When we moved out of our ghetto latin neighborhood, my wife told me “You’re going to miss the food”, but today, I discovered one supermarket in Manhattan Ave. here in Greenpoint which has the best of both worlds.

Not only they have all the polish stuff that you can get in this neighborhood (which makes my wife’s life a lot better), but they also have latin food and best of all they have Harina Pan, to make the best arepas a Venezuelan guy could eat.

If you’re a Venezuelan and you’re planning to marry a polish person, get your ass to Greenpoint in Brooklyn, NY.

Today my precious wife gave me this cool Joost T-Shirt. Neat.

If you travel on the subway like me, you can travel forward in time if you use the correct doors from train to train, I think you actually travel forward in time, instead of wasting time, if you for example need to Switch to L on 14st and you’re at Canal St, all you need to do, is take the express Yellow Line (I think it’s the R), but to make the best of your time, you need to walk to the very last cart of that platform, you make use of your “waiting time” to travel forward in time (or save time) once you get to 14st, since you get off, and the stairs to the L transfer will be right on the end of the track, then you go down stairs, and if you’re lucky enough, you can make it to the L without waiting.

I say you travel forward in time, cause if you get on the first car of the R, you will loose all your “waiting time” sitting at the beginnnig, and then you will have to do the walk you didn’t do in Canal St, when you get to Union Square…

so… in short, after this absurd, but “clear” example (yeah right), what’s the solution?

Make everybody travel like this…

If you do, and you have a well designed system, based on mining patterns on how your metro users travel every day, you could design the metro system to have people ride in certain cars.

You could either… mark cars of the train to say:

“This car will give you an optimum get off time if you get off at:
- station blah, blah, blah
or if you need to transfer to: L, 1,2,3″

So, you don’t stand in the way for people that actually need to get off and run for their next transfer…
anyway… just the thought of a maniac of traveling optimally on the subway.

Not sure if this made any sense gramatically, and I don’t think its even worth revising it… just ventilating my frustration with slow people…

Oh, and another thing, there should be “Staircases for People in a Hurry”, or “Fast Lanes in Staircases”, not just Up and Down directions, but actual, fast stair cases, so we don’t have to smell people’s asses going up the stairs like they’re doing a walk on the zoo on a sunday, please move your ass on the stairs people, you can make people loose transfers.

El año pasado fue una montana rusa de cambios:
– Cambie de Trabajo 2 Veces, LimeWire a Flycell, de Flycell a Temboo.
– Me mude de Jersey a Brooklyn, NY en Junio para vivir con mi novia en aquel entonces
– Fui a Los Alpes en Austria, San Francisco California, Washington DC, y Las Vegas
– Aprendi Python
– Me uni a FrostWire en mi tiempo libre y empezamos a subir considerablemente el numero de descargas.
– Empeze a Podcastear y VideoCastear
– Arme una computadora (tenia como 6 años que no lo hacia), gracias Kakei por la asistencia remota.
– Me uni a MyBloop.com
– Le propuse matrimonio a mi novia

Ahora en la primera mitad de 2007 las cosas han ido quizas aun mas rapido:
– He constituido 2 empresas, MyBloop LLC y FrostWire LLC
– Traje a mi familia de Venezuela a NY, tenia 2 años que no los veia
– Me case con Paulina
– Nos mudamos a Greenpoint, en Brooklyn
– Fui a Paris (yay, de nuevo en Europa)
– Lanzamos MyBloop.com

UPDATE:
– Traje a mi familia a vivir a USA finalmente, 4 anos echandole bola no fueron en vano.

Escucha lo que dijeron aqui

De aquel entonces a ahora, ya subimos el limite de tamano por archivo a 1Gb, y tengan por seguro que siempre brindaremos el servicio de forma gratuita, solo necesitamos su apoyo y que lo usen para poder crecer.

Muchas gracias al equipo de Makina, estamos a la orden.

- Les gusta experimentar en cuanto a diseno en su decoracion
- La comida es excelente, sobre todo la mantequilla
- Nunca habia visto tantos gringos fuera de USA juntos, a veces dudo que estoy en Paris porque escucho puro acento americano a mi alrededor
- La ciudad es hermosa pero esta bandalizada con mucho graffiti por todas partes
- El metro es demasiado arrecho, tambien los buses, el transporte publico es excelente.
- El metro es caro, pero se nota que mucha gente no paga (mas que todo en las afueras)
- Es una ciudad llena de jovenes (muchos gringuitos y canadienses en edades entre 15-21 por las calles, quizas en campamentos o programas de intercambio) que hacen lo que le da la gana
- En frente de la torre Eiffel hay un jardin donde muchos jovenes van (inclusive un lunes por la noche) a tomar vino y champana al aire libre, nadie dice nada si tomas en la calle, la juventud es muy libre
- Cuando camine por mi primera avenida me acorde mucho de partes de Caracas que tienen arquitectura europea. Caracas debio ser hermosa en los 60,70, seria bueno recuperar nuestra arquitectura y remodelar los edificios viejos.
- Caracas tiene Sabor a muchas Ciudades, a veces New York me recuerda a Caracas, y ciertamente Paris me recuerda a Caracas
- Los tickets del metro son iguales que los de caracas
- Tambien hay que meter el puto ticket para salir del metro, pero mucha gente sale, y hay aveces puertas abiertas. Si te agarran sin ticket, supuestamente son mas de 30 euros de multa.
- Estan invadidos de africanos y arabes
- No hay tantos asiaticos como en New York, pero hay
- Tambien hay gente de la india por aca
- Hay muchos franceses ostinados pero otros son amigables, como en todos lados. Al parecer no les gusta el ingles mucho, arrugan la cara
- Aun no entiendo como funciona la cuestion en los “Brasseries” para que te atiendan si te sientas afuera, vere hoy otra vez
- Es una ciudad en la que se disfruta caminar
- La avenida que esta pegada al rio Siena, en su parte sur, muy cerca de Notre-Dame, me recordo mucho a la avenida que esta pegada al banco sur del rio Guaire en las mercedes… solo que el Rio Siena es navegable y no esta lleno exclusivamente de mierda. Pero veo la similitud de esa avenida de las mercedes… la que esta del otro lado de la autopista Fco Fajardo antes de llegar al CCCT.

Nuevos pensamientos sobre la ciudad:
– Los telefonos celulares funcionan en el metro, inclusive en las estaciones mas profundas, y estando en movimiento dentro de un vagon.
– Hay muchos fumadores, y aun permiten fumar dentro de restaurantes y cafes. Ya habia olvidado lo desagradable que es comer dentro de un restaurant con olor a cigarro.
- Ahorran energia, aqui en el estudio donde me estoy quedando existen muchas luces que se apagan solas, supongo que utilizan timers con sensores de movimiento. Tambien tienen muchos carros “Smart” que deben ser bien economicos en cuanto a gasolina. Otro ejemplo son escaleras mecanicas que disminuyen su velocidad considerablemente cuando no hay nadie montado encima, pero luego aceleran cuando te montas.
- Es raro ver mujeres gordas. Creo que se debe a que la comida no es procesada, ademas de la cultura de que las mujeres se cuidan, se arreglan, etc. es Paris.
- Que aun ni estando en Paris las mujeres son mas lindas que en Venezuela. En Venezuela las mujeres se cuidan como en paris pero su belleza es natural. Hoy vi una mujer preciosa en Sacre Cour, y cuando le hablo al marido, era Venezolana :) I rest my case.

En las fotos del dia martes, tome algunos detalles interesantes de sus diferentes vagones de metro, por ejemplo, las columnas para que se agarre la gente, se dividen en 3 sub-columnas, asi puedes poner mas manos sin que se solapen. Tambien tienen trenes cuyos vagones no tienen divisiones, hacen un gran vagon. Y lo mas curioso es que algunas lineas son hibridos entre rieles y llantas.

Caminamos hasta adentro, y no hay nadie atendiendo.

Pero dejan un letrero, y un timbre:

Y algo de efectivo por si necesitas cambio :)

Que hay que hacer en Venezuela para que podamos vivir asi? Uno no puede entrar a una tienda cualquiera porque siempre hay alguien atras de uno pensando que uno se va a robar algo. No es mejor pensar que la mayoria de las personas no somos criminales?

This was on the shore of Burlington, VT. Pretty nice place to look far and think away.

He says he used to live in the US, and shows my picture holding the driver license saying “Here’s me with my NY Driver License”, he uses my name, and even has created a whole story around me being a computer geek. He even sends a picture of his fake MIT Degree with honors to give confidence to his victims.

The money gets sent somewhere in asia, and he’s pretty hard to trace, so just don’t buy any airplane tickets from me, I don’t do that.

There are some references online to the same bastard.

On Travel-advices.com

Here’s the post he used in Craigslist to scam his latest victims

http://berlin.craigslist.org/tix/323458736.html

AND THIS IS HOW HE GETS THE MONEY (Son of a bitch)

Hi [VictimNameHere],

Here are the updated payment instructions. It would be helpful if you could take the email
with you to the bank as some of the information below will have to be included in the bank's transfer form.

1-- Please visit one of the Reisebank branches I mentioned in my earlier email.

2-- Fill up the "Bargeld Versenden" form. Send your payment to my wife:

Vireak Buth (Nachname: BUTH; Vorname: Vireak)

Address:

Vireak Buth, Customer Relations Manager
Singapore Commercial Bank (SBC)
Boulevard Nehru
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The bank's form might ask for the recipient's contact phone number. Please put my New York number
 as it is autodiverted to the Cambodian network via satellite. Here it is: +1-315-285-4379.
 If anyone calls that number, we can be reached day and night but it is very expensive
for us due to satellite connection rates for USA to Cambodia, i.e. if someone calls us,
we have to pay for that person's call to be diverted from New York to Cambodia.
The local phone company here is unreliable and it is very hard to get a clear connection.

On the transfer form, you will be asked to specify the destination of your payment.
Please indicate "Cambodia".

The Reisebank has a transfer fee for their "Blitzueberweisung" service. In mutual fairness,
please pay for that fee separately. I will be responsible for the Fedex delivery fee of
these vouchers to your Berlin address. Fedex from Cambodia to Germany is about 3 business days.

Total for 2 Northwest/KLM vouchers: 600 euros
For 3 vouchers: 850 euros (50 euro discount if taking all three)

If you take the third voucher, it is valid until April 2008. Either you or someone else can use
it for a future roundtrip. It would also be the perfect birthday or Christmas gift, as it is a
nameless or bearer voucher (Ueberbringergutschein). The third voucher could be yours for
250 euros on top of the 600 euros for the two vouchers you and Alex want.

Here in Cambodia it will not be possible to claim your transferred money without the MTCN
(money transfer control number). This will be found on bank's receipt.
 You will get one after you finish the transaction at Reisebank.

When you have completed the transfer, kindly email me the full name of the sender of the
payment, i.e. the person who completed the payment at Reisebank. I will also need the MTCN or
money transfer control number which would be on the bank's receipt (Quittung).

Angel

Please be careful when sending money to strangers on the internet.

Mas fotos de Brooklyn y Manhattan tomadas ayer aqui.

This is my old camera

This is my new camera.

Click Here to see the specs from Flickr.com which ranks it as the #2 Camera from Canon being the number one an older model, which if you see the Flickr user graphs has started to decay so this Digital Rebel XTi is likely to become the number one camera from Canon in Flickr.com

For a total of $990 (including taxes), I got myself what I’d call a professional camera with lense, 4.0gb compact flash card, SD/CF usb reader and extra one extra battery.

Now I gotta learn how to use it well before the wedding, but being in New York it’s gonna be a lot of fun taking pictures with the Rebel XTi

Si quieres ver archivos de ayuda en HTML compilado tipo Windows, pero en Linux, es decir abrir archivos .CHM en Linux, utiliza xchm.

Para instalar en Ubuntu, es tan sencillo como hacer sudo apt-get install xchm, luego solo invocas el programa y abres tus archivos .CHM.

El segundo consejo lo escuche de Deepak Chopra en un canal de Joost. El dice que una definicion de Neurosis es hacer una misma cosa una y otra vez y esperar tener diferentes resultados… (para mi esto es correr Unit Tests ;) ), pero llevandolo a la vida el consejo lo que te dice es que intentes hacer cosas diferentes todos los dias, que tomes nuevos riesgos y evalues sus impactos. Has cosas diferentes y tendras resultados diferentes.

Damn it, I was good but took too long, If you don’t put the time penalization my General IQ is 146. I feel limited, I wanted to be above 150 :(

I get to be a bit special but not too much, since I read this somewhere on the internet:

“Only approximately 1% of the people in the world have an IQ of 135 or over”

Here’s the explanation of my results:

Your General IQ Score of 139 shows how able your mind is in general. Anyone with a General IQ Score this high is considered to be gifted. This score is better than 99.53% of all persons taking this test. Virtually all occupations can be comprehended with a General IQ this high. You should be able to handle almost all academic challenges.

You scored higher than your General IQ Score in 12 individual ability categories. 5 of these better scores could be called statistically significant and may indicate special abilities, or that you were distracted on those parts of the IQ Test that counted more heavily in the other ability categories.
Arithmetic

Solving many of the IQ Test’s problems required the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers mentally. Many mental tasks require arithmetical operations even though numbers may not be involved, and thus number manipulation abilities can strongly indicate general intelligence.

Your Arithmetic IQ score of 149 is exceptionally higher than your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.95% of all persons taking this test.
Spatial Skill

Understanding what changes will occur when conditions vary is a deep and powerful ability of the mind. All invention and creativity of every sort is based upon this ability. Although test problems usually involve manipulation of objects in space, persons with a stronger ability to spatially manipulate can also be expected to use this ability to be able to better predict how social and psychological situations would change due to variation.

Your Spatial Skill IQ score of 144 is not significantly different from your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.83% of all persons taking this test.
Logical

This is the ability to determine if a set of rules has been correctly followed. This ability is most useful in combination with other mental skills listed above. Those with strong logical ability are quicker to see where a given set of conditions is going to lead, have a strong sense of justice, and better understand–from an intellectual analysis–the benefits of harmony.

Your Logical IQ score of 148 is exceptionally higher than your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.93% of all persons taking this test.
Spelling

The ability to spell can indicate general intelligence. Remembering a set sequence of letters indicates the mind’s ability to retrieve remembered facts. Learning how to spell and use the words of a language is almost a complete IQ test in itself. Although poor spellers with high IQ scores can be found, it is rare, and in general–everything else being equal–the better spellers have higher IQ scores.

Your Spelling IQ score of 149 is exceptionally higher than your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.95% of all persons taking this test.
Short Term Memory

The ability to remember things for a short period of time allows the mind to check back and retrieve facts needed to complete a problem solving operation. This ability becomes more critical when problems have many aspects that need consideration and/or need to be solved mentally. This ability strongly determines how efficiently one handles the many aspects of normal life. If your short term memory ability is strong you are much less likely to seem inattentive or “slow to get it” to others.

Your Short Term Memory IQ score of 144 is not significantly different from your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.83% of all persons taking this test.
Rote Utilization

This is the ability to take a set of memorized facts and mentally extract and/or operate with or upon the facts within the set that are pertinent to the problem at hand. Persons with more of this ability can be expected to spell well, remember telephone and other numbers easily, be more adroit in procedural operations, and have a stronger foundation for tasks that require the use of memorized material.

Your Rote Utilization IQ score of 151 is exceptionally higher than your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.97% of all persons taking this test.
Algebraic

This is the ability of the mind to abstractly handle quantities and qualities. Persons who are strong in this ability can more quickly and more deeply understand analogies, stories, derivations, equalities, and hierarchical structures.

Your Algebraic IQ score of 149 is exceptionally higher than your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.95% of all persons taking this test.
General Knowledge

Knowledge that is casually picked up and remembered can indicate intelligence, because persons with higher intelligence will exhibit greater retention of those pieces of information that are encountered less often. Because higher intelligence allows a person to have a deeper appreciation of the connectivity of facts that may seem disparate to others of lesser intelligence, memory of such facts becomes easier.

Your General Knowledge IQ score of 147 is exceptionally higher than your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.91% of all persons taking this test.
Visual Apprehension

This is the ability of the mind to mentally picture visual information and to be able to extract portions of that information for separate use. A person whose visual apprehension is strong enjoys a richer, more creative appreciation of visual aspects of experiences.

Your Visual Apprehension IQ score of 145 is not significantly different from your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.87% of all persons taking this test.
Geometric

How well one can comprehend geometric relationships of lines, sides, planes, angles, and topological properties strongly determines one’s ability to make sense of visual information. The strength of one’s geometric ability can strongly determine how quickly knowledge can be absorbed if it is presented visually.

Your Geometric IQ score of 142 is not significantly different from your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.74% of all persons taking this test.
Vocabulary

Knowing the meaning of words is an ability that directly increases along with the increase of general intelligence. The meaning of a word is more easily remembered with higher intelligence, because it takes more intelligence to understand and correctly use words based upon the subtle differences between words with similar meanings and to comprehend difficult concepts which are sometimes symbolized by a single word.

Your Vocabulary IQ score of 144 is not significantly different from your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.83% of all persons taking this test.
Intuition

Intuition is defined as that ability of the mind to develop answers to questions without consciously dealing with the problem at hand. Often a question will provoke your mind to answer without using conscious processing time, and the answer is said to come “out of the blue” or “suddenly, it just struck me”. Of all the many abilities of the mind, this is one of the most often used. Just knowing what to do is often an automatic process that occurs without much conscious figuring. Those with stronger intuition make less mistakes and can seem luckier, wiser, or more mature.

Your Intuition IQ score of 143 is not significantly different from your General IQ score.This score is better than 99.79% of all persons taking this test.
Computational Speed

If you can correctly solve a variety of problems faster than another person, you may be demonstrating a generally more orderly internal arrangement of your mind’s problem solving methods. While speed cannot be the sole factor in determining overall superiority in one mental operations, in general faster computational speed will often indicate that a problem’s comprehension was more complete. With everything else being equal, a person with faster computational speed than another person’s will be better at tasks that require the synthesis of many bits of information.

Your Computational Speed IQ score of 53 is significantly lower than your General IQ score.This score is better than 0.09% of all persons taking this test.

I did the test at www.iqtest.com

Me entere que Paco de Lucia estaba en Miami, que va a tocar creo que esta noche por alla, total que me meti en su pagina y esta de tour, y no va a pelar Nueva York.

El concierto en NY esta agotado, pero gracias a Dios toca el domingo en Newark, que es cerca de donde yo vivia antes en New Jersey, asi que voy con Paulina el domingo.

Me acuerdo siempre de mi papa cuando escucho Paco de lucia, pq mi papa tenia todos los discos y supuestamente que se lo encontro en el aeropuerto en espana.

Vamos a ver como toca ahora que esta mas viejo, ojala sea aun mejor. Me siento privilegiado de ir a oirlo tocar antes que se muera, definitivamente un sueno hecho realidad para este geek que es un fanatico de Paco de Lucia desde que tenia como 7 anitos.

Debo dar credito al blog Periodismo de Paz por haber hecho la mencion de Paco en Miami esta semana, de no ser por haber polemizado en ese articulo (que termino dando tremendo dato), no me hubiera enterado de que Paco de Lucia estaba de gira en USA este mes.

Esto fue en diciembre de 2006

New York State Driver License!

I can rent a car!!!!! Yay!!!

BTW, I’m pissed that I got my upgrade in New Jersey instantly, then I go to NY to switch it, and it took them 2 weeks to send me the license. BULLCRAP!

1996, I want to be an engineer

I’m 16 years old, finished high school and got accepted to study Software Engineering at the UCAB in Caracas, Venezuela. The university just opened up the career that year so I was there for the first classes ever given to software engineering students in the faculty, we had a lot of responsability into being the best we could be to make a name for the school, and so far I think we’ve been doing a great job, in our country and out.

During these years my parents sold their accounting firm and bought a liquor store, in 98 Chavez wins the president and things start getting worse and worse economically for us.

After a lot of hard work, sacrifices and being really really broke for many years I finished school and got my engineering degree in 6 years.

During this time I worked for Microsoft Venezuela doing marketing and product launch support, then I worked for the venezuelan Java Center with great java engineers, I might say the best java engineers in the country at that time (Ing. Sergio Fernandez), then I worked for a consulting company called DKV Asociados along engineer Angel Olivera doing my internship and thesis under his tutorship.

2002, I’m an Engineer

Here’s a picture of the group on the graduation day, most of us started on the first promotion but ended on the third one, things in school in Venezuela aren’t as easy as in the US where you pretty much know what’s gonna happen on your exams.

So right after graduation, that december the country goes on a full stop for over a month so that Chavez would quit, but he won’t do it, even the oil industry goes along with it, Mr. Chavez just fired almost every executive wasting millions of dollars in human capital, as a consequence many other companies that work with the companie loose all the contracts, including the one where I worked for, so I pretty much lost my job…

2003, Flirt with the US, then leave my country
So I get a call from a friend in the oil industry telling me there’s a startup in Miami that needs a pocket pc developer, I start working for them off shore, and a few months later…

I’m off to Miami. I travel back and forth until the company decides to take me in for good.

After a year of work and learning all what I needed to learn about the job and developing a larger scale system and the american culture…

Up to this point… from 2000 till like aug 2004, Marjorie was very much part of my life, but everything has an end and so did my chapter in Miami, I went on a trip to New York for the first time I believe in May 2004, this trip absolutely changed my perception of life and I felt I was completely wasting my time in Miami, I saw the people in the city and thought to myself, what do you have to do to live in such an expensive place, its so cool, they’re so lucky to live here, I wish one day I may come to live here.

Me for the first time in New York

I went back to Miami, and found out about a website that put a lot of doubt into what I should do with my life if I wanted to go live in New York, the site is Craigslist, in it, I saw over 50 New York job offers on Information technology when in Miami I’d only would see no more than 5 posts a day, plus the pay was way better.

So, I took a weekend off with my friend Tati and we went to Orlando to do all the parks, during the long lines I made the decision and told Tati that I’m leaving to New York.

2004, New York, New York

On September 2nd 2004, one day after my birthday, I came with my suitcases to New York where my friend Maritza received me for one night and helped me get up on my feet.

I had my employer pay me all the money they owed me, and I went to New York with $9000, my logic was this. I just turned 25, If I go back to my country with $9000 they will be spent anyway, so why not go and give it a try in New York while I’m still processing the VISA. I had no place to stay, so I had to look for a place asap, I had no source of income so I had to save until my last penny to stretch those $9000 as much as I could, and I gotta move fast because I don’t want to be illegal. Being optimistic and following my dreams will always be one of my premises.

I lived in West New York, NJ, paid $100 a week on a very small room, tried to live on $5 to $10 a day and the only thing I did was send resume’s to postings on craigslist and monster. I learned everything about resume’s, cover letter’s and interviews (the hard way), and a month and a half after I found my second employer in the US willing to sponsor my H1B visa. I worked as a consultant and I only did one project for one of their clients, Nielsen Entertainment in White Plains, NY, here I learned a lot about Unix, Linux, Perl, and above all, I learned how to use emacs under the teachings of David Link, one great engineer who used to work for Oracle and at the time developed an amazing dataware house system written in perl for Nielsen, my props to this great hacker.

I wasn’t contempt still with my first success in the city, finally recovering financially from moving away and no longer living on $5 a day, I kept looking for jobs, and I found a little company named “LimeWire” :), which creates a P2P application, and I thought it’d be the most amazing thing to work with these java hackers and learn about the world of P2P.

Next thing you know…

2005, LimeWire

I’m working for LimeWire as their web developer, here I learned a lot about running a high traffic website, and above all I learned a lot of what it means to be an open source developer and the culture around this.

This is probably one of the best things that has ever happened to me career wise, I got to learn a lot and I was surrounded by people of an amazing level of intelligence and computer software knowledge, I’m very thankful for this.

2006, Year of big changes, and trips

At this point I’m still working for LimeWire and thanks to them I went to Austria

Egg, Austria

there I came in contact with python, which I believe is a tool that’s changing my professional life, plus I enjoy coding in it a lot, there I started writing an RSS engine which I called “SnowRSS” since I started writing it there sitting with all that snow around me. SnowRSS runs everyday as the core of wedoit4you.com rss fetching engine.

Also after leaving LimeWire I was free to join FrostWire, and we recently launched a new version on which I learned a hell of a lot more on what comes in to play about releasing client software for the masses in multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux)

2006 was a year of many changes and trips, this year I:

- Switched jobs twice, worked for Flycell.com, and now I’ve settled at Temboo where I feel super lucky and happy doing many exciting things and surrounded by the most amazing team of engineers

- Started the wedoit4you.com podcast and blog directory, its has been one of the most rewarding hobbies which allows me to be in contact with technology and with my good friend Tati.

- Since the change of visa, I couldn’t leave the country so I decided to get to know the country with my girlfriend, I went to:

Jim Thorpe, PA

San Francisco, CA

Chicago, IL

Cleveland, OH

Bear Mountain, NY

Washington DC

Las Vegas, NV

Grand Canyon, AZ

Also, my girlfriend graduates in Syracuse (after one year of a long distance relationship)

and we finally moved in together in Brooklyn, NY

so what now in 2007? what will be of the next decade?

Hopefully everything will be even better this year, I just hope me and my family have health to accomplish all the goals, and maybe this year things will keep moving at a fast pace, I expect to launch my own piece of software, finally have the visa stamped on my passport so that I can travel outside the country and visit europe or asia, and maybe who knows, I might even get married with my princess.

So for the next decade, I hope to become an even better person, professionally and personally, I hope to achieve my goal of making my first million during this decade, and hopefully will be able to get closer to my family somehow, at this moment I guess that part of my life is a bit broken, everyone lives at a different place, but what are you gonna do, everything to live free without the menace of a communist government.

Happy New Year 2007, now let’s make all our dreams happen so let’s not waste any time and get to work on them.

Empeze a llorar, un vidrio era largo y fino, y se habia clavado profundo como una estaca, el segundo no me habia dado cuenta que estaba ahi.

Mi novia en el sueno me llevo hasta el bano, y yo tenia miedo de sacar el vidrio, pensaba que me iba a desangrar y morir, ademas ella nunca habia sacado vidro de la piel asi de profundo, al sacar el vidrio, solo salio una o dos gotas de sangre, y se desaparecieron rapidamente. Pero luego me di cuenta, que tenia un vidrio plano, clavado en todo su borde a lo largo del brazo, bien profundo, logramos sacarlo, dolio, pero no sangre y me desperte.

Aun puedo sentir el vidrio en el brazo.

Nunca habia sonado que me habia cortado, asi que me levante y busque en diccionarios de sueno lo que podria significar:

- Cambios en la vida
- Terminacion de empresas en forma abrupta
- Una muerte accidental

Ahora si que me cague mas….

Tambien hace como un mes, sone que estaba montado en un caballo de la policia de Nueva York, a pelo, agarrandolo por los pelos, pero tuve que bajarme del caballo y devolverme caminando a pie, caminando por un terreno lleno de escombros y basura totalmente descalzo. Al final del sueno, estaba de vuelta en mi casa con mi madre.

Montar a caballo significa exito, riqueza.

Espero que solo sean suenos, pero aqui quedan anotados como prueba de cualquier prediccion.

La prueba la hice en dslreports.com, tienen un applet java. Hice la prueba conectado de aqui de Brooklyn a un servidor en New Jersey, a unas 50 millas de aqui.
Tasa de bajada 11.59 mbps, Tasa de subida 1752 Kbps.

Luego hice otra prueba a un servidor en Palo Alto, California, al otro lado del pais literalmente…

Tasa de bajada 3.59 mbps, Tasa de subida 1593 Kbps.

This is the calculator that went to almost every exam I took starting from Calculus II.

I gave the money to my friend Rosa who came that year to New York with her parents and bought it here, so the calculator is back home now.

Without this equipment I wouldn’t be here, its an old calculator but very powerful, and like the ipods nowadays, it was the calculator to have on my engineering school.

There were some who used Casio’s, or Texas Instruments, but they sucked balls cause they didn’t get to beam each other programs, or “exam references” :)

Go HP48G

Here’s an article on wikipedia about the HP-48 series
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-48

From 3.7Mhz to 4Mhz CPU frequency depending on temperature.
32K RAM (Not expandable, since that was the 48GX which had 128K RAM)
512K ROM

Supported a programming language called RPL (Reverse Polish Lisp)

All the programming I ever did was more of functional composition than anything else.

This thing rocked to solve equation systems of many variables, plotting, and even accounting. If you know how to use one, you know you can be pretty fast, you just have to know reverse polish notation.

Everybody had one of these in my school so you had to tag it somehow, it came with a blank metal plate.

My full name was engraved in the city of Guacara (Estado Carabobo, Venezuela), I have a cousin who used to own a sports shop, he had an engraving machine for trophies and the such.

Decidi escanearla para que quede…

Quizas un estudiante de calculo II le sirva para tenerla a la mano.

funciones trigonometricas en angulos notables, sumatorias, limites determinados y no indeterminados, dominios y rangos de funciones trigonometricas, derivadas de inversas trigonometricas, integrales inmediata

integrales inmediatas, funciones trigonometricas hiperbolicas, cambios universales

PS: Si alguien sabe de la vida del Genio Prof. Luis Crespo por favor avisenme, sin duda alguna un verdadero genio.

Ya “Bote”, y espero que mi voto haya contribuido a “botarlo”, y que mi voto no haya sido “votado” a la basura despues que me fui, pq no me dieron ningun comprobante.

Me vesti de traje y corbata porque por lo menos para mi, es toda una ocasion poder dar mi voto para ver si ayudo a sacar a mi familia de tanta tension politica y tanta pasadera de trabajo.

No me encontre a KodeGeek que por cierto me gano publicando primero sus fotos (Sus fotos al parecer fueron a las 10:17am, las mias a las 10:00am), no se si las tomo despues de votar o antes, pero eso fue despues que yo vote), pero si me encontre a un amigo que conoci en Venezuela en la cola lo cual fue muy curioso porque vive en Venezuela pero esta registrado para votar aqui :p

Debo decir que por lo menos a las 10am, que fue cuando vote, solo espere 10minutos para votar. El ambiente era muy amigable y todos las personas organizando las votaciones me trataron muy bien, inclusive despues de votar y mojar el dedo, una muchacha en la mesa de votacion me enrojecio diciendome que mojara “el chiquito”, me pude mear de la risa, y recordar la jodedera de nosotros los venezolanos.

Chequeando en que mesa me tocaba votar, muy amables y educadas todas las personas que organizaban el evento.

No habian maquinas de votacion, simplemente agarrabas tu papeleta, marcabas tu voto con un lapizero en un circulo del lado derecho de tu candidato, doblabas el papel, y lo introducias en una cajita de carton, esperemos que no voten mi papeleta, pq no me quedo ningun comprobante de que vote, mas que mi dedo marcado de tinta y una toallita de esas de avion en una bolsita que tenia impresa la bandera de USA, lol.

Foto dentro de la embajada, no habian sino 2 personas en la cola.

Mi dedo manchado.

Y despues de votar, nos fuimos a caminar por el vecindario, pillamos el Arbolote de Navidad en Rockefeller Center, y luego pillamos que trajeron un monton de Nintendos Wii a Toys R Us.

Thanks for the pictures Tati

Habibi Lounge
114 E 1st street (Houston)
New York, NY 10009
(212) 982-0932

En esta foto estoy en la azotea del edificio donde LimeWire tiene sus oficinas. Es la primera vez que me entrevistan por ser un desarrollador Open Source (Vease proyecto FrostWire).

Poniendo a los desarrolladores de software venezolanos en alto (espero pq hoy lamentablemente la industria disquera norteamericana RIAA, demando a LimeWire)

(Click en la imagen para ver todas las fotos del viaje – Voy a seguir subiendo mas fotos durante el dia)

Y esta otra para las fans.

Hoy vi una pelicula en la cual los escritores orquestraron escenas en las cuales me vi con las lagrimas en la cara y segundos despues botando carcajadas para seguir luego llorando porque el contexto, el dialogo, la musica seguian metiendo el dedo en las heridas, no dejen de verla, es Click.

Decidi ver Click y no Superman, puesto que Click estreno la semana pasada, y Superman estrenaba hoy. Tenian en el cine, donde entregas el ticket para entrar a la sala, el buzon de correo de clark kent, en su casa de campo “Kent”, tambien tenian una capa de superman, y todo el cine de Union Square decorado muy bien.

Sin embargo al salir del cine, con lagrimas y sonrisas, la hermana de mi novia llamo por tlf para decirnos que habian abierto el carro, rompieron el vidrio pequenito de la ventana de atras, y se llevaron el reproductor, bien al estilo Caraqueno. Total que ahora mi novia, tras hablar con la policia, y enterarse que nada mas el dia de hoy, entraron a 7 casas en el vecindario, ahora no cree que mi mania de cerrar la ventana que da a la salida de emergencias para que no entren los ladrones es parte de mi paranoia por haber vivido en una de las ciudades mas peligrosas del mundo (Caracas).

Total que mis conocimientos anti-choros, experiencias de carros robados, atracos a mano armada, y el haber trabajado para una empresa de analisis de riesgo en propiedades durante un ano ahora servira de algo. Que ladilla es volver a tener que lidiar con falta de seguridad, malditos ***** de mierda. El que nos robo, tuvo todo el tiempo del mundo, encontramos la bateria desconectada, al menos no nos jodio el sistema de alarma, y solo arranco el reproductor. Eso paso pq la hermana de mi novia no fue advertida de sacar el reproductor cuando se bajara del carro… ninas consentidas de long island…

Total que esto es Brooklyn, welcome to the real world, no es tan peligroso como caracas, pero no te aguevonees porque te joden igual.

En fin, a descansar y alejarse de la ciudad, me da un poco de miedo dejar las computadoras solas, me da una vaina si vuelvo y encuentro la oficina vacia, asi que habra que tomar medidas para asegurar un poco los equipos, si entran aqui van a hacer un buen mercado en laptops y pcs.

Voy a estar este fin de semana en un pueblo de Pennsylvania llamado Jim Thorpe, donde estare navegando por unos rapidos que dado a unas inundaciones, en vez de darnos un recorrido de 5 horas, ahora el contenido es de una hora, asi que va a ser emocionando navegar por esas aguas blancas. Tambien estare manejando bicicleta, y de darnos tiempo jugaremos Paintball, ademas de caminar por los bosques y explorar el area.

Turn up the Volume!!!

Turn up the Volume all the way, the music will be cool

Download in high resolution (Needs Quicktime or VLC with Quicktime codec Share it with Frostwire)

Anyways, this is just a test of what I can do with iMovie and a crappy cam, I already have over 20 minutes of footage of all Manhattan which I recorded a couple months ago, and I’m putting something much better for you guys to appreciate why I love New York.

Produced, Filmed, Edited and Distributed by Gubatron.

This video is licensed under the Creative Commons License, you can copy it and share it however you want as long as you don’t make a dime out of it, and as long as you give credit to Gubatron and wedoit4you.com

Donations are welcome by paypal, I need to buy a minidv cam, it’s just $350, it’d be cool if you could help me get half, just send paypal money to gubatron@gmail.com (Just in case that there’s a good soul out there who’ll give at least $1 for the entertainment)

Check out the credits of the software, I used to be on the Web Dev Team, my props to Andrew Fischler and best of luck to Dave Yeu, it’s great to be a web dev for such an exciting site, I’m sure you’ll learn a lot.

I’m thankful they kept me on the credits. Hi to Meghan Formel and Karl Magdsick who also moved on to other exciting projects, the best to you too.

Inspired by LimeWire’s owner, Mark Gorton, the LimeWire project is a collaborative open source effort involving programmers and researchers from all over the world. The collaborative nature of Gnutella is also reflected in the Gnutella Developers Forum (GDF), of which LimeWire is a participant. The members of the GDF work in the trenches every day to make Gnutella a truly innovative collection of protocols that is constantly improving — a testament to the power of open protocols and open standards.

LimeWire is also, of course, the result of the countless hours of work by LimeWire’s developers:
Greg Bildson
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Roger Kapsi
Mark Kornfilt
Akshay Kumar
Kevin Faaborg
Justin Schmidt
Tim Olsen
Felix Berger

Behind the scenes business strategy and day-to-day affairs are handled by LimeWire’s business developers:
Katie Catillaz
Rachel Sterne
Jesse Rubenfeld

The LimeWire web site and LimeWire graphic design are the hard work of LimeWire’s web team:
Andrew Fischler Jr.
Dave Yeu

LimeWire PRO questions are dutifully answered by LimeWire technical support:
Zenzele Bell
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In addition, the following individuals have worked on the LimeWire team in the past but have since moved on to other projects:
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Susheel Daswani
Adam Fisk
Meghan Formel
Tarun Kapoor
Angel Leon (Me me me me!)
Karl Magdsick
Yusuke Naito
Dave Nicponski
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Christopher Rohrs
Anurag Singla
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Jens-Uwe Mager
Gordon Mohr
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Finally, LimeWire would like to extend its sincere thanks to these developers, users, and all others who have contributed their ideas to the project. Without LimeWire users, the LimeWire network would not exist.

Hey Ian, you know what this means right?

F2: Rename Session
F11: Full Screen Mode
Shift+Up : New Session
Shift+Down: Close Session
Shift+Right: Go to Next Session
Shift+Left: Go to Right Session

Gotta love KDE’s Konsole.

I was expecting a lot from the Da Vinci code, but they couldn’t make it as rich as the book because there’s moronic people in the world who wouldn’t understand or appreciate the historic details, the simbology explanations of the book or better yet, the code breaking. So, I guess that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much, it was good though.

But this year, the movie I’ve enjoyed more, the one that kept me entertained, laughing, and didn’t let me blink was X-Men III, I truly recommend this film, specially if you saw the last 2 installments.

The second movie I enjoyed more from what this year has brought us has been V for Vendetta, there was a lot of political message and hints of how fucked up our political systems are while they present a great story.

Now I’m looking forward to see “An Inconvenient Truth” a film about the effects of global warming, you should see the trailer, it’s a film presented by Al-Gore, who maybe doing a little political campaign while creating awareness of this problem.

So, don’t wait another second and get your tickets to see X-Men III this weekend.

Oh. and reading user comments I found out that there’s a scene at the end of the credits, which I missed cause I stormed out of the theater, so I have a legitimate reason to go see it again, grrrr.

UCAB:
Habilidad Numerica 577
Habilidad Verbal 569
Indice Academico 625

Es bueno tener estos numeros por ahi antes que los pierda.

Desde la punta del Empire States / From the Top of the Empire Building

(Hay 2 videos mas si le das a Read more, uno caminando en Grand Central, otro en la Estatua de la Libertad, y otro desde el puente de Brooklyn cuando hubo el paro de transporte)

Caminando por Grand Central / Walking around Grand Central

En la Estatua de la Libertad / On Statue of Liberty Island

Puente de Brooklyn el primer dia del paro de transporte / Brooklyn Bridge first day of the MTA Strike

Click on Read more to see credits

Shot on a Cannon PowerShot SD110 (so bear with me until I get a dv camera)
Edited with iMovie (so bear with me until I get the hang of Final Cut Pro, the subtitles could’ve been better, but I lost them and had to do them again, and I didn’t have time to do them the way I wanted so I could show it before than anyone else)
Camera by Gubatron
Voice by Gubatron
Edited by Gubatron
Music Loops mixed by Gubatron using the basic GarageBand loops (I’m gonna get the Jampacks soon, don’t worry)

Thanks to Tati who told me about this particular happening in New York. I followed her advice and here’s a Gallery of pictures.

I’ll be posting a video report in the next minutes hours.

I found this group of musicians today on my way back home at the Columbus Circle subway station, around 7pm, on the Blue line platform.

If you guys get to see this, I was the first person to put some cash on your cello cover, then I started recording this.

I wish I would’ve gotten more footage but I ran out of battery (thank you Murphey!)

PS: For some reason the video stalls towards the end on my computer, in case you can’t see the URL of their site, please go to BreakOfReality.com

It seems the episode of south park where the elderly people take over the town to recover their driver’s licenses, in a funny way has some truth to it, old people wake up fucking early, some of them get things done while we sleep in, some of them just wake up on a saturday morning at 6:30am and start yelling at their TV.

Last night I went to bed at 3am coding language support for SnowRSS (yay finally) and this morning, the old man that lives next to me, who fucking speaks yells to the TV everytime he sees what he considers a bad sport player “Get Rid of Him, That son of a Bitch” (with an italian accent), woke me up just now, at 7:30am, If he only knew the tv can’t hear him and he rembered that he’s yelling, I would have a much better story to tell you now.

From the dream, I just remember I was either talking or thinking that the NSA (National Security Agency) owned the Human Genome Project, also they owned Google because they needed to know more about people’s life for one of it’s purposes.

In this case, it seemed the government had a project where all this information could be used to factor humans with specific qualities to target different problems. Let me explain,
If they for example needed a human being that had certain characteristics phisically, and certain mind characteristics for a task they foresaw in the future, such as the creation of a nanoweapon or something very different but equally important to them, as the creation of a political leader, etc.

The government would use their data on people’s behaviour, social background, relationships, and their genetic data, to be able to know which people should get together to live (at different levels, who should be friends, who should live together, who should leave you) to “naturally” engineer special human beings… this means, suppose you were born in 1980 and you had a certain cultural background and social interaction, and you were one of the key factors on the creation of this special being, they would run your data (genetic, social, cultural, academical, profesional, tastes, shopping behaviour, medical, etc) against thousands of people found to be usable for this project, then with the outputs of this computations they would find someone else born in 83, in certain region of the world, would be convenient to marry you so that you can have a child with certain characteristics which in turn could either be THE ONE, or part of the next process for the creation of THE ONE.
I know I’m crazy, but I think everything is possible, and once again… this was a dream.

If this match wasn’t needed in the next few years, they could run this algorithm in several other possible couples in all the world to find a match for your would be children, and so on in as many necessary generations, until they’d finally have that perfect person for that important role.

Then they would use their tentacles to have you live and work and certain places, meet certain people, etc (remember the power they have, remember other people might be engineered to be part of the process of engineering of others), it’s almost as if we were genetically pre-programmed, that we all had a purpose.

So that’s what I remember from this dream. Things I’ve watched this week:
• South Park every night
• V for Vendetta
• Lost

I’ve also thought a lot about the Matrix, how I think a lot of people in the Matrix were just programs that had a purpose, and how in a way, Agents were like Garbage collection systems, entitled to delete unreferenced objects from the memory of the Matrix, they talked a lot about purpose, when Objects aren’t referenced by anyother element in a system, it means they’re done with what they’re doing, and it’s the job of the Garbage collector to clean unused memory, I think that’s what the Agent’s were in the matrix, a much more higher level version of Garbage Collection inside that massive interactive neural simulation.
Gotta love that fucking movie.

That night his sons debuted on Radio City Music Halls as musicians on stage with him, they played the lead guitar and the drums. As I heard this song I couldn’t help to feel the goosebumps.

Watch this Staples commercial where they fuck up when they use the easy button at the wrong place

I know, It’s useless, but all profits go to a foundation…