Too sexy for my grammar
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El señor obra de maneras misteriosas
El señor obra de maneras misteriosas:
- Nunca asiste a las fiestas de la oficina
- Siempre minimiza las ventanas cuando te acercas
- Se conecta al Messenger pero su estatus siempre dice “Ocupado”
- Habla mucho de su familia, pero no tiene fotos de su familia en su escritorio ni nada
- Parece que siempre tiene café, nunca parece hacer café
- Finge que habla por teléfono a pesar de que ninguna de las líneas está encendida
- A veces desaparece por días, luego llega con la cabeza cubierta en
bendas* vendas y finge que nada ha pasado - Habilita las macros
– Traducción libre y selección de uno de esos textos de humor paratextual de McSweeneys que me parte en dos de la risa.
*Como el personaje de The Bends de Radiohead.
Mercado
My writing partner Ed Burns said it best: “When the economy shrugs, it throws more people onto the corners.” It’s simple as that. Addiction is a growth industry in America. Not just in black America, but all across the country. Look at methamphetamine. Ultimately, because the drug trade is in part an economic imperative, meaning it’s the only factory still working in parts of America and therefore it is a viable employer where no other viable employer exists, it’s going to have its own fundamental lure. But it actually goes beyond money in this sense. People are defined by what they do in this culture. I think it’s the human condition. I don’t think it’s any different from any other time in history. You are what you do. You are your profession. You are your trade.
– David Simon, el creador de The Wire, una de las pocas series de televisión que me han descuadrado la vida. Le hicieron una entrevista extensa en Vice.
Tocar es como jugar (play/play)
Tortoise: Something is very wrong. This record is a disgrace to the world of music.
Achilles: What do you mean?
Tortoise: It was exactly what I was telling you about. Here Bach had modulated from C into G, settting up a secondary goal of hearing G. This means that you experience two tensions at once–waiting for resolution into G, but also keeping in mind that ultimate desire–to resolve triumphantly into C Major.
Achilles: Why should you have to keep anything in mind when listening to a piece of music? Is music only an intellectual exercise?
Tortoise: No, of course not. Some music is highly intellectual, but most music is not. And most of the time your ear or your brain does the “calculation” for you, and lets your emotions know what they want to hear. You don’t have to thinkg about it conciously. But in this piece, Bach was playing tricks, hoping to lead you astray. And in your case, Achilles, he succeeded.
Achilles: Are you telling me that I responded to a resolution in a subsidiary key?
Tortoise: That’s right.
Achilles: But still sounded like an ending to me.
Tortoise: Bach intentionally made it sound that way. You just fell into his trap. It was deliberately contrived to sound like an ending, but if you follow the harmonic progression carefully, you will see that it is in the wrong key. Apparently not just you but also this miserable record company fell for the same trick– and they truncated the piece early!
Achilles: What a dirty trick Bach played on me.
– De los freaky diálogos de Aquiles y la tortuga de Gödel, Escher and Back: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Reporteros de bases de datos
“Some stories are just better told as databases and interactive web apps,” said Adrian Holovaty, founder of the neighborhood news site EveryBlock, which was funded by a Knight News Challenge grant and acquired by MSNBC.com in August. He explained by e-mail that “newspapers already understand that photography tells a story in a different way, and video tells a story in a different way, and those subdisciplines are well established in news companies. But custom Web apps haven’t crossed that chasm in newsroom culture yet.”
– Leído en Mashable, en un artículo de cómo los periodistas/programadores “están cambiando il mondo”.
