Ok it has been a while and a lot has happened...
Here's what I'm up to right now.
I bought myself a really nice film camera it has a great lens and I am currently breezing by my first roll. I am about to develop it using a home made recipe "Caffenol" and I hope to get decent results.
It has been a little hard to find some time to get the ingredients but right now I am determined to do it, so I will see it it all goes well, step 2 will be to get my hands on a flat bed scanner with a feature to let me scan my negative films.
My developing tank requires 335cc to develop 1 roll of 35mm film.
For the fixer, I prepare 50ml AGFA - AGEFIX and 350 ml water.
For cafenol I will use the a modification in the recipe found in http://www.caffenol.org/2010/10/19/caffeafine-using-caffenol-c-as-2-step-developer/
Using 355 ml water with 10 tsp of regular coffee (Folger's)
145 ml water mixed with 6 tsp of washing soda and 3 tsp of Vitamin C.
The outcome was really interesting... the images can be seen buy you can see fog on the film and the film itself is properly exposed but dark when developed, I will try to add more Sodium Carbonate and see what the result is.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
A new hope!
Wow it has been so long since my last entry I feel really rusty...
Yesterday great news came up. I got a job after my Master Degree. I will now be working on a different area but in a big company... I go as a sales engineer in Johnson Controls we will see how it goes.
I will now experiment on a differen ground but I am confident I can leave a good impression and a mark on my work expirience and the company...
Yesterday great news came up. I got a job after my Master Degree. I will now be working on a different area but in a big company... I go as a sales engineer in Johnson Controls we will see how it goes.
I will now experiment on a differen ground but I am confident I can leave a good impression and a mark on my work expirience and the company...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Team Anthem & Cheer
On Thursday November 29th I went to a playoff game between my team "PUMAS-UNAM" againts the league leader "Santos". This phase are the playoffs and there are no points involved just 2 games one as local and one as visitor, and the one who scores the most goals in the two matches win. Our team is said to have the best supporters, well listen to the cheering and singging and judge by yourself!
By now my team is in the final and the first game will take place in Mexico City on Thursday and the closing game will take place in Cancun... the final is against "Atlante" and I will keep you posted on the result!
VAMOS PUMAS!
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Greece
Wow it has been a while and I am getting really rusty now...
I went for some needed vacations to Athens... no doubt the change from a small "fish-smelling" town into a big chaotic city might not seem to be the description of vacation for many, but for me the big cities are heaven!
So arriving to Athens, the first surprise came up... we arrived at around midnight and two very good friends picked us up... for starters, the airport was filled with people. We went directly to Athens just to find the roads filled with people and the whole place filled with light and life.
It was total ecstasy to be able to get a dinner and drinks after 1am sitting on a table outside a bar filled with people that don't stare at you like a total stranger.
The next day we went to the must-see tourist temple... The Acropolis which no doubt is impressive, but even more is to stand at the edge of it and be able to stare down to Athens, and see how the city stretches massively housing half of the total Greek population!
Amongst evened out buildings homogeneous in shapes and colours, the Acropolis emerges stating centuries of cultural splendor... and to its feet the Agora showing the foundation of the culture...
Well enough chit chat... I believe is better to take a look at the pictures and get the idea by yourself:
I went for some needed vacations to Athens... no doubt the change from a small "fish-smelling" town into a big chaotic city might not seem to be the description of vacation for many, but for me the big cities are heaven!
So arriving to Athens, the first surprise came up... we arrived at around midnight and two very good friends picked us up... for starters, the airport was filled with people. We went directly to Athens just to find the roads filled with people and the whole place filled with light and life.
It was total ecstasy to be able to get a dinner and drinks after 1am sitting on a table outside a bar filled with people that don't stare at you like a total stranger.
The next day we went to the must-see tourist temple... The Acropolis which no doubt is impressive, but even more is to stand at the edge of it and be able to stare down to Athens, and see how the city stretches massively housing half of the total Greek population!
Amongst evened out buildings homogeneous in shapes and colours, the Acropolis emerges stating centuries of cultural splendor... and to its feet the Agora showing the foundation of the culture...
Well enough chit chat... I believe is better to take a look at the pictures and get the idea by yourself:
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| Acropolis |
Monday, June 11, 2007
Unnecessary Roughness
Once again... my most sincere apologies for my only 3 readers...
After close to two weeks of not posting up anything; here is the explanation of my absence. As some of you might or might not be aware of, I am currently doing my master thesis in some crazy and fancy control strategy. Well the thing is a little more complex than this with the master programme I am "enrolled" in. It is an agreement between different universities throughout Europe (mainly Scandinavia), but I've come to find out that they have the same (or even more) monetary interest as everyone... the worst part, they try to get it at any cost.
I say this because a few months back I started my last semester (4/4) in the programme, according to the rules you can choose where you wish to study your last semester and the thesis project you wish to develop. Since previously you have been in three universities (Halmstad, Lemgo and Esbjerg) you can choose amongst these three. Me and my current colegue in the thesis chose Esbjerg in Denmark and started the 4th and hopefuly the last semester in February.
By the end of April we recieved a letter stating that we had to pay (50,000Dkk = 8,991.65 USD) for current semester... that seemed odd since we were already half way through it... but the dateline for the payment was untill the 1st of July 2007... So we assumed it was a mistake or some kind of mass email in which we were added erroneously; even though we corroborated with our departments secretary and she said it was most probably a mistake. So we kept on with our project, and in the end of May I was informed that I was no longer enrolled in the University and that I had to pay before January 1st 2007!
Obviously I got scared and astonished! So I replied back explaining that there surely was a miss understanding since I was a member of the IT-Master programme and not an Esbjerg student. But their only reply was... Sorry but you should have payed and we have informed the migration office that you are no longer a student here (I am not Danish to make that point clear), and the dateline was December 1st 2006. So this made clear to me that they have no clue of who and when has to pay.
To make the long story short... I am currently unable to graduate from Aalborg University Esbjerg as I wished. The initial agreement was violated, they waited untill we were half way in the semester to let us know that we had to pay in July... but then one month later changed their mind and decided that we had to pay in January and kicked me out of the University without previous announcement. The work for a whole semester is now done for up to now nothing...
It is sad to face this kind of indirect discrimination (indirect discrimination) and even harder to realize that an agreement is not respected, even though they offeres freedom of choice to graduate on the last semester... as long as you have enough money to pay for it.
So please let me know if anyone has a good suggestion as what to do about this situation, because up to now... no answer, solution or option has been given to us on this matter.
Definition: Indirect discrimination involves setting a condition or requirement which a smaller proportion of those with the protected attribute are able to comply with, without reasonable justification.
After close to two weeks of not posting up anything; here is the explanation of my absence. As some of you might or might not be aware of, I am currently doing my master thesis in some crazy and fancy control strategy. Well the thing is a little more complex than this with the master programme I am "enrolled" in. It is an agreement between different universities throughout Europe (mainly Scandinavia), but I've come to find out that they have the same (or even more) monetary interest as everyone... the worst part, they try to get it at any cost.
I say this because a few months back I started my last semester (4/4) in the programme, according to the rules you can choose where you wish to study your last semester and the thesis project you wish to develop. Since previously you have been in three universities (Halmstad, Lemgo and Esbjerg) you can choose amongst these three. Me and my current colegue in the thesis chose Esbjerg in Denmark and started the 4th and hopefuly the last semester in February.
By the end of April we recieved a letter stating that we had to pay (50,000Dkk = 8,991.65 USD) for current semester... that seemed odd since we were already half way through it... but the dateline for the payment was untill the 1st of July 2007... So we assumed it was a mistake or some kind of mass email in which we were added erroneously; even though we corroborated with our departments secretary and she said it was most probably a mistake. So we kept on with our project, and in the end of May I was informed that I was no longer enrolled in the University and that I had to pay before January 1st 2007!
Obviously I got scared and astonished! So I replied back explaining that there surely was a miss understanding since I was a member of the IT-Master programme and not an Esbjerg student. But their only reply was... Sorry but you should have payed and we have informed the migration office that you are no longer a student here (I am not Danish to make that point clear), and the dateline was December 1st 2006. So this made clear to me that they have no clue of who and when has to pay.
To make the long story short... I am currently unable to graduate from Aalborg University Esbjerg as I wished. The initial agreement was violated, they waited untill we were half way in the semester to let us know that we had to pay in July... but then one month later changed their mind and decided that we had to pay in January and kicked me out of the University without previous announcement. The work for a whole semester is now done for up to now nothing...
It is sad to face this kind of indirect discrimination (indirect discrimination) and even harder to realize that an agreement is not respected, even though they offeres freedom of choice to graduate on the last semester... as long as you have enough money to pay for it.
So please let me know if anyone has a good suggestion as what to do about this situation, because up to now... no answer, solution or option has been given to us on this matter.
Definition: Indirect discrimination involves setting a condition or requirement which a smaller proportion of those with the protected attribute are able to comply with, without reasonable justification.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Pancakes
Ok... I am not a cook and I know it. But there is no denying that, like Andi would say, "learning by doing" leads to good results. It has now been a few weekends now that I cook for my friend here in Esbjerg. It has been really good moments of fun and friendly interaction. The common denominator... 
That is right! Banana Pancakes!
This post is only to thank all of my friends that join me in the morning and like to enjoy a stack of pancakes covered with Jam! I am more than happy to prepare for you and trust me... one day, I will post the recipe! hehehehehe until then, fell free to join in, have some breakfast, all you need to bring is a smile! You are completely welcome (even in pyjama!)
So here is to you buddies!
THANKS!
So here is to you buddies!
THANKS!
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