Cómo se viaja en un tren

Entonces estuvimos en el tren AMTRAK desde Chicago hacia Carbondale, Illinois.
Lindo tren, lento pero con ventanas grandes y asientos espaciosos.

Una puerto-riquenha preguntó a una gringa: Oye, cómo sabemos cuando bajar del tren. Obviamente ella nunca antes viajó en tren.

Como la estadounidense estaba hablando por telefono, yo respondí a la pregunta, feliz pudiendo ayudar.

En un país de movilidad individual parece que no es capacidad basica sabe como funciona viajar en un tren.

Ain’t it strange

On our way to Chicago, seeing through the white and scattered clouds down to the blue sea I wonder.
Ain’t it strange flying? Here we go for a four weeks vacation.
Not long ago just the travel itself -then, by boat- took that long.

What would you get if you mixed this cloudy white and the water-blue?
Some creamy light blueish color you would like your children’s room to be painted like.
Is it strange for you to be in a rolling box, going at a speed up to 20 times faster than the fastest man can run? I don’t think so, if you ever drove in a car.

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Servers eat our energy

informationweek tells us that the US alone already consume the energy of five big power plants just to fuel their servers.

Then, computerwoche comes in shouting that almost one percent of worldwide energy consumption is for servers, i.e. for virtualisation machines.

Sorry, Mr Kurzweil, you are proven wrong.

“new technology … uses almost no natural resources. …
They use insignificant amounts of electricity.”
[Ray Kurzweil. “The age of intelligent machines”. page 8]

Finally, US American cars eat Mexican’s tacos as their bio-diesel can be made out of corn.