Sebastian Cadenas

De Ushuaia a la Quiaca, Feliz 9 de Julio!

scadenas — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:30:19 +0000

Nadie es la patria, pero todos debemos
ser dignos del antiguo juramento
que prestaron aquellos caballeros
de ser lo que ignoraban, argentinos,
de ser lo que serían por el hecho
de haber jurado en esa vieja casa.
Somos el porvenir de esos varones,
la justificación de aquellos muertos;
nuestro deber es la gloriosa carga
que a nuestra sombra legan esas sombras
que debemos salvar.

Nadie es la patria, pero todos lo somos.
Arda en mi pecho y en el vuestro, incesante,
ese límpido fuego misterioso.

Jorge L. Borges 1966

For those who read me in English, 9 of July is independence day of Argentina and the text above is from Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best known Argentinean writers.

Behaviors of mobile calls

scadenas — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:22:03 +0000

Interesting map by M.I.T. Senseable City Lab, I.B.M. Research and AT&T Labs Research. Below are the behaviors of mobile calls in the U.S. As shown, the most performed within the state and/or city. Although, you can see high cross connections between Florida – Los Angeles and South Cal – Midwest.

Lessons for Life

scadenas — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:04:50 +0000

Lessons for Life is a project started by a friend from Los Angeles, her name is Snow White Bui. Yeap, her real name is Snow White Bui and is not a caricature from Disney.

Lessons for Life is a project to share life´s greatest lessons. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could have a wide-range of people from any culture, background or age sharing the three things they wish they knew when they were younger?

Few weeks ago, she asked me to share her project with some people that I knew and I asked her if I could post about her project on my blog. She agreed, so know everyone who is reading this post is invited to participate .

If you want to participate just:

Download and print the template to share your three things.
Hand-write the template (yeap there’s just something about the human touch that could not be replicate by any font yet).
Mail it: Lessons For Life Project, P.O. Box 4718, Culver City, CA 90231, United States. If mailing it is too difficult, you could try scanning/emailing to Snow White Bui
Check every Tuesday http://lessonsforlifeproject.com/. She´ll post up what others have written.

Thanks and cheers,

Kinect is flying!

scadenas — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:14:37 +0000

It was only a matter of time before somebody put the Kinect to do some amazing things. The Kinect, is a motion sensing input device from Microsoft for the Xbox 360. Kinect is one of the fastest-selling consumer-tech product and it´s competing with Ipad´s speed. It racked up 10 million sales in just four months… Some of those 10 million users started doing pretty cool robots with its fully functioning depth cameras, which measure the distance between the Kinect and objects in front of it.

“We’re trying to usher in a new era of computers, a world of tomorrow,” says Xbox general manager of incubation Alex Kipman. Check below the autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance Kinect device.

Nineteen eighty four

scadenas — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:16:16 +0000

On January 1984, I was a little more than few months and my capacity to recognize or understand was merely zero…

Today, if someone asked me what 1984 is for me, I´d probably answer George Orwell´s book, however few weeks ago I found there was a historic tv commercial from Apple which introduced Apple Macintosh Personal Computer for the first time, called 1984. It was broad-casted during the third quarter of the Superbowl.

The commercial concludes with scrolling white text on a black background which reads: On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like “1984.”

The commercial was updated on 2004 on its 20th anniversary, with the heroine modified to be listening to an iPod.