Pues aquí estoy

no nos ha tocado la loteria y hay q currar un poco, q se le va a hacer...

por cierto zorionak eta urte erri on pa'todos todos

Where the streets have no name.

Se me había olvidado lo cojonuda que es esta canción, y el Joshua Tree. Es que hace tantos años que... uy, jaté, ya ni me acuerdo...
Pero acabo de oírla camino del trabajo en la radio, y, con tal nostalgia jatéoyess, que desde aquí pongo un pensamiento en los buenos haceres de los señores de U2, aunque sea por alegrarme la mañana.

holidays in the ice!!!

Vacacionessssssssssssss, en unas pocas horas estaré de vacaciones, vaya heladas jacho. Y la semana q viene más, menos mal q estaré entre mis sábanas, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Nueva cagada del Athletic, mejor no habalr del partido de ayer..........

y hoy sorteo de la lotería, "sesentaiseismilseicientoscincuentayuuuuuuuuuno,... mogollooooooooon de euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurosssssssssssssssssssss"

Las doce campanadas

El mentalista cacereño Carlos Santillana anunció ayer que el próximo 31 de diciembre a las 00.00 horas parará durante al menos tres minutos el reloj de la Puerta del Sol desde su despacho de Cáceres, justo después de que las doce campanadas marquen el ritmo al que los españoles deben de comer como de costumbre, las tradicionales uvas. En Madrid, Santillana explicó que para que todo salga bien la noche de Nochevieja, en la que estará a 300 kilómetros de la capital española, ha ensayado en diez localidades diferentes de Madrid, Ciudad Real y Extremadura con relojes que «tienen la misma o parecida maquinaria al de la Puerta del Sol», informa Europa Press.

Recordó que en algunos de esos municipios ha conseguido que se parara el reloj y en otros incluso se han parado las campanadas o al menos se han ralentizado. Al respecto, confió en que el próximo 31 de diciembre a las 00.00 horas «esto no suceda» y que los españoles puedan comer, como es costumbre, las doce uvas.

Y es que, según insistió Santillana, su reto consiste en para únicamente el reloj «entre tres y cinco minutos» sin entorpecer con ello el desarrollo del ritual del fin de año.

Sobre este nuevo proyecto, comentó que existen «más contras que pros» a la hora de ejecutarlo y demostrar la veracidad del posible logro, ya que, enumeró, el reloj «puede ser manipulado» por los propios relojeros, la Comunidad de Madrid no le deja poner un notario que verifique si realmente se ha parado y porque, ante cualquier problema que se pueda presentar la noche del último día del año, los relojeros van a estar ahí para solucionarlo lo más rápido posible.

Foto cena de navidad de mi venerada compañía de trabajo.

Malas noticias para el Padel World Championship

Ayer se confirmó que la temporada ha terminado para iñigo, rotura de menisco y posible rotura de ligamentos (a confirmar mediante resonancia) fué el diagnóstico. Todavía no sabemos que ocurrirá con el PWC, habrá sustituto, se suspenderá... La organización ha convocado una reunión para este jueves donde estudiará las posibles alternativas y los informes médicos para verificar que efectivamente se trata de una lesión y no de una nueva estratagema de esta pareja.

nosotros no dudamos de esta lesión y desde aquí todo nuestro ánimo para iñigo deseandole una pronta recuperación

Monday, monday...

egunon, hace un frío que pela y quedan 3 días y medio para mis vacaciones.

el athletic ya está fuera de las plazas de descenso, por poco pero fuera. nuestro amigo othar deberá hacer una profunda reflexión por que las dos únicas victorias en san mames han coincidido con sus dos únicas ausencias del campo, casualidad?... probablemente, aunque insisto que othar debería hacer un análisis de la situación. con esto no quiero decir que sea un cenizo, pero...

hablando de casualidades, se ficha a aduriz y los delanteros empiezan a marcar, ... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... curioso

Osasuna sigue sorprendiendo, ayer casi gana en el bernabeú y con uno menos!!!

lo dicho, q hace un frio que pela...

egunon

Sabado sabadete...

vaya tiempo más guarri que hace...

foto recien sacada de naia desayunando. si, eso q tiene en la cara es chocolate...

oche, josua, q tal os vendría una visita de la familia trapp alla por marzo?

Who's Who???

Alguien reconoce al dulce mancebo de la foto?, tic-tac-tic-tac....

por cierto, evskis, q no me has dado ningún detalle de lo de Paul Kendall, y otra cosa, no ibas a hacer algo con jeff (era jeff?) parsons?

resumiendo, q no me cuentas nada

Friday

Hey you!
Do you remember me
I used to sit next to you at school
We indulged in all the extra-curricular activites
We weren't particularly cool

Monday cycling
Tuesday gymnastics
Dancing on a Friday night
I got Bridge Club on Wednesday
Archery on Thursday
Dancing on a Friday night

Hey you!
Could you ever fall for me
The way I fell for you
And do you dwell upon the thoughts that I occupy
Or do you give yourself things to do?

Monday rowing
Tuesday badminton
Dancing on a Friday night
I got ping pong on Wednesday
Needlework on Thursday
Dancing on a Friday night
With you, with you

Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday
Dancing on a Friday night
Let the music smother me
Whole weekend recovery
Dancing on a Friday night

See the lady I adore
Dancing on the dancing floor
Dancing on a Friday night
God, the way she moves me
To write bad poetry
Dancing on a Friday night
With you.

Osea, que vosotros vísteis éste.

The above photograph shows a Calendar Stone, also called Sunstone. The carvings in the stone represent the four cycles of creation and destruction.
The skull at the center depicts the god Tonatiuh, the fifth sun.
A similar sunstone is at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico.

PS. Joéeeee, con lo que me atrae el rollo este Maya y no entiendo náaaaa...!!!!

Quienn es este tio????????

Quien se parece a este tio??????????

Pa'l gran Othar

Pos'claro que puedes poner temas txato. Pincha en el gráfico de abajo/dcha "I power blogger" mete tu usuario y contraseña y luego busca donde pone "nueva entrada".

Josua, tú como lo haces?

aprovecho el post y pongo foto del calendario azteca referenciado en comentario a anterior post.

Calendario Maya.

Igorskçen,
Te acuerdas que te comenté lo del calendario Mayasss (jaté) en verano, ..aquí está.
Desafortunadamente, parece ser que todas las posibles interpretaciones del lenguaje y jeroglíficos Mayas hacen pensar que este calendario no va más allá del 2012, por lo menos no como las cosas son ahora.
Vaya usté a saber.
A vosotros os dijeron algo de todo esto cuando lo vísteis en México, o sólo que les dieras unos pesos?

Fotografía del incendio de marras, tomada desde el balcón de la ofi ayer a media tarde.

Por fín, fotografías del camionero que supuestamente provocó el incendio en los depósitos de Keroseno en UK.

Finalmente, las causas serias del incendio en UK pueden haber sido desveladas. Sky News.

Tank Driver May Have Triggered Inferno
Sky News Wednesday December 14, 10:53 AM

A tanker driver claims he may have triggered the Buncefield oil blast by flicking his engine cut-out switch while there was a vapour leak from the plant.The man's friend told The Sun: "There was some sort of vapour leakage, like a dense mist."It was 'heavy' - forming in the air and dropping to the ground. It seemed to be coming from behind his tanker as he couldn't see a hole.

"My colleague ran to his tanker, flipped the switch and waited. His engine cut out, then 'boom!' He does not know whether
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he caused it but he blames himself."

A spokeswoman for Hertfordshire Police confirmed the driver had given detectives a similar account.

He said: "He is one of the key witnesses and we have spoken to him but whether that is what caused it or not is not something that we don't know at this stage."

Police, the fire service and the Health and Safety Executive, are looking into the cause of the blast.

The last of the blazing oil tanks at the Hertfordshire site, engulfed on Sunday by a series of explosions, was extinguished more than 60 hours later.

But a number of small fires are still burning, with one fire breaking out overnight in a tank previously undamaged by the blaze. It will be allowed to burn itself out.

Fire services minister Jim Fitzpatrick said the operation had been a "real success" thanks to contingency planning and exercises.

Meanwhile, it has been announced that most schools in and around Hemel Hempstead are expected to open later.

Businesses are also expected to re-open and local residents are being allowed to return to inspect their damaged homes.

Health officials said air quality tests had shown a "reassuring" lack of toxic chemicals around the blaze site.

PS: Juuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa juuaaaaaaaaaaaa juaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Qué buena suerteee, que los humos del incendio no sean tóxicos!
Pfiuuuuuu!!! Resulta que el humo estaba hecho de mazapán!
Claro, como é navidá!
Pero qué suerte!
Y yo aquí tó preocupao!

Iñigo/Ruben se adelantan en el Padel World Championship

La pareja formada por Iñigo/Ruben se adelantó 3-2 en el PWC después de derrotar a Igor/Karmelo en el partido disputado ayer en el polideportivo de Urreta. El primer set cayó del lado de Iñigo/Ruben por 6-3, en el segundo Igor/Karmelo reaccionaron devolviendoles el 6-3 y en el tercero, la devacle, un nefasto juego por parte de Igor/Karmelo les llevo a perder por un contundente pero engañoso 6-0, ya que Iñigo/Ruben sólo se dedicaron a pasar la pelota al campo rival y esperar el fallo de sus desacertados rivales. Verdaderamente un set para olvidar.

Aún hubo tiempo de empezar un cuarto set, pero la experiencia y la picardia de Iñigo/Ruben parando el partido, prolongando los tiempos entre los tantos,... hizo que no diera tiempo a terminarlo quedando en un 4-3 a favor de Igor/Karmelo.

Igor/Karmelo deberán meditar y analizar las causas de estos inexplicables sets donde parece que se les apagan las luces.

PK. Este es el produztó, eh, que noj produjo, eh, a la Nerea y al Josu.

Paul Kendall (PK as he is more readily known) served his musical apprenticeship in a variety of bands where he covered every style from blues and rock through to free jazz. It was however during a year at university where he was supposed to be studying for a maths degree, that he became interested in electronic music. In 1984 he was introduced to Daniel Miller, head of the then relatively young MUTE Records. He subsequently ended up working for Daniel and MUTE for the next 11 years. Arbiter's Bryan Borcherds and Evan Bergara find out more about the man...

You have worked with so many bands; Goldfrapp, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the list is endless, how do you approach each project as each band is so different?

"The most important attitude to have when approaching any project is: "What am I about to learn?". I rarely enter a project with preconceptions, just try to spot other possible avenues to pursue with the artist. You know when you are correct when you start to visualize the sound (if you can't see it don't record it, Flood circa 1990!). Regarding specific artists, Trent Reznor was like a hurricane, as was Keith le Blanc, there was an urgency of creation that opened my eyes and ears. You learn to optimise the flow when the creation rears its head; the studio was a large instrument."

How did you first meet up with Depeche Mode? You even did a remix for them.

"I was working for Mute and was by default naturally involved in some aspects of recording. I did some remixes but mainly worked with Alan Wilder on his 'Liquid' album. Oh yes, I played the harmonica on 'Personal Jesus', and did some dub passes for 'Songs of Faith and Devotion'."

You've worked with producer Flood (Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, Depeche Mode), as well as the likes of Steve Lyon and Mark Stent, was it easy to integrate into a production team and assume your role?

"During a period I did work a lot with Flood on various Mute projects. Watch, learn, and know when it is right to open your mouth."

You are a big fan of Arturia's software synthesizers, how do you feel about them having used all the classic synths yourself?

"Performance is the essential element that makes music touch the nerves. My initial exposure to soft synths was one of skepticism as the element of performance/accident is less possible. Real knobs and buttons respond more fluidly than their virtual brothers. If you accept this restriction then you can start having fun with soft synths. I've used the Arturia Moog Modular V and get a huge buzz from jamming the beast into a sequencer to chop up later. It has the bass that makes me nostalgic!

Obviously the power of the soft to emulate the original is of paramount importance to most and my Arturia Moog Modular V and Arturia CS-80V do pretty much what it says on the box. For me it is another instrument/sound source with its own characteristics and adds more colours to the palette.

Sometimes I have to sit down and pinch myself - in my first band we had a plywood box with an oscillator and a fuzz pedal and that was the extent of available 'homemade' technology, but for us it was cutting edge! I could not have dreamt back in 69, the power in my Power Book of today. Finally everyone is able to express his or her creativity and imagination, music has become more egalitarian, if a little bland. However a factor that was not possible with the original synths is the ability to start with other user's patches, this can allow the workflow to speed up considerably."

Having your laptop at MUTE's Worldwide Studio, it must be so useful to load up, say the Arturia ARP2600V, and say to the artist, 'Here, use this'.

"Generally it is liberating to have an arsenal of soft synths at one's disposal. Being a Gooner and adopted Parisian I have nothing but praise for Arturia. I never used the original CS80, it was totally out of my sphere, but at Mute it was a real education watching Daniel programme the ARP and Moog."

Goldfrapp's 'Black Cherry' tour was a major success, tell us about your involvement with them.

"I was around Mute when the Felt Mountain demos were circulating and adored them as they had a Chanson/ Liede feel about them, right up my cul-de-sac. I was starting to work a lot in France at this period and paying particular attention to the voice. I would love to have contributed some small trinkets to Alison's voice on that album. A couple of years later I mixed a recording of Goldfrapp live which led onto mixing a number of later live gigs."

Although they are now a part of the EMI Group, MUTE has a fine list of artists, what's it like to be involved with the MUTE team?

"Hmm, the Mute story, a veritable roller coaster of change and progress. I feel very fortunate to have spent 12 years of my life working for Daniel. Personally the most sublime period was the rapid expansion of Mute with the associated labels (Blast First, Rhythm King, Product Inc). Under this umbrella there was Sonic Youth, Big Black, S-Express, Bomb the Bass, Swans, Young Gods floating through the corridors rubbing shoulders with Depeche, Nick Cave and Wire. Hell, 5 years before I was working in a bank!"

You also have your own project and label, tell us more.

"I had an experimental label through Mute, 'Parallel Series' with the idea to cross-fertilize some of the rigour and composition of 'classical' electro-acoustic music with a bit of feeling and dirt from 'rock' electronic music. Seemed a good idea and we released 4 albums which did ok.

Circumstances changed and the label slept. After moving to Paris I awoke the label to release an album called 'Capture' under the name of 'The Digital Intervention'.

The project developed after a chance meeting with a young French singer/actress, Olivia Louvel. Her formidable voice brought a superb contrast to my bleak electronic wastelands. I was forced to focus on my own music as she has a fine eye for visual detail.

The project has evolved into two streams now with Olivia writing her own songs, check her web-site for illumination: www.olivialouvel.com. Piquet (my artist pseudonym) is threatening to release a new noise fest when certain musical contributions have arrived."

What else is in the pipeline?

"I have just finished a project in France working alongside a young French engineer producer, David Husser, and together we are planning sonic assaults."

Foto de los competidores del Padel World Championship a punto de celebrarse en el Polideportivo de Urreta