...oF DReaMS & NiGHTMaReS...

Apr 25, 2007

Haiku.006

Darkness approaches,
in mysteries I will drown.
No full-moon tonight.

Apr 23, 2007

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, age 76, died today as a result of heart problems. He was responsible of, according to experts, helping develop a "vibrant" economy through harsh methods. This resulted in resentment by many russians who lost their life savings not to menion their sons/brothers/fathers in the war against Chechen rebels. He also presented himself drunk on several international summits hehe.

My Best Friend's Wedding

No, this doesn't has anythign to do with the film with the same name. No, 'tis about one of my best friends' wedding, who commited himself to eternal bondage [=P] this past friday the 20th. He really looked very happy, I'm glad he is and wish him a life full of happiness and success, he deserves it. Anyway, I took some pictures but don't have them right now, I'll make sure I post them later. Cheers mates and congratulations Vale for this gigantic step in your life.

Apr 20, 2007

Chinese 'Dark Brown'

This is funny. Doris Moore, a color Canadian resident bought a new couch (or the whole set I don't remember, she bought something alright!). To her surprise, her seven-year old daughter found the tag in which the Color of the item is described: "Nigger Brown". She knew one color alright, but asked what is Nigger? Anyway, the FIRST error was made by Kingsoft's translation program, in which if you type the dark brown in Chinese, the software translates dark into nigger. This was, supposedly, corrected, but now if you input English nigger, you'll get dark in Chinese.

Funny ain't it? This lady is blaming everybody asking: Don't they read anything? The supplier? The producer? I ask her: Don't you read anything either?? You bought the fucking couch, don't you? I mean, it must have been somewhere visible, her daughter found the tag, a 7 year-old.

Now she's asking for compensation (she wants bling-bling) and she claims none of her friends want to sit on the couch (oh my! why is that? It's a high quality Chinese product [= P] for god's sake!) If you look for this "color" category, you'll find it's actually not that uncommon. Besides, chinese-english translations are very funny, no wonder the "new" color description. And now. the picture with our day's post star sitting on her brand new "Dark Brown" couch, Doris 'I-will-not-take-this-chinese-crap-anymoore' Moore:

Apr 19, 2007

Transformers Face Off

The new movie will rule, at least the graphics, hopefully the entire story. And for the eye candy, here's a face off Megatron (whose voice will be provided by Hugo Weaving (Hello, Mister Anderson)) vs. Optimus (I believe the original Prime's voice actor will return to make this movie, frankly, I have never heard his voice, at least not knowingly).

Cheers mates!

Apr 18, 2007

New Machine and Ubuntu [i.wish]

I have, as most of my friends, a computer at home. It's a generic computer, built with the best components I could afford back then. Now, she's kinda old and soooo veery fucking slow. Two things I have at the top of my Things-to-get-for-my-PC list:

RAM, at least 1.5 GB (I wanna have 2 GB, this will at least increase the response time)
Video Card (I have installed a 64 mb Nvidia gForce 4, although it gets the work done, it's just 64 mb, so now I want at least 256 mb)

These two are subject to change in case I decide to update the motherboard and processor, but I am not very close to my computer so, I guess I can let it be like this with these two little extras that will sure improve speed issues.

Just before I do this, or after, I would like to get Ubuntu 7.04 installed instead of Windows. The issue here is the Zune software, which can't work on Linux but as I have read somewhere else it's easy to get it to work with a Virtual Machine like VMware, and I can kiss the PC-xbox360 symbiosis goodbye. In any case, I don't have enough time to get everything done with my PC. But definitely I would love to migrate to Linux.

Apr 13, 2007

Do you believe?

Fortunately (or unfortunately) I have not been witness to any strange phenomena besides the usual UFO(s). This photograph was sent to me due to its unusal features. If it's cigarrette smoke, then it's a bit strange for it to shape like that. Share your comments.

Note: I have not in any way modified the photograph, it is being displayed as it was given to me.

Apr 11, 2007

Springbreak @ Mexico City 2007

This is the third time I go to Mexico City and I love going there, really. Everytime I go, there's something new and this time there it was. My girl's family is great, a bit crazier (in a good party way) than most people and their parties are more fun than the parties of a local Zoolander or other "party" people in this matter.

I would like to add more text to this, but am too damn busy so I will post the best pictures and the movie that marked the hightlight of the trip.