Pensamento do dia

If you could understand morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy!
- Mitch Hedberg

Viva as "permoções"!

The Sophisticated Song

For a sophisticated girl.

Pensamento do dia

Inconscientemente, tenho sempre seguido esta ideia:

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
- Blaise Pascal

My Overkill

Não tendo sono a estas belas horas da manhã, faz sentido postar uma música que evoque as minhas insónias de uma maneira suficientemente subtil. Na verdade, elas são um sintoma de overkill - o uso excessivo de uma força ou acção para resolver um problema. A letra reflete bem o que sinto nestes momentos em que o sono não vem:

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know I'll be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away

Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation

At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night from overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know I'll be alright
It's just overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away

O Princípio de Peter

O princípio de Peter postula que em qualquer hierarquia um empregado tende a subir até ao seu nível de incompetência, e o "pointy-haired boss" de Dilbert é um bom exemplo disso.


In memoriam de Carla Vinieda
(foi usado um anagrama para proteger a identidade das pessoas que têm de suportar a Carla diariamente)

Last Goodbye

Esta é uma das minhas músicas preferidas. A mais bem sucedida de Jeff Buckley, consegue ser leve no tom e na melodia enquanto que a mensagem afunda-se na memória.



This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die.
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go:
You gave me more to live for,
More than you'll ever know.

Well, this is our last embrace,
Must I dream and always see your face?
Why can't we overcome this wall?
Baby, maybe it's just because I didn't know you at all.

Kiss me, please kiss me,
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation.
Oh, you know it makes me so angry 'cause I know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Did you say, "No, this can't happen to me"?
And did you rush to the phone to call?
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind saying,
"Maybe, you didn't know him at all,
you didn't know him at all,
oh, you didn't know"?

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime,
Burning clues into this heart of mine.
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes, and the memories
Offer signs that it's over, it's over.

Pensamento do dia

When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

E agora... para algo completamente diferente

Playboy com De Puniet

Há notícias que nem de propósito podiam ser mais engraçadas...
O motociclista Randy De Puniet, da LCR Honda, vai ser patrocinado pela Playboy. A cereja no topo do bolo é o facto de Randy ser francês - tal como o mui conhecido Marquis De La Pugnette.