Day: July 1, 2014

I am a totalitarian Martian black hole

Portraits in profile are for Ancient Egyptians. As Master of the Universe, I was talking the other day to the giraffe from Madagascar about flea circuses. He wants one, but said that using real fleas was cruel. Wait, said his cat, I represent the true animal kingdom, and I think they deserve it. Yeah, said…

Sex and the internet in Spanish

Here’s a curious little corpse-worm: Curious for me, because I thought that the arrival in Hispanidad of services provided over TCP/IP and HTTP was divisible into three sociolinguistic phases: Tech nerds tend to assign masculine gender to this weird new shit, more or less as per Regina Morin, Spanish gender assignment in computer and Internet…