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Photo of the Month - December 2019

This blog has always been too idle, but every now and then I feel like vomiting some lines, even if only relevant to myself. And today’s blog is about photography. It has some photos from last month. This is the first blog of the Photo of the Month series, with clicks done in the city of Curitiba. ...

January 5, 2020 · 2 min · 293 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga

Blackberries List

Or would it be aromas list (translator note: in Portuguese blackberry = amora and aroma = aroma, thus the word play in the original content)? Maybe spices or even other wild berries. Maybe we never know. By myself, I am sure: I can’t give up my blackberry. ...

April 10, 2018 · 2 min · 232 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga

A Blank Sheet

I never was a big talker. Being with the right people and the incentives by my side, I do well, but I also recognize my limitations. I work with logic and numbers, cannot even say language is a strong skill, even though I like to risk a couple of unusual words here and there (at least in Portgueuse). Speaking of unusual words, to those who like curiosities I recommend this video from Vsauce’s YouTube channel, that goes on about the Zipf law and the fact that the frequency with which words are used in a given language can be described by an exponential law. ...

September 9, 2017 · 2 min · 426 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga

Personal Impressions of the Book The Gunslinger, from Stephen King

The Gunslinger is a book written by the fiction author Stephen King and reviewed by himself after he concluded the series The Dark Tower (this post being about the revised edition). It is known as a book completely different from all other 6 from the series - that has 7 books - in part due to the author’s young age and his thoughts at the time wrote this one: according to himself in the preface to the revised edition, he confesses that he were much more worried about the form than the content, influenced by seminars he wrote back then. ...

July 27, 2016 · 3 min · 499 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga
A mix of Godzilla and chicken wiht lasers

Just another galinhazilla

Figure 1: the almighty galinhazilla

June 8, 2016 · 1 min · 5 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga

Fast Pace - Living in Two Cities

A little before the end of 2016, I was informed that I’d be the newest intern at Toradex, a Swiss company that designs and selss industrial-class computer on modules, also know as CoM or SoM (Computer on Module and System on Module, respectively). It was a nice surprise, given that I’ve awaited eagerly for a positive outcome, yet this bonus came with a common onus for an undergraduate: move to a new city. ...

April 16, 2016 · 7 min · 1404 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga

Opening the blog with "Bia"

It is party day! After long thoughts on creating a blog, aiming at posting various content, I have glued my butt to the chair and forced these tired fingers to type the lines that come next. To the premiere, I present a ficticious tale, recently written - and it is called “Bia”. Hope you enjoy! ...

April 3, 2016 · 3 min · 634 words · Leonardo Graboski Veiga