MindGlimpse Resucitado

There's no home for you here girl.

1. Waking up for practice
2. Burning matches
3. Talking quietly
4. Breaking baubles
5. Throwing garbage
6. Drinking soda
7. Looking happy
8. Taking pictures

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 8:26 PM 0 comentarios

Ya casi..

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 2:24 PM 0 comentarios

Castaway

Maldita sea.
Nunca deberia empezar un post en mi blog con esa frase, pero es que en serio que maldita sea!Sin TV por cable, sin teléfono y lo mas doloroso, sin internet.
Uno nunca sabe lo que tiene hasta que lo pierde, no cabe duda, como es necesaria la información en mi vida, y leer revistas y periódicos si entretiene, pero se acaban! Ayer pase un buen rato en Sanborn's leyendo revistas hasta que me canse de estar parado. Después, me puse a pensar donde podia escribirle un correo a Teresa, asi que con lo poco que me quedaba me fui a subway, donde tienen un punto WiFi, y me conecte desde ahi, pero a las horas (unas 3) sucedio lo inevitable:

- ¿Deseas ordenar algo más amigo?

- No gracias, me llene mucho.

- Lo que sucede es que el acceso internet es sólo para clientes

- Entonces que suerte que acabo de comprar un Subway Italiano BMT y una soda.

- Disculpe, hace 3 horas de eso.

- ¿Quiere decir entonces que mi calidad de cliente expiró hace 3 horas?

- No, no es eso, simplemente son políticas de la empresa, no depende de mi deberas.

- Si entiendo, no hay problema, muchas gracias.

De cualquier forma ya sabía a lo que estaba atenido, asi que en realidad no me molesté pero fue divertido ver como reaccionaría, ya que seguramente están acostumbrados a que la gente solamente diga "ok, disculpa".

Después de ahi me dirigi a un cybercafe para al fin responder los 2 que tenia en mi inbox de Teresa =) Hay algo muy denigrante en los cybercafes, para empezar, lo hostil que es trabajar en una máquina totalmente desconocida, sin los programas que tu ya tienes instalados, y en general todos los settings, me choca la gente que pone que la barra de menú de windows se esconda automaticamente.

Otra cosa es que está lleno de extraños, casi todos de 12 a 18 años chateando, es lo único que les interesa. Y por último pagar tan barato por un servicio que es tan valioso!....

Me siento como castaway sin contacto alguno con el mundo exterior, de perdida Tom Hanks tenía una playa paradisiaca.

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 7:52 AM 0 comentarios

Broke

Im posting from Ford. Yesterday I was watching the olympic games, enjoying the performance of this one Korean guy swinging around that bar (that looks like fun) and right when he was going to land, the channel went dead. For an instant I thought "oh, must be the channel, happens some times" and then i flipped channels and all of them were dead too. So my very debt-experienced instinct made me turn around to look over the window, and then I confirmed my suspect. I saw the car of my cable company running away from my house, the motherfucker cancelled my cable without even knocking at my door. So then I tried to call the company and the phone was dead too.
God damn it!! So right now when I get to home after writting this, I will have no phone, no internet and no TV.. fuck I might as well slip into an overall, leave my beard grow and make some really good goat cheese to sell. O-well, I hope this bad rush of poorness goes away soon.

Everything's good besides that, and actually, I had a really great day at work today, very productive. I went to pick up some peeps from Ford USA to the airport and brought them here to the plant. uhmm what else? Gym was terrific lastnight. and I hope today is too. Ok, Im off.

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 12:40 PM 3 comentarios

Yeah Sure.

Larry King: "Are we better off than two years ago?"
George W. Bush: "Absolutely. The World is safer"

Lo triste es que mas o menos la mitad de los USA lo creen, en fin aqui esta la entrevista completa.

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 12:48 PM 0 comentarios

In yo face chico!

Oh boy, have I been feeling anti-usa lately....
Today, the United States Olympic Basketball Team a.k.a. "Dream Team" was beaten by more than 20 points by the Puerto Rican team, this is their first defeat since only god knows when. For this post, I searched all over the web for a specific picture I saw in the news (in Telemundo) where one of the PuertoRican guys is proudly flashing his shirt against one of the American Team and he looks like he cant believe it. I couldnt find that picture but I will be on the look hehe. It was funny then that ESPN Sport Center didnt have news about it. O-well I still think the USA is gonna take over the gold medal but it's good to have some action once in a while.

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 10:31 AM 0 comentarios

Algunos gringos dan asco.

Green Card is ultimate prize on Reality Show
"Win the Green" ("Gana la verde") has attracted big audiences and hundreds of contestants willing to eat burritos crammed with live worms, jump off high-speed trucks or wash sky-scraper windows in exchange for a year's legal help in speeding up their visa or green card cases. Noticia Completa.

No puedo (ni tengo el tiempo necesario) describir en este momento la sensación de repulsión, coraje y tristeza que sentí al leer esta noticia. Ya lo habia comentado antes en un post. Me da mucha tristeza ver por todo lo que tiene que pasar nuestra gente, para poder trabajar, sin todos los beneficios legales que los demás tienen, y muchas veces más horas y en posiciones muy denigrantes y arriesgando la vida por hacerlo. Y es increible como despues de que son tratados así, aqui en México se les espera a todo el turismo estadounidense "con los brazos abiertos". Para comodidad del estadounidense (y para conveniencia propia) en todo tipo de transacciones se aceptan dólares. Siendo que en Estados Unidos no se aceptan pesos inmediatamente despues de la frontera, esto porsupuesto que se comprende, ya que al haber tanta inmigración sería imposible manejar todas las monedas. Pero nisiquiera en los bancos puedes cambiar de moneda. O llevas dólares, o llevas dólares.

Si usted es un turista gringo y no habla bien el español, Don't worry! Para su comodidad, a casi todos los mexicanos (y en toda latinoamérica) se nos enseña en la escuela inglés para poder servirlo a usted como se merece! Y si falta gente por aprender, nuestras autoridades se preocupan por implementar la enseñanza de la lengua extranjera para estar "a la vanguardia". Y cada vez son más y más los negocios que no solo tienen el nombre en inglés, sino que todos sus estándares de producción, distribución y customer service son adaptados a los estándares gringos, para que usted, nuestro turista/inversionista, quien nunca se preocupó por aprender el español y que espera que todos hablen su idioma a donde quiera que vaya (en todo el mundo), se sienta como en casa.

Los negocios y franquicias de capital extranjero - gringo pues - son cada vez más y más, y representan una enorme y abrumadora competencia para los pocos negocios mexicanos que intentan hacerse de un lugar en el mercado. Hermosillo es una ciudad relativamente grande, no tanto comparado con otras ciudades, y está infestado de negocios gabachos. Simplemente cerca de mi casa hay varios, yo vivo cerca de:

• 2 McDonald's
• 2 Blockbuster
• 3 Dairy Queen
• 1 Cinemark
• 1 Applebee's
• 1 Autozone
• 1 Subway
• 2 Domino's Pizza
• 1 Baskins and Robins
• 1 Hertz Car Rental
• 2 KFC
• 1 Wal-Mart (next to my school)
• 1 Burger King
• 1 Costco
• 1 Curves Health
• 1 RadioShack
• and 1 Peter Piper Pizza comming very soon (right accross the street from La Fabula Pizza)

Y por otras partes de la ciudad se pueden encontrar Carl's Jr, Home Depot, Dunkin' Donuts, Burger King, AlphaGraphics, Pizza Hut, Gold's Gym, Ace Homecenter, Thrifty, Circle K, Sam's Club y muchisimos más negocios de capital extranjero, que indudablemente (no lo niego) entregan a la sociedad productos y servicios de mucha calidad, haciéndolos los predilectos del consumidor. Desde 1999 no existe cadena americana de cualquier giro que no tenga una sucursal en México.

Mucha gente, entre ellos los encargados de "atraer inversionistas" -digase gobierno, contratistas, o dueños de terrenos - alega que estos negocios generan una gran cantidad de empleos. Pero, yo me pregunto: Tomando en cuenta la enorme competencia (si es que existe) que representan estos negocios para el desarrollo de empresas nacionales, ¿Serán equiparables los empleos que generan a la cantidad de empleos que quitan o que no pemiten generar? Por otro lado, hay que ver de que clase son estos empleos, ¿ que tántas posibilidades tengo yo como empleado de un Wal-Mart o de McDonald's de superarme y escalar en mi trayectoria profesional?, supongo yo que el siguiente aplicante para la posición que ocupe, puede perfectamente reemplazarme si es necesario, con sólo semanas de entrenamiento.

Volviendo a lo de la noticia, es repugnante ver que nuestra gente llegue a ese grado de denigración por conseguir lo que a grandes rasgos es un permiso para desarrollar un trabajo que solucione una necesidad, el cual muchas veces es muy mal pagado, sin contar la cantidad de trámites necesarios para obetner un trabajo por la vía legal. Los que hemos tenido la oportunidad de presenciarlo lo vemos, y los que no la han tenido, no se imaginan lo fácil que es para un estadounidense cruzar la frontera mexicana, sin que se le pregunte nada en la mayoria de los casos (a veces ni el equipaje se revisa) y ellos pueden conseguir un empleo facilísimo, sin tenér que pasar por molestos trámites de paperwork. Entonces ¿porque chingados aqui se les trata como reyes mientras allá hacen reality shows denigrantes?. Honestamente, no lo se, pero probalemente sea porque no todos son asi.

Como todas las cosas, no se puede generalizar. Así como Estados Unidos no es puro odio, México no es pura gente amable, y así pasa en todo el mundo. Yo siempre he sido un gran admirador de la cultura gringa, y me encanta su modo de vivir (claro, viven muy bien) y los que me conocen saben que estoy enamorado de una gran mujer de origen estadounidense. Pero frustra muchísimo ver cómo este país tiene sometido al resto del mundo (estoy posteando desde Ford Motor Company, donde espero obtener un empleo) y da mucho mayor asco ver como hay gente que se hace millonaria, estos no son contratos por sólo 1000 dólares, se ganan millones transmitiendo nation-wide las cosas de que son capaces unos ilegales por su necesidad de ganarse la vida.

Despues de todo si tuve el tiempo necesario, hahah me voy, ya me dio hambre, creo que voy a comerme una Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger de las que me fascinan...

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 9:53 AM 1 comentarios

Aburridisimo

No se me ilumina nada la mente, no puedo programar hoy.... =(

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 9:25 AM 0 comentarios

43 pesos a la basura.

I just watched King Arthur... and came back deeply dissapointed.
I mean, this whole epic vibe of movies lately, i really like the idea, but this movie specially doesnt add anything to it, it felt like I saw the whole movie before I actually did So predictable and sort of cheesy at points... everything in the movie is been done already, they even threw the "why god, why did you have to take him, take me instead" in there.

I think they threw to trash a good story that could be well made by some other really talented crew. At least thank god they didnt decide to make this a trilogy... that would s.u.c.k!

There's several elements that this "epic" movies never miss:

1. Based on a book that is very boring, cheap and unknown, until the movie comes out, then everybody just brags about reading the book(s) and they usually "like the book better than the movie"
   
   
2. They always begin with text narration of the story.
   
   
3. There's always an object of personal value, given to one of the main characters by some loved one (i.e. left-behind chick, or a death father) this is tipically a ring, a sword, some necklace or any sort of amulet, and this object will be likely made by them. Note that they only need ONE of these objects,just to fill in the requirement, for some reasons the other characters' loved ones dont care enough to give them something to remember them in battle.
   
   
4. The leader of the group is always questioned by his friends/crew/army, but this wont last, cause one of them will go like "you guys just don't understand, he's doing it because he's intelligent and fare, we should follow him to face our destiny even if that means our death"
   
   
5. There's always a horse trip to somewhere, these guys just can't stay at home, it seems that they never get invaded. They always make a trip with horses and camp somewhere at least once.
   
   
6. There's always a guy too weak, or too young that wants to go to war, and he gets told not to, but at the end, he helps with something.
   
   
7. A very accurate arrow shot, to anything, a hidden guy, an object, something, but they always have very skilled archers.
   
   
8. While camping, it always happens something, a discussion comes up, or somebody hooks up and makes out with a girl, or they get ambushed or something. They dont have normal pic-nics camping
   
   
9. There's ALWAYS the fat,barbarian, brainless,but very strong guy.. he is the one making jokes the whole movie long, he tipically talks with a strong accent, and this guy NEVER dies.
   
   
10. There's also the guy that comes up with a line like this: "if i die, dont burry me, throw my ashes to the ocean" or, "if i die, i want it to be in the battle field"... this guy will DIE in the movie for SURE and he'll do it just the way he said he would. And his friends will also do whatever he asked them to when he died.
    
    
11. There's always that scene with all the arrows flying in the sky. They could be in flames or not.
    
    
12. The chick that's very brave and wants to go to war with the rest of them.
    
    
13. A very cool sword/horse.
    
    
14. The two fighting armies always stand in front of eachother and right before they attack, they all yell something "meaninful" to them..(wtf is "Rus" by the way?) that's the good guys army, cause the other army just shouts out loud.
    
    
15. The men in the "good" army are always fewer than the "bad guys" army.
    
    
16. A party before the main battle, where everybody's drinking but the smart guys are worried or talking outside.
    
    
17. To start a battle, just one of the armie's main guy (could be the bad or the good one), strikes first. ALWAYS FIRST. Before the entire army, and he always yell something too, he can't just attack the other army with his mouth shut.
    
    
18. This guy never gets killed, they could easily kill him with one of those cool arrow shots (see point #7) is just one single guy riding a horse coming right to them, but for some reason its not that good of a target.
    
    
19. There's always the scene where the camera shows the two armies running into eachother and when they're about too get there, the camera changes to side view and you can see them right in the instant when they mash into one crazy mass. Nobody relevant gets killed right this instant.
    
    
20. A guy chopping people's heads off right from his horse.
    
    
    
21. In the middle of all the slaughtering, somehow the main guys manage to find a empty circle where they get to fight. None of the entire eachother's armies is smart enough to even think is appropiate to back-up their chief at this time.
    
    
22. When the good sidekick character its about to die (or dies), it will always be seen above the shoulder from far from another good guy, whose just happened to turn his head that way in all that mess, that exact moment.Then he'll finish off the guy whos fighting at the momment and will run accross the crowd trying to save his man, of course killing a lot of pretty incompet soldiers in his way there.
    
    
    
23. A lot of horses falling down.
    
    
24. There's always 2-6 good guy's sidekicks, but there's only one bad guy's sidekick.
    
    
25. None of the good guys happen to have straight hair. It's always a curly mess and for some reason its always wet at all times of the movie.
    
    
26. Despite the hundreds of guys that get killed instantly by arrows, there's always one guy that has to take it out of him, or break it.
    
    
27. In the fight from #21, one of the guys loses his sword, but the other guy lets him pick it up.



28. All the killing of relevant characters will be in slowmo.



29. In the fight from #21 the bad guy will win, and right when he's about to cut the good guy's head off, he'll turn around fast and kill him.

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 2:02 PM 3 comentarios

Mucho mejor que la Academia y BigBrother.

Amish In the City.....
Five Amish teens share a mansion with six city kids in Los Angeles as part of an Amish tradition called "rumspringa," in which they see the world before joining their faith for good. The city kids had no idea the Amish were coming - and treated them incredibly rudely when they arrived. "You think you're going to live in this dope house with cool people, you're going to be partying, you're going to be hooking up, and then Amish people show up?" moaned Meagan, a fashion stylist, wearing a decidedly uncool smock-top sundress over jeans.
In future episodes expect scandal (two of the Amish used to date) and weirdness (vegan Ariel, who snacks on seaweed flakes, believes cows are from outer space).

Hahah, estos son los reality shows que deberian transmitir en Mexico, no la basura actual.

escrito por JaviWanKenobi @ 4:57 PM 0 comentarios