The mandatory Batman entry

By now every blog on the internet should have at least one Batman entry... why? because he is THE BATMAN!!! and Batman is like Chuck Norris or Almada's Brothers but even more realistic, that is, if you forget about the campy 70's Batman, you know, the one with the bat-dance and bat-beer belly, yeah, that's right, the one with Adam West, forget about him ok? 'cause we aren't going to talk about him here, not right now at least, we are going to talk about the real comic-world Batman, the one that is dead... yes, you didn't know it? sorry, maybe I was too rude, but yeah, Batman is like, totally bat-dead.
How is that possible? how is that the smartest detective and death defying super hero of the world could have hanged the bat-boots? well, dont ask me, ask Grant Morrison, he is the mastermind behind all the Batman deaths... yes, deaths, in plural, cause he didn't die just one time like Jesus, he died in many ways. He died fighting the criminal syndicate called "The Black Hand" and also fighting the evil god Darkseid, but don't worry that much, even if the old Bruce Wayne has hit the bat-bucket, there are a ton of guys who want to don the legendary cowl and get their own cut coming from the merchandising of the various bat-items and gadgets.
Keep the comics coming!!!

The zombie outbreak

Yeah, what's up with all the panic and media-coverage of something as vanal as the damned swine flu? It's not like some brain-starved zombies started to roam the streets biting every living being at the reach of their rotten and disgusting pus filled, teeth decaying and bad breathed mouths. Now, that's what we all should be really worried about, because, just so you can know, not even a billion of mouth covers made of silver threads, blessed by the Pope and stamped with the holy image of the original Buda's lotus could save us from the evil and hungry clutches of the undead.
So, please, to every fear preacher on the big-mass media out there, stop claiming that this is the coming of the apocalypse 'cause you really don't know what the God damned apocalypse is, and what we are currently living is really far from that, unless the apocalypse is a week without school and having fun on a semi deserted city... if that's the case, I want an apocalypse every month. That's why everyone has stopped watching T.V., the panic starts to get old when you don't see piles of corpses in every public plaza being burned before they can infect the few ones who keep living on. If that was the case then the ratings would sky rocket... well, if you don't take in count the ones who died or are dying while watching your reports, that wouldn't be a good business.

A small introduction to the Eragon book

Yeah, we are all writing small introductions to books we have read at the SAC, so, here is mine, it's about the Eragon book:

This is the story of a young man who finds a strange stone while hunting in the haunted mountains of The Spine. At first he believes that the newfound rock is a precious and magical stone, but after trying to sell it at his hometown without success, he is surprised to learn that the “stone” started to hatch. A tiny dragon emerges from the rock-like egg and with it, a long journey full of adventure, danger and betrayal starts to unravel.
Eragon knows that he can’t rise the dragon at his uncle’s house, -where he is currently living- so he takes it to the mountains where he first found the stone, the haunted Spine, there he soon learns the way to communicate with his new friend: telepathy. Their minds bond toguether and Eragon can understand the feelings and ideas coming from the dragon, he even finds out that the dragon is not a he, but a she, and starts searching for a suitable name… after much thinkering, they find a name wich both of them like: Saphira.
The events start to change for the worst when, after some months after Saphira’s birth, a couple of dark capped strangers start asking questions around Eragon’s town. Some days later Eragon finds his house burned down and his uncle badly wounded, his last words were the name of his killers, the Ra’zac.
Brom, the town’s elder story-teller, joins Eragon in his adventure to find the killers of his uncle, but also starts to tell him stories about the legendary Dragon Riders, how they fought against injustice, protected the kingdom and how they felt by the hand of one of their own… the current king, Galbatorix. The Ra’zac themselves were simple henchmen of the king, the ones wich him sent everytime a dirty deed needed to be done, and it seemed like Galbatorix wanted these new dragon that emerged from nowhere.
Join Brom, Sephira and Eragon in an incredible adventure trought the lands of Alagaesia to find the secrets that sorround their past. It’s a story filled with magic, fantasy and the will to keep living by your own beliefs.

The next big thing in Hollywood... or maybe TV Azteca.

This is the deal, I'm writing a dummy script and you will have to act like you are very interested on it because I know that you really don't want to hurt my feelings, ok? so, let's start...
The story could take place in an old library, filled with ancient and mysterious books. A young librarian who worked there gets caught in the middle of an investigation after two corpses are found hanging from some bookshelves and they were holding the ripped pages of some unknown tomes. After finding out the identities of the defuncts, he embarks in an adventure around the world tring to find the original books with the missing pages. His journey takes him through some obscure libraries where, after solving many challenges and riddles, he obtains the necessary clues to unmask the ones hiding under the shadows, the real group pulling all the strings in a world wide conspiration to keep the secrets of a forgotten tome in total obscurity for their own gain...
Yeah, I know it sounds like a cheap clone of The Da Vinci Code but as you already know, imitation is the most sincere form of flatery and I don't get a dime from writting all of this, so you will have to take what I give you... and keep quiet about it.

Guess who?

He started attending university like a rookie, fresh from highschool, making jokes, practicing his martial arts moves in the classroom and, generally speaking, not paying enough attention to what he must be paying attention, you know, like studying, doing homework and trying to learn. So, soon he found that university life wasn't going to be as easy as he tought, but instead of giving in, he tried his best and succeeded in keeping the pace. He really hasn't changed that much, he is the same soft-hearted and loud-mouthed guy he as always been, but his academical abilities have developed a lot since those early days. I don't think that you'll need anymore clues to get the identity of the classmate I'm talking about.

Sin City Movie Review

Most of the times movies are "based" in another works, mostly books, but recently comics and videogames have been gaining popularity with the Hollywood high execs because of its strong following with certain demographics (mostly males of course), but, as I said before, they are "based" or "barely based" and that's what gets this movie in a whole new category, because it doesn't only takes the original work (a comic book) and plays around with the characters and story, no, that would be too easy, this movie is a carbon copy of the comic, a translation from the pulp to the silver screen, and taking in count that the original has been lauded as one of the greatest comics in history, you should be forming some ideas of your own about the quality of this movie.
If you think that I'm joking or exagerating maybe it's because you haven't been in contact with the Frank Miller's original comic, come on, give it a look, you won't be dissapointed, it's a brilliant work that changed the idea of what comics should and could be, it's dark, it's violent, it's full of clever dialogs and memorable one liners that really lends themselves to a movie.
Everything has been taken care of to make you feel like you are watching the original comic but with movement: the angles, the pace, the casting and even the black and white color palletes are taken straight from the comic book. To add insult to injury, the original creator, Frank Miller, has a directing roll alongside Robert Rodriguez, who is himself a great fan of comics and wrote some of the music for the movie.
As I mentioned before, the casting is another of the strong points in this movie. Big names like Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood and Bruce Willis along some other excellent actors and actresses help to make this theatrical ride even more enjoyable.
It's not new by any standarts, it was released to cinemas in 2005, but it's one of my all time favorites and one of those movies that you can watch many times without getting bored, so, go ahead, give it a try and you surely will get a ton of fun out of it.

Tarea: Tecnologias para el aprendizaje del idioma ingles

Un blog es una herramienta de las nuevas tecnologías que toma un concepto antiguo como lo es la bitácora o el diario, y lo adapta a una herramienta tan actual y cotidiana como lo es la internet.

La palabra “Blog” como tal no es mas que una contracción de la palabra “weblog”, que en términos concisos significaría algo así como “diario en línea” o “bitácora en la red”, nombres que son bastante descriptivos en cuanto a las funciones y características de esta herramienta comunicativa.

La idea central detrás de los blogs es el compartir información, preferentemente sobre la vida de quien lo escribe, pero también puede reflejar sus opiniones sobre muy variados temas que le resulten de interés y tenga deseos de compartir con sus lectores. Los lectores a su vez pueden dejar comentarios en cada una de las diferentes “entradas” o temas que el autor del blog propone al escribir sobre ellas, aunque también es una opción del autor el no permitir comentarios para evitar polémicas y conflictos, o simplemente por sentir apatía ante las opiniones ajenas.

Pero el blog no solo sirve como deposito de vivencias u opiniones, también es un excelente medio de comunicación entre grupos de personas, tanto a nivel educativo como empresarial, familiar o de simple amistad. A través de el se pueden llegar a acuerdos o emitir comunicados de interés general para el grupo.

Hoy en día existen gran variedad de servicios gratuitos que le permiten crear un blog hasta al internauta más tecnológicamente incapacitado en cuestión de minutos. Tal vez sean Blogger y Wordpress los más populares de todos estos servicios.