Tuesday, June 17, 2008

X-Ray

Today I want to share some interesting photos. The quality is not very good, because they were taken with my mobile phone some months ago, but the "subject" can be clearly seen.



In the first one we can see a human chest (male, 93 years more or less) but, what's the bright point just in the middle?



In the second one, we have a lateral view of the same grandpa. The bright thing is also visible here.



And finally, the last photo. I think that in this one is clear what the object really is. This man has a bullet in his mediastinum since the spanish civil war. It's awesome, isn't it?

Modal verbs

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I will follow you into the dark

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Dexter

not Morgan but Jettster.
Probably the most famous cook and dinner proprietor of Coruscant, Dexter will take over this space to share with us some of the more exquisites recipes of the Galaxy, tailored to all tastes, or so we hope...

Every journey has a first step, every saga has a beginning.

The saga is called in this occasion "Ulrich Chococake" also just Ulrich and the first step is the list of ingredients.

INGREDIENTS
  • 200g Chocolate 50% cocoa (at least)
  • 100g butter
  • 100g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 big spoons flour
Preparation
  1. Melt the chocolate together with the butter by gentle heating (microwave 50% power, around 3 minutes or a few moments on the flame)
  2. Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks or yellow portions.
  3. Beat the egg whites to produce a buoyant foam (remember the century we are, use electrical tools)
  4. Add the egg yolks (and don't stop the stirring)
  5. Add the sugar (keep stirring until you don't feel the sugar grains anymore)
  6. Add the melted chocolate-butter mixture (don't need to be cold)
  7. Add the three normal size spoons flour
When the mixture is ready, transfer it into a circular mold and then bake it into the oven.
Temperature and time inside of the oven depends on the actual configuration and technical specs of the oven used.
In a classic or traditional european oven 20 minutes at 200°C (pre-heated oven) should be fine. However with an induction powered oven, 5 minutes at 170°C (pre-heated oven) followed by 15 minutes at 150°C should yield a nice result.
Just take your cooking notebook (If you don't have a cooking log book, out of my kitchen ! ) and make sure you take good notes about the results and the time/temperature.

Enjoy !



Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Fuera de carta

The human beings who boast of knowing me well may be surprised to read this comment in which, for once in my life, I’m going to write (good) about a Spanish film. Please, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not telling that all the movies “made in Spain” are bad, I’m only trying to clarify that very often I have difficulties to connect with its humour o its plots and at the end I usually find them quite stupid or boring.
When some weeks ago I saw the trailer in the cinema I supposed that, as seems be usual in this kind of films, they had shown all the good jokes in order to attract audience, but it made me laugh and I though “come on, maybe this one is good”, hopping that this wasn’t another sad case of ninety minutes of crap and only five of amusement. Two weeks later, more or less, we went to see “Fuera de carta” and when the lights were turned off we enjoyed one of the funniest Spanish comedies which we’ve ever seen.
The main character, Maxi (performed by Javier Camara, a well-know name into the Spanish comedy), is a brilliant chef, who dreams of achieve his first Michelin star and who lives perfectly happy with his homosexuality. But life is always full of surprises and his past slap him in the face when he has to take care of his little daughter and his teenager son (that he has not seen since ages), after the sudden death of their mother. As if it wasn’t enough, an Argentinean ex-football player enters in Maxi’s life. Unfortunately, his forever-single friend Alexandra also goes for the handsome Argentinean who, in turn, is not very sure about if he should come out of the closet or not…
Don’t worry; I’m not going to spoil the movie for you by telling what happens at the end. I would prefer to read some other opinions, if you have the chance to see it…

Friday, April 11, 2008

New Amsterdam


What means being immortal? Is it a curse or a gift? That’s probably what John Amsterdam must be thinking all the longest minutes of his eternal life. Born 400 years ago, his life changed completely when he saved the life of a young American native girl. His generous action was rewarded with a sword through his chest and a new immortal existence courtesy of a bunch of native women and a shaman. It’s supposed that an eternal life is time more than enough to find the true love but, what happens meanwhile? How can someone wait calmly for “the one” while his sons and daughters die one by one and the world he has once known disappears?
This is more or less the plot of New Amsterdam, a new TV series which mixes the search of this immortal man for the only woman in the world who can make him mortal and the problems of his current personality as a detective for the police department. Chapter after chapter, we find out how a man, who has committed all the mistakes a human being can make during hundreds of “lives”, faces the worse that mankind can offer in a city like New York, full of crime and sorrow.
Armed with the cynicism and the self-confidence that only have seen everything can give, John Amsterdam spends his time between murderers, corpses and memories of past times, not necessary happier. Out there, in the same place where all began (the old dutch colony of New Amsterdam, today called Manhattan), waits the woman of his dreams. Will he be able to find her?
More information in http://www.fox.com/newamsterdam/.

Light at the end of the tunnel


Some people say they saw it, we have seen it in multiple occasions in the movies, but everyone sees it every time that HOPE is around.

HOPE is a little sister of FATE and those days she walks around here, where the streets have no name.

Everything started a few days ago. It was something in the air, something like "micro-changes in the air density", something like "feeling a disturbance in the Force".

At the very beginning some of the more perceptive psis in my community were not able to sleep and were singing for their owns all the time.

The next day, they were birds flying all over the place, making funny noises and raising into the sky...

A blue sky...

No more "donde el cielo es siempre gris"...
No more "donde la lluvia es arte"...
No more winter...

Summer is coming....