The Universe is blessing us tonight, is raining again.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Completed the MBA tonight, I feel somehow elated, somehow the same, somehow different trying to conciliate how I imagened this moment to be when It was only a poor kid's dream and now that's a humbled man´s reality.
Posted by Ken at 11/30/2010 10:44:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: We just could had wait for a taxi you know...Afraid of the comfort of strangers?...Hitching a ride on an unknown person's car?...Earth is full of good people, like seeks like.
Posted by Ken at 11/30/2010 04:10:00 PM 0 comments
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
Posted by Ken at 11/30/2010 02:12:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Something just doesn't ring, a blog with only one entry setup overnight?...I noticed...From where in the world you visited the site?...France, disguised as a web spider.
Posted by Ken at 11/30/2010 01:47:00 PM 0 comments
RT @Unknown Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because there is more manure there...
Posted by Ken at 11/30/2010 10:47:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude:It's beautiful because you are inside, no outside, cold and wet, waiting for public transportation in order to get to work...Let's go for a walk...In the rain...Sure, why not.
Posted by Ken at 11/30/2010 02:27:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, November 29, 2010
Watching Aronofsky's The Fountain for the Nth time. Not many films can blow your mind and break your heart at the same time.
Posted by Ken at 11/29/2010 07:49:00 AM 0 comments
RT @Calvino Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.
Posted by Ken at 11/29/2010 05:42:00 AM 0 comments
Waking up, 3:00am in the morning. The city is silent, the night is cold, Leslie Nielsen is dead and I'm reading Whitman again.
Posted by Ken at 11/29/2010 12:11:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, November 28, 2010
RT @Whitman I celebrate myself to celebrate every man and every woman alive...
Posted by Ken at 11/28/2010 04:42:00 PM 0 comments
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Interlude: Mina Harker, Quatermain and Fanny Hill...Noooooo.
Posted by Ken at 11/27/2010 06:43:00 PM 0 comments
Waking up from a 5 minutes nap that lasted 4 hours.
Posted by Ken at 11/27/2010 02:56:00 PM 0 comments
My guest just asked me to lend her one of my Coehlo's books! Books must be freed, but it certainly hurts parting ways with them.
Posted by Ken at 11/27/2010 10:19:00 AM 0 comments
change your facebook profile picture, by that of a cartoon of your childrenhood and invite your friends to do the same. The sense of play? See no more, until Monday, a human face on facebook but an invasion of memories (FOR FIGHTING ... ...... THE CHILD VIOLENCE! FOR A GOOD CAUSE) Feel like?
Posted by Ken at 11/27/2010 09:09:00 AM 0 comments
Having Couchsurfers staying over this weekend, two sisters from Israel. Wondering what sort of underground tour of the city I can prepare for them =)
Posted by Ken at 11/27/2010 08:55:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude: Weird dream, Did we just had tea with Cthulhu?...what a naughty tentacled being...If dreams are the mind defragmenting itself I wonder what's going trough ours.
Posted by Ken at 11/27/2010 04:42:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, November 26, 2010
Interlude: One doesn't beg the sun for mercy..I know.
Posted by Ken at 11/26/2010 05:46:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, November 25, 2010
RT @IrisMurdoch "Falling out of love is one of the great human experiences; you seem to see the world with newly awakened eyes."
Posted by Ken at 11/25/2010 10:32:00 AM 0 comments
Note-to-Self: Thanksgiving dinner with Mayra and Teddy. 7:00pm.
Posted by Ken at 11/25/2010 08:33:00 AM 0 comments
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Posted by Ken at 11/25/2010 08:20:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude:I hadn't dance salsa in aeons, yet...You enjoyed it, we cared about our dancing partners, usually we don't, so we don't dance, dance is a personal thing, you dance with persons, not objects.
Posted by Ken at 11/25/2010 05:06:00 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
One more class and done with the MBA, next milestone:A Ph.D in Finance.
Posted by Ken at 11/23/2010 07:59:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Worst case scenario?...Loss of hearing...I'm too tired...If you can gulp a six pack of red bull to work overnight you can do the same to go to a clinic tonight.
Posted by Ken at 11/23/2010 06:14:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: I know that smile, who's the poor soul?....is just a smile...¡Lo mismo que el fuego fatuo, lo mismito es el queré! ¡Malhaya los ojos negros que le alcanzaron a ver!...¡Malhaya el corazón triste que en mí llama quiso arder!.
Posted by Ken at 11/23/2010 04:56:00 PM 0 comments
FB RT @Monoceros I had never minded being alone, I always had known there were others like me in the world, and we need no more than that for company.
Posted by Ken at 11/23/2010 04:33:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Pissed off?...No...You walked six blocks without breaking a sweat...excess of creatine phosphate in my system maybe...really?
Posted by Ken at 11/23/2010 10:08:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, November 22, 2010
Interlude: You remind me of Nerval's poetry...You didn't read Nerval until adulthood way after the split...
Posted by Ken at 11/22/2010 04:26:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude:Summoning images of twisted metal, mangled flesh and fireballs is not a right response to a taxi driver not stoping...But certainly relieves the stress.
Posted by Ken at 11/22/2010 03:58:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Corneal abrasion...No late reading for a while...Wordsworth in 1798...A simple product of the common day.
Posted by Ken at 11/22/2010 03:00:00 PM 0 comments
One could justify one distorstions on being unfaithful, unworthy, unrighteous, unmerciful, unreachable, unteachable, unwilling, undesirable, unwise, undone, unbroken, unmended, uneasy, unapproachable, unemotional, unexceptional, undecided, unqualified, unfair, unfit, but never on being unloved.
Posted by Ken at 11/22/2010 08:35:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Interlude:Interesting profile, aren't those words mutually exclusive?...Guess one is true and the other imaginary.
Posted by Ken at 11/21/2010 01:01:00 PM 0 comments
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Watching the rain fall, the noise of tires on the wet asphalt, the ebb of improvised creeks, the gloomy quality of the remaining sunlight, the unseen links to all past and future memories I had and I'll have of moments like these.
Posted by Ken at 11/20/2010 02:23:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude:Does everyone in this town is after a relationship?!!!...Is the time of the year, they'll be back to normal on january.
Posted by Ken at 11/20/2010 08:28:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, November 19, 2010
Interlude: You were right, mind is exhausted...I warned you, we really need to get back this body home before it shutdowns in public...Kidding, I can barely type...E I need a pickup.
Posted by Ken at 11/19/2010 08:00:00 PM 0 comments
Note-to-Self: Humans, exceptionally those in the category of prime companions seem to regard one's forgetting their birthday as a capital offense. *cough*Oops!*cough*
Posted by Ken at 11/19/2010 01:34:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude:So, is not a neighbour...Not technically...How you knew she'll share the cab?...I didn't, It was a test.
Posted by Ken at 11/19/2010 08:47:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Interlude:Isn't written somewhere that neighbours are off limits?...I was merely enjoying the view...Certainly both were.
Posted by Ken at 11/18/2010 08:10:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Smoking cigars, drinking martinis, and eating steak...And lots of inconsequental sport...Lots of it...I miss the good non-healthy old days.
Posted by Ken at 11/18/2010 11:45:00 AM 0 comments
Life has its way of bringing us into contact with people who challenge us with their differences.
Posted by Ken at 11/18/2010 11:34:00 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Interlude:It was AWESOME!!...That should explain the irrational urge to go there tonight...Second sight, a summoning, coincidence, serendipity, synchronicity, choose your poison.
Posted by Ken at 11/17/2010 08:41:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: What I did different this time?....Magritte, 1928...The False mirror.
Posted by Ken at 11/17/2010 03:19:00 PM 0 comments
Being paranoid was a sensible and well-adjusted reaction to life in mid-20th century earth...
Posted by Ken at 11/17/2010 02:49:00 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Interlude:What?...Just thinking, mom and dad under the same roof since what? Childhood?...If you are implying I can't handle the emotional storm...I'm just saying.
Posted by Ken at 11/16/2010 09:48:00 PM 0 comments
Quite an existential argument for one that doubts itself to be real...
Posted by Ken at 11/16/2010 09:17:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude:It's time, you know the rules, back to simulation two...What's different this time? Aren't you curious?...Curiosity killed the cat...Not in all the simulations...A theory I see no validity on testing tonight Dear.
Posted by Ken at 11/16/2010 09:05:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: So if we extend our lifetimes to thirty or forty centuries, using a car becomes an existential threat...way to justify not owning one.
Posted by Ken at 11/16/2010 06:32:00 PM 0 comments
Monday, November 15, 2010
Ken's underground tour of pty city about to end...
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 08:59:00 PM 0 comments
Bar hoping with a visiting friend from the San Jose "Potreros"...La luna
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 07:58:00 PM 0 comments
RT @LilyTomlin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 01:53:00 PM 0 comments
Note-to-Self: Don't forget the umbrella at home if there's an area of disturbed weather OBVIOUSLY MARKED ON THE DAMN WEATHER MAP.
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 11:21:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude:So what are we testing today? How much water our clothes can hold after an unexpected rainstorm or how long it takes to get the flu afterwards?...How long it takes my body heat to dry our wet clothes maybe?.
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 11:17:00 AM 0 comments
Note-to-Self: Don't experiment with the only brain you have.
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 07:10:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude: It's happening again...Probably a transient...It's been 34 hours...Be thankful it wasn't a shutdown of our vision this time...or worse...or worse.
Posted by Ken at 11/15/2010 07:05:00 AM 0 comments
Saturday, November 13, 2010
RT @Murakami If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Posted by Ken at 11/13/2010 09:12:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: In this world there're people that likes to know train schedules or build boats using toothpicks, is rare then.that at least one person wants to understand you?...Like a hobby?...Like sympathy or love.
Posted by Ken at 11/13/2010 08:48:00 PM 0 comments
Gorecki is dead?!! The Universe gives with one hand and takes with the other.
Posted by Ken at 11/13/2010 06:53:00 AM 0 comments
Aung San Suu Kyi released!!! What a good way to start the day!
Posted by Ken at 11/13/2010 06:29:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, November 12, 2010
Interlude:We live in an age of mirrors...Mirrors have their own perils...As long as you keep me on the right side of the looking glass.
Posted by Ken at 11/12/2010 05:40:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude:20 prospects in the last month and you still undecided...I don't see the need to add more companions...Self-observation killed Narcissus you know.
Posted by Ken at 11/12/2010 03:47:00 PM 0 comments
FB RT @BernardusCarnotensis Nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea
Posted by Ken at 11/12/2010 10:52:00 AM 0 comments
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
Posted by Ken at 11/12/2010 10:16:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude: Beware the mind, it play tricks according to its own aims, switching what is not with what it is...Beware the heart, it play tricks according to its own aims, switching what it is with what it is not.
Posted by Ken at 11/12/2010 10:01:00 AM 0 comments
Note-to-Self: Buy Principios de Administración de Operaciones by Heizer and Render...www.showerdog.com...Milton's site...Register Adaptative-entoptics
Posted by Ken at 11/12/2010 08:55:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, November 11, 2010
RT @alex_chevalier: Me dijo mi papa que si atropello a Eladio voy a ser muy famosa y voy a quitar ese trafico de pinga de esta semana, ... http://tmi.me/364Ia
Posted by Ken at 11/11/2010 01:54:00 PM 0 comments
RT @9InchNails
You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith
You can have my everything...
I wanna...
Posted by Ken at 11/11/2010 01:31:00 PM 0 comments
Help me
I've got no soul to sell
help me
The only thing that works for me
help me get away from myself
...
I wanna...
http://ping.fm/FX5Ow
Posted by Ken at 11/11/2010 01:30:00 PM 0 comments
RT @FellowCouchSurfer It seems that the poorer one is, the more friendly and hospitable they are. But the more wealthier one is, there is a tendency to seek more privacy.
Posted by Ken at 11/11/2010 01:18:00 PM 0 comments
RT @MonicaPalm Según Vallarino, las palabras de Martinelli fueron sacadas “de contexto”. Ahora, cada vez que alguien los entreviste, hay que preguntarles dentro de qué contexto están contestando.
Posted by Ken at 11/11/2010 05:07:00 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Sorting out my dead-tree books, a filled bookcase is far more beautiful than the unsuspectful Sd card that holds my entire library. Media servers should include an option to select and stream books too.
Posted by Ken at 11/10/2010 08:04:00 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Interlude:In principio...creavit Ken...Caelum et terram.
Posted by Ken at 11/09/2010 11:42:00 PM 0 comments
High-energy liquid extracted from barrier roots of Ecaz. Commonly used by Mentats who claim it amplifies mental powers. Users develop deep ruby stains on mouth and lips.
Posted by Ken at 11/09/2010 10:33:00 PM 0 comments
Intermission:What a sudden change of mood...Fits the pattern...Sadly...Hope he can learn to respect it before is too late.
Posted by Ken at 11/09/2010 10:22:00 PM 0 comments
Panama's rising rancor: One Nation, Divisible By Politics...
Posted by Ken at 11/09/2010 05:08:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Blood! when in heaven I cut myself?...Sweet endorphins.
Posted by Ken at 11/09/2010 04:20:00 PM 0 comments
Kids outside the Don Bosco school are "protesting" against violence...A fellow student was killed by another minor, just to get the kid's blackberry...We are not in Kansas anymore
Toto...
Posted by Ken at 11/09/2010 05:26:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, November 08, 2010
RT @Pooh via @ChristopherRobin Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Posted by Ken at 11/08/2010 02:43:00 PM 0 comments
Note-to-Self: Deadline to deliver paper on Panama's Afro-descendant communities set to December 31th.
Posted by Ken at 11/08/2010 09:25:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Interlude:Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away...How can I stop believing without going insane?...Insanity my dear, sometimes is the appropriate response to reality.
Posted by Ken at 11/06/2010 07:11:00 PM 0 comments
Can't believe iTunes is still backing up my iPad!! as if I need another excuse to avoid doing home chores (They are encoded by place and context on the iPad's ToDo app)...Preparing accordion potatoes and homemade hamburguers for dinner.
Posted by Ken at 11/06/2010 05:40:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: *sighs* when dance used to be about expression...It can't get worse than this...Never underestimate human naiveness.
Posted by Ken at 11/06/2010 11:12:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude: You are so dead...Way to explain the uncanny resemblance isn't?.
Posted by Ken at 11/06/2010 09:17:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude: Do you ever get a no for an answer?...No.
Posted by Ken at 11/06/2010 12:22:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude:It seems we found a body double...The resemblance is amazing...Shall we?...Indulge me.
Posted by Ken at 11/06/2010 12:14:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, November 05, 2010
Wondering who else is tagging books according to mood or weather.
Posted by Ken at 11/05/2010 11:50:00 AM 0 comments
Interlude: Sunny day, guess I can kiss goodbye reading Murakami's today...I'll bet if we start reading the weather would follow.
Posted by Ken at 11/05/2010 11:49:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Wondering why Keane's songs make the pain in life seem a bit more pleasant...
Posted by Ken at 11/04/2010 04:06:00 PM 0 comments
My wine is too strong, my dear, to drink it often...
Posted by Ken at 11/04/2010 06:53:00 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Interlude: There's a Kartell store across the street...I know, life in plastic...Is fantastic...and kitschy.
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 05:55:00 PM 0 comments
Nightfall,
Rains on an empty city
Unseen a dandelion drifts
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 05:14:00 PM 0 comments
My hands are tied behind my back,
and I'm weakened by, your slow attack,
you take me in, then change your mind again.
http://ping.fm/2iTYm
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 04:30:00 PM 0 comments
I've been to all the familiar places
I've been running like a sentence
Never begun
I've been looking for a way to let you know
I got nothing left to fill the spaces
I got nothing but a center coming undone
I've been doing circles and it shows
http://ping.fm/VFTg8
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 04:27:00 PM 0 comments
It's like somebody took my place
I ain't even playing my own game
The rules have changed well I didn't know
There are things in my life I can't control
I feel the chaos around me
A thing I don't try to deny
I'd better learn to accept that
http://ping.fm/t5NRA
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 04:21:00 PM 0 comments
Lights black
Heads bang
You're my drug
We live it
You're drunk, you need it
Real love, I'll give it
http://ping.fm/Nnu3K
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 04:14:00 PM 0 comments
Interlude: Pissed off?..It's so obvious?...If hatred could turn into a firestorm, one fourth of earth´s surface would be scorched by now.
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 04:05:00 PM 0 comments
Work it harder...
do it faster...
more than ever, our work is never over.
http://ping.fm/lGmpX
Posted by Ken at 11/03/2010 01:45:00 PM 0 comments
Monday, November 01, 2010
Interlude: Do you realize we'd been going out with this one for two weeks...It was supposed to be a one night affair, I didn't even care to memorize a name...Yeah I know, it's embarrasing.
Posted by Ken at 11/01/2010 08:17:00 PM 0 comments