Zerebria

There is nothing more loathsome in films than those stories where everything intends to be “clockwork-like”, and characters are just puppets to make the story happen. (more…)

The best way to organize documents is alphabetically. But when the stuff to classify is more voluminous or heterogeneous, the task usually becomes harder. One thing that I had some struggle with was stationery. (more…)

There were so many times when I wished I was dead in the “perfect” world we had 10 or 15 years ago, that my views on what we now call “the crisis” might have, at least, (more…)

Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)

The advent of Internet, the changes it has and is forcing in a very short little time, has been a shock. A positive one, maybe, but still a shock. It is not new, though: I still remember my first toying around with an 8-bit computer, in those days when computers were isolated one from another. That tiny fever was the seed of what we have now. But what is it that keeps us so hooked on computers? And where to set the limit between proper use and orgy?

It is (more…)

Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.

We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)

Going to a mall on Saturday is not precisely my idea of fun, but that’s exactly what I did the other day, obeying a call of duty. The experience, in any case, was very worthwhile as a sociological experiment; in our society, where everybody goes to the same places at the same time, (more…)