<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:02:46.773-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Chicken on the piano</title><subtitle type='html'>Art, surrealism, movies</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681.post-5378471966418593548</id><published>2011-10-29T15:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T15:07:52.519-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Child and infinity</title><content type='html'>On BBC radio a few months back. A nice moment was when the mathematician recalled trying to explain infinity to a very young child&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Child: "what's the biggest number there is?"&lt;br /&gt;Mathematician: "what do you think it is"&lt;br /&gt;Child: "um, 380?"&lt;br /&gt;Mathematician: "but if you add one to that, don't you get 381"?&lt;br /&gt;Child: "Wow!"&lt;br /&gt;(pause, in which the mathematician assumes the child has grasped the idea that you can ALWAYS add 1 and get a bigger number)&lt;br /&gt;Child" "I was really close, wasn't I?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From&lt;a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/04/03/17/2041238/everything-and-more"&gt; slashdot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/647383779600421681-5378471966418593548?l=ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/5378471966418593548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=647383779600421681&amp;postID=5378471966418593548' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/5378471966418593548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/5378471966418593548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/2011/10/child-and-infinity.html' title='Child and infinity'/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681.post-865043808128725555</id><published>2011-10-29T14:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T15:02:55.074-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Draft for a non existent science book</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oAOki93SYLc/Tqx2EVU9edI/AAAAAAAAAqU/ZcrOtcVdl2E/s1600/navex.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 379px; height: 297px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oAOki93SYLc/Tqx2EVU9edI/AAAAAAAAAqU/ZcrOtcVdl2E/s400/navex.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669035847769225682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 Introduccion&lt;br /&gt;2 Breve Historia de la ciencia y la tecnologia&lt;br /&gt;- Impacto de la ciencia tecnologia en la historia&lt;br /&gt;- Principios de siglo 20&lt;br /&gt;- Guerras mundiales&lt;br /&gt;- La Guerra fria Era Nuclear y espacial&lt;br /&gt;- La era de las computadoras&lt;br /&gt;- La era de la biotecnologia&lt;br /&gt;- Internet divino tesoro&lt;br /&gt;- Nanotecnologia. Es el Futuro?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Estudiar Ingenieria&lt;br /&gt;- Por que estudiar ingenieria?&lt;br /&gt;- Es dificil?&lt;br /&gt;- Es redituable?&lt;br /&gt;- Es para mi?&lt;br /&gt;- Es emocionante?&lt;br /&gt;- Como se estudia ingenieria?&lt;br /&gt;- Los docentes ensenian bien en general?&lt;br /&gt;- Como organizarse?&lt;br /&gt;- Como elijo la especialidad?&lt;br /&gt;- Como es el trabajo del ingeniero?&lt;br /&gt;- La mujer en ingeniera cual es su rol?&lt;br /&gt;- Como elegir donde estudiar ingenieria?&lt;br /&gt;- Como conseguir informacion?&lt;br /&gt;- Cuales son las bases teoricas de ingenieria quimica?&lt;br /&gt;- Cuales son los aspectos practicos de la ing quimica? &lt;br /&gt;- El mapa conceptual&lt;br /&gt;- Resumenes de formulas&lt;br /&gt;- Metodos de disenio de equipos&lt;br /&gt;- Disenio de procesos y optimizacion&lt;br /&gt;- Bibliografia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3B Investigacion cientifica&lt;br /&gt;-El sistema cientifico tecnologico&lt;br /&gt;-Los journals, una red de conocimiento&lt;br /&gt;-La ruta academica&lt;br /&gt;-El trabajo del cientifico&lt;br /&gt;-La busqueda de informacion&lt;br /&gt;-Mediciones y observaciones&lt;br /&gt;-Los conceptos, el conocimiento en si&lt;br /&gt;-Publicacion del conocimiento&lt;br /&gt;-Aspectos eticos, frontera en tre ciencia, comercio, universidad, empresa, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Tecnologia Construir inventos&lt;br /&gt;-Por que construir inventos?&lt;br /&gt;-Como conseguir ideas?&lt;br /&gt;-Historia de los inventos en eeuu (Smithsonian)&lt;br /&gt;-Se necesita mucho dinero para hacer inventos?&lt;br /&gt;-Fuentes de informacion utiles para el inventor.&lt;br /&gt;-El taller mecanico&lt;br /&gt;-Electronica&lt;br /&gt;-Metodos de construcion y armado de prototipos&lt;br /&gt;-Catalogos, fabricantes de piezas clave&lt;br /&gt;-partes mecanicas para prototipos perfiles de aluminio&lt;br /&gt;-Legos, articulos de robotica&lt;br /&gt;-Que son las patentes y la propiedad intelectual?&lt;br /&gt;-Cuan importantes son las patentes?&lt;br /&gt;-Voy a hacer una fortuna con una patente?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 Modelado El lenguaje de la ciencia&lt;br /&gt;-Que es un modelo?&lt;br /&gt;-Para que sirve?&lt;br /&gt;-Modelos estocasticos&lt;br /&gt;-Ecuaciones diferenciales&lt;br /&gt;-Caos&lt;br /&gt;-Modelos cualitativos. Sistemas biologicos&lt;br /&gt;-Modelado cuantitativo de sistemas biologicos&lt;br /&gt;-Modelos mecanicos. Sistema de multiples cuerpos rigidos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Matematica Aplicada&lt;br /&gt;-Logica y demostraciones matematicas&lt;br /&gt;-Algebra lineal &lt;br /&gt;-Calculo&lt;br /&gt;-Geometria analitica&lt;br /&gt;-Vectores Tensores notacion indicial&lt;br /&gt;-Ecuaciones diferenciales&lt;br /&gt;-Metodos numericos, elementos finitos&lt;br /&gt;-Probabilidad y estadistica&lt;br /&gt;-Modelado estocastico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 Fisica&lt;br /&gt;-Demostraciones matematicas&lt;br /&gt;-Grandes experimentos fisicos&lt;br /&gt;-Diagramas de cuerpo libre&lt;br /&gt;-Conservacion de la energia&lt;br /&gt;-Conservacion de cantidad de movimiento&lt;br /&gt;-Conservacion de cantidad de movimiento angular&lt;br /&gt;-Fisica clasica&lt;br /&gt;-Mecanica del continuo&lt;br /&gt;-Reologia&lt;br /&gt;-Fisica cuantica&lt;br /&gt;-Relatividad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 Quimica&lt;br /&gt;Conservacion del a materia, el mol.&lt;br /&gt;Estequiometria &lt;br /&gt;Termodinamica que es?&lt;br /&gt;Porque es dificil?&lt;br /&gt;Tecnicas de laboratorio&lt;br /&gt;Anecdotas de laboratorio&lt;br /&gt;Procesos de sintesis&lt;br /&gt;Analisis quimicos&lt;br /&gt;Metodos instrumentales de analisis quimico&lt;br /&gt;Electroquimica&lt;br /&gt;Bibliografia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 Biologia&lt;br /&gt;-Enzimas, proteinas, anticuerpos&lt;br /&gt;-Metabolismo de la celula&lt;br /&gt;-Vias metabolicas&lt;br /&gt;-Procesos biotecnologicos&lt;br /&gt;-Bacterias modificadas geneticamente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 Electronica&lt;br /&gt;-La revolucion electronica del siglo XX&lt;br /&gt;-Intrumentos de medicion&lt;br /&gt;-Informacion para diseniar circuitos: Las hojas de datos&lt;br /&gt;-Armado de circuitos simples&lt;br /&gt;-Herramientas necesarias&lt;br /&gt;-Placas de prototipo&lt;br /&gt;-Sensores&lt;br /&gt;-Presion&lt;br /&gt;-Temperatura&lt;br /&gt;-Electrodos de pH&lt;br /&gt;-Acondicionamiento de senial&lt;br /&gt;-Interfaces a computadora&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 Informatica&lt;br /&gt;-Sistemas operativos&lt;br /&gt;-Windows&lt;br /&gt;-Linux-Unix&lt;br /&gt;-Hackers&lt;br /&gt;-Programacion Como aprender&lt;br /&gt;-Los limites de las computadoras. Para mchos problemas el poder de computo siempre sera insuficiente. Para otros ya es sobradamente suficiente.&lt;br /&gt;-Matlab, mathematica, maple, Mathcad&lt;br /&gt;-Ejemplos&lt;br /&gt;-Lenguaje fortran&lt;br /&gt;-Ventajas&lt;br /&gt;-Ejemplos&lt;br /&gt;-Lenguajes Visual basic y delphi&lt;br /&gt;-Ventajas&lt;br /&gt;-Ejemplos&lt;br /&gt;-Sistemas de CAD&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 Negocios de base tecnologica&lt;br /&gt;-Management de tecnologia&lt;br /&gt;-Marketing de servicios tecnologicos&lt;br /&gt;-Laboratorios de analisis&lt;br /&gt;-Desarrollo de productos&lt;br /&gt;-Consultorias&lt;br /&gt;-Formulacion de productos quimicos&lt;br /&gt;-Desarrollo de tecnologias avanzadas y su comercializacion&lt;br /&gt;-Venta de productos industriales&lt;br /&gt;-Venta de productos o servicios cientificos&lt;br /&gt;-Caso Matsushita&lt;br /&gt;-Caso Microsoft&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 Ciencia y tecnica en la sociedad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El sistema de innovacion en EEUU (limited by design)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Arte, Ciencia, Imaginacion y &lt;br /&gt;-Los escritores de ciencia ficcion&lt;br /&gt;-Hugo Gernsback y sus revistas&lt;br /&gt;-La mala ciencia de las peliculas&lt;br /&gt;-Imagenes distorisionadas del cientifico en peliculas o los comerciales&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15- el Zen de la productividad intelectual  &lt;br /&gt;Software&lt;br /&gt;- La creatividad limite entre el orden y el caos.&lt;br /&gt;Los intelectuales tienen un archivo de texto con la lista de cosas que hacer&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/647383779600421681-865043808128725555?l=ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/865043808128725555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=647383779600421681&amp;postID=865043808128725555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/865043808128725555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/865043808128725555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/2011/10/draft-for-non-existent-science-book.html' title='Draft for a non existent science book'/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oAOki93SYLc/Tqx2EVU9edI/AAAAAAAAAqU/ZcrOtcVdl2E/s72-c/navex.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681.post-1622778997122722343</id><published>2011-10-29T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T14:42:51.592-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Theory of Rototivity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kI3Ly38iPpc/Tqxy9zKhS4I/AAAAAAAAAqI/zqhgS270kIY/s1600/roro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kI3Ly38iPpc/Tqxy9zKhS4I/AAAAAAAAAqI/zqhgS270kIY/s320/roro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669032436984531842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DISCOVERY CHANEL Y MUNDO OLE PRESENTAN: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GRANDES &lt;br /&gt;TEORIAS &lt;br /&gt;COSMOLOGICAS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auspiciado por: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cerveza Brahma, Bizcochitos 9 de oro, Yerba mate aguantadora, &lt;br /&gt;y otras empresas a las que les interesa la fisica moderna. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La teoria de hoy: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;************************ &lt;br /&gt;Teoria &lt;br /&gt;De &lt;br /&gt;La &lt;br /&gt;Rototividad: &lt;br /&gt;*********************** &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por el Dr. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James Capaba DelBorda. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.INTRODUCCION &lt;br /&gt;La teoria postula que la materia la energia y el espacio y el tiempo son una misma cosa, consistente en la rotacion de una esfera n-dimensional en distintos sentidos, de tal forma que si se hace cambiar el sentido de rotacion de la esfera por medio de colisiones perfectamente sincronizadas se puede convertir materia en energia, materia en espacio, espacio en tiempo etcetera. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.TESIS &lt;br /&gt;La esfera es si se quiere una esfera infinita, como se advierte en mensajes anteriores. Tiene la particularidad de poder chocar contra si misma, sin que se sepa bien como, pero de todos modos cumple unas leyes de conservacion generalizadas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.APLICACIONES &lt;br /&gt;La primera aplicacion practica es el transductor rota-dimensional. &lt;br /&gt;Con el mismo si uno no tiene lugar en la casa efectua una rotacion y genera metros cubicos de espacio a costa de masa o energia. Si se queda sin nafta el coche puede convertir tiempo en energia y asi alimentar el motor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.CONSECUENCIAS &lt;br /&gt;De esta manera se solucionan los grandes problemas de humanidad y se genera una nueva generacion de armas devastadoras como la bomba termo-espaciotemporal, el rayo cronometrico, el misil absorbedor de energia y la bomba de espacio que convierte metros cuadrados de tierra en litros de antimateria. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.POST-FACTUM &lt;br /&gt;Por suerte un cientifico se rebela y crea un anti-rotator-grosmmann modelo II con el cual revierte todas las rotaciones anteriores y retrocede en el espaciotempo hasta el momento inicial de las investigaciones y logra borrar la primer ecuacion fundamental escrita al respecto, que nadie ya descubrira. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.POST-POST-FACTUM &lt;br /&gt;No solo eso sino se tomo su tiempo (creado a partir de la transformacion 2 gramos de mani con chocolate) para pensar un poco y luego creo un conjunto de teorias falsas, extremadamente coherentes que contienen un error re dificil de encontrar y que todos los cientificos adoptan por ser muy utiles. Pero la pequenia falla les impedira resdescubrir la rototividad por espacio de milenios. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.THE END &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.BIBLIOGRAFIA &lt;br /&gt;-Rototividad, una teoria rota. Por James capow &lt;br /&gt;-Introduccion a las nociones del rotary club. Por Mella Banco &lt;br /&gt;-Journal of Rototivistic Physical modelling, 13-5,322-412,2001 &lt;br /&gt;-Journal of Rototivistic Physical modelling, 13-2,325-512,2001 &lt;br /&gt;-Journal of Rototivistic Physical modelling, 14-5,312-312,2009 &lt;br /&gt;-Journal of Rototivistic Physical modelling, 11-5,342-112,2000 &lt;br /&gt;-Journal of Rototivistic Physical modelling, 10-5,122-012,2002 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9-INDEX &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colisiones 1 &lt;br /&gt;Teorias Falsas 6 &lt;br /&gt;mani con chocolate 6 &lt;br /&gt;Rayo cronometrico 4 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10-AGRADECIMEINTOS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Georgalos, Chocolatin Jack, Nesquick &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11-Esta teoria se termino de imprimir en los talleres graficaos del rotory club internashional el 12 de marzo de 1921.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/647383779600421681-1622778997122722343?l=ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/1622778997122722343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=647383779600421681&amp;postID=1622778997122722343' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/1622778997122722343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/1622778997122722343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/2011/10/theory-of-rototivity.html' title='Theory of Rototivity'/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kI3Ly38iPpc/Tqxy9zKhS4I/AAAAAAAAAqI/zqhgS270kIY/s72-c/roro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681.post-4028750810289164620</id><published>2011-10-29T14:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T14:30:42.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d5hst1IJ3kw/TqxwZoik_CI/AAAAAAAAAp8/NBy9_-zqpKo/s1600/BAGDAD.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d5hst1IJ3kw/TqxwZoik_CI/AAAAAAAAAp8/NBy9_-zqpKo/s320/BAGDAD.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669029616634100770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poem 27&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celebrating the absurd times &lt;br /&gt;in which we live&lt;br /&gt;Bold and fearless&lt;br /&gt;Open minded and objective&lt;br /&gt;Follows one's gut instinct&lt;br /&gt;when in doubt&lt;br /&gt;Techno savvy &lt;br /&gt;but aware &lt;br /&gt;of fast obsolescence of technology&lt;br /&gt;Focusing in the task at hand, &lt;br /&gt;producer more than consumer&lt;br /&gt;Finds solutions&lt;br /&gt;Finds answers &lt;br /&gt;where nobody sees them&lt;br /&gt;Sees the world as a Treasure hunt&lt;br /&gt;Unleashing the creative energy&lt;br /&gt;Finding a balance&lt;br /&gt;between order and chaos&lt;br /&gt;Exercising the capability &lt;br /&gt;to find information, &lt;br /&gt;use it and transform our world&lt;br /&gt;Aware of the power of the individual&lt;br /&gt;Aware of the power of human groups &lt;br /&gt;Delighted to see how fast&lt;br /&gt;our world changes&lt;br /&gt;Takes oneself not too seriously&lt;br /&gt;Loves oneself and others&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/647383779600421681-4028750810289164620?l=ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/4028750810289164620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=647383779600421681&amp;postID=4028750810289164620' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/4028750810289164620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/4028750810289164620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/2011/10/poem-27-celebrating-absurd-times-in.html' title=''/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d5hst1IJ3kw/TqxwZoik_CI/AAAAAAAAAp8/NBy9_-zqpKo/s72-c/BAGDAD.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681.post-4560681025601905755</id><published>2009-07-30T21:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-30T21:53:53.323-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Ugly Truth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v23b9qwL9YM/SnJ41mA-QvI/AAAAAAAAAgA/oqZQUqcRHPI/s1600-h/sacranite.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v23b9qwL9YM/SnJ41mA-QvI/AAAAAAAAAgA/oqZQUqcRHPI/s200/sacranite.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364482968284709618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Ugly Truth&lt;/span&gt; (2009), set in Sacramento, CA, there's a scene where the main character Abby, (Katherine Heigl) describes why she prefers to live there over New York City. &lt;br /&gt;Watching this movie in Sacramento was quite funny. The audience coudn't help but laugh when Abby mentions some statistics such as a lower divorce rate in Sacramento, and some implication that it was a very safe place to live in. Abby works for a morning news show, with the mandatory cooking segment, but no mention of any crime, poverty or budget crisis. The marriage stats seem to be off as well, according to &lt;a href="http://www.bestplaces.net/city/default.aspx?cat=PEOPLE&amp;city=Sacramento_CA&amp;ccity=New_York_NY&amp;p=0664000&amp;op=3651000"&gt;bestplaces&lt;/a&gt;. In this context the movie title "The Ugly Truth" takes on a whole new meaning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/647383779600421681-4560681025601905755?l=ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/4560681025601905755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=647383779600421681&amp;postID=4560681025601905755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/4560681025601905755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/4560681025601905755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/2009/07/ugly-truth.html' title='The Ugly Truth'/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v23b9qwL9YM/SnJ41mA-QvI/AAAAAAAAAgA/oqZQUqcRHPI/s72-c/sacranite.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647383779600421681.post-1497284973948665899</id><published>2009-06-13T23:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T00:33:19.889-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hangover</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v23b9qwL9YM/SjSjLtqBvSI/AAAAAAAAAfg/p2KMrAYB5GM/s1600-h/chickenonpiano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v23b9qwL9YM/SjSjLtqBvSI/AAAAAAAAAfg/p2KMrAYB5GM/s200/chickenonpiano.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347078079225380130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A key scene in the movie &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/"&gt;The Hangover (2009)&lt;/a&gt; is a scene where Ed Helms sings and plays the piano in the disaster-stricken hotel suite where the main characters find themselves the day of the hangover that gives the movie its name. On the piano there's a chicken, whose purpose is never fully explained. What is the chicken doing in the hotel room? Why is it on the piano? The scene parallels the donkeys on a piano from the surrealist film &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou"&gt;Un chien andalou&lt;/a&gt;.  Rather than a run-of-the-mill forgettable piece of easily digestible entertainment for mature audiences, the film is quite refreshing. It challenges the viewer, starting with the non-linear fashion in which the action is revealed. Speaking of which, in reality, the most relevant action is, actually, never revealed. The characters themselves don't know what happened that night, and have to piece the events together from many bits of information. At the end most of the plot is uncovered. But, alas, the mystery remains about the chicken. Where did it come from? Especially in Vegas. We may ultimately never know, and asking that question is maybe as futile as trying to solve a chicken-and-egg paradox. But that clue, that loose end of the chicken in the hotel suite, is in my opinion the starting point where we can begin to read between the lines of the many layers of meaning hidden in this apparently funny and innocuous film, which in the end is charged of significance, drama and ultimately, a very clear political message so obvious that does not merit further clarification.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/647383779600421681-1497284973948665899?l=ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/feeds/1497284973948665899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=647383779600421681&amp;postID=1497284973948665899' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/1497284973948665899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/647383779600421681/posts/default/1497284973948665899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ricktrollthevote.blogspot.com/2009/06/hangover.html' title='The Hangover'/><author><name>atomico</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v23b9qwL9YM/SjSjLtqBvSI/AAAAAAAAAfg/p2KMrAYB5GM/s72-c/chickenonpiano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
