Pike Place Market at Sunday

My wife and I at Pike Place Market. Isn't that cute!? :)

Linux booting in a Delta's 737

I took this picture in my way back home from NYC.

 


I uploaded to youtube a short movie that I shot in that time as well. There I found a longer one

Almost 1 year later, posting again

There has been almost 1 year since I posted for the last time. Actually it was not my fault. I switched to Windows Vista in Janurary and since then, I could not upload pictures from my cell phone to my laptop. I have a bunch of interesting pictures that I took in the meantime. I wish I could post using earlier dates... Wait a second, I just noticed that I can post using a different date. I'll label them as [posted at Oct'07]. Anyways, here they come...

Gudang Garam

[Posted at Oct'07] I'm not adicted but I smoke sometimes. I don't know why but I was really surprized to find such thing here in the US. Maybe because I thought that Gudang Garam was a brasilian cigarette brand, although it would be a very weird name.

 

Different uses for Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms book

[Posted at Oct'07] I remember spending couple hours planning how to buy Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms book with my trainer salary. I just couldn't make it. Several years later, I finially bought one. I don't use it very often though. Time changes, needs too.

The picture below was taken in friend's house.

 

See how useless it can become? I hope my young buddies down there in Brazil don't see this picutre.

Party's Fridge

[Posted at Oct'07]

 

Tamarindo and Carambola int the US

[Posted at Oct'07] Tamarindo and Carambola at Fred Meyer.

 
 

Trashing Furniture

[Posted at Oct'07] Maybe the picture isn't too good to show but these are in-perfect-state furniture pieces that were trashed in one of the trash collector spots in the condo that I live in.



If that happened in my home town, people over there would say that whoever trashed that is crazy or are quite spoiled. But people down there don't know that here sometimes you have to pay to trash stuff or get rid of things.



If you think you need to pay to trash things, or get rid of stuff, a lot of other "crazy" things that happens in America actually do a lot of sense. For instance, let's take the example of T-Shirt for U$1.00.

Sounds crazy that clothes that usually cost a lot more are sold for U$1.00. The thing is, if you were a store owner and bought 100 T-Shirt and sold most of them. Let's say that you have 2 or 3 that most likely will not be bought soon. They actually became a problem since your store has limited space and there will be a new batch of clothes comming soon. You have couple options.

A) You can trash it. But then, you would be loosing whatever the shirt costed + paying someone to take it out of the shelf + a potential a trashing fee

B) Or you can just lower the price until someone decide to buy

If think in this way, if you do B, you'll actually making money. And if you have enough statistics (they usually have) you can increase shirt price slightly to include the money that you will loose when you have to lower the price of the never selling 2%.

If you think in this way, they are actually very clever. ;)

Worth for short distances only

[Posted at Oct'07]

 

Subtle Reminder

[Posted at Oct'07] This is a keychain of an afterhours snack bar's restroom. I guess they had trouble with drunk guys before.