Tuesday, July 31, 2007
English version
My friend Albert has been so kind to link my blog from his, and in the comments someone has given the URL for the direct automated translation to English by Google. After seeing how Google botches the translation, I decided to put up the English version myself. You can find it in the sidebar. [For the English version, you can't find it here obviously, you'll find a link to go back to the Spanish one.]
Practising with video
To practise in the blogosphere and learn how to post a YouTube video in the blog, here's the video of my stellar apparition on Spanish TV. This was the reception at the ICM2006 (International Congress of Mathematicians) held in Madrid in August 2006, where these bozos from España Directo got me to talk.
On top of it, we had to do the interview twice because during the first one, the cameraman screwed up and it didn't get recorded :)
On top of it, we had to do the interview twice because during the first one, the cameraman screwed up and it didn't get recorded :)
The name
After thinking for awhile and consider other names for the blog (names like BCN-NY, or Pep in Harlem), I thought of this Harlem Nights, which I loved from the moment I thought of it. I believe that you don't really know a city until you have experienced its nights. So there I went, decided to give the blog this name, and buy the domain nochesdeharlem.com, with which the name of the blog will remain fixed forever and ever.
But then I had the stupid idea of googling "Harlem nights" to see what showed up, and I found out with great despair that there's an Eddie Murphy movie from 1989 with this exact same title. But I am not changing mine, I like it, I don't want to change it and to have to buy another domain. So Harlem Nights it is, I still like it a lot. And I am not seeing the movie, I can't stand Eddie Murphy. Screw him, now he's got competition :)
But then I had the stupid idea of googling "Harlem nights" to see what showed up, and I found out with great despair that there's an Eddie Murphy movie from 1989 with this exact same title. But I am not changing mine, I like it, I don't want to change it and to have to buy another domain. So Harlem Nights it is, I still like it a lot. And I am not seeing the movie, I can't stand Eddie Murphy. Screw him, now he's got competition :)
Harlem
Harlem, as everybody knows, is the predominantly black neighborhood of New York. In my first visit in 1992, me and two friends went for a walk in the heart of Harlem, 125th Street, also known as Martin Luther King Boulevard. It was quite eerie to be the only whites in sight, and some buildings had symptoms of having burned recently.
But since Rudolph Giuliani hired 40,000 policemen for the city of New York while he was mayor, the crime rate descended dramatically, and actually Harlem has become one of the trendy areas of the city to live, a more quiet one, far away from Lower Manhattan, bustling with tourists and executives.
Harlem extends, more or less, from 110th Street (the northern edge of Central Park) to 155th Street (Manhattan ends at 225th Street approximately). Although in the East, Spanish Harlem extends down to 96th Street, whereas in the West it doesn't start until the 125th.
As you can see in the map, located in the middle of Harlem is the campus of the City College of New York, the university which will be my operational base during this visit. And in one corner of campus, marked with the red dot, you can find The Towers at CCNY, an apartment complex belonging to the university, and in which the studio 1-414-A will be my home for the next seven months, at the reasonable price of $1100. Although the price includes high-speed Internet, so I can update this blog very easily.
But since Rudolph Giuliani hired 40,000 policemen for the city of New York while he was mayor, the crime rate descended dramatically, and actually Harlem has become one of the trendy areas of the city to live, a more quiet one, far away from Lower Manhattan, bustling with tourists and executives.
Harlem extends, more or less, from 110th Street (the northern edge of Central Park) to 155th Street (Manhattan ends at 225th Street approximately). Although in the East, Spanish Harlem extends down to 96th Street, whereas in the West it doesn't start until the 125th.
As you can see in the map, located in the middle of Harlem is the campus of the City College of New York, the university which will be my operational base during this visit. And in one corner of campus, marked with the red dot, you can find The Towers at CCNY, an apartment complex belonging to the university, and in which the studio 1-414-A will be my home for the next seven months, at the reasonable price of $1100. Although the price includes high-speed Internet, so I can update this blog very easily.
Welcome!
In ten days I am leaving to spend six months in New York. I will fill in here my impressions, things that happen to me, and whatever shocks me, surprises me, and all those which I think could be interesting. I will also put up my ideas, delusions and obsessions. Keep an eye on the blog. Welcome!
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