All posts by Fernando Carrillo Castro

Huge comic book fan, geek by choice

LACS first meeting

When I started my bachelors in informatics, I was randomly assigned a tutor as everybody else, I didn’t how he was nor he knew me.

Sometime in the semester, he scheduled a meeting to get to know me and plan for the next semester.

I asked around how he was, my programming teacher told me that he was one of the best teachers and was certainly the brightest, so I went with high expectations.

When I met him, he was wearing casual clothes, not at all like an academic snob I thought he will be.

We talked about his role in my career and stuff like that, at the end of the meeting I asked him for his big Simpsons’ poster and he told me that he loved the Simpsons, we talked about them around 1 hour and he told me the was afraid of becoming stupid like Homer, cuz’ he was getting fatter and balder with the time. I remember I spotted Homer dressed with other clothes and he explained that he was Homer’s brother and that he only appeared so far in 1 episode so far.

Visual BASIC and change

On mid 2011, I started teaching Visual BASIC and I asked LACS what did he think about the language, since he taught C# around the time and he was very fond of it.

He told me that he learned the language but didn’t like that every release changed everything, from the syntax to how it worked on the background; the only constant in that language is the change

Later when Visual Studio 2013 came out, I noticed a few changes, so I knew he was right

Apple watch 5 and costco

I bought and apple watch during a sale on late september, I had to wait 4 weeks to finally get it and it ended up being sand pink, so I called customer service and they told me that I could either go to a store, get the money and buy it there or return the product and wait to receive a new one.

 

I did nothing since I had to go with a friend, the one with the account to buy it.So, I waited a day and got a call with the following options:

  1. I was offer 1500 MXN to keep the product
  2. Start the return and it will take 3 week
  3. The local store didn’t have the product available, so I will have to go, get my money back and pay extra 500 MXN to buy it in another store.

Logically I have a pink sand apple watch now and will buy some faceplate and different strap for it, things I was planning to buy anyway.