A personal blog about whatever comes to mind
Personal posts or those that don’t fit in any other category.
Sorry-not-sorry for the clickbaity title, but it’s true. Brazil is a Portuguese-speaking country, but being in Latin America it would make sense for the second most spoken language to be Spanish, right? Well, it is not.1 — Is it English then? Nope. Very few people actually even understand English, which is barely used in their…
I don’t know why, but the timbre of Asian stringed instruments always matches so well with a rock or metal background for some reason, at least to my ears. It’s not something that I specifically search for, but I’m always happy when it crosses my timeline somewhere, like this YouTube short I saw a few…
Sometimes, I like to read about other countries’ independence to see what happened there. What I’ve found, so far, is that Brazil’s independence seems to have been… unusual? It had a lot of improbable events that led to a (somewhat) less bloody resolution than in a lot of other colonies. Like, it all started with…
That’s literally it: I have a jacket that I got I don’t know when and don’t remember from whom, but it has a Discman pocket. I think I never showed it to anyone, so here it is. The jacket is obviously old, I think I got it in the 2000s, but can’t remember exactly when,…
When I was young, we had a PC at home with Windows 95 that had an almost 1-minute startup time. Deciding to have some fun, I changed the Brian Eno’s original startup sound to this: It lasted the exact amount of time it took for Windows to start responding to human input. My parents loved…
Forgot to post this in December, something I usually do on socials, so here it is. I’m a Counting Crows enjoyer. There’s something kinda different in the way they make music compared to similar bands from that time. I have a penchant to enjoy art depicting melancholy, and all of their songs sound kinda melancholic…
I mean, beyond the name, where it’s called “Ovomaltine”, which apparently is how the whole world calls it except English-speaking countries? Well, anyway, when it was introduced in the country, there were some issues with the production line and the product didn’t turn powdery enough, becoming flaky and crispy when mixed in milk, creating a…
There’s an interesting shift in Brazil where the word “Friday”, in English, might get another meaning. Surprising no one (I hope), most Brazilians don’t speak English, so they don’t know what “Black Friday” really means. Some might be aware that “black” means “dark” or the literal color black but have no idea that “Friday”, a…
Tom Scott says electronic voting isn’t reliable, but doesn’t mention Brazil, a country using this system since the 90s, even once.
It’s not every day that you’re walking down a street near downtown and see something like this just lying around on the sidewalk.