Rants and Articles.
Aftermath.
Life update: In the months since I last wrote in this website, lots of things have happened. New projects have started and old projects have been dropped or completed. As far as my personal life is concerned, I’ve gone through many life-altering events, as I continue on trying to decide what the hell I’m doing (a question that remains unanswered to a prodigious degree).
In the personal level, the following is a fast recap:
- Met girl.
- Fell in love with girl.
- Moved in with girl.
- Things went awry.
- Moved out.
- Currently waiting for delivery of new place.
It’s difficult for me to write about this subject, and —given how much it meant to me— metaphorically relegate the whole period to what amounts to a footnote in my life (is that what we all are? footnotes in someone else’s cycle around a big ball of ignited gas?).
I will just say that she is, by all measures of the word, an amazing girl, and the relationship was fantastic while it lasted.
And so on…
Regarding South by Southwest and the (unofficially named) “Fuck Standards” panel:
It went famously”
Although there were some misgivings at the beginning, and we were genuinely worried we’d be pelted with decomposing vegetables, our message was not as far-fetched and offensive as the title suggested. The feedback was generally good (we made the SxSW honor roll, yay!), and all involved had a great time. Since other people have done a better job of summarizing the whole thing than I could, I’ll give you a few links to the lavishly detailed. the good, the bad, the general and the sexy.
I had an amazing time, and was incredibly glad to see old friends once more (even though Jeremy Keith did threaten to force choke me when he found out the subject for the panel). I will write a more detailed post on this later. For the time being, here’s a PDF of the presentation in case you want to peruse it:
Standards Deviation: Hacks and dirty tricks for the web (pdf)
— sergio on May 22, 2006 
Comments
Alo Sergei,
¿Sabes? -Yo creo que no es muy alentador- pero dicen que el único factor que hay en común en todas nuestras relaciones fracasadas es: Nosotros.
Así que la pregunta de What the hell I’m doing , quizá debiera ser What the hell I’m doing wrong ?
¿Tú qué opinas?
Me da gusto verte de nuevo por aquí. Ojalá haya un nuevo comic, eso sería fantástico.
Recibe pura buena vibra y mis deseos de que sigas escribiendo.
I’ve seen things go awry myself and at the end I was left wondering “what the hell happened”. Time though gives one, and possibly both, perspective. One thing though I have realized is that footnotes are important if only to explain the whole story that is our lives.
Elotito: I realize that. I think sometimes people just have different goals in their lives, and it’s not only about finding the right person, but finding the right person at the right time. I’m not bitter about it anyway. It was a great experience.
Stephen: True. It’s funny how people think they would do things differently if they had the chance to fix something in their lives, but they never think that changing anything would make them very, very different people. I guess it’s all part of finding out what we want and where we want to go.
Aaah, yes. I know the situation. In fact, I’m at a stage in my life at the moment where I’m wondering what the hell I’m doing.
Perhaps getting myself into a load of trouble…
Good luck with everything. I look forward to more… frequent posts.
Hi Sergio, welcome back, It´s a sad story but at the ends we have overcaffeinated posts again.
Sergio, take care and keep in touch!
regards!
Dude, you’re so right. It has to be the right person at the right time…
And hey, glad to know you’re back..a ver en cuanto nos abandonas esta vez ;-P tal vez cuando mencionemos el comic? Bromeo, bromeo!!
:-P
Ha regresado!
No estaba muerto!…
Sergiooooooo!
Variados vertebrados viceralmente vistosos ven con aumentada alegria alguna aparicion amistosa tuya en estas tierras canadienses.
osease, cuando?
Regresó!!!!
I cannot say how happy I am to have you back :)
Wow… glad to see you are back… these things can be great outlets…
The way I see it, ur not suppose to know wat ur doing, ever. Only in death, and sometimes not even then, which leads to people passing out due to constipation thinking ‘Did I die? Is this heaven?’ looking at the taco they just passed and realising heaven smells faintly like their bathroom (which I don’t doubt it does anyway.)
The point is, u shouldn’t feel bad or worried about wat ur doing because the only people who do know are people who lead routine lives, go to their behind the desk jobs, come home, eat dinner, kiss the children good-night, repeat tomorrow. Now these people are either happy with this or end up blowing their brains out previously thinking ‘How the fuck did it get to this?’
You could have it so much better, but u could also have it so much worse. So could everyone else, thats how it is.
But then wat the fuck do I know? : )
Looks like someone has Thesaurus.com open when they write blog posts…
Que onda compita!!
Saludos, la vida no te ha tratado tan mal como dices porque, al menos en la foto, se nota que estas comiendo bien canijo.
Relationships going wrong is just part of everybody’s life. Just remember how lucky you are when you meet someone it is so hard to say goodbye to.
Lo bueno es que comida no te ha faltado, coincido con Rodrigo en que se ve que estas comiendo bastante bien.
Es bueno saber de ti, y espero sigas haciendo mas posts en tu site.
Ánimo!!
Quiubo pinche Sergay! Animo k’on, cheer-up! Total, una mas para los anales de la historia.
Coincido con el comentario de que posiblemente algo este mal…de tu lado. La cuestión es determinar qué y trabajar en ello. Tal vez sólo sea que sigues buscando un prototipo de fémina con el cual pues lamentablemente no tienes muchas posibilidades de éxito.
No te desanimes y pues dale tiempo al tiempo.
Por otro lado me da gusto poder saludarte y a ver cuando vienes de visita méndigo.
Saludos y mucha suerte wy.
/Enciso
… *Hug*
Tampoco dejes que te digan que estás gordo ;)
Échale ganas!
Saludos desde Alemania!
He’s back !! :-)