... it will go wrong, I am pissed with my mp3 player stop working due to software on the day before I go to Chamonix, really not cool.
Anyways I am going to Chamonix so no posts for a week, on the bright side I’ll share pictures when I get back, so I’ll try to tell about what happened there. For now nothing much to say, had a day that can be described as "if it can go wrong, it will go wrong" oh well better days will come, I can't be depressed I am going to Chamonix for a week, and all I need to do is a 30 minutes presentation, seems like a pretty good deal :P
Anyways I’ll leave you guys with my song of the moment, because I still have a document to finish and a bag to pack so cheers and see you in a week.
Great sound, great lyric, simply GREAT...
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
"The right state of your mind"
Today I went to a concert and for the first time in my life the main band wasn't the reason I was there. The main band was whoever, basically a cross between a punk band and Irish music, they reminded me of something a dear friend once told me, "those who can't play make noise", which in this case wasn't true, I could see they can play, but they aren't good enough creatively which will give wings for me to right a post about people that have the technique but not the genius.
Anyways I was there to see Mad Caddies which I heard about 2 weeks ago through a friend that convinced me to go with him to the concert. First time I heard it was ok, nice sound, cheerful, interesting (and I know the word means nothing, but I was curious). They are good live, the songs work better with their performance, it's like a cross between jazz, folk and punk, but nothing really stands out. The thing is I don't understand how a band like this could be playing support for a punk band, honestly it makes no sense, they are good beyond just technique. Anyways wanted to share with you one of their songs, hope you like it.
One needs the right state of mind for everything in life, including going to a concert with a lot of freaks around :P.
Anyways I was there to see Mad Caddies which I heard about 2 weeks ago through a friend that convinced me to go with him to the concert. First time I heard it was ok, nice sound, cheerful, interesting (and I know the word means nothing, but I was curious). They are good live, the songs work better with their performance, it's like a cross between jazz, folk and punk, but nothing really stands out. The thing is I don't understand how a band like this could be playing support for a punk band, honestly it makes no sense, they are good beyond just technique. Anyways wanted to share with you one of their songs, hope you like it.
One needs the right state of mind for everything in life, including going to a concert with a lot of freaks around :P.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Cloverfield
This is my first movie review online, and I feel the urge to do it.
Let's start with how I came to see this movie, if you can't call it that, but moving on, so a friend of mine told me about this awesome movie that is coming out a few weeks ago, I was like cool we'll see it when it comes out. Today he told me lets go and see it today otherwise we wont have a chance to (we are going to a conference this week), so I said ok.
THE FUCKING WORST MOVIE I SEEN IN A LONG TIME and I see pretty shitty movies. OK that is a bit much, but come on at least when I see a shitty movie I expect it to be shit, this is like the a shitty movie under the umbrella of pseudo intellectuals idiots that call it awesome, like if it is different it has to be good. Fuck that it doesn't and it isn't. The movie is a story kind of like Godzilla, told in a Blair witch project kind of way, which reminds FUCK this stupid concept if I want to see amateur movies I’ll watch them on youtube. Wait let me be fair special effects are brilliant, sound is up there with the visual effects, that is the ones you can see since it is from a FUCKING portable camera's perspective.
The story line is at minimum ridiculous, meaning unrealistic, acting is so so, sometimes ridiculously bad, the camera is like the super camera, I would like to buy one like that it is literally indestructible, all in all a AWFUL movie.
Normally I would be open to new perspectives in movies, but this is not new, it simply mixes some concepts and turns out a shit movie.
And you should read some of the stuff people write about it, my friend told me to look it up, honestly people should get a brain of their own and maybe use it.
If this is what an intellectual type likes, I would rather be called a stupid fuck. There is more I could say about it, but I’ll finish with it is 85 minutes long, even porn last longer than that, and honestly I’ve seen better porn than this shit.
If you see it PLEASE, PLEASE COMMENT, especially if you disagree with me because I would like to personally KICK YOU IN THE FACE.
P.S. - For the comments saying it is an intense movie, intense is my head ache after it...
Let's start with how I came to see this movie, if you can't call it that, but moving on, so a friend of mine told me about this awesome movie that is coming out a few weeks ago, I was like cool we'll see it when it comes out. Today he told me lets go and see it today otherwise we wont have a chance to (we are going to a conference this week), so I said ok.
THE FUCKING WORST MOVIE I SEEN IN A LONG TIME and I see pretty shitty movies. OK that is a bit much, but come on at least when I see a shitty movie I expect it to be shit, this is like the a shitty movie under the umbrella of pseudo intellectuals idiots that call it awesome, like if it is different it has to be good. Fuck that it doesn't and it isn't. The movie is a story kind of like Godzilla, told in a Blair witch project kind of way, which reminds FUCK this stupid concept if I want to see amateur movies I’ll watch them on youtube. Wait let me be fair special effects are brilliant, sound is up there with the visual effects, that is the ones you can see since it is from a FUCKING portable camera's perspective.
The story line is at minimum ridiculous, meaning unrealistic, acting is so so, sometimes ridiculously bad, the camera is like the super camera, I would like to buy one like that it is literally indestructible, all in all a AWFUL movie.
Normally I would be open to new perspectives in movies, but this is not new, it simply mixes some concepts and turns out a shit movie.
And you should read some of the stuff people write about it, my friend told me to look it up, honestly people should get a brain of their own and maybe use it.
If this is what an intellectual type likes, I would rather be called a stupid fuck. There is more I could say about it, but I’ll finish with it is 85 minutes long, even porn last longer than that, and honestly I’ve seen better porn than this shit.
If you see it PLEASE, PLEASE COMMENT, especially if you disagree with me because I would like to personally KICK YOU IN THE FACE.
P.S. - For the comments saying it is an intense movie, intense is my head ache after it...
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Going with the flow of keys
Hey series of zeros and ones, turn into reality by the tailoring of electric signals.
the coherence of science is probably the thing that draws me to it, not that you understand everything, like most non science people think, but that quest for the fact that everything has a reason, even if we can't see it, we aim for that, the enlightenment, the understanding that is what drives us, the need to understand. Maybe not the need but the will, that sounds a bit more appropriate.
Life in the general concept of my life, or your for that matter, has a tendency for thinking it goes beyond mere definition, we like to think there is no mathematical interval that can state life is in there, we don't feel it, thus we don't tend to apply logic on things we don't feel, that would be a waste of energy :P.
Of course this is not true, we indeed do put logic to life, normally other people's life, our own not so much, not that comfortable :P.
Bringing science into the field of life is one of those things that really pisses me off, yet I seem to be one of those people that actually does it regardless of being a waste of energy.
Science and life, chaos theory on life that makes sense right? Ok maybe I should say something about this theory; it states the randomness of things, the unpredictability of things due to too many variables. One of the famous quotes for this one is “the flapping of butterfly wings can case a tornado on the other side of the world" and perhaps it can, that is the beauty of this theory, allow for practically anything. It's the loophole that science found to counter the unpredictive factors, fucking awesome if you ask me, instead of saying we have a problem let's try and find the case, one would say well fuck it, next time around it will probably work :P.
This would be cool on life (I bet you thought I was going somewhere else with this talk about life and science, and indeed I was, but the words when this way who am I to judge then), you go up to a girl and say "hello beautiful", if it doesn't work, instead of over thinking, why not chaos theory, next time will work :P.
It is quite funny how we can see this behavior in nature, of animals trying to do what they know works, even if the variables change, the ability to adapt depends on the power to assess the situation, a fly will try to go through a close window, regardless of how many times it fails, or animal that comes back for food after the supply stops. We feel comfort on what we know, and sometimes we questions and test what we know, but only to collect the data and reassess or position, better to think and then act.
Question that I raise is this, is it better to hit the glass of the window once, learn from it and be trapped or keep trying for what you know is there but can't reach? I mean isn't the window going to open eventually? Or quoting chaos theory, eventually we can go through the glass; it is a matter of odds :P
the coherence of science is probably the thing that draws me to it, not that you understand everything, like most non science people think, but that quest for the fact that everything has a reason, even if we can't see it, we aim for that, the enlightenment, the understanding that is what drives us, the need to understand. Maybe not the need but the will, that sounds a bit more appropriate.
Life in the general concept of my life, or your for that matter, has a tendency for thinking it goes beyond mere definition, we like to think there is no mathematical interval that can state life is in there, we don't feel it, thus we don't tend to apply logic on things we don't feel, that would be a waste of energy :P.
Of course this is not true, we indeed do put logic to life, normally other people's life, our own not so much, not that comfortable :P.
Bringing science into the field of life is one of those things that really pisses me off, yet I seem to be one of those people that actually does it regardless of being a waste of energy.
Science and life, chaos theory on life that makes sense right? Ok maybe I should say something about this theory; it states the randomness of things, the unpredictability of things due to too many variables. One of the famous quotes for this one is “the flapping of butterfly wings can case a tornado on the other side of the world" and perhaps it can, that is the beauty of this theory, allow for practically anything. It's the loophole that science found to counter the unpredictive factors, fucking awesome if you ask me, instead of saying we have a problem let's try and find the case, one would say well fuck it, next time around it will probably work :P.
This would be cool on life (I bet you thought I was going somewhere else with this talk about life and science, and indeed I was, but the words when this way who am I to judge then), you go up to a girl and say "hello beautiful", if it doesn't work, instead of over thinking, why not chaos theory, next time will work :P.
It is quite funny how we can see this behavior in nature, of animals trying to do what they know works, even if the variables change, the ability to adapt depends on the power to assess the situation, a fly will try to go through a close window, regardless of how many times it fails, or animal that comes back for food after the supply stops. We feel comfort on what we know, and sometimes we questions and test what we know, but only to collect the data and reassess or position, better to think and then act.
Question that I raise is this, is it better to hit the glass of the window once, learn from it and be trapped or keep trying for what you know is there but can't reach? I mean isn't the window going to open eventually? Or quoting chaos theory, eventually we can go through the glass; it is a matter of odds :P
tiny balance
Hey whoever, did my shopping, not too bad this time, moved along through another day, a fucking cold day I might add.
I am thinking of what I’ve been putting up in this blog, not sure it is the right recipe for the intended objectives, since these have a tendency to become blurred by life.
Anyways it's been over a month since I start this, and I am quite proud that I manages to keep it up, nothing new there since one of my main characteristics is to me proud :P. Joking a side I managed to put simple posts to complex posts about myself (although in abstract, still it is an achievement). Lately I’ve been reluctant to put up my feelings, since I am not doing it I’ll at least say why.
At a certain point I simply close down my thought lines, not shutting them down (Unfortunately I can't), but my adding damage control thoughts that incapacitate finishing the thought lines, translating: I simply over think things to the point of uncertainty. This enables the possibility of logic taking control, thus limiting the amount of information that I communicate out. It sounds complex but it isn't, basically I shut myself out, but not really because I couldn't argue doing so :P.
It is always about the balance between what works and what you allow yourself to do, conscious is a dam thing at times, but I always give a chance to the unexpected, if it appears. (Or so I tell myself :P)
Anyways might be going into these abstract thinking one of these days, but I am afraid of not being able to make sense of them in written text, still I’ll try, as I’ve been trying, I think all of you give me at least that.
That is about it, hope you liked it so far and that you keep reading, otherwise I write for myself, which a came to re-realize is not a bad thing ;P
I am thinking of what I’ve been putting up in this blog, not sure it is the right recipe for the intended objectives, since these have a tendency to become blurred by life.
Anyways it's been over a month since I start this, and I am quite proud that I manages to keep it up, nothing new there since one of my main characteristics is to me proud :P. Joking a side I managed to put simple posts to complex posts about myself (although in abstract, still it is an achievement). Lately I’ve been reluctant to put up my feelings, since I am not doing it I’ll at least say why.
At a certain point I simply close down my thought lines, not shutting them down (Unfortunately I can't), but my adding damage control thoughts that incapacitate finishing the thought lines, translating: I simply over think things to the point of uncertainty. This enables the possibility of logic taking control, thus limiting the amount of information that I communicate out. It sounds complex but it isn't, basically I shut myself out, but not really because I couldn't argue doing so :P.
It is always about the balance between what works and what you allow yourself to do, conscious is a dam thing at times, but I always give a chance to the unexpected, if it appears. (Or so I tell myself :P)
Anyways might be going into these abstract thinking one of these days, but I am afraid of not being able to make sense of them in written text, still I’ll try, as I’ve been trying, I think all of you give me at least that.
That is about it, hope you liked it so far and that you keep reading, otherwise I write for myself, which a came to re-realize is not a bad thing ;P
Friday, February 1, 2008
Simple post
Today I have a very simple post based on my lunch time conversation, so a friend of mine was telling me that she needs to buy a gift for a simple girl that is turning 30. I immediately said a cat :P, I mean come on she will need it right? Anyways thought that was funny enough for a post, honestly the highly of my day, in a very sarcastic day I might add.
Tomorrow is a shopping day for me, can you feel the excitement? Well that is because there isn't any, regardless what has to be done...
I want to finish with a thought lets see if I get inspired to write a good one, I wouldn’t count on.
Can we borrow today from tomorrow and give it back tomorrow to yesterday? (If it doesn't make sense probably it doesn't...)
Tomorrow is a shopping day for me, can you feel the excitement? Well that is because there isn't any, regardless what has to be done...
I want to finish with a thought lets see if I get inspired to write a good one, I wouldn’t count on.
Can we borrow today from tomorrow and give it back tomorrow to yesterday? (If it doesn't make sense probably it doesn't...)
Back to basics?
Hey, today I oversleep in the morning, nothing too impressive about that. Has I was going to the office, just after lunch I realized that this is my preferred schedule, again nothing new, but that got me thinking about it.
Productivity is a complex thing, and it is lower if you work regularly outside of your schedule, I am a night person, I have no problems postponing sleep, I have problems waking up. Regardless of this, which is off topic, this got me thinking of my university days back in Portugal, and how productive I became in the last years, and the reasons behind it... and just like that I realized something, this is not the first time that I find myself wondering for a path, what did I do before?
Well here is the back to basics theory, do you think you can't control your mind from wondering around about topics you can't do anything about? Well I like to say you can't control, but I did learn this tinny little secret that states the opposite.
Basic principle, don't give leeway for these thoughts, easier said than done I know...
To achieve this you need to complement physical exhaustion and mental concentration, meaning when you can't concentrate destroy yourself physically, that will shut you down, when coming around forcing yourself to think about what you want, something challenging (work is appropriate), even when your mind wonders pull it back, with the physical exhaustion you will soon focus on what you choose. The trick is not to question this method, not to challenge it, that would give leeway for your thoughts.
To see if you are succeeding there is a simple test, you have to be too exhausted to care about what you are watching when you take a break.
The advice is simple, when you have nothing else to do, do the things that others think are important, this way you are always busy, less time to think, less leeway...(But keep doing what you like doing, that is key for your sanity)
This doesn't really solve the problems, just give Time time to do its thing, and you get the bonus doing more work, never hurts your life... like the song goes "Don't worry about the future, or worry but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum", so why not the basics?
Productivity is a complex thing, and it is lower if you work regularly outside of your schedule, I am a night person, I have no problems postponing sleep, I have problems waking up. Regardless of this, which is off topic, this got me thinking of my university days back in Portugal, and how productive I became in the last years, and the reasons behind it... and just like that I realized something, this is not the first time that I find myself wondering for a path, what did I do before?
Well here is the back to basics theory, do you think you can't control your mind from wondering around about topics you can't do anything about? Well I like to say you can't control, but I did learn this tinny little secret that states the opposite.
Basic principle, don't give leeway for these thoughts, easier said than done I know...
To achieve this you need to complement physical exhaustion and mental concentration, meaning when you can't concentrate destroy yourself physically, that will shut you down, when coming around forcing yourself to think about what you want, something challenging (work is appropriate), even when your mind wonders pull it back, with the physical exhaustion you will soon focus on what you choose. The trick is not to question this method, not to challenge it, that would give leeway for your thoughts.
To see if you are succeeding there is a simple test, you have to be too exhausted to care about what you are watching when you take a break.
The advice is simple, when you have nothing else to do, do the things that others think are important, this way you are always busy, less time to think, less leeway...(But keep doing what you like doing, that is key for your sanity)
This doesn't really solve the problems, just give Time time to do its thing, and you get the bonus doing more work, never hurts your life... like the song goes "Don't worry about the future, or worry but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum", so why not the basics?
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