LMB's Homepage

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 about random stuff.

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 Series. A series of visual-linguistic puns, that make sense in Portuguese only.

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

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!

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”.
• Undergrad 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).
• Talks and mini-courses:
  • 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 (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 file.

Photography is nice.

I have an outdated photo gallery online, but I am not happy with its format. I think someday I'll replace it with something I like better.