Honesty

Hello everybody!! Put your hand up in the air if you still follow this blog?
Yeeah! Big crowd.. :)
Anyways. I'm still trying not to let this die.
And today I'm gonna share an experience that I found very interesting.

I once was selling something on the local classifieds, and someone was interested in buying it. This person then asked me if I could deliver it. Since he wasn't very far from Rafa's way back from work, I agreed to deliver. The problem was that he wouldn't be at home by the time we could deliver the object. His solution: "You bring the item and put in my mailbox, and I'll leave the money there".
It's interesting how some people just trust others.

Hola Pessoal!

isso eh um teste..

Foto generica do Windows.

It can't be true..

Editing pictures

I Loooove editing pictures. Actually, I love pictures! Editing is just part of it.. :)

Black and white effects are really cool. Whenever I wanted to apply them to a picture, I would go to a pic editing software and just use the b&w effect function. But I was seldom satisfied with the results. So boring.. Not even close to the professional ones.
With a little help from Google, I quickly discovered a very easy way to get it a lot better. I don't remember the website anymore, but I learned the following:
On Photoshop -
use the channel mixer, select "monochrome" and play with red, blue and green cursors. One good tip is to get one of the colors at 100% and the others at 0%.
Really cool!

Spring

During the first year here in Canada we were very excited with all the changes in nature.
Specially for me, because I'm from a place where there's only two seasons - rain and sun - and they are not very different (except for the rain), observing the four seasons being very different to each other was a great experience.

Now we are starting the spring season again. All the cartoons I used to watch when I was little make sense now: the birds singing, the blossom, people being happier, etc. This season the snow starts to melt, it's 5C outside, but it's warm enough to wear only a sweater, the days are sunny, and it only gets dark at 7pm. Oh, I love the spring!

I also hate the spring :). Last year we had a daily visitor in our bedroom window, and he used to get here at 6am knocking at the "door" insistently and very loudly. This year he's back!!
Last year he stayed for a couple of months. This year, I think he got here a little earlier. He's not bothering us anymore because we've decided to switch rooms.

Here is a short video I made this week.

Middle Finger Kid

Are they the same boy?


I know the first picture for a long time. The one on the right I just got an email with it. The moment I put my eyes on it, I remembered the first one! Now I'm curious to know if they are the same.. I noticed they both have the same gesture in their hands! :)

Cheers

Switchfoot - one night to remember!

http://www.switchfoot.com/

Rafa banned!

Hello everybody!
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I removed Rafa from the colaborators list. Now, just me..
Maybe if the huge crowd that follows this blog insist for me to let him write here again, I might give him a chance.. ;)

So, what a terrible thing happened at Haiti, eh? All the news here are about that. And it feels good that the whole world is helping, though. Rafa sent me this email about how his company is helping:

"In order to help the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week, CAE will double all employee donations that are made around the world to UNICEF or the Red Cross from now and until January 29.
This means that for every $10 donated by employees of any location around the world, CAE will donate $20, for a total of $30.
In addition, the Canadian government will also match any contribution made by Canadian citizens. This means for every $10 donated by a Canadian CAE employee, a total of $40 will be donated to help with the relief effort ($10 by the employee, $20 by CAE and $10 by the government)."

I wonder sometimes how lucky brazilians are, since they(we) have almost no natural disaster. Recently we have had some problems with lots of rain, but I'm not sure how that could be compared to the sort of things we've seen lately.


You can help:
http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL1445754-5602,00-VEJA+COMO+AJUDAR+AS+VITIMAS+DO+TERREMOTO+NO+HAITI.html