Here’s the third incarnation of my personal homepage. Yes, a personal homepage in these times of blogs. (And, before you say “hey! but there is a ‘Blog’ link right over there!”, know that it is not a real blog: I use mostly to announce updates to this page — more about this in “About“.)
Feel free to leave comments, make contact and, in case of questions, check the FAQ.
Assorted nonsense
An assortment of things, most of which are nonsense. Some people think they are funny.
- Psychological test: unravel the secrets of the mind (your mind, that is).
- Know your future: find out what the destiny has for you, through my exclusive fortune telling method.
- Puzzles: unbelievably fun!
- Random notes (random and old) about random stuff. I’ll use the blog for new notes.
Drawings
Most of these are cartoons I’ve drawn, though there are one or two exceptions, like a Flash animation. (Just in case anyone cares, most of the drawings signed as “02001″ was based on ideas from previous years. 02001 was not so fruitful.)
- Close Encounters. This my first cartoon 100% digitally created (thanks to Inkscape).
- The Invention of the Normal Distribution. Great Moments in the History of Mankind.
- The Terrifying Olympic Escape. A Flash animation from 02002.
- Some Night in December. A touching little story.
- Numbers Don’t try to understand this one.
- Organization of the Roman Army. From the notebook I used in History classes, in the eight grade (01994). In Portuguese only.
- f’(x). This one will not make sense if you don’t understand Portuguese.
- The Illustraded Language. A series of visual-linguistic puns, that make sense in Portuguese only.
Writings
Some texts I wrote. Some are serious, some are silly, some are both.
- National Passion (this one is in Portuguese only)
- Poçostergação (this one is in Portuguese only)
- Awakening
- Retaliations
- The Aliens Have Arrived
- Happy Ending
- The Two Frogs
Quotes
My collections of quotes.
- LMB Quotes: the philosophical (and narcissist) section of my page.
- Candidates Quotes: collection of quotes from electoral campaigns in Brazil. No English version available!
Computer stuff
He (or she) studies architecture, but is not an architect; knows about structures, but is not a civil engineer; understands communication but doesn’t host a talk show; does loops all the time but is not an aerobatic pilot; and works with threads but is not a tailor. Who’s he? For those who know the answer:
- Diluculum. A library that simplifies a lot the task of integrating Lua and C++.
- OSGUIsh. A library providing GUI-like events for Open Scene Graph nodes.
- A Short Introduction to the Basic Principles of the Open Scene Graph. A beginner’s guide to OSG.
- VOX Project. The “neural network-based system for speech recognition”.
- Class assignments. Some interesting class assignments from my undergrad times, that may be of interest for other people.
- LILO or GRUB? Read The Illustrated Guide to Bootloaders and make your choice. (No, this is not serious).
- Lua: An extensible extension language. A short course I taught at the Game Development School (GDS) (Unisinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil), in November 02007. I’ve made available the presentation slides (they are in Portuguese) and the source code used in the examples.
- Fun with Free Software: Games and Tools to Develop Them. A presentation I did at the “Software Freedom Day” (Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil), in September 02009, and again at TcheLinux 2009 (PUC-RS, Porto Alegre, RS). [slides (PDF, 1.2MB) (in Portuguese)]
- Cryptography with EncFS. A 4-minute flash-talk at FLISOL (Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil), in April 02010 [slides (PDF, 82kB) (in Portuguese)]
- My .emacs. It uses some nonstandard packages, but it supposedly verifies if they are really present instead of assuming they are.
Photography
Photography is nice.
I have my photo gallery online, but I am not happy with its format. I think someday I’ll replace it with something I like better.