http://www.ivannolasco.com A place in the cloud that I can call my own Sun, 04 May 2008 06:44:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now it all adds up! This explains everything! http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/05/04/pacman-explained/ Check this site. I couldn't help but chuckle at some of the stuff there. For those lazy enough not to click, here's an excerpt: Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/04/21/the-cartoon-laws-of-physics/ Today I found out the actual, real life meaning of the internet expression "LOL", as I was watching this video. It's a screen-cast of some guy playing an extremely difficult Super Mario Bros hack, complete with voice over from the player. While the video itself is good for the crazy gameplay ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/04/21/super-mario-bros-frustration/ I found this amazing virtual barbershop. It's an example of something called binaural recording, which is basically sound recorded using two microphones were the ears would be. The brain fills in the rest of the information, and the result is incredible surround sound, that actually makes you feel you are ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/04/21/amazing-surround-sound-with-any-type-of-headphones/ As my spam folder contents constantly reminds me, size has always been a problem for humanity, and many great efforts have been made to study both the big and the small. The results, however, have never been very clear or ultimately interesting for the average person. However, today I stumbled upon ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/04/21/the-problem-of-size/ Man, every day I wish more and more that I had the opportunity to attend MIT. It's just like the greatest place on earth for a geek to go. They recently made open and free their course catalog via the web, which showed me how a real and well put ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/04/21/scratch-programming-for-kids/ This is kind of a continuation of a previous discussion, based on new evidence. The other day I was talking to a friend at work, who was telling me about some issues he's having with his new Vista laptop. Since he bought it in Argentina, the OS language was in ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2008/04/21/why-do-people-use-this-crap-the-sequel/ No offense intended to those who liked it, but WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP!! I'm sorry, I can't help it. It just felt like my childhood memories were raped by Michael Bay. I don't understand how Steven Spielberg put his money on the project. Sure, lots of people will see ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2007/07/21/transformers-review-it-effing-sucks/ When the movie V for Vendetta came out, I loved it so much that I started looking for information on the original comic. As part of the search, I found out that the same writer, Alan Moore, was also responsible for Watchmen, which is regarded as the best graphic novel ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2007/05/21/finished-reading-watchmen/ In the past couple of years, there has been a lot of changes and new developments in my life, which has really got me doing a lot of thinking and self analysis. Most importantly, I tried to determine all lessons that life has taught me, one way or another. And ... http://www.ivannolasco.com/2007/04/21/lessons-learned-in-life/