tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74361122024-03-08T04:49:46.493+00:00...Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.comBlogger408125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-20091741345666431442012-01-04T00:25:00.001+00:002012-01-04T00:25:06.192+00:00Hoje é um dia destes.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-70533263509107035072009-01-01T21:22:00.002+00:002009-01-01T21:27:22.966+00:00Sempre que olho para trás, algo se perdeu.<div>Não sei mais escrever. Nem vou tentar trocar palavras simples por palavras eruditas. Ou inverter a ordem das palavras dentro da frase, para soar mais intelectual. Já não sou um ser literário.</div><div><br /></div><div>Um dia destes eu continuo.</div><div><br /></div><div>Que se lixe.</div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-80376816126677214112008-08-01T00:46:00.002+01:002008-08-01T00:52:02.007+01:00Friday FiveDid I really think I would regularly post these friday five questions? Silly me.<br />These are last from last week..<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. If you could change one life-changing event in the life of someone important to you, would you?</span><br />I think I wouldn't dare. I'm not a powerfull enough calculator to predict how things would be would I change anything.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Which do you think is easier to do, being friends for many years, or being life partners for many years?</span><br />Clearly, friends. Statistics can show you it's not a matter of opinion at all.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Have you ever walked away from someone you considered a friend?</span><br />Glad that verb (consider) is in the past tense. Yes, right when I noticed they wheren't the friends I thought they were.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. If you had to choose between telling the truth and hurting a friend or lying and making them happy, which would you choose?</span><br />Depends on the lie, obviously.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Which would you rather hear--the truth which will hurt, or the comforting lie?</span><br />Again, depends on the lie. Again, obviously.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />This week's five are about hair.<br />I'm not posting questions I can answer completetly with a word.<br /></div></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-9923303051379294712008-07-15T21:39:00.002+01:002008-07-15T21:51:35.279+01:00iTunes memeOpen up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.<br /><br />How many songs total: 1035<br />How many hours or days of music: 3 days<br />Most recently played: "Paralyzed" by The Cardigans<br />Most played: "Yawny At The Apocalypse" by Andrew Bird<br />Most recently added: Every song in the album "Grand Turismo" by the Cardigans<br /><br />Sort by song title:<br />First Song: "Across the Universe" performed by Rufus Wainwright<br />Last Song: "2113" by Coheed and Cambria<br /><br />Sort by time:<br />Shortest Song: "One Last Woo-Hoo For The Pullman" by Sufjan Stevens, lasting 7 seconds. Although Radiopepito.com radio stream comes first because it's time is "continuous".<br />Longest Song: "Piano sonata in B flat major, D 960 I Molto moderato" by Wilhelm Kempff<br /><br />Sort by album:<br />First album: "Agætis Byrjun" by Sigur Ros<br />Last album: "29" by Ryan Adams<br /><br />First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Country Yard" by The Vines<br /><br />Search the following and state how many songs come up:<br />Death - 24<br />Life - 16<br />Love - 46<br />Hate - 0<br />You - 72<br />Sex - 1Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-74823667049470338882008-07-15T03:37:00.002+01:002008-07-15T03:48:40.514+01:00friday fiveOut of having nothing to write about (or more precisely, out being laze and never writing things while I remember them), the <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/thefridayfive">Friday Five</a> seemed worth the try. Not that there's a reason to try to keep this up. This site is what now, 4 years?<div><br /><div>Here we go, last Friday's:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;">1. Do you have a favorite cause that you support?<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">No... I'm thinking of something though, for some time near (when I stabilize my bank account). I think I would support the expression of atheist beliefs if I ever felt it threatened (not in Portugal, though).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">2. If so, how do you support it?<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Probably through founding/leading/being active in discussion groups that go beyond the "internet forum" kind of activity. Maybe through writing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering etc)?<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I helped some people work on a shelter of stray dogs. Just a few times. No meetings involved.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">4. Have you ever led any group?<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">No... I did led one or two debates in my life. In one or two particular meetings. Always somewhat discretely.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">5. If so, how was your experience with it?<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Unexpectedly pleasant.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Yes E., I'm stealing your moves here. </span></div></span></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-9316937970176125352008-07-07T01:46:00.003+01:002008-07-07T01:57:14.906+01:00The Big ReadFrom Erin's LJ, I got this neat thing:<br /><br /><br /><br />"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."<br />1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.<br />2) Italicize those you intend to read.<br />3) Underline the books you really love (and strikethroughthe ones you hate!).<br />4) Reprint this list in your own LJ!<br /><br /><br />1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [is it worth reading after seeing the movie?]<br />2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien<br />3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte<br />4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling<br />5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee<br />6 The Bible [argh, urge to strike, must fight...]<br />7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell</span><br />9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman<br />10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens<br />11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott<br />12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller</span><br />14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read quite a few but I doubt all.)<br />15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier<br />16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien<br />17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger </span><br />20 Middlemarch - George Eliot<br />21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell<br />22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald<br />23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u>25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams</span></u><br />26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh<br />27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll</span><br />30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame<br />31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy<br />32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens<br />33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis<br />34 Emma - Jane Austen<br />35 Persuasion - Jane Austen<br />36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis<br />37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini<br />38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres<br />39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [Saw the movie!]<br />40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">41 Animal Farm - George Orwell</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown</span> [false alarm kind of book]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez</span><br />44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving<br />45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins<br />46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery<br />47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy<br />48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding</span><br />50 Atonement - Ian McEwan<br />51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [Own this, too]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u>52 Dune - Frank Herbert [forever favorite]</span></u><br />53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons<br />54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen<br />55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth<br />56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br />57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</span><br />59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon<br />60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Own this.]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck</span><br />62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov<br />63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt<br />64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold<br />65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas<br />66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac<br />67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy<br />68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding<br />69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie<br />70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville<br />71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens<br />72 Dracula - Bram Stoker<br />73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett<br />74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson<br />75 Ulysses - James Joyce<br />76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath<br />77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome<br />78 Germinal - Emile Zola<br />79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray<br />80 Possession - AS Byatt<br />81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens<br />82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell<br />83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker<br />84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro<br />85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert<br />86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry<br />87 Charlotte's Web - EB White<br />88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom<br />89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br />90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton<br />91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery</span><br />93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks<br />94 Watership Down - Richard Adams<br />95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole<br />96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas</span><br />98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare<br />99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl<br />100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo<br /><br /><br /><br />So, I'm one of those guys that would italicize every line because I'd love to read every single book on the planet except maybe The Secret (if I truly wish, believe and act like so, I won't). So I did it for those I've heard good things about.<br />Same thing for the underlined ones - only life lasting top favorites.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-77859903244877888132008-07-06T03:09:00.004+01:002008-07-06T03:11:08.566+01:00I love that song by Amy Winehouse:<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">You got me begging you for mercy</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">But I said no, no, no.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-53718201172145166262008-06-03T01:33:00.004+01:002008-06-03T01:37:00.238+01:00I'm sorry butI don't think Jorge Palma is absolutely fantastic and the best living being that ever existed and will ever exist.<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">In fact, I don't think it's cool that he drinks a lot. Unlike every fan, I think the sight of Jorge Palma dragging himself drunk through the streets is just deplorable.</span></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-53116550297398064492008-04-04T02:19:00.002+01:002008-04-04T02:21:21.370+01:00NewtonMacs have always had better looking everything.<div>They even have better looking virus now.</div><div><br /></div><div>Take a look:</div><div><a href="http://www.troika.uk.com/virus.htm">www.troika.uk.com/virus.htm</a></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-10831781727938937372008-03-04T00:18:00.001+00:002008-03-04T00:21:00.467+00:00<blockquote>"Life makes the wonders of technology seem commonplace"<br /></blockquote><br />Richard Dawkins<br />in the documentary <span style="font-style: italic;">Growing Up In The Universe</span>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-24829403321603989402008-02-26T01:34:00.005+00:002008-02-26T01:55:16.041+00:00Too unfunnyBeing contemporary with Herman Enciclopédia and similar achievements in national comedy, it's hard for me to believe how not funny Herman José became.<br />I mean it. I'm looking at his videos, he's right there in front of my eyes, being not funny at all, and still I just can't believe it. It's too unfunny.<br /><br /><a href="http://videos.sapo.pt/stLSHBjwcgf0639nHD2B">Os Incorrigíveis - Herman #23</a> - Latest clip from Herman José for the online show Os Incorrigíveis.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-49376689446392716672008-01-01T01:03:00.000+00:002008-01-01T01:07:12.567+00:00Unbelievable1 am, January first. You'd think everybody is drunk by now, vomiting somewhere, having fun and celebrating the new year. Instead, I've got more sources for the torrents I'm downloading than I ever had. Can you believe these people are actually online on the first hours of the year?<br />Geez, how pathetic. Get a life.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-11867456746381923942007-12-25T19:24:00.000+00:002007-12-25T19:31:46.217+00:00For all of themYour presence brings nothing good to me. I never miss you.<br />I wish you could step out of my life. Move somewhere, we could lose each other addresses and phone numbers.<br />Never to hear from you again. To think of you maybe once per year, at night as I fall asleep and think about random things. To not care, really, not want to know where you are right now. To answer "I don't know" when people ask about you for some reason, it all sounds good.<br />I really don't care.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-68002175296903701532007-12-14T02:10:00.000+00:002007-12-14T02:11:45.591+00:00PossibilityI think I might be back.<br />I don't promise a long stay, though.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-20368717402447845822007-08-22T13:06:00.001+01:002009-01-25T20:13:22.787+00:00Demonoid Invitation CodeHave fun:<br /><br />229dtl8d0fqihu9qgnolpnq5gpkrwilori7k4<br /><br />Hope it's still active when someone finds this.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EDIT 24/01/2009: For those who can't read right, all I did was post a code. I'm not a distributor nor a vending machine. Stop asking, that code was all I had and a willfully gave it away. Congratulations to the lucky first viewer, all other stop asking. you're not getting a code.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-46075963402383868082007-02-09T01:35:00.000+00:002007-02-08T20:33:11.232+00:00The Catcher in the Rye"All right. Listen to me a minute now... I may not word this as memorably as I'd like to, but I'll write you a letter about it in a day or two. Then you can get it all straight. But listen now, anyway." He started concentrating again. Then he said, "This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they really even got started".<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Catcher in the Rye<br /></span>J.D. Salinger<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-76602572272421600222007-01-27T01:20:00.000+00:002007-01-27T01:35:08.732+00:00Temporal Lobe EpilepsyPequeno resumo de algo que aprendi hoje:<br /><br />Uma parcela dos pacientes que sofrem de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy">Epilepsia dos lobos temporais</a>, além das crises e convulsões de que frequentemente sofrem, vivem experiências religiosas que, entre sensações e certezas várias, incluem visões.<br />Foi rápido até os cientistas começarem a explorar a ligação entre essa experiência religiosa sobrenatural e a hiperactividade dos lobos.<br />Michael Persinger, expert em <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology">neuroteologia</a>, afirmou a certa altura que podia, em laboratório, induzir a experiência religiosa e as sensações que a acompanham em qualquer pessoa normal, sem sofrer de epilepsia dos lobos temporais. Para isto, apetrechou um capacete com toda a sci-fi crap que os cientistas têm, de modo a poder manipular campos electromagnéticos que atravessassem os lobos temporais.<br />O resultado disto foi ter conseguido induzir, entre outras coisas, o que é conhecido por "sensed presence". Escuso de explicar o que isto é - já toda a gente sentiu a presença de alguma coisa numa sala onde não está mais ninguém.<br /><br />Isto retoma a questão de estarmos ou não programados desde nascença para crer no místico. E tendo em conta que as reacções obtidas em laboratório derivaram de manipulação de campos magnéticos, é perfeitamente explicável que hajam relatos de visões e que a grande prova do místico seja frequentemente o "Existe porque sinto que". Se há coisa abundante na terra, além de gente estúpida, poluição e mcdonald's, são campos magnéticos. Raios, até o planeta tem um. Qualquer electrão tem um...<br /><br />Há um documentário da BBC que explica tudo isto. Chama-se God On The Brain e faz parte de um programa chamado Horizon. Pode ser importado ou sacado do emule.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-76634035501027135862007-01-27T00:02:00.000+00:002007-01-27T00:05:03.769+00:00- Boa tarde, já é sócio do benfica?<br />- Não, não sou muito fã de futebol.<br />- Pronto. Se quiser ver a águia do Benfica é na loja já aí à sua esquerda.<br />- Ah ok, obrigado.<br /><br />Faz sentido. Como não sou fã de futebol, estou ansioso para ver a merda da águia do Benfica. Oh, até ia ao jardim zoológico amanhã mas como posso ver a águia escuso de lá ir. Vou ali à loja do Benfica e sinto-me logo no deserto africano, só de ver a águia.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-18118100986836460082007-01-25T23:51:00.000+00:002007-01-27T00:06:05.819+00:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">there's a glossary of dirty words for people just like you</span><br /></div>Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-12471984849737035532007-01-06T18:31:00.000+00:002007-01-06T18:47:10.861+00:00Escreveste-me cartas. Não devias ter feito isso. Mas foi no passado, na altura em que não sabias que no futuro te ias aperceber que as cartas que me escreveste, não as devias ter escrito.<br />Tudo o que vale, vale num tempo que eventualmente se esgota. Embora as palavras sejam pretensiosas, e queiram significar para sempre. E se as palavras estão fora de prazo, é porque o tempo muda e não porque o tempo passa. E se o tempo muda, espera-se das palavras que se esvaziem, e nada mais. Porque é que escrevemos cartas? Não devíamos ter escrito. Se o tempo passa, serve-nos mais se nada guardarmos dele.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-56622332451988305612007-01-05T16:08:00.000+00:002007-01-05T16:10:22.587+00:00Instant quote of the dayAssim que nos sentamos no bar, o Sérgio pega no <a href="http://nao-sou-deus.blogspot.com/2007/01/sob-viso-cientfica-dos-fenmenos-e.html">livro</a> que tenho na mão e vira-o para ler o título. E diz-me "Aprendes mais nos transportes públicos que durante o ano nesta escola".Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-82534478598024253842007-01-03T00:41:00.000+00:002007-01-03T00:56:32.645+00:00Cartas a Uma Jovem MatemáticaSobre a visão científica dos fenómenos e a beleza:<br /><br /><blockquote>"O arco íris que tu vês e o arco íris que eu vejo são criados por gotas de chuva diferentes. Os nossos olhos estão em sítios diferentes, por isso detectamos cones [de luz] diferentes, produzidos por gotas diferentes.<br />Os arco-íris são pessoais.<br />Algumas pessoas acham que este tipo de compreensão «estraga» a experiência emocional. Eu acho que isso é um disparate. Mostra uma forma de complacência estética deprimente. As pessoas que fazem tais afirmações gostam, muitas vezes, de se fazerem passar pelo tipo poético, aberto às maravilhas do mundo, mas de facto padecem de uma grave falta de curiosidade: recusam-se a acreditar que o mundo possa ser mais maravilhoso do que as suas próprias imaginações ilimitadas. A natureza é sempre mais profunda, mais rica e mais interessante do que aquilo que se pensa, e a matemática dá-te uma forma muito poderosa de apreciares este facto. A capacidade de <span style="font-style: italic;">compreender </span>é uma das diferenças mais importantes entre os seres humanos e outros animais, e deveríamos valorizá-la. Há imensos animais que têm emoções, mas tanto quanto sabemos só os humanos pensam racionalmente. Eu diria que a minha compreensão da geometria do arco-íris acrescenta uma nova dimensão à sua beleza. Não retira nada à experiência emocional"</blockquote><br /><br /><br />Do livro <span style="font-style: italic;">Cartas a Uma Jovem Matemática</span><br />de Ian Stewart.<br /><br />Para todos aqueles que não conseguem entender o que é ciência, sem que isso os impeça de menosprezar uma visão mecânica e determinista da realidade.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-56783292781042616792007-01-02T16:56:00.000+00:002007-01-02T17:05:19.870+00:00No meu sono, apercebo-me que a décima valsa de chopin, Op. 69 nº 2, é sobre o dia a dia da <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza">máfia japonesa</a>, um erro perdoado, e um segundo pago com a própria vida, numa execução. Um funeral, e a memória. Fim.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-32661114142216215142007-01-01T22:05:00.000+00:002007-01-01T22:14:12.086+00:00<blockquote>"So this is the new year<br />And i don't feel any different.<br />The clanking of crystal<br />Explosions off in the distance.<br /><br />So this is the new year<br />And I have no resolutions<br />For selfl assigned penance<br />For problems with easy solutions<br /><br />So everybody put your best suit or dress on<br />Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once<br />Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn<br />As thirty dialogues bleed into one"</blockquote>Death Cab For Cutie, <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Year</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Dois um zero. Muda um dígito na contagem ocidental do período de tempo de decidimos definir por ano. O dia seguinte é igual ao anterior, na verdade, mas tentamos enganar-nos até à sensação de recomeçar, de nova oportunidade.<br />Alguém mais se lembra das pessoas que trabalham nas protagens? Eu lembro-me todos os anos. Deve ser chato. Paciência.<br />Há cerca de 80 passagens de ano numa vida. Continuo a não ver o imperativo de celebrar cada uma delas. Consigo ver a raridad de, por exemplo, a passagem do milénio. E mesmo assim toda a gente a celebrou no ano errado. O povo é tão idiota, meu Deus. Vamos fingir que estamos a comemorar a passagem do milénio, o que começámos a contar em 1006.<br /><br />Na primeira semana, com o recomeçar das aulas e o retomar dos círculos rotineiros que não mudaram com a passagem do dígito, caras velhas perguntam-me: "Então, nem uma mensagem a desejar um bom ano?". Enfim, nunca me tinha apercebido que os meus amigos eram pessoas tão inseguras. Ao ponto de, se eu não lhes mandar uma mensagem (ou telefonar) a desejar bom ano, eles acreditem fielmente que eu como as doze passas e doze vezes desejo que eles tenham uma merda de ano. Sim, eles precisam que eu mande a mensagem ou telefone a confirmar que é o meu desejo que o ano de 2007 lhes seja agradável. Se eu me esquecer, ficam a pensar que ao adormecer, pedi a Deus que lhes desse cancro.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7436112.post-51117118565171725212006-12-28T01:51:00.000+00:002006-12-28T01:53:12.410+00:00Acabei de vir da casa de banho. Fui cagar e, ao entrar, olhei à volta para ver se havia papel.<br /><br />Eu fui cagar, e antes de me sentar na sanita, eu tive o cuidado de ver se havia papel. Para evitar possíveis desconfortos.<br /><br />Não havia papel, de facto. E eu lembrei-me disto <span style="font-weight: bold;">antes</span> de me sentar para cagar!<br /><br />Algo está para acontecer. Algo grande.<br />O universo vai implodir ou qualquer coisa assim.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03770366633956788854noreply@blogger.com0