Faire la fête

Yesterday we went to celebrate Alejo's birthday and recent alien encounter. Among the exclusive few that had the pleasure of attending where the infamous bloggers Hernando, Sebastián and Offray. As is almost always the case, Uniandes' curse of the engineer came to be and there were almost 2 guys for every girl. The plan was to go to Chia, to San Barichara, but, being a thursday the place was as open as a government office on a sunday. Finally we ended up at Luna Llena (or something).

Have you ever gone to a disco (or bar, or whatever) where you felt you knew half the people? This was the case in Luna Llena, as we were 13 and when we arrived there were only 13 other people in the place. All in all it was a nice evening, with a dose of dancing and a dose of talking.

Fear the man of only one book

One of the best speeches I've ever heard was given in a graduation day at school. There a student (who was receiving a Magna cum laude in literature) talked about the problemas of people who believed in only one book.
This happened in september 2001, after 9-11, so everybody tought it referred to muslim fundamentalism and the coran. I think it can be applied to any book, at that, depending on the book, a diferent ism is created:

• The Bible (or any sacred book) and you get religious fundamentalism


• The constitution and you get legalism, do everything by the law instead of serving justice, as it should be


• Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the Fab Four, and you get a bloated design that accomplishes nothing through the use of a hundred classes and a perfectly uncoupled, reusable design, sort of like building a 10 lane highway that leads nowhere.

My point is: All of this books have some reason to them, but no one book, not one doctrine, not one way of thinking, answers all the questions, or is always right.

On other news

Congrats to Ugo(may he make it to the evil list) and Drayru they might have inherited Arquimedes, a 15K LOC OO J2EE JUnit Cactus EJB Struts little piece of software.