We’re moving!

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What???

 

Yes, we’re moving. I’ve acquired a new domain, www.brazilliangeek.com, for even more geekyness and non-sense. Now here’s something really, really important, if you want to keep up with the madness

• The old blog address (and that’s the one you used to get here) is http://braziliangeek.blogspot.com. That’s just ONE L.
• The new blog address (and that’s the one you’re going to use from now on, is http://blog.brazilliangeek.com. That’s TWO L’s!!!

Why? Well, the other night I purchased the domain name (got a really good deal on it!), but I didn’t check the correct spelling for “Brazilian”, so I did it with two l’s, as in “Brazillian”. Turns out the correct spelling is with just one l, and now I’m stuck with a site spelled incorrectly (the spelling nazi inside my head is jumping up and down with fury).

Now, I’m guy who likes consistency. If I’m going to spell it wrong, then I’m going to spell it wrong everywhere. So I quickly hogged the address http://brazilliangeek.blogspot.com from google and attached it to my website. So now it’s all setup!

Basically, this is the last post in this website (the one with the correct spelling).  New posts can be found at http://blog.brazilliangeek.com. I’m not deleting this blog, so you, irregular readers, will find this message weeks or months (nay, years in the future) and learn that there’s a whole bunch more stuff you’ve been missing out on http://blog.brazilliangeek.com

You, regular readers, can follow me to my new address and enjoy all the craziness and non-sense you’ve enjoyed all this time.

http://blog.brazilliangeek.com – Now with incorrect spelling!

Still alive!

I don’t quite remember how I came across this site, but it is something I enjoy visiting every now and then

http://englishrussia.com

This is a site maintained by a Russian photographer about life in Russia. Not that I’m that interested in moving to Russia or anything like that… What’s interesting to me is his “field trips”, like this one

Lost City of Chernobyl

Yeah, some of this is definitely on the creepy side of things, but very interesting nevertheless!

An Abandoned Coastline Defense Canon Battery

AK-47 Kalashnikov museum

Some of this postings are bizarre enough to prevent me from checking it more regularly, but it’s always interesting for the occasional visit.

This post brought to you by the Department of Too Much Information

After successfully becoming a waterholic (really, I’m drinking a ton of water. So much, I just don’t have the “time” to drink anything else. Gotta hit that goal!), I’ve decided to expand/abuse my reader’s patience some more.

I’ve learned long ago that accountability is one of the keys of successful delegation: If you have to report it to someone, you’re much more likely to do it, for any number of reasons I’m not going to go into. So, now I’ve decided to make You, the reader, the boss of me! Yes, that’s right! Now I’m going to update my water consumption (but not every half-hour, no way), but I’m also going to update with my… food intake!

 

(crowd stares in terrifying unbelief, starts to look for pitchforks and torches)

 

It’s true… I like food! I eat a lot. I can eat all day… candy bars, grilled cheese sandwiches, peanuts, anything. If it’s within reach, I’ll grab it. If I’m stressed, I’ll grab twice as much. If I’m tired, then you’d better hide your stash, I’ll be over in a minute :-)

So now, if you look on the right side of this page, you’ll see a section called “Food & Water”. I’ll be updating it regularly with my drinkage, and with my eatage. I don’t think I’m going to give a detailed account of what exactly I just ate (unless my wife made it, and you’ll be very jealous, specially once I describe how incredibly delicious it tasted). It’ll probably just be a “I ate something!”.

Alright, now I gotta get some work done. 

Resolution!

Following my wife’s excellent example, I’m working my darndest (spell checker thinks that darndest should be spelled dandiest – brought to you by my very short attention sp….hey, look, it’s shiny!) best to stop drinking carbonation. It’s not an easy task, specially in the IT world, where Mountain Dew is King and Lord over All Other Beverages. My shameful worst is 4 cans of Dew in a single day (but they were diet!).

Anyways, one of my excuses is that I always try to drink a healthy amount of water/day, usually about 1 liter. Interestingly enough, after some googling (hey, it was my lunch time!), I found this link

http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/water.htm

Once you drill down past the wise and sage advice, I found this definition

"Proper water intake is a key to weight loss," says Dr. Donald Robertson, medical director of the Southwest Bariatric Nutrition Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.  "If people who are trying to lose weight don't drink enough water, the body can't metabolize the fat adequately.  Retaining fluid also keeps weight up."

The minimum for a healthy person is eight to ten eight-ounce glasses a day," says Dr. Flaks.  "You need more if you exercise a lot or live in a hot climate.  And overweight people should drink in an extra glass for every 25 pounds they exceed their ideal weight.  Consult your own physician for their recommendations.

At the International Sports Medicine Institute, we have a formula for daily water intake: 1/2 ounce per pound of body weight if you're not active (that's ten eight-ounce glasses if you weigh 160 pounds), and 2/3 ounce per pound if you're athletic (13 to 14 glasses a day, at the same weight).

So, right now, I weigh a manly 190lbs. According to the formula,

190 x 1/2 = 95oz per day

then, remembering that a regular water bottle carries about 17oz of water

95/17 = 5.5 bottles/day

A lot? Yeah, that’s a lot of water. However, if I’m awake 18 hours/day then

18/5.5 = 3.2

That means I have to drink 17oz of water every 3.2 hours. Hourly, that will translate into

17/3.2 = 5.3oz

So, 5oz of water every hour that I’m awake! All y’all cooks know how little that is. For us cubicle-dwellers, if I get up every half-hour and take a nice drink of water from the water-fountain, then not only I get to stay awake, I also get to stay hydrated! Awesome! Also, remember that 85% of your brain is composed of water, so you gotta make sure your gray matter is always nice and moist (maybe soggy is even better, but make sure you don’t drench it… It actually damages the gray matter, and then it don’t work so good. Anyways.) if you want to keep your marbles not looking like the poor marble in the right

 

Good luck, and happy drinking!

Queen and Weird Al

I’m not a huge Queen fan, but I’ve always admired Freddie Mercury’s talent as a singer. Apparently, so does Weird Al… Here’s a quick compare of Queen’s original, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

 

And here’s Weird Al’s version of the same song. Same lyrics, completely different song!