Sunday, December 03, 2006

Change This

ChangeThis.com

I haven't yet made up my mind on whether this site is good. But it sure looks interesting.
ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.

We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Just back from vacation in Brasil.

We started in Amazonas.
This is "o encontro das águas", two different types of rivers meet but don't mix for several kilometers due to a difference in temperature and salinity.
A lovely day on the Rio Negro

Our crazy guide caught a nice little crocodile, or is it an alligator? I never remeber what is the difference. But it's important to know as one of them attack by charging straight forward and the other tries to slap you with it's tail and head from the side...

The sloth. What a woderful anaimal. It's a mystery how it survives as a species. It's completely defenceless and have bad hearing, smell and eyesight. But look at that smile.

And then I caught this Anaconda - or rather - again, our crazy guide caught it. Amazing creature.

This is a forest that it flooded by the river part of the year. It's really cool with the tree tops sticking up of the river. We had to navigate between them.

Later we went to Rio de Janeiro.
And behold, it seems Brasil is making progress in the equality of the sexes. The ad for deodorant says "Para o novo homem", meaning "For the new man". It shows a very cool, sporty, busy guy speaking in his mobile and with a newspaper in his other hand with a baby on the back.
We visited a strange cone shaped cathedral built in concreate.
It looks like the photo is taken from an extreme "frog perspective", but it's an lillusion due to the fact that the building is conical.
A silhoutte of a statue inside the church.

Christ Redentor on Corcovado. Unfortunately, whne we made it up to the top, it was even more cloudy. We couldn't even see the head of Jesus, much less anything of the wonderful view over Rio...

Friday, December 01, 2006

On Marriage

Just saw the movie The Departed. It had a very memorable quote on marriage by Alec Baldwin:

Marriage is an important part of getting ahead. It lets people know you're not a homo. A married guy seems more stable. People see the ring, they think, "At least somebody can stand the son of a bitch." Ladies see the ring, they know immediately that you must have some cash, and your cock must work.