Probably dying when a $1K PC can process more info that all human brains combined

Date: 2011.01.06 | Category: Rambling | Response: 0

I am 33.

If lucky, will live for 8Oyrs.

It’s 2011 + 47yrs left = 2058.

Here you can see that in around 2066 we will arrive to that power of calculation per price.

Rambled it!

The inevitable negative consequence of being human

Date: 2010.12.20 | Category: Rambling | Response: 0

Just watched Gasland http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/.

This documentary explores the new development of natural gas drilling in the US as an alternative energy supply.

As any other source of energy dependent on our exploitation of natural resources, this one has several negative consequences. The most horrible one – this one is directly making the water supply around the drilling areas undrinkable.

The result is the possibility of millions of people being exposed to pollutants that in the long-term will kill them.

The film exemplifies again the corruption that exists in our government, especially in the laws that affect the energy industry.

But to me, the film showcases something even more profound. The inevitable negative consequence of being human.

We are here. We exist in this planet. We need resources to survive and as we grow, we need more and more of them, from more and more sources. And each time we find another one, we inevitably end up destroying another part of nature, another part of ourselves.

As if God, nature or whatever you want to call it, has placed a big joke in our heads. We need to survive and the only way to do it is to kill ourselves, little by little. I know many would argue that there are many other ways to do things. Ways that might not have these negative consequences, but I am forced to ask those – where is your solution? Please share it, because unless 2/3 of the human population disappear overnight, then we are doomed.

There is simply not turning back at this point. As developing countries grow and reach our levels, the need for more and more resources and the negative consequences attached to them, will inevitably end us all.

And so I dub it the inevitable negative consequence of being human.

The Jesus Complex

Date: 2010.11.29 | Category: Rambling | Response: 0

Does anyone else feels like they must help those are by their own doing the worst in society?

I called it the Jesus Complex and it affects me very much.

Maybe based on my catholic education, maybe in my own self sense of entitlement, but I definitely can’t unreasonably stop myself from feeling bad when I see others that have continually made the same mistakes over and over make them once more and suffer.

Others believe is not right to worry so much. That those that ended up there did out of their own will and those are collecting what they in all poetic sense deserve.

But wasn’t that the lesson the Jesus tried to impart? Namely, that those that got it right already are and going to be ok. Those that are for whatever reason incapable to find the path are the ones that require help. He himself found surrounded by them.

Conflicted, I put it to rest.

“…you are not Jesus…you are not savior…you are not answer…”

Life Farmer

Date: 2010.11.27 | Category: Rambling | Response: 0

When I was young, I never imagined to be the type that would help life grow in this world. From my child, to the some many cats that suddenly have become part of our family, live keeps springing around me.

Life needs a lot of work to keep on growing. Food, attention, time are examples of the many things required to grow life. My strategy lately has been to treat these little wonders as bonsai trees. Little push over here, little tuck over there. They know where to go, but they require care.

And so, life keeps growing and growing and apparently I have become one of his farmers. Cool.

On Thanksgiving

Date: 2010.11.26 | Category: Rambling | Response: 0

Today, I taught my son what Thanksgiving is.

Told him, that it is a date to remember that when another human is in danger, the right thing to do is to help him out. That this day we all here in the US remember how when the first pioneers found themselves in their worst, Indians extended their hand in help.

I also explained him, that this day should also make us remember that when someone helps you, you must help them back. In this case, I explain history showed otherwise. With those same once helpless pioneers repaying the natives’ gratitude w blood.

Thanksgiving is an example of the obscure forces inside us. That murderous part of us that has caused us so much pain as a specie.

So, I said, son remember if you ever find yourself almost dead of inanition and someone else shares his food w you, pay them back by not stealing his lands and murdering his people.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.