Category: Misc
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Empathy, Friendship and Common Sense
2009 was a very complicated year in my life. A lot of people know that. But almost nobody knows the story of everything I went through that year. Context I think it’s important to list some of the things that helped 2009 become such a horrible year. Of all that happened in 2008, most of…
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Adiós, 2020
And here we go, into the most predictable post in this blog: the year review. It’s probably he only constant here that every year I try and do a balance of the year that ends and talk about what I expect from the year that is beginning. Needless to say, 2020 was a shitty year.…
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A quick update
It has been a long while since I’ve posted anything here. After coming back from Germany things went completely crazy, so I ended up neglecting the blog a bit. It happens every once in a while; looking back through the history of this blog one quickly realizes that, among about a gazillion random notes, there…
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Graphics!
I have a confession to make: I bought a new graphics card. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal. Especially when you check prices for these things on international stores. But with the dolar rampant the prices in Brazil have taken a turn for the worse (as if they weren’t bad enough). I…
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Relativity
…and in a flash it’s already March. So much has happened in the first two months of the year that it would be pointless to try and recall everything. Let’s just say that some things worked out, some things didn’t. And, from all the trouble we had for the past few months, I hope we…
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2010 is over.
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” –Benjamin Franklin 2010 began, as almost every year does, as a promise. A promise that good things would happen, that problems would be solved and forgotten and that nothing would go wrong. As…
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Self-inflicted epiphanic subliminal message
Today was a particularly good day for me. The reasons are beyond the scope of this blog, so suffice it to say that an epiphany I achieved today during the afternoon made me understand a lot of the past decade. I couldn’t really say much here without giving away a lot of things I don’t…