Howard Phillips Lovecraft

I originally intended to develop at least two logs very different to what I'm posting now. The reason is that I have found something extraordinaire that surpasses both of the initial ideas I had planned.

Though I have read just a few novels by Master Lovecraft, I have been profoundly "in love" with his narrative (though I have to mention that the novels I've read are the Spanish translation by Borges*) and the way he describes everything in a dark mysterious light, macabre at some points, specially those stories concerning the Cthulu Mythos.

Nevertheless, I have not read more of him because there are not that many books around that contain all of his novels (except the most famous ones) but I recently (as of today) discovered this wiki that contains all (to my knowledge) of his written works, in addition to some legal documents and essays.

For example, one of my favorites, The Whisperer in Darkness appears here. I hope you find this exciting as well.

Cheers!!!

*So I'm told, I have not had the time to corroborate this.

Lunar-Resonant Streetlighting

I read a little about this and I believe it's a great idea, although it cannot be embraced everywhere because of personal and material security. Nevertheless, I would love to see this happen in the "Big Ranch" I spend my days in.

The basic idea is that street lighting respond to ambient nightlight (in short, moonlight) and dim or brighten due to the moon's brightness in Her 28 days cycle. Of course if it's cloudy, the system will brighten the lights. This concept, by Civil Twilight, could save up to 80-90% of the energy used for street lighting and as a bonus, we could delight ourselves again with a starry night and the beautiful silvery Moon. It's worth mentioning that Civil Twilight won this year's (2007, so I won't forget) Metropolis Next Generation Ideas competition.

If you're interested in the full story, read on! Would this concept work in your city? Leave a comment!!

Fallen Art

Sick, twisted and one of the darkest CG animations I've ever seen. Enjoy...

Haiku.007

Can you feel the end?
Can you feel the cold? It's here,
Right in the middle.

Creedence Clearwater Revisited

Creedence Clearwater Revisited Tour 07 closed yesterday on May 13th here in Monterrey. I must say that, though the auditorium was not filled to its maximum capacity, Creedence rocked out! One of the best concerts I've been to, regarding audience-band. It began kinda slow, as if both sides were too shy to show any emotion. By the end of the first song a few people broke into applause and cheering and a couple of 'Misters' were already dancing around with a 'doubled-sized' beer glass each (the glass was made of platic, so nobody's life was actually at risk).

Song after song the audience was building momentum until the end of the concert. I wish my Dad was there, he would've like it but he was travelling to Shangai at the moment. I heard about Creedence because of him and have old memories with their songs as soundtracks of my life. Surely I was very happy to hear them, you can tell they're haveing so mucho fun doing it, no matter how old they're, at least the drummer is 62 years old but man, he's in a better shape than most people my age.

Besides the concert and the energy these five people projected, something else that came to my notice is that two members were identical with two of my friends, CheChe and Martín.

Keep on Rockin' CCR! If you're back, I will come back to rock with you. I had so much fun yesterday at the gig that i wouldn't mind paying $900 (times two) again.

New Music for my Blog

We have been blessed by the new Widgets that Last.fm is offering to members. You may remember when I first posted that I added a 'quilt' displaying my favorite albums, you can see it on the right of this post.

Anyway, now I have replaced the 'Recently Played" to a new one which is updated every 2 minutes or so, some songs can even be clicked if the have a Play sign and a 30 seconds sample will, well, play. The NEW widget, is My Radio, which will play songs based on my profile. Hope you enjoy them.

It would be cool as Hell if only I could tune Last.fm through my 360. No need to turn on my PC. I hope one day this can be delivered in a near-future spring update.

CHeeRS!!

Supernova

I have been hearing all this so-called news about the brightest supernova ever. They say the explosion was 150 times brighter than the sun, others that the explosion itself was 150 times larger than the sun. They can't understand this type of events. What really was 150 times larger than the sun was the actual star before the nova. This occurred 240 million light-years away, 240 million years ago. But the light just reached us six months ago in September, the name of the supernova: SN 2006gy. It was 50 billion (that's 50,000,000,000 for americans) times brighter than the sun, outshining 10 times its own galaxy lasting 70 days! The damnest thing is that its too far away to be seen with the naked eye, but I have a surprise for you, keep reading.

This Supernova, the largest ever observed began expelling most of its mass prior to the explosion, which is happening in our own galaxy, a star named Eta Carinae may "be on the brink" of an explosion (chances are, it already has). Scientists say that this event may be the best "star-show in the history of modern civilization." Eta's supernova would be visible from Earth during day and night and would be visible for only a couple of weeks.

Prepare the snacks mates, in a few thousand years (if not tomorrow) Eta's show will be the talk of the moment, only in the Southern Hemisphere, bad luck for us North-hemisphereans.

As a bonus, have a view of the "Pillars of Creation" at the Eagle Nebula.

*EDIT*

Here you can take a look at the animation prepared by NASA. First, the matter release in the shape of two spheres, then the moment of truth. This thing would have looked gorgeous.

Stupid Spidey

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

I cannot believe how stupid the character Peter Parker becomes with each movie. This was, among the three, my least favorite. Putting aside the dancing lessons that sure comes with the symbiote, the emo hairstyle, the black mascara, the professionally jealous girlfriend and the skinny Brock, this movie kinda sucks. Too long for me, they could have cut all the crap off and just leave the interesting stuff; leave the extra for the Extended Version, that would've been a smart move.

The new Venom, hmmm, didn't quite have the "strength" the original Venom has and was kind of ridiculous how Brock came in contact with the symbiote especially after asking god to kill Peter Parker for "humiliating" him. Parker did this because Brock forged a photo of Spidey robbing a bank and exposed him with the original picture and the changes he made.

Anyway, for me there was something missing in the movie, still don't know what it was, maybe the hype was part of this, but I didn't like it as much as the first two.

What do you think? Did you like it? Why?

Halo 3 Beta Update

Today, at least to me, were released a couple of videos, exclusive to the social network. The new leaks show a new map known only as Epitiah (as someone else mentioned, probably a misspelling). Anyway, enjoy and thank god I bought Crackdown (which I must say is a very entertaining game, actually).