Sunday, August 30, 2009

Get Rid Of Mouse Urine

Thus spake ... Chris Stevens (2005-2009)

Cicely good morning! This is still a strong time of change. Suddenly I see a line now separates q from the rest of my life. And I have confirmed my destination for at least the year q comes as a teacher in primary school. It is a coastal village called Carboneras Almeria, and the little q've seen, I liked it. Q and I hope to continue. Anyway, at least the presence of the sea is always a factor I q q solvent will help me in my daily work.

As I said I am in full time of change at all levels, both personally and professionally, and only time will tell what course is directed toward all this welter emotional. What I have clear is q q change was necessary, because it made me quite some time q was determined to go against his friend Heraclitus and his famous dictum, "Nothing endures but change." Q I feel there is a before and after this present moment q, nostalgia aside, he had spent all potential cartridges in this beautiful land of Alaska. Volvere

? Of course. To stay? I do not know. Q What is clear is q and all q apprentice alchemist worth his salt, I need to get away to appreciate the long q only with me. And Cicely is too precious to be only a "partner." A server like the old Lord Byron, we are nothing enthusiasts love without wings.

So and to the question q is continuous live each day, my answer today is no longer hesitant. Today my answer is an unqualified statement, with the serenity of knowing q who said yes to a moment of its existence has also said the chain of events q made it possible. Because as the great Zarathustra Nietzsche, all things are chained, locked, love ...

Thanks for listening have been maintained during this time radio. I close the door of this station so intense moments q has put me through, and open yet another door to another path. Of course, since I know if I will also open a new door in the future blogger x)

In any case, has been a pleasure ...

Farewell!


Sunday, August 23, 2009

Different Ways To Use A Bandana

bar "El Farol"

The problem bar "El Farol" is a problem within the framework of game theory. Is based on a real story that took place in a bar in the city of Santa Fe (New Mexico) called "El Farol" and was initially raised by economist Brian Arthur in 1994. The problem statement is as follows: In Santa Fe there is a finite number of people. On Thursday night, everyone wants to go to the Bar "El Farol". However, "El Farol" is a very small local, and it is nice to go if you are full. Thus, the following "rules" in place:


  • If less than 60% of the population is going to the bar, then it's more fun to go to the bar to stay home.
  • If more than 60% of the population is going to the bar, is less fun then go to the bar to stay home.

Unfortunately, everyone needs to decide whether to go or not go to the bar while and can not wait to see how many people before they have decided to go.


deterministic strategies

The importance of the problem is that no matter which method (deterministic) follow each person to decide what to do: if worldwide uses the same method it is guaranteed that the method will be ineffective:

  1. If everyone uses the same method and this suggests that the bar not be full, then everyone will come, so the bar will full.
  2. Similarly, if everyone uses the same method and this suggests that the bar will full, then no one will come and, therefore, the bar not be full, is empty.

problem variants

Some variations of the problem, it allows people to communicate with each other before deciding whether to go or not to bar. However, it is not required to tell the truth. A generalized version of the problem of the bar "El Farol" is the game of the minority.

The same analysis could apply to the dilemma facing every Sunday thousands of drivers trying to avoid traffic jams on roads entering the big cities. If everyone uses the same method to decide which is the best time to reach your city, inevitably all fall into the jam.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Olympus Charger Flashing Red

am a hopeless case

finally revealed
shrewd critic (I knew you were going to find out)
that I'm biased in my stories and tangentially

urges me to assume the neutrality
any
respecting intellectual
think he is right I'm biased

no doubt this further
I would say that a partial
unsalvageable
finally hopeless as much effort to make
can never become neutral

in several countries of the continent leading experts

have done everything possible and impossible
for curing me of bias
for example in my country's national library

ordered partial expungement of my books in Argentina partial
gave me
cuartenta-eight hours (if not kill me) so I left with my bias

finally slopes in Peru held incommunicado my bias
and deported me


being neutral would not have needed such intensive therapy

but what I'm biased

make partial incurably
and although it may sound a little strange


fully and partially

know that means I can not aspire to so many honors
and reputations and prayers and dignities

the world reserved for intellectuals

to respect for the neutral words with an aggravating

as fewer and fewer neutral

distinctions are distributed among very few

after all and
from my limitations
confessed I must admit that those few are neutral
I have some admiration
or better reserve them as some surprise
actually need nerves of steel to stay neutral
to episodes like girĂ³n

tlatelolco
trelew pando



currency is clear that a
and perhaps this is what he meant
critic might be biased in the private lives and neutral
belles lettres
say Pinochet indignant

for insomnia and daytime
write stories about the Atlantis is not bad



clear idea and has the advantage that

one hand you have conflicts of conscience and that always represents

good
nutrimeto for art and for other sides to not let it
bashing the bourgeois press and / or
neutral

not a bad idea but
and I am discovering or imagining the submerged continent

the existence of oppressed and oppressors and neutral partial


executioners tortured and that is the same player
Cuba itself
Yankees no non-submerged continent


so as it seems that I have no choice and I'm definitely lost


neutrality for the successful it is likely to continue writing stories
nonneutral
and poems and songs and novels, essays and non-neutral

but warn it will be so
but do not try to torture and prisons
or other topics that apparently
unbearable to be neutral and even

try to butterflies and clouds and goblins and little fish


Mario Benedetti