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artificial

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this strip has kind of been very inspirational to me since the week it was released. it’s something funny and interesting to think of, i believe, and i think i’ve solved my view of the puzzle.

in a nutshell, and like i’ve always studied in school, nature has a nice way of being. rule of thumb: it regenerates itself, it is self-sustainable, its systems are cyclic!

we, humans, and the systems that we come up with, on the other hand, rule of thumb: are not! that’s what’s artificial to me. and no, humans weren’t created to invent plastic! =D

crisis of a middle-class citizen

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it hasn’t always been the case, but le’me say that i regard myself as an intelligent, handsome guy. back in grade school my intelligence meant that teachers enjoyed setting my goals up high, and my handsomeness meant that people wouldn’t always account for my intelligence. what my intelligence therefore meant was that my anticipation of the future was one of a hard-working man, most devoted to his professional success, and what my handsomeness therefore meant was that people disappointed me for discarding my ability to attract and delight, inside as much as out.

i thankfully never fully embraced these ideas, though.

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making the world a slower, smaller place since ’00

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it is easy to consider that sometimes technology doesn’t evolve even faster because we are short minded. it’s the classic (days old) example of looking for life only where there’s water and oxygen. ok, sometimes the handicap is just our inability to open our minds, but other times it is just stupidity or, more excusably, imposition of our senses.

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all work, no play

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i finally went around buying a new computer. i actually waited a couple of days to start writing this in the new laptop and, my god, this keyboard is an absolute delight to type on…

i scanned the market a lot, as always. at first i was hoping to buy a macbook pro. the pros were battery life, operating system, and good design/construction. the problem is that, more than that, i always look for a good performance/cost compromise. current 13” mbps aren’t the case, and i’d have to wait more than a couple more months for a then-outdated spec list. Continue reading →

sign here, here, and here

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a few days ago i sold my soul to the institute of telecommunications, here in aveiro. this means a couple of months of android, for starters. i remember saying something about how stupidly android handles applications, compared to bada. well, yesterday i was reading some stuff about it and, my god, this all makes a whole lot of sense to me. it’s a little different approach to the concept of applications. android might just be the next best thing to search, from google. it’s a shame that this is java (i’d still like to see some efficiency data compared to c++, or other real language) and google can’t sell (remember google wave? buzz, what’s that?).