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After a very busy week in Nancy, I am now a f**king tourist in Paris.

Paris is so busy. Maybe was my lack of sleep, caffeine or breakfast altogether but Paris inhabitants are busy and stressed.

I am now in Quai Malaquais, busy streets, cars rolling everywhere, some walkers, mostly tourists like me, but with a purpose… Stressed too :)

And I am texting, just look busy :) but the cool breeze is in my skin, coffee in my system and the sun in my face… I am inherently happy. Plus I am in Paris, the city of Mini. I just saw a Clubman S, metallic brown, white stripes and roof rack blinking its eye at me. Gorgeous.

I am heading towards le musee d’Orsay. This is Eulalia and I favorite museum in Paris. She is not here, but I still have to honor it.

The busy week in Nancy has been due to the Gocad Consortium. The MSc and PhD students present the ongoing content of their work in a brain jolting manner. Extensive use of tsolids for structural restoration, model building using outcrop measurements and EM/gravi methods, geostatistical methods to better asses the uncertain or the stochastic growth of karsts and the use of the medial planar and the distance function to it. It is just brain melting, but wake up call as well. Keep learning, keep looking for new solutions. Even if my work is derivative, it is helpful, since this is always a practical implementation and a workflow.

Greetings from gay Paris!

Carlos
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Pablo ya cumplio 4! Eso de tener la fiesta y el cumpleanhos en fechas diferentes no acaban de entenderlo, ninguno de los dos.

Lo unico que repetia era “No way!” cuando abria los regalos.

Asi da gusto.

Sed buenos.

Carlos

Thanks to the power of the Gimp, Eulalia’s worst nightmare has become real! Several me, messing up the house, the kitchen, the driveway… the studio!

Use your brush wisely when painting black on your white transparent mask.

Here is how you dot it: Of course, take several pictures of you, in the same place, using a tripod and the same aperture/speed. if you are good enough, the same EV value, but then, you are messing with the depth of field.
1. Open the background image in The Gimp
2. Loop:
3. Open the most far away image in the Gimp as a layer (Ctrl+Alt+O). Make sure that the layers are visible (Ctrl+L)
4. Add a Layer Mask to the first layer. Select White (Full Opacity)
5. Hide the background layer
6. Grab a huge brush, black paint and paint where you want to erase background
7. Check against the background
8. Go To Loop: unless you are done

EZ-PZ.

OK, just don’t mess it up by setting your ISO at 1600, like I did, after taking some pictures at dawn of Pablo and McCoy.

Cheers

I learn so much from these guys. They have made my iPod touch worth every cent, through their podcasts.

And yes, I got some stickers as well, that will decorate my corporate and personal hardware.

Cheers

One week in Berkeley! And man, do they have weird people back there. At risk of sounding like my father, some people just need to get their shit together.

Berkeley was, and is, republican at its core. Due to some brutal police action, every weirdo in the US gravitated towards Berkeley, and because of the weather, they stayed, creating the first wave of Finkelsteins. I am pro-ACLU, but I also take showers every day, wear shoes and underwear when I leave the house, and pamper my kids more than I pamper myself. So what’s the problem? The problem is frigging nutcase that flows like we are in a continuous acid party. And they get pregnant, and bring kids to this world, and can’t provide for them (as they can’t for themselves). Shameful! That might sound fucking nazi, but some people should be sterilized.

Rants apart, San Francisco rocks. I think it is Paris in the US. Napa it is overpriced, but cute. Vittorio Sattui is one of them (ww.vsattui.com) with a very decent 2006 red wine. Not that I know anything about wine, or grapes. Grgich winery is another, and their installation produces more solar energy than it consumes, with a positive net metering to the network.

What did we learn? This trip jumpstarted the bungee-jumpy project, a portable periscope for the kids, and the rock climbing wall/tree.

PS: The link to decode is Motobit

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Falta un minuto para que el partido entre los Houston Rockets y los Angeles Lakers empiece. Pau ha estado calentando y lanzando tiros de 2 y 3 puntos, y es espectacular. Con la excusa que Gasol es “de los de casa” la gente de aquí al lado me deja gritar “Forca Pau!”. Y esto esta lleeeennnooo!

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PS: Volvio a encriptarse mas de lo que yo queria

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Anna le ha dejado a Eulalia el libro de “La crisis Ninja y otros misterios de la Economia actual” de Leopoldo Abadia. Pero Eulalia no se entera de done esta el libro, como de costumbre, asi que me lo estoy leyendo yo. Llevo un tercio y ya le di esta manahana una nota de 10/10 cuando iba por la tercera pagina.

Es un libro de sentido comun, de pasion y de curiosidad. Tambien es un libro de explicaciones sobre la crisis que tenemos entre manos, que es producto de la ignorancia y la avaricia. Es muy bueno, y me siento identificado con el papel de Leopoldo.

Pero el de Anna lo tengo yo, asi que a la casa del libro a compraros uno vosotros.

Carlos

No, no, I don’t mean to say that I show up in Google for the first time, but that someone has been so secretive that her mention in my page makes Google return it as the first entry in its list.

And I have removed any mention form her in my website, so only Google Cache has a record of it. Time will erode its mention while bots and bots crawl down the site, watering down her impact on the online community.

The good thing is that we have a previous dormant contact back online.

Carlos

Ayer Marta tenia la peor infeccion de oido de la historia, segun la enfermera de su colegio. Resulto ser un caramelo (Nerd) rojo, dentro del canal auditivo. Hoy se ha caido y se ha partido un diente. Cual? Aun no lo se, pero lo vere en breve. Creo que quiere un poco mas de atencion.
:(
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In order to keep us happy, when CNN talks about this last week’s Buffalo Continental airplane crash, the airport TV, broadcasting CNN, magically switches to weather :) for the duration of the clip.

Funny business

Things I think @ 5 am
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