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Beautiful Album Covers II

lamelas — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:26:33 +0000

Revenge, 7 Reasons (1989)

A ambição é uma energia positiva

lamelas — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:57:45 +0000

Gosto deste anúncio. Muito. É das melhores publicidades que já vi em muito tempo. E caraças, tem o Dylan a cantar, muito melhor que a Nelly Furtado no 2004.
Não, não vou terminar a dar vivas à selecção porque isso é piroso.

Mas a verdade é que a ambição é uma energia positiva.

lamelas — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:33:17 +0000

From the amazingly funny Geek and Poke

Geek Kamasutra

lamelas — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:17:19 +0000

Processing Power

lamelas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:09:00 +0000

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

A beautiful video made using the Processing language/framework/whatever. Manual beat detection is definitely interesting.

Pages, you deceived me

lamelas — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:06:00 +0000

Since I changed to a Mac I never needed to use a word processor. So I never worked neither with Pages neither with Microsoft Word for the OS X.
Last week I was assigned to write a paper for the Game Theory subject with 6 to 10 pages. Even before I chose a subject (since it was free, as along as it was related with Game Theory, I took some time to choose it) I decided I would use Pages. I know exactly what to expect from Microsoft Word, I tried it thousands of times, I used it for writing my entire life (with some exceptions to Vim for writing LaTeX documents) and so this would be a wonderful time for trying out a new word processor.
Pages is pretty clean, the default templates are very nice and they look very good. I liked the fact that I could drag a picture from Safari directly into the cover page.
So I started to write. My paper is about the wonderful subject of Mixed Strategies in Game Theory. I wrote one page and a half and I was very happy with my Pages experience. I saved my work and went home.

Today, the unthinkable happened.
I was writing for about an hour, I had written another page and a half and I wanted to insert some mathematical formula. I found the option that would allow me to do that on one of the menus and clicked it. Pages crashed and I chose the option to relaunch it, of course. I was expecting to lose some of my work but I lost everything I wrote today. I was so sad. I never expected any word processor not to have a auto-save option activated by default and I never expected any word processor not to have a temporary file that he would be able to recover if the software crashed.

Yes, it was my fault because I didn’t save my work regularly. But still, word processors must have a way of taking care of that. In case we forget.

So remember kids, computer lesson number 5489793: always save your work with regularity.

EDIT: Wikipedia really has all the information a person needs to survive.

Forgetfulness

lamelas — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:08:00 +0000

The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,

as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,

something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.

Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,
not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.

It has floated away down a dark mythological river
whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,
well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.

No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.

a beautiful poem by Billy Collins

Understading art for geeks

lamelas — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:15:00 +0000

An amazing set of pictures on Flickr about art and how to explain it to geeks

here