I read the House of Leaves a while ago and I became fascinated by the echo of the word clamore (amore,more,ore,re). So I decided to make a little program that would show me the same idea for other words. Then I thought what is the word that gives the largest echo? Well I answered that question for English, Spanish and Italian.
English
Spanish
Italian
Note 1: Each file is about 2 MB
Note 2: I made this list using mathematica. It includes the ending character because it appears in the dictionary.
miércoles, 1 de agosto de 2012
martes, 8 de mayo de 2012
One of the most powerful intros in a movie ever created.
Of course I am talking about the intro for the Watchmen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqPeFLv0NU
(I am sorry but I cant embed the video.)
The most powerful and moving scene in that intro is seeing Fidel in Russia with the nuclear weapons parade in the background. It makes me conscious that humanity may well destroy itself one of these days, but if it happens I'll be ready to survive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqPeFLv0NU
(I am sorry but I cant embed the video.)
The most powerful and moving scene in that intro is seeing Fidel in Russia with the nuclear weapons parade in the background. It makes me conscious that humanity may well destroy itself one of these days, but if it happens I'll be ready to survive.
martes, 1 de mayo de 2012
Boss fight, zombies and superman (dream)
September 6, 2009
I can see some people driving driving water motorcycles inside a sewer. I can see this from a third person view. Everything looks like if it was from second life. Eventually they arrive somewhere and the view changes to first person. I am in a boss battle, underground in a place like an Aztec ritual chamber.
The boss is made of clay, looks like a ball and shots small fireballs. I don't have any weapons. Around there are some stone walls with little holes. The idea was to place myself in such position that when the boss threw those fireballs they would enter the holes and cause a few things to happen.
The first wall had only one hole and it transformed into a basketball hoop. Then the other wall had two holes and it sent a vase made of clay toward the boss. After that I tried to take cover behind a little structure near to me. The vase fell on the boss and he became crazy. Started launching hundreds of fireballs in all directions (Touhou Project). Then the boss threw a shoryuken to me and then a kame hame ha . After that he stopped moving. I had to pick up the boss, throw it through the basketball hoop and finally use a machine somewhere to turn it into a statue of Anubis.
I am in a house and zombies are attacking it. But it looks like counter strike. I can pick the guns from the floor and they are huge guns. I am being helped by other people and we are taking cover in front of the front door. The zombies look more human than on any game. They are the newest umbrella zombies. Each time I have to fire about 50 bullets to kill them. They are too fast.
Somehow the dream changes to me watching superman with a white body suit talking to an old man in a throne room. He is weak because the suit covers his body completely from the sun. Strangely he has to speak to a dog to obtain I dont know what. The dog is a white terrier.
I can see some people driving driving water motorcycles inside a sewer. I can see this from a third person view. Everything looks like if it was from second life. Eventually they arrive somewhere and the view changes to first person. I am in a boss battle, underground in a place like an Aztec ritual chamber.
The boss is made of clay, looks like a ball and shots small fireballs. I don't have any weapons. Around there are some stone walls with little holes. The idea was to place myself in such position that when the boss threw those fireballs they would enter the holes and cause a few things to happen.
The first wall had only one hole and it transformed into a basketball hoop. Then the other wall had two holes and it sent a vase made of clay toward the boss. After that I tried to take cover behind a little structure near to me. The vase fell on the boss and he became crazy. Started launching hundreds of fireballs in all directions (Touhou Project). Then the boss threw a shoryuken to me and then a kame hame ha . After that he stopped moving. I had to pick up the boss, throw it through the basketball hoop and finally use a machine somewhere to turn it into a statue of Anubis.
I am in a house and zombies are attacking it. But it looks like counter strike. I can pick the guns from the floor and they are huge guns. I am being helped by other people and we are taking cover in front of the front door. The zombies look more human than on any game. They are the newest umbrella zombies. Each time I have to fire about 50 bullets to kill them. They are too fast.
Somehow the dream changes to me watching superman with a white body suit talking to an old man in a throne room. He is weak because the suit covers his body completely from the sun. Strangely he has to speak to a dog to obtain I dont know what. The dog is a white terrier.
Death, rescue and afterlife (dream)
August 5, 2009
The first part of the dream took place after escaping someone with a little cart and hiding under a huge rock. I walked and reached a wall. On that wall there was a bluish disk made of glass. When you made the disc rotate against the moonlight it made an image. This exact image
The other part of the dream took place in an old house. Some people and I were trying to save someone. We were fighting inside th house. Fighting in the stairs and whatnot. We had to obtain some keys to free him. I think it was a boy.
Eventually I got the blue key it seems and I got a handful of them just in case. Suddenly someone of my friends was being held hostage but it didnt matter. We had to rescue that child. Just before I arrived the two other keys were placed and when I put the third one some poisoned darts were thrown near me. I was able to dodge them and then all the bad guys disappeared and I was on the last floor. There were some paintings on the walls but not furniture other than a desk.
A ghost appeared and started moving the desk and causing some trouble. Now since I am so rational I started to have a really polite discussion with the ghost. That she shouldnt be here and that she should search for the white light. Eventually I walked her to one of the walls where there was a whitish mark with the form of a person.
Eventually the ghost left and some words appeared on the wall. It was like a thank you letter. Then, dont ask me how, I travel to the future using the bathroom or maybe wake up inside the dream. I wanted to see if that letter was still there so I went to that room which now had lots of paintings. I moved some furniture and there was the message, but only the last part of it was kinda intact.
The incredibles, wedding, water park (dream)
May 1, 2012
I am dash from the incredibles but everyone seems older. There is going to be a wedding between Mr and Mrs incredible. Mrs incredible and I enter what seems the lobby of a hotel. In one of the corners there is a character, I can only describe it by saying Rumpelstinsky(why?), he has to do a kind of gamble with Mrs incredible. For that he uses some dice. This guy is telling Mrs incredible that she must throw a 17 with the dice. I try to help by saying that she can use 3 dice and subtract the number 3 to whatever value she gets since 3 is the approximately expected value of a dice.(maybe I am confusing the total value of the dice versus the number of dice?) Rumpelstinsky then says that he forgot about me and now he was going to use math blocking cards. The package says exactly that and I try to defy him. I grab one card and try to do an operation that I have memorized(the 20th root of 1048576). I say: "the 20th root of 1048576 is" and there is like a force preventing me from saying the number 2. But I get past that force by my sheer will and say the number 2.
A moment later I am in front of some stone stairs, really well done, like the ones from a hotel so I assume its the same place. I can somehow jump and keep jumping in the air for some time. There is a fountain to my left while facing the stairs. I climb the stairs and then I am at the water park. There are lots of attractions everywhere. I try swimming on one of those, almost getting sucked by a whirlpool, somehow I know that some people have died in this water park. Eventually I arrive at what seems to be a rectangular container about one meter tall. The inside and outside are covered with cyan ceramics. There is a type of lifeguard standing by the container which is full of water and there are about 5 or 6 children under the water. None of them are moving, their faces are kinda blue. The lifeguard tells me really calmly that they are drowning or already drowned. I observe for a moment the scene and then I react and try to take out the children. Somehow I can move them with my mind and I try picking one, moving him upward and then doing the same with everyone at the same time. I use all my will to take them away from the water. Then the dream ends.
I am dash from the incredibles but everyone seems older. There is going to be a wedding between Mr and Mrs incredible. Mrs incredible and I enter what seems the lobby of a hotel. In one of the corners there is a character, I can only describe it by saying Rumpelstinsky(why?), he has to do a kind of gamble with Mrs incredible. For that he uses some dice. This guy is telling Mrs incredible that she must throw a 17 with the dice. I try to help by saying that she can use 3 dice and subtract the number 3 to whatever value she gets since 3 is the approximately expected value of a dice.(maybe I am confusing the total value of the dice versus the number of dice?) Rumpelstinsky then says that he forgot about me and now he was going to use math blocking cards. The package says exactly that and I try to defy him. I grab one card and try to do an operation that I have memorized(the 20th root of 1048576). I say: "the 20th root of 1048576 is" and there is like a force preventing me from saying the number 2. But I get past that force by my sheer will and say the number 2.
A moment later I am in front of some stone stairs, really well done, like the ones from a hotel so I assume its the same place. I can somehow jump and keep jumping in the air for some time. There is a fountain to my left while facing the stairs. I climb the stairs and then I am at the water park. There are lots of attractions everywhere. I try swimming on one of those, almost getting sucked by a whirlpool, somehow I know that some people have died in this water park. Eventually I arrive at what seems to be a rectangular container about one meter tall. The inside and outside are covered with cyan ceramics. There is a type of lifeguard standing by the container which is full of water and there are about 5 or 6 children under the water. None of them are moving, their faces are kinda blue. The lifeguard tells me really calmly that they are drowning or already drowned. I observe for a moment the scene and then I react and try to take out the children. Somehow I can move them with my mind and I try picking one, moving him upward and then doing the same with everyone at the same time. I use all my will to take them away from the water. Then the dream ends.
Fight, book and bananas (dream)
April 30, 2012
This time we have a three part dream.
I am a species of warrior and my team and I are hunting someone. I think its a criminal. We are in a type of huge barn and for a long while nothing happens, just everyone moving around trying to look for the criminal. We aren't actively looking for the criminal just moving around for a long while. Eventually we all move into a room, I think its a living room, there are couches on each of the four sides of the room. My whole team takes a seat and we decide to relax for a moment. Then the criminal that we were hunting appears and enters from the window. But he is not alone he is with 3 bodyguards, the room starts to move in a direction. I try approaching one of the bodyguards and stab them with a long knife but nothing happens. I move behind them and try stabbing them some more but the bodyguards are like if nothing had happened.
I am going back to my house, when I enter its a different house and my housemates are there. I see two of them on the ground floor. They are going to hand me a book that just arrived for me. I grab the book and one of them talks to me.
I am in the house of a chef, I think he is the one from hell's kitchen. We are in the same neighbourhood as in the previous dream. The chef invites me to try his dessert it's some bananas with caramel on top. We eat from the frying pan. I like the taste. He says that the recipe is badly done but that it tastes delicious.
This time we have a three part dream.
I am a species of warrior and my team and I are hunting someone. I think its a criminal. We are in a type of huge barn and for a long while nothing happens, just everyone moving around trying to look for the criminal. We aren't actively looking for the criminal just moving around for a long while. Eventually we all move into a room, I think its a living room, there are couches on each of the four sides of the room. My whole team takes a seat and we decide to relax for a moment. Then the criminal that we were hunting appears and enters from the window. But he is not alone he is with 3 bodyguards, the room starts to move in a direction. I try approaching one of the bodyguards and stab them with a long knife but nothing happens. I move behind them and try stabbing them some more but the bodyguards are like if nothing had happened.
I am going back to my house, when I enter its a different house and my housemates are there. I see two of them on the ground floor. They are going to hand me a book that just arrived for me. I grab the book and one of them talks to me.
I am in the house of a chef, I think he is the one from hell's kitchen. We are in the same neighbourhood as in the previous dream. The chef invites me to try his dessert it's some bananas with caramel on top. We eat from the frying pan. I like the taste. He says that the recipe is badly done but that it tastes delicious.
sábado, 21 de abril de 2012
Trial and bone-white (dream)
April 21, 2012
Today's dream has two parts. I don't remember enough of both to know if there was a common point or they were two unrelated dreams.
In the first dream we are in the outskirts of a city and I somehow know about the existence of a female who is currently in prison. In his place there is a hangar, not that big but big enough. As soon as you enter the hangar there is a downward slope that continues until the other end of the hangar. A trial was going to be done near here and I can see how Batman enters the hangar while driving a bus. Near the end of the hangar he somehow topples the bus on its side to stop it inches away from the wall. The two people who are going to be tried come out unscathed. The woman who was in jail and another man, this last one was not so old 60 or so, white hair and mostly bald on top of his head. These two characters stand in front of a door, behind it stands a ladder. They both have to climb it to arrive to the court and face their judge. Then, just about as they are going to enter the female judge upstairs orders something. Were the ladder was a kind of black hole appears and it starts sucking everything. The old man and the female criminal try to escape with all their might. The black hole removes both of the eyes of the female as the old man keeps running. He loses one eye and just when he thinks he has escaped the black hole removes his bloody brain.
The second dream I think happens in a gym. I am about to do some exercise and the weights that I am carrying are empty plates. I know those are plates, feel judged by them but I continue nonetheless. Then in another part of the room I listen to some type of advice to recover yellow books to a nicer state. The main problem with this is that the pages wont be perfectly white but bone-white instead(that was the specific term used). I can see a friend who is about to try that method. He has my copy of "The man who counted" and he tore apart the last page of one chapter(it wasn't the last page of the book, I am sure of that). He did this to try the method on the page before applying it to the rest of the book and I think he succeeds.
Today's dream has two parts. I don't remember enough of both to know if there was a common point or they were two unrelated dreams.
In the first dream we are in the outskirts of a city and I somehow know about the existence of a female who is currently in prison. In his place there is a hangar, not that big but big enough. As soon as you enter the hangar there is a downward slope that continues until the other end of the hangar. A trial was going to be done near here and I can see how Batman enters the hangar while driving a bus. Near the end of the hangar he somehow topples the bus on its side to stop it inches away from the wall. The two people who are going to be tried come out unscathed. The woman who was in jail and another man, this last one was not so old 60 or so, white hair and mostly bald on top of his head. These two characters stand in front of a door, behind it stands a ladder. They both have to climb it to arrive to the court and face their judge. Then, just about as they are going to enter the female judge upstairs orders something. Were the ladder was a kind of black hole appears and it starts sucking everything. The old man and the female criminal try to escape with all their might. The black hole removes both of the eyes of the female as the old man keeps running. He loses one eye and just when he thinks he has escaped the black hole removes his bloody brain.
The second dream I think happens in a gym. I am about to do some exercise and the weights that I am carrying are empty plates. I know those are plates, feel judged by them but I continue nonetheless. Then in another part of the room I listen to some type of advice to recover yellow books to a nicer state. The main problem with this is that the pages wont be perfectly white but bone-white instead(that was the specific term used). I can see a friend who is about to try that method. He has my copy of "The man who counted" and he tore apart the last page of one chapter(it wasn't the last page of the book, I am sure of that). He did this to try the method on the page before applying it to the rest of the book and I think he succeeds.
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