Yellow or darker?

Yellow or dark humor?

If you can't read the lines, click on the figure.

Very funny!

Citröen C4

I don't know about you, but I really love TV adver- tisement. Although I know that they are made with one big purpose on mind - stuff things on our throat - I always have a great time watching the good ones.

Today, while surfing I found a link to a Citröen C4 advertisement on the web (the cars to the left). This is not the best car advertisement I've ever seen, but it is very well done and it is very musical.

I hope at least one of you enjoy wathing it. Below is the link.

Yahoo Videos - Citröen C4

Ah, and by the way, I never had a Citröen, nor I'm planning to buy or sell any car... I'm kind of happy with my white Civic 1994. :)

MSN, Viagra and Stallion

German court prescribes Viagra for stallion

I could not help laughing when I read this news.

This happened on Germany. The stalion was not working properly, at least that's what the man who bought it said. He also said that the horse did not have one of his testicles.

A veterinarian examined it and saw that it was not true. He could find the body part. And about the horse's duty? Well, the drug was administered and everybody was happy in the end.

Well, not everybody, because the one who bought had then to pay the whole price of the horse, around $4,900, and it seems that he was pledging defect to pay only 10% of the original price.

In portuguese when we receive something for free we usually say as a proverb that "when you receive a free horse, we don't inspect its teeth."

As this one was not free, every part of him had to be inspected carefully. So had the bad intentions of the buyer. :)

Pietro & Family 2

"Well, mommy really needs a rest. While she rests, I'll rest a little bit more too... :)"
"Yeah, this is my daddy that loves me sooo much and that I also love a lot!"
"Let me think a little bit about of what I'll do with my life... Well, while I don't decide myself, let me sleep again..."
"While my cousin Narcyza and my Aunt Célia pose to this photo, I prepare myself to do the third thing I love the most in life: eating! The first and the second, you may ask... Well, stay with my parents and sleep! :D"
"Ah, this is my grand-daddy Jacob, that arrived here the day I was supposed to be born. However, to "upset" everyone, I was born two days ahead! :D"
"Mommy, Daddy and Grandpa! Ah, and me, of course!"
"My cousin Sthephanya, beautiful as ever and helping me to keep clean. I enjoyed so much when she changed my diapers that I didn't even cry!"
"To finish my thinks for today, here is my Daddy taking a nap while I also nap myself. He deserves it. What an example of a Father!"

Pietro & Family

Pietro in one of his first moments in the outside world

We can already see the lights on him. :)

In this photo, particularly, I see something that I didn't know. The Umbilical cord is not made of flesh as our skin. I though it was. As people always say, living and learning. This lady holding Pietro is the surgeon (if I'm not mistaken).

Would you say that Pietro is already thinking about life? :)

Well, thinking I'm not so sure, however, I know that now he is taking a pick at the world, oh ye... :)

As happy as a family can get!

Close-up on the Star on a leading role: Pietro, the smooth tough boy! :)

Pietro with his hand on his face thinking: "Oh my goodness, why did you give me an uncle like this! Look at what he gave me. An yellow sponge with a smile on its face... I think my uncle is not normal..."

This is my first photographic hommage to my third nephew and to the newest parents in our family. I'm proud to be called Pietro's Uncle, Hendrick's brother and Dani's brother-in-law.

May God's blessings that have always been around, keep falling, and that you as a family can always perceive and be open to them so you can have them as a way of giving you more energy to keep moving (like Duracell). Even more now because with the new son, growth and evolution are showing their way.

A big kiss with all my love and my heart, from a not so normal uncle. :D

NPR : Always Go to the Funeral

NPR : Always Go to the Funeral

My father didn't teach me what Deirdre Sullivan's dad taught her. Now she taught me.

Within her text she says

"Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it."

That's a very powerful assignment for each one of us. We always forget that we have to do what we have to do, it doesn't matter what it takes. The right thing is always the right thing to do.

I hope you can take a little time to read the text. It's worth it.

Tired tires

Michele Turre - portfolio

I'm not so sure if there is somebody still visiting my blog, but I'll post this link here anyway.

The only thing I'm going to tell you though, is that I was not tired of posting here. But I'm giving much more attention to my other blog (in portuguese).

If you like the link and the "visual photo-text-poetry" please, let me know. I found it very interesting!

Seoul - South Korea - Gyeongbokgung

Seoul - South Korea - Gyeongbokgung

I was browsing through the Wikipedia and then I found this beautiful image in Seoul, South Korea. It caught my attention especially because this semester I made a new and great friend and he is from South Korea.

Se, here is my hommage to our friendship. I hope we can keep it for years to come.

SPAM

Hi. Today I'm talking about SPAM. And here is one recipe with it, provided by RecipeSource:

Title: Gingered Spam Salad
Categories: Salads, Go-withs, Misc.
Yield: 1 Servings

1 cn Spam, sliced matchstick size
1/4 c Finely chopped ginger root
1 ea Small red onion, finely chopped
1/2 ts Garlic powder
1/4 c Freshly squeezed lime juice Zest of 1 lime
1/2 ts Oriental dried chili powder
1/4 c Chopped cilantro leaves
8 ea Cherry tomatoes
Thai bird peppers and
Cilantro sprigs to garnish

Combine all ingredients in a sealed glass or plastic container to marinate.
Refrigerate at least two hours or preferably overnight.
Stir or shake occasionally to evenly coat.
One hour before serving, stir in cilantro.
Serve on a bed of torn lettuce of your choice.
Garnish with quartered cherry tomatoes, Thai bird peppers and cilantro sprigs.

Ah, that was not the spam you were thinking, huh?

However, did you know that the terminology SPAM for the tons of unwanted e-mails we receive everyday came from the spam above? From this website, I got the best description of the first use of the word:

Most people have some vague awareness that it came from at first from the spam skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a group of Vikings (don't ask) in the corner start a song:

"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!"
Until told to shut up.

Thus the meaning of the term at least: something that keeps repeating and repeating to great annoyance. How did the two get connected?

Well, I like SPAM, not spam. How about you?

G.B. Stern

Well, I don't know in which category I would put these sentences, but when I first read them, I became very interested in reading this lady's oeuvres.

I tried to find her photograph to know her, but I couldn't find any. If you have one and can share with me, I'd thank you a lot. This picture is just to illustrate one of ther quotes below. I found it at the NYPL Digital Gallery (worth a visit).

"One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow."

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."

"Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die"

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

Sombrero Galaxy

Sombrero Galaxy (Hubble Photograph)

Sombrero Galaxy (Viewed in Infrared)

I was wondering if we could call this galaxy of "God's Hat"?

The wonders of the universe have always enchanted me, since I was a kid. By universe I mean either the macroscopic or the microscopic. We can always see Gods perfection in His marvelous work!

May He bless us all everyday!

What are we doing to our children?

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Everybody these days know that most of what the children learn from their parents and colleagues is from mimicking their movements. And this happens not only at early ages. Even as adults, independents as we are, we mimick the big stars, either their look, or their way of behaving.

And even knowing this, we keep asking ourselves why the world is not yet a better place. The answer is one of the following: either we choose to mimick the wrong acts of people around or we are the ones that keep doing the wrong things to be mimicked around by the others.

Why don't we try to mimick the right actions of the right people for a change? Or try to do the right thing to be mimicked by others?

Reading some news the other day, I found that this mimick thing was taken a step further. Well, not too further, but to make cimpanzees mimick our bad habits is like teaching kids the wrong things when they are very small. They will carry the burden of vice or mistreatments for the rest of their lives.

I'll copy here the beginning of the article: "A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit".

To invite others to share your vice is the worst kind of vice around.

Be healthy. Think right.

Ah, and by the way, the picture of the smoking chimpanzee is not an actual photo. It was treated by some image processing software. I got it at the internet.

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

Oddly Enough News Article Reuters.com

Well, actually, not really in Denmark, but close, very close... :D
That's how the article begins: "A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man..." and it goes on...
At the very end, the article states: "Norway has long traditions of equality". I wouldn't call this equality, at least in a sense, because to rape a man, a woman can't be equal to a man; she has to be way bigger and/or stronger... :D Anyways...
That's the world we live in!
Ah, by the way, this photo is not from the article, it is just a photo I found on the internet...

In the map below you can see how close both countries are.

Interacting Galaxies

Interacting Galaxies

I still can't believe that these days we have people that does not believe God exists...

We can see His love spread everywhere. A never-ceasing creation, a constant interaction with everything. Life everywhere.
A galactic hug to everybody.

Do you want to learn how to dance?

How to dance properly - zefrank.com

Well, well, well. If you want to know how to dance properly, DON'T visit this site... :) This guy is nuts... :) He even makes Elaine's - from Seinfeld - steps.

Worth a visit!

Crowds drawn to pig olympics in China

Boston.com / News / Odds & ends / Crowds drawn to pig olympics in China

I don't know if this worth a visit, but, anyways...

In China some people organized what they are calling the "Pig Olympics". See thos two pigs swimming on the picture beside? Well, they are competing to figure out which one is the best.

The species that is used is a midget species from Thailand. They are said to be good in sports.

An 8 year-old boy who presented a gold medal to one of the winners said "I never thougth that a pig could be so clever".

The pigs may be clever. Are we being clever?

Charlie Chaplin

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"Engrish"

Engrish.com

Teach Arithetic? What is this? (this picture I found some time ago and can't recall where I got it from)

I'm not a natural born english talker. But probably everybody that comes here already knows this. I can say that not only for how I'm writing (someone that is american or that knows more english than I do, probably knows that I'm using improper words and prepositions in my writings) but also because of the themes that I've been talking about.

However, when we study something knew, one of the first things we do is to make mistakes. And with mistakes we learn how not to make them anymore, or at least this is the goal to achieve when learning. On the other hand, to get rid of some old mistakes is really, really hard.

The day before yesterday I was surfing the web when I saw a shark... :) Well, of course it was not a real shark , but I really got scared! :D A web site made with actual photographs of english errors found in advertisements, in street banners, in products... I got scared with so many mistakes, but I laughed more than anythnig else. There are some pearls inside the web site. It really worth a visit. Click on the link at the top of this post to go there.

But, as entrée, I'll put here two that I think are very hilarious...


Ground-father and Ground-mother? Where are they?


Is it chocolate with milk or milk with chocolate?

APOD: 2005 April 7 - Solar Eclipse in View

APOD: 2005 April 7 - Solar Eclipse in View

Tomorrow we will have a not so common event. A Solar Eclipse. Click on the link above for a picture taken in November 2003 of another one. This picture on the left "was shot during the total eclipse of the Millennium on 1999 August 11 from Lake Hazar, Turkey."

This year's Solar Eclipse will be more visible "across the Pacific Ocean, beginning south of New Zealand and just ending in Venezuela." If you are in some location where it can be seen, be sure to take serious precautions. Please follow the instruction set on this page.

When I see these events from the Nature, that still today wonders all of us, I keep telling myself that the ancient people, that could not understand what was really happening up above, could only think that this could be a real sign of the end of the times...

Maybe it is, who knows... :) Just kidding!

NCAA Tournament

Musics and videos from the NCAA
CBS Sports complete coverage of the Finals

I can't play nothing of basketball. But I have fun watching it. A few minutes ago, the 2005 NCAA championship finished. UNC (University of North Carolina) against Illinois. The final score for the game was 75 UNC x 70 Illinois. (above you see the photo of Sean May, the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the Final Four of NCAA.

As everybody already know here, I'm not American, so, I knew the NCAA existed because of Michael Jordan that came from there (and by coincidence, from North Carolina). But I never watched a game before. Today I watched the final. And what a game. Like every single good basketball game all was decided only at the final 2 minutes. :) UNC was 15 points ahead in the end of the first half, but with just 2 minutes to go, they were tied!

What a game!

In the end, the TV played what I discovered is the official hymn of the NCAA. A beautiful song about encouragement, the value of fight for what we believe called "One Shining Moment". I know there are lots of people out there that finds the lyrics too cheesy, but, for me, I see it beyond cheese (by the way, I love cheese :) ), it is a great hymn to continue the struggle, not only for the ball game, but for the game of life.

Below is a part of the lyrics and some links for the ones that wish to listen. I really like the song.

One Shining Moment

“Feel the beat of your heart
feel the wind in your face
it's more than a contest
it's more than a race...
And when it's done
win or lose
you always did your best
cuz inside you knew...
that one shining moment, you reached for the sky
one shining moment, you knew
one shining moment, you were willing to try
one shining moment . . .”

Here you can see a Video Clip of the song with images from the 2002 Championship
Here you listen to the TV Version of the song
Official Site of the composer of "One Shining Moment"

Congratulations North Carolina. Congratulations Illinois. Win or lose, I always believe that the important is really to compete.