4 million strong, spread around the whole world, like sour chocolate chips, we are the self-exiled, we are the new diasporic
scratch that, africans are diasporic. We are more like locust uglying up the place. One yellow t-shirt, ‘mochila’ and ‘vueltiao’ at a time.
4 millones militantes regados como chips de chocolate acido por todo el mundo, somas los auto-exiliados, somas los nuevos diásporicos.
No… tachen eso. Los Africanos son disaporicos. Somos mas como plaga biblica enfeando todo sitio por donde pasamos. Una camiseta amarilla, mochila y sombrero vueltiao a la vez.
Today i only lost 3 hours of my life in the odor full, ermetic, bureaucratic, deteriorated, thronged, vociferous, disorganized, harsh, cumbersome, bureaucratic and immovable quarters of the Argentine migration office. Another 180 minutes gone, that i can add up to the nearly 2 years i have spent next to the other brothers in nationality disgrace: Bolivians, Ecuatorians, Peruvians, Central Americans, Chinese and that have been spent in vane, because my papers are not ready yet, and this is a fact i cannot be made aware of by phone or e-mail, even thou we happen to live in the XXI century. I am very harsh towards the bad mother i was given for a nation and once more i curse the day i was born on it’s territory, because this is the reason i must be an eternal beggar of papers, permits, visas, judicial pasts, certificates, apostils, official translations, duplicates, triplicates, seals, photocopies, and fingerprints as i were a criminal, whether i am inside or outside it’s borders. Thanks to her i have to come begging for asylum to an adoptive mother who never asked or wanted me in her custody and whom is completely overridden by all of us, children of lesser nationalities of Latin America, when she herself doesn’t even want or has the desire to feed her own.
Esta vez, solo perdí 3 horas de mi vida en el odorífero, encerrado, asfixiante, pétreo, engorroso, ineficiente, deteriorado, atiborrado, ruidoso, desorganizado, burocrático e indolente oficio de la dirección de migraciones Argentinas en Buenos aires. Otros 180 minutos que le puedo sumar a los casi 2 años que he pasado al lado de otros hermanos en desgracia nacional: Bolivianos, Ecuatorianos, Peruanos,Centro Americanos en dos filas diferentes que me hicieron hacer, fueron en vano porque al final, mis papeles todavía no están listos, cosa que, en pleno siglo XXI no se pueden congraciar a informarme por teléfono o Internet. Yo le doy muy duro a la mala madre que me toco por patria y una vez mas maldigo el día que me hicieron nacer allí, porque por ello me toca ser un eterno mendigo de papeles, permisos, visas, pasados judiciales, certificados, apostillas, traducciones, duplicados, triplicados, sellos, fotocopias, tomas de huellas dactilares como si fuera criminal, así este fuera o dentro de su territorio. Gracias a ella tengo que venir a pedirle arrimada a una mamá adoptiva que nunca pidió, ni quiere tener mi custodia y que esta encartada por completo con todos nosotros, los de nacionalidades inferiores en America Latina, cuando ella misma ni siquiera puede ni quiere amamantar a los propios.
October 4, 2009 at 8:56 pm · Filed under Arduino, hobbies
Over the weekend i had some time to take out the Arduino board out of the box and onto my desk for some starter kit exercises.
I went trough exercise 5, which introduced the concept of a tactile button (basically just a switch). I had a bit of trouble as the diagram on the manual seems to be layed out incorrectly, i could never get it to work the way it was drawn there. It would seem that the digital pin that goes to the ground (in yellow wire in the graphic bellow), is positioned just after the resistor and connected directly to it (am i missing something?)
It was only until i did some googling and found other examples, ( this one was very useful ), where i found the correct wiring that made the tactile button work.
After this it was not hard to understand how the button worked and i moved on to project #6 on the manual, which introduces an analog input playing together with a bunch of shinny LEDS. You turn the knob and you can read it’s value and use that on your circuits. In this case, it makes the lights go faster.
At this point, i have made a couple of notes to make wiring the physical prototype easier:
The holes in the breadboard are stiff the first time you use them. This is really annoying when you are trying to connect a resistor because its legs are very weak and will bend out of shape trying to go into the stiff hole. Also the legs are way too long and start to get in the way if you are connecting things next to them.
The best way to prevent this is by pre-opening the breadboard holes with the tip of the jump wire before attempting to connect the resistors.
Also it helps to cut the legs of the resistors to about half the length so they are bit sturdier and don’t bend so easily.
Talking about jumper wires, i have separated them by length so that it’s easy to use the shorter ones whenever possible and not end up with a mess of wires all over the place.
