Continuing with the posts of old pictures:  I scanned some pictures I have with me here of a trip I did to the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, a natural paradise far into the Atlantic.  I went by myself when I was 15, some time in 1994 I think.  It was a very cool trip, where I got to be chased by sharks and almost killed by lobsters (you will have to ask me if you want the story ;) ).

• 1994_Fernando_de_Noronha

Fim de semana em Braga

Eu fui passar o fim de semana com a minha prima Letícia em Braga. A gente foi pra inauguração da discoteca Rocco, com o Cosmo Klein (ele canta Beautiful Lie - foi massa!). Depois fomos andar pela cidade, mas aí descobri que a Leticia não gosta muito de ver pontos turísticos históricos - ela passou quase correndo por tudo :D

Descobri também que Braga é a "Capital da Frescura" - estava escrito por toda cidade!

• Vídeo do Cosmo Klein cantando.
• Fotos do Fim de Semana.

Cleveland, OH

I was showing my Worldphotos webapp (which shows Picasa web albums on a world map) to someone, and noticed that it was conspicuously missing a lot of trips that I have done.  I will try to update it over the next few weeks to add more trips.  I started with an easy one (because there wasn't much to it): Cleveland, Ohio.  I went there quite a lot during 2008, to work on LUX0.1, a prototype for our Dark Matter detector:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110817871594515146564/20080317_Cleveland_Case

My Books

I have finally catalogued all my real book in GoodReads (that is, not audiobooks and ebooks). The plan is to get an ebook version of all (or of most) the books I have, so that I don't have to carry a ton of books with me the next time I move.  The first step in this plan is to catalogue everything I have.  This was inspired by a story in the book Prague, in which a couple of intellectuals in Budapest gets warned that they will be invaded by Russian troops the next day, so they have one night to pack and escape.  But they don't time nor the means to transport everything, their huge book and records collection.  So they decide that will write down everything they have, every book, article, recording, and then they can spend the rest of their lives rebuilding their collection.  I now have my list done, and I am ready to start rebuilding my library.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/12862594-luiz?shelf=paper

Memórias no Facebook

Criaram no Facebook um grupo da nossa turma do colégio Santa Teresa, de 1996.  Foi ótimo reconectar com algumas pessoas daquela época.  Também achei legal que tenham feito scans de fotos antigas e colocado elas no facebook.  Isso me inspirou a procurar fotos daquele tempo também, e descobri estas aqui comigo em Portugal  :)

1996_Colegio_Santa_Teresa