-GRAMA

   Del gr. γράμμα grámma 'letra', 'escrito'.
    1. 1. elem. compos. Significa 'escrito' o 'gráfico'. Cablegrama, cardiograma, epigrama.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

VAPORCITO

   De vapor y -cito.
    1. 1. m. Méx. Rollo de carne de gallina, de cerdo o de cazón, típico de la comida yucateca.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

Let's make ugly things.

MEFÍTICO

   Del lat. mephitĭcus.
    1. 1. adj. Dicho de una cosa: Que, respirada, puede causar daño, y especialmente cuando es fétida. Aire, gas mefítico. Emanación mefítica.
       Sin.:
           irrespirable, hediondo, fétido, insalubre, insano, maloliente, pestilente, infecto, nauseabundo.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

#FuckAI #NeverSlop

OCÉANO

   Del lat. Oceănus 'el océano Atlántico'.
    1. 1. m. Grande y dilatado mar que cubre la mayor parte de la superficie terrestre.
    2. 2. m. Mar de gran extensión que separa dos o más continentes. Océano Atlántico, Pacífico, Índico, Boreal, Austral.
       Sin.:
           mar, piélago, ponto, charco.
    3. 3. m. Inmensidad de algunas cosas.
       Sin.:
           inmensidad, abismo.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

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A photo of Entropy's Rotoscope, issue I

FLORECER

   De florescer.
   Conjug. c. agradecer.
    1. 1. intr. Echar flor. U. t. c. tr.
       Sin.:
           brotar, florear, tramar.
    2. 2. intr. Dicho de una persona o de una cosa, incluso abstracta, como la justicia, las ciencias, etc.: Prosperar, crecer en riqueza o reputación.
       Sin.:
           progresar, desarrollarse, despuntar, crecer, prosperar, medrar, brillar, adelantar.
    3. 3. intr. Dicho de una persona o de una cosa insigne: Existir en un tiempo o época determinada.
       Sin.:
           aparecer, emerger.
    4. 4. prnl. Dicho especialmente del queso o del pan: Ponerse mohoso.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

[...] the story of the first bug.

MAN / MACHINE INTERFACES

Back in the days, I worked for a small company that built EGSEs (short for Electric Ground Support Equipment) for civil and military satellites built by Airbus, Thales Alenia, Leonardo and others. The hardware was designed by my boss, a bitter and harsh but incredibly brilliant man, and I was responsible for the software interfaces, networking and remote control systems. Basically, we built human-height racks full to the top with COTS transponders, multimeters, power supplies, RF connectors, etc, and custom-built small Linux systems that coordinated the hardware; on the other side, this monster was commanded from a GUI in a standard laptop or desktop computer, that also provided connections to other Central Checkout / Command Control systems, test procedure scripting, and such. Also, our EGSEs used to have a small touchscreen where you could do very basic things like switching attenuators on / off, switching power supplies on / off, and commanding simple things to them like setting current, voltage, PWM, etc. I designed these small screens with the FLTK (Fast Light Toolkit), which was simple and appropriate for this very small systems.

One day, on an extremely hot summer (what the fuck, this is Spain, all summers are extremely hot), I went from my remote desktop to where my boss was working near the rack, and then he said:

"Please stop fucking around with the remote control system while I'm calibrating the power supplies".

"What? I did no such thing. I was [...whatever I was doing, I don't remember what]"

"Please. I was working when I heard the CLACK of the power supply switching off. I saw the logs and it was software-triggered."

"Maybe a temperature threshold, it's hot as fuck here."

"No. Software-triggered."

"Oh, sorry, then. Maybe I broke something, I'll go check my code."

Next day, I was already there by the rack with my boss. We were discussing something, and then we both heard the CLACK of the power supply going off again.

"Holy fucking Christ", said by boss.

"The remote control is disabled right now, the desktop is not even running, so I'm not to blame", said I, slightly relieved.

There was much swearing, as we were, as always, over the project deadline.

My boss then said:

"Whatever, our client has requested some more information in the rack's screen. I've sent you an email with the details."

I moved to my desktop, checked my email, and there was no message from my boss. I emailed the client and, yes, they wanted some more telemetries to be shown in the already crammed space. So I rewrote the small touchscreen main dialog (FLTK tools are cumbersome but effective), rebuilt and deployed it.

I moved to the rack. The air conditioning was buzzing like a small hurricane, the room hot as an oven. I checked how the mini-screen looked (sometimes, what was shown in the development machine didn't always match the real one): everything was OK, the new temperature telemetries were correctly shown near the power supply on-screen buttons.

Also, there was a fly over the screen. Then I joked to my boss:

"Oh, you must look at what I have done: I put a pretty, hyperreal bitmap of a fly on the man / machine interface, come look at it".

The fly moved a little, and then stepped over the power supply OFF touch-screen button.

CLACK

#ShortFiction #RealNotFiction

ASTEROIDE

   Del gr. ἀστεροειδής asteroeidḗs 'de figura de estrella'.
    1. 1. adj. De forma de estrella.
       Sin.:
           estrellado, astrífero, constelado, estelífero.
    2. 2. m. Astron. Cuerpo menor del sistema solar, de dimensiones inferiores a 1000 km de diámetro y que frecuentemente gira alrededor del Sol entre las órbitas de Marte y Júpiter.
       Sin.:
           planetoide.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

PELUCHE

   Del fr. peluche.
    1. 1. m. felpa (‖ tejido con pelo por el haz).
       Sin.:
           felpa.
    2. 2. m. Juguete de peluche.
       Sin.:
           muñeco, juguete.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

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CITÓFONO

   Acrón. de circuito y teléfono.
    1. 1. m. Col. Sistema de comunicación dentro de un circuito telefónico cerrado.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

Spam / phishing is getting to levels never seen before. Last week I've received a bunch of emails from fake literary agents trying to contact me (yeah, sure, as if literary agents unsolicitedly contacted authors, and not the reverse). For example, the following one: it's in English, supposedly signed by an existent, real USA-based literary agent, about one my novels, written in Spanish, already published by spanish publisher. It's disquieting, because it gives a shallow analysis of the text, written for sure by an AI (so, yes, somehow my novel has been fed to these infernal machines):

I hope you're doing well.

I wanted to reach out because La atalaya recortada contra el cielo caught my attention for the way it seems to make horror feel deeply connected to memory, loss, and the weight of family history.

What particularly interested me about Bran is that she doesn't simply inherit a house she seems to inherit a history she has spent much of her life trying to distance herself from. The scar, the losses within her family, and her withdrawn nature give the house a significance beyond being a frightening setting. As she moves deeper into it, the physical darkness appears to become intertwined with something much more personal.

I also found the atmosphere of the story intriguing. The decay, isolation, confined spaces, tunnels, and strange imagery create a form of horror that relies as much on unease and anticipation as on the supernatural itself.

There’s also something interesting about setting such a psychologically dark story within a distinctly Spanish environment while exploring experiences that feel much more universal grief, inheritance, family secrets, isolation, and confronting the past.

I'd be interested to hear where your writing is taking you now.

What is the current project you're working on, how is it going so far, and what are you most looking forward to as it develops?

And do you currently have an active literary agent representing you?

There’s no need to send a manuscript or proposal at this stage. I’d simply enjoy hearing about what you're working on and what you're looking forward to next.

Best regards,
XXXXX

NOSOTROS

   De nos y otros.
   Forma de caso nos.
    1. 1. pron. person. 1.ª pers. m. y f. pl. Forma que, en nominativo o precedida de preposición, designa a las personas que hablan o escriben. Nosotras habíamos votado en contra. A nosotros no nos afecta el problema.
    2. 2. pron. person. 1.ª pers. m. y f. pl. Forma que, en nominativo o precedida de preposición, designa a los miembros de un grupo del que forma parte quien habla o escribe. Nosotros, los hispanohablantes.
    3. 3. pron. person. 1.ª pers. m. pl. yo. U. especialmente en lengua escrita. La hipótesis que nosotros defendemos en este artículo.
    4. 4. pron. person. 1.ª pers. m. pl. mí. U. especialmente en lengua escrita. Lo que a nosotros nos interesa demostrar es…

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

SONIDISTA

    1. 1. m. y f. Cinem., Teatro y TV. Persona experta en captación, procesamiento, transmisión y emisión electrónica de sonido.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)