Saturday, July 20, 2013

Back to writing?

I am back in the process of "writing, writing, writing" and, just like it happened to me when I was trying to write the dissertation, I am pretty much out of practice.

My cousin Bruno recently asked me if I was still writing on my blog. It is easy to see that I haven't touched it in over a year. Back then I was focused on posting interesting stuff and commenting on it -- I guess I was trying to accumulate some internet traffic. Maybe I have dreams of becoming a cool internet curator. In any case, there are so many other places where it is easier to reach people for that (read facebook and twitter).

In coming back to my blog I am trying to regain some writing practice. I see that all its formatting is gone and I only have spam comments offering short-term loans and the like. Spammers gotta spam :). I don't care. I will just write whatever comes to mind and leave it to float in the cyberspace.

Monday, June 11, 2012

One predecessor of the iPod

That was an old radio transmitter... :)
(lost the source, sorry :-( it may have been the WSJ)


Hunger Strikes

What happens to your body when you go into a hunger strike.

(original via Maria Popova @brainpicker)