Pues no sabemos en que acabará todo esto. De hecho, por no saber, no sabemos ni las fechas definitivas en las que se va a jugar. Hay un hilo interesante sobre las posibilidades de los equipos profesionales en los foros de p8ntballer.
Continue reading “La temporada que se nos avecina”
A lady walks into a drug store and tells the pharmacist she needs some cyanide. The pharmacist said, “ Why in the world do you need cyanide? The lady then explained she needed it to poison her husband. The pharmacist’s eyes got big and he said, ”Lord have mercy, I can’t give you cyanide to kill your husband! That’s against the law! They’ll throw both of us in jail and I’ll lose my license.
Then the lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist’s wife and handed it to the pharmacist. The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, “ Well now, you didn’t tell me you had a prescription.”
Sé que soy obsesiva con este tema, pero cada vez parece quedar menos gente honrada. Lo más divertido del tema es que cuando hablas con ellos no se trata de que no sean honrados, sino de que el concepto de honradez ha variado su significado en los últimos años.
Conociendo a la RAE, espero ver cualquier día de estos la siguiente definición:
Honradez: 1. f. Falta de rectitud de ánimo, de integridad en el obrar.
(Publicado por New Scientist)
A NASA rover called Spirit made a perfect landing in an ancient lakebed on Mars early on Sunday morning, after a suspenseful entry sequence that worked far beyond anyone’s expectations.
Elated scientists and engineers repeatedly erupted into cheers, jumped in the air and gave each other hugs at the mission control centre at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Mars rover mission’s chief scientist, Steven Squyres of Cornell University, said: “In none of our rehearsals did it go this well.”
The airbag-protected lander continued to transmit data almost without interruption throughout an entry and landing sequence the mission team had dubbed “six minutes from hell”. Furthermore, the four-sided craft even landed with its base-side down, greatly simplifying the process of unfolding its petals to release the golf-cart-sized roving robot.
Continue reading “Rover makes perfect touchdown on Mars”
Libro. Ciencia Ficción. Muy bueno salvo quizá el último trozo. Lo mejor? La moraleja: “muchas veces lo importante está en el camino”.
My so called life* 