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What if George Lucas directed LotR

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:11:11 +0100

Lord of the Rings by George Lucas

Scary :)

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Ubuntu Bug #1

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:03:49 +0100

Ubuntu Bug #1:

Ubuntu-bug

Via Juanje (most of Ubuntu Dapper's new install system has been code by him).

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The Evolution of a Programmer

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:48:29 +0100

The Evolution of a Programmer:

Guru Hacker

  % echo "Hello, world."

Senior Manager

  % zmail jim
  I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.

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Hacklab

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:29:51 +0100

Hacklab

Record: 8 laptops (and 8 pizzas, but not shown here). Nestor presented his college project, a GUI for a statistical package, done in Python + Qt.

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Flying Spaghetti... Monkey

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:13:27 +0100

New York Dolls - "Dance Like A Monkey"

The Flying Spaghetti Monster can be seen near the end of this funny video clip.

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Nerdy

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:34:10 +0100

White and Nerdy

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Princess Mononoke

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:51:17 +0100

Princess Mononoke

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Pluto is not a planet

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:45:54 +0100

Sadpluto

How many astronomers are needed to decide Pluto is not a planet? 2500... but we are smarter, we know it's a dog! ;-)

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Thanks for all the fish!

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:58:23 +0100

Guide-1

In the improbable case you read this blog and also have seen the film adaptation of Douglas Adam's book The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, there is also little chance you are interested to know that, as it is said in IMDB:

The initial scene, with the dolphins prancing about, is a dolphin show in the "Loro Parque" Zoo, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.

We were amazed the first time we watch the film in the cinema, because Loro Parque and its logo (look closely to dolphin trainers) are very well known here. Tenerife is the biggest of the Canary Islands (I live in Gran Canaria) and Loro Parque (Parrot Park) is like a little theme park specialized in animal shows. It begun with parrots but now have other exotic animals, like dolphins and penguins!

My girlfriend quite likes Loro Parque (and The Hitchiker's Guide, btw) and the last time she was there, took me this gift:

Guide-2

How Tux ended promoting Loro Parque? Don't know. But the answer is 42.

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QotD: Check the Mailbox!

nobody@vox.com(rvr) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:17:20 +0100

What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?

Paid subscriptions, only to Sky & Telescope. It's the best astronomy magazine out there: great articles which cover both observing and more theoric articles about cosmology and astrophysics. I used to be subscribed to Linux Journal, which is a great magazine too, but the amount of articles in the web killed my interested in it. I also receive Astronomia, on which I wrote years ago.

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