Category Archives: Thoughts

Black and white, old guy reading the newspaper

The real effect of social media on new generations

A lot has been said about the “new” social media. Built by twitter, social networks like Facebook, and hundreds of other similar sites, the “new” social media is characterized as being “live information” and being made of anyone’s information. In past years news were brought by newspapers, magazines, by-organizations-only information. Everything had to go through [...]

Star Wars' stormtroopers; father and son (big one, small one and a teddy bear)

Parenting and setting boundaries

As a child and in your adolescence, did you ever feel like adults were forbidding you a lot of things? Not only mom and dad, even laws and norms in every place you stepped in. Even as an adult you are not permitted to do lots of things. There are boundaries that are made “for [...]

Plastic toy planets on the ceiling

Your gravitational life…

People are always concerned about what others think about them. To be fair, that’s how we were made. We are social creatures that base a great part of our life in how other see us. That can be twisted a bit and we all are free to go against that nature. We all are against [...]

Shanghai, evening time. Lights reflecting perfectly on the water

Looking for perfection everywhere, even people

Since I was a kid I was always looking for perfection. In studies, drawing, even while playing Legos. I always felt we live in a perfect world. So perfect, it doesn’t allow perfection: it is perfect by making everything imperfect. Imperfect, not bad. We could have a “perfect” painting, but we all know it could [...]

"Real Academia Española" - by Um gaúcho na Catalunha

American Spanish vs. Spain’s Spanish

Since I’ve been using computers and read blogs, forums and other sites, I have always seen the difference between an english site and a spanish one (talking about language), but also, I’ve seen differences between spanish sites. As so, American spanish is different from Spain’s spanish. So reading (and obviously, listening) American spanish is normal [...]

"myopia" - by haglundc

Should I Use Contact Lenses or Plain Glasses?

As as myopic myself, I use glasses/contact lenses since I was 6-7 years old, more or less, and, since I have tried both, I have had some experiences regarding the use of which is best. Deforming your nose Sounds creepy. The thing is that glasses have some weight, which multiplies itself by the time you [...]

Metroid: Prime [First Hunt] and Metroid: Prime Hunters

Guilt is making us keep useless things

With time, some people keep at home things they don’t really need, and say they stay there for if they’re needed. That’s dumb and quite illogical, I think; and even believing so, I still keep some things with the “illusion” of a emotional value. The actual reason is that we feel guilty getting rid of [...]