Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl

This looks wonderful in an awful kind of way.
Or awful in a wonderful kind of way.
I'm not really sure anymore...



Thanks to Mr. Rondão for the link.

Preparação para as Marchas de São João

A primeira fila já está preenchida.
Ainda bem que este ano eu vou sair numa marcha, senão não via nada ;)

Star Wars: The Old Republic, E3 Trailer

Great trailer! Makes me wonder how different the prequels could have been ...

Dropbox usage

Let me start by stating the obvious: dropbox rules.

For me, dropbox is what I expected from gdrive, the long rumored google online storage service.
I first heard about it from my friend Ricardo (Thanks dude).

They offer 2 Gb free storage (you can buy more space).
The files are under version control (i.e. it can act as a backup system, with online storage).
They have a desktop client that will synchronize a local folder with your dropbox account contents (and the other way around).
There are linux, mac and windows versions of the desktop client. The linux version has support (only) for gnome's file manager:nautilus, but it also runs as a service, so using it in KDE will just work (no GUI, just nicely synchronized files).
There is also (as would be expected) a web-only interface to your dropbox account.

I am proud of the new use I found for dropbox:

My dad is still taking his first steps with the internet. He's pretty confortable with the regular desktop applications. Email clients, not so much.
He keeps asking me to check his email, and get some attachments on his my documents folder.
Teaching him how to use email should be easy. About spam and phishing. Not so much.
I installed dropbox on his pc and now I just drop the files in the web-based dropbox, and he will instant and effortlessly have them available.
Plus, he now also has backups as a bonus ;)

Kings of Convenience nearby ...

Now that kings of convenience are going to São Miguel, for their only (know, so far) concert in Portugal this year, the radio is bombarding us with their music. Not that I'm complaining, it's great music to be bombarded with.

I find this sad for two reasons:

1) Their music deserves more air-time. This was actually the first time I heard it in the radio here!
2) I won't be able to go to the concert :(

Se a Guerra das Estrelas fosse feita em São Miguel

Tinha sido um grande clássico ...

Invincible Tiger

Looks like a nice little game, with an old school feeling. I really miss these kind of games. And seing this being developed makes me suspect I'm not the only one.

Mistérios Negros

I went on another trekking trip, this time with just a few friends.
This time I went to "Mistérios Negros" which means something like "Black Mysteries".

The tree here were kind of yellow due to the acidity of the soil. And these trees are really resistant (they are actually a japanese tree and were imported to the azores a few years ago)!

Here I am, doing some weird faces for the camera, as usual ;)

Going up, across some relatively dense local vegetation. Mostly endemic plants, like cedars and "rapa" which is the common name for a local species that tends to be the first plant to grow on vulcanic rock.

Here is my neighbour, our guide for this trip, half way up.

This is part of the view from up there, we can see two "black mysteries". They are nothing more than huge bubbles that formed before the lava cooled down, and are actually hollow inside. They are called mysteries because, at the time they formed, the island was already populated, but nobody here knew how to explain them. When asking the most knowledgeable person around at the time (usualy the local priest), they would just reply it was a mystery.

Another view of the geothermal plant.

Going back down, through a forest of cryptomerias.

This took us 2 and a half hours, and we were visited by a dog. It was a really strange experience because it was a labrador, just like Vincent from Lost . He looked pretty good, not like a dog that would sleep around there, and went by us running at full speed, and we never saw him again. Strange!
Sadly I didn't manage to take his picture. He was really speeding!

First an imponent looking geothermal power plant.
Now an out of place dog.

Am I in Lost and just don't know it yet ?

Nice version of Little Red Riding Hood

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.


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Image of the day

Not related to the previous post (I promise!) , but I elect this image the image of the day: