So hot...

Today I went to the other house of my parents (which is right next to it), the reason for this was that I was working in my laptop when no one was here and it was pretty cool, silence in the house. Like 4 or 5 in the afternoon everyone was here (my 2 sisters, my brother and my mom and dad), and they where too noisy, I couldn't work without getting distracted and was having a hard time concentrating in what I was doing.

My best solution was going to that other house, but since no one is living there at the moment it has no air conditioner and it was hot as hell. But it was quieter, so I didn't mind the heat so much, but after some minutes I was sweating hard, it was a little suffocating since there was no air current either and opening the windows and doors didn't helped that much. After I was almost finished I started to feel so thirsty because I forgot to take some water, so I went to get water.

Since things seemed to have calmed down, and I was almost finishing what I was doing, took back my laptop to the house, the only thing still annoying me a little was the weird music of my brother (some J-rock, Hindu music, Arabic music, electronic/techno, video games music, Spanish rock, punk, and many more), well it was annoying because I wasn't in the mood of hearing any music, not the music itself :P

Had it not been because I was busy I would had come back quickly.

The World Ends With You...

Today I was searching for something in my room and found this game for the DS, The World Ends With You is one of my favorites video games of all times, it is an action-RPG developed by Square-Enix, it was released in 2008 (US) and I bought it not long after its release, but I didn't played it much after finishing the first time (I lend it to Sergio and then to my brother and when I had it back I didn't have a DS)

What I love so much about this game is that it is so different in many aspects to other games, the gameplay, for instance, you have control of two characters at the same time, each in one screen, you control one character with the stylus and the other one with the d-pad, it can be confusing at first, specially if you don't have good coordination.

Other thing is that it is set in modern japan, the Shibuya disctrict in Tokyo (I think :P), the main plot involves a game, called the reapers game, in which the characters needs to survive 7 days or "face erasure", each day they receive a quest that they need to do under a certain time frame, if they don't meet the requirements they loose the game and are disqualified from it. 

It really is an epic game with good gameplay, story and music, the difficulty is good too, it has so many options to adapt it to your play style. 

I'll play it again soon :P

Easter eggs/references

I was reading an article in cracked about insane easter eggs in movies and t.v. series, one of the entries talked about the an easter egg in The Simpsons about a hidden movie of Reiner Wolfcastle showed in episodes between 1991 and 1993, really some writers are just amazing, I would never thought of something like this, and if it wasn't for this article I would have never known of this little movie.

Many video games include them too, the one I remember the most (because it had way to many :P) is WoW, something the developers like to do is make as many pop culture references they can include, and sometimes they are to obvious like Harrison Jones 

and Adam Eternum

And sometimes they aren't so obvious, like this one

If you click in the white square int the door you read a sequence of number, it is a Lost reference, I didn't get it at first because I wasn't a fan of that series :P

I loved when I found any easter egg or reference, not just in this game or games in general, but also in movies, like this one from Kill Bill... but since Sergio have not seen the second Movie I can't post it, just the link :/

http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/1421.full.jpg

Tiger/Zombie Blood

So yesterday my brother bought some energy drinks in El Paso, now I'm not a fan of energy drinks, but these ones where special. They where gamer (and pop culture references) versions of drinks, he bought some health/mana potions and some zombie/tiger (Charlie Sheen reference) blood. I laughed so hard when I saw them, specially the blood, they came in blood packs and had instructions of how to use them or what where they supposed to be, I.E. tiger blood had most of the things Charlie Sheen said.

All in all, I had a good laugh with these things, even though I didn't drink anything.

Business Card

As I said some time ago, I am officially a member of the "Colegio de Psicólogos del Distrito Bravos A.C." and I am going to have my personal Business Card as a member of this association and as a professional, I am a little excited, also hopefully I'll receive my professional license this month, the only thing stopping me to start working in something related to my career.

Sodium Chloride

As you may know, I love cooking, and to be fair I must admit that I am somewhat good at it, that being said, I have a little problem though, since I don't like food too salty or sweat I almost always tend to forget to use salt while cooking, and that might not be a problem, but some times it really needs some. For example, my pasta with chipotle sauce, the pasta that Sergio loved and made me make at least once a week tasted so much better with salt, and every time I made it I had to tell Sergio to put salt in it because I forgot. And that was just when we were already at the table with the food.

Jeje, when I'm cooking I think in what could go with what I am preparing, but I always forgot about the salt :P

WoW

A few weeks ago I received some free time for WoW, the game that I've spend the most time playing in all of my life, in that time I didn’t even play for 3 days, and never played longer than 1 hour, but that is the same with almost any game now.

I have had this game since January 2007 and have been playing it until February 2011, okay, I haven't played continuously all that time, counting the breaks I took I might have played for half that time in total.

Ok, that might be too much time for a single game, but I really enjoyed everything about it, and it never got over my head, I never neglected anything in my life, school, nor social life (the little I had :P).

When I decided to stop playing in February I said that I might return to the game, I haven’t decided yet to stop playing it, but I have no reasons to go back and play other than that I really enjoy and love the game. The only thing I don’t like is how the community has evolved to a bunch of whiners. That really can make the game unpleasant.

Ok, so enough with that :P, with the little time I played I captured some footage and uploaded it, this is a 5 man dungeon, and I captured 2 different boss fights, I was playing my warrior as a dps (melee damage dealer). This kind of encounters is made for 1 tank (aka meat shield), 1 healer and 3 dps (damage per second). There are other kind of dungeons called raids, those are bigger and can be composed of either 10 or 25 persons, these are great and if you have a coordinated guild and a pain if you don’t, unfortunately I didn't had time to do any of those. 

BTW, I made the video go faster so it would not be that long, it was a little more than 5 minutes.

Rendering

I wanted to post another thing today, but it seems impossible because I wanted to upload a video first, why does it takes that long to render a video? I render it to a size of 640 * 480 and it was quick but it looked awful, the original files are 1280 * 720 raw video from my computer, but they are too big to upload (2.77 GB total) and the video isn't that long, just five and a half minutes.

Well, I'll let it render this night and in the morning I'll upload it, hopefully it looks good.

Mariachi... hell yeah

I am not a big fan of Mexican music, specially popular music, but if there is something I must say is that Mariachi can be awesome sometimes, I like some songs but not a big fan, at least not enough to put anything in my cellphone or library, but I can enjoy it if there is something playing around.

Today I heard the most amazing Mariachi that I have heard in a long time, Mariachi Cabos.

Ok, this might not be the best Mariachi, but I found amazing their performance of some of their songs, it really made me laugh XD

Things that don't belong

Here in my house we like to read, we have many many books, about mechanic, electronic, chemistry, mathematics, programming, philosophy, cooking, education (there are even 2 or 3 books in Russian) well you get the idea, but today I found something that I never thought I would see, The Book Of Mormon... OK, so the bible is comprehensible, family tradition, whatever (I am the only atheist in my family), but why the book of moron Mormon? We don't know any Mormon family nor anyone in my family is from that religion, my family is barely catholic, as I said just for tradition. I can't think of any reason as why there is such a book as the book of Mormon in my house.

I just hope that it didn't magically appeared :P, well maybe I should ask my parents about it, there must be a logical reason.

Yo dough

Yesterday I some made bread, it wasn't ciabatta though because I couldn't find the flour I needed (seriously, I went to 4 different stores and they didn't had bread flour in any of them), so I made another one with all purpose flour.
I started with the sponge the day before yesterday in the night because it needs to stand there between 12 to 24 hours.

The sponge before letting it stand for the night

After it was done I continued the dough preparation adding the rest of the ingredients and let it stand for another 2 hours,

Final dough preparation before letting it stand, it doesn't look that different but it grows considerably more. 

 so after almost 2 hours it was ready to the final preparation step, the molding, when I gave the dough the form that I wanted I had to let it stand for another 2 hours so it would get more volume.
I forgot to take pictures of the bread before putting it inside the oven but it doesn't look that different than the final product, just a little more pale :P

This is how they look after baking them, they need a little more color though :P

So the question here is, was it good? I which I could answer that, but they where gone by the time I woke up... well not really, I'm joking, but one of them disappeared before I was even able to taste it, luckily my mom wrapped the other one so no one would eat it, but my father was already waiting for me so he could get some of it.

I like this bread better than box bread like bimbo or other commercial brands, it feels like they have no flavor. Thats why I prefer home made bread, but it takes so long to make, and there aren't many places where I can get it, so when I have a chance I bake some.

Blody mouth

Just got out of a dental cleaning in ICB (Instituto de Ciencias Biomémedicas), since my sister studies here (dentistry) sometimes I have to take a bullet for her and become her patient, and sometimes for her friends, which was the case for today, I don't care helping her nor her friends, but I do prefer if it is done after they have more experience.

Today I had a dental cleaning with someone from 3rd or 4th semester, luckily she was good, but still she missed a few times and hurt my "interdental papilla" and I bleed from that, thats the risk I take for helping her :P

Well, at least it was free :P

What is this?

Ok, today I got a mail from Sony Online Entertainment, but I don't have anything to do with them, I don't have anything registered to Sony (at least not that I remember), why do I have this mail?

The green circles indicate that the links are secure so I don't think this is a phishing mail, still I don't remember having anything with Sony, so I don't know if I should even care for the possible account that I have with them :P

Upgrayedd

I haven't been playing video games in my computer lately, and since thats the only reason I preferred Windows 7 over Ubuntu I decided to use Ubuntu as my main OS again, I didn't  upgrade  it to 11.04 when it came out so I had to do it today, it took me more than an hour to do it.

Now I just need to replace the software that I use commonly in Windows and I am set up.

Nostalgia

I was reading something in a gaming forum and someone posted this picture:

Since everyone of us is or was a gamer I'm pretty sure we all had to blow our Nintendo cartridges from time to time, I still remember how I used to do it and that everyone that I knew that had a Nintendo had a different way of doing it. Gaming has evolved so much since I was a little kid.

I even remember that my mom used to play sometimes, she liked Super Mario Bros 3 and tetris, and it was the only games that I remember she ever played.

Does not compute

So, a friend of mine asked me to repair her computer, I was supposed to just clean the system, just that. I got it last week and since she wasn't going to need it I almost forgot about it for the week and was going to start to work in it this weekend.

Ok, so it is Sunday in the morning and I start to connect everything to start working, everything is fine, all the cables in their place, press the power switch and... nothing. No problem, maybe the switch in the back of the computer is off. I check and everything is ok, so there is a problem.

The computer is connected and it won't turn on... I check every cable inside the computer to see if that was the problem. And no problem here either, everything is ok there too. I disconnect the cables from the switch and check them with my fathers multimeter and it is working. I start to get a little frustrated because I was supposed to only clean this computer.

I called my friend to ask her in what conditions was the computer and she told me that it hasn't been used for like half a year. That the cable from the monitor had a problem and that the monitor was death. And since then no one ever tried to turn on the computer. I told her that it might be death, but I was going to check what was the problem.

I was going to go out so I left the computer in my fathers work room. Today when he came back from work told me that the power source and the motherboard were death, he checked them yesterday. 

This is something I wasn't expecting :/

Bad luck

El Psicoanalista...

 No, not this one...

...this is the one i'm talking about.

Ok, so i'm not a big fan of novels, but from time to time I like to read one, this time i'll be reading "El Psicoanalista", my sister lend me her copy of the book and i'll start it tomorrow, it doesn't seem that long so I think i'll finish it before the weekend if I don't slack.

:)

Id like to begin this post by telling every one of you thanks for your birthday wishes, I really appreciate them and made me happy just by reading them.

That being said, today was a long day, I woke up early in the morning, like 8 and from that point I was busy all day, don't really know with what, but I don't remember having almost any time to spend in the computer :P

I spend almost all day with my family and we did a good old fashioned "carne asada", well with the exception of beer :P, no one here drinks so there was none, and we watched some movies too. We had a really good time, not that we need a birthday or anything to have a good time, that's what I love about my family, any day of the week we can just stay there talking for hours at the table after finishing eating, or sometimes not even having to eat, just talk because we feel like it.

Swearing

Today I finally became an official member of the "Colegio de Psicólogos del Distrito Bravos A.C.", I have been assisting to meetings for the last 3 or 4 months and finally did the swearing in (ok, I really don't know if that is how it is said in English :P I want to say "toma de protesta"), luckily I'll be getting a job in one of the projects of this association after I get my professional license, and if not here at least I'll be getting more in touch with my career, courses and training, as well as certification.

The ceremony was short and there wasn't many people, just like 60 or 70 in total, including the 15 that did the swearing in, lol I was the only man in that group, but it was fun and entertaining. I saw many known faces, friends from school, teachers and professionals that I had met in my practices or school.

So far I feel that I'm doing the right thing by getting in this association, and I want to contribute and benefit from it.

WTF???

So I was going to post earlier today and then this happens

Well, whatever, i'll try it later, I go to gmail to write some mails, do some other stuff, read a little, and then after some time I come back to Blogger and it is still unavailable.
I decide to see what's on facebook and get this

Come on, is this a joke? what did I do? lol, for a moment I thought that I was going to get a second strike :P

The cake is a lie...

...A tasty tasty lie
To celebrate the mothers day I baked a cake to her while she was out, but I wanted to make something special, and so I decided to decorate this one like the portal cake, I didn't had that much time so I had to do it as quick as I could, and trying at the same time to not mess it because of that.

Should I had a little more time it would look a little more like the one in the game (I tend to be a little to perfectionist with my cooking :P), even though I think I did a decent job in that, presentation in foods is not my forte, but everyone loved it, so mission accomplished :P

Backups

Since my computer was running out of space I backed up all the things that I didn't needed there, and noticed that my external hard drive was getting short of space too. I haven't taken the time to check and delete old backups that I had there, not lying I had over 5 different backups of my documents dated from 2009 to this year, and most of them had almost exactly the same things inside.

And so, I started to move everything to one folder and delete everything that was repeated and I no longer needed. It took me less than 1 hour and I freed like 30GB more on that hard drive from junk that I never deleted.

Exercise

After moving with my parents I started to exercise again, and after so much time without doing it I feel like my body is going to fall in pieces, I didn't knew I was this out of shape, I mean, I know that I've never been fit but at least I have always had good health, but since last year I have been slacking so much I had to change this now before it's to late.

I have had my periods of working out extensively, specially while on vacations, and most of the times I stopped when I got back to school, but this time it's different, I don't want to feel so damn tired or weak again, thats why I started to workout.

And since I don't have any picture right now I'll post this instead :P

Photoshop

Today I did nothing other than cleaning my room and the laundry, so today sucked for me :P

I continued working in the video that Sergio and I recorded while playing Mario and playing with Photoshop.

Sometimes I like to mess with images and add things that I think would look funny and sometimes post them in a forum that I visit.

Here are some examples of what I have done so far.

Kirby + Sauron = awesome

Many people have edited this image in a forum I visit. My addition to it was the young boy in the center of the image. 

Self explanatory, this is Angelica with her camera hidden in a hat :P

And Sergio's Unicorn

So, yeah, nothing else for this day :P

Free stuff

Who doesn't love free stuff? I know I love it, specially when you least expect it. This afternoon I received this: 

An invitation from Blizzard to comeback to World of Warcraft and experience the new stuff, I have this game since January 2007 and have spend a lot of time and money in it, and I don't feel that it was a waste of time or money (I would probably wasted more in other games if I didn't play this). And after so much time I still love the game, so there is no loss for me, and I have never been addicted to it or neglected anything in my life for any game.

At first I thought it was a scam and instead of clicking that button I went directly to my Battlenet account to verify if it was real, and to my surprise it was. Now, back in February I decided to stop playing this game for personal reasons and I know that for the moment I would not pay for it, but since that invitation was made I will take advantage of it.

This is my main character, a Dwarf warrior 

I still don't think of coming back to the game full time, but I will play a little for this week until this offer remains.

Can't think of a title

Well, this afternoon I wanted to eat some rice with some vegetables and Coriander (Cilantro), I asked my mom where it was, well, not really, I asked where the Parsley was, you see, I have this little problem with the names of these two herbs, I know which is which but always confuse the names of both. I don't know why, it just happens.

And even if it is no big deal (most of the times), I sometimes have to go and buy one or another and I buy the one I don't needed >.> it sucks to have to go to the store for the other one.

:/

 Ok, so I admit I don't have good grammar, that sometimes I mess up with what I want to write, but at least I try, when I do a report of my work or do an evaluation, I try to make clear what I want to say. And still I might have errors, it's human nature,but, how can someone screw so much with so few words?

It makes me sad that there is almost no place here in Juarez where they take a few seconds to read what they wrote, a few months ago Sergio and I went to Soriana San Lorenzo, and they gave us a parking ticket that was so badly written that you couldn't understand anything, or what was the purpose of it. It really didn't say anything, it just seemed like a paper with some words thrown randomly.

Coffee

Today I went out with a friend of mine to a cafe by the name of "Cafebrería", I knew about it, but never cared enough to go there, I like to drink coffee from time to time, but I have no reason to go by myself to a place like this (or almost any place), and since most of my friends don't like coffee or would prefer something else, we never go to these kind of places.

Well, that was before I started to go with a friend of mine that loves coffee, I really enjoy going with her to cafes and trying different things, like this one time I asked for a tea that they drink in Chile (my friend's homeland) and it was good, at first it was a little bitter, but I really liked it after a few sips, this time we had a coffee called something like Placer (can't remember the exact name) which is one of their specialties, it was strong at first but tasted good after a few tries, it had a unique flavor, different of others I had drunk, but can't identify what was it. Well, it was good, and thats what matters to me right now XD
I really had a wonderful day.

Mascots

My parent's love dogs, right now they have 6 in total, 3 chihuahuas, 2 poodles and 1 golden retriever.

Ever since I was little they have always had at least one mascot, I can't remember not having one, ever. Luckily for them (our mascots), our backyard is big enough so they have good space to run and make whatever they want. 

2 months old chihuahua. Her name is Chiquis or something like that :P

The only thing I hate of having them is cleaning their mess >.>, but other than that I enjoy playing with them when I can.

And here is the mother, she is like 3 or 4 years old, she has tried to eat Sergio when he comes to my house XD

Clothing

So, this weekend I went to buy me some clothes. I've never been good at choosing them, I don't feel comfortable with most of them (the colors) basically because I hate having things that can draw too much attention. And because of that, a long time ago I decided to only buy black clothes, the only combination that I can say that I like and wouldn't feel uncomfortable, it doesn't draws too much attention and feels good.

Well, that was before, this time I at least bought one light blue shirt succumbing to my mothers claim that I should at least give it a try >.>, it doesn't feel that bad and i'm not melting (so far), but I feel better with black shirt and suit pants.

Jeje, sorry, no pictures, maybe tomorrow i'll upload some XD