Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Vacation - Tuesday

Keywords of the day: Sun, Thunderstorm, Soccer, World Cup, Brazil, France, Cheese bread and "coxinha"

Monday, June 26, 2006

Vacation Monday thoughts

Keywords of the day: Sun, Shop, Swimming Pool, TV, Souvenirs

I regressed to my baby years: (eat, sleep, play, poop, repeat)

Crazy thought: If I ask a friend in CA to buy a lotto ticket for me and the ticket wins, is the money mine or theirs?

Note to self: always take the camera with you when on vacation - you never know when the oportunity for a good picture arives...

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning and the iPod Video

I know it's old news, but I just finished watching Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - it's hilarious! If you like Babylon 5 and Star Trek it's a must watch.

I watched it in my iPod on my way to my vacation. It fits perfectly well, but heck, the battery runs out in 5 seconds... oh well, not 5 seconds, but it's barely enough to watch 2 hours of video. That seems useless... My flight was 5 hours, and iPod lasted for 2... makes me wonder who Apple is getting as "Beta testers" or what type of users their "survey" is targeted to...

Thursday, June 22, 2006

More politicians in the news

Another proof that politicians are the same everywhere:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/22/MNGMQJIL8F3.DTL

This same story has happened in Sao Paulo, with one difference. The mayor and his assistant were never arrested - I take that back - there were some lawsuits and arrests but way after the fact.

Again, another proof that Politicians are all the same, everywhere. The justice system maybe a little bit different...

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Unite against raises for politician's salaries

One thinks it's only something that happens in 3rd world countries, but no, it happens in America.

Here's the CNN.COM article:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/20/dobbs.june21/index.html

We should unite and complain about abusive politician salaries and self-assigned pay raises. This is absolutely ridiculous!