https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Best album of Vangelis:

1.- Odes. (No comment. Just run and get it in NO remaster release please.)
2.- the B side of Heaven and Hell is just perfect and original like not much else in the music history.
3.- Mask is an instant KO! The most grandioso, adorable. In style, like, say Carmina Burana. Pity it lacks a bit of the electro-feeling but you will be knocked out and won't be able to stand up from then on...!
4.- Soil Festivities. Meditative journey inwards. The deepest thing ever...
5.- Direct. The technocratics father's rebirth...
6.- City. Just great, fresh and new again.
7.- 1492. Grandioso. His last great album.
8.- The A side of Spiral (3 tracks) is a blast and a typical example of the 70's electro discoverings.
9.- Earth. Ancient, original, energetic, versatile. A bit flower-power era but the good is that he was dare enough to energetise it all with electro-spice.
10.-Opera Sauvage. Emotional and dramatic like never. Bit underrated maybe due to the accent only to the dramatic melodies instead of the technochratics developements.

Good albums:

1.- China. (Himalaya is one of his greatest)
2.- Albedo 039 (2 Instant mega classics there)
3.- L' apocalipse des animaux. The birth of ambient! Just calm, haunting...
4.- Dragon. Try getting it on CD! A very "offtopic" from the later releases. Jazzy, flower-power, prog.
5.- See you later. With some excellent tracks as: Multi track suggestion. Look for the rare version with BONUSES! I have it.
6.- Short stories. (with Jon Anderson of Yes.)
7.- Friends of Mr. Cairo. The 1st. and last track is the thing. (with Jon Anderson of Yes.)
8.- Private collection (with Jon Anderson of Yes.It's not a sampler).
9.- Page of life. (with Jon Anderson of Yes once again.)Superb tracks there: Money, Be a good friend of mine... Watch-out: US-CD has different tracks: the best song is missing and it opens with a different track. Strange.. Also look for the Another Page of life with 5 rare different tracks!
10.- Mythodea. There are some good movements developing but never building up. Album of ever-promising next minutes which never satisfies the expectation. But the main theme at the end is simply shocking!!...

Meditative, experimental (nonmusic) albums which are hard to rank due to lack of "music":

1.- Beabourg
2.- Invisible connections

Boring albums, not bad though:

1.- Ignacio
2.- Hypothesis (early 1971 release, space-jazz, organs, drums, 70's psy-prog.)
3.- Voices (with some good tracks though)
4.- Oceanic (with some good tracks though)
5.- Le Féte sauvage (with some good tracks though)
6.- Chariots of fire. (with 1-2 good tracks though but almost no electro-feeling)
7.- Custeau
8.- Mounty on the Bounty (it will disappoint you if you grab it)
9.- Cavafy
10.- Bitter moon
11.- Nurenberg
12.- L'Arbre de vie
13.- Missing
14.- Francesco
15.- Sex power
16.- Blade Runner. Please notice: I've met this CD first and saw the movie LATER. Without having seen the film, I've found this CD boring and ranked it here. The movie is absolutely one of the best ever and the soundtrack is just perfect but not as a standard Vangelis serial-release. It's boring me and I find it very uninteresting, little kitschy and very lack of the electronic-progress. It's a background music, a soundtrack and not a stand-alone something. I know, Blade Runner fans like I am (!) defend their beloved and will attack me. I'm sorry to say, but I've had almost 30 years to get deeply involved into this CD but I find almost nothing interesting there and I can't tell any better despite of my best intentions, sorry... (Hearing the sax first time was an immediate disappointment...) Interesting thing is, that this album has sooo many different releases, that I can't even follow after. Different tracks, versions... OK, I think to grab the official 3-CD box is the best. The other 2 CD is new material and were only inspired by the movie. A little filler but a must.

Worst Vangelis albums (what not necessarily means that one can't listen or for heaven's sake, enjoy it, but somehow I had to create a ranking and self-explanatory not every releases can fit to the highest standard even if it's the fabulous Vangelis work of art:

1.- Alexander.
2.- Antarctica (Hmmm... not that soo very bad, but...)
3.- Rhapsodies (The last track is great)
4.- Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit (with French singing all along, like on a camp-fire.)
5.- El Greco. (Filler, bad, plastic electro sonic timbres.)

Once again: the ranking is a matter of subjective feeling altough I'm very much into the electronic music since my childhood and I make music also. So you can maybe take a little account on me because I even have a bit deeper innersight as a pro-synth collector and user. Pity, the great Vangelis doesn't pioneering the electronic music anymore. He used to be as original, path-finder as: J-M. Jarre, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream but after having the early years passed, he just relies on his good old equipments and mastery. In every 8-10 years he renews his equipments and the ways of approach to them and that certain albums brings us something new side of Vangelis. Pity, his last change, renewing can be pointed at ca. the album of "City" which was 20 years ago. Hm... Everybody loves Vangelis and we all wish all the best renewing for him and wait for a new work of art.

Source: https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/7027-Vangelis?page=4

Carlo M. Cipolla (1922-2000)

1. Siempre e inevitablemente cualquiera de nosotros subestima el número de individuos estúpidos en circulación.
2. La probabilidad de que una persona dada sea estúpida es independiente de cualquier otra característica propia de dicha persona.
3. Una persona es estúpida si causa daño a otras personas o grupo de personas sin obtener ella ganancia personal alguna, o, incluso peor, provocándose daño a sí misma en el proceso.
4. Las personas no estúpidas siempre subestiman el potencial dañino de la gente estúpida; constantemente olvidan que en cualquier momento, en cualquier lugar y en cualquier circunstancia, asociarse con individuos estúpidos constituye invariablemente un error costoso.
5. Una persona estúpida es el tipo de persona más peligrosa que puede existir.
 Fuente: http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-36986310

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201312/the-true-meaning-friendship

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CollatzProblem.html

At my middle age, when there's a light in the deep horizon that suggests you are not that terribly far away from your retirement, you have lucid moments after being too many years in the same company. You discover what makes you sizzle, what turns you on, what makes you get up in the morning and expend countless hours commuting flights and in the frontlines along your team mates and troops fighting hard as hell, and what does not. And to your despair, you find out there are things you will never commit with at this stage. It's like a Jerry Maguire feeling. In many companies you have to follow the bi-yearly mantra. You cannot create doubts about your entire rendition to the current corporate way.
There are many things that are not allowed in corporations: being honest, direct, reflect your doubts and ask for explanations. If you raise concern, you seem to be marked forever. Your head needs to be at the same level as others, and you have to ask for your daily soma dose which you have to take with happiness.
You hear a few comments around that from your fellow colleagues or direct managers...the one I prefer is: "the corporation expended a lot of money on that". I really admire my colleagues that embrace the corporate mantras without hesitation, or doubt, as Jesuchrist second coming...every couple of years...I can't.
That does not make me better than them. I'd say the contrary. They are better...they get promoted, they don't create trouble. I have to chose silence and obliteration of my doubts, as I cannot see anybody standing up and telling what is in many others'minds.
And all of a sudden, nobody remembers the last mantra. Everybody looks into their peer's eyes and jump in the air with sudden happiness...
I am sorry. I believe I deliver. I work hard to get the results, my plan, my forecast...I can't eat more frogs, even with the promise they will turn into princesses when I kiss them...I wish we could have expend this money in having a couple of more chemists in the lab, or that rig we are missing to get these unique approvals...but my thinking is different from the Corporation...
I guess I turned old school. My interests in the Corporation are different from what the corporation believes it needs. The results are not important, just the mantra. There you can progress...fill up these never ending new fashion programs and projects and you will grow inside the company...nobody will check them a couple of years down the road and you've lost 30% of your market but you hit the jackpot cause you did what the corporation wanted to hear...and then you move on and on till I can tell you a few of these high flyers end up in nameless departments after a couple or three waves...the golden cages, the elephant cemeteries are almost full...and their burden consumes resources and valuable people who is let to leave.
You grew your business 30% without resources and never got any credit or public acknowledgement? It's your fault you could not follow the new mantra...this is not important is not the latest vogue...

Estructura de Kagome

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BAmero_de_Dunbar

Debemos arrojar a los océanos del tiempo una botella de náufragos siderales, para que el universo sepa de nosotros lo que no han de contar las cucarachas que nos sobrevivirán: Que aquí existió un mundo donde prevaleció el sufrimiento y la injusticia, pero donde conocimos el amor y donde fuimos capaces de imaginar la felicidad”.

Gabriel García Márquez