Around this time last year (2019) I made a post doing a personal review of the year. Something I have been doing for many years now. This year in 2020 I want to do the same but… oh boy! what a year this was!

2020 is a year for the history. A year when the World stood still and begun a battle against a virus which has cost about 1.8 million lives (up today) and has shown up the great and bad of us. I am reading what I have just written and sounds like a science fiction novel or movie… but it is real. That is the feeling when something happens that will be marked in history.

I am not going to dive too much into this topic (we are overwhelmed already) but obviously this is the event that most impacted me this year (like everyone). The drama is too much to cope in any country; no matter colour, politics or approaches to fight against. Really no measure has been proven better than another and giving the same results: uncontrolled situation, race against the clock to try to fix things, surprisingly a lack of scientific view (this is the most concerning on my view) and lots of deaths.

What happened then? Well… I am not the best to tell; global leaders should stand forward already and answer this question. But humbly I think one of the main reasons I could see is that governments and health systems were not ready for something like this. At some point this year a lot of people were surprised by an old video that went viral where Bill Gates made a speech in a TED conference warning, with an eye-opening accuracy, that a global pandemic like this can happen very soon and almost no country had the minimum plans with tested measurements to safely overcome the situation. It was back on 2015 and that was just a clever conclusion from one of the best minds we have after lots of time researching, reading, consulting to high-end scientists and experts on the subject. That’s all. Not a super conspiracy to rule the world with George Soros and bla bla… The worst is that the World did not listen to him and others with similar conclusions…: “Science? yeah… great, but let’s talk about it later…”. Until things happens. When studies like this will be put in the front line of parliaments discussions? Until 2020 they were considered almost like miscellanea… And we must not forget the increase concern of astrophysics about the difficulty to detect on time middle and high risk meteorites that can impact Earth! Will we do the same ignoring it until the worst happens?

Time to move on… (I said I will not dive too much!). In 2020 I saw a society going through big changes and, guess what, adapting generally well. That is good news! It shows the enormous adaptation capacity that humans have and we can prevail through the toughest difficulties. I hope the people will realize this because it can be the first step to greater changes such global warming acknowledgment, more tolerant politics and laws and better society in general. Crisis like the one we are living now can be the trigger to better changes so we must take the opportunity.

For a more personal stuff, there is something that has surprised me on 2020. In the similar post of last year I talked about how I pushed forward my creativity. Two years ago was the creation of this blog, last year was to start experimenting with electronic music and this year I pushed myself to something I wanted to try for some time: become a streamer on Twitch and revamp my YouTube channel. I said surprised because I though that I was not made for it but… it turns out it is not that complex (after spending time to setup and I am still learning) and if you find your place to be confortable, anyone can do it. I have a lot of hopes on this new version of my creativity and I cannot wait to make great things on 2021 about this!

On the professional side, 2020 has been a complex one: we moved to work 100% from home since April (not very big deal as we are used to work remotely), we had the most complex issue we ever had to fix on our platform (my area) and we have pushed other areas of business. Overall we had multiples ups and downs, more than in previos years, but we manged to go through with good work and this is very valuable in these times… so kudos.

To finish, I would like to mention a couple of books that more have impacted me this year.

Yo confieso. 45 años de espía from Mikel Lejarza and Fernando Rueda. This book collects the memoirs of Mikel Lejarza (also know as “El Lobo”) written by Fernando Rueda, a well known Spanish writer expert in intelligence agencies and secret services. Mikel Lejarza is a living history of the battle against ETA in Spain. He was the man who, under Spanish secret service, undercovers inside ETA organization earlier on its beginnings and helped on the greatest operations against the terrorist band. In this book, “El Lobo” shares details about some of his missions, how was his live with the terrorists and the relations with the Spanish secret services. I knew some of his story but this book impacted me on the human side; how someone can leave ALL behind for a major purpose and still go through. Although with the high compromises for the rest of his life (still today he needs to remain anonymous).

Editando genes: recorta, pega y colorea: las maravillosas herramientas CRISPR from LLuís Montoliu. With this book I made a marvellous discovery: did you know that the CRISPR tools have a common source discovered by the Spanish microbiologist Francis Mojica? I did not! Him with his team discovered the mechanisms of how bacteria can replicate/copy DNA sequences and he named it CRISPR. Later this was the base to develop the famous and well known genome editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. This book goes through Francis discovery back in 1993 and explain how this tool works in a very easy and divulgate way. Very recommended to read if you are interested on how CRISPR tools work and specially to know who is the person who named them and probably will be first Spanish Chemistry Nobel prize in the near future after 2020 Nobel prize was given to the CRISPR-Cas9 developers: Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier.

It is that time of the year when some of us think on all the things that happened this year and make our personal review. In my opinion, it is a very healthy and enriching exercise that I strongly recommend everyone to do. I have been doing this for many years now and this year I though to share it.

I will try to go through some of the hightlights of the year but focused in my persona and the things that were somehow important for me.

I will start with the topic that most influenced me this year: the 50th anniversary of the first man walking on the Moon. I was really commited to give my small contribution to celebrate this huge and transcendental moment in our history. By doing this, I have learnt even more about how this feat was done with movies, documentaries and books. And I am even more convinced that it was the pinnacle of human endeavour for a single goal to push further our bounderies. Truely this made me realize how good we can do as species, how much technological potential we have now and how much to learn we have yet about our very near universe.

This year also I was shocked by events to the opposite side. Horrible things that really shakes our morality and shows how evil we can be. We are all playing the macabre lottery just by living on this society and sadly some people get the winning ticket. This things must show us what really matters in life and how we must protect it above any other thing.

And going down to things more personal, this year I managed to push further my creativity. If last year it was the creation of this blog, this year I started to experiment creating my own music with a synthesizer keyboard. It showed me new ways to express myself through music and opened a window to many ideas that I have in my mind. Soon I will have a couple of new creations to share but the two bellow opened the path.

On the professional side, this year has been a busy one specially towards the end. But busy means we have done important and complex things which is always good. Of course there are ups and downs like in every place but in general I am happy with what I had done and with what I have learnt this year.

To finish, I would like to mention about the books that more have impacted me this year.

Life 3.0: Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence from Max Tegmark, a Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist from the MIT and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization backed by big names such Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking, and whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. The book talks about AI today and the paths it is taking for the future; all from a technology perspective.

The NASA Archives: 60 years in space. A collectors book built in very high quality by Taschen. It tells you the details of all NASA’s history since its creation until today accompanied with new high definition pictures. Very recommened if you are interested on space exploration.

As an upfront statement, I do not consider myself an angry person or someone who does not like people. Not at all. In fact it is the opposite. I was the other day doing my daily commute to the office and I started to think in all the things that “annoy” me when I am travelling through London. I started to laugh and decided to share it. This will be a fun post!

I have been living and working in London for about 9 years and I have a good idea of what it feels like when commuting between home and a job place: the rain, the cold, the overcrowd, the public transport delays (cancellations even worst)… One really get used to this lifestyle and assume these things as natural. But for some people it can get very stressful and seriously the main reason to change of life or even move away from busy London. I will dedicate this post for these people hoping to put a smile on them.

Let’s get started. These are the things my inner angry Londoner hate while commuting:

The Picnic

People eating their breakfast-lunch-dinner in a crowded bus or train. I am not saying people that sporadically had a complicated morning with no time to eat at home; I refer to the people that every day do this. Why I have to get your crumbs on me because you fell like your are on holiday eating outside?

The Dressing Table

Women putting on makeup. Let’s be straight here: why? I would probably pass the previous point as eating is essential for living, but makeup… And I would say you see this more often than people eating. I have encounter women actually throwing makeup powder in my shoulder. Even cut or file nails! that I found actually disgusting. For me is like if I stand in me middle of the bus, put down my trousers and take a dump… These things are personal hygiene and needs to be done in private.

The Morning Skunk

In general, weird and dirty smells in the morning. And we all know this is true… Who has not sit next to someone smelling like haven’t had a shower or wash the clothes in years? We all sweat and get dirty during the day. I do understand this to happen at the end of the day or in the commute back home. But at 7am? that’s a NO.

My Spot, My Kingdom

What about the people who does not move an inch even if they are blocking all possible way in or out of a bus or train? And this is worst when it is packed with people. They do not squeeze or move even if you ask them. And they look at you like if they are thinking: “I was here first, so back off!”. Come on, that rule does not apply when we are like sardines in a can. And what about when they even read the newspaper while standing in the middle hitting the pages in other people faces? Cannot you wait to read it in the street or in your office?

A special mention to those who lean on the vertical hand bar of the tube. Very few things are more selfish than this one. You try to grab a spot of the bar which is free and… do not dare to ask the person to move! They will look at you like if you are in life debt with them.

The Walking Library

People who read books (or watch videos in their mobile) while walking on the street or switching platforms. I would say this is almost a security concern. Many times I had to quickly jump aside because they do not care what is upfront. They just keep walking straight like a train no stopping because what they are reading is more important than their security (and security of others). It is selfish way of feeling more important that the others: “Step aside or die!”.

The Telephone Switchboard

People constantly speaking loudly on their phones. This one increases every year and you can find a variety of conversations: talking to their friends (if friends call me at 7am just for chatting, I will kill them), work phone calls (specially funny are the sales ones where they try to get business sitting between someone deeply sleeping and someone eating a smelly porridge). An the ones more annoyed: calls to services. There are people who wait to sit in a bus or train to call their Internet provider to complain screaming at them… why?

The Walking Office

People hitting their laptop’s keyboard like if they are already in the office. I understand you want to get on mood to work and seize time; but do you need to write the Bible in a super-fast mode when you are commuting? The quickest and loudest, the better. Sometimes this one can be combined with the previous one and having a fully capable office while they travel. Is this a bad thing? No, but I found it funny.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Sometimes life can be stressful and it is better to laugh at these things. Just problems from the first world.

I have been thinking a lot about this post mainly for two reasons: it is about a complex topic, and it is some kind of a tricky thing to talk about. Bear with me if I ramble too much. 

During my sort professional career (almost 9 years) I have been involved in various tricky situations, I have been working with different kind of people’s profiles and I had the luck (I believe) to work and know several parts of a company; even to know ins-and-outs of how to manage an organization. With all of this I was able to get, not only a great professional and personal experience, but also to being able to experience and create my own vision of what “work” means and how to do it.

Talking about work, normally it is though that it is something “mandatory” that we must do to pay bills, taxes, buy things to eat and being someone in life… And this makes people to do their daily tasks as they have been told to do, barely covering the expectations and that’s all; probably also, giving that extra mile from time to time (but only if there is an extra payment or some kind of compensation).My approach about his is different. I see the work as place where you either are the real “owner” of what you need to do, or you will never be able to take control of it, learn, grow up and, eventually. succeed.

But… what means to own your work? The answer goes beyond being the owner of the company. Really the most important key for this is to be aware of what is really your job, understand very well what you need to do and take it as your own. This may sound very obvious and that we have all heard about but… how many people do this really? Take your job as your own is not an easy job; you cannot achieve it in months, neither by having big responsibilities within the company. Basically I would say it is a state of mind; a vision of how things work in general: if you do something, DO IT. But do not do it because your boss tells you, because you have been told to do or because the society tells you to do it… Do it because you really want to do it; like if you had created the job and it is your product. If you ever get that conscience, you will be able to control everything around your job and take better decisions. 

I know this is a very controversial topic and not always it needs to be this way. I understand very well that there are cases where people have to work to subsist and they do not have any other option than work in something that they do not like, but it gives them enough to pull forward. Only I am trying to explain what I have learnt until now and I believe that this positive and ownership approach in your job (at any level) is the key to keep growing in your professional and personal life.

And I am very much looking forward to knowing what I will learn within the next years. Until today, as the CTO of EthosData, I have been able to realize this and I think it is a path I must follow. In this job I had the luck to see all the layers of a company: starting as an internship until work side by side with the CEO and management. Is it possible that this flexible environment has been crucial to learn this?

Finally, I would like to make it clear that I am not an expert on this (if ever experts really exists in something…). Only I am talking from my own experience, from what I can see around me and from what other people tell me with more experience. At the end, as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, merely I have 9 years of working experience.

La radiante luz de la luna entraba por la ventana abierta. Allí estaba en lo alto del cielo, como única testigo de lo que estaba a punto de suceder. Me encontraba en un rincón de la habitación, totalmente a oscuras. La luz de la luna no llegaba adonde me encontraba. Eso era lo que había planeado.

Poco a poco, la espera se hacía más y más inaguantable. Más de una vez ya había hecho algo parecido, pero esta vez había algo en mi interior que me decía que iba a ser especial. Ya había cometido otros asesinatos; 32 concretamente. Los había ejecutado con suma inteligencia y con inmenso cuidado. Rozando incluso la máxima perfección posible. Pero mi espíritu no se había llenado de la suficiente satisfacción.

Una vez, un periodista dijo que la policía estaba ante un caso claro de múltiples asesinatos llevados a cabo por varias personas… eso me enfureció extremadamente. Empecé a pensar que toda mi obra quedaría en el olvido y que no llegaría a los libros de historia como el mayor asesino de todos lo tiempos. Es muy difícil superar a personajes como Stalin, Hitler, Elizabeth Bathory o Vlad Tepes, pero intentaría acercarme a ellos lo mayormente posible.

Y esta sería mi próxima víctima. Ya llevaba tiempo observando sus movimientos desde que la vi por primera vez haciendo footing por el paseo marítimo. Se prácticamente todo sobre ella: se llama Jolie, tiene 23 años de edad y desde hace dos intenta hacerse un hueco en el mundo de la moda como modelo. Vive con una amiga compañera de profesión la cual hace unos días se fue a pasar unas semanas con sus padres. Ahora está sola en casa y estoy en su habitación, escondido esperando a que llegue de un momento a otro.

Tiene un cuerpo escultural, aunque lo que más me atrajo fue su largo y frágil cuello… Desde el primer día sentí un deseo irrefrenable de agarrar su cuello y sentir cómo se rompe bajo mis manos. Y aquí estoy, esperando ese momento desde hace ya un tiempo.

Se oyen unos pasos al otro lado de la puerta de entrada. Según la hora lo más probable es que sea ella. Me preparo. Ya está dentro de  la casa y se dirige hacia la habitación donde me encuentro. Desde mi posición puedo ver la puerta entornada y la cama. Veo su figura a través del hueco de la puerta. Parece un poco desconcertada al ver que la puerta no está cerrada del todo, pero al final entra. Da al interruptor de la luz pero esta no se enciende, ya que me ocupé de aflojar las bombillas de la lámpara. Después de unos segundos de duda, decide entrar a oscuras.

Se detiene delante de la ventana y empieza a desnudarse. Poco a poco deja ver su perfecto cuerpo desnudo, se sienta en la cama y bajo la luz de la luna llena, se recoge el pelo dejando a la vista su precioso cuello… Desde mi posición puedo ver cómo se refleja la luz en su suave piel. Entonces decido que es el momento propicio para llevar a cabo mi propósito…

Poco a poco voy saliendo de mi escondite y llego a la altura de la cama. Ya estoy justo detrás de ella; puedo oler su perfume… Alargo mis manos en posición para agarrar su cuello, pero justo antes de que llegara a tocar su piel, siente mi presencia y se da la vuelta. Entonces yo actúo rápidamente amarrándola con todas mis fuerzas por el cuello. Sus ojos desorbitados muestran un gran terror al ver mi cara. Voy deleitándome con el momento y poco a poco aprieto su cuello con mis manos. Ella intenta disminuir la presión agarrándose de mis fuertes antebrazos, pero no consigue nada.

Cuando estoy en pleno éxtasis, oigo típico crujido bajo mis manos. Ya he acabado con su vida y, sobre todo, con su largo y fino cuello… La dejé tumbada en la cama y salí por la ventana sin dejar rastro; como ya venía siendo habitual en mí.

Ya han sido 33; pero como he dicho antes este asesinato no ha sido como los otros. Cuando ya estaba en la calle no sentí lo mismo que en otras ocasiones. Esta vez fue distinto. No noté ninguna satisfacción ni rechazo después de acabar con su vida. Era algo desesperante porque me sentía como si no hubiera pasado nada, como si no hubiera entrado en aquella habitación. Sentía que no era suficiente, necesitaba seguir matando, y a un ritmo más rápido…

Después de unos días vi una noticia en el periódico que me hizo pensar, y mucho. La noticia trababa de que un eminente científico, último premio Nobel de medicina, iba a asistir a una convención donde impartiría una serie de charlas sobre su ya famoso descubrimiento: el hallazgo de una vacuna contra el SIDA.

Entonces enseguida me di cuenta de la gran oportunidad de mi vida, lo que había estado buscando todo este tiempo. Si conseguía lo que estaba empezando a meditar, seguramente que llegaría a cumplir mi deseo más profundo y todo tendría sentido al fin. Así que me puse manos a la obra y empecé a orquestar un plan para llevar a cabo mi gran obra maestra.

Durante meses urdí exhaustivamente un plan con todo lujo de detalles para no dejar un cabo suelto. Conseguí descubrir dónde trabajaba el científico. Llegué hasta allí y me las arreglé para entrar, tras mucho tiempo intentándolo, en una especie de laboratorio. Me había asegurado en que solo una persona estuviera en el laboratorio: el mismo científico. Allí se encontraba. Parecía que estaba observando algo en su mesa con gran admiración. Con sumo cuidado me acerqué por su espalda muy lentamente para que no me descubriera y le asesté un fuerte golpe en la cabeza con el bate de béisbol que llevaba conmigo.

Yacía en el suelo totalmente inmóvil. Un hilillo de sangre se asomaba por detrás de su cabeza; sin duda le di un buen golpe. Al cogerle me di cuenta de que no estaba muerto, solo inconsciente, de modo que le até a una silla con unas cuerdas que encontré y le tapé la boca con un fuerte esparadrapo.

En ese momento me fijé en aquello que celosamente estaba observando con tanta atención. Dentro de una gran caja fuerte que hacía la función de nevera, había una pequeña caja de metacrilato que contenía una extraña sustancia rosada. Me acerqué para cogerla, pero justo en ese instante un quejido de llamó la atención. El científico había despertado y estaba muy nervioso; mucho más que por el hecho de haber sido atacado.

Finalmente me di cuenta de cuál era la causa de su estado. No quería que me acercara a la caja, y mucho menos cogerla. Le quité el esparadrapo y le pregunté de qué se trataba. Me dijo que lo que esa caja contenía era algo horrible. Durante sus experimentos con su famosa vacuna contra el SIDA, habían descubierto ni más ni menos un nuevo tipo de virus extremadamente letal. Tan letal que nunca en la historia a habido algo así. Me suplicó que bajo ningún concepto abriera la caja, algo así podría desatar la destrucción de toda vida en la Tierra en apenas una semana…

Me quedé atónito, no sabría explicar muy bien lo que sentí en ese momento… Había llegado a ese laboratorio para cumplir un propósito y me encontré con otro mucho más interesante. Varias veces sentí el deseo de coger la caja y tirarla allí mismo, pero me contuve. Mientras el científico no paraba de hablar cada vez más nervioso, mi mente estaba maquinando otro plan más perfecto aún.

Los gritos del hombre eran ya insoportables. Al cabo de unos minutos me decidí, agarré la caja y con el bate le di un fuerte golpe en la cabeza. Seguidamente me encaminé hacia el aeropuerto internacional de la ciudad.

Pensé que ese era el lugar ideal para iniciar la expansión del virus. Durante el camino, mi nivel de excitación era tal que se me cayó la caja en un par de veces; menos mal que no se rompió. Una vez en el centro de la terminal internacional, múltiples ideas asolaron mi mente. Allí estaba yo, 18 de agosto de 2025, con el arma más mortífera que había visto el hombre y a punto de apretar el gatillo. Pensar que dentro de una semana habría aniquilado a toda la humanidad me llenó de orgullo. Aunque yo no lo podría ver con mis propios ojos, ya que sería uno de los primeros en caer…

Pero ya desde aquí, desde el infierno, me he dado cuenta de toda mi obra. Justo un día después de que abriera la caja, ya habían muerto casi un millón de personas. Y en menos de una semana, ya no quedaba nadie andando sobre el planeta. Pero ahí no quedó la cosa. Un par de siglos después, una civilización extraterrestre llegó a la Tierra para explorarla y mi sorpresa fue que el virus viajó con ellos hasta sus planetas. Ellos también cayeron, infectando a otros a su paso… Así siguió su curso exterminando toda forma de vida en el universo.

Y aquí, donde me encuentro, todos me aclaman como el mayor asesino de todos los tiempos.

Autor: David Díez

 

“Dios no solo juega a los dados,
sino que a veces los arroja donde no podemos verlos”

Stephen Hawking

Hacía mucho calor y llevaba bastante tiempo dentro de ese claustrofóbico laboratorio. Estaba realmente cansado. No física, sino moralmente. La rutina había hecho que durante unos minutos se quedara como en blanco delante de los sofisticados sistemas de seguimiento y del radiotelescopio. Su cara tenía esa expresión que pone la gente cuando se sienta delante de un televisor viendo un programa de ese que podemos incluir en la llamada telebasura. Durante esos instantes pensaba en su familia, en sus amigos, en lo que tenía para cenar por la noche… Cualquier cosa esa más interesante que examinar informes, revisar el sistema, actualizar el control de radiotelescopio, y un largo etcetera.

De repente notó algo en su interior que le hizo salir de su atontamiento. Se dio cuenta de que su cuerpo estaba a punto de expulsar todo aquello que no necesitaba… Se levantó para ir al servicio y, cuando no había andado ni tres pasos, oyó un pitido en la sala que acababa de abandonar. Le sonaba familiar, aunque eso no le salvó de sentir un estremecimiento de pies a cabeza. Rápidamente volvió a la sala y se sentó en su sillón delante de la computadora…

No se lo podía creer. ¡Allí estaba! El inmenso radiotelescopio había captado una débil pero inquietante señal de una zona oscura del espacio. Sin salir todavía de su atónito asombro, no tardó en llamar a sus dos compañeros diciéndoles que se acercaran al laboratorio para contrastar y analizar la señal. ¿Sería auténtica?

Una vez hubieron llegado al laboratorio, tardaron un poco en tranquilizar a su amigo para que les explicara lo que había pasado… No, mejor aún. Lo que estaba ocurriendo. Porque esa señal seguía ahí fuera. Se pusieron sin más demora a encender y conectar todo el instrumental al radiotelescopio para interpretar esa señal.

No cabía duda. La señal tenía que ser auténtica. No esa como las señales que irradian los cuerpos celestes, producidas por las partículas de luz que desprenden. Ni la señal característica del elemento más abundante en el universo: el hidrógeno. Esta era diferente. Su amplitud era constante y su frecuencia variaba en ciclos muy pequeños, de tal manera que, al cabo de unos pocos segundos, todo volvía a repetirse. Como un bucle.

Entusiasmados, nuestros héroes intentaron enfocar todos los sistemas de apoyo al radiotelescopio hacia esa pequeña y oscura zona del espacio todavía sin nombre. La señal se hizo más nítida y potente. Pasaron los diferentes filtros anti-ruido para eliminar la famosa basura radiofónica. Finalmente, conectaron el traductor de señales que transformaba la señal obtenida desde el espacio en vibraciones de las moléculas que componen el aire, es decir, en sonido. Cualquier estudiante de interpretación hubiera pagado por ver las caras de los tres amigos, que expresaban el misterio y la emoción en su estado puro.

Cuando subieron el volumen de los altavoces de la sala, escucharon ese sonido. ¡Era una voz! O, al menos, eso creían los tres científicos. Estuvieron varias horas escuchando esas vibraciones que tanto se parecían a una voz. Estaba claro. El momento más esperado de todos los tiempos por muchos científicos había llegado. El posible contacto estaba a punto de suceder.

Per un problema crecía por momentos en cada una de las mentes de los tres privilegiados: ¿qué es lo que están diciendo? ¿Se trataba de un saludo? ¿O, peor aún, de una amenaza?… Acto seguido, las sensaciones de entusiasmo fueron sustituidas por el miedo y el más ancestral terror a lo desconocido. Los tres se miraron entre sí sin saber qué decir a tan evidente pensamiento.

Después de casi siete horas de intentar descifrar y traducir el misterioso mensaje de las estrellas, por unanimidad decidieron que lo mejor sería dejarlo para el próximo día y descansar. Llevaban todo un día de intenso trabajo y, tras las emociones, sus frágiles cuerpos no podían aguantar más. Es más, mañana sería otro gran y duro día por la presentación del descubrimiento a la sociedad científica. Recogieron todo lo necesario y salieron del laboratorio. Tras comentar brevemente el plan del día siguiente, los amigos se despidieron agitando sus largas y blancas manos con sus cuatro falanges en cada una.

Por las prisas, el primero de ellos, el que detectó la señal, se olvidó de apagar el traductor de señales, que estuvo desvelando el misterioso mensaje por la solitaria sala.

Aquella voz decía: “Este es un pequeño paso para el hombre… pero un gran salto para la humanidad”.

Autor: David Díez
Relato seleccionado para el VIII Certamen “Santa Tecla” de relato breve de 2010

 

Always the first step is the hardest; that is for sure.

Long time ago I had the feeling of starting something that I can share with people and share my opinions of what I see and feel around. It might sound frivolous or self-seeking, but who cares… that is one of the principles of this blog: forbidden to be politically correct.

So here we are. I decided to start a blog; not a vlog or YouTube channel. A simple and plain blog where I (and hopefully we) be free to speak up, discuss, share, divulge, opine, judge and try to understand the Word we live on.

I intend to share a bunch of different information and news about technology, science, music, politics, life and more. But all with my own vision and opinion. My only ambition with this blog is to express my point of view and, if you want, have a discussion around it. Everyone is very welcome to comment my posts.

Here comes the tricky part. I will not commit myself to a time schedule for publishing posts. I believe that having a blog is a tool to speak your mind whenever you want and can; and not be forced to do it. Having said that, I believe I will keep the blog reasonably updated; there are too many things to share and discuss in this convulsive world.

Wish me luck and I really hope you will enjoy and participate in this adventure!

“This world’s a treasure, but it’s been telling us to leave for a while now.” – Cooper (Interstellar)