Lo de siempre: cerca de 15 horas de viaje, interminables esperas, filas de gente que se vuelve loca y gente que quiere ser siempre la primera, un espacio cada vez más pequeño y una comida que no merece la pena, pero bueno, todo sea por estar de nuevo aquí, en Cuenca / Ecuador y ahora aquí por los próximos 17 días. ¡Eso es bueno!
A todo esto: todo lo bueno en la vida tiene siempre su lado malo y en este caso es que estoy sin mi esposa y eso si que afecta, considerando que me he hecho prácticamente uno con ella y más aún en esas frías noches -con lo friolento que soy- a ver ahora como va lo de dormir solo y en una cama ajena…
¡¡¡Chiqui te extraño!!!
Al menos están aquí los amigos y los proyectos -voy a rodar un cortometraje entre una cosa y otra- y el poder desconectar un poco del mundo tribulado, turbulento y capitalista en el que he caído, yo y todos los demás.
La que más se alegró con mi sorpresiva llegada fue -sin duda- mi madrecita y aún me queda por aparecer sorpresivamente en el matrimonio de mi pana Mauricio, claro, si antes alguien conocido común no me detecta en las calles de esta pequeña ciudad, pero bueno, haré lo posible por permanecer “undercover”, al menos me queda la tranquilidad de saber que mi pana Mauricio no sigue este blog. ¡Espero!
How possible and how terrible can it be to live a life full of dreams but never see those dreams come true?
- Have we all failed?
The man continued to look upon the boy and then turned away his head, he gently picked up his hat, covered his -burned- head and smiled for him self.
- No, we have not failed. -the man said- We have just started and there’s still a long way. We must not stay here, for soon enough the night will fall and there are strange and fierce creatures among this very trees.
He got on his legs and helped the boy up who was carrying a dark green -military style- heavily loaded backpack. They felt the cold breeze for an instant and continued their journey.
Chapter I
The first thing was always breakfast, no matter what, breakfast had to had it’s time. They used to get up at around 6:00 AM everyday to get some wood to start the fire, a fire which usually lasted the entire day and was put out late at night when they were -again- ready for bed.
That morning the boy went to get the wood alone, the old man was not feeling very well and decided to stay in bed a few minutes more, at least as long as it took the boy to get back, start the fire and boil some water, that would give him some twenty minutes more -the old man figured. The night before it had rained like never before and part of the roof came down. They had to get up there and fix that hole or else they would have ended up having everything washed away. The old man got a ladder he had kept for some years and holded it against a tree which was close enough to the roof, so the boy could climb up and fix it. The boy pulled a hammer from his pocket along a few nails -which he held in his mouth- and started putting the roof togheter again. It took him about 40 minutes the get that hole almost sealed and decided to get down. The roof was in pretty good shape again and the could sleep in their own beds once more. The old man actually got the worst part, he was just standing there, holding the ladder, not moving and thus the cold night and the rain drops as big as eyeballs went straight down to his very bones and of course he was not as young as he should have been in order to take that easier.
Finally, the time has come and so has my long awaited upgrade If you’ve been to the Galleries section of this site you might have noticed some great shots among -of course- some terrible ones. Well, I can certainly tell you that this has all come to an end -I got upgraded.
My previous experience was mostly limited to a Sony T9 (as pictured below) and sometimes to an older Nikon F65 35 mm SLR which, by the way, still rocks. Now I have a Nikon D90 SRL which is pretty much the top of the line and shall soon enough realize that from it’s pictures.
This is what I used before:
This is what I have now:
Along this beauty I also got several different types of lens, including a 18-105 mm Nikkor VR, a 70-300 mm Nikkor AF and a 50 mm Nikkor prime.
Well I’ll keep you all posted and let’s see how it goes…
Here’s a simple one I came up with. It does a countdown until a certain date. Quite simple.
Hope you can find use for it:
var CDOWN = {
init : function()
{
this.dformat = "[D]:[H]:[M]:[S]"; // Day:Hour:Minute:Second - Any can be removed
this.tdate = "11/19/2008 6:00 PM"; // Until when to countdown (MM/DD/YYYY)
this.count = true; // Update the counter each second or minute or whatever is defined above
this.endstr = "Live now!"; // To display once the countdown is complete
this.lzero = true; // Display leading zeros on numbers lower than 10
this.counts = -1;
this.counts = Math.ceil(this.counts);
if(this.counts == 0)
this.count = false;
this.timeoutp = (Math.abs(this.counts)-1)*1000 + 990;
dthen = new Date(this.tdate);
dnow = new Date();
ddiff = (this.counts > 0) ? new Date(dnow-dthen) : new Date(dthen-dnow);
gsecs = Math.floor(ddiff.valueOf()/1000);
CDOWN.startCounter(gsecs);
},
calculate : function(secs, num1, num2)
{
s = ((Math.floor(secs/num1))%num2).toString();
if(this.lzero && s.length < 2)
s = "0" + s;
return s;
},
startCounter : function(secs)
{
if(secs < 0)
{
document.getElementById("timer").innerHTML = this.endstr;
return;
}
this.dsp = this.dformat.replace(/\[D\]/g, CDOWN.calculate(secs,86400,100000));
this.dsp = this.dsp.replace(/\[H\]/g, CDOWN.calculate(secs,3600,24));
this.dsp = this.dsp.replace(/\[M\]/g, CDOWN.calculate(secs,60,60));
this.dsp = this.dsp.replace(/\[S\]/g, CDOWN.calculate(secs,1,60));
document.getElementById('timer').innerHTML = this.dsp;
if(this.count)
setTimeout("CDOWN.startCounter(" + (secs+this.counts) + ")", this.timeoutp);
}
}
/* LOAD */
function addLoadEvent(fn)
{
var old = window.onload;
if(typeof window.onload != 'function')
window.onload = fn;
else
window.onload = function()
{
old();
fn();
}
}
addLoadEvent(function() { CDOWN.init(); });
In order to display this inside some container, you will need to define one and set it’s ID to be the same as in the script. For example:
document.getElementById('timer').innerHTML = this.dsp;
In this case my container’s id is “timer” and the actual countdown will be displayed there.