Got Skype?

I do! Up and running once again, with a new mic and traffic set as high priority!! Just tested for half an hour with my great friend KV!

Skype me, folks!!

Google Talk :-(

For now I'm discouraging people from switching to Google's new IM network. It simply does not offer enough benefit to justify further fragmentation of the IM world. We're probably never going to see meaningful innovation and advancement of IM utility until we find a way to get past the horrible plumbing that exists underneath, and Google Talk as it exists today is doing more harm to that goal than good. No amount of vapor or rumor regarding gee-whiz VoIP or search capabilities is going to offset the closed nature of their new network for me.

The solution to universal instant messaging has to be more than just convincing the entire planet to use the same closed-loop network -- no matter who is running it. We're no better off with centralized instant messaging than we would be if one company ran everyone's email or if one company ran a single, giant web server where we all had pages. It's time to embrace a truly workable and distributed topology that will move us past these ridiculous incompatibilities. Google's vague statements about "federated" peering with other large networks doesn't change things at all. It's still closed if you have to pre-arrange contact and pre-qualify to talk with them.


Full article: On Google Talk, I apparently talk a lot

!! :: depressed

QOTD

If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward...
...it installs Windows 2000

  -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org

Concerning Hackers

The term hacking has an unfortunate reputation in the popular press, where it often refers to someone who breaks into systems or wreaks havoc with computers. Among enthusiasts, on the other hand, the term hack refers to a "quick-n-dirty" solution to a problem or a clever way to do something. The term hacker is very much a compliment, praising someone for being creative and having the technical chops to get things done.

  -- BSD Hacks, Preface

QOTD

"Sikizé cubrí o mano é nóis. Quente memo."
  -- ...

"People will do anything to survive."

    -- Lincoln Six-Echo

The Island: astonishing thriller with cool special effects and inteligent sutile and not-so-sutile messages.

  "Just cause you wanna eat the burger, doesn't mean you wanna meet the cow."
    -- McCord

  "You know when you really want something, you close your eyes and wish for it really hard? God is the guy that ignores you."
    -- McCord


Pulp Fiction: cool, but far from the best movie I've ever seen. And I don't feel like I'm watching it again so soon.


My weekend: nice.

+=( || |
Jacob's Creek, Cabernet Syrah (red) and Chardonnay (white): both excellent, cheers to Australia!

Concha Y Toro - Casillero Del Diablo, Syrah: wanna try it once again.

Cinco Tierras, Malbec: pistachio nut? Might be but I didn't like this one.

I'm fat!!

| || )=+ :: Morande Pionero, Cabernet Sauvignon :: ok!!

SEND + MORE = MONEY

In the following problem, each letter represents a unique digit from 0 to 9. You must determine what digit each letter represents from the simple equation below. Keep in mind that two letters cannot represent the same digit and you should do fine!

   S E N D
+  M O R E
----------
 M O N E Y

I had never solved this classic logic problem till yesterday. First time I was introduced to it was in the first year of college and I don't know why I waited so much time to get the guts to solve it at once...

!!: "...I don't know if I'll be faithful to my next girlfriend. Why should I be?? I've been faithful and unfaithful in the past...
There's one thing I really hate when I'm dating a girl which is having to deal with my desire for other women. Sooner or later, it always comes and when it does I'm already a cheater: if I carry this desire through, I cheat on her; if I don't, I cheat on myself. I'd rather this desire didn't exist, that I find somebody who would make me want only her for me never to have to cheat on anybody!"

Gandalf: "To live is having to constantly deal with desires."

!!: "Will this one always exist?"

Gandalf: "Yes, always, desires are part of the human nature."

!!: "..."

Gandalf: "When you are dating a girl and you feel attracted by another one, what's the reason why you don't carry this desire through?"

!!: "Well... hmmm... because 'it's not nice', 'it's not socially approved'... no! If I don't carry it through it's because somehow I myself don't accept it."

Gandalf: "And you don't accept it for..?"

!!: "For the respect I have for her, for the love I have for her and, even if she never gets to know I cheated on her, this would certainly shake our relationship. This is something I wouldn't want."

Gandalf: "Because this relationship is something important for you..."

!!: "Yes..."

Gandalf: "So taking care of your relationship is another desire of you, isn't it?"

!!: "Yes..."

Gandalf: "...and either way you would have to choose between two of your desires..."

!!: "Yes..."

Gandalf: "...for life is like that, to constantly deal with desires, to weight them and opt for what's really the most important..."


    -- 8106.du!!, August/2003

QOTW

"Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end."

  -- Don Juan DeMarco

You can never hide from my feelings

Could he know in advance he wouldn't be strong enough to resist? Perhaps, for maturity not always comes from experience. However, until that moment, nobody had ever taught him there would never be a thin red line to warn of the point where things have gotten beyond friendship and he wasn't being nice with his girl anymore. As he didn't know feelings emerge gradually, he did nothing to stop it. Today he understands he started to compromise his commitment since he first stared at that passion from the past that way.

It was a fresh and clear night. Everybody there but the girl, at home, was probably in bed before the beginning of the party. It's unfair to say he had the intention of cheating on her before getting to the club. Actually, he had always been the first one to argue against lies and disrespect...

(...)

  "I can't do it", he said, showing her the ring he had on his thumb. Looking at it all the memory of the night when he and his girl finally became an official couple came to his mind.
  "Take it out", she answered. "Later you put it back again."
Without waiting for an answer, she helped him removing the ring from his finger and kissed him in the mouth. He immediately felt the warm and wet touch of her tongue on his in that very involving kiss, but the feeling of guilt was stronger than anything inside him and it didn't allow him to enjoy. He started to shake and there was nothing he could do to stop it. The more they kissed, the more he shook.

Four kisses later they decided to stop it.
  "Never mind, you just can't. Don't worry, nobody saw a thing."
  "Apart from him..."
Still holding each other they looked aside and there was a scary black cat deeply looking at them. He felt as if it was his girl morphed into that cat just to send him a message: "You can never hide from my feelings."


    -- Autobiography by ES!!, chapter V: "A Night in 1997"

Two things I've just learned

- Santa Helena - Cabernet Sauvignon - Reserved really sucks!
- Leões de Israel, a Brazilian reggae band, rulez!!

Horoscope :: Forever's gonna start tonight

You wanna know what this is all about, huh?

Perhaps you haven't noticed before but you've been planting seeds, man.
Now, the more time goes by, the more you've seen your fruits come up, all of them big, juicy and sweet.
Don't be scared, dude, just follow the Primary Advise:

"Never forget who you are, son."

!! :: OsM

Hope

Just hope the horoscope I read yesterday is right...

(Astrology?!? What the f*ck is happening, dude??)

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"Saber amar é saber deixar alguem te amar."

    -- Herbert Vianna, Saber Amar

Yesterday

Came back home from the office on foot. Yes, about 7-8km, really satisfying. On the way I found a lighter and met two friends with whom I could have had dinner but didn't.

Entering my bedroom, I had some new ideas for rearranging the furniture. I liked the way it's got.

Then the girls came in, Flavia and Lali, long time no see. It was great to be with together with them once again.

Went to bed relatively early and was awaken by the phone ^^

Today I feel fully recovered from my weekend's oddity.

_\|/_ :: no, thanks!

Folks!!

Google Fight

!! :: ok..

LOST!

(and missing you already, babe..)

Bottom of every bottle...

"Don't forget who you are, son."

QOTD

"In the winter you want hot chocolate, in the summer you want ice cream. It's as simple as that."
  -- Anit, the German guy

Concha Y Toro - Cabernet Sauvinon, 2002

All of Jazz, The Penguin and the German guy. Almost one year since the last time I heard Penguin speaking English. What a funny night! For a couple hours I felt exactly the same way I did the last times I was abroad. I was somewhere else, with different people, living a another life;

Suddently 762's invitation got very tempting once again...

Before you give up...

I know, once again, it's been I long time since a last posted something here. Honestly I can't even say if I'm still able to write in English anymore. Well, whatever, I think I just keep writing in anything but "Brazilian Language" (as my girl calls it) because of one or other non-pt_BR-speaker reader I happen to have once in a while.

I owe you, three or four people, who have bravely accessed this thing almost every day looking for something about me, a picture, an idea, a signal, anything, and motivated by these scarce accesses I decided to appear.

I was on vacation in the end of July, I deserved it, I actually needed it. I had completely forgotten how it feels like to wake up and do absolutely nothing, look at the ceiling and noticing how white it is, get out of the bed and ask myself "should I go to the movies or to the swimming pool today?", this is really (really!) relaxing.

Once on vacation, let's travel, why not? I spend a weekend in Águas de Lindóia and another one in Campos de Jordão, basically taking my time to rest and have fun with my girl.

Apart from that, I don't have any interesting news to tell you. Oh, I had my left ear drilled again, it's been more than 6 years since I had first (and last) tried it and, without thinking too much, I decided I was about to try it again. I liked it, it's cool! Now let's hope for it not to destroy my ear again.

Another thing, as a picture I posted some weeks ago suggests, I´ve started to appreciate a good wine. The more I read about it, and the more I try it, the more I enjoy drinking. Hm, it's good to emphasize this is NOT any kind of drug apology. I know alcohol is the strongest and most dangerous drug I've ever tried but the idea is not to get drunk nor to let it make any kind of harm to myself, on the contrary, small amounts of wine every day, combined with the old and good green tea, help me keep the doctor away!

What else? Hum, taking care of my car, taking care of my teeth, got a new gorgeous backpack... nah, nothing interesting for you.

I have to produce.

I have to create.

I have to learn new stuff.

This is what I've been missing more. I might join a new band doing backing vocals. If it works out I explain better.

See you soon.

Desencapetameto Total

"Venha receber a Prece Violenta..."

Is there any legitimate way to earn money in this world?? Go to Hell...