<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389</id><updated>2009-10-13T12:46:04.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Están locos estos Americanos</title><subtitle type='html'>Comentarios sobre algunas de las cosas curiosas que ocurren en Estados Unidos (y en el resto del mundo...)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>67</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-9191358677585718421</id><published>2008-01-20T20:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T20:52:31.762-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Libertad de Culto en USA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chronologyproject.com/thor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.chronologyproject.com/thor.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;USA es uno de los países más tolerantes en lo relativo a la libertad de culto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay de todo: cristianos de varios tipos, musulmanes, judíos, etc. Pero parece que este tío ha llegado al límite: en la cárcel en la que está preso &lt;a href="http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=215f7e5c-06ce-4aff-ad36-585258570744"&gt;no le dejan realizar los rituales propios de su religión&lt;/a&gt;. En concreto, no le permiten tener uno de los elementos básicos para el ritual: el martillo de Thor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;An inmate is suing the Utah Department of Corrections for denying him his right to practice an ancient Nordic religion while behind bars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Polk is serving time for aggravated assault and robbery. He filed a lawsuit against corrections officials in federal court, accusing them of denying him religious items that he says are necessary to practice the Asatru religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religion worships ancient Nordic gods like Odin, Thor, Tyr and Heimdal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the lawsuit, Polk says he has been a member of the Asatru faith since 2005, and in order to properly practice it he needs items including: a Thor's Hammer, a prayer cloth, a Mead Horn used for drinking Wassail, a drum made of wood and boar skin, a rune staff and a sword. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es que no le dejan ni la espada...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-9191358677585718421?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/9191358677585718421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=9191358677585718421' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/9191358677585718421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/9191358677585718421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2008/01/libertad-de-culto-en-usa.html' title='Libertad de Culto en USA'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-6065173418384415981</id><published>2008-01-12T12:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T12:25:02.206-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Duendes en el CES</title><content type='html'>Durante la semana pasada todo el mundo en la industria de la electrónica estaba en el CES (Consumer Electronics Show) en Las Vegas. Yo también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CES normalmente es bastante aburrido, pero este año había "duendes" paseandose por el Centro de Convenciones, apagando pantallas de TV. Las "demos" eran más emocionantes, ya que nunca sabías si ibas a llegar al final con la pantalla encendida... :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="373"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICpM3ItIhI0&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICpM3ItIhI0&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-6065173418384415981?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/6065173418384415981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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/&gt;(O a lo mejor es que el chaval se ha vuelto tan vago que ya no es ni capaz de levantarse del sofá para conectar los cables de la XBOX...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-5735204855745394892?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/5735204855745394892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=5735204855745394892' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5735204855745394892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5735204855745394892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SJ_qK4g6ntM&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SJ_qK4g6ntM&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puede parecer un rollo al principio, pero es un clip humorístico...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-9139799240721815956?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/9139799240721815956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=9139799240721815956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7811284299789325502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/11/listillo.html' title='Listillo'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/R0OwTzhL8eI/AAAAAAAAABc/gQrVNgYcZBc/s72-c/Dont_reinvent_the_wheel-large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-3463021796291610877</id><published>2007-08-14T17:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T17:11:02.408-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El coste de vivir en el Silicon Valley</title><content type='html'>Estos días hemos estado buscando una nueva casa en Los Gatos, ya que el apartamento que teníamos alquilado desde el 2005 lo dejamos en Mayo. Los precios, en general, son de escándalo, sobre todo comparados con los costes de España.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/technology/05rich.html?em&amp;ex=1187236800&amp;amp;en=63fd64efed9eb978&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;Este artículo del NYT explica por qué&lt;/a&gt;: la "mediana" de precio de una casa en el Silicon Valley es $788.000, casi 4 veces más alto que la mediana en el resto de EEUU ($212.300).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RsJCnNEwPlI/AAAAAAAAABU/b8cGEN3KPeA/s1600-h/cost-of-living.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098710969428754002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RsJCnNEwPlI/AAAAAAAAABU/b8cGEN3KPeA/s400/cost-of-living.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El coste de la vida es tan alto en el Silicon Valley, que muchos "millonarios" (en millones de dólares) se ven obligados a seguir trabajando 60-70 horas semanales para afrontar el ritmo de vida de sus vecinos (coches, casas, colegios, club de golf, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is paid off. The couple’s net worth of roughly &lt;strong&gt;$3.5 million&lt;/strong&gt; places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet each day Mr. Steger continues to toil in what a colleague calls “the Silicon Valley salt mines,” working as a marketing executive for a technology start-up company, still striving for his big strike. Most mornings, he can be found at his desk by 7. &lt;strong&gt;He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-3463021796291610877?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/3463021796291610877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=3463021796291610877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/3463021796291610877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/3463021796291610877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-coste-de-vivir-en-el-silicon-valley.html' title='El coste de vivir en el Silicon Valley'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RsJCnNEwPlI/AAAAAAAAABU/b8cGEN3KPeA/s72-c/cost-of-living.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-7848258618833303443</id><published>2007-08-10T14:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-10T14:46:12.537-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El "making of" de uno de los programas más usados</title><content type='html'>Solo para geeks...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El "making of" de una de las aplicaciones más utilizadas del mundo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hxx2KcPWWZg"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hxx2KcPWWZg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-7848258618833303443?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/7848258618833303443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=7848258618833303443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7848258618833303443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7848258618833303443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-making-of-de-uno-de-los-programas-ms.html' title='El &quot;making of&quot; de uno de los programas más usados'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-1270328209502380599</id><published>2007-08-08T23:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T23:19:47.025-07:00</updated><title type='text'>pipi y caca</title><content type='html'>Para aquellos que tengan niños que aun no sepan ir solitos al cuarto de baño...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFVoLz88hiU"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFVoLz88hiU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-1270328209502380599?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/1270328209502380599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=1270328209502380599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1270328209502380599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1270328209502380599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/08/pipi-y-caca.html' title='pipi y caca'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-1447594349985401751</id><published>2007-06-29T14:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T14:21:20.901-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gente haciendo cola en la calle...</title><content type='html'>...para &lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/5th-ave-update/11-hours-remain-for-manhattan-campers-273521.php"&gt;comprar un iPhone&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/06/5th-ave-start2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/06/5th-ave-start2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-1447594349985401751?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/1447594349985401751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=1447594349985401751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1447594349985401751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/1447594349985401751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/gente-haciendo-cola-en-la-calle.html' title='Gente haciendo cola en la calle...'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-7455804205196708975</id><published>2007-06-24T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-24T13:44:50.790-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teoría de Colas</title><content type='html'>En segundo curso de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación había una asignatura que no me acuerdo muy bien como se llamaba ("Redes de Comunicaciones" o algo así) que impartía un profesor que se llamaba &lt;a href="http://personales.upv.es/~jmartine/"&gt;Jorge Martínez&lt;/a&gt;. El profesor no era muy bueno (siempre salía mal parado en las encuestas entre los alumnos), y encima nos hacía comprar un libro que había plagiado de &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Queueing-Systems-Leonard-Kleinrock/dp/0471491101/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2862916-9620012?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1182716192&amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Leonard Kleinrock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Por qué esta introducción?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porque aunque, como digo, el profesor no era muy bueno, estudiar esa asignatura hizo que no se me olvidaran nunca los principios básicos de "teoría de colas" (de eso iba el libro de Kleinrock). Como, por ejemplo, que el tiempo medio de espera en un sistema con N servidores con 1 cola común es menor que si el sistema tiene N colas (una para cada servidor).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.mit.edu/urban_or_book/www/book/chapter4/images/fig4.18.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://web.mit.edu/urban_or_book/www/book/chapter4/images/fig4.18.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este principio lo recuerdo cada vez que hago cola en un supermercado, cada vez que facturo en un aeropuerto español o cada vez que paso por la aduana en USA o en España, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, pues después de todos estos años, la gente sigue re-descubriendo este principio "por si misma", y algunos incluso consiguen que &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html?em&amp;amp;amp;ex=1182830400&amp;en=aa33f4df01f28aff&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;los mencionen en el NYT&lt;/a&gt;. Es el caso de la cadena de supermercados norteamericana "Whole Foods", que está implantando el innovador sistema de "N servidores y 1 cola única" en una tienda de NY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...] But now a relative newcomer to Manhattan is trying to teach the locals a new rule of living: the longer the line, the shorter the wait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For its first stores here, Whole Foods, the gourmet supermarket, directs customers to form serpentine single lines that feed into a passel of cash registers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banks have used a similar system for decades. But supermarkets, fearing a long line will scare off shoppers, have generally favored the one-line-per-register system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 7 p.m. on a weeknight, the lines at each of the four Whole Foods stores in Manhattan can be 50 deep, but they zip along faster than most lines with 10 shoppers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no “slow” lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier. And since Whole Foods charges premium prices for its organic fare, it can afford to staff dozens of registers, making the line move even faster.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parece evidente que una cola única es más eficiente, ¿no? Pues parece que a los de Whole Foods les costó meses descubrirlo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Whole Foods executives &lt;strong&gt;spent months drawing up designs for a new line system&lt;/strong&gt; in New York that would be unlike anything in their suburban stores, where shoppers form one line in front of each register.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-7455804205196708975?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/7455804205196708975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=7455804205196708975' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7455804205196708975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/7455804205196708975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/en-segundo-curso-de-ingeniera-de.html' title='Teoría de Colas'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-5446752054650910014</id><published>2007-06-22T09:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-22T09:46:58.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Los mayores son más listos</title><content type='html'>Yo llevaba años sospechándolo, pero parece que se ha confirmado: los hermanos mayores son más listos que los pequeños. &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/science/21cnd-sibling.html?em&amp;ex=1182657600&amp;amp;en=a4b176c013212f41&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;Lo dice el NYT&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The eldest children in families tend to develop slightly higher I.Q.s than their younger siblings, researchers are reporting, based on a large study that could effectively settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-5446752054650910014?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/5446752054650910014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=5446752054650910014' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5446752054650910014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5446752054650910014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/los-mayores-son-ms-listos.html' title='Los mayores son más listos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-8288034961927755899</id><published>2007-06-21T06:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T06:17:31.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Los de Google Maps son unos graciosillos</title><content type='html'>Hoy estaba intentando averiguar la distancia entre un hotel en Madrid y el aeropuerto de Barajas en Google Maps. Al poner "Madrid Airport" (sin especificar "Spain"), Google Maps ha buscado algo que contuviera la palabra Madrid y que estuviera en USA. Por motivos que desconozco, el sitio más parecido es "Madrid Dr, Universal City, TX 78148".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero lo mejor de todo es que Google Maps me sugiere el mejor camino para llegar hasta el hotel de Madrid. Pincha en la imagen y fíjate en el paso 24 del trayecto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rnp6EH1CqOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6nojrfMPqfg/s1600-h/tx-to-madrid.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078505741053241570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rnp6EH1CqOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6nojrfMPqfg/s400/tx-to-madrid.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-8288034961927755899?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/8288034961927755899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=8288034961927755899' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8288034961927755899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8288034961927755899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/06/los-de-google-maps-son-unos.html' title='Los de Google Maps son unos graciosillos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rnp6EH1CqOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6nojrfMPqfg/s72-c/tx-to-madrid.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-5317993312353053568</id><published>2007-05-28T17:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T17:34:28.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirk Cameron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://slantmouth.com/articles/wayOfTheBastard/images/kirk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://slantmouth.com/articles/wayOfTheBastard/images/kirk.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os acordais de Kirk Cameron, el de "Los problemas crecen"? Bueno, pues ya no se dedica a hacer series de televisión para adolescentes. Ahora sale como experto en "teología" en Fox News, el canal de TV conservador en USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí, usando el convincente argumento del "Croco-duck" (alrededor del minuto 2:00) para demostrar que la teoría de la evolución de Darwin es falsa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oQHCVaYNr9c"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oQHCVaYNr9c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y por si no resulta convincente, aquí sale en un vídeo junto con otro "experto" que utiliza el argumento más demoledor contra Darwin, el del plátano:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2z-OLG0KyR4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2z-OLG0KyR4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os imaginais algo así en un programa de TV en Europa?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-5317993312353053568?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/5317993312353053568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=5317993312353053568' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5317993312353053568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/5317993312353053568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/05/kirk-cameron.html' title='Kirk Cameron'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-6057639448097092673</id><published>2007-05-27T15:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T15:48:56.145-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El sistema sanitario en USA</title><content type='html'>Michael Moore acaba de sacar una película en la que critica el sistema sanitario en USA y lo compara con el de Cuba, que parece que sale mejor parado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el NYT intentan averiguar si es verdad que la gente goza de mejor salud (en concreto, mejor esperanza de vida y menor índice de mortalidad infantil) en Cuba que en USA, y uno de los expertos consultados &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27depalma.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;llega a la siguiente conclusión&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Dr. Butler said some of Cuba’s shortcomings may actually improve its health profile. “Because they don’t have up-to-date cars, they tend to have to exercise more by walking,” he said. “And they may not have a surfeit of food, which keeps them from problems like obesity, but they’re not starving, either.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sea, como no tienen coches, hacen más ejercicio. Y como no les sobra la comida, no tienen problemas de obesidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así, claro, no me extraña que estén más sanos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mientras tanto, en USA, los índices de mortalidad infantial no solo no se acercan a los de Cuba, sino que suben, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/health/22infant.html?ex=1180411200&amp;en=922214c120b9c755&amp;ei=5070"&gt;especialmente entre la población negra en estados del sur como Mississippi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In Mississippi, infant deaths among blacks rose to 17 per thousand births in 2005 from 14.2 per thousand in 2004, while those among whites rose to 6.6 per thousand from 6.1. (The national average in 2003 was 5.7 for whites and 14.0 for blacks.)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir, que un niño negro en USA tiene casi el triple de probabilidades de morir antes de cumplir un año que uno blanco (y más le vale no vivir en un estado del sur...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-6057639448097092673?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/6057639448097092673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=6057639448097092673' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6057639448097092673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6057639448097092673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/05/el-sistema-sanitario-en-usa.html' title='El sistema sanitario en USA'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-8730743853767539160</id><published>2007-05-05T22:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T22:16:29.780-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tivo</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDb6UefP32M"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDb6UefP32M" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-8730743853767539160?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/8730743853767539160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=8730743853767539160' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8730743853767539160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/8730743853767539160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/05/tivo.html' title='Tivo'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-2760475143986221206</id><published>2007-04-14T00:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T00:09:36.759-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dinero y altura</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RiB9xNGQCzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FAJq6IMt6O4/s1600-h/tall%26short.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053177066192636722" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RiB9xNGQCzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FAJq6IMt6O4/s200/tall%26short.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la hora de conseguir pareja en un servicio de contactos on-line, importa mucho ser alto o bajito? Según &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/science/10tier.html?em&amp;ex=1176436800&amp;amp;amp;en=28ef7d8932a90b31&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;este estudio &lt;/a&gt;publicado en el NYT, da lo mismo medir 1.72 (5 pies y 8 pulgadas) que 1.82 (6 pies), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;siempre y cuando el que mide 1.72 gane $146.000 al año más que el de 1.82&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;They found that a 5-foot-8 man was just as successful in getting dates as a 6-footer if he made more money — precisely $146,000 a year more. For a 5-foot-2 man, the number was $277,000. [For more of these trade-offs, see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;nytimes.com/tierneylab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;.]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-2760475143986221206?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/2760475143986221206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=2760475143986221206' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2760475143986221206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2760475143986221206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/04/dinero-y-altura.html' title='Dinero y altura'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RiB9xNGQCzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/FAJq6IMt6O4/s72-c/tall%26short.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-4139592974970784421</id><published>2007-04-11T23:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T23:18:49.757-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Salir del armario</title><content type='html'>Un chaval "sale del armario" y su madre no se lo toma muy bien...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P8Aq00yJSxo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P8Aq00yJSxo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-4139592974970784421?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/4139592974970784421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=4139592974970784421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4139592974970784421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4139592974970784421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/04/salir-del-armario.html' title='Salir del armario'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-2830192758011263886</id><published>2007-04-07T23:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T00:03:15.460-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Matrimonio Gay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RhiTbETRnNI/AAAAAAAAAAc/wp0OYOB-Ep0/s1600-h/Mickey+Mouse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050949075316350162" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RhiTbETRnNI/AAAAAAAAAAc/wp0OYOB-Ep0/s200/Mickey+Mouse.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En la lucha por el reconocimiento social de los matrimonios entre personas del mismo sexo se han ganado muchas batallas (legalización en España, Bélgica, Holanda, Canadá y Sudáfrica), pero ninguna tan importante como esta: &lt;a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&amp;storyid=2007-04-05T231045Z_01_N05453609_RTRUKOC_0_US-DISNEY-GAYWEDDING.xml&amp;amp;src=rss&amp;amp;rpc=22"&gt;Disneyland&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Walt Disney Co. has changed its policy to allow same-sex couples to participate in a popular Fairy Tale Wedding program it runs mainly at its two U.S. resorts and cruise line, a Disney spokesman said on Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;"We are updating our Fairy Tale Wedding guidelines to include commitment ceremonies," Disney Parks and Resorts spokesman Donn Walker said. "This is consistent with our policy of creating a welcoming, respectful and inclusive environment for all of our guests." &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con la nueva política adoptada por la compañía Disney, ya cualquiera puede casarse en la carroza de Cenicienta, con trompetas y todo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Lavish Wedding Option also includes a ride to the ceremony in the Cinderella coach, costumed trumpeters heralding the couple's arrival, and attendance by Mickey and Minnie Mouse characters dressed in formal attire.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-2830192758011263886?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/2830192758011263886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=2830192758011263886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2830192758011263886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/2830192758011263886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/04/matrimonio-gay.html' title='Matrimonio Gay'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RhiTbETRnNI/AAAAAAAAAAc/wp0OYOB-Ep0/s72-c/Mickey+Mouse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-4631383748655316033</id><published>2007-03-30T23:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-31T00:04:13.391-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dame un "C", dame una "H"....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rg4FNfuGcEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rWdv0Ajf8to/s1600-h/CaplinCheer19.650.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rg4FNfuGcEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rWdv0Ajf8to/s400/CaplinCheer19.650.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047977961740202050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viendo algunas de las pelis de "high-school" americanas que ponen en España, podría uno pensar que esto de ser cheerleader del equipo del instituto es una inocente actividad para las chicas que quieren ser "populares" entre sus compañeros de clase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pues parece que lo de ser cheerleader &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/sports/31cnd-cheerleader.html?em&amp;ex=1175486400&amp;amp;amp;en=e7dbb85b72aedbd9&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;tiene sus riesgos&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;But today’s young cheerleaders, who perform tricks once reserved for trapeze artists, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;may be in more peril than any female athletes in the country&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Of 104 catastrophic injuries sustained by female high school and college athletes from 1982 to 2005 — head and spinal trauma that occasionally led to death — more than half resulted from cheerleading&lt;/span&gt;, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. All sports combined did not surpass cheerleading.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sea, que más de la mitad de accidentes mortales en chicas de instituto ocurrieron mientras practicaban "cheerleading".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-4631383748655316033?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/4631383748655316033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=4631383748655316033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4631383748655316033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/4631383748655316033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/03/dame-un-c-dame-una-h.html' title='Dame un &quot;C&quot;, dame una &quot;H&quot;....'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/Rg4FNfuGcEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rWdv0Ajf8to/s72-c/CaplinCheer19.650.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-425090967487398734</id><published>2007-03-27T23:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T23:38:11.268-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hold Your Wee for a Wii</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RgoNCvuGcDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jwWyePoHl2E/s1600-h/pic.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046860673242787890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RgoNCvuGcDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jwWyePoHl2E/s320/pic.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al principio no me creí esta noticia cuando me la contó M., pero &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/"&gt;parece que es verdad&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Strange, 28, &lt;strong&gt;was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”&lt;/strong&gt; contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay muchas maneras tristes de irse al otro barrio, pero morirse aguantándose el pis para ganar una Nintendo Wii tiene que ser una de las más tristes...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-425090967487398734?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/425090967487398734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=425090967487398734' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/425090967487398734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/425090967487398734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/03/hold-your-wee-for-wii.html' title='Hold Your Wee for a Wii'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nC8EZ9EUXpU/RgoNCvuGcDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jwWyePoHl2E/s72-c/pic.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-6654100242182091894</id><published>2007-03-24T23:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T23:53:14.589-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Guarderías en Manhattan</title><content type='html'>En EEUU, los padres modernos solo tienen una preocupación: cómo asegurarse de que sus hijos pueden entrar en las mejores universidades (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc). La teoría dice que para poder entrar en una buena universidad, tienes que haber asistido a una buena "High School". Y para entrar en esa buena "High School", tienes que haber asistido a una buena "Middle School", y así sucesivamente...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La conclusión es que o consigues que tu hijo entre en una buena guardería, o estará predestinado a un mal colegio, mala universidad y mal trabajo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un ejemplo: según &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aHSG4LwJOFnI&amp;amp;refer=home"&gt;este artículo en Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt;, ya es más difícil ser admitido en algunas guarderías de Manhattan que en Harvard:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;That can be devastating for parents in Manhattan, where an average of 15 applicants vie for every spot in about 200 preschools, Uhry said. According to its Web site, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received 22,754 applications for the freshman class entering in last fall and admitted 2,124 -- 11 applications per admission.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Es decir: una de cada 11 solicitudes en Harvard es aceptada. En las guarderías "pijas" de Manhattan, solo una de cada 15.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En las universidades americanas normalmente tienes que escribir un ensayo contando tu vida, por qué deberían admitirte, etc. En estas guarderías también, solo que el ensayo lo tienen que escribir los padres de los niños de 2 años:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;...painstakingly crafted essays on how a stranger would describe the boy...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-6654100242182091894?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/6654100242182091894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=6654100242182091894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6654100242182091894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/6654100242182091894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/03/guarderas-en-manhattan.html' title='Guarderías en Manhattan'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-117125634238885068</id><published>2007-02-11T20:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T23:19:59.516-08:00</updated><title type='text'>iPhone</title><content type='html'>En estos momentos, el "gadget" de moda en USA es el iPhone. Parece que hace de todo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xXNoB3t8vM"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xXNoB3t8vM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-117125634238885068?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/117125634238885068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=117125634238885068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117125634238885068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117125634238885068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/02/iphone.html' title='iPhone'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-117064831749189175</id><published>2007-02-04T19:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T20:05:17.503-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rayos X</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2006-12/26967935.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2006-12/26967935.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cuando uno ha viajado mucho en avión, pues es normal que pase por los controles de seguridad de manera casi inconsciente y ponga en las bandejas de las máquinas de Rayos X todo lo que lleve encima: el ordenador portátil, los zapatos, monedas, cinturon, un bebé de un mes, etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baby20dec20,0,6460373.story"&gt;Según esta noticia&lt;/a&gt;, parece que no todo el mundo está de acuerdo en que los bebés deben pasar por los Rayos X, a la abuela de un bebé le echaron una pequeña bronca en el aeropuerto de Los Angeles por someter a su nieto a un poquito de radiación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The early Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo más interesante de la noticia es descubrir que, al hacer un vuelo de un lado a otro de EEUU, un pasajero recibe aproximadamente la mitad de la radión de una prueba de rayos X en el pecho.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-117064831749189175?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/117064831749189175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=117064831749189175' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117064831749189175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/117064831749189175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2007/02/rayos-x.html' title='Rayos X'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25217389.post-116665111169565014</id><published>2006-12-20T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-20T13:45:11.716-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bebés e impuestos</title><content type='html'>El gobierno estadounidense da un descuento en los impuestos de $1000 por hijo. El pequeño detalle es que si tienes el hijo el 31 de diciembre de 2006, recibes los $1000 correspondientes al año 2006, mientras que si tienes el hijo el 1 de enero del 2007, pierdes el dinero del 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parece ser que esto tiene un efecto secundario (que cualquier economista podría haber previsto): algunas personas le piden a sus ginecólogos &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/business/20leonhardt.html?em&amp;ex=1166763600&amp;amp;en=304093b593451b1e&amp;ei=5087%0A"&gt;que les adelanten los partos para asegurarse de que cobran el dinero&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Unless you’re a cynic, or an economist, I realize you might have trouble believing that the intricacies of the nation’s tax code would impinge on something as sacred as the birth of a child. But it appears that you would be wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the last decade, September has lost its unchallenged status as the time for what we will call National Birth Day, the day with more births than any other. Instead, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the big day fell between Christmas and New Year’s Day in four of the last seven years&lt;/span&gt; — 1997 through 2003 — for which the government has released birth statistics. (The day was in September during the other years; conception still matters.) Based on this year’s calendar, there is a good chance that National Birth Day will take place a week from tomorrow, on Thursday, Dec. 28.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By my calculations, about 5,000 babies, of the 70,000 or so who would otherwise be born during the first week in January, may have their arrival dates accelerated partly for tax reasons.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es decir: que en los últimos años, el periodo en el que más niños nacen es entre Navidad y Año Nuevo, lo cual es consistente con la hipótesis de que la gente lo hace motivada por el ahorro de impuestos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25217389-116665111169565014?l=estanlocos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/feeds/116665111169565014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25217389&amp;postID=116665111169565014' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116665111169565014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25217389/posts/default/116665111169565014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://estanlocos.blogspot.com/2006/12/bebs-e-impuestos.html' title='Bebés e impuestos'/><author><name>ch_in_sv</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17812221864000721615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17964448508564852302'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry></feed>