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TGI Friday

I feel exhausted… both physically and mentally. I just wanted to get home and relax, but my mind doesn’t seem to let me not worry about the things that I still have to do. And this does not let me actually think about some things I need to think about. See how the cycle works?

This song has been playing on the radio for some time now, and it has this well know pop sound and etc. But I like it anyway. I think that’s because I like the message “we just wanna make the world dance”, and I always feel like we should dance more. Unfortunately, the singer does not follow her own philosophy, and the music is not available for free download…

News of Thursday

– They painted brand new cycling paths on one avenue I pass by. Hopefully the next paths will go all the way up to my house!
– I had lunch in a completely vegetarian restaurant today. Vegetarian food can be good!!
– Bought some clothes for me and my boyfriend to run during winter.
– Got pulled over by an officer for driving on the opposite direction of the road. He made me walk two blocks taking the bike by hand…

The High Strung

Weird band… I am trying to get used to their music, but very often I notice that I like only those little parts of the music that are a bit off. This one for example… the “who knows maybe I’m wrong” and “don’t give it credit, it’s not really that smart” parts sound very good to me. And I keep listening just expecting to hear it.

Reading day

Reading and more reading, it’s never enough!!

By the way, on my way back home I saw one of these street thermometers, and at 9 pm it was displaying 32 degrees. I am not complaining. I actually prefer 32 degrees than any negative temperature, but I never thought it would get to that here!

Programming

I am finally back to programming. Trying to use this Scala language that’s supposed to be “functional Java”. It is still not natural for me to program in these two paradigms… I have been using OO imperatively too long. My first impression is that it is a bulky language (well, of course, since it’s Java based), and sometimes this makes it hard for me to understand the code. It has even a way to pass parameters to a function implicitly. Now, who wants such a thing? I think that the trade-off of writing some extra characters on every function call and making the code readable pays off, but who am I to say? Nevertheless, the pattern matching thing really helps (of course that there is a special keyword to declare a class that is used in a matching latter) and I hope I can make those two paradigms work in a nice way together.

Anyway, it is nice to work again on a big project, where we need to care about what other developers are doing, sharing code, think about architecture and all. =)

Sunday bloody Sunday

Why are Sundays always a little bit depressing?

I just saw Woody Allen’s latest movie “Midnight in Paris”, and it made me think (again) that people are always unsatisfied with something in their lives. And as much as they think that they would be perfectly happy in another way, I am sure that they would find something to complain as well. It’s like everybody likes to be after this intangible thing that is happiness, not realizing that it is only up to them all along. We should just take the time to stop and smell the roses. Carpe diem =)

Lazy Friday

Not a very fruitful day, unfortunately =(
Maybe I’ll come to the office tomorrow and try to do something… Or just use this as an excuse to run 7 kms. I blame it all on this hot weather.

PS: Cool feature from Grooveshark! Now I can post my music =)

Just close your eyes and dance

Either way – The Generationals

I’m just a man you’ve got me running here
long into the knee all nice
Not if they don’t wake up

I wanna keep it to myself but
I don’t wanna let you out of my site
Not if they make them listening to happy thoughts

I can’t set my mind on anything
and I’m telling everyone around

Now I know I, I don’t know how
But this one is an original so
If it makes you happy
Even if it kills me
I’d be the person that you tell me
Either way you’re with me

I try to listen to my head and
come back with nothing but
para rara boom boom

I wasn’t lying when i said
I was afraid that you could tell
that I’d been running on fumes

And now I’m sure that I could see you again
And I know I’m gonna have to do it soon

I know I, I don’t know how
but this one is an original

And now my song is tired of so many words
And now my head is spinning every way
And it’s the sound of my own racing heart
that keeps me up at night
And when I walk around
I hear them saying that my feet
are not on the ground

I know I, I don’t know how
But this one is an original so
If it makes you happy
Even if it kills me
I’d be the person that you tell me
Either way you’re with me

London Riots – prime minister’s response

Hoje quando eu acordei e liguei a TV, o primeiro ministro da Inglaterra, David Cameron, estava fazendo um pronunciamento a respeito sobre as confusões. Em particular, eu achei sensato ele dizer que quer dificultar a situação para aquelas pessoas que estão sem trabalho, e concentrar os esforços não em garantir os benefícios, mas em encontrar empregos pra essas pessoas.