Los ingenieros no cabemos en Puerto Rico

Sí debe haber una forma de filtrar aun mas el talento. Subir requisitos, bajar cupo en instituciones educacionales, sacar mediocres de la industria, etc... Otra opción es irnos donde nuestra oferta haga juego con la demanda... Aunque sea fuera de la isla.

Sería ideal ayudar a PR echar pa'lante como ingeniero, pero este revolú es parte de tener la libertad de esoger lo que queremos estudiar. Hay paises donde solo se gradúa lo que la sociedad necesite. Haces algo que no te gusta necesariamente, pero todos van pa'lante siempre...

Pienso que las reglas de oferta y demanda aplican a las profesiones. Mucha oferta con poca demanda, baja el precio del producto, o el sueldo del profesional. Para mantener el precio del producto hay que ofrecerlo donde 'haga falta' o producir menos.

Favorite "Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" quotes

Infantry Journal Entries:

• "If the enemy is in range, so are you."
• "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush."
• "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
• "Five second fuses only last three seconds."

Technical Truths:

• "Aim towards the Enemy." -Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
• "Tracers work both ways." -U.S. Army Ordinance
• "Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very, accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." -USAF Ammo Troop
• "If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you." -Unknown
• "Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder." -Unknown
• "The bursting radius of a hand-grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range." -Unknown

On the philosophical aspect of war:

• "Friendly fire - isn't." -Anonymous
• "In war, truth is the first casualty" -Aeschylus
• "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." -John F. Kennedy
• "War does not determine who is right - only who is left" -Burtrand Russell
• "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." -Winston Churchill
• "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." -Colin Powell
• "The world will not accept dictatorship or domination." -Mikhail Gorbachev
• "Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just brave five minutes longer." -Ronald Reagan
• "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." -Vladimir Putin
• "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." -George Washington
• "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." -General Douglas MacArthur
• "Any soldier worth his salt should be anti-war. And still, there are things worth fighting for." -General Norman Schwarzkopf
• "Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." -Sun Tzu
• "I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or evil that they become good or evil." -William Gibson
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
• "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -Norman Schwarzkopf
• "If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning." -Robert McNamara
• "If a man has done his best, what else is there?" -General George S. Patton

Un nuebo abesedario español

Un nueno abesedario español...
A B D E F G H I J K L M N Ñ O P R S T U Y

Los sonidos de la C son los de K y S.
La G solo suena como en GATO o AMIGO. No mas G-U, como GINEO
La H tiene el sonido de CH.
La J como si misma y como la G en gente (jente).
El sonido de LL es uno de los de Y.
La Q suena como K. No mas Q-U, ke bien.
Lo pertinente a la R y la RR se mantiene.
El sonido de W es el de U.
El sonido de la V puede ser el de B y no kambia tanto el bocabulario.
La Y solo tiene sonido como en YA i AYER. YUVIA, YANTO.
El sonido de la Z puede ser el de S i no kambia tanto el bocabulario.

Ke tu krees, baldrá la pena?

Ahi, Ay, Hay...aaayy

Hay - de HABER, que tambien empieza con H. Que mucho revolu hay con esta.

Ahí - Viste el ACENTO!?! Míralo ahí!

AY - la mas corta... No tienes tiempo pa escribir otra letra. Para de quejarte y busca una curita!

Bucket List - Part 2

• Surf on a huge wave
  
• See sunset on any place that had 6 months of sun
• See sunrise on any place that had 6 months of night
• Get more than one technical certification
• Win something really cool at a fair

Bucket List - Part 1

• Freefall and land safely from hundreds of feet
• Freefall and land safely from thousands of feet
• Build a snowman
• Skate on a frozen lake
• Try any winter sport
• See one tree change through the four seasons
• Help someone get a house
• Help someone get a job
• Help someone get better
• Visit the other 6 continents... (North America, check)
• Be a teacher/professor

Logical faith

A friend of mine once wrote he "wished for society to embrace knowledge and logic instead of faith on the uncertain."

... and I say he's RIGHT! I mean, LOGICALLY, anything about him is UNCERTAIN for me, except for what I KNOW... so I'll have to take everything else on FAITH.

That's was a good one, man...

25 Things About Me

25... I like this. I like putting my mind in writing...

1. Religion can easily separate you from your humanity and from God. That last one makes me think of some religions as sinful.

2. Take all contradictions out of The Bible. Read the rest.

3. No one has ever told me an intelligent or wise reason to smoke or to get high or drunk. That's the 2nd reason why I don't do it. Mostly they either taste bad or stink and their side effects are undesireable.

4. To maintain some structure I make rules for general cases. I DONT CHANGE THEM for the particular case, but stuff has to be ADDED for the rule to work. This is the basis for most of my thoughts.

5. I find it weird that people thank me for anything I do in gratitude to them.

6. If i want to finish this list on the first try, I better recur to ambiguity.

7. I think in English; I get angry or desperate in Spanish. Actually, if I do one of this lists in Spanish, most of it would be about stuff that makes me uncomfortable.

8. I think a lot. Too much. It'll take me weeks to choose 25 things I wanna share with every one.

9. It takes me too much time to realize I preferred the consequences of finishing stuff on time.

10. I HATE only 2 things: Denial and waiting.

11. I'm sure every problem in society can be rooted to education. Start preventing, and correcting will be significantly reduced.

12. I'm willing to love anybody, not anything they do.

13. Understanding God's power, and His love keeps my faith strong.

14. For every reason to feel bad at any given moment, I can find two to feel good. I don't remember the last time I went to bed angry.

15. I eat when I get anxious. Anything with lots of small pieces works (eg m&m's, peanuts, smarties, etc.)

16. On honesty: the more sincere you are the more genuine any relationship will grow... For better or worse.

17. I like to keep an open mind and a back up plan for most decisions I make.

18. I consider myself a fire starter. I mostly read the first paragraph on wikipedia of anything new for me. When I talk with anyone who knows about it, it's enough to get everyone involved.Also, I can be an integral part of the design process and leave little room for error. Once I see everything is going well, or fired up, I want to move to something else. (This is one of the main reasons for my embarrassing college academic life. For me it took too long to get to the next thing, and I lost interest)

19. There's good-looking people and there are ugly-looking people. Everyone is attractive. Moreover, the only reason I get nervous around a good looking girl/woman is because I don't know if I compliment her, she'll get offended or take it any wrong way.

20. One of the best compliments I've had was when Patricia Guzman looked at me and said I was a 'Monument to Peace.' Recently I was told again I was a very patient person (obviously I was NOT driving.) People taking up to 10 years off my age feels good too.

21. 100% of car accidents on the road happen on the road. That's why I want to reach my destination ASAP! :P

22. Top 5 (in random order): Adriana Lima, Mena Suvari, Carmen Electra... the other two change often. Hm, I won't pick the Olsen Twins cause I'd be done. I guess right now they are Kat Von D and Megan Fox.

23. Favorite color: Red. Blood Red. Deep and Bold.

24. Whoo!! one more and I'm done...

25. I read that my wife married her best friend... I married mine, too. Thank God I get to spend my life with her. We are a great combination of wild imagination and down-to-earth-ism.

On asking me for favors...

Doing favor is a gesture of sacrifice. One gives away something valuable to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss (Wiktionary.) I neither gain nor grow in giving to the non-needy. (Luke 6:34)

If you are self sufficient, don't ask for help.
If it takes same or less amount of effort on your part to do it, don't ask for help.
If you are interrupting me from an activity with same or more importance as the one you'd have to interrupt, don't ask for help.

BUT...
If you find that you can't do it yourself, don't hesitate to ask me for help.
If it's better if we do it together, call me, let's do it!

AND...
If you ask for a favor because your in a hurry, don't spend the next 30 minutes defending your point.

FINALLY...
Favors are asked with YES..... or..... NO questions.

Munchies Defense - American Miracle Crunch Sandwich

Between 2 (or more) slices of bread, put Miracle Whip, 1 (or more) American cheese slice(s), 1 (or more) layers of corn chips.

enjoy...

SENIOR year of high school!

1. Did you date someone from your school? nop
2. Did you marry someone from your high school? nop
3. Did you car pool to school? nop
4. What kind of car did you have? 1987 cadillac brougham
5. What kind of car do you have now? 2009 nissan versa
6. It’s Friday night 1995 where are you? home, beating my bros at street fighter
7. It is Friday night 2009...where are you? coming back from busch gardens
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? didn't know what was that.
9. What kind of job do you have now? software engineer
10. Were you a party animal? nop
11. Were you considered a flirt? nop
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? nop
13. Were you a nerd? ...i was above average
14. Did you get suspended or expelled? nop
15. Can you sing the fight song? nop
16. Who were your favorite teacher(s)? melvin torres, gisela rosado, wanda villafañe
17. Where did you sit during lunch? with friends
18. What was your school's full name? escuela superior de la universidad de puerto rico
19. When did you graduate? 2000
20. What was your school mascot? none or the upr's rooster
21 . If you could go back and do it again, would you? sure.
22. Did you have fun at Prom? not a highlight in my life
23. Would you talk to the person you went to Prom with? i talk to my parents all the time :P
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? i'm helping to plan the thing!

Yes or No?

ONLY Yes or No. NO EXPLAINING OF ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments and asks!

Kissed anyone of your facebook friends? Y
Been arrested? N
Kissed someone you didn't like? N
Slept in until 5 PM? Y
Fallen asleep at work/school? Y
Held a snake? Y
Ran a red light? Y
Been suspended from school? N
Totaled your car/motorbike in an accident? N
Been fired from a job? N
Sang karaoke? Y
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? Y
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? Y
Kissed in the rain? N
Sang in the shower? Y
Sat on a rooftop? Y
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? Y
Broken a bone? N
Shaved your head? Y
Blacked out from drinking? N
Played a prank on someone? Y
Felt like killing someone? N
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? Y
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? N
Been in a band? N
Shot a gun? N

Donated Blood? Y
Eaten alligator meat? Y
Eaten cheesecake? Y
Still love someone you shouldn't? N
Think about the future? Y
Believe in love? Y
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? N

ONE word answers

Where is your cell phone..................... car

Your hair........................................ dirty
Your father..................................... lost
Your favorite thing.............................time
Your dream last night......................... computer
Favorite drink...................................water
Your dream/goal.............................. helping
The room you are in.......................... office
Your fear....................................... ignorance
Where do you want to be in 6 years....... out
Muffins......................................... nut
One of your wish list items...................Porsche
Where you grew up.......................... Away
The last thing you did....................... bathroom
What are you wearing....................... socks
Your TV........................................ where?
Your pets...................................... none
Your computer................................ acer
Your life........................................ jagged
Your mood..................................... anxious
Missing someone.............................. YES
Your car........................................ Versa
Favorite store................................. electronics
Your summer.................................. work
Your favorite color........................... red
When is the last time you laughed........ hours ago
Last time you cried.......................... January
Three of my favorite foods................ puertorrican, italian, mexican
Three places I would rather be right now...... outside, far, there
Three people I think will respond........... you, him, her

(Answered 7:50pm Monday, February 23, 2009)

The letter O

1. What is your name: Obed
2. A four Letter Word: Onto
3. A boy's Name: Orlando
4. A girl's Name: Olga
5. An occupation: OB-Gyn
7. Something you wear: One jacket
8. A food: Oysters
9. Something found in the bathroom: Only one tub... :P
10. A place: Old San Juan
11. A reason for being late: Other people
12. Something you shout: Ouch
13. A movie title: Once upon a time...
14. Something you drink: Orange Juice
15. A musical group: Oasis
16. An animal: Ostrich
17. A street name: October St
18. A type of car: Outback
19. A song title: Otra
20. A verb: Order
or...

15. Something you give: Onix
16. You buy a lot of: Ornaments
17. You've never seen: Olsen twins
18. You hate: Oxide stains in stainless steel
19. Body part: Other arm
20. An insult: OxiMORON

Por que no me gusta 'hablar malo'?

Algunas palabras no bien vistas por los hispanos, aunque se utilizan correctamente la mayoria de las veces, tienen significados adicionales que influyen a no utilizarlas. Entre otros significados...

Bicho - (el significado en PR no es aceptado por la RAE)
Cabron - Macho de la cabra.
Carajo - Miembro viril.
Cojon - Testículo.
Coño - Parte externa del aparato genital de la hembra.
Joder - Practicar el coito.
Puñeta - Masturbar o masturbarse.

Ademas, si escojo no aprovechar la oportunidad de usar la palabra, puedo expresar la escencia de mi sentir mas rapidamente.

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