Day summary and colloquialism I drafted but not posted before

Berkeley, Monday, September 14, 2026 1:04 am

I used to have a routine of posting here after writing a page or so. I would see if I do that, or keep this for discharge when needed.

This for memory of things. A week ago or so, I learned about the film writers, ZAZ, which are the initials of a group of three jew writers from the middle west of the United States, who wrote the film Airplane!

It is a quite a funny film. They also wrote or participated in a film full of parody sketches in the late 1970s, which they said allowed them the financial freedom to produce airplane. The one of the late 1970s was Kentucky Fried Movie. I watched a ten percent of the film.

OK. In other topic, yesterday morning I was listening to arrival of the professional road bike riders in La Vuelta to the Queen stage, which is the name given to the hardest stage of a ground tour. It usually finishes with a steep climb. I guess the term might imply that a king corona a la reina.

The interesting thing to listen to the radio, Carrusel Deportivo, in cadena ser, was the amount of colloquialisms during a time span of about three minutes.

One of them at different times said: “Como la copa de un pino” and “El miedo guarda la viña”

Another said: “Como un piano”.

They were describing different things. The first one means great, the second one shy or not trying, the third one means big.

Of course, it sounds quite interesting when instead of saying the plain word to describe a situation, they were full of aphorism.

The results were great for Spain in home territory, near Granada. Mikel Landa, which by his name should be from the mountains in the North, might be Basque Country, won the stage, after several years. He has a groupy of fans, and jokers, whose support is called Landismo. Happy for his victory.

Enric Mass, who might be Catalan, because how his name sounds, I might be wrong. He won La Vuelta.

Sunday, arrived to mass late. I was running and editing a code. I arrived at the end of the second reading.

Need to get more serious with the timing. Which always get back, to why even I write here.

At the supermarket. I did my routine of the payment, and during conversation, I placed a 5% discount next to where I pay. It is quite methodological, and the cashier always get. So, the brain was not focused on corrections. Forgot to ask him to scan, and already tapped the card. I could have saved 9 bucks or so, which could be about 80% of the full cost of the round trip by bart to the city. Or about a 73% of two trips by bus from the city. Or nearly three discounted one way trips. Or about two tacos. Or two hot dogs. Or about the cost of one year of a domain. Or about 40% of the monthly adobe license, or about 45% of an a.i. license?

Anyways. I have been testing some a.i. models as assistant to my code. It is great. But it is interesting how much control and knowledge one needs to have to evaluate the machine answers. As an assistant is great. As teacher could be flawed. It can make errors. So, better to use it as a tool in things that one knows. But not to read generated text. For that is better to take a book or attend to lecture, or run your own experiment.