O Crominho do Técnico



Bruno Afonso's babbling and seldom refreshed views of the world

Famous last tweet: Is linkedIn the new facebook? so many weird "friend" invitations...

Category: trivia

The American Handshake

This is from Columbia Business School’s international student’s orientation. Love the white sneakers and t-shirt under the shirt bits. :-)

Random quote

I don’t believe in the race. While talking about scientific pursuits, vacation and being happy.

Shifting the bookstore paradigm

“I’m in favor of anything that brings traffic in the store,” said Ms. Reidy of Simon & Schuster. “If it’s toys or games that brings a family into the bookstore, then I say fine.” Ms. Reidy from Simon & Schuster echoes to the New York Times what is happening with major bookstore chains. The e-book [...]

No wifi is the new rage

Hey Starbucks, looks like you’re trailing as far as trends go. No wifi is the new rage at coffee shops :)

OkCupid data is now officially Systems Biology

Data displays an oscillatory behavior, so therefore, it is Systems Biology. [from here]

From macro economy to Scarlet Johansson

Gotta respect a famous blogger (Barry Ritholtz) that links to Things I Would Do to Bang Scarlett Johansson. ps: also, read this.

R.I.P. Fiji

A different take on Uruguay’s handball

Simplified computing

After playing again on friday with a friend’s iPad for 20 minutes I started thinking about simplified computing. Sure I love my command line, matlab, perl, python, you name it. But I also love to pick something up and not have to figure out stuff I don’t want to. I want to be productive. Quickly. [...]

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