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Anonymous Asked:
What are Ruined Polaroids? What IS Ruined Polaroids. Apparently, a guy named William Miller takes photos using a broken polaroid and considers them abstract art.
Srry by the late answer. I have been neglecting the blog a bit. Since very few people ask.
And I sincerely don’t like abstract art.
Puerto Rico History III
Juan Ponce de Leon, a fortune-seeking Spaniard, Hidalgo noble with no fortune, started colonization in Puerto Rico in 1508, taking Diego Colon (Cristopher’s son) out of the scheme. Juan Ponce de Leon had fought in the Reconquista, in Granada. He had worked in the Dominican Republic, in the Villa de Salvaleon, where he had stopped indigenous rebellions and learned their language. He established the first settlement in Puerto Rico, Caparra. And was sent here by Juan Ceron, governor at that time of La Espanola.
The problem was, Caparra was marshy, and there were a lot of mosquitoes there. Tainos took care of these mosquitoes with special oils, but since Spaniards didn’t know about them, they started moving the city after its completion in 1509 to the San Juan Bay. There it stood until 1521.
In 1509, the Villa de Sotomayor was established, founded by Cristobal de Sotomayor. It was located at the west of Puerto Rico, where now stands Cabo Rojo. In 1510, to 1520, started the allotment of Tainos, by Juan Ponce de Leon, called the Repartimiento. They were supposed to guarantee their protection, food, clothes and education, but of course they didn’t, and the Tainos became slaves.
In 1511, Agueybana (a cacique from Guanica) rebelled against the Spaniards, in what were called the Guasabaras Tainas. He did so because Juan Ponce de Leon had violated the moral contract he had with the Tainos after they had performed the Guaitiao, a ceremony of name exchanging, where they swore peace and friendship (this ceremony was very serious for the Tainos) There died a lot of Taino leaders. By 1520, 80% of the Tainos were dead, and their religion completely forgotten. That’s why, in 1515, africans were brought to Puerto Rico, to work as slaves.
In 1520, La Fortaleza de Santa Catalina started being built, along with the Castillo San Felipe del Morro, and Fort San Geronimo, until their completion in 1533. These forts were built to protect the little island of San Juan.
Please ask, it fun! :)
 
“We’re all just Stardust”
“You can never forget someone who loved you, because… Just like the smallest star will make a microscopic change in the route of a comet, the most unimportant person will make a microscopic change in the route of our lives.”
Lucas Casales
cineo:
Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
Celine in Before Sunrise (1995)
Cinematography at its best, as art. This is a beautiful movie. You MUST watch it.
Puerto Rico History II (Tainos)
We’ve talked about one side of those who make up Puerto Rico, the Spanish. But when they first got here, there were people already living here, the Tainos (the indigenous race). These Tainos came from the Arawaks, and they populated all of the Caribbean Islands. There were Tainos in Puerto Rico, Jamaica and a bit of Cuba. In Cuba were also the Guanahatabeyes, in La Espanola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) were the Macoriges, Ciboyenes and some Tainos.
Before the Tainos became what they were when they were found, they evolved from a different civilization of Igneris, and Sub-Tainos. Taino meant, in their language, “good”, as they were very good people, very friendly, unlike some other indigenous societies. They were organized in Yucayeques, which meant “City of Yuca” (Yuca is a very good viand, know in english as Cassava). They lived off agriculture, in Conucos, where they planted, most of it was Yuca.
Yucayeques were small villages composed of the Batey (central plaza), Barbacoas (guarding posts), Conucos (where they planted), Guatu (central fire), Bohios (houses), and the Caney (house of the Cacique or Guare, leader).
Of course, they lived with social strata. At the top of the pyramid were the Guoxeris, which meant the Cacique and his family. He had absolute power over religious things, political and economical. He declared war, and started the batu (a ball game, and parties)(Tainos loved to party). Mantuheris came next in the pyramid. They were the warriors who also worked on agriculture. The Baharis was composed of the Bohique and his family, he was the medical witch of the tribe. He was the one who started the Cojoba, a ritual where Tainos cleared out their stomachs and inhaled some drug to communicate with the gods. The Naborias were the lowest in society. They were the ones that worked in construction and hunted and fished.
Its very important to know that they celebrated a lot of Areytos (parties) and they were very good and friendly people, as that was one of the things that Puertorican culture adopted for some time. Of course, now they are all a bunch of as*holes as everywhere on Earth, but oh well…
Please, ask questions, it pleases me. :)
“لو حاورت ألف عالم لغلبته .. ولو حاورنى جاهل واحد لغلبنى ..”
Imam Ali
“If I debate with one thousand scholars, I would win…. If I debate with one ignorant, I would lose”
I know you will think this is mean, but this is true in so many human interactions. (Source: thirdworldtraveler, via yanagoveg)
Hugh Jackman in The Fountain
Telomeres
Telomeres are basically the hat found at the end of chromosomes. They are formed by the same nucleic acids as the DNA, but their function isn’t of being part of the genetic code. They prevent the genetic code from fusing with other parts of DNA, and from wearing out.
The only cells in the human body that contain telomerase (the enzyme that create telomeres) are stem cells and some white blood cells. This said, its safe to say that human cells, somatic cells, do not contain telomerase, thus, they do not create telomeres. The fixed amount of telomeres accounts for a fixed amount of cell division. So when we get to a certain time in our life, our cells stop dividing, and we start wearing out, dying of old age.
Just theorysing (or something) here, but, if we injected a bit of telomerase into our bodies, in order to create telomeres, wouldn’t that make us live healthier, longer? Of course, that is dangerous, because cancer cells also have telomerase, which account for their fast duplication. But we shouldn’t let fear get the best of us, and study this.
You can still ask anything you want.
Happiness is...: Short Story
lunaticstefy314:
I wrote this story a year ago, but i found it saved on my computer, so I decided “What the heck? Let’s post it”:
I waited on one of the tables outside Burrito Gallery for Pam to show…
(Written by my gf) :) about a quarter of a million years ago
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