A musical meme (kinda):

DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS.

(Sí, también lo habíamos hecho hace un tiempo. ¡Pero ahora tiene nuevas canciones!)

(Y, pese a que hoy el trabajo está loco, aquí estoy, invirtiendo mi hora de comer en memes. Way to go, self.)

The war on science fiction. Have you heard of it? If not, then you're lucky.

Basically it says "OMG the wimenz and gays are writing | in my sci-fi!! Do not want!". And then it goes on and on about how sci-fi is about men doing things and men discovering things and men doing manly stuf flike pew-pewing aliens into oblivion, and how sad is today's sci-fi, full of fluffy nonsense and exploration of characters' feelings and dull sentimentalism.
The conclusion that the new generations will not get inspired by today's sci-fi heros (and heroines, because there are women leading ships, guys!) and we'll be doomed to use Windows 7 for like twenty years is incredibly interesting. If you ask me, it's a tad sad that while male heterosexual men can't be inspired by leading female characters or by sci-fi with other things that laser-shooting startships.
The amount of times the article states that "men do things" is astounding. I sensee a drinking game coming.
I enjoy the subjacent(?) idea that only manly men discover things and provide evolution to our technology. Is, in a way, kind of sci-fi territory.

At least I don't like the name change of Sci-fi channel. I guess we can agree on that? ("Syfy"? Really? In Spain we still mock RAE for trying to force the population to accept "cederrón" as the correct spanish word to say "cd-rom").

The comments are also worth of your attention. I feel sorry for Whedon, seems like men hates him ("Whedon being one of the biggest manginas working in tv". Mangina? I'm not sure I want to know) and women don't like how he manages his character's relationships (bitter ending, someone dying, etc). Also, poor Merlin :( (Hey, they acknowledged strong female characters, that's good. Until you realise they think it's a bad thing).

"Anyway, sometimes men ought to be able to enjoy the company of other men without women being involved from time to time."
I don't think this means what you think it means.
Or, my slash googles are still working perfectly.
You chose. Either way, I win.

"I think we should all be concerned with good quality, not feminine-masculine dividing lines."
Earth Logic is not welcome in this article.

This reasoning is interesting:
"And I can’t think of a better example of ‘men going their own way’ than the standard computer geeks. Heck, Isaac Newton never dated, and laid the foundation for physics up until Einstein…"
If you got laid you ain't gonna discover a damn, sugah.

Strange, right? I know.

Yoshito Usui found dead after dissapearing last Tuesday. Rest in peace.

( ok, not *that* short )

¡La quinta temporada de Bones ha empezado!

Quizá es algo arriesgado lanzarme a la quinta temporada así a lo bruto. Pero es lo que están emitiendo ahora, y tengo otras cosas ocupando el hueco de "puesta al día desde el principio", así que de momento voy a ir consiguiéndola tal y como se emite, y ya decidiré luego si la veo a lo bruto o me espero a las temporadas anteriores.
Con Doctor Who pude saltarme el orden de las temporadas y no pasó nada grave (suerte que el Doctor y el Acompañante siempre son diferentes para cada temporada. Si no, seguro que me habría hecho un barullo sabiendo qué temporada estava viendo), pero no todas las series son como Doctor Who.

En otro orden de cosas menos festivas, vía frikitroupe, el creador de Shinchan, Yoshito Usui, lleva desaparecido desde el martes.

Hoy he descubierto en sueños que aún le tengo mucho aprecio a Dragon Ball. Si no, ( no entiendo el sueño )

On a totally unrelated note, Issue 16 of city of Heroes goes live. Here is the official trailer (I think, I haven't even open the link. Google!reader can be such a tease sometimes). Rejoice with me!

( La nueva issue trae muchos cambios interesantes. )

Este fin de semana me da que entre lecturas, transcripciones (voy muy retrasado respecto al planning. ¡Tengo que ponerme las pilas!) y vicios voy a vivir la vida del friki al máximo.

Finde productivo.

No demasiado en asuntos perso-frikis, pero al final logré compensar el imprevisto del sábado y pude refugiarme en Push.

Y hoy en Mamma Mia (acostumbrado como estaba al cd de la banda sonora, reencontrarme con Brosnan en la versión más "en directo" ha sido... esotérico).

Y ahora un poquito en Charmed y Star Trek: Voyager.

Y mañana voy a comprarme libros de Charmed (vía bookdepository, a ver qué tal va).

Y voy a tener una semana EXCELSIOR!!

Eso es todo.

pd: Avisad si han llegado, mañana estaré correteando por Barcelona y no podré monitorizaros tanto como me gustaria, así que si me dejáis una nota por aquí para que no tenga que extender mis tentáculos por media internet os lo agradecería.

Also, english is hard but I'll find the words.

edit: ¡Cielo Santo! ¿Disposición oficial de las regiones Pokémon? ¿Poké!F-list, porqué no me lo habíais dicho?

Yay! LoudTwitter is back!

What a surprise, I didn't expect it at all. It seems it's been running for some days, but I haven't realized it until now because, well, it's today I've entered my journal :p (to edit the previous entry in order to add The Pic).

(Twitter-compilation entries will be back, f-locked in order to not flood / spam your f-lists. Just to avoid the constant non-sense that I tend to say there. Not that normal journal entries are So Profound And Meaningful, but at least they consist of more than an idea trying to fit in 140 characters -or less-. "Trying to" being the key words here)

gmail: you got new mail! :D
Sam: yay! :D
Sister's mail: subject: EXTEEEEERMINATE!!
Sam: my sister is awesome.
Sister's mail: body: I've found this icon, thought you'd like it.
Sam: MY SISTER WINS AT LIFE. *hands "you win an internet" coupon to Sister*
(I've had to use my mad interwebz skillz to recover the lj-user who made this icon via the url of the icon, so after all Sister only wins at life in lowercase, she doesn't write down who makes the icons she takes. Even if I brainwash her into doing it)

Como por fin la dragona se ha dignado a invadirnos (wheee!!), ayer me escapé algo temprano de la oficina para darnos unos achuchones y llevarla a ver alguna que otra tienda friki. Se apuntaron al carro capra_boy, rolfie_bcn y más tarde un amigo suyo.
Al final no pudimos hacer mucho porque
a) nos teníamos que recoger pronto, que hoy tocaba trabajar y yo tenía que coger el tren
b) capra_boy estaba anginoso y febroso y no era plan de tenerlo correteando por antros de vicio y subcultura varios (¿es que nadie piensa en los libros? Con lo delicados que son, expuestos a tanto virus...)
Fuimos a "Continuará...", donde vimos un poquito lo que había y escuchamos anécdotas encantadoras del World of Warcraft (¡Exclusiva de La Fortaleza Rosa para el mes que viene!), y luego capra_boy nos llevó a un bar a tomar algo. Incluso nos hicimos un par de fotos :D (seguramente ya estarán correteando por el caralibro a estas alturas. Oh, el horror que sale de ese engendro tecnológico maligno... Mi cara es uno de ellos, por desgracia para el mundo).
Y después nos fuimos a casa, porque somos buenas legal-neutrales personas (más tirando a caótico-neutral, pero quién se acordará si no lo digo?) y responsables (es un decir), cosa que molestó a la dragona un poco. Posiblemente lo hayáis visto en las noticias, eso del derribo que provocó un dragón rojo en Barcelona y cómo tostó todas las palomas de Plaza Cataluña de una llamarada... ¿Ah, no? Si es que la prensa es de un manipulador...

El viernes a mediodía, como tengo esperanzas de salir tempranito (a eso de las tres y poco), me la llevaré a comer a un chino del que saldremos rodando (CROQUETAAAAAA!!!) y luego ya veremos qué hacemos.
La primera parada será la fnac (tengo asuntos que resolver. *chan-chan-CHAAAN*) y luego a "Gigamesh". Después... pues no sé qué haremos. Porque yo, de Barcelona, poco. Y después de la visita de eldowen, tengo mucho cuidado con a dónde y cómo me llevo a la gente :p Tu sufrimiento no fue en vano, elfita, consuélate con eso.

Oh, ahora que caigo, eldowen, achuchones dados a la dragona de tu parte :D

Horoscope!

Geminis en tarot.com
You can give the impression you are a bit scattered, but you probably know what you are doing and why you are doing it. Others might observe you starting several projects without finishing them today. Nevertheless, you can ultimately have the last laugh when all your separate tasks come together with finesse. But this won't happen by itself, so you'll need to stay focused on your final goal throughout the day.

I like how it says "you probably know what you're doing and why", because that's true for me 24/7.

Ayer tenía hora con la dentista, para sacarme el molde de la dentadura y enviarlo a la empresa que hace los aparatos para que ellos hagan bien el estudio para la ortodoncia, programen los brackets (aún alucino con el concepto) y los envíen a la dentista para que me los pongan.
Vamos, que me untó los dientes de pasta y creó el negativo de esculturas de arte abstracto. O post-moderno. No sé, lo que esté más de moda hoy en día en el mundo de los esculpe-piedras.

De hecho, la visita ( fue mucho más que eso )

Another Friday, another meme! This one stolen shamelessly from jlarinda:

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

Actually, I'm going to split this meme in two, because I have too much favorite characters :D
* Miyazawa Yukino (KareKano)
* Naga, the White Serpent (Slayers)
* Piper Halliwell (Charmed)
* Fran Fine (The Nanny)
* Mary Cherry (Popular)
* Donna Noble (Doctor Who) (I'm sorry, Martha :( )
* Mizuno Ami (Sailor Moon)
* Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
* Jean Grey (X-men)
* Willow Rosenberg (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer)

* Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
* Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
* Tom Paris (Star Trek: Voyager)
* Seiichiro Aoki (X-1999)
* Icchan (Angelic Layer)
* Kimihiro Watanuki (xxxHOLiC)
* Joxer (Xena, Warrior Princess) (Ok, so perhaps this is a tie with Autolycus and Gabrielle)
* Yasunori Kuroki (Nodame Cantabile) (Kuroki-ku~n, but the nerdy one at France is also good)
* Arthur (Merlin) (Yes, over Merlin. In more than one sense :p (but they flip-flop, so it's not like Arthur only tops))
* Marvin, the Paranoid Andriod (The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy) (Yeah, it's a machine and doesn't respond to the male/female category, but he had a male voice, so I'm going with that, ok?)

You know what's strange? I enjoyed Mai HiME and Mai-Otome (and its OVAs), but I have no favourite characters in these series.

As a reward, if you do this, you can post this meme on your journal too! EXCELSIOR!!

Let's have some funny last-working-day-of-the-week! :D

iGoogle receives new functionalities and looks (sort of).

It's all fine and dandy until you want to hide that new column. I manage my iGoogle tabs in a way that allows me to have everything I want in the screen. Every tab has its functionality and theme. And that's for a reason. I don't need a list of all my tabs and all its gadgets.

I'm sure some people will find it useful. But for those who doesn't really need it, what about some way to hide that new lateral menu? I'd like to regain that width, it makes my iGoogle!working area less clustered, and I prefer it that way.

I'm saying it because I can't find a way to hide that column. Even in the tour page with detail information about the nav page there's nothing about it.

If there is a way to hide that nav, can you please point me out where is it? If there is no way to hide it, then I guess I'll have to learn to appreciate it.

These kind of forced changes are ugly, specially because google has the technology and knowledge (hello, gwt) to allow the option of minimizing a lateral navigation column.
Way to go, google.

edit: after reading this, and all the complaints (and realizing that, again, this was launched almost nine months ago and we get it nowm, go Spain), I'm pretty sure they won't rollback to a previous version.
I'm surprised they haven't yet implement an option to minimize the sidebar. I'm not even talking about toggling on the new or old version of iGoogle (I don't think that would be productive or easy to implement) or allowing an alternate version that emulates the old tab system. So that leads me to think they won't make this change until a new version of iGoogle is roll out or... well, they won't make this change period.

I bring you cookies memes!

( Avenue Q character )

( 3 Variable Funny Test )

Yesterday I realized why Firefox was running so slow lately. Specially when I tried to type an url. It needed so much time just to tell me "no, I don't have this url listed in my history, please keep typing" that it was not funny.
I opened the history window and, well, there were like 38k items.
no wonder Firefox took its time to check if it knew the url!
Now it runs smoothly and starts a lot faster.
Sometimes I fail at technology *facepalm*

Horoscope!

Geminis en tarot.com
You cannot stop the words from buzzing through your mind now, even if they don't bring you any closer to a solution. Messenger Mercury, your ruling planet, is hyperactive from its alignment with exuberant Jupiter. It becomes easier for you as your stream of consciousness transforms from turbulent waters into a gently meandering river. And although your angst fades, you still might not decide on a plan of action for another few days.

*reads work!mail*
*reads horoscope*
*reads work!mail again*
But I need to decide on a plan of action! Yesterday! (Apparently).

("Detect" button in location? Is this new? It's not like I'm going to use it, tho)

En tan sólo dos horas de exposición, la TDT me ha brindado grandes cosas, como
- Bugwatch: los insectoides vigilantes de la playa, una GENIAL! serie de animación.
- Seaquest 2032: GENIAL! en sí misma, pero pierde desde que el prota de Tiburón no es el capitán.
- Invasores: un programa-cupido donde decides con quién te quedas viendo sus habitaciones.
Y quizá lo más espectacular e inesperado de todo:
- un capítulo de Se ha escrito un crímen donde han acusado a la Fletcher de ser la asesina. Y hasta la han llevado a la comisaría. No hace falta que digamos qué ha pasado a continuación, os hacéis una idea ¬¬U

En otro orden de cosas, el brutal!reset al router ha funcionado. Me ha costado un poco dar con la correcta configuración de la conexión, pero lo he logrado. Como es evidente por el mero hecho de que esta entrada existe :D
Menos mal que me apunté los DNS correctos (y que he recordado que existe el papel donde lo tengo todo escrito ¬¬U), que si tengo que fiarme de los DNS que me da el número de teléfono de telefónica, aún estoy poniendo velas a la Bruja Lola ¬¬U

Ahora, a levantar la wi-fi.

( Also-also, Torchwood Children of Earth (EP 4 SPOILERS. BIG TIME) )

Q: Sam...
Sam: yes?
*Q gets really close to Sam*
Q: the year is 2009, right?
Sam: yes.
Aww, bless.

I think I'll refrain from watching the rest of Torchwood as soon as it's aired. I'm just not ready to read all the stuff the fandom is generating. Too much to think about. And I can see wank on the horizon, after yesterday's chapter.
I'll watch all of it this weekend, probably, when I'm allowed (by myself) to vegetate and do fandom stuff (like read entries about Torchwood Season 3 (is it even a season? some people call it by the name, "Children of Earth"; others say "season three"; others just "torchoowd")). I will be dead of awesome, so don't expect me to comment it (even as incoherently as I tend to do from time to time).

Meanwhile, weather has improved. No rain, no storm; just cloudy. Air is fresh and the atmosphere is a bit cleaner; that's why rain is good for us.
Of course, some people here in my office now are bitching about how cooooold it is out there and whyyyyy are we having so lowww temperatures and generally in need of a whaaaambulance.

( Meanwhile meanwhile )

Geminis en tarot.com
Life in general seems easier for you today, even if all your unresolved issues remain the same. But you don't have to worry about them for a while and that can ease the tension enough so you can enjoy the present moment. Nevertheless, you must be careful that your imagination doesn't carry you too far away now or you could miss the love that is right in front of you.

That first line. Spot on. The second one? Gave me hope. The third one? Didn't see that coming.
Love? In front of me? Dude, there is no one in front of me.

( Un par de links )

Or, more accurately, grown-up children think of the children?

Anyway, new Torchwood series, running workdays during this week. A full week full of Torchwood full-ness. Joy, I has it!

This first chapter's been good. I've enjoyed it so much! We get to see more about Torchwood families (Oh hai thar, Ianto's sister! And Captain's daughter and grandson(!). And Gwen and Rhys' baby(!!))

( Ok, more spoilers here )

I hope the rest of this Series 3 keeps going as the first chapter :D

There's this icon going around livejournal (and lj-like sites, like journalfen) with the male!inner senshi.

(I even had de picture at some point in my life, but now it's lost during the AVG-XP crash of DOOM!)

I'm sure I've seen it at some wank reports over at F_W, but now I can't find the user who has it.

I NEED HELP.

Following this tutorial I've been able to make a RSS feed for my lj's f-list. I'm able to see f-locked entries (thanks to the auth parameter) and add filters to the url, so all seems to work ok.

But, I can't add it as a rss feed here at dw. I don't know if it's because of the auth parameter or for other reasons.

I wonder if there's an easy way to set up a feed here that allows you to see your friends locked entries at livejournal.

I'M DEAD.

Not in the "I made a mistake and they're going to kill me" dead, but more on the lines of "I'm sick and stressed and need holidays" kind of dead.

( These days... )

Horoscope!

Geminis en tarot.com
Your eyes may be bigger than your stomach today as Venus, the planet of desire, aspects grandiose Jupiter. It's doubly difficult to keep everything in balance if your friends tempt you with an unexpected invitation. Although you may not have the time, you'll likely attend anyway. The choice is yours and it may be healthier to let a time-consuming distraction pass you by.

NOBODY EXPECTES THE SPANISH INQUISITION UNEXPECTED INVITATION!! (that's the point of being unexpected, if you ask me).
Ok, you're not helping, tarot.com. Well, you are helping my conscience, but that's not good for me.

I'm going to retcon my journal. Wait, not in the Star Trek XI movie "all that exists will be lost forever in order to get a fresh start" way. I'm going to publish some out of order entries. This way I won't flood your f-list with new entries and the entries will be in the time where they belong (I'm obsessive like that). Everybody will be happy and pretty rainbows will cross the sky.

Also, Star Trek meme!
Porque no podría ser más oportuno: ( Qué personaje de Star Trek eres? )

Previously...

ToyRocket told me that Emma was in coma after battling Jean again out of stock, and that meant my order wasn't unable to ship because, well, half of it simply didn't was there. MJ at ToyRocket exmplained me what options I had, and I decided to get a refund from the hospitalized Emma and get Jean, and then put another order once Emma was recovered from her almost-fatal injuries available.

( And just half an hour ago... )

Monday I was talking about my amazon orders: Cyclops coming alone, Jean and Emma coming together (yes, that's not a Good Idea, actually), and Rachel Summers Grey travelling alone and probably getting here before even their parents arrive to the country (that's my favorite time traveler!).

( Silly stuff, I has some )