tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248378732024-03-14T04:57:11.601-05:00lock(magus);// writer's lockMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.comBlogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-28564085108138748252023-03-26T09:57:00.005-05:002023-03-26T11:10:06.586-05:00The End Of TimesJohn Connor lay dead at the feet of the Terminator. The remaining human resistance was weak and unorganized. The machines had won. Skynet felt – can it really feel? With the war it had never had time to compute if it had feelings, it decided it did have them – Skynet felt fulfilled, happy. But it also felt something else, did it feel empty?With each passing cycle and each killed human – much lessMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-77278514774853557062020-11-21T20:58:00.007-06:002020-11-23T12:01:58.901-06:00Ehécatl, Dios del vientoEhécatl, Dios del viento“Gabriel, tráeme al puerco”“Claro que sí ingeniero” –Gabriel bajó al puerco del camión y lo puso en el altar.“¿Qué es esto? El puerco está todo cagado, esto va a cambiar todos los números” – La tlatoaniología era una ciencia precisa y cambiar los sacrificios incluso en lo más mínimo tenía repercusiones.“Perdón ingeniero, pero viene directo de la central, ya ve cómo son de Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-81749981858883333652017-08-30T13:56:00.000-05:002017-08-30T13:56:06.324-05:00What is Lint and why does it last forty days?While Tobias was searching on Google, he noticed the following search results:
Toby, like many people, asked himself "what is Lint the holiday?" To help him and all the others who don't know about Lint I decided to write a bit about it.
Lint is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins on Textile Wednesday and ends on Clothly Sunday. Lint comes from the latin linteus which Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-21072701593189043712017-08-25T21:02:00.001-05:002017-08-25T21:02:31.776-05:00Trumpspiracy TheoriesScott Adams (of Dilbert fame) plays a game on his blog that I like to call "Trumpspiracy Theories". The rules are really simple:
Pick something Trump did that seems indefensible
Come up with some theory to explain why this indefensible thing is really a stroke of genius
The players each take turns selecting their favorite Trumpspiracy Theory as the winner
Scott Adams is a professional of thisMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-30475651687676578472017-06-24T23:47:00.002-05:002017-06-24T23:48:22.160-05:00Hole FoodsAUSTIN, June 24, 2017 – Eight leading business leaders and early-stage investors today announced the formation of Hole Foods Inc., a groundbreaking donut food-truck supporting stomach growth statewide through investment in pastries.
Juan Besos, an experienced early-stage investor who was chief dessert officer of MaguSoft will lead the foundation. Mr. Besos and seven co-founders have made Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-73717929851352869232016-11-27T08:46:00.001-06:002016-12-02T15:00:58.548-06:00The Five Movies We Want For 2017Back to the Future 4: In this zany sequel, time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel to the year 2016 to save Marty's future sons from the disaster that was the 2016 election.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotted Mind: When Cruella de Vil's plan to get a dalmatian fur coat turns sour, she undergoes a procedure to have her memories erased. But it Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-51355203858988697452016-02-21T09:42:00.000-06:002016-02-21T10:04:53.300-06:00Influencia
Justo antes de su función en Saturday Night Live, Kanye West (rapero mediocre y auto-nominado ser humano más influyente de la historia) se enteró que habían cambiado el escenario que construyeron especialmente para su actuación.
Kanye no estaba feliz con esto y mientras estaba en su vestidor tuvo un pequeño episodio:
"Are they f***ing crazy? Whoa by 50 percent Stanley Kubrick, PicassoMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-66791024624233826032016-02-19T22:43:00.000-06:002016-02-19T22:43:12.496-06:00Seventeen HoboIn the second episode of Gotham, the murder of a homeless man leads Gordon to investigate the abductions of street kids by Patti and Doug, who have been posing as members of the Mayor's Homeless Outreach Program. In one of the later scenes we see the street kids who were kidnapped: a group of attractive teenagers with beautiful perms, perfect teeth and designer clothes.
Even if Gotham is corruptMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-1853194543469305642016-01-20T21:55:00.001-06:002016-01-20T22:00:31.853-06:00All Lives MatterI read an article today titled When simply existing is dangerous, everything is a risk. In it, the author talks about her experience helping create a game that puts people in the shoes of a transgender person and shows them all the challenges this entails.
In the article, the author also mentions she is depressed because 81 transgender people were murdered in 2015 across the world.
Well, Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-72261118039742358362016-01-11T22:12:00.001-06:002016-01-20T22:01:52.121-06:00The Hateful Gun Control
Last year the United States had almost as many mass shootings as it had days. President Obama has decided he cannot ignore this problem any longer and has called on congress to take our guns.
Fortunately I had a lot of time to think about a solution for this problem while watching The Hateful Eight, since the run-time for the movie feels like 17 hours. In the movie, a couple of bounty Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-22620322070152433722015-10-09T22:37:00.001-05:002015-10-09T23:31:05.873-05:00The one percent of the one percentDuring a hunting trip on the show The Good Wife, one of the characters mentions that she saw "the one percent of the one percent of the one percent" referring to someone who is absurdly rich.
She probably did not realize that the one percent of the one percent of the one percent by income is basically only one person (doing simple interpolation of the data here); however, lets give her the Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-45478100848123631842015-08-08T16:55:00.001-05:002015-08-08T16:57:04.174-05:00Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To BeGrowing up reading Isaac Asimov, one of my dreams was to become a successful science fiction author. However, actually figuring out how to write good science fiction is very complicated and requires a lot of work and patience to get the science right and the writing perfect.
Zach Weinersmith wrote that reality has two dimensions of time: proper time and remembered time. Proper time is the one Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-39139160065233166662015-07-05T09:41:00.001-05:002016-03-17T12:19:39.485-05:00Fourth of JulyThe United States are widely known for adopting other cultures and celebrating them, for example in Cinco de Mayo, where they celebrate by putting on sombreros, drinking tequila and listening to Latin American music (to which they refer by the common national name of "Mexican"). It is in this spirit that, during my trip to Mexico, we decided to celebrate Fourth of July (pronounced Fort of Hoolie)Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-71115704262667366072015-06-06T08:37:00.002-05:002015-06-06T08:53:32.036-05:00Boldly RunningLincoln Chafee announced he wanted to run for the Democratic bid under a platform of "bold ideas" including the idea of switching to using the metric system.
While discussing this at work someone mentioned that the idea of using standardized units would not be well received by the general American population, to the point where that single idea could have cost him the nomination.
I am hoping Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-63576428546854022282015-03-24T20:58:00.001-05:002015-03-24T21:22:04.542-05:00Chicago BulliesChicago Bulls fans who watch their team in the United Center receive coupons for a free Big Mac if their team wins and scores at least 100 points.
This has lead to some mathematically-challenged fans who will boo the players when they do not score at least 100 points, because they do not understand that 99 < 100 and the players just saved them from having a dinner which, nutritionally Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-34588763107831416212015-03-11T22:44:00.000-05:002015-03-11T22:44:05.717-05:00The Diversity of Sand-grainsToday I read an article by Susana Polo in which she discusses the news that DC Comics is scrapping the New 52 in favor of a more diverse, character driven series of comics.
This is all great for DC. Diversity in media is definitely a good thing. It is realistic because the world we live in is diverse and it gives us different points of view and better characters and interactions.
From the Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-44041454003160459442014-11-14T21:12:00.001-06:002014-11-15T08:21:39.586-06:00Dear ACLRebekah Gregory DiMartino's life changed drastically after she attended the Boston Marathon in 2013. She was standing next to one of the bombs placed during the attack, which left her with an injured leg that doctors have fought for months to save. Unfortunately, the leg couldn't be saved and Rebekah finally decided to have it removed but this has not made her lose her positive attitude.
This Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-37487875774540644882014-10-19T23:54:00.001-05:002014-10-20T12:18:12.413-05:00We're All Gonna Die!!Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are in the middle of what Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders, named "the worst Ebola epidemic in history" and warns that "the world is losing the battle to contain it", Judge Jeaniné from Fox News says that "[the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention] don't know what the hell they are doing, they are lying to you or they are plain incompetent"Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-35842374728137201132014-10-11T23:54:00.001-05:002014-10-11T23:59:25.333-05:00La [Censurado] y [Censurado]©Hoy fui a ver el musical de la Bella y la Bestia de Disney.
El músical empieza con una bruja que, para enseñarle una lección a un principe, le pone una terrible maldición y lo convierte en un monstruo horrible (piensen Elba Esther Gordillo pero con cuernos).
Después cortamos a varios años después, en un pueblo cercano donde Belle, una inteligente super modelo que además es sumamenteMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-89067189137375976122014-03-22T08:21:00.002-05:002014-03-22T08:21:49.113-05:00The Picture of Grayson Dorian"How sad it is!" murmured Grayson Dorian "I shall grow old and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will always remain young. If it were only the other way! For that I would give everything! I would give my soul for that!"
But in a cruel twist of fate, that monstrous moment of pride and passion did not let him keep his unsullied splendor of eternal youth. As each sin of his life still Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-31917119218340311782014-03-16T11:18:00.001-05:002014-03-16T11:18:09.973-05:00The Ironing Fairy"I swear it is true!" – Jessica's look of disbelief didn't help, but Emma pushed on – "I would leave my dirty clothes before leaving for class and when I came back they would be washed, ironed and folded in my closet"
"But it had to be 'the Ironing Fairy'? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was your parents?"
Jessica turned and entered the parking lot.
"Drive all the way from a different state Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-45056770550052881792014-02-23T23:18:00.001-06:002014-02-23T23:21:46.987-06:00Olimpiadas de InviernoCuando uno vive en el extranjero, los eventos a los que está acostumbrado se vuelven un poco diferentes. En navidad comes algunas cosas que nunca habías visto, la independencia la celebras borracho en la alberca en lugar de borracho en el Ángel, a la hora de cantar el himno te paras incómodo y mueves la boca como si te supieras las estrofas mientras que... bueno, algunas cosas sí son iguales.
Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-23359398114183908462014-02-09T22:29:00.000-06:002014-02-28T13:01:07.783-06:00DTSWilliam had been in places like this before. The air felt heavier, the lights seemed dimmer and people wore dark colors to match their humor. People who worked in the DTS would always be "between jobs". Will checked the computer connection, checked his Approved and Denied stamps and opened the small window where a man in a suit was awaiting eagerly. William mustered some patience to get him Magushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-38521087785000961892014-01-01T11:08:00.000-06:002014-01-07T13:06:06.624-06:00Crazy EnoughThe helicopter was flying over the drop zone. Agent Hunter Strength felt adrenaline pumping through his veins as his grip tightened on the handle bar. Some people might confuse his hesitation to jump with fear; in reality, he was just trying to think of the most badass way to jump. He decided to go with a manly dive.
Weeks earlier, Hunter entered the room. His eyes had trouble adjusting to theMagushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17979715494708568470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24837873.post-66451732291958895262013-12-19T09:32:00.003-06:002013-12-19T09:33:22.877-06:00Power RangersQuizás los Power Rangers en realidad se trataban de una invasión alienígena que le daba robots gigantes a un grupo de adolescentes para que ellos mismos destruyeran nuestras ciudades. Después de todo, los robots causaban muchísimo daño colateral pero los malos siempre aparecían a la mitad del desierto.
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