The flight of an albatross

September 17, 2008

Compiling your personal Jesus

Filed under: A Love Supreme — 曹 tsao @ 5:12 pm

The kernel of Christian religion is love. But you usually plug in it some non-free modules that get more functions to overcome the dayly dificulties. It can happen because you have need it to survive, but usually it happens because you’re lazy to fight the ambient surrounding you.

These modules taint your free kernel. Even when you don’t have a free alternative, it is an unethical action.

Reverse-engineer your hardware around if you need it. Hack your life. Purify your love. Be free.

September 1, 2008

Principios para una Ingeniería Civil Humanista

Filed under: Caminos my dear — 曹 tsao @ 6:10 pm

(soon English version)

Estos son unos principios extraídos de una profunda reflexión personal sobre el pasado y el presente de la ingeniería civil en España, intentando extraer el cómo debería ejercer mi profesión. Puede que varios sean muy idealistas, pero no utópicos.

El ingeniero civil…

  • hace cálculos, pero sabe por qué los está haciendo
  • no busca problemas innecesarios, pero tampoco los evita
  • sabe trabajar el detalle, pero nunca pierde la perspectiva global
  • es metódico cuando es posible, pero creativo cuando se requiere
  • nunca deja de aprender pero tampoco deja nunca de transmitir conocimiento
  • trabaja en equipo, se gana la autoridad, decide en soledad
  • es implacable en sus decisiones, pero no pierde la humanidad
  • es consciente de las consecuencias de sus decisiones, pero no por ello pierde la humildad
  • comprende, y modifica la naturaleza, pero sólo lo justo y necesario
  • conoce y comprende la historia, evitando así cometer los errores del pasado
  • entiende el territorio que interviene, y sabe trabajar en todas las escalas que ello requiere
  • resuelve la funcionalidad, optimiza la economía, ensalza la belleza libre de artificios
  • por encima del reconocimiento público y el dinero, vive por y para la ingeniería
  • conoce y se debe a la sociedad a la que pertenece

Consolidation

Filed under: Jazz — 曹 tsao @ 10:15 am

3rd Jazz Festival in Pontedeume, next Thursday to Saturday. It’s more  than accident :-)

III Festival de Jazz de Pontedeume poster

If you still didn’t hear Sumrrá live, you’ll have a chance. But if you  are not around, you can download some recordings from their web page.  Amazing “Israel”, “Lisboa 5 PM”… Sumrrá is currently one of the most interesting jazz groups in North Spain.

Wild summer blues

Filed under: Jazz — 曹 tsao @ 9:46 am

Two weeks ago my friend Javi Calvo invited me to go to the little village of Cedeira. to hear “When a man loves a woman” played by the original author -the soul legend Percy Sledge. The event: American Roots Festival of Cedeira.

Of course we attended to a great concert, but when we didn’t got surprised because it, we really wondered with the concert after. The Big Four, a Belgian-Dutch quartet of blues played with 81 years old sax Big Jay McNeely and harmonicist Mark Tortorici three hours and half in the  night. They really seemed drowned in Red Bull. They were very, very wild. Then at 3:30 the police came to throw out us of the square and the  rain made explosions with the electric instalation, they stopped. But people began to shout asking for more. So Mark Tortorici and The  Big Four gitarist began to play without loudspeakers. The Californian  draw out his trowsers and went into the fountain in the center of the  square. A really blues ecstasy :-)

We wish a new, intense edition of the American Roots the next year  again. We’ll return to have dinner in Kilowatio tavern at the port,  drinkbeer at the Plaza Roja square, and, of course, to swing all the  night.

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