Oddities at Geek Press

30 01 2010

This blog has been active for over a year, and even though I haven’t posted as much as I would like to, Geek Press has made it’s way into the RSS feed of a couple of readers. It actually made into the lists of a couple of sploggers of doom important re-publishers who generated a couple of important waves. Even though, the most important traffic hits where made by WordPress.com itself, where it was featured more than once. I feel proud. Kinda’.

So, WP.com having an embedded statistics systems gives me two excellent features: The ability to specifically write what people want to read about (specially in hate posts) and some of the best laughs I’ve had in front of a computer. Everyone involved in web data mining knows two things; people using internet are stupid, and every site which moves a fairly decent amount of traffic gets idiotic hit terms.

Seriously, that by itself should be a concept.

I can’t keep this for myself. There are enough odd things here to say WTF a couple of times at least. So let’s begin. Read the rest of this entry »





Propósitos de año nuevo

31 12 2009

Otro post en español. El único motivo por el que lo escribo en español, es porque se me antoja usar muchas groserías, y son más divertidas en español que en inglés, incluyendo frases agresivas y un tanto corrientes.

Una amiga está publicando sus propósitos de año nuevo en Twitter. Me pareció gracioso porque escribió cosas como “No decir groserías” y “No hablar mal de la gente”. Yo haré los míos, sólo que un poco más sarcásticos y soeces. Si este post resulta ser una cagada, es porque lo empece estando en el baño. No les diré lo que estaba haciendo, pero, como acaba de decir mi hermano, “lo pueden extrapolar”.

Así que, mis propósitos de año nuevo.

  1. Seguir distribuyendo odio a través de Twitter.
  2. Este año comencé a usar Twitter. Creo. Saqué mi cuenta un día que estaba haciendo puras pendejadas en Facebook. Yo sé que para eso es Facebook, pero igual me pareció una buena idea. Originalmente, lo usaba únicamente para mis diarreas mentales, hasta que lo empecé a usar para mover contenido de mi/mis blogs. El resultado, fue que Geek Press cierra el año con más de 50 visitas diarias, contando los días en los que estuvo muerto y los días que hubo oleada.

    Pero el punto es que, un día, entre mis diarreas mentales, decidí que era una buena idea contarle a Twitter lo mucho que odio a la humanidad. Así que comencé a criticar a los pendejos de los amigos de mi ex novia, luego a los pendejos amigos de mi otra ex novia, luego a los antros, los pendejos que van a los antros, los reggaetoneros en el Tec, los dominicanos y demás pedacitos de feto mal abortado.

    Ese es mi primer propósito para este año. Seguir haciendo mierda a la gente que me caga. Oigan, irónico no?

  3. Dejar de criticar a las personas. Como no…
  4. Criticar a las personas, es uno de mis pasatiempos favoritos, junto con molestar a la brother, comprar alcohol de mala calidad para mis amigos (Tony Ian Malibu) y patear traseros obesos. Qué? Rebotan.

    Criticar a la gente es muy divertido. Siempre y cuando uno tenga razón. Por ejemplo, todo lo que despotriqué este año en contra de la gorda de TAEV, la brother, la gorda amiga de mis papás, la brother, el ente amorfo que me dio Administración, la brother, los licenciados que se comportan como pendejos, la brother y todas los cosas extrañas que ya mencioné en mi propósito anterior. Ya dije que la brother? Porque mi siguiente propósito es…

  5. Molestar más a la brother
  6. Para quien no sepa, la brother es una chava que “estudia” Ingeniería en Sistemas con nosotros en el ITESM. También ha sido nuestro punching bag moral, animadora de fiestas, patrocinadora de Coca Cola, la que pone su casa, actriz porno en cada reunión (hay una foto como mínimo en la cuál parece que alguien se la está tirando), la típica chava que se le cae el chicle o que abre mal un abre-fácil (en serio), fiel seguidora del Pastafarianismo, cleriga elfo de nivel 13, miembro socialmente responsable bien querida por los animales. Sobre todo por la serpiente en su sofá.

    Alguien tiene que encargarse. Lo que me recuerda que creo que no llevaré clases con ella este semestre. Necesito hacer tiempo especial.

  7. Molestar a Jimena
  8. Es divertido molestar a la brother, pero ninguna como Jimena. Es la única que me sigue el paso sin enojarse mucho, me pone apodos y me pega. Además rebota cada vez que la tiro sobre el pasto en el parque. Es divertido. Eso debería de estar en YouTube.

    Entre las bromas que no he jugado van embarrarle un helado de chocolate, un esquite (me la debe), tirarle un globo de agua en la cabeza y hacer algo ridículo en público que la haga sonrojarse al máximo. Eso también es divertido. Creo que nadie se sonroja como ella.

  9. Seguir enseñándole groserías a mi abuela.
  10. Mi abuela es un amor. Es lo que le sigue a muy inocente. Así que naturalmente, se le va la onda con las groserías. Luego no las entiende, o las usa sin saber qué eran groserías. Es genial.

    Así que, tengo que seguir enseñándole groserías y albures. Daré mi misión por terminada cuando pueda contestarle satisfactoriamente a un ingeniero.

  11. Enseñarle dobles sentidos a mi prima F’rnanda con F
  12. Tengo una prima que no conozco. Eso es patético. Lo que no es patético, es que es bastante inteligente. Lo malo, es que viviendo en Estados Unidos, tiene que aprender tanto español como inglés. Eventualmente, aprenderá ambos bastante bien si sigue estudiando particulármente español, pero mientras, es un desastre entender lo que está diciendo.

    Ahora, el punto es que al igual que mi abuela, tengo que enseñarle a usar malas palabras. Así podrá insultar a la gente sin que entiendan. Mucho.

  13. Dominar al mundo.
  14. Ese sigue en progreso.

  15. Darle lata a Adriana.
  16. Adriana es una de esas amigas de las que he tenido tres en toda mi vida. Inteligente, sarcástica y con unas boobs geniales. No la veré mucho este semestre, así que también tengo que hacer tiempo especial. Y me debe una cena.

  17. Destruir mi estomago usando un Bacon Explosion
  18. Tenía muchas ganas de hacer uno de estos. Por una o por otra, nunca lo hice. Este año más me vale hacerlo. Creo que eso mismo dije el año pasado.

Y bien. Ahí terminan mis propósitos de año nuevo. Tengo mucho que hacer.

Nota: El permalink de este post dice “Propósitos de ano nuevo“. No tuve hemorroides. Lo juro.





Music Library Guide. Part 2: Organization Structure

11 12 2009

Read the first part of the media guide here.

A media library is not only about a media player and a ton of audio files. It’s common to have files scattered across a hard drive, perhaps a music folder as the one in every Windows system, another one where a P2P system downloads its files, and few files in the received files folder of MSN messenger. That’s the situation of the vast majority.

Although it may be “comfortable” to have files around a disk, it becomes a problem if you need to move the library to another computer or manage it completely. It even gets worse when you use a media player trying to manage by itself the media files, and of course, if you have your music collection in an external disk.

When I started to search for information on how to handle a media library, I found a lot of info on how to perfectly rip an audio CD (with lots of different opinions) along with huge debates on which MP3 method was the best.

But I found NONE information, on how to keep files organized.

This piece of my guide, won’t be an actual how-to. It won’t be about tweaking software in order for them to work the way you want. It will be more like a guideline, on what to do to keep music files ordered, and prevent your disk from becoming an audio havoc.

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Result of a brain fart

10 12 2009

So, I was thinking about writing all the shit I really have to throw out of my mind, but I can’t really speak out because I don’t really know who should I speak with. I’m a great listener, but when it comes to speaking, I constantly have it rough finding the correct person to speak with. I should really stop ranting in an emo way and start talking about my Mac.

Yes, a Mac. I have a Mac. Right now. It’s still shining. Actually, I don’t think it’ll stop shining anytime soon. It’s kind of too glossy. And it’s beautiful. I love it how anything material that could not probably get into my life by my own means tends to make me happy. Also, I don’t know if that’s completely understandable, pathetic or just the most shameful thing you’ve ever read in your life.

Anyway, this little bug is gorgeous. I truly love it. Even though it has a little screen which will probably make my life more difficult as soon as I start coding. Guess I’ll have to work that out. What I do know, is that I need a desktop computer ASAP. I don’t want this cute little thing to wear off fast (read: I wont use it 10 hours, daily) so I really need another computer.

I’m not even halfway through the configuration and customization of this lap. Mac is like Ubuntu in terms of customization. There are a few thousand things you can set to work as you want. Ironically, there are only a few Mac users I know who actually use at least some of this worthy features. The usual reason to use Mac is “it’s beautiful!!” or “it doesn’t have viruses”.

My reason is that the little bitch is virtually compatible with the world. Also, it’s not Windows, so, no major flaws, a good interface to work with and a nice amount of software to choose. So I’ll stick to Mac, at least for now. It’s by far the most powerful computer I’ve had in my life, so anyway, if I don’t like it, it’ll always be both Ubuntu/Windows compatible. It would be pathetic, but can be done.

I think I’ll stop it here. Tomorrow I have to take an important decision. This post actually was more than a brain fart. It’s the shitiest thing I’ve ever written in my life.





Estupideces en el ITESM

16 11 2009

Este post va en español, porque el contenido del correo en cuestión, está en español. Además, hace años (en serio años) que no escribo en español para un blog.

Esta nota, es realmente un mail que ha bombardeado mi bandeja de entrada desde hace un par de días. Me puso tan de malas, que decidí echarle mierda en este momento, ya que me siento muy enfermo (y cansado porque la toz no me deja dormir) como para seguir haciendo tarea. (Así me sentía cuando lo empecé. Lo debí publicar la semana pasada, pero se me atravesaron los exámenes)

Bien. Primero que nada. Probablemente esto lo redacto algún idiota de preparatoria/profesional del CEM, ya que habla de CCI y un par de cosas comunes entre la jerga estudiantil del Campus Estado de México.

Para los que no tengan la menor idea, el sistema del ITESM, y en particular el CEM siempre ha estado rodeado de elitismo en el que las demás escuelas son una mierda (de hecho algunas lo son) y todos son unos maricas (excepto UNAM/IPN) por no ofrecer planes de ingeniería como dios manda. Por ser parte de la “Cultura TEC“, más de alguna vez mencionas ese punto como estudiante, claro que nunca lo lanzas hablando en serio. Si no hubiera gente estudiando carreras sencillas, el mundo sería un desastre.

El problema, es que la gente confunde el elitismo promovido en el Tec, con  el elitismo impulsado tanto por una sociedad externa como por la sociedad interna de estudiantes. El resultado, es que hay una cantidad inmensa de cosas como esta, aplicaciones pendejas, grupos pendejos en Facebook y demás basura que no viene al caso.

Así que, comenzamos.

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Tyrian: Chapter 1 & 2

5 11 2009

What happens when your parents go out to have a coffee, your brother goes to the movies and you’re left alone without electricity in your house while it’s raining? (It actually happened…) You tend to… take out that awesome Tequila bottle you’ve been keeping for a rainy day.

You pop it, and then, you have an awesome idea. Let’s take my mother’s laptop, which can handle pretty well for a couple of hours with its battery!!

Then, you realize it’s time to keep on writing that science fiction project based on that awesome game from your childhood. Hell, why not?

Ok. So, this is the Introduction, Prologue and the first revision of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. It’s not completely checked, so, strange words/grammatical errors/bullshit may pop out from nowhere as well. If you read it, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did when I wrote it.

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Charming women

29 10 2009

I love women. I mean, they’re simply a masterpiece. They’re specially cute when they try to do man-related stuff. I truly love them. They’re charming.

Heaven knows how, but as my Facebook account is kind of… fucked up, I had to find another way of having fun. So, I opened YouTube and I accidentaly found a video of this awesome girl shooting a shotgun. The 4chan effect kicked in, and I couldn’t stop watching.

The first video I watched. It’s great.

The type of woman I dream for a girlfriend.

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Tyrian: The story

9 10 2009

Tyrian is this awesome game I was addicted to when I was kid. About a year ago, I downloaded Tyrian 2000 from a fan page which looks just like an official page, as it’s been released as freeware.

The game was written completely in Pascal 14 years ago. The engine actually handles sprites, so it’s a piece of impresive work. Even though it’s relatively simple to work with sprites, 14 years ago there was no Sprite class or anything similar. They did a very good job, and it was well received.

Recently, I started writing science fiction. I can’t say if I’m good or not, but I do enjoy it a lot. I previously wrote another story, but I didn’t like it much so I left it. Perhaps I’ll write it again, one day. So far, I have written only a small introduction, a prologue and the first part of chapter one for the next part of Tyrian’s story.

Tyrian

As usual, the text is protected by the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-Share alike license. Should you like the story and/or have any ideas, feel free to email me, at gerardo.galindez@gmail.com





Random thoughts

7 10 2009

So, I’m sitting in front of my desk, my left leg is cramping (I had to hit Merriam Webster for that) as I’m practically sitting on it, in front of me, there are my Engineering Math’s notes, I have to study a couple of useless shit (really, it’s even less useful than knowing random trivia on Star Trek) and I haven’t started to study.

My poor blog was left alone for two months, more or less. Honestly, I haven’t had time, or what I should be saying, I haven’t had time to organize my time and do everything I want.

The Square Nine team was a mess. Almost no one has published anything in three months of existence. About a month ago, I desisted too. I’ll take it again, but certainly not now. In a week, perhaps.

Also, I’m not feeling quite well. I feel hungry all the time and I haven’t slept well (Am I pregnant?? Hell. I’m a guy. Phew…)  I just saw Isabel’s blog “Fue un café” and she wrote a very similar situation. So, she kind of served as inspiration for me to blog. Again.

I really miss this things. It’s unbelievably entertaining to blog, and when a good posts makes it past the huge wall of the blogosphere, after a storm of visitors, anyone feels invincible. I loved that feeling.

I’m in the need of help here. I really have to organize my life. My bedroom’s been a mess for over three weeks. My HDD is also a mess, in all Ubuntu, Windoze, and documents partitions. Also, my media library became a mess after I lent that disk to a random guy who managed very well to break it. That’s why I had to suspend my media library posts.

I don’t know why I’m actually writing this. I guess I really need to clear my mind, before starting again. If I’m succesfull in this week’s goal, restructuring completely this mess, then I’ll blog about it. I really want to. I miss it.

Hell. It’s easier to stop smoking than to keep organized. Time to move.

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Thing #4. Team work

29 06 2009

I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying. I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying. I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying…

Ok, I don’t. I hate to waste time, and studying subjects that have little, to no relationship with my career makes me mad. Way mad. But I don’t have a choice, so I “try” to like it. Even though, I tend to complain too much about the way things develop. I guess it’s just that I hate lazy people with the idea “you’re the smart guy, so you do all the job”. I really, REALLY, FUCKIN’!!! hate it.

It happened (a few times but happened) during my first semester. It happened again during the second semester, a lot of times. Now, during the summer classes, it’s happening again. Thanks god, there were only a few activities that need to team up, and I worked with a friend, who gets the job done as it should be.

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