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Chronicles from a Catalan Dolphin

This blog is about the crazyness-turned-laughing about living in USA and surviving to it.
Hey, better laugh about than cry about, right?

I write from Ohio, where I am doing my Ph.D. at Kent State University. Tough science, rough parties and global roomates...

Old blog: http://blogs.ya.com/codenamemuffin/
Special Projects for Ycombinator
Hi, here you have the sci-fi novel titled Fruit Investments (Invierta en Fruta in Spanish) and the one we wrote for the Blizzard Entertainment contest titled  "Qualia Prime" -Blizzard still didn't publish the winners, and they were suposed to be announced on May 22!

Here you have the two songs we composed for our videogame project long ago:


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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 9/9/2009 5:08 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
In Ohio even clouds are scary...
Ever seen a cloud this intimidating? wow...come to Ohio!

Is that Independence Day descending or  a tornado forming?

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 4/5/2009 12:57 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Breathtaking Scenarios
I don't know how the crisis might be in Europe...but in Ohio is starting to look like a modern version of the Far West....entire neiboughs wiped out...houses abandoned -and ransacked by their owners... Take a loot at the pictures, I didn't see anything like this anywhere else in the world...
In this one, the facade was ripped off by the owners...trees cut and uprooted, etc...

Business is business...


This place looked like Amityville...

Would you go in that house to see if they forgot the salt? Scared the hell out of me...



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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/24/2009 8:35 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Dustin is my friend :)

Ever seen this guy? Is Starcraft 2 main developer...O sease, the guy that calls the shots, and the guy who will get shot if Starcraft 2 isn't an OVERWHELMINGLY ADDICTIVE DREAM

And Dustin, for all of you that don't know, turns to be my friend too! Look below



Drool drool haha

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/21/2009 12:50 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Pick a winner...
The economy needs "stimulation" right? I'm kinda late, I know, I should have posted this  3 months ago...hehe

Pick a winner

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/15/2009 12:38 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Get and idea of what's Ohio
Behold...we brought snowball to get a wash, ok? Look what we found at the local Petsmart shop...a complete white trasher with not just 2, 3,4...no, but 6 GREAT DANES!! He said they consume 40pounds of food a week! Ole there! Feed that addiction

Imagine what would happen to the owner's arm if all the danes pull at different directions

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/12/2009 12:54 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
American kids had it!!!!
Oh No! Were u a fan of GI-Joe???? Hoovercraft BALLENA...the Rolling thunder...wow! I though I had the best weaponry at my disposal...but look what I found on an ultra-geeks-only shop around Cleveland...The damn GI-JOE AIRCRAFT CARRIER!!! It's real! They had only 2 units left...They told me it took them a week to just assemble it!!

300 soldiers at least required to staff it, of course...

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/9/2009 12:33 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
E. O. Wilson comes to Cleveland

On Tuesday 3/3/9 Edward Osoborn Wilson came to give a talk at Case Western and I was there to listen to him. I was like going to see the Horacle of Delphos speaking. Concert hall packed. For the uninitiated, just mention Dr. Wilson is a myrmecologist (yehaa baby, go to wiki!!) and a twice-Pulitzer winner. His books include the Ants and the Super-organism (which I am presently reading). Also, you might wonder, ants? so what? well, looks like Real Time Strategy games like Starcraft were based on Wilson's finding about how ants replicate from a single unit to form an entire colony!... Command Center to...Battlecruiser operational..Sounds familiar??






At Severance Hall....and Free!!

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/5/2009 12:18 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Madness of Verdaguer

    The other day a book in Barnes & Nobles picked up my curiosity. It’s called “Ghosts of Spain” by Giles Tremlett, and I skimmed to find out how the world sees the Catalans. I'm sorry for the general public, but only to a Catalan this book will produce a massive eye-opening experience. MMm, very very insightful book indded. Interesting points to behold is Mr. Tremlett assertion that Montserrat, the Holy mountain is dull and boring. He goes to compare it to a sort of Catholic Theme Park ala Disneyland Orlando. He also finds ‘la sardana’, the traditional Catalan dancing, un-inspiring and somewhat tiresome.  Hhe begins by not finding it, but ends up asserting that only living in Barcelona long enough –and in Catalonia by extension- is possible to fathom that elusive “differential factor" that Catalans claim makes them different from Spaniards. So, he claims to find it but before finishing his chapter on Catalans –called The Madness of Verdager- he implies something more troubling, something that I didn’t fall into so far.

    Mr. Tremlett goes to imply that Catalans, through having a clear potential to become a nation, are a bunch of nation-handicapped people. This is, they have been unable to form a stable nation in the past and will fail to do so in the future. It’s not that they are not entitled to have a nation, is that they are handicapped to do so. Ground-breaking stuff, uh? What do you think?

         Scary book...



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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 3/2/2009 12:34 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Obama got elected president!

Yep, history in the making eh? hehe
and I was there

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Posted by Blue Dolphin at 1/19/2009 5:53 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)