Author: fmneto
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…