Personal and family

30 hours after the earthquake, I confirmed my parents, siblings and son are all well. Also Fabiola's family in Chile are OK; we have been able to contact most of our friends and they are also fine.

More information in Manzana Mecánica (in Spanish).

15 years ago in this same month I was completely focused in studying for the PAA/PCE, which was like the SAT exam in the US. It had two main subjects in the PAA part: maths and Spanish, and several subjects in the PCE part: maths, physics, chemistry, biology, history, etc. I studied like crazy for the maths part using an old physics book that included a lot of math problems.

I knew I had a chance for getting a top score at this test, I just had to focus and avoid making stupid mistakes. But I failed. I said that -1 had 1 square root: i and failed to count -i, so I had one of the 90 or so questions wrong. There were 2 or 3 guys who tied in the first place in maths and I was not one of them.

As a consolation price, I got the best score in physics, answering all 50 questions or so without errors. It was a consequence of studying maths with a physics book.

In the interview clipped here, I say that I work at the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) with children -- at that time I thought you could be a Christian-Atheist, but that's a long story :-). I also say that the PAA/PCE favors rich students as they are able to pay for lessons outside the high school to prepare themselves better.

I also say that I want to study to become an Engineer (I did) and I say --and I did not remember this-- that I would like to work independently as an entrepreneur.

In retrospective, these 15 years make sense. I did not want to study more physics, and I am OK with that. I wanted to become an Engineer, and I did. I also wanted to become an entrepreneur, and I also did, but at some point I had to leave that to focus on finishing my PhD. Academia was not in my plans 15 years ago, it appeared later on, and that's fine too. With 16 years, you cannot predict so well your future :-)

Lo sabía con certeza hace más de un año, que ya no veía bien. Más allá de los cinco metros, las cosas comienzan a perder su nitidez. No sé cuando empezó. Hace mucho tiempo que no conduzco, y no sabía por qué, pero es que todas las señales del camino son borrosas, y no veo los otros autos hasta que están muy encima. Pero lo que realmente me incomoda es que si no me siento adelante en una charla (y tengo que ir a muchas) no veo las transparencias a menos que las hayan escrito con letra muy grande.

Rengo, el lugar donde me crié, es una pequeña ciudad, eminentemente agraria, que se encuentra a una hora y media al sur de Santiago de Chile, En esta ciudad, viví desde los 5 hasta los 11 años.

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Esta es mi voluntad si muero o quedo severamente
incapacitado, la que será cumplida por todos
quienes me aprecien y respeten.

Deseo que en caso de pérdida de la conciencia
irrecuperable se aplique la eutanasia.

Deseo donar todos mis órganos, y que el resto sea
quemado sin ceremonias.

Deseo que Fabiola Leyton reciba todas las cosas
que tengo. Un 40% de él o los seguros de vida que
existan son para mi hijo y deben ser adminitrados
por Fabiola para él hasta que cumpla la mayoría de
edad.

Deseo que se le entregue acceso a todas mis
cuentas en computadores, incluso las personales, a
Fabiola Leyton, quien nombrará un grupo de amigos
de confianza, para que pongan en un web público lo
que encuentren, no necesitan ordenarlo, sólo
dejarlo accesible públicamente, quitando el
material que crean que compromete o involucra a
otras personas.

Deseo que quienes me conocieron sepan que viví una
vida feliz y llena de satisfacciones.

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