by denegro on 15/1/2012
-Por lo general -dice-, visto do-mi-sol, que es un conjunto feliz.
-¿Y con qué irías a un entierro?
-¿A un entierro? Con azul, lila y naranja (do-mi bemol y fa sostenido).
Según Neil, la capacidad de escuchar los colores es mucho mejor que la de verlos.
Porque tú -añade-, percibes el color en un pack de tres propiedades: luz, tono y saturación. Estas tres propiedades, que son las del color, las recibes juntas, por tanto, te resulta difícil apreciar el tono. Yo recibo las tres propiedades por separado: la luz, por los ojos; el tono, traducido en sonidos, a través del aparato, y la saturación, a través del volumen de los sonidos, pues algunos suenan más altos que otros.
by denegro on 12/1/2012
The rules are as follows: The game starts after everyone has ordered. Everybody places their phone in the table face down. The first person to flip over their phone loses the game. Loser of the game pays for the bill.
You have: 2 new text messages. Also, you’re paying for dinner - The Globe and Mail
by denegro on 06/1/2012
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Spain has an interesting internal structure in terms of postal codes. Rather than a lot of chaotic scribble, many of the lines do not cross over, a bit like on the Travelling Presidential Candidate Map. The only excaption is Galicia (GA), with its very dense scribble structure.
ZIPScribble Map: Spain via The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes
Source: twitter.com
by denegro on 02/1/2012
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Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. “Oh,” he mentioned at one point, “and there are no private schools in Finland.”
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As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. “There’s no word for accountability in Finnish,” he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. “Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.”
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
by denegro on 27/12/2011
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Most of my married friends now have children, the rewards of which appear to be exclusively intangible and, like the mysteries of some gnostic sect, incommunicable to outsiders. In fact it seems from the outside as if these people have joined a dubious cult: they claim to be much happier and more fulfilled than ever before, even though they live in conditions of appalling filth and degradation, deprived of the most basic freedoms and dignity, and owe unquestioning obedience to a capricious and demented master.
by denegro on 27/12/2011
Personally speaking, I’m grateful that most of the publications I wrote for before The A.V. Club are either defunct or have bad search engines. I have opinions from my past that I’d cross the street to avoid being associated with.
How long does it take to “get” an album? | Music | The Big Questions | The A.V. Club
by denegro on 16/12/2011
De repente, por casualidad, distraigo mi atención un momento de uno de los cúlmenes culinarios de esta era y hablo con alguien que me dice que él y dos amigos lo dejan todo y se van a Chile a montar su propia empresa en internet. Hablamos de que en la vida llega un momento en el que tienes que tomar esas decisiones y bla, bla, bla. Mi admiración es sincera. Les deseo mucha suerte.
Carmen Pacheco — Memorama — Día 85: La primera vez que tuve el honor de inaugurar una web
by denegro on 12/12/2011
Our professions, both engineering and design, self-select for people who have the ability to generate and decode complex mental models. Many of these same people have well above average abilities at rote memorization. Many get pleasure from closing their eyes wandering through the innards of their computer or their design model without reference to any physical (visual, aural, etc.) manifestation.
