Oyaji Dancers Strike Back!

I know...I have nothing to say and I'm just copying a video I've found somewhere else, but my brain is not amazingly performing during Summer time. Maybe next time!
Meanwhile, let's enjoy the unbearable lightness of being living in a silly country on the brink of bankruptcy while moving swiftly towards the end. Cheers!



I'm becoming a "ojiji" by the day, but I feel I still treasure more manliness than these oyaji, hahaha!!

From Spain to Spainstan

The Spanish Revolution

One of the causes of what has come to be known as "The Spanish Revolution" are things like the corruption of politicians, in all levels and parties. Just have a look at the next list:

RELACIÓN DE POLITICOS IMPUTADOS POR CORRUPCIÓN QUE SE PRESENTAN EN MAYO

1- Francisco Camps (PP), Valencia, IMPUTADO Caso Gürtel
2- Ricardo Costa (PP), Valencia, IMPUTADO Caso Gürtel.
3- Xicu Tarres (PSOE), Baleares IMPUTADO Caso Eivissa.
4- Francisco Cuenca (PSOE), Granada, IMPUTADO Caso Morelábor
5- Carlos Penit (IU), Pinto - Madrid IMPUTADO Cohecho.
6- Ferrán Falcó (CIU), Barcelona, IMPUTADO caso Adigsa.
7- Jesús Machín (C. Canaria), Canarias, IMPUTADO Operación “Unión”.
8- Marc Moreno (ERC), Vilaller - Lleida, IMPUTADO corrupción urbanística.
9- Antonio Rodrigo Torrijos (IU), IMPUTADO Caso Mercasevilla.
10- Raimundo González (BNG), Pontevedra, IMPUTADO caso Naturgalia
11- Jose Manuel Traba (PP), Fisterra Galicia, IMPUTADO Operacion Orquesta
12- Jose Manuel Santos (PP) Mazaricos Galicia,IMPUTADO Operacion Orquesta
13- Jose Antonio Cacabelos (PSOE), O Grove - Galicia, IMPUTADO diversos delitos.
14- Juan Jose Diaz Valiño (PSOE) -IMPUTADO caso Castro de Rei
15- Rafael Gómez (Unión Cordobesa), Córdoba, IMPUTADO caso Malaya
16- Esteve Ferrán (UTpS), Salou Tarragona, IMPUTADO delitos varios
17- Antoni Banyeres (NSP), Salou Tarragona IMPUTADO delitos varios. (enlace recomendable )
18- Ignacio García de Vinuesa (PP) (Alcobendas)
19- Jose Ignacio Fernández Rubio (PP) (Las Rozas)
20- Miguel Rodríguez Bonilla (PP), Guadarrama Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
21- Miriam Rabaneda (PP) Pinto Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
22- Luis Partida (PP) Villanueva de la Cañada Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
23- Clara Torres (PP) Torres de la Alameda Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
24- Raúl López (PP) Coslada Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
25- Íñigo Henríquez de Luna (PP) Madrid
26- Trinidad Rollán (PSOE), Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
27- Carmen Toledano (PSOE), Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
28- Cristina González (PSOE), Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
29- Jose Joaquin Ripoll (PP), Alicante Valencia, IMPUTADO caso Brugal.
30- Carlos Fabra (PP), Castellón Valencia, IMPUTADO caso Fabra
31- Mariano Arévalo (PSOE) Carabaña Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
32- José Miguel Govantes (PSOE) Pinto Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
33- Carmen Toledano (PSOE) Galapagar Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
34- María Isabel Peces-Barba (PSOE) Colmenarejo Madrid, IMPUTADO delitos varios
35- José I Fernández (PP), Las Rozas Madrid, IMPUTADO delito contra la ordenación del territorio
36- Miguel Rodríguez (PP), Guadarrama Madrid, IMPTADO prevaricación
37- Ignacio García de Vinuesa (PP) , Alcobendas Madrid, IMPUTADO malversación, prevaricación y negociaciones prohibidas
38- Clara Torre (PP), Torres de la Alameda Madrid, IMPUTADA malversación
39- Miriam Rabaneda (PP,) Pinto Madrid, IMPUTADA prevaricación
40- Raúl López Coslada (PP), Madrid, IMPUTADO prevaricación
41- Luis Partidad (PP), Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, IMPUTADO tráfico de influencias
42- Ana María Pinos Belmonte de Tajo (PP) IMPUTADO delito contra la ordenación del territorio
43- Ángel García Guadalix de la Sierra Madrid (PP), IMPUTADO negociaciones prohibidas
44- Íñigo Henríquez de Luna (PP), Madrid, IMPUTADO tráfico de influencias
46- Mariano Arévalo González Carabaña Madrid PSOE condenado por no presentar las cuentas municipales en los ultimos 10 años, etc.
47- José Miguel Govantes (PSOE)Alcorcón Madrid, IMPUTADO condenado por acoso laboral
48- Natalia de Andrés (PSOE) Alcorcón Madrid, IMPUTADA y condenada por un delito de injurias contra el portavoz popular
49- Isabel Peces-Barba (PSOE) Martínez Madrid, IMPUTADO prevaricación
50- María del Carmen Toledano Rico (PSOE) Madrid, IMPUTADO prevaricación
51- Cristina González (PSOE) Getafe Madrid, IMPUTADO prevaricación
52- José María Fraile Parla (PSOE) Madrid PSOE prevaricación
53- Manuel González Rojo (PSOE) San Fernando de Henares Madrid , IMPUTADO prevaricación
54- Hans Antón Bock Galapagar (PSOE) Madrid IMPUTADO prevaricación
55- Jesús Dionisio (PP) Madrid, IMPUTADO prevaricación y tráfico de influencias
57- Pedro Ángel Hernández (PP), Torrevieja, IMPUTADO caso torrevieja
56- Jorge Bellver (PP) Valencia IMPUTADO casos urbanismo
56- Antonio Rodríguez (PP) Orihuela Alicante IMPUTADO caso Brugal
57- Domingo Salado (PP) Alcalde de Espartinas Sevilla IMPUTADO delitos urbanísticos, cohecho o malversación de fondos.


¡Ánimo coleccionemos a nuestros amigos los corruptos! ¡Hazte con todos!

Bonus:

RELACIÓN DE POLITICOS IMPUTADOS POR CORRUPCIÓN EXCLUIDOS POR SU PARTIDO
Jesús Javier García García (UPyD) Seseña Toledo, IMPUTADO por cohecho EXCLUIDO por su partido.

Kasparov versus the World

"Crowd wisdom is best suited for problems that involve optimization, but ill suited for problems that require creativity or innovation". In Kasparov versus the World, Kasparov won more than 50.000 participants. However, if not any Kasparov in the room, a crowd would suffice to solve problems.

ノルウェイの森 or Rinko's Bush

Two Fridays ago, a loud voice from an arm-waving guy attracted my attention some minutes before leaving for lunch. He was on the sidewalk in front of my office talking on the phone. I realized in a fraction of a sec. who the guy was. He was Sergi Lopez, the actor.



I don't like his acting or movies that much, but I like the way he is, expansive, loud, and pretty rough and straightforward. Besides, we share similar anatomic roundness around the belly, making our look close to adult gorillas.

He had the privilege of being among Rinko Kikuchi's legs in Map of the Sound of Tokyo, which makes him kind of a demi-god for me!



Today another movie showing Rinko is premiered in Spain, Norwegian Wood, the adaption of Murakami's book by Anh Hung Tran. Yesterday night I saw an advance on TV and the Vietnamese director has brought a lot color and sensuality to an otherwise pretty bleak and dim story. The movie seems visually very beautiful, which has increased my desire of watching it, despite I found the book nothing more than a shortly written diary of a youngster with too many mental wanking. Let's see the movie and Rinko's woods.

They all do it too!

Sex is a vital part of human's life and when it can't be practiced with somebody else, a good and easy way is doing it with one self. As Capote once said, “The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it”. Well, in fact, you have to dress down for it a bit, basically around the hot spots.

It is granted that all men masturbate, as much as possible, any time, any where, since the day they become sexually active, which usually begins at 11 or 12 y.o. Yeah, that's true! Besides, it is quite usual to talk about it among men, specially among friends. Some teenagers, even do it in company of friends while watching some porn. But, what about girls? They do too, I'm not so naive; but they deny it most of times.

While in Japan, I was astonished about the degree of such denial. No girl I asked virtually admitted to do it EVER in her life. But they seemed to be sexually very active, even if they used to claim not to have such drive in their lives. That was a contradiction, from my point of view. I learned with experience, however, that they had a slightlier different approach to sex wrt Western girls; a more indirect one. They used to care more about pleasing thant being pleased, in general. This way, they said, they couldn't reach an orgasm when doing it alone since it was 持っていない, that is, it had no use.

But what it seems is not what it really is, as most things in Japan. Despite it is true that some women can have long sexless periods in their lives (even couples, popularly called sexless couples), they do find relieve by themselves more often and more viciously than expected. Why then denying the obvious? Well, I guess this is another silly social constraint of the country. In fact, the younger, the more interested in being pleased than in pleasing.

In fact, most of girls in college (or even earlier) have a pretty crazy and casual sexual live, even more than western girls. Though this belongs to the 裏 (ura-backside) part of the Japanese life, sex has far less prejudices there than in apparently more open-minded Spain, also wrt Spanish girls, which still have an ingrained Catholic moral whispering behind their ears.

International Papanates

One central concept to understand Catalonia is that of papanates. Catalonia, Barcelona specially, is the land of papanates. A papanates is a person who make his/her living of saying obvieties or common places. In politics it is full of them. The city mayor of Barcelona is a clear example. I was listening his speech the other day and after 5min talking, he just used vague and bogus words to define what he is going to do if he wins next election. He talks about believing, confidence, and other pseudo-religious shitty concepts recovenverted into the new dogmatic faith of his party. Papanatism. Barcelona mayors are known to be papanatas: Hereu, Clos, Maragall...until the best of all, Pich i Pon, who was so pro in the art of spoonerism that in Catalan there is a category of them called piquiponades, like when he mentioned the Nippo-Japanese war or the Anglo-English relations.
But unfortunately papanates are not only into politics. Most of them are in business. There is a universal believe that making money save one from all his sins, but this one is to big to be redeemed from. Some of the former presidents of FC Barcelona have been egregious business men, and also illustrious papanates. Nuñez, Gaspart, Reyna, Laporta...even the present one, the pijito Sandro, whose only difference is that he can utter a whole sentence without ashaming his language teacher.
However, there is a new breed of papanates invading the country recently. As a fruit of the recesion we are in, a new cult has appeared in our land, that of entrepreneurism. Even the word they are using is probably wrong (emprenedor) and a papanatada in itself. Now, it seems that the only and true credo that will save us from the recession is that we all become entrepreneurs of technological companies in a night. This is like opting for using bicycles for mass transportation: since we can't build a proper transportation system, get a third-world vehicle and risk your life in crazy-driving Barcelona. Now, since economy is totally dead, the brightest mind of the country, thouse who have an MBA or have been a posh diletant in California while at University, the sons and grand-sons of the elite, have come to think that we all must be Steve Jobs. "We have talent, and we are born leaders", they think, "and also the money", what could stop them from being successful entrepreneurs?
Catalonia exports papanates in fancy and trendy cardbroard boxed for all the world to buy; FC Barcelona, Custo, Desigual, Pans&Co. Nothing original, just better packaged.

Piotr, the Mushroom Grower

Sorry to insist, but the farm owner is just like Jertzs Balowski

Zame aczent, zame zcspirit!

Mushroom Shining

I don't know where I am. I'm in a business trip to Poland. We must make the vision system for a robot that will automatically pick mushrooms, so we came to a farm in Poland to study how the people who we are going to take their jobs from do that. So far so good, though I don't know where I am. I feel like being in the middle of the woods and that wolves will appear at any minute from the frozen lake in front of the hotel to eat us all.

My mobile phone says I'm in Koczala, that I've heard it sounds like Kochawa, but the hotel is in Dymi, a spa-tourist resort called Aquarius by a frozen lake. Google map say this is here. Not to be mistaken with Dymi 2, the complex of soviet concrete buildings at the entrance of the village painted in sound colors that just remember me the danchi I was living in for 3 years in Japan.

The farm is in a special place, a 450Ha piece of land that once was an old military airport with a 2.5 Km landing airstrip and camouflaged hangars for soviet air fighters, that can be also seen in Google maps. We are staying at a hotel only for us (5 people) which is closed for being out of season. This morning, as a joke, I said to the Greek guy who also participates in the project that this places looked very much like resort in The Shining. He answered "watch the child in the big wheel!". The funny coincidence is that tonight I've seen that child in a big wheel...on TV. I'm watching The Shining in German in a crappy TV set with only channels in Polish and German.

We're gonna stay until Friday. Hope my door will resist the ax!

GANBARO NIPPON!!!!!!!!!