January 2010
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Por qué una nueva traducción de Guerra y paz →
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“Very well,” I said. “I only need a little bit of help from you guys. I’ll do the rest myself. If I get caught, I’ll say you knew nothing and I’ll take responsibility for whatever happens. They’ll give me Chapter Six, or worse. And then I’ll walk out of here and try to find Orolo.”
These words made Tulia and Lio quite emotional in different ways. She looked ready to weep and he looked ready to...
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“I spent almost all of Apert extramuros,” Orolo said with a sigh, as if he had finally been run to ground. “I was expecting that it would be a wasteland. A cultural and intellectual charnel house. But that’s not exactly what I found. I went to speelys. I enjoyed them! I went to bars and got into some reasonably interesting conversations with people. Slines. I liked them. Some were quite...
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Human pulled the skin free, causing several of the watching guards to groan in disgust. Vin watched closely despite the stomach-wrenching sight. She felt like she was on the verge of understanding something very important.
Carai… Tot d’una els Koloss fan peneta…
Definitivament, aquest llibre és el que menys m’està captivant. Quan es dispara és molt bo, però si penso...
“For people of our time to do a clear-eyed critique of our time is like standing...”
– SF Signal: Sarah A. Hoyt on The Death of Science Fiction: It Ain’t Over Till The Fat Droid Sings
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How could I be surprised? From the moment I had heard “Anathem” I had known that it would be Orolo. Still I said “No!” out loud. No one heard me, because everyone else was saying it in the same moment; it came up the well like the beat of a drum. As it died away, a very weird sound replaced it, something I’d never heard the likes of before: people were screaming down there.
Why did I cry out...
“A good rule of thumb, in fact, is probably to avoid dedicating book two to the...”
– In praise of trilogies | Books | guardian.co.uk
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Details on The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson -... →
10 llibres!!! Com es passa la penya.
Confessions of a book pirate - The Millions →
“I assume they are primarily produced by individuals like me – bibliophiles who want to share their favorite books with others. They likely own hundreds of books, and when asked what their favorite book is look at you like you are crazy before rattling of 10-15 authors, and then emailing you later with several more. The next time you see them, they have a bag of 5-10 books for you to...
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A solitary person, somewhere nearby, began clapping. I assumed it was a sline who’d had too much to drink. But looking toward the sound, I was surprised to see a hooded figure in a bolt. He kept shouting an ancient Orth word that meant “hail, huzzah, well done.”
Stalking toward this fraa, I shouted, “I hope you’re stinking drunk, because if not, you’re an idiot. He could have gotten killed....
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“A friend of mine once wrote that sufficiently advanced technology is...”
– Walter Bishop
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Els Càstigs al Concent
Since the sole purpose of the Book was to punish its readers, the less said of it the better. To study it, to copy it out, and to memorize it was an extraordinary form of penance.
[…]
There was no point at all to the Book, which is what made it an especially dreaded form of penance. It contained twelve chapters. Like the scale used to measure earthquakes, these got exponentially worse...
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Personatges de la Saga de Gel i Foc
Miniatures a la venta a Dark Sword Miniatures.
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Meanwhile, in Mistborn...
They are called Allomantic savants. Men or women who flare their metals so long, and so hard, that the constant influx of Allomantic power transforms their very physiology.
In most cases, with most metals, the effects of this are very slight. Bronze burners, for instance, often become bronze savants without knowing it. Their range is expanded from burning the metal so long. Becoming a pewter...
“Ah sí, ahora nos acordamos todos de ese niño repipi que en segundo de EGB no nos...”
– Con las orejas rojas por… « La Decadencia del Ingenio
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We had gone a little over the head of Dath, who just wanted to eat his cake, but Cord saw it. “I guess I have an unfair advantage here since I spend so much time thinking about geometry in my work. But the answer is that geometry is…well…geometry. It’s pure. It doesn’t matter what you’re applying it to.”
“And it turns out that the same is true for other kinds of theorics besides geometry,” I...
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Parlant d'Avatar (xat verité)
Josep: Cine? Mira si fa temps que no hi vaig que m'he perdut el salt a la tercera dimensió! Quan va passar?
Me: home al 20087
2007, vull dir
amb beowulf
Josep: Bufa!
Vaig veure Up en 3d i la veritat, no feia falta
Me: avatar si
i beowulf també
Josep: Ara sembla que tot hagi de ser 3D per molar mazo. deu ser una mnera de fer front a la pirateria.
Però penso que aunque la mona se vista de seda mona se queda...
Mentre hi hagi una bona història...
Me: ja, però Avatar en 3D segur que millora
la història l'has vist un millió de vegades
però flipes igual
Josep: és que Avatar sense 3D suposo que no és el mateix.
és com si ara refessin Matrix en 3D, suposo
La història demana el 3D, una altra visió de les coses, móns paral•lels, etc...
Me: ja, però aquesta ja ha estat dissenyada per ser en 3d, i es nota un ou en la planificació d'escenes
Josep: Sí, això està bé. el que no mola és que et venguin pel•lis en 3d quan no ho són o quan, senzillament, no és necessari.
Me: sip
Beowulf molava mazo, també
Josep: For example, als de Pixar penso que se'ls està anat de l'olla una mica
Toy Story en 3d?
No cal...
Me: ja, però fan tanta pasta
diuen que Coraline en 3d també molava molt
en general, a mi em mola
Josep: Tincs ganes de veure Avatar, però. Intentaré fer un forat aquest finde
Me: t'ho passaràs molt bé!
Josep: Però és cinepalomitas, no?
Me: total
i palomitas en 3d, no et pensis
la que tinc ganes de veure és la de Sherlock Holmes
Josep: Sí, pot estar bé. Parlant de 3d, hi ha un article o algo en aquest blog d'un dels guionistes del Buenafuente molt interessant.
www.hablaresgratis.com
Me: a veure
Josep: el títol és EL tema del 3D i és força interessant. Segons ell, el cinema en 3D encara no s'ha inventat.
L'entrada és del 29 d'octubre de l'any passat.
Me: l'acabo de trobar
a veure que el llegeixo
Josep: I em va fer caure en una cosa que fins ara no hi havia caigut:
si llegeixes Pixar en català sona molt lleig...
Me: "Mis testículos tienen alto largo y ancho"
he he
Josep: A part d'això, és un blog amb moltes bones sortides...
Té una visió de la vida certament peculiar
Me: no el coneixia,
el suscriuré, a veure que tal
Josep: No sempre és tan punyent am els temes, però vaja, sempre està bé llegir coses d'algú que veu les coses d'una altra manera.
Me: però aquestes que fan ara són TOTALMENT (gairebé) en 3D, digui el que digui aquest tiu
Perquè el 3D és una percepció, un constructe que fa el cervell per a interpretar la diferència entre el que veuen els 2 ulls
Josep: Avatar, que jo sàpiga, és la primera feta 100%, no?
Me: i això és el que fan aquestes pelis, projectar una imatge diferent a cada ull
jo crec que beowulf també ho era
i potser a alguna altra
Josep: Jo entenc que generen il•lusió de 3D, no que realment ho sigui
Me: la percepció és il•lusió
i la vida es sueño
Josep: Y el sueño és el que em falta a mi... Que em llevo cada dia d'hora!!!
Me: per al teu cervell és indiferent que si palpes amb la mà la pantalla només tingui 2 dimensions
són 3d
4ds, de fet
3d ho són totes
menys les fotos
les fotos són 2ds
a no ser que siguin holgràfiques
llavors son 3d
Josep: Suposo que si vols veure espectacles en 3D hauràs d'anar al teatre
Me: depen de si es mouen les imatges o no
al teatre veus 4ds
3 ds als mimos que fan esculptures vivents
he he
Josep: Mentre les imatges no surtin de la pantalla de manera real no hi haurà 3d reals. menttrestant, només podem tenir il•lusió de 3D, que no és poc. Això és el que jo en trec com a conclusió...
Me: és indiferent
és una diferència acadèmica
quantes dimensions veus?
3
doncs ja està
Josep: A més, l'ús del 3D no condicionarà si la pel•lícula és bona o no. Mentre expliqui una bona història, tant fa que sigui en 3D o en 30 D
Me: això és un tema totalment diferent i estic totalment d'acord amb tu
estic escribint un comentari a l'article del blog aquest
Josep: Per mi, el problema està en què l'ús de la tècnica vingui a tomb amb la pel•lícula, i que no sigui un reclam.
Me: ui, però això ja passava abans
Josep: Com, per exemple, ffa Pixar amb el nou Toy Story
Me: però toy story (per a mi) era MOLT bona
llavors
si mai l'has vist
Josep: Sí, exacte. Abans de l'explosió dels 3D.
Me: i pots escollir veure-la en 3d
doncs segurament encara l'enriqueixes
Josep: Però la història no demana veure-la en 3D... La pel•li ja és bona com a tal...
Com a curiositat pot resutar interssant, però no aporta res. No és el cas d'Avatar...
Avatar sense 3D no és el mateix
Me: segur
Josep: és el mateix que quan veiem pel•lis imflades amb efectes especials a manta. Mentre la tècnica informàtica es posi al servei de l'argument, fantastic
Me: Però és que Avatar és una pirueta
és una demostració de que es pot fer amb aquesta tecnologia
i és ok
Josep: ja t'ho diré... A veure què tal...
Me: és (salvant les distàncies), com veure pelis dels lumiere
argumentalment no eren molt sofisticades
però tampoc ho necesitaven
eren una demostració
i l'argument un pretext
ara crec que passa una mica el mateix
Josep: De fet, el que he llegit és com veure Pocahontas o la pel•li aquella de El nuevo mundo del Terrence Malick.
Me: tal cual
o bailando con lobos
però la meva opinió és que funciona
seguraemnt per això, pq agafa històries amb l'eficàcia contrastada
Josep: Fins i tot, després del que em dius, sembla com una premonició parlar del descobriment d'un nou món al mateix temps que descobrim les possibilitats del cinema en 3D
Me: he he
a veure, la comparació que he fet amb els Lumiere és exagerada. Això no és una revolució, és una mica de maquillatge
però mola
Josep: No tant, el temps et donarà la raó...
ja en parlarem quan l'hagi vist...
Me: ja em diràs
ves amb ànim palomitero i t'ho passaràs bé
Josep: Ara vaig a dinar en 3D reals!
Me: Nyam! I amb odorama!
“If this all seems ambiguous, that’s because it is; and if that troubles you,...”
– Fraa Haligastreme (Anathem, by Neal Stephenson)
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La Festa del Desè Dia d'Apert... Quina Festassa!
Three fraas and two suurs sang a five-part motet while twelve others milled around in front of them. Actually they weren’t milling; it just looked that way from where we sat. Each one of them represented an upper or lower index in a theorical equation involving certain tensors and a metric. As they moved to and fro, crossing over one another’s paths and exchanging places while traversing in...
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“What would motivate someone to sit alone in a one-room apartment reading and thinking?” Arsibalt asked. “What would have to be true of a person for them to consider that a life well spent?”
“I don’t know. Maybe they’re really shy? Scared of open spaces?”
“Agoraphobia is not the correct answer,” Arsibalt said, a little huffy.
Best of Casual Gameplay 2009 - Jay is Games →
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Final Season Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever
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“You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.”
– Diax (Diax’s Rake, Anathem, by Neal Stephenson)
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L'origen del sistema de creences d'Arbre
“Cnoüs was a master stonemason,” I began. “On one ancient tablet, which was made before he had his vision, he is described by an adjective that literally means one who is elevated. This might mean either that he was especially good at being a stonemason or that he was some kind of holy man in the religion of his place and time. At the command of his king, he was building a temple to a god. The...
“Si algun dels indocumentats que corre per Vic pateix mal de queixals, o miopia,...”
– Vic s’escriu amb v, com vergonya « Lo bloc
Jo també me n’avergonyeixo. Vic és la ciutat per la que sento més “carinyo”, així que doble vergonya per part meva. Doble i trista vergonya.
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Seventeen years ago, Tulia had been found at the Day Gate, wrapped in newspapers and nestled in a beer cooler with the lid ripped off. The stump of her umbilical cord had already fallen off, which meant that she was too old and too touched by the Sæcular world to be accepted by the Thousanders. Anyway she had been sickly at first and so she had been kept in the Unarian math, which was more...
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Cord came back for yet another visit, this time without Rosk. We had a nice stroll around the math and even went into the upper labyrinth for a look round. The conversation was first about where various members of our family had ended up, and later about where she hoped she’d be at the next Apert.
Eight days into Apert, I was sick of it, and thoroughly mixed up. I had a crush on my sib. This...
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They gave him bones.
TenSoon flowed around them, dissolving muscles, then re-forming them into organs, sinew, and skin. He built a body around the bones, using skills gained over centuries spent eating and digesting humans. Corpses only, of course—he had never killed a man. The Contract forbade such things.
After a year in his pit of a prison, he felt as if he had forgotten how to use a...
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(Vin anant a buscar l’Straff per arreglar assumptes pendents…)
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Els Koloss a Mistborn →
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Matt Rees's top 10 novels set in the Arab world |... →
Interesting.
1. Wolf Dreams by Yasmina Khadra
A young Algerian on the make becomes disillusioned with westernised morality and joins a violent Islamist group. In turn he sees through the corruption and bloodthirstiness of the group’s actions. A tormenting portrayal of the suffocating lack of options available to poor Arabs. Khadra (the pen-name of a former Algerian military officer) lives...
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L'Armari
Canal plus the closet (le placard) por ulfablabla
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“3690 is tomorrow. Not only the Unarian math, but we Decenarians as well, will celebrate Apert. According to the ancient rules, our gates will open. For ten days, we shall be free to go out, and visitors such as you shall be welcome to come in. Now, ten years hence, the Centenarian Gate will open for the first, and probably the last, time in my life.”
“When it closes, which side of that gate...
“Well. A causal domain is just a collection of things linked by mutual cause-and-effect relationships.”
“But isn’t everything in the universe so linked?”
“Depends on how their light cones are arranged. We can’t affect things in our past. Some things are too far away to affect us in any way that matters.”
“But still, you can’t really draw hard and fast boundaries between causal domains.”
“In...
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Vet aqui el rellotge que hi ha al centre del Concent
Right in the middle, on the central axis of the whole Mynster, hung a chain with a weight at its end. It reached so high in the column of space above us that its upper reaches dissolved into dust and dimness.
The weight was a blob of grey metal shot through with voids, as if it had been half eaten by worms: a nickel-iron meteorite four...
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El més interesant d’aquest llibre és la “doble identitat” de l’Amin Maalouf, nascut al Líban però resident a França desde els 26 anys. Jo només el coneixia com a novel·lista, i això només per un llibre (Samarcanda, que per cert em va agradar molt) i estic trobant molt estimulant la seva faceta d’assajista. Aquest llibre intenta explicar l’origen de la tensió...
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At the inquisition, the deputy Warden Regulant who had been on duty at the time had testified that the initial fire had produced so much smoke that he’d been unable to get a clear picture of what Lio and Jesry had done. So the whole thing had been Chronicled as an accident, and the boys had got off with penance. But I know, because Jesry told me later, that when the fire in the blithe had first...
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The east nave was empty and little used. We’d ask the older fraas and suurs why; they’d give a wave of the hand and “explain” that it was the Mynster’s formal entrance. If so, it was so formal that no one knew what to do with it. At one time a pipe-organ had stood there, but this had been ripped out in the Second Sack, and later improvements of the Discipline had banned all other musical...
