It is the 3rd of May, and I missed the opportunity of posting something yesterday (the only day of the month which is prime and even). Nevertheless, today is also a prime number day, and I shall post something before the spiders decide to move from my house to my blog and fill this place with spider webs…

First I would like to apologise for the lack of posts. And now I would like to inform you all that I moved! I really don’t like moving houses, but hey, now I live in Coogee, 3 blocks from the beach, and the photo above I took this morning while reading my Bible and having breakfast (sitting on the sand, at the beach). Isn’t it awesome?

The not-so-awesome part of all the moving thing is that I have so many things yet to be organised and cleaned. I am also trying to stop doing nothing while I should actually be studying maths, otherwise I will fail again this semester, and this is not something I desire. In addition, I am working on an iPhone (and Android, of course) app that will soon (at some point between today and next decade) be announced and fill you all with wonder and excitement. But that is all I can say about the app for now.

This means that if I fail to post on prime number days, please don’t eat me alive for at least two reasons: 1) I think I don’t taste good; 2) I have good reasons for it… 3) if you find a third one, write it on the comments!

But to not post something useless, I will teach you two important lessons, one regarding maths, and another one regarding life. Let’s start with the most important one (or not):

Did you know that any integer greater than 1 can be written as a factorization of prime numbers? Not only this, each number can be written as a unique product of prime numbers (not considering the order of the factors)! For example, 25 = 5 x 5; 192 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3; and 100 = 2 x 2 x 5 x 5. Isn’t it awesome? This is called the Unique-Prime-Factorization Theorem, and it is the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. See, now you know…

The second (and probably more relevant lesson): If you ever have a problem with someone, please choose one of two options (or both): 1) talk to a good friend about it just to get the problem out of your mind and then pray for the person and forgive him/her; 2) or if it is something you should do something about, talk directly to the person you have a problem with (after praying and/or talking to a good friend might help), and solve the problem. Do NOT talk to other people about it in an useless attempt of fixing the problem. This is not only idiotic and foolish (ie. totally unwise), but it will make everything worse. I am not very old, but I can tell you this advice is true and good by (lots of) experience (and the Bible says so; it must be true).

That is it for today… I love random posts!
Cadu

At the end of last year I decided to set up some goals for 2010 and the years to follow (2011 and 2012 perhaps). One of the goals was to blog more, and so far I am achieving it. Another one was to learn how to skate, and I also achieved it! There are many goals, some more important, some less important, but all of them are good and fun. The one I am really looking forward to achieving is “Learn how to fly”.

I don’t know exactly why I want to learn how to fly, but airplanes have always fascinated me… the sad part is that it is very expensive to get a license, and after I have the license, when will I fly? I don’t even have an airplane! I could hire one sometimes, but… for what? Sometimes I think I would like to be a commercial pilot, but I am almost finishing my Computer Science degree, and I am a software engineer! Ah… too many dreams, too many questions… I am a bit crazy, yes.

Nevertheless, some time this year I will have a Trial Introductory Flight (probably on a Cessna 152) to see how it feels like… apparently they let you guide the aircraft for a while, which is exciting and scary! What will happen after that? I don’t know…

(And that is only one of the goals in my list… lol)

See you again on the 29th!
Cadu

I decided to start a new series (actually two series): “10 things I love about me” and “10 things I hate about me”. I am working on both lists, and I should start posting soon. I will post one item at a time, and probably one love item and one hate item per day (prime number day, don’t forget!).

When I decided to write those series I was hoping to evaluate my life and get better by the end of it… let’s see how it goes. I also plan to write some fun posts about some of the items… you will see!

Now, just some unrelated riddles that my friends from twitter couldn’t find the answer (even though Google knows them very well):

- When do giraffes have 8 feet? A: “When there are two of them.”

- What is the shortest mathematicians joke? A: “Let epsilon be smaller than zero.”

See you again on the 23rd!
Cadu

As you can probably see, I didn’t update my blog lately. The main reason is because I was away on holidays. Another, also relevant reason is that I don’t have defined days to update my blog, and this doesn’t help me. And now is when the awesome idea comes…

Inspired by my friend FMD and his The Thursday Blog (and also inspired by my own craziness), I decided to update my blog on every day of the month that is a prime number! In case you don’t remember what a prime number is, it is a number that can only be divided by 1 and by itself. For example, 13 is prime, and that is why I am announcing this today! If you are confused, the list of all prime numbers from 1 to 31 is: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31. That means that if you come here on any of those days, there will be a brand new post!

To understand why this will work you need to understand my mind: I like standards and when things follow some known or unknown defined logic, and I will not want to break a standard in my own blog…

See you again on the 17th of this month!
Cadu

I have many reasons to be excited and thankful to God!

First: I am going to the USA in 12 days! I am going to spend some time around LA and San Francisco, go to Disneyland and to Las Vegas to go to NAPKIN CONFERENCE! How cool is that?!

Second: I am going to Brazil for a week to spend some time with my family and a few friends! It will be awesome… I love my Country and I am happy to spend some time over there!

Third: I finally got my Australian Driver License last Friday! I transferred my Brazilian license and after an annoying test I got an unrestricted Australian license (no need for P1, P2 or similar annoying thing).

Last one (because I need to sleep): tonight we had an AWESOME kids service and I know tomorrow will be just the same… can’t wait to be a blessing to more children and families! And that is why I need to stop writing now… I need to go to bed…

Be blessed and see you in Vegas! (or at Church tomorrow, if you live in Sydney…)
Cadu

After watching the video present on this link, I am not sure if I am more ashamed for being Brazilian or for being almost Australian. The video was at some fancy meeting of the G-20, and shows the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama II, praising the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” (literally translated to Squid in English, and for the sake of fun it is how I will call him from now on) da Silva. Watch the video and keep reading.

President Squid shows us his amazing communication skills by acting like a potato after President Obama tells him that he is his favourite, and that he is the most popular president on Earth because of his good looks. Even though Mr. Squid (SpongeBob’s friend… muahahaha!) had someone translating to portuguese everything Mr. Obama said, he was unable to say thanks or reply in any other way.

The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Kevin Rudd, on the other hand, proved once more that a fool looks (and only looks) wiser when his mouth is shut.

And about what President Obama said… well… that obviously was his April Fools’ Day joke! Did you get it? Very funny!

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O Burro, o Tolo e o Engraçado.

Depois de assistir ao vídeo presente nesse link, não tenho certeza se me sinto mais envergonhado por ser Brasileiro ou por ser quase Australiano. O vídeo foi numa reunião do G20, e mostra o Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América, Barack Hussein Obama II, elogiando o Presidente do Brasil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. Veja o vídeo e continue lendo.

O Presidente Lula nos mostra suas incríveis habilidades com comunicação ao agir como uma batata depois do Presidente Obama falar pra ele que ele é seu favorito, e que ele é o presidente mais popular da Terra por causa de sua boa aparência. Mesmo o Sr. Lula tendo alguém traduzindo pra ele tudo o que o Sr. Obama falou, ele foi incapaz de agradecer ou responder de alguma maneira.

O Primeiro Ministro da Austrália, Sr. Kevin Rudd, por outro lado, provou mais uma vez que um tolo parece (e apenas parece) mais sábio quando sua boca está fechada.

E sobre o que o Presidente Obama falou… bom… aquilo foi obviamente a sua piada de Primeiro de Abril! Entendeu?? Muito engraçado!

Avião sem asa
Fogueira sem brasa
Sou eu, assim, sem você

Futebol sem bola
Piu-piu sem Frajola
Sou eu, assim, sem você…

Porque é que tem que ser assim?
Se o meu desejo não tem fim

Eu te quero a todo instante
Nem mil alto-falantes
Vão poder falar por mim…

Amor sem beijinho
Buchecha sem Claudinho
Sou eu, assim, sem você

Circo sem palhaço
Namoro sem abraço
Sou eu, assim, sem você…

Tô louca pra te ver chegar
Tô louca pra te ter nas mãos

Deitar no teu abraço
Retomar o pedaço
Que falta no meu coração…

Eu não existo longe de você
E a solidão, é o meu pior castigo
Eu conto as horas pra poder te ver
Mas o relógio tá de mal comigo…

Por quê? Por quê?

Neném sem chupeta
Romeu sem Julieta
Sou eu, assim, sem você

Carro sem estrada
Queijo sem goiabada
Sou eu, assim, sem você…

Porque é que tem que ser assim?
Se o meu desejo não tem fim

Eu te quero a todo instante
Nem mil alto-falantes
Vão poder falar por mim…

Eu não existo longe de você
E a solidão, é o meu pior castigo
Eu conto as horas pra poder te ver
Mas o relógio tá de mal comigo…

This is only to say that I just upgraded my Wordpress to a new version, and also to say that about a month ago this blog moved from a shared server on Dreamhost (they are good) to a dedicated virtualized server on Linode (they are better).
That’s all about servers for now!

Everyone probably heard the word homophobia, but I’m writing to talk about the other side: the heterophobia.

Today I was reading the very-bad quality free newspaper called “South Sydney Herald”, that I receive as SPAM every month (I guess). I always have a quick look just to see what else they are saying about christians. They hate christians, specially the ones that go to Hillsong Church, like me.

Well, the first page was talking about some gay and lesbian people that went to the front of a Gloria Jean’s cafe to complain about their support to the Mercy Ministries. What were they complaining about? Well, they said that the Mercy Ministries separate woman’s couples.

I’m not writing here to defend the Mercy Ministries (even though I would gladly do it), but I’m writing to tell you how impressed I am with the heterophobia of these gay movements.

Look, if you are homossexual, please know that I LOVE you, as Jesus does. I hate the homossexual lifestyle, but I DO love homossexuals. And if I had a software company, I would hire you if you were good enough, independently if you are gay or not. I really don’t care if you want to have sex with another person of the same sex as you, it doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t mind if you want to get married with someone of the same sex. I don’t even care if you want to get married with 10 different people! It is your life, your decisions, your consequences, not mine.

Now, I DO care if you start to act as a heterophobic, complaining about people that decided to not be homossexual anymore. It’s the same situation: it’s their life, their problem, not yours.

And I also DO care very much if you send to my address free SPAM gay newspapers (as I received once), with not only text, but very offensive pictures. The editors of that newspaper are lucky that I don’t have children, otherwise I would sue them for sending to my house such material as that.

Really! You can live your life as you want, I don’t mind and I promess that I will not disrespect the right of decision that God gave you. But please, don’t think that being heterophobic will help, because it won’t.

Update:
If you don’t like Mercy ministries, ok, forget what I said about gladly defending them, because I don’t closely know what they do. But I also don’t believe in anything the Australian media says. They are much worse than the Brazilian media when it comes to making up stories (and the Brazilian media is REALLY bad).

“Já o relacionamento entre Anna e Isabella era ótimo, segundo a reportagem. ‘Eram apaixonadas’, diz um trecho do depoimento. A madrasta nunca precisou repreendê-la, de acordo com o depoimento revelado pelo jornal.”
Fonte: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u392116.shtml

Me desculpa, mas isso é uma piada. Qualquer pessoa com cérebro sabe que não existe uma criança na face da terra que não precisa ser repreendida por um pai ou mãe. A não ser que as duas nunca tiveram um relacionamento e ligação emocional muito profundos, o que nesse caso pode resultar num relacionamento aparentemente “felizinho” mas sem nenhuma intimidade. Ou seja, em nenhum dos dois casos a afirmação da reportagem seria verdade.