Author: fmneto

  • Nice new toys

    I have acquired new toys. The first and foremost is my new set of speakers. Now I have a reasonable set of speakers with a sub-woofer, which means I finally can listen to music in a minimally decent way since early 2002, when a robbery at home took that away from me. I just hope…

  • Towel Day!

    Happy Towel Day, boys and girls. I heard in the Phorums that today (actually, yesterday) was also the Star Wars day – the 30th anniversary of the first movie’s premiere. Truly a remarkable day, wasn’t it? It was also remarkable due to the fact of a few of us productive members of the Physics Institute…

  • Sometimes… I don’t like being me.

    Probably I shouldn’t take it so seriously – to be honest, I think I’m being really harsh on myself since yesterday. I almost messed up my girlfriend’s life – she’s on another country and was counting on me to run some errands that would assure her safe stay there. I know why I’m making it…

  • Please yell if you’re paying attention

    I wonder how many people still visit this blog. Since there’s seldom any comment to my posts, I cannot say if people read this or not. Of course, I have ShinyStat reports, but then again they show me only how many visits the blog has, and not how many people actually read it.

  • Programming C++

    Years ago, I was an employee at the Veterinary School of my university. Sometime around the end of 2003 I decided that was not what I wanted to do for a living; what I really wanted was to do research, to find new things. I got that job because, in my first undergrad years, I…

  • It’s Alive!!

    Some things never cease to amaze me. Months ago my computer simply stopped functioning. It wouldn’t start up for anything. I was afraid it was some problem with the motherboard and that I would have to buy a new one. After giving it some thought, I realized that it was much more likely that it…

  • About the Mega-Rant

    The Mega-Rant I started days ago should have been a triple post. However, laziness and other minor details kept me from posting here, and so it probably is going to stay just a single poster. In other news, oh well, the Stairway to Heaven post was about me not knowing well enough what the heck…