quinta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2009
Before you sign away the deed
Before you sign away the deed»
(Aimee Mann, Wise Up)
Pretty Good Year
only three hours and a half to go.
«and greg he writes letters and burns his cds
they say you were something in those formative years
hold onto nothing as fast as you can
well still pretty good year»
(Tori Amos, Pretty Good Year)
sexta-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2009
sábado, 5 de dezembro de 2009
Random thoughts, do pior ao menos mau.
2 - Descobri na TVI o escândalo do "climategate". Parece que o Director de um centro de investigação estrangeiro sobre o clima e outro cientista trocaram e-mails em que... Whatever! Nada disso me interessa. Interessa-me isto, o diálogo que refiro de cor:
Jornalista: Mas então, porque é que o director foi suspenso?
Entrevistado: Ele não foi suspenso, ele demitiu-se!
Os jornalistas da TVI (ou as agências por eles) tiveram acesso a e-mails privados, mas não conseguem ter acesso à carta de demissão ou conhecimento de prova empírica do acto de demissão, isso sim, de carácter público? Eu também sei fazer copy/paste... nunca me considerei jornalista.
3 - O Nuno Gomes "considera" a bola oficial do Mundial 2010 mais leve. Sim, ele "considera". Considerando a existência de balanças, deixo o problema à vossa consideração...
sexta-feira, 13 de novembro de 2009
so that we shall believe
we are all but tired we are all but tired
we are all but tired we are all but tired
we are all but tired we are all but tired we are all but tired we are all but tired we are all but we are
sábado, 31 de outubro de 2009
domingo, 25 de outubro de 2009
segunda-feira, 7 de setembro de 2009
i run, i run, i run
Apetece-me, pois, dizer "não dá, não consigo nem vale a pena." Apetece-me dizer "não consigo, desculpem, mas já não consigo". E dizer ainda "obrigado, mas não consigo, não vale a pena." E, aos devaneios constantes, pequenos prazeres que afastam o sono e me deixam, como que num limbo, suspenso de tudo o resto "podem ir, obrigado, já são impossíveis." Enquanto percorro mentalmente a lista de coisas a que dizer adeus ‒ a começar pelos livros da biblioteca ‒, imagino a mentira que é pensar-se numa vida mais simples à espera, no fim de tudo.
sábado, 5 de setembro de 2009
mestria
Não me zango com o meu próprio entorpecimento. Para quê?
terça-feira, 28 de julho de 2009
II
We kept quiet as a plane cruised the muted sky and the wind brushed the trees, but we kept quiet because there was nothing to celebrate. Summer came and we sat at the table, neatly put, with smoked salmon and toasted bread and I can't remeber exactly how it felt: yes, the town had been changed beyond recognition; incoherence, - not unlike my life, i thought -, had built large deserted squares. No trees, my dad added.
We ought to make time to sit and remember. To carelessly sip champagne. Or white wine poured over sliced peaches. Maybe tomorrow.
segunda-feira, 20 de julho de 2009
I
For the past two weeks – two weeks being the maximum extent of my attention or desire – I’ve been dreaming of two things: a job that best fits Churchill’s account of democracy and a glass of white wine poured over sliced peaches. That one cannot get both while sunbathing by the pool merits some research or, at least, some thought and pause. So I pause a little longer: in the face of such a bewildering paradox, surely books can wait a few more minutes.
domingo, 28 de junho de 2009
before there were iPods
Just thought I'd take one more look
And recall when we were all
In the neighborhood
And all those friends
Where did they go, I don't know
All those friends we used to know
In the neighborhood
sábado, 27 de junho de 2009
sábado, 20 de junho de 2009
incoming memories
reminder
and right here something cruel must be said to remind us that we always come close
quinta-feira, 11 de junho de 2009
walk on by
domingo, 10 de maio de 2009
segunda-feira, 27 de abril de 2009
A better sunday
flexões : 44
jogging : 28 minutos
e uma visita ao Quartel do Carmo e matar saudades de quem não via há muito. «Está tudo bem! Muito trabalho!» E não sendo, «é o que é preciso!» Agora há pássaros negros na parede do quarto, andorinhas de vinil, que se lavam bem.
"What's next?", he asked.
"Monday. I think."
domingo, 26 de abril de 2009
Healthy as... yesterday
flexões : 82
jogging : 25 minutos
woke up @ 10 a.m.
sub-par... mas não precisei de nada sintético para me deixar dormir.
RESULT! Ou mais um milagre segundo Salomé!
segunda-feira, 20 de abril de 2009
what is dumber?
domingo, 19 de abril de 2009
Healthy as Hell day
push-ups: 105
flexões de pernas: 102
jogging: 34 minutos.
prancha, dorsais, etc., ...
sábado, 18 de abril de 2009
we demand, above all, comfort!
Publique-se.
THE PRESIDENT
sábado, 11 de abril de 2009
Greatly Revised
We'd be quiet now, remembering the rush and the sickness, with both fondness and disgust. To wake up with a laugh and then, on to a job like everyone else's, signatures and forms to fill in, miles of cables and square feet of circuits. Summer comes and we stroll along to the same beach as the year before. No thoughts like "maybe this year!", as the wind slightly breaks the warmth of the sun's welcomed rays. The cool breeze fades into a memory of something whispered, and the sea, the seagulls and sun bring a calm lust: we almost smile, for autumn is just another season, not another chance.
sexta-feira, 10 de abril de 2009
papa don't preach
na minha casa, na sexta-feira santa não se come carne: come-se peixe assado, ao almoço, e salmão fumado e uma pequena tábua de queijo, seguidos de sopa, num lanche que toca o jantar. o vinho era Casa de Santar.
há que ter respeito pelos santos; eles que não têm respeito nenhum por nós.
quinta-feira, 9 de abril de 2009
terça-feira, 7 de abril de 2009
ab absurdo
as palavras que nunca lhe direi
Venho por este meio libertá-lo da obrigação de orientar a minha tese. Já que ando a perder o meu tempo na ciência política e a ver a nota da minha licenciatura desvalorizar tão depressa como um computador, que ao menos estude algo mais próximo dos meus interesses: tudo o que apenas aparenta ser prático ou concreto (ao contrário das tarefas executivas de que me venho ocupando, por pouco que contem), deixa-me gravemente entediado e é hoje tão tarde como Janeiro ou Outubro.
Votos de uma boa Páscoa.
Com os meus melhores cumprimentos,
Petit Bourgeois
quarta-feira, 11 de março de 2009
sábado, 7 de março de 2009
Stock Offer: I'm a toxic ASSet
Since citibank shares have gone through the roof and back, and they are very much BACK, and since my planned life has recently crashed (AGAIN) with the sad pathetic loser reality of my life, I thought:
IF THE BIGGEST BANK IS NOW A PENNY BANK,
WHY CAN'T I, WHO IN PLATO'S WORLD OF VALUES AND IDEAS WOULD PASS AS THE PROPER CONCEPT, VALUE AND IDEA OF "A BEING A LOSER", OFFER SHARES OF MY LIFE?
They are obviously toxic assets, but if the Government is willing to buy them...and I'm offering them... it must be a great deal, right?
SO FROM NOW ON I'M GONNA TAKE EVERYONE'S OPINION ON EVERY LITTLE DARN THING. BY JULY, I HOPE TO KNOW ENOUGH OF SPSS TO HAVE A SCIENTIFIC ACCOUNT OF WHAT MY LIFE SHOULD BE...
for now, an unscientific one will do!
I HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT
sexta-feira, 6 de março de 2009
terça-feira, 3 de março de 2009
10 days to go... and unemplyed in winter time
terça-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2009
domingo, 8 de fevereiro de 2009
sábado, 7 de fevereiro de 2009
the painful painless week
quarta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2009
a post about pain 3
—woke up @ 9:30 : I'M SO SCREWED!
— speedreading : ACTUALLY, I'M FUCKED!
— work/study : HOJE NÃO CONTA
— jogging: 19 minutos!
a post about pain 2 : recap
SEGUNDA
— woke up @ 7:20 : GREAT
— speedreading : 0.5 BAD
— gym : 2h
— work/study : not sure, but probably bad
TERÇA
— woke up @ 9:30 : VERY VERY BAD
— speedreading : PLEASE KILL ME
— work/study : 4h, 5h ? NOT ENOUGH!
domingo, 25 de janeiro de 2009
a post about pain
— speedreading: 1 : NOT GOOD
— jogging: 18 minutos e 40segundos : GOOD
— 20 x 2 abs
— 20 x 2 push-ups
— 25 tap toes
— 30 flexões de pernas
— work: 4h : WHATEVER porque quanto mais faço, mais me dão para fazer e não ganho mais por isso!
— study: TBD
domingo, 11 de janeiro de 2009
on birthdays, chemical unbalance... and the petty bourgeoisie
Maybe every little introspective mid-January entry should include a promise like this: “drink less alcohol, drink more water”. Still, after last year’s prize-winning excess, the couple of glasses of champagne I had ten days ago made me feel somewhat remiss.
Order should be restored and a friend’s birthday party seemed the right place for the reckoning. The host-consort gave us a hand, pouring glass after glass of sangria, although someone should tell him that his Tarzan-like policy of “you drink, I watch” could be grounds for a fatwa. The jury, though, was still out… and probably drunk, for I do not remember singing “happy birthday” to chairwoman Mao.
Would she not consent on such trivial, cultural reactionary endeavor? Oh the bourgeoisie must be left to its own devices, to wallow in its particular corrupted traditions. Is it still a birthday without that pathetic song? Who, then, can claim temporary insanity? I demand a recount!! A reenactment of sorts! How is it that again the world is seriously out of balance?
Indeed we seemed shiny happy people for a while and that my friends calls for celebration! Order must be restored.
sexta-feira, 9 de janeiro de 2009
ö? ö!
E em grande contraste com a minha vida:
CNN: How big was music in your life before you joined the band?
CNN: Sometime a career finds you?
Nina Persson: Yeah and I was a person who was really helped by it. I was looking for something but I didn't know what it was and it proved to fulfill what I needed at the time.
Se eu soubesse tocar guitarra e cantar, ia para Nashville ou Malmö ou [...], em vez de aturar tretas mal importadas. E não estou a falar de música!quinta-feira, 8 de janeiro de 2009
they're swedish made and are fantastic.
A CNN tem um programa chamado My City_My Life. Esta semana coube a Nina Persson, a vocalista dos Cardigans apresentar Malmö.
Muito provavelmente a Nina não escolheu os sítios que os responsáveis pelo turismo de Malmö mais gostavam que ela tivesse mostrado.
Para mim é suficiente saber que fica na escandinávia e que há um bar que disponibiliza cobertores às pessoas que queiram ir para a esplanada. Eu, que já fui para a Faculdade, no Inverno, de tshirt laranja, calças de ganga, luvas, cachecol e gorro pretos, gostei muito da ideia e sei onde se podia aplicar em Lisboa. Amanhã há euromilhões, é preciso não esquecer!
part 1
part 2
quarta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2009
suddenly, Bagle!
orçamento extraordinário
orçamento fora de série
e recessão (according fo Josh) é bagle!
a point about the method of academic reading
If you decide to keep on reading what you were reading, will you not forget to go and check or, more importantly, will there be a point to go to the (name, year: page) mentioned before? Won't you be reading some other relevant aspect?
I trully do not understand this. I trully fail to even grasp this sort of «academic» reading. Where I came from, you would read (Name A, year: chapter about X) followed by (Name B, year: chapter about X) followed by (Name C, year: chapter about X). And that would be that! It would be annoying. It would be like reading the same thing over and over again... but you knew what you were doing!!
If there is no method to this, must I conclude this is art? And if it is art, should I have not been told in advance?
terça-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2009
What is the virtue of a proportional response?
Episódio 3 da Primeira Temporada de The West Wing:
escrito pelo Aaron Sorkin
All three scenarios are comprehensive, meet the obligations of proportional response and pose minimal threat to U.S. personal and assets. To turn our attention to scenario one, or Pericles One, to use its code name...
President BARTLET
What is the virtue of a proportional response?
Admiral FITZWALLACE
I’m sorry.
President BARTLET
What’s the virtue of a proportional response? Why’s it good? ... They hit an airplane, so we hit a transmitter, right? That’s a proportional response.
Admiral FITZWALLACE
Sir, in the case of Pericles...
President BARTLET
They hit a barracks, so we hit two transmitters?
Admiral FITZWALLACE
That’s roughly it, sir.
President BARTLET
It’s what we do. I mean this is what we do.
LEO
Yes sir, it’s what we do, it’s what we’ve always done.
President BARTLET
Well, if it’s what we do, if it’s what we’ve always done, don’t they know we’re going to do it?
LEO
Sir, if you would turn your attention to Pericles One.
President BARTLET
I have turned my attention to Pericles One, it’s two ammo dumps, an abandoned railroad bridge and a Syrian intelligence agency.
Admiral FITZWALLACE
Those are four high rated military targets, sir.
President BARTLET
But they know we’re going to do that, they know we’re going to do that. Those areas have been abandoned for four days. We know that from the satellites. We have the intelligence.
LEO
Sir.
President BARTLET
They did that, so we did this, it’s the cost of doing business, it’s been factored
in, right?
LEO
Mr. President...
President BARTLET
Am I right or am I missing something here?
Admiral FITZWALLACE
No sir, you’re right sir.
President BARTLET
Then I ask again, what is the virtue of a proportional response?
Admiral FITZWALLACE
It isn’t virtuous Mr. President. It’s all there is sir.
President BARTLET
It is not all there is.
LEO
Sir, Admiral Fitzwallace...
Admiral FITZWALLACE
Excuse me Leo, but pardon me Mr. President, just what else is there?
President BARTLET
A disproportional response. Let the word ring forth from this time and this place, you kill an American, any American, we don’t come back with a proportional response, we come back [bangs fist on table] with total disaster!
domingo, 4 de janeiro de 2009
you... you... arghh...
THAT'S MY THING! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT! Jesus!
Vai mas é estudar! Mas que ... arghhh!
Ok. Que tal uma coisa tipo Tordesilhas. Tu ficas com isso do médio oriente e eu fico com a auto comiseração. (as long as I get to keep Telavive, of course!)
sábado, 3 de janeiro de 2009
correlate yourself
Comparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify the what of the analysis." In other words, comparative politics is not defined by the object of its study, but rather by the method it applies to study political phenomena.
Peter Mair and Richard Rose advance a slightly different definition, arguing that comparative politics is defined by a combination of a substantive focus on the study of countries' political systems and a method of identifying and explaining similarities and differences between these countries using common concepts. Rose states that, on his definition: "The focus is explicitly or implicitly upon more than one country, thus following familiar political science usage in excluding within-nation comparison. Methodologically, comparison is distinguished by its use of concepts that are applicable in more than one country."
No que me fui meter!
E fazem-se teses de mestrado nisto? [F]ocus is explicitly or implicitly upon more than one country sem bolsas de estudo? E se é quase tudo método, quanto método é preciso?
mistake!
sexta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2009
kanguru kanguru diz me tu
Usando a net móvel dos meus pais que deve ter o consumo extra mais caro do país.
Usando o "internetnotelemóvel" da tmn, supostamente grátis durante um mês, e reparar que ao exceder os míseros 100MB que temos por mês, em menos de cinco minutos, fiquei sem os €25 que tinha de saldo. O que já me aconteceu duas vezes.
Pronto, lá se foi a poupança! E lá veio a despesa.