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festina lente

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when is/was the deadline?
should it be finished for yesterday?
how did you get/process the information about it?!
am I suppose to do all that?
why can’t I concentrate?
where is the bug?
does all these make sense? ….

No idea how was the life before the e-era, or with zero IT. Perhaps it is not my position to even wonder about that, because I know I am not 100% an ICT child, if I compare myself with the modern generations that might have access to “n” electronic devices since early stages.

 

I started playing and building my own creations with mechanics and electronics when I was around 8 years old. My atari came afterwards, and my first computer class took place when I was aprox. 12 years old (language: “BASIC”). My personal computer came later in my life, but I can’t complain, electronics have been always present in my life. Wonderful times I would say!!! Nevertheless, comparing myself with newer generations I might have started late with ICT and I can say I had experienced some e-free-era too

 

Nevertheless, ever since I remember electronics are getting: smaller in size, with bigger capacity and FASTER processing speed. Actually, it seems that electronics are in a hurry for ….. what?! . I am not so sure about the reason or purpose of such a hurry. Maybe, as IT is intimately involved with the “world’s” economy, hence no wonder if the trend of “hurry” is due to produce faster and faster and with that to win more and more and more…. I just have NO IDEA !!! But sometimes I feel immerse in a increasing twister, where the only way to survive is to understand and produce everything very quickly.

 

* Puffffff….*

 

What I think I DO have idea about is: it is nothing wrong with the impetuousness, as long as I/we remember to do not be controlled by it. “One step at the time” is a very good advice I had gotten. And this advice is complemented perfectly with the idea: “Make haste slowly”.

 

Sometimes, if I am dominated by the hurricane of the rush, either I drown myself killing any type of movement and enjoyment, or the people surround me are the ones that get suffocated stopping the motion as well. 🙁 Neither one is the main goal. BALANCE is the key point here or…

 

…. Make haste slowly, by one step at the time. One more of my mottos from now on! 🙂

from Adele

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Great creativity from a BIG southern heart!!! Adele, at her farewell gathering last Thursday, read the FINNISH blessing to us, composed by her and based on the idea of the Irish blessing. All of us enjoy it a lot, reason why I want to plasm it in here, for easy retrieval 😉

Thank you very much Adele for all!

IRISH BLESSING

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

FINNISH BLESSING:

May the road your travel on not have slippery ice
and if it does may you have your winter tires on.
May the snow not fall on the path to your front door.
May your sauna warm quickly
and no moose-fly infest your hair.
May your berries be sweet and the summers long,
May the sun often shine,
and you always have something warm when you need it.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

march in brief….

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Sometime ago, I start to question myself for what do I want my blog?. Different people use it with different purposes. Some complete intellectual, others as a personal diary, others as publicity, jokes, etc. Still I do not have a reason or focus of mine, hence, I really do not know how to personalized it.

Nevertheless this time I want to publish with the goal of remembering. Yeap, March 2007 has been a month with many things to digest and I haven’t moved from my actual physical place much.

Let’s see, from the intellectual part: it was submitted 2 conference papers (March 1st. to DiGRA and March 15th to PerGames. Ok, I know to submit it does not imply to be accepted, which it is fine as long as we get valuable feedback. However it does imply an effort to write. And for ME scholarly writing is a pain in the ass!!! Hopefully one day a miracle will show up and I will be able to do it.

Besides that, a report of activities for my Mexican grant should be sent and reach Mexico before March was over and a trial of my research proposal for the game seminar I am taking in Tampere was due on the 5th of March. My goal was to get some feedback from the Game researchers. To close properly this month, well a submission for the Seminar of Games and Society was due on the 31st of this March.

From practical things, well SciMyst born. Yeap after some months of gestation and hard work, it came to the world in the SciFest . And without a doubt I will write more about it soon. It has a lot of dreams and research. Without doubt looking forward to make it growth. And I should make public that if it was not for the passion and effort of all the members who work on it, it wouldn’t be possible to bring it alive. Thanks to each one.

Also the digitalizing of the Seniors’ games is taking place. For those who knows Joensuu and specially for those who speak Finnish you will enjoy them 😉 Soon they will be available on line for all the public.

However from all that, the most remarkable event was that I turn to be an Aunt and also in the same month Paul went to heaven.

I am from the philosophy to do and be my best. Life is a right and obligation to be lived, as long as we are in here. And it is up to each individual how to live it. However, Paul showed me to fight with all your strength for the life, and to do not complain about the adversities. It is amazing how much can teach and give someone in just one week, such a innocent and little one, and that independently of anything else. Because it doesn’t matter of the loved surround us, money or technology anything is granted. We only have to be our bests. This is really difficult and hard to digest.

Also I would like to read again how Einstein explains relativity. Because in this month I lived on my own person how each moment of time was endless, because I wanted to know about my love ones, and the pain makes the things no easy. And at the same time so ephemeral because I was not able to finish what I wanted to do (even if I prepare tons of things weeks in advance) and that special feeling showed up too when you see some of your dreams come truth after so much effort but you can’t share it with your love ones because there is deep pain too. All at the same time, it is just bizarre!

I think I will need a time to process all these.

Ah!!! And I forget to add, I crashed the Network of the Department, they said it had implications to the University Network. No idea of the impact of my trip to second floor with my baby . As a good chaotic  engineer I made it work in the place I need it 😉 in a really naïve way, because I never wanted to harm the whole network. However, it was interested to have this feeling “wanted dead or alive” oh god!!! what a month!!!