¿Descubriré mi corazón
o presumiré los colores
de mi caparazón?

LeT Me iN!!

Remember the "Wake Up Cat"? Well, he's outside and wants to come in... He's Simon's Cat...

Enjoy

DeaTH MeTaL PuPPY

Sometimes a puppy can enjoy a good session of Death Metal...

Enjoy

HuMaNS aRe MoNKeYS

Humans are both the most beautiful and the most ugly monkeys...

Enjoy

Luna's Creation

As promised, in a few days there will be a Full Luna, but I will not be able to write anything over the course of this weekend, so that is why this post is earlier. There are about four studied theories of how Luna was formed/captured into Her actual position.

1. Fission Theory, which explains that somehow the Earth's centrifugal forces caused a big chunk of Earth's body to be released into space, leaving behind a scar - which presumably is the Pacific Ocean. This theory is likely wrong as the Earth's initial spin should have been immense and Luna should have followed the Earth's equatorial plane, and this is not the case.
2. Capture Theory explains that Luna was formed elsewhere and traveled into the Earth's gravitational field, capturing it into Her actual position. This one is also highly improbable.
3. Co-formation Theory explains that Luna was formed alongside the Earth but this does not explain the depletion of metallic iron on Luna.
4. Giant Impact Theory explains that a Mars-sized object crashed into a protoEarth about 4.5 billion years ago, fusing both planets and the expelled material that resulted form the crash collapsed into what we know as Luna.

Several models have been developed to study these theories and the only one that explains the angular momentum of the Earth-Luna system is the Giant Impact Theory, also known as the Big Splash. There are still some questions regarding this theory as the sizes of the crashing protoplanets is (and I guess will always be) unknown as well as the amount of material from both protoplanets formed Luna.

Ausencia

Su sonrisa iluminaba mi vida,
su risa perpetuaba la inocencia.
El cabello negro como la noche,
la piel, blanca como la luna.

Maremotos de caricias inundan mis recuerdos,
Ni el viento iguala su suavidad.
Su mirada, refrescante como la lluvia,
Su amor, inmenso como el mar.

Siempre tan bella como una flor,
con su aroma a jazmín, me envenenaba.
Como una nube me protegió,
como una nube se perdió.

New Look

I've "managed" to change the look of my blog. It's 2/3 complete as I wanted a fixed background (which means it stays on the same place as you scroll up and down), semi-transparent background for the main body and the sidebar so the text can be readable against the fixed BG. The only damn thing I couldn't figure out is leaving the images completely opaque. Surely this is a task for another time. I got a lot of help from this blog.

Haiku.010

Luna left the sky,
Creeping darkness left behind.
Shattered dreams, red tears.

Red Luna

Tonight all of Mexico will enjoy a total Lunar Eclipse that will turn the Moon red. This is the first post of many that I will write in tribute to Luna, my Domina Oriens, every full moon.

"A lunar eclipse occurs at least two times a year, whenever some portion of the Earth's shadow falls upon the Moon. The Moon will always be full during a lunar eclipse; that is, from the perspective of the Sun, the Moon will be directly behind the Earth. However, since the orbital plane of the Moon is inclined by about 5° with respect to the orbital plane of the Earth (the ecliptic), most full moons occur when the Moon is either north or south of Earth's shadow. Thus in order to be eclipsed, the Moon must be near one of the two intersection points its orbit makes with the ecliptic, which are referred to as the Moon's ascending and descending nodes." -Source: Wikipedia

Anything regarding Luna, let it be news or information, will be written with the label Luna.

Cheers!!

Red Ring of Death 4

Yesterday, when I came back from work I found that my new 360 arrived that day. Honestly, I thought that it would be more troublesome than it actually was. And thus the circle is complete.

The only thing that I really hated was the fact that all of my arcade games went back to trials unless I log in to Live (but I currently cannot) and several of my themes are missing as well.

Anyway, those can be bought/played again, the good thing is that I've got my 360 back.

Cheers,