Hoy hice un descubrimiento fascinante, la regla de Google Earth.
Permite medir distancias, dibujando simplemente un itinerario sobre la vista satelital.
Puede ser tanto una sencilla línea como intrincados polígonos.
lunes, mayo 28, 2007
flof.com.ar (?)
flof.com.ar/user/martin/turismo/
Todavia no dilucidé muy bien de que se trata este sitio, pero se basan en Google Earth para ubicar sitios de interes diverso.
Todavia no dilucidé muy bien de que se trata este sitio, pero se basan en Google Earth para ubicar sitios de interes diverso.
domingo, mayo 27, 2007
Ionizador Electroionic
Siendo casi un niño aún, leí de su existencia en un artículo (creo que de Reader's Digest). Desde entonces, siempre quise tener un inonizador. La cuestión es que para la época de la Argentina que hablamos, era como querer tener un space shutle en el garage, o sea algo más cercano a la ciencia ficción que a nuestra realidad cotidiana y pedestre. O peor aún, ya que aquél era un tiempo anterior al transbordador espacial. Hoy lo podés tener con delivery a domicilio incluido y al precio de cualquier electrodomético menor.
http://www.electroionic.com.ar/
http://www.electroionic.com.ar/
sábado, mayo 26, 2007
Libros que estoy leyendo, CD que estoy escuchando
Libros
Apologías y rechazos de Ernesto Sábato
Freakonomics de Steven D. Levitt y Stephen J. Dubner
Un método para tocar blues en guitarra
CD's
In a Silent Way / Miles Davis
The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall 1953 (Charlie "Chan" Parker "Bird" - saxo alto. Dizzy Gillespie - trompeta. Bud Powell - piano. Charles Mingus - contrabajo. Max Roack - batería)
Remixed & Re-Imagined Nina Simone
Introducing Joss Stone / Joss Stone
Blue Note Plays Sinatra
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas / Mikhail Pletnev
Apologías y rechazos de Ernesto Sábato
Freakonomics de Steven D. Levitt y Stephen J. Dubner
Un método para tocar blues en guitarra
CD's
In a Silent Way / Miles Davis
The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall 1953 (Charlie "Chan" Parker "Bird" - saxo alto. Dizzy Gillespie - trompeta. Bud Powell - piano. Charles Mingus - contrabajo. Max Roack - batería)
Remixed & Re-Imagined Nina Simone
Introducing Joss Stone / Joss Stone
Blue Note Plays Sinatra
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas / Mikhail Pletnev
sábado, mayo 12, 2007
Libros que estoy leyendo ahora
Wasabi de Alan Pauls
El cocinero científico de Diego Golombek y Pablo Schwarzbaum
El correr Chi de Danny Dreyer
Saber escribir de Jesús Sanchez Lobato-Cervates Instituto
Mis libros en la mira:
La estrategia de la cucaracha de Craig Hovey $
Una breve historia de casi todo de Bill Bryson $168
El cocinero científico de Diego Golombek y Pablo Schwarzbaum
El correr Chi de Danny Dreyer
Saber escribir de Jesús Sanchez Lobato-Cervates Instituto
Mis libros en la mira:
La estrategia de la cucaracha de Craig Hovey $
Una breve historia de casi todo de Bill Bryson $168
martes, mayo 01, 2007
Periplos - De Ezeiza a Buenos Aires en el colectivo 86
Este fin de semana largo (sí Señoras y Señores, el lúnes no se trabajó en la corporación a la cual pertenezco) viajé para ver a mi hija.
Al regreso, luego de desembarcar en Ezeiza, traté de ver cuál es la forma más económica de llegar hasta el centro de Buenos Aires. Sepan amigos, que no hay subway o metro que una el aeropuerto internacional Ministro Pistarini con la ciudad capital argentina (son aproximadamente 32 km).
Conclusiones:
Un taxi cobra AR$50, el shuttle de Manuel Tienda León (bah, un bus común y corriente que te lleva hasta Puerto Madero detrás del Sheraton Buenos Aires) AR$27, y el colectivo (bus de línea que tiene paradas cada 300 o 400 metros y se mete por barrios marginales y tarda casi 2 horas hasta llegar al downtown) AR$1,35. Ah... sí, me olvidaba un detalle importante, tenés que llevar monedas ya que el dispenser de boletos del bus no recibe billetes.
Me bajé en Primera Junta (hasta aquí el viaje me insumió 1h 30 min) y me tomé el subte (metro) hasta llegar al estacionamiento (aparcamiento) donde había dejado mi automóvil (estacionamiento subterráneo de Carlos Pellegrini y Arenales). Los 3 días 3 horas y 27 min de estadía de mi camioneta Toyota me insumió el importe de AR$71,50 (estadía 24 horas AR$18).
Al regreso, luego de desembarcar en Ezeiza, traté de ver cuál es la forma más económica de llegar hasta el centro de Buenos Aires. Sepan amigos, que no hay subway o metro que una el aeropuerto internacional Ministro Pistarini con la ciudad capital argentina (son aproximadamente 32 km).
Conclusiones:
Un taxi cobra AR$50, el shuttle de Manuel Tienda León (bah, un bus común y corriente que te lleva hasta Puerto Madero detrás del Sheraton Buenos Aires) AR$27, y el colectivo (bus de línea que tiene paradas cada 300 o 400 metros y se mete por barrios marginales y tarda casi 2 horas hasta llegar al downtown) AR$1,35. Ah... sí, me olvidaba un detalle importante, tenés que llevar monedas ya que el dispenser de boletos del bus no recibe billetes.
Me bajé en Primera Junta (hasta aquí el viaje me insumió 1h 30 min) y me tomé el subte (metro) hasta llegar al estacionamiento (aparcamiento) donde había dejado mi automóvil (estacionamiento subterráneo de Carlos Pellegrini y Arenales). Los 3 días 3 horas y 27 min de estadía de mi camioneta Toyota me insumió el importe de AR$71,50 (estadía 24 horas AR$18).
Más noticias de Fauja Singh ... mucho más reciente.
'Absolutely phenomenal' Sikh games draw crowds
Organizers hope to bridge culture gaps through sports
By Matthew Artz, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 04/29/2007 02:41:12 AM PDT
UNION CITY — Just like any sporting event, the Sikh Sports Association Games started Saturday with "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Then came a hymn in Punjabi, and finally a speech from the guest of honor, Fauja Singh, a 96-year-old marathoner sporting his own line of Adidas running shoes and a beard that covered much of his track and field themed tie.
The Sikh games didn't just bridge cultures, organizers said, it made history.
With more than 800 entrants, the games, which also are taking place today, will be the biggest sporting competition ever held in Union City.
Every field and court at Logan High School on Saturday was home to constant field hockey, tennis, basketball and soccer action.
With more than 30 basketball teams signed up, organizers had the first game start at
7:30 a.m. to accommodate the demand.
"This is absolutely phenomenal," said Surinder Singh, vice chair of the Sikh Sports Association.
The newly-formed group, along with the Logan High School Punjabi Club, organized the games. They also raised more than $125,000 to rent the fields and offer prize money to the winners in more than 60 events.
Organizers hope the games will help forge bonds between Sikhs and other Americans, as well as strengthen Sikh families.
Often, immigrant Sikh parents are too busy to foster their childrens' wishes to play sports, Singh said. "It creates a gap within families."
In India, Sikhs are associated with athletics, said Randhir Singh Virk of the Khalsa Barbell Club in Reno. At age 67, Virk, who has a scraggly beard and a wide backside, won the 2004 U.S. weight lifting title in his age group.
On Saturday, he was competing in the shot put, although he gave himself little chance to defeat Jagtar Singh Jahal, 57, the Nevada State Champion in the over-50 division.
Jahal said he can throw the 13.2 pound ball up to 40 feet. Several of the athletes on Saturday weren't Sikh.
On the soccer fields, many Hispanics like George Arroyo of Fremont played on diverse squads just as they do every weekend in local parks.
"It's great that they opened the door for everybody," Arroyo said.
Matt Isola, who coaches a basketball team at Niles Elementary School, said he hadn't seen a competition with so much diversity.
Standing on the sideline, waiting for his basketball game to begin, Harpreet Sahota said he had never participated in a bigger Sikh-sponsored tournament. He hoped that future competitions would some day pave the way for a Sikh to enter a U.S. professional league.
"Of course I'd like to be represented," he said.
In England, at least, one of the most visible Sikh athletes is 96-year-old Fauja Singh, whose ability to run marathons in under six hours got him his own shoe deal and billboard space with soccer star David Beckham.
Singh took up running in his 80s after his wife died, and has set every record in the over 90 category except one: oldest man to finish a marathon.
He will have to live three more years to set that mark, but, through an interpreter, Singh was confident it will just be a matter of time.
"Without providence intervening, I will do whatever it takes to shatter the record."
Staff writer Matthew Artz covers Union City. He can be reached at (510) 353-7003 or martz@angnewspapers.com.
Organizers hope to bridge culture gaps through sports
By Matthew Artz, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 04/29/2007 02:41:12 AM PDT
UNION CITY — Just like any sporting event, the Sikh Sports Association Games started Saturday with "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Then came a hymn in Punjabi, and finally a speech from the guest of honor, Fauja Singh, a 96-year-old marathoner sporting his own line of Adidas running shoes and a beard that covered much of his track and field themed tie.
The Sikh games didn't just bridge cultures, organizers said, it made history.
With more than 800 entrants, the games, which also are taking place today, will be the biggest sporting competition ever held in Union City.
Every field and court at Logan High School on Saturday was home to constant field hockey, tennis, basketball and soccer action.
With more than 30 basketball teams signed up, organizers had the first game start at
7:30 a.m. to accommodate the demand.
"This is absolutely phenomenal," said Surinder Singh, vice chair of the Sikh Sports Association.
The newly-formed group, along with the Logan High School Punjabi Club, organized the games. They also raised more than $125,000 to rent the fields and offer prize money to the winners in more than 60 events.
Organizers hope the games will help forge bonds between Sikhs and other Americans, as well as strengthen Sikh families.
Often, immigrant Sikh parents are too busy to foster their childrens' wishes to play sports, Singh said. "It creates a gap within families."
In India, Sikhs are associated with athletics, said Randhir Singh Virk of the Khalsa Barbell Club in Reno. At age 67, Virk, who has a scraggly beard and a wide backside, won the 2004 U.S. weight lifting title in his age group.
On Saturday, he was competing in the shot put, although he gave himself little chance to defeat Jagtar Singh Jahal, 57, the Nevada State Champion in the over-50 division.
Jahal said he can throw the 13.2 pound ball up to 40 feet. Several of the athletes on Saturday weren't Sikh.
On the soccer fields, many Hispanics like George Arroyo of Fremont played on diverse squads just as they do every weekend in local parks.
"It's great that they opened the door for everybody," Arroyo said.
Matt Isola, who coaches a basketball team at Niles Elementary School, said he hadn't seen a competition with so much diversity.
Standing on the sideline, waiting for his basketball game to begin, Harpreet Sahota said he had never participated in a bigger Sikh-sponsored tournament. He hoped that future competitions would some day pave the way for a Sikh to enter a U.S. professional league.
"Of course I'd like to be represented," he said.
In England, at least, one of the most visible Sikh athletes is 96-year-old Fauja Singh, whose ability to run marathons in under six hours got him his own shoe deal and billboard space with soccer star David Beckham.
Singh took up running in his 80s after his wife died, and has set every record in the over 90 category except one: oldest man to finish a marathon.
He will have to live three more years to set that mark, but, through an interpreter, Singh was confident it will just be a matter of time.
"Without providence intervening, I will do whatever it takes to shatter the record."
Staff writer Matthew Artz covers Union City. He can be reached at (510) 353-7003 or martz@angnewspapers.com.
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