electric impulses" ????
I know.., that would sound pretty sad and empty, because life is more than that...., but then.., what´s that "more than that" ?????
Suddenly this movie "Vanilla sky" comes to my mind..., and what if there´s a way to create a "lucid dream" where you can be that person that you always wanted to be ? The point is, what difference would it make to live in a dream that you don´t know it´s a dream, and a "real life" that you don´t know what it is ?

BTW, I couldn´t wake up this morning for 6AM class...

Capuccino over me...

After having lunch we went to the Tiger Market in the Esso Gas Station and happens that I was talking to a friend from work, he was holding an empty cup of capuccino, we were laughing at something, so he moved very fast the cup and it was holding a small drops of coffee already, so guess where did they crash ?? On me !!!
And that´s not the end of story..., while we were drinking the coffees at the store I started to play with the smal stick that they give you to spin the sugar !! Spin spin sugar !!! Spin Spin sugar !!! So ok, I was playing with it, spining the sugar, and happens that I did spill my yummy capuccino over the hole table..., and I just have tasted it a couple of times..., the lady from the counter saw my sad accident and gave me a new one.. Of course that all the people that were with me were joking and laughing..., anyway it was fun though.

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers.

This is a paper that I wrote today for an Asignature, I found it soo important that I wanted it to remain forever.


1.A project manager should visit everyone who is building anything for his project at least once, should know all the managers on his project (both government and contractor), and know the integration team members. People like to know that the project manager is interested in their work and the best proof is for the manager to visit them and see first hand what they are doing.

2.Don't get too egotistical so that you can't change your position, especially if your personnel tell you that you are wrong. You should cultivate an attitude on the project where your personnel know they can tell you of wrong decisions.

3.A manager who is his own systems engineer or financial manager is one who will probably try to do open heart surgery on himself.

4.The seeds of problems are laid down early. Initial planning is the most vital part of a project. The review of most failed projects or project problems indicate the disasters were well planned to happen from the start.

5.Cooperative efforts require good communications and early warning systems. A project manager should try to keep his partners aware of what is going on and should be the one who tells them first of any rumor or actual changes in plan. The partners should be consulted before things are put in final form, even if they only have a small piece of the action. A project manager who blindsides his partners will be treated in kind and will be considered a person of no integrity.

6.You cannot watch everything. What you can watch is the people. They have to know you will not accept a poor job.

7.If you have someone who doesn't look, ask, and analyze; ask them to transfer.

8.People who monitor work and don't help get it done never seem to know exactly what is going on (being involved is the key to excellence).

9.There is no greater motivation than giving a good person his piece of the puzzle to control, but a pat on the back or an award helps.

10.Hide nothing from the reviewers. Their reputation and yours is on the line. Expose all the warts and pimples. Don't offer excuses—just state facts.

11.Documentation does not take the place of knowledge. There is a great difference in what is supposed to be, what is thought to have happened, and reality. Documents are normally a static picture in time that get outdated rapidly.

12.Being friendly with a contractor is fine—being a friend of a contractor is dangerous to your objectivity.

13.There is only one solution to a weak project manager in industry—get rid of him fast. The main job of a project manager in industry is to keep the customer happy. Make sure the one working with you knows that it is not flattery but on-schedule, on-cost, and a good product that makes you happy.

14.Remember the boss has the right to make decisions. Even if you think they are wrong, tell the boss what you think but if he still wants it done his way; do it his way and do your best to make sure the outcome is successful.

15.Never ask management to make a decision that you can make. Assume you have the authority to make decisions unless you know there is a document that states unequivocally that you can't.

16.Most of yesteryear's projects overran because of poor estimates and not because of mistakes. Getting better estimates will not lower costs but will improve NASA's business reputation. Actually, there is a high probability that getting better estimates will increase costs and assure a higher profit to industry unless the fee is reduced to reflect lower risk on the part of industry. A better reputation is necessary in the present environment.

17.All problems are solvable in time, so make sure you have enough schedule contingency—if you don't, the next project manager that takes your place will.

18.Wrong decisions made early can be recovered from. Right decisions made late cannot correct them.

19.Never assume someone knows something or has done something unless you have asked them; even the obvious is overlooked or ignored on occasion, especially in a high stress activity.

20.Never make excuses; instead, present plans of actions to be taken.



All of these ideas were extracted from the following link:

http://www.altisinc.com/Links/100_Rules.html#ProjectMgr

are you asking me that if I´m used to that ?

Then my answer would be a BIG and HUGE YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS, I don´t know if I should laugh at myself or what but this is just incredible...., or is it coincidence??
Anyway.......

The sweet is not as sweet without the sour...

Some people says than when you get something throughout a lot of work you enjoy it much more than if you get it in an easy way...

So far I´ve been realizing that if I want something, and I get that something pretty easy I don´t enjoy it, or well, maybe I enjoy it for a while but it doesn´t last long..., to make my idea more clearer I´m going to use an example... Imagine that you´re playing a computer game, you´re in a level where you have to rescue the kidnaped princes (The usual game, huh?) by a very very evil character.... So you try and you try and you try and nothing, you´re not able to rescue her, you always get defeated by the evil guy........, you try for days until you manage to rescue her.... the result of it is that you enjoy it soooo much, you tell to all your friends, you tell them how you did it and how you learned to defeat the bad guy, so it creates a discussion and then you get calls from your friends asking you how you did it and soo and soo on........, the thing is that you went throughout a lot of stuff to learn how to defeat it.
Now let´s see the other face of the coin... You type a cheat code on the game and suddenly you defeat the bad guy and rescue the prince in a matter of seconds... The result? The game makes no sense now (At least for me)....., so my conclusion is that when things are easy they´re not as interesting as when they´re challenging........, I always want new challenges..., and that´s something that from one perspective it´s ok, but from another it isn´t...... The point that I want to make here is when is it going to end? When my life ends? When I get where I want to get ? I know that this last one is not the answer... ,because there´s always going to be another challenge..., and as human been happiness is only a uthopy, is something that doesn´t exist at all, or at least something that is continues..., what I mean is that you can reach it just for moments...., then it´s gone...., then it appears again..., it´s like a kind of balance.., just imagine you being happy all the time..., you won´t be able to realize what happiness is then because you haven´t tasted the sour and the ugly...., don´t having as a result a point of comparison. Then I realize that the sweet is not as sweet without the sour......., and if you taste the sweet for a long time eventualy you get tired of it so you´ll want to get some sour.., the same happens in the opposite direction.., so in order to keep things working a balance must exists..., and that´s what life is about.

Sad....

It´s 6:02AM, I´m sitting on my car waiting for the traffic light to change....., usually in this place there´s a guy who sell candys, cigarretes and some groceries for living, I thing he got to the city because of the violence, sometimes he asks for money while he´s holding a piece of paper which says he´s story and why he needs money......
Well, so I looked to my right and saw this guy, 6:02AM in the morning, and I ask myself, what is he doing here at this time..., and at what time did he have to wake up to arrive here, because I´m pretty sure that he lives in the other side of the city...
He´s just sitting on a small box, looking to the infitie while he enjoys a cigarrete...., he´s wearing the same clothes as he wear almost every day...., I feel sad for him...., and at the same time I find myself useless at least for him at the moment..., I can give him some money, but it will only fix some of his problems for the day.., it won´t be a permanent solution..., and that´s the sad part of the story.., I mean, he can feed his family for one day, maybe for a couple of days, but what about the rest of the week? the rest of the month? the rest of the year?
Thousands of people are in the same situation right now..., and somehow I just feel useless because regargind that I´m doing something for it it´s not enough....., and it´s not fair that while most of us are having a good time, eating well or maybe at least having something to eat, going out and spending money on drinks, money that for this people will last for one week or two and not only for one person but for a few of them...., again that´s not fair. Sometimes I just feel so bad when I go out and at the end of the night when I pay the bill I realize that with this money a family that right now doesn´t have anything to eat could be eating maybe for a week..., again, that it´s not fair... I just feel bad about it...

Like a Kid..

I open the door of my car get inside it and close the door, start the engine and put first gear..., slowly the car starts to move ,then I switch to second gear, I open my window..., and get my hand outside of it putting it against the air that´s coming from the distance..., my hand starts to fly but not enough.., so I decide to step a little bit more on the gas, reaching third gear...., now my hand has enough sustentation to fly by itselt.., I can move it, but I have to do it quitely, otherwise it will move quite fast...., I decide to put more speed, so I step on the gas and swith to 4th gear, a little bit more and suddenly I´m in the 5th gear, my hand now is really flying like a wing..., I can feel the air underneath it pulling it towards the sky....., I move it a little bit to the left and it responses inmediatly moving towars the left..., then to the right and it does the same......., it feels so goooood, it´s like flying.... I slowly start to move my fingers pointing the sky and my hand starts to gain altitude.., it´s so funny...., then I realize that I have to point my fingers down so I can have control of it..., my hand starts to descend.., slowly...slowly......., slowly enough so I can enjoy it......... Suddenly I realize that I have to turn right so I slow down, get my hand inside the window and the trip it´s over..... at least for now..

-Esteban

One shot, one kill !

Yesterday went to play paintball in "Paintball Authority" with the usual folks. Julian and Tafur, two folks from the university also went with me, we had an amazing time there, I have definetively improved my playing skills, I killed so much people yesterday....,, the game was packed with full of action, full of paint of course, full of friendship which was pretty cool, and the best of all full of exercise.
In the last round I got shot in my abdomen, in the only part where I wasn´t protected, so today I have a pretty nice purple thing where the paintball did hit me.

From today one week reamin to start the university again, I want to start but at the same time I don´t want to..., I want this semester to go as slow as possible...., reasons ?? there are sooooo much....

Later.

Vacations...

This small vacations that I had this week were awesome.. Spent some time in my farm, in a very very cold weather, stayed there for 7 days, and after that I went to a farm nearby "Puente Iglesias" with some friends, we had a pretty cool time there..., I also got my first tattoo..jjjajaa, anyway it´s not a true one, it was made with hena (I don´t know if that´s the way it´s supoused to be writen...) by a friend who paints very well, here are some pics of she doing :




Here´s another one:



I´m just soooo tired that I´m not going to write anymore about it today, but instead, I´ll do it tomorrow.

cya

Christmas with my family again !!

After 2 years without expending the christmas with my family I was able to do it again ! It was pretty cool ! I enjoyed it so much........
We spent the 24 at my farm, just imagine this: The whole of your family in the same place, a cold night, a chimney and the house full of christmas decoration everywhere... In the photo the christmas tree is not being displayed, however it was pretty nice.
The food was awesome, but as I said before, being together again was the best.
There´s one dog in the picture, did you find it already ? jajaja, because I was just writing this and saw him !


Merry Christmas for everybody !!

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein.

Today I was "Stumbling" some pages, and found this one full of Albert Einstein Quotes, here are some of the ones that I liked most:

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

; )

Energy Level: Pretty low..

After going to carambolas, I always end up feeling completely drained of energy.
Carambolas is a very very poor neighborhood where we are working with a program called "La Caja del Amor", basically what we do is that we collect boxes full of groceries, toys, clothes, and food and give them to the people who live there... Yesterday was the big day, after a couple of months gathering boxes we gave them away. It was so nice to see that people very very happy receiving their box, and giving as many "thank´s" as they could to everybody!

Playing with the kids there was also awesome..., spent some money buying ice creams for them..., they were very happy because of that !!

As I was saying at the begining, I just feel like if I gave all of my energy away to those people and those kids, that´s why I feel completely depleted of it.....

I just feel so lucky to be who I´m, to have a family, to have a house, a car, an education, food for every day that I open my eyes, but at the same time I feel bad for them. I think and I think and I can´t find not even one logic reason of why I have what I have and those kind´s and those people don´t have anything ! It´s something that´s not fair ! So my question is WHY ! just why ! and again, can´t find not even one reason....

To finish this post..., it´s great the feeling after helping them, even though if there´s no energy to enjoy it.

No Distorsion was a complete KAOS !!

Jajajaja, this was very coool !!!
Played paintball on wednesday with my folks against the No Distorsion and KAOS miniteca, it was just a mess, I mean, no distorsion ended like a complete KAOS !! we just painted them so much that at the end they looked like painters !!!
I was out of the paintball wars since 1 month and a half, so I tought that I was going to be eliminated pretty easy..., well, I was wrong on that, I didn´t receive not even one shot...., awesome!
I just got a cold on wednesday also after playing, I have no idea why..., at the office some people has it, and we´re with AC the hole day, so all the we´re breathing the same air !! that definetively sucks, because if somebody has something, it´s almost granted that another somebody is going to get it... TOO BAD!!

Today is the christmas party here at DDB, I´m not sure if I´m going or not to stay..., honestly just want to rest...

Yesterday saw "War of 2 worlds" directed by Steven Spilberg (not so sure about how to write his lastname), I liked that movie very much..., specially the end...., what killed the aliens...., the bacteria that causes the common cold to humans.... The message was pretty clear.
What I liked most, is that in the movie they don´t talk about the ideology of the aliens, only the consequences of it which in this case is translated into the extermination of the human kind.

A crow left to murder...

It´s sad..., but that´s what I´m seeing......, you´ll fall eventually.

Perfection..

For me that´s something that doesn´t exist and won´t never exist, anyway sometimes I think it does..., extrange though...., howeverI wish it could exist !!!!!
Finally that gray cloud that was over my head is going far far away, hope to not have to see it again soon.., however I learned some tecniques to make it go away faster....
This weekend I´m going to the end of the world, or at least that´s how I call that place..., I´ll post some pic´s next week !

Cya..

Broken...

It´s funny, but it happens that I bought a swiss swatch watch (it has rythm) last year, 6 months later the belt that holds it got broken, by that time I was already in Colombia..., so I went to an authorized swatch dealer, they told me that what happened to my belt was a factory issue, however they won´t replace the belt, instead they could give me a 105 disscount, yeah sure..., I´ll buy it and then come back again in 6 months and do the same over and over !! no thanks I said !
I asked then for a stainless steel belt, they didn´t have it by that moment, so they told me that they would arrive in a week, one week later nothing, one month later nothing, two months later and nothing..., six months later and nothing !! one year and finally it´s here..., funny though that I bought a watch, used it for 6 months, then wasn´t able to use it for a year and now I have to pay 30% of the watch price for the belt ! That´s not aceptable I said, plus that I´ll send a letter to the company...., it´s not the big deal..., but companies should have a little bit of respect for their customers !!! My watch was being drepeciated and I wasn´t even using it !! jajajaja, I just wanted to use the word "depreciated"..., anyway that´s funny, happens all the time everywhere......

Stuff...

Today I received an email from the NYU (New York University), sweet..., the deadline to apply is the 8th of Jan, I´m not so sure already about what am I going to do, I´ll have to think about it..., I´ll have to think about a lot of stuff before making that decision, but I have one fact, and is that I need to do it.
Today I started the Gym, it was not bad for the first day, I ran 1,4KM in 30 mins.., did a lot of other things and somehow my mind got some fresh air. Met with a friend from archery there, long time without seeing her..
Also received my new Matriz and Home Theather today, I´m just so happy to be able to sleep in a hugeeeeeeeeee bed..., and also watch movies with full sound effect !! Groovy !!!
At work, I can´t complain, now I´m a software arquitect, which means muchhhhhhh more responsability, but I like it !!!

Confidence..

I just checked my university extranet, and as expected I won all the asignatures.., maybe sometimes I´m a little bit confident, but for me confidence is everything....... Today I feel kind of extrange, no stress at work, no stress at university..., so somehow is like a boring day for me, anyway I´ve been reading some documents for my last asignature called Geopolitics, which is a speech, so I don´t think I´ll have any kind of problems with it....
Can´t wait to get my new HT.

An Inconsistency of my coherent inconsistences.

What´s the definition for happiness ??? Some people say that happiness is when you have everything, then when you have everything you realize that it doesn´t make you happy, others say that you find happiness in love, and then when you are in love you also realize that you´re not happy, others say that when you have your family you´re happy, and it´s like a endless chain of things that should make you happy but that in the end that´s not and that won´t never make you happy because happiness is something that doesn´t exist, is an utophy, something like perfection which in case you didn´t know also doens´t exist...... Life is so complicated..., sometimes I just imagine what life used to be centuries ago....., living just like another animal.., and advanced one though but keeping things simple....... Technology is a bless in a lot of fields yes..., I´m very deep in it also..., but somehow it makes life soooo much more complicated.., so much more globalized.., sooooo much faster......, it´s like a wave that somehow it´s going to end in something that nobody expects... I saw this movie animatrix.., and I think that that´s exactly the way how the world is going to end..., or maybe not end..., but how it´s going to be in the future..

There are days like today for me where I question myself about everything..., and honestly I like that in a way but not in another one...., it´s weird...., that´s what I call an "inconsitency of my coherent inconsistences"..

I´ll better go to sleep.....

Drinking some Grog !

Grog was a beverage that dates from a lot of centuries ago..., and was often drank by the pirates...., it was of a green color, I´m not that sure if it was glowing or not, however those who know tell that it used to taste as hell.....



Well, yesterday I was drinking grog.., jajjaja, well, actually it wasn´t grog, it was only beer but I wanted to call it today "grog"...... I was there with juanma and sebastian ochoa, a friend that´s doing a traineesheep in the US (miami to be more precise), it was such a good time with them...., we drank 2 "yardas" ??? I don´t know the correct name for that, but just imagine a huge glass, very thin, but very tall, like 1,5 mts........, anyway, we drank 2 of those together and at the end we were somehow a little bit drank thanks to that.. We spoke about everything..., and when I say everything is everything........
Good times to remember......

I was going 2005...but...

Well, yesterday I was installing Vs.net 2005, I was just so excited, BUT happens that the beta version that I did install was expired already, so my boss told me today that he´s going to bring me the Beta 2, which should be ok until jan 16 when I will get a full copy of vs.net 2005 with our MSDN subscription..., groovy !!

Today came to my mind the idea of get into the gym again.., I´m just feeling soooo rusty..., and I can´t let that happen..., so probably I´ll start next week, not so sure of it already but it´s something that my body is asking me for..

New OS is like a new life...., well, those who are involved deeply with computers know what I mean........., it´s like starting again from zero ! no errors, no problems at all, but they should be arriving soon...., you know.., the usual trash...

My thesis is doing OK, I need to focus on it during this long weekend....., so this won´t be a FWS weekend (Those letters stand´s for Free-Work-Styudy).

01:29AM on Saturday Night..

Well it´s 01:29AM and I´m here at the office, just finished ALCOA, gave it to Bruce and now packing to go home..., it´s soooo late!!!!! yoohoooo !!!! Sooo much work, so much effort, but at the end it feels great...

I´m definetively going to rest..........



-bye bye

Almost in the other side..

Today I received my last grade for Economics Enginnering which I thought was going to be very very bad...., well, I guess I was wrong, I got a 4,6 which puts me somehow on the other side.
I feel much more relaxed now to face the final exams.....

On saturday went to a party near by Girardota in a farm.., the place was very cool, the funny thing is that 2 years ago I was spending a weekend in that farm with my parents ( we did rent it) and I said: It will be so cool to have a party here. The DJ was in the middle of the pool, the sound and lights were awesome, my friend Richie played there and was amazing..., the bad things were the Dj´s that followed him, because the music lost a lot of rythm and from my point of view did throw the party to the floor.. taking live again with another DJ at 5AM (I was sleeping in my car by that time) so overall I can say that the place was very cool but the party wasn´t.

Sitting on my desk..

Well, today I was supoused to upload Alcoa to the NYC servers by 5:00PM, the thing is that the international channel I guess was very crawded so the upload was taking years to get done..., and I had 5:00 PM class at the university (Metodos 2)..., so I decided to let my local server doing the job for me.., slow but doing it....., I went to class......

It´s now 10:00PM and I just checked the Alcoa server and only a part of it was there...., who knows what happened..., anyway it´s not the big deal.., it´s a 156MB file..., and using a T1 connection that´s not a problem.., so well, now I´m sitting on my desk at home doing the upload which is going quite fast.., then I need to uncompress the file and install it.., sounds easy, huh ?

Vpn´s are just and simple a great invention....., right now I can say that I have a hugeeeee bridge of lan´s connected between them while I work throughout VPN´s........., that´s amazing.., work locally from the distance.

Well, what else can I say...... Oh, now I remembered that I was going to post some NYC pictures.., so I´m just going to download them from my digi and post´em here.



This is a "casual" picture.., it´s just so funny. Esteban appears looking like in a casual picture, the thing is that is not casual at all, he´s simulating it to look like it is casual.., so funny.., with the liberty statue in the distance...., and holding a delicious capuchino.....

Groovy, now the file is up, so I better start deploying it !

After All....

Well, after a lot of hard work, long nights, some partying and some turism I came back from NYC to Colombia..... I´m just amazed of this city..., the world converges and diverges to and from there, that´s where the real business are, where stuff happens........, where decisions are made, where things definetively happens..

Working there was amazing, very intelligent and hard working people where each of them has it´s very own style, all of them were very friendly and helpfull, and the best things it that the work atmosphere was gorgeous, this because each part of the team had a lot of knowledge on the area where he or she was.
I won´t never forget this equation that I read on wired magazine:

Best Technology + Best Conditions + Best People = Best Results.


And that´s what I found there......., that´s why I want to be there, and I will be there.

It was just so cool to play some xbox if you just got tired of coding or something else, get relaxed and then start again.....

I want to put some pictures here, I didn´t take so much thuogh, sadly I haven´t downloaded them from my Digi, and the thing is that I always put here that I will post them later and I never do, will I do it this time ??? Wont I ??? Hell no !!! I have to !!!!

That was for work...
For party, went with Pica, Brendan and Andrea to Crobar, Ferry Corsten was there, and it was amazing...., one of the things that I always enjoy and try to do is when I go to another country do some partying in local disco´s, and NY was not the exception..... Stayed there until morning, so wasted next day but it was worth it..., people there was very friendly...., overall the partying experience was exceptional.

For Tourism,
Went to Ground Zero and I was so fucking impressed with that "HOLE", each time that I was seeing arround I couldn´t avoid to imagine what people could felt being there, how many people died there, how many people lost their loved ones...., It´s a huge hole in the middle of buildings..., I felt a freezing silence there.., it´s a scary view.

Well, that´s all for now..., have to get back to work and I hope to post pic´s this time...

Sitting in the airport..

Well, right now I´m just sitting here in the JoseMa Airport at Rionegro waiting to catch my flight to NYC at 6:00PM.
The hotel is already booked, it´ll be "Jazz on the Park", which is very close to central park. Llet´s see ow it looks like..
Estimated arrival time is 12:00AM. Lot´s of people here waiting in this room..., and while I see them I ask myself what´s the purpose of their travel, what are they going to do, who are they going to see, will they be happy to leave the country ? Will they be sad ? Will they be running away ? Are they going to see they beloved ones ? Business ??
The plane is being filled up with lot´s of baggage, it´s just so incredible that these machines can fly with all of this weight..., I think that this is one thing that always will be amazing me forever....
We just bought a present for the guy that we´re going to meet (Bruce), it´s not the big deal, but we bought him a nice mug plus some "Chocolatinas JET".

That´s all for now...., anyway I´ll be posting later..

NYC..

Well, everything worked out the way I wanted and tomorrow I´ll be traveling to NYC for business, staying there for 8 days..., awesome !! Pica is going with me, I´m sure we´ll have a very good time there, get to know important people and so on..., I´m very excited with this trip and have a lot of expectatives !
I´m just to sleepy to post anything else right now, so I´ll better go to sleep.

To my beloved audience...

I do care about my audience.., so if you use the transitive law of mathematics you will realize that I do care about you my dear reader....., so I want to say tanks to you and all of you who are constantly reading my blog, somehow that´s the reason of it´s existence.

Sometimes I can´t post that often.., which doesn´t mean that I don´t want to, it´s because sometimes I´m that bussy that I don´t have enough time.., I always have tried to at least post daily, but the reality is different., I was posting once a week..., but now my goal is to continue posting daily and in the worst case escenario twice a week.

And to finish this post, here are the statistics of visitors from all around the world and their respective collaboration to the trafic of this blog:

	Country	#´r of visits	Percentage
1.	Colombia	896	44.5 %
2.	Estados Unidos	372	18.5 %
3.	Alemania	214	10.6 %
4.	Perú	90	4.5 %
5.	Ecuador	88	4.4 %
6.	Chile	85	4.2 %
7.	Argentina	48	2.4 %
8.	Uruguay	48	2.4 %
9.	Reino Unido	25	1.2 %
10.	Francia	14	0.7 %

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if it didn´t work, try again and again and again... until..

Well, finally after spending 3 hourse here on a saturday night, I managed to put to work the "E-payments" module that I´m going to use for my thesis.... I was given this tutorial on how to configure this thing, but they specified everything but one very important thing.., the impersonation in asp.net. Now it´s working flawlessly with the test account that I was given.. I can´t wait to get my merchant id and start selling on the web.., that´s gonna be awesome !!!

Chop - Chop !!

Finally the weekend comes...

Well, finally the weekend..
YEsterday party at work beacause of the "Amor y Amistad" day..., did had a good time..., and something very funny did hapen to me.., I'll post the pic´s later on....., it was just sooooo funny, because usually I go to work and I bring my own lunch in a Bob Sponja "Lonchera" (Don´t know the word in english for it, but in case that you don´t know what a lonchera is, it is the case where the kids bring lunch everyday to school)..., so yesterday I went to buy some energetic´s drinks at 3:30 with pica because we were sooo tired.., when I arrove I didn´t see my Lonchera, and somebody told me that nacho took it.., so I went to his office and took his mobile as a hostage (He didn´t realize that I took it until very late)..., a couple of minutes later an email was sent to all the company saying that my lonchera was kidnaped, of course, the idea of this email was to shown to everybody on the company that I was carrying a kid´s lonchera everyday..., that was funny tough.. Later on, at 11:30 on the middle of the party my lonchera appeared, so a lot of people was laughing at me..., however it was funny.

That´s all for know.., right now I'm going to watch a movie and eat pop-corns with my mom.

1:11AM

Just arrived from work...
This last two weeks have been full of work and long nights, somehow this project where I´m working on, became like a challenge for me, in fact it is a challenge and I´m going to beat it at 101%.
Not much has happened these days...., at university I´m doing alright.., haven´t lost any exam already, hope not to anyway....

Well, I just wanted to post something here..., I´ve been hyper mega bussy so please dear blog, understand me...., you know I love you..

Ok, time to go to bed...

-Esteban

Time has passed..

Well, a lot of time has passed since my last post.
I received my passport 2 days ago, now with a brand new multiple B1/B2 entrey visa for USA., cool.

University it´s ok, studying quite a bit, la caja del amor is also ok, I bought the domain on tuesday (www.lacajadelamor.com), also got response from Todo 1 to put their virtual pay button, so everything these days is on track.., some problems at home I hope we can fix that as soon as possible.

Yesterday I received 10,000 paintballs, I started selling them today and I´ve sold 3,500 already, in case your´re interested the price is $70 each.
I also was looking for machinery to produce this things, but it looks sooo expensive (US 100,000 aproximately).., anyway i´ll continue searching..

Yesterday met with a girl from Minessota called Angela, she´s a friend of a friend that´s living in Bogota who´s moving soon to Medellin. We went for a beer and after that directly home, I was sooo tired.

My trip to NYC hasn´t been scheduled already...., first we need to finish this project, but I think that it will be between the 20th of sept and the 30 of it.
I think I´ll write an email to my friend Brendan to see if he´s going to be there or not.. Hey Buddy, if you´re reading this.., did you manage to get the position in London?.

Well Well, have to get back to my stuff, I´ll be posting often..

-Esteban

Good News from the Capital (Bogota)...

Well, finally I got my USA visa...., now the trip that was a little bit cloudly to NY is getting clearer and clearer, which is very good because first of all I have always wanted to get to know NYC, second that it opens for me a lot of new oportunities.., which is very very good.

Today I was very scared at that embassy....
To begin the story, I left home at 4:30 AM and headed to the airport, got there at 5:20 AM, my fligh was with Aerorepublica at 6:20AM, it was just on time.., so I arrove here at bogota at 7:00 AM, took a taxi and arrove to the embassy at 7:30..., since then I was there, doing just and simply nothing except thinking: Am I going to get the visa ? Am I not ? Finally at 4:00 PM I had the interview which in a beginning was schduled to 11:00 AM.
It´s sad to see a lot of people crying, making their dreams go away because of a simple visa..., because they didn´t get it. I think that I would have felt very very sad right now if I didn´t that visa...., however the destiny was good with me this time, not like 4 years ago when they said "I´m sorry sir, but I cannot give you a visa today..."
In the other hand, I was very positive that I was going to get it, my passport was full of visas and stamps from the last year of my trip to Europe.., I think that helped me a lot.

Well, right now I´m on the "Diners Club VIP Waiting Room" at the "El Dorado" airport writing this while I wait for my flight at 5:50 PM which initially was scheduled for 8:20 PM, but I did manage to change it.

I need to get home ASAP because I need to continue studying for Economics Enginnering first parcial exam tomorrow.., I´m not that bad at it.., but I need to study !!

Well, that´s all for now.....

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Future is uncertain these days..

Well, since last week I haven´t stop for a rest, too much study, too much work.., too much of everything, but I hope to take a breath this weekend.
There´s a trip that maybe.., but that maybe seems to be very small now...., there´s a kind of cloud over it that each day that passes becomes more foggy making the trip less possible each time.

Yesterday was funny, here at the office, there´s a publicity agency doing an advertisement work for a newspaper called "El Colombiano", so one of the guys called me and asked me to take one picture kissing a girl, well not exactly kissing.., the idea was to make it look like if we were going to kiss but we didn´t.., it was funny though.

Esteban !! You were in danger and you didn´t know !!

Well, today as I wrote before, I had a task, and it was to get my car to the garage to get a breaks inspection because it had a very particular sound....
I woke up at 10:30 stayed in bed until 12:00 doing a lot of sort of things in my computer, and finally when I was ready I call to the garage and it was closed..., so I came home, and called to "Metrofrenos" that is a very good place, it was open, so I went there, and they told me that I had th replace the discs, and other very important pieces that were just toooo wasted..., the guy told me that it wasn´t that safe to have that pieces in that way... Finally they replace all the pieces and my breaking system was like new again...., I can feel the diference...

It was weird.., and the bill was huge.. arrghhhhhh

Virtual Past??

Maybe the term is a little bit crazy..., but I found that very intersting... Today I´m let´s say incorporating all my old information (PST´s, email´s, files, history´s, etc..) since the year 2000 into my new computer..., somehow I feel identified by all of that..., I mean.., I did all of that.., I wrote all of that., for example I found emails that I exchanged with people that I don´t even remeber, other that I don´t want to remember, other´s that make my life happy, and other´s that I´ve been in touch with for hundreds of years... It´s just so crazy to see all of that...., "My Virtual Past"...
I think that in the last years I´ve done so much, but when I start to see all of this past informatoin I remember much more and realize even more all the things that I´ve donde since 2000, the most incredible thing is that almost all of that is inside my head, maybe not in an active way, but yes in a pasive one...., the mysterious thing here is that I can remeber every single line that I wrote..., and when I do, I remember much more things like sounds, smells, images associated to that situation.....
I´m just amazed with this computer, right now it´s sitting on my legs, and when I move it has a move detector, so it inactivates the hard disk to protect it from scratch or something like that..., the same thing happens if my computer falls from my hands..., it inactivates the hard drive to protect it from data loss..

Well, breakfast time.., so I´ll be back later.., so much things to do....

Tasks for this weekend..

Well, at the beginning of the week I thought that this weekend was going to be just of rest, but I was wrong, I have quite a bit of things to do, among them:
1. Write my thesis project.
2. Study for Economics Engineering Quizz.
3. Study for Cuantitative Methods 2 first parcial exam.
4. Tune up B-software webpage.
5. Configure my new laptop IBM Thinkpad T43.
6. Take my car for a revision in the front left brake.
7. Read a book for Geopolitics.
8. Clean up my Dell Inspiron 6000.

Well, I think that´s all for now......, be posting more in case that I have more to do´s.

Drained out..

It´s thursday and I would like it to be friday ! I´m just so tired this week, so much things to do, so much things to be prepared, so much stress, so much of everything except rest....

For this weekend I have some things to study, have one parcial exam and one quizz, the parcial is for Metodos Cuantitativos 2, and the quizz is for Economics Engineering..., let´s see what happens.

In the other hand I´m kind of white mind today.., so I won´t write too much, however, I guess that I´ll post something more interesting later..

Google, google google, now in IM.

I downloaded this morning Google Talk, I´m very impressed because now Google is present in a huge range of products, ranging from the search engine, google earth, email, IM, plus that is developing an Operative System and a Browser..., I think that Microsoft needs to re-think their business model, because Google now is taking the world and everything for free !!! That´s just incredible !! I won´t mind if in one year my computer runs on 100% freee software (sponsored by google) and each time that I do something see some kind of small advertisement., thats the price for that but I think that it will be a win win situation, plus that it will help you on your daily work specially if you work a lot with search engines.

This morning I had 6:00AM class, so I woke up at 5:00AM, the thing is that I was that sleepy that I just stayed for a couple of minutes more, and when I woke up it was 5:36AM, obviously I was late for class.., not the big deal however..

Today I have an appointmen with the head of my career in the university, and I´m going to expose him a project that I want to develop as my thesis, I have a good feeling about it, however, I´ll put more details if this think works.

Well, that´s it for now...........

BTW, I´m in the paintball fields again...

Sleeping is definetively a waste of time...

Ok, 6 hours is enough......., no more no less...
Today I decided to come earlier than normal to my office (6AM to be more precise), the reason is because at this time in the morning everything is quiet..., I can be more productive.., but well, to be honest those are only excuses, the main reason is that my day becomes longer..., longer in terms of what I can do in one unit of time, in other words what I can do in one day.
There´s only one difficult thing, and is when at 5:00AM in the morning my mobile wakes me up to say: "Hey Esteban, time to wake up !!", in those minutes the only thing that I want to do is stay in my "nice and warm" bed...., but after I beat that feeling..., then everything is Ok.

Changing of topic, my mother gave me a very cool ultra small umbrella, I didn´t use it until yesterday!! God it was raining !!!!!! It was very helpfull, and at the same time very handy ! Thanks mom !!!
The Enginnering day was yesterday, so here at the office the "Zape Pelele" drew a comic of each one of us, it was soo funny, actually I look very similar in real life..., if I have the chance I´ll scan it and after that post it here.

What else can I say...., I guess that´s all for now....

Started working on a new Project..

Well, yesterday I started working on an application for a charity foundation called "La caja del amor", what this foundation does is basically help people in very poor zones of the city, they achieve this selling boxes called "la caja del amor" for a small amount of money, each box comes empty, and then after you buy it the idea is that you will put on it as much things as you want, for example grocery things, coats, toys, etc, the idea is to give this boxes to the poor people on christmas with the objective of giving them a happy christmas eve !!, I have so much things to do there regarding to the IT part..., and I´m 100% sure that with my help this foundation is going to boost so much..., they are planning to sell 3,000 boxes this year, but my objective is to make that number double, I mean 6,000 boxes.., how ? Well, what I´m planning to do is to create a virtual box with the name "La caja virtual del amor" or something like that.., the idea is that you can go to the foundation website, configure the box in the way you want or you can, and after that pay for it in this case via Bancolombia or Conavi..., it would save so much time, and at the same time it can be forwarded to more and more people very very easily.., like the way you forward nice and funny emails.
I´m sure that the divine power will be with me on this one....., it´s for a very very good cause, and I hope that you, the reader will buy at least one after the system is running, I´ll post some pictures here about what I´m talking about..., when I saw those pictures I was soo sad...., because you can see that these people doesn´t have anything at all, and we have everything...., those people get happy with a bag of rice, do we get happy with that ???

Might God be with you..

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I got sick last friday.., actually I got a cold.., almost everybody in the office has one.., so I guess it was very difficult for me to not get one.., friday was not that bad, but on saturday I was very ill, being sick is the worst thing..., but at the same time makes you realize that when you're healthy you don't apreciate it.., so then you have to be sick to be able to.
Have a lot of things to do on this week, being bussy is good, because I can use almost all of my time in a very profitable way..
Well, I guess that's all for now.., my energy is kind of low plus that I'm tired right now, so I won't write that much.., anyway I dont have to much things to write these days..., actually I'm in the middle of a lot of things that may happen soon, but I rather not to post nothing until the alignment is ok.
I have been thinking quite a bit about my future, my plans.., and I now that I'm in the correct path, but at the same time I also know that I need to do some tuning and change some things that need to be fixed.

Tomorrow I'll be able to sleep a little bit more than usual because I have "pico y placa", which means that I can't take out my car before 8:30 AM, so I'll start working at 9:00AM.

Time for me to go to sleep.

I don´t have a title for this post..

Well, as I said before, I don´t have a title for this post, usually I do, but today is definetively the exception.
This week has been full of work and study, today is finally friday, but the thing is that I have a class from 5PM until 9PM, and tomorrow I´ve a class from 8AM until 1PM, that´s great, isn´t it ? It means that today I can´t do much if I want to be able to go to class tomorrow, the good thing is that this asignature will end in 2 weeks !! I know that this schedule is very thight and difficult, but it was for only 1 month.., so it´s not the big deal at all. I´ll be with only 3 asignatures in 2 weeks then..., which is good, because this semester I don´t have that much time to study.
Yesterday I went to a charity dinner in "Caná de Galilea" which is a very fancy place in my city, the funny thing is that I went for dinner and I didn´t get one, in fact all the people who were siting at my table didn´t have dinner at all, why ? Because so many people went there that they ran out of meals very fast..., so what we got as dinner was the introductory dish twice and the dessert, no main dish at all, however it was ok, it was for a good cause.

With my drug prescription everything has been ok for the last 2 weeks that I´ve been taking it, I can get concentrated pretty easily, work without getting that tired at all, sleepy sensation is gone, getting as a conclusion that I wish I had gone to the NeuroDoc before... My performance has increased soooooooooo much...., soooo much that sometimes I can´t beleive it.

For this weekend I´ve no plans at all, maybe tomorrow I´ll go to my farm, cuz there´s going to be a "paella" there.., so that´s a posibility, I also have to study for a economics enginneering test next week, read some books for another asignatures, so I don´t think that I´ll do too much. I´m gonna try to play some paintball on sunday, haven´t played in 2 weeks..., I´ve a shape to take care off...jajajaja, anyway..., yesterday I took a haircut..., it´s just so incredible the price of a haircut here, I remember that the last year in CH going for one was an Impossible because of the price (60 CHF, which is in Colombian pesos $120.000), and here is just $7.000 Colombian pesos........ It´s just s incredible.

Well, I think that´s all for now....., I´ll be posting if anything new comes up..

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Update...Update..Update...

Well, last friday we went to the airport to pick up "Poveda", jajajja, well, the thing is that when we got there I saw that a lot of people were waiting for other people holding small pieces of paper with the name that they were waiting for writen on it..., so I did the same.., and because the paper wasn´t big enough I wrote "Andy Poveda"...., when he saw it that was funny...
After picking him up we headed down again to Medellin, and meanwhile we were drinking Aguardiente in the car, not a very good safety driving practice.., however I wasn´t driving..
Poveda wanted to give the sourprise of his arrival to his family and his girlfriend se we helped him on that.., so the first thing that we did was to pick up my car because we were 4, then headed to Poveda´s girlfriend.., she was very excited when she saw her....., I really like that kind of sourprises.., you know.., I like them that much that I did the same with my parents when I got back from Europe. After picking her up we went to Juana´s house (another friend) and stayed there for 1/2 hour maybe..., and then to Poveda´s house.., some friends came by..., and after 1 hour his parent´s arrove.., they were very sourprised...., that was nice.
I left his house at 12:00 because I had to wake up early the next day (saturday) for "Mercadeo" class..., so that´s the end of that story.
Next day (saturday) after class I went to the "Cabalgata", for those who don´t recognize the word is somethign very typical from here from Medellin, is a day where a main road is closed and lot´s of people riding horses goes throughout it..., so there´s people everywhere..., drunk people, young people.., you can find everything !! I stayed there maybe until 5:00PM, after that I was very tired..., so I gave a lift to Poveda and his girlfriend to Andy´s place..., and after that I went to naty´s house....., the rest is history until the next day.., I was soooooooo tired.
On sunday did some studying, went also to the supermarket..., not big deal..., talk also to an old friend, Brendan from NYC and well..., that was all.
Today I had 6 AM class, it wasn´t that difficult to wake up..., and in the lunch brake the company gave us our new Id´s with a yummy lunch..., I think that I drink too much wine.., because I was like in the Nebulosa here in the rest of the afternoon, even though I managed to get concentrated after a couple of coffee´s...
My boss is leaving the company, she gave us the sad notice today..., I only had the chance to work with her for 2 months and it was a very good experience...., I´m gonna miss her so much..
Well, now it´s almost 5:30 PM, so I´ll be heading home...

An interesting definition that I found for Ritalin on the web...

".....ADD patients compare Ritalin to putting a new antenna on a radio: It eliminates the constant static, distraction, and interference commonly picked up by an ADD brain......"

Well, I have to wake up very early tomorrow for 6 AM class...., so I shall go to sleep, but before i'll wirte a few lines...
Today I took 30 MG of the drug..., didn't have any sleep desire in all the day.., I was focused on everything I did, I found a little bit of difficult to drive my car at night...., maybe it was because I was very tired..., and the best of all is that I was very calm...., took my time to do everything...., no hurries at all..

zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Small Symptoms Update...

Feeling a little bit Dizzy...., but in a good way..... It´s kind of funny.., I think this thing is working.., because normally when I go to the bathroom and both are occupied I can´t stand to wait for it, so I get back to my workstation and then after a couple of minutes I try again.., today both bathrooms where both occupied, and I just stayed and waited for one to bee free....., small things but important ones...

Symptoms ??

Right now reporting ritalin effects:
Well, I can´t say tooooo much..., actually I´ve felt that my concentration has increased when I´m doing something, when I´m talking to somebody I really get inside the conversation..., not like before that I did´t get inside at all...., I retain more words from something that I read couple of seconds ago..., I´m less acelerated.., I thing that I went from 8,000 RPM to 4,000 RPM..., well, it´s just an example......, however this things take time, but so far no complications, no headache, no stomach pain..., sometimes I feel like a empty sensation on my stomach..., no sleep sensation at all......
I´m taking my time to do everything...., however one day is not enough to write more words here...., anyway I´ll be posting if something comes out..

My horoscope today is sooooo true !

"Today you could feel unusually close to your family, Esteban Ochoa. The energies of the day will inspire you to have fun and intimacy with your loved ones. Sometimes you are a bit shy and closed off to people. But today you'll feel much more relaxed. It's nice to just be yourself and to know that your loved ones value you for who you are. You don't need to perform or pretend. Just allow the real you to come out!"

My zodiac sign is Cancer..., and this was extracted from msn daily horoscope...

My horoscope today is sooooo true !

"Today you could feel unusually close to your family, Esteban Ochoa. The energies of the day will inspire you to have fun and intimacy with your loved ones. Sometimes you are a bit shy and closed off to people. But today you'll feel much more relaxed. It's nice to just be yourself and to know that your loved ones value you for who you are. You don't need to perform or pretend. Just allow the real you to come out!"

My zodiac sign is Cancer..., and this was extracted from msn daily horoscope...

Fixing the small things...

Well, I haven´t posted that much lately..., been kind of bussy with the university, the work, everything..., don´t have too much time to spend doing nothing like I used to, well, I won´t call it "doing nothing" because actually I used to use that time to read, to study, so I think it´s better to call it "free time". So, as a conclusion I don´t have too much free time these days.., but I like it.., I feel that I´m taking advantage of my time and doing a huge of productive things....

Yesterday I went to the Doc, well, not exactly a common doctor, but one that is speciallized in the brain..., the reason why I went is because I´m just so tired of doing everything fast, of being like a motor when is over revolutions I mean over acelerated to do everything, to study, to read, to play, to go out, EVERYTHING!!!!!!!...., that´s how my life is..., and I definetively don´t like it at all...., and I need to change that.... Well, so I went there, we talk for one hour, did some tests..., and finally the doc said that my problem was a mix of hyperactivity with a bit of attention disorder..., nothing to get worried about.., but it can be solved..., so he prescribed me a 20mg - 30mg daily dose or ritalin...

I took my first one today at 7:45 AM, they say that it takes from 30 minutes to 45 to feel the effects.., well now is 9:13 AM and I´m just so relaxed...., like if the time were not passing at all...., will this be the fix to my speed problem ?? I hope it will........ I´ll be posting during the days any other symptoms that I may feel......

Right now I´ll finish reading email (I have 8) and after that continue with work...

Somebody did fart !!

We almost got killed here at the office.., somebody farted soooo strong that we all left the office, I guess that my eyes got red !! That reminds me of poveda in schweiz !!!! jajajajajajajjajaja

Tooooooooooooo Tired today...

Yesterday after work I went for a little bit of jogging, and after that I headed to the paintball field with a friend just to look somebody to play with.., we started to play with a group of 10 guys..., and kicked them ass, I got shooted only one in my arm, even though the ball didn´t explode.., and I almost forgot, I got another shoot in my neck.., thanks god I was wearing my neck protector...
After we finished playing with these guys we played with another guys..., I didn´t like them a lot, but we did... Can you beleive that I got another shot in the right side of my neck form a distance of 2 meters from a team mate ???
Well...., that was it..

Now, I´m just sitting in my computer, waiting for a meeting to start.., and soooooo tired of yesterday, adding that today I had a 6:00AM class.., a killer one.

My schedule this semester is not that bad...

Mondays and Wednesdays: 6-8 AM Ingenieria Economica.
Mondays and Wednesdays: 12-2 PM Geopolitica.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 5-7 PM Metodos Cuantitativos 2.
Friday: 5 - 9 PM Mercadeo.
Saturday: 8 - 12 Mercadeo.

Working un sunday.....

Well, there´s nothing free on this life.., so right now I´m paying what I took 1 week ago...., that week that I used to go to the coast... (more pictures will come soon..).
The office is almost empty..., I´m developing a Virtual Catalog for the "X" company (You´ve got to understand that this informatin is confidential.....jajaja, I always wanted to say that...), and at the same time I´m performing an evaluation to a guy called "Sergio" that want to get inside the company, so let´s call this his "Admision Test".., well, we´ve have had a couple of problems with that because the computer where his working right now has rebooted itself several times.., which is pretty bad because the guy lost some of his work.
I'm a little bit stucked right now in my work because the specification that I have to perform some task are not clear enough.., that sucks.., and I don´t want to guess the way it should be. So I´ll do some other tasks that I´ve.
Finally I replaced my pair of oakleys.., I took them as my birthday present, I´m so happy with them.
I didn´t know that Jennifer Love Hewitt used to sing, well, right now I´m listening a couple of her songs.., right now playing: "Avenue of the stars"..jajajaj, from the "Barenaked" album, and I´ve to admit that it´s not bad at all.., actually she has a nice voice..
Well, have to get back to work..

Nice Sunset..

This is a picture from a sunset that I took in Balsillas (Caribean Coast) last week.



The only thing that comes to my mind whenever I see this picture is tranquility...

Un escrito que encontré del autor de "Pedro Responde.."

Bueno, hay veces que me cansó de escribir en ingles, asi que mis amigos extranjeros, esta vez se quedarán con las ganas de saber que dice aquí a no ser que aprendan español o encuentren a alguien que les traduzca....

Para los que no sabe, "Pedro Responde" es un programita que supuestamente cuando se ejecuta se conecta con el alma de "Pedro" o sea un espiritu. Uno le empieza entonces a preguntar cuanta guevonada se le ocurre y el le responde todo tal cual es, fué demasiado charro porque el dia que lo vi por primera vez yo pensaba para mi: "Que es esta maricada tan rara..., como funciona?". Yo le dije al pelao que lo estaba manejando que le preguntara por favor que de que color eran mis zapatos, y efectivamente respondió "cafes", le dije que le preguntara que de que color era mi camisa y me dijo "De cuadros de tal y tal color..", yo no lo podia creer...., y a parte de eso luego me dijo que tenia un retenedor en la boca..jajajjaja, eso si fue la tapa..., de cualquier manera yo no creia en eso...... Luego de estar ahi un rato el pelao que lo estaba manejando me explico como funcionaba.., bastante simple por cierto..., y era basicamente de la siguiente manera:
Supongamos que yo le pregunto a pedro: "Que dia es hoy?"
La persona que esta manejando el programa el dia o sea "martes", pero sucede que lo que escribe no se muestra en la pantalla, pero para dar el despiste el programa escribe unas letras que dicen algo como: "Pedro por favor responder:" En este instante entonces la persona escribe la pregunta "Que dia es hoy" y a continuación presiona la tecla "Enter" y por arte de magia pedro responde "Martes" Y woww, alguien queda descrestado, es muy fino.

Si quieren experimentar con el programa y asustar a uno que otro amigo lo pueden bajar de aquí: www.pedroresponde.com.ar

El escrito que encontre del autor fue el siguiente, y lo extraje de la pagina: www.lacoctelera.com, aquí va:

".........Soy el autor del programa Pedro Responde y cada cierto tiempo utilizo varios buscadores para encontrar por dónde anda.

De esta forma he llegado a tu Blog, y quería dejar mi comentario:

El objetivo de mi programa consiste en demostrar que, a veces, ante misterios que no nos podemos explicar (en este caso que Pedro responda) llegamos a creer en cosas que no son.

Muchas veces, trucos similares son utilizados por tarotistas, adivinos, etc. que se aprovechan de quienes, en su buena fe, creen en ellos y les dejan grandes ganancias. Este inofensivo programa sólo es para demostrar que siempre hay una explicación para todo.

Para crear Pedro Responde me basé en un programa similar llamado Wizard , que utilizaba como alma el nombre de Liza . Este programa era para DOS y no funcionaba en Windows, y por eso muchas personas no lo usaban.

Mi trabajo fue crear un programa más fácil de usar, con un entorno un poco mejor, y además incorporarle un módulo de respuestas automáticas ; por eso Pedro puede responder algunas de las preguntas más frecuentes cuando quien lo usa no conoce el truco, o por lo menos intenta evadirlas de la mejor manera posible. Así nace Pedro Responde , publicado en Internet inicialmente en la versión 1.3 y luego en la 2.0.

Realmente no me sorprenden las historias que contás, ya que a diario me llegan consultas e historias increibles desde varios países (en especial Colombia).

Sin embargo creo que es más fácil caer en la trampa del truco de lo que uno se imagina.

Lo que no puedo entender es cómo hay periodistas que opinan públicamente sobre mi sistema sin haber investigado lo suficiente (creyendo aún que es un alma).

Es muy fácil llegar a la verdad, mi sitio Web está posicionado primero al buscar "Pedro Responde" en varios buscadores, y mi dirección electrónica figura en el programa (respondo la totalidad de los mensajes explicando la verdad y la existencia del truco).

Me sorprende también que, en sitios donde aparece la explicación del truco, le hagan preguntas a "Pedro" si hay un espacio para enviar mensajes (ni siquiera leen el contenido de la página).

Finalmente pido que UTILICEN MI SISTEMA CON RESPONSABILIDAD; EL OBJETIVO NO ES ASUSTAR A NADIE, sino el explicado al principio de mi comentario.

Saludos,

Federico G. Vigo

Casilda, Argentina........"