Infinite Pig Theorem

Cuando me pongo a pensar y dejar volar la mente imaginando cómo puede ser estar en un túnel donde cien personas empujan hacia una salida minúscula, trancada por la policía, siento una muy, aunque breve, incómoda desesperación. Imagina que te falta el aire; que por más que quieres zafarte de la multitud, no puedes; intentas abrir espacio, pero tus tristes brazos son impotentes contra el choque humano; la vista se te empieza a nublar, te sientes débil, te duele el pecho y los pulmones, sudas frío, sientes el sudor en el cuello y de repente lo dejas de sentir. Gritas, o intentas hacerlo, pero tu voz se sofoca; sabes que duele, pero empiezas a olvidar el dolor. Gente alrededor de ti hace exactamente lo mismo. Imagina si tú, que pesas cien kilos y mides casi un metro ochenta, experimentas todas esas sensaciones, qué sentirá una muchachita de uno cincuenta, de 55 kilos, en la misma situación que tú, está al lado de ti, llorando, sufriendo, muriendo. Y luego mueren los dos asfixiados. Dejas de sufrir porque has muerto. Y tu compañera, con la que diez minutos antes estabas bailando en la pista, coqueteando y tomando una cerveza, te esperaba muerta minutos antes. Al final, son trece los que, como tú, murieron en la misma situación.

De verdad que es bien lamentable, triste, inconcebible, que la policía provoque ésto. Cómo es posible. Cómo. ¿Y qué hicieron al respecto Felipe Calderón, Marcelo Ebrard, Joel Ortega? Puta bola de bufones infelices muertos de hambre. Ojetes de mierda.

Intenta imaginar, tan sólo por un instante, cómo pudo haber sido y qué debió haber sentido la gente.

Recomiendo mucho esta columna de Jacobo Zabludovsky.

So I attended the conference last week in Chicago, IL. I was just been procrastinating to write about this.

As a (almost) complete outsider of the Perl community, I have countered thoughts about the whole event:

• I was actually expecting a deeper technical content on some of the talks.
• Some speakers were just very bad at presenting, they were either boring with a very exciting topic or lacked the spark to get the audience attentive.
• Some people on the IRC channel kept criticizing what some (not very known in the Perl circle) speakers were talking about. For instance, the usual stupid argument of “why to do this, if we can already make it with…”, or “yeah, but we can do that with Foo::Bar and ZMOFGML”. After all, just as Andy Lester once wrote, let’s see people’s work, let’s see their new ideas or new ways to implement things. Heck, TIMTOFWTDI.
• Wireless connectivity was very poor, apparently due to ad-hoc nodes and malware on the cloud.
• Since I’m used to DebConfs, it was nice to see, though, a job fair and some circles discussing new ways to do business with Perl development.
• Around 40% of the attendees were attending their actual first YAPC. Apparently, there are a lot of newcomers to Perl conferences, but they usually don’t come back that often or get a bit scared.
• Being a community conference, makes it, after all, a bit special. YAPC was mostly, as José Castro stated, just about people and beer.
• Organizers gave their best to make this happen successfully, you could see, feel that.
• I met some guys that after introducing us, I was confused were they were from, which was mainly because of my huge ignorance of US geography. For instance, people would tell they are from South Benton, from Omaha or from Columbus, between others. At the moment I felt it’d be tacky to ask on what states those cities are on, but now I know Indiana, Nebraska and Ohio. Heh.
• Chicago is a beautiful city and stuffed pizza kicks ass.
• What I liked from the Perl community: They usually get things done and don’t fool around too much with senseless shit.
• What I didn’t like: If you are not a regular into the circle, it’s quite difficult to feel involved or part of it. To this, add being from another country
• What I liked the most on talks: Ricardo SIGNES’s talk about email which was awesome and the lightning talks (specially the improvised ones).

After all, it was quite a nice and new experience. I’m not totally sure I’ll attend YAPC::NA 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA, we’ll see.

Well, it is actually Iceweasel 3 for Debian testing. Iceweasel just hit unstable yesterday (it had been for a while on experimental) and if you are running testing and can’t wait for it to get through QA, I’ve made a backport for you:

deb http://debian.axiombox.com/ testing main

The newest xulrunner was also backported, which was, yes, the whole point for this.

UPDATE: Iceweasel 3 was uploaded a couple of weeks now, not yesterday

World, here’s another one:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6 4. c3 d6 5. d4 Bg4 6. h3 Bxf3 7. Qxf3 f6 8. Qh5+ Kd7 9. d5 Nce7 10. b3 c6 11. Ba3 c5 12. b4 cxb4 13. Bxb4 Rc8 14. Bb5+ Nc6 15. dxc6+ bxc6 16. Ba6 Ne7 17. Bxc8+ Qxc8 18. Na3 g6 19. Qe2 f5 20. exf5 Nxf5 21. g4 Nh4 22. O-O-O c5 23. Ba5 Be7 24. Nc4 Qa6 25. a4 Ng2 26. Qa2 Bg5+ 27. Kb1 Rb8+ 28. Qb2 Rxb2+ 29. Kxb2 Qxc4 30. h4 Bf4 31. h5 g5 32. Rhg1 Qe2+ 33. Ka3 Qxg4 34. Rd5 Qf3 35. Rgd1 Bc1+ 36. Ka2 Qxf2+ 37. Kb1 Qb2#  0-1

I was again playing Black. White’s 28th move is probably what killed him. He was ELO-rated almost one hundred points above me. I gained 34 ELO points. This is one of the sweetest moments of chess.

Simon, what you need, is a PGN parser/extractor. Or a chess board with algebraic coordinate marks.

En el último par de semanas, y gracias principalmente al interés de la gente y de David Valdez que se puso las pilas, hemos crecido en la familia de instancias en Planeta Linux, pues se han unido a nuestra familia las instancias de Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Panamá. Muchas gracias a cada uno de los interesados que mandaron los feeds y nombres acusando a los blogueros linuxeros centroamericanos para regocijo de los lectores. Ya somos once las instancias en Planeta Linux:

• Planeta Linux Chile
• Planeta Linux Colombia
• Planeta Linux Costa Rica
• Planeta Linux Ecuador
• Planeta Linux El Salvador
• Planeta Linux España
• Planeta Linux México
• Planeta Linux Nicaragua
• Planeta Linux Panamá
• Planeta Linux Perú
• Planeta Linux Venezuela

Muchas cosas se han prometido alrededor de Planeta Linux y hemos ido caminando muy lentamente, pero nuevas cosas quiero que se implementen:

• Un nuevo diseño.
• Instancias más integradas unas con las otras.
• Una instancia global agrupando a los casi 500 inscritos activos.
• Empezar a usar Vitacilina, reemplazando a Planet.
• RT para manejar las peticiones.

Gracias a todos, tanto a los que escriben, los que leen, los que administran, los que apoyan.

I get content every once in a while. For instance:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. d3 Bg4 5. Bg5 Be7 6. h4 Bxf3 7. gxf3 Bxg5 8. hxg5 Qxg5 9. Ke2 Nd4+ 10. Ke1 Qg2 11. Rf1 Nxf3+ 12. Ke2 Nf6 13. Nd2 Nd4+ 14. Ke3 Ng4+ 15. Qxg4 Qxg4 16. f3 Qf4+ 17. Kf2 Qxd2+ 18. Kg3 Nf5+ 19. Kg4 Qf4+ 20. Kh3 Qg3# 0-1

I played Black.