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unintended (dis)honesty

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this morning i slipped to my boss/coordinator/teacher that i don’t have aspirations of going too far in my professional career. well, given some thought, that’s sort of a lie. what i usually mean by this is that i don’t want to be the head of something too large to handle on the nine to five schedule! for as long as i’ve known myself, i always felt great for being complimented. i often get that for being good at what i do, so i’ll keep trying!

for the next “year”, the big thesis road, my mind is more or less settled on working on top of odtone. maybe you laptop-owner-linux-user will read my name in a few manpages in the future! =)

but not for long

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it was just a few days ago that i complained about not being able to spend big to get big. well, it’s been about 6 years now, and i finally bought a real camera. browsing for prices this weekend i ended up on the mediamarkt.pt shitty website, which advertised a sale for today: no vat! i couldn’t resist, it had to be now. and it was. and i’m glad!

23%, thanks jose socrates, means that i bought the d7000 + 18-105mm kit, and get a few hundred bucks left. these will be spent there on a 35mm f/1.8, plus a memory card and we’ll see what else. probably a bag!

i didn’t want the 18-105 anyway, i don’t fancy the plastic bayonet, but no body-only option was available. i take it as a good thing, though, being forced to buy a general purpose zoom lens. buying just the 35mm could be a bad option since i don’t want to spend any more money on this any time soon. besides the card and the bag, i still need a polarizing and nd filter, and a tripod, and i’m done for years to come!

many thanks, unknowingly, go to ken rockwell and florian freundt! of course, dpreview as well.

stuck

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for a long time i have assumed, as one of my most best kept qualities, that i’m capable of deferring gratification. well, i’m certainly capable of it, but i actually thought that it was an internal wiring of my decisions! :p

recently, though, i’ve come to think that this is perhaps not the case. i have something wired, but it no longer looks like delayed gratification.

it behaves more like a disappointment paralysis! Continue reading →

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

problemacia descontornável

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numa tentativa infantil de erradicar os problemas da minha ligação adsl durante a noite, vi-me forçado a configurar novamente o mutt e msmtp para enviar mensagens periódicas aos serviços de apoio da sapo e pt.

o problema, efectivamente, tem a ver com quebras de ligação a todo o minuto a partir das 18 horas, por exemplo, e até ser hora de deitar. na verdade a ligação não cai com frqeuência, é mais ao contrário. fica frequentemente desligada e liga-se momentaneamente. como não conseguem garantir-me os débitos de uns miseros 4MB a ligação tenta ressincronizar a uma taxa inferior, mas volta a falhar de qualquer modo. no ano passado baixaram-me o downstream para 3MB, mas este ano a ligação conseguiu ficar ainda pior.

if you ask me, someone has ever more clients, but no hardware upgrade concerns.

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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?).