Last year I took someone a picture with a digital camera and I was amazed because for the first time I saw tiny red squares moving around the camera's display. It took me a while to understand that those red squares were following the faces of the people in the screen. Suddenly, a message appeared in the display telling "laugh-identifier is on"; I was astonished to see that the camera "knew" if people were laughing or not, and only when all people in the display were showing their best smile, the camera took the picture.
I enjoy taking photos with my mobile, but I really love taking pictures with analogue cameras. I am the proud owner of a polaroid, of a half-format camera, of a semi-automatic cannon (from the 1980s) and since two years I use disposable cameras and I love them! You can even play football with them and the worst thing that can happens is that the flash triggers after each kick (I tried this in new year's eve with my nephew Santiago).
Some people when taking group pictures ask the people to say "Cheese" or "Whisky", I think this is because when people pronounce the "ee" in cheese or the "y" in whisky, their face appear to be smiling. I wonder why photographers never asked us to say "the eels", instead of the usual terms for matured milk with salt or fermented and distilled cereals. Maybe the band (the eels is a wonderful band) is not known enough. However, saying "Cheese" or "Whishy" is old school, now the cameras do that on their own.
By the way, I have to show you what it happened to me in Vienna last weekend! I was taking pictures of tulips when my inner voice told me "Oscar say cheese when you shot the next picture". I dis so...in the link below you can see what happened.
Use this link to discover what happened and use this other link to hear eels' sweetest song.
P.S. I recommend you to combine the links hear the eels and see the pics
martes, 19 de abril de 2011
viernes, 8 de abril de 2011
the Czech extra kilos
I stop drinking beer in 2007. Ever since, I only had one at Munich’s airport in 2007, one at a friend’s wedding in 2009, and a few in Nicaragua (beer was my prosecco substitute in Central America).
The reason for quitting was the relation between beer consumption and my increasing body fat-index.
Last Friday I travelled to Prague for working reasons. We stayed in a nice hotel with a huge breakfast buffet.
The very first morning, I was late for our meeting and only had 5 minutes for breakfast (literally 5 minutes). While having breakfast I felt like breaking a Guinness record. I cut my fried egg and some bacon stripes and built four portions I ate in four bites (around 15 seconds per portion, 60 seconds). On the side I had baked beans and cucumber; I mixed the beans with cucumber to have a “healthy” version of an English breakfast. I exterminated those guys also in 60 seconds. While doing all this I brew myself a cup of earl grey (3 minutes). I never ate so fast in my life, but at least I was on time for the meeting.
During the resting days I ate like Conan the barbarian: Beef, goose, dumplings, Gulasch, kraut, potatoes…and beer.
I came back yesterday from Prague after five and a half days of work (12 hours a day) and at least 15 litres of Kozel, Zlatoplamen, Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser.
Already on Sunday I felt my body was not content with the amounts of Czech food and beer I was consuming, that day I started having oats and fruits for breakfast until I discovered miso-soup at the end of the buffet line…thank you hotel manager!
This morning I called my friend Kathrin, who knows an ayurvedic treatment for expelling toxins from one’s body. She warned me that the preparation for this regimen lasts between 4 and 5 days (no sugar, no pasta, no alcohol), and only then the real treatment begins. This is hard core! I think I won’t try Kathrin’s treatment this time. Until then, I hope I can cope with my Czech extra kilos.
The reason for quitting was the relation between beer consumption and my increasing body fat-index.
Last Friday I travelled to Prague for working reasons. We stayed in a nice hotel with a huge breakfast buffet.
The very first morning, I was late for our meeting and only had 5 minutes for breakfast (literally 5 minutes). While having breakfast I felt like breaking a Guinness record. I cut my fried egg and some bacon stripes and built four portions I ate in four bites (around 15 seconds per portion, 60 seconds). On the side I had baked beans and cucumber; I mixed the beans with cucumber to have a “healthy” version of an English breakfast. I exterminated those guys also in 60 seconds. While doing all this I brew myself a cup of earl grey (3 minutes). I never ate so fast in my life, but at least I was on time for the meeting.
During the resting days I ate like Conan the barbarian: Beef, goose, dumplings, Gulasch, kraut, potatoes…and beer.
I came back yesterday from Prague after five and a half days of work (12 hours a day) and at least 15 litres of Kozel, Zlatoplamen, Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser.
Already on Sunday I felt my body was not content with the amounts of Czech food and beer I was consuming, that day I started having oats and fruits for breakfast until I discovered miso-soup at the end of the buffet line…thank you hotel manager!
This morning I called my friend Kathrin, who knows an ayurvedic treatment for expelling toxins from one’s body. She warned me that the preparation for this regimen lasts between 4 and 5 days (no sugar, no pasta, no alcohol), and only then the real treatment begins. This is hard core! I think I won’t try Kathrin’s treatment this time. Until then, I hope I can cope with my Czech extra kilos.
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