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Saturday, June 30th, 2007It’s weird, but I guess the lack of structure in my life has been making me think about the best way I recall to waste time… video games. So I’m strongly considering buying a video game console to mod the hell out of it. I think the Wii is in the lead (damn you lack of GH, but maybe Rock Band?), but the fact that you can create your own custom songs for Guitar Hero on PS2 is mighty tempting. 
Or maybe I could just take the money I would have spent, but a new electric guitar, and practice it to learn to really play ths songs.
We’re working on some travel plans and I’ve reconsidered my earlier position on sleeping in like a jackass, and think maybe its time to start waking up early and trying to be productive during daylight hours, like my girlfriend…
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Friday, June 29th, 2007I saw a Brazilian (one l?) wearing this shirt the other day, which is both awesome and brilliant.
I’m pretty much over my sickness now, but my day is still broken up in weird chunks thanks to a terrible mattress, sunset at 5:30 pm and no real structure to my life. There is this Mike Birbiglia bit about his sleep-addicted friend Sleepy Carl that continually entices him to stay in bed, while his girlfriend jumps out of bed yelling, “put me in coach.” Well that’s pretty much how its been going here. Johanna passes out on the couch watching a movie, and I stay up coding until 4am, then she yells at me when I am too groggy to want to kiss her when she wakes up (before her alarm!) at 8am. If that’s the biggest problem in our relationship, I’ll take it.
Anyway, finished reading The Razor’s Edge, which is a pretty incredible success story about someone looking for their own happiness, which brings me to, what am I doing after this vacation in Brasil?
Well… I’m looking for jobs at the moment, but strongly considering several options. I like the idea of trying to put assemble some sort of co-working setup in Columbus. I’ve enjoyed freelance work in the past, but I keep recalling that I *need* people to work with and keep me inspired. Plus I’m not sure that I want to go entirely freelance when I get so bummed out with the stupid projects and pay that are floating around on the internet. More about this topic later…
We’ll be moving into this *AMAZING* condo that we (well technically, I) bought! [for you stalkers, Google Map it]
in the heart of the Short North district of Columbus. Hopefully Jewish will suffice for gay and artsy in Columbus, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t, as they are synonymous everywhere else. I’m excited to help Columbus become the new San Francisco.
the most annoying thing about one of my most visited websites is fixed!
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Take that Gray Lady!
Disable double-clicking on nytimes.com: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7721
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Things have been fun and yet crazy… I’ve been really sick the past couple of days, but have been taking a good mix of tylenol and cipro and am starting to get back to somewhat normal. This past weekend was the São João (St. John) festival, and we took a tourist bus to Campina Grande for the celebration. It kind of made me feel like we were in the Texas of Brasil, lots of leather, traditional dancing… but instead of Mexicans there are Brazilians everywhere! And lots of food and drink.
Johanna’s full flickr set is available here.
Also, havaianas are the sweetest shoes ever, here are these awesome special edition kicks I got in Campina.
Forró (the musical style) is king here, its basically a triangle, an accordion, and a zabumba drum. And its EVERYWHERE. It’s sort of shitty folksy polka-ish music. I mean its good, but kind of sounds the same in the same way that all salsa music sound exactly the same. But people of all ages here love it in a really non-ironic way. I guess we are in too rural area for their to be arrogant hipsters. But man, I’ve been into Forró for so long now…
Other than that I’ve been keeping myself busy, trying to decide what direction I want to take my life in next. I’ve been reading The Razor’s Edge as well as some advanced Rails books.
More to come at a later date… Miss you all.
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Monday, June 25th, 2007Or any huge bloated site sucks when you are on a really slow internet connection.
Thanks Brazil for your valuable lesson on small page-weight.
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007Ever wonder what you would do with lots of idle time? Not a four day weekend. Not a two week vacation with a list of tourist destinations… I’m talking about SIX weeks with absolutely NO responsibilities.
Well let me tell you, as of right now, it’s pretty sweet.
I’m working on the first Bazoomercom Facebook app. Also, in the process of redesigning this here blog.
In the meantime, went swimming today, ate dinner at a sweet Japanese place (2 people, drinks and dessert, 22 USD!!!)
Enjoy this flickr set of my sad old Starwood cubicle and my lovely new surroundings.
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007The trip was long, but not too delayed, and fairly smooth at customs, etc. we left JFK at ~10pm on Friday, flew through the night to Sao Paolo. Then to Recife (pronounced Heh-see-fi) where Johanna’s mentor Celso picked us up and drove us to Joao Pessoa.
The city is pretty awesome, we are two blocks from the praia. (beach) My Portuguese comprehension is actually suprisingly good, all of those Spanish and Italian classes I guess have proved somewhat useful. I still sound like a retarded
5 year old when I speak though, although Johanna is holding her one beautifully.
Overall though, the Brazilians I’ve met are all *extremely* helpful and speak very good English. We had one hysterical moment where Jo’s advisor here at the UFPB asked her if she was from “Jew Family” which could have been straight out of Borat.
We weren’t thrown on a train or anything, and everyone here is muito simpatico.
The house is very nice, it’s a private home owned by this woman Fernanda, who lives ere with her son Iuri and rents rooms to a steady string of foreigners. Now there is a German student named Helga here on an internship. There is Narry, the other girl from OSU and Johanna and I are in the guest house, which as best as I can explain is a pool house, except there is no pool. Rent is reasonably cheap, 400 Reals (~200 USD) per person per month. n fact, pretty much everything here is inexpensive, food, drinks, buses… Electronics re *mad* expensive here, especially relative to everything else.
We had a hard time trying to figure out what to bring as gifts, as America doesn’t really have anything “cultural” (what? a native american dream catcher?) So for Jo’s dvisors we brought Maple Syrup and Ipod Shuffles. Turned out to be a great idea, they looked at us like we handed them gold bars.
Other than that, we have wireless internet (inter-netchy) at the house, and its slow, but that are you going to do… Maybe it’ll keep me from wasting all of my time here doing dumb shit online.
Please email me (kremdela–gmail) with questions/ comments/ requests or recommendations.
I plan on buying LOTS of records down here, and have been checking out lots of Brazilian music
I also found a really funny poster for a concert promoter here in JP, and am really upset that I missed a Brazilian Evanescence cover band. 