Alcides Fonseca

That’s what we’re living for…

Oh, and if you’re wondering what the heck is spidey doing there, this is from the SpiderMan movie OST.

I spend this weekend lost in Zambujeira do Mar in the MSP Team Building event. There were a few talks given by some folks at Microsoft, CanalUp, Sociedade Ponto Verde, Associação Terra dos Sonhos and NetJovens. All of them excellent, and I got some interesting contacts for some future activities I’m planing. Spending time with the rest of the MSPs was pretty good too, maybe apart from the CC, BCC and Rodeo ;)

Now, to the missed news:

First, Adobe Air 1.0 and Flex3.0 released. Since I’m probably doing my multimedia project in Air, this is a great news! But there is still no signs of a Linux client… This was something you could expect from Microsoft, but from Adobe doesn’t matter that much…

Second, Python 2.5.2 is out, just a bug-fix version.

Third, Oscars sucked once more this year. I can’t really enjoy the kind of movies that win year after year… I guess I’ll jut ignore them from now on…

PS: I also bought a wiimote (I wouldn’t give that much money for just a console) so I guess come posts about hacking the wiimote in Windows, MacOS, Python and IronPython will be here in no time. For now, let’s sleep :)

Down to Earth from Titan A.E. OST, one of my favorite movies!

Sempre gostei de ir ao cinema (quase sempre pela companhia, mas isso não é para aqui chamado) e há muito tempo que deixei de ir com tanta regularidade. Primeiro porque os filmes são cada vez mais comerciais e com menos inovação. Escrevi sobre a última ida, precisamente por ter encontrado um filme decente.

E para além dos filmes não serem nada de especial, a experiência é exactamente a mesma de hã mais de 50 anos atrás. Já vi um filme num cinema IMAX, e é outra coisa, mas quase do mesmo género. Penso que falta aqui uma ideia nova… Quem sabe o regresso dos drive-in theaters (gostava de experimentar!) ou outro sistema que varie um pouco…

Podem ler mais sobre o assunto neste artigo sobre os 10 problemas que os cinemas de hoje têm com que eu concordo e revejo cá em Portugal.

I have just finished watching the Back to the Future Trilogy and I was really amazed for something they started even before I was born! It is just a classic that I won’t forgive anyone who doesn’t watch it!

One thing that made me thinking was the way they predicted the future in 2015. A lot of things we already have, or even better, but things like flying cars or the hoverboard, which I dreamed when I was a kid are still far from our crafts.

As for the screens, we already achieve it with projectors, and even better with the flexible plastic LCDs. As for the wicked phone-glasses, we have 3G phones and bluetooth ears, that I believe is better than that. We already have the hat with leds and fingerprint door locks! We almost have self-adapted shoes but self-cleaning jackets are still to come.

Is any current scifi movie up to those predictions? I guess not, but we’ll see. And I can’t wait to get back to 2015 to check if it was all true!

A convite de uma amiga voltei ao cinema, que já não visitava há muito, um pouco por falta de filmes interessantes. Fui mais pela companhia e nem sabia o filme que ia ver, mas tive uma surpresa bastante agradável. O filme era bastante divertido e tomava caminhos inesperados. Para saberem mais sobre a história, o sapo oferece-vos o trailer.

Eu sou bastante esquisito quando toca a cinema francês. Normalmente apanho enormes secas, mas há uns poucos que são os que me proporcionam as surpresas mais agradáveis. Já ando pelos cabelos por comédias românticas, filmes de acção (die hard’s e afins), filmes de teenagers e outros estereótipos que não são nada de especiais. Este filme, à semelhança de 8 femmes que também recomendo, tem um estilo bastante peculiar (um pouco semelhante ao de O Fabuloso Destino de Amélie Poulain) e que realmente dá gosto de maneiras diferentes.

É um dos poucos filmes que valem os 4,40 euros que damos para entrar naquelas salas e portanto, recomendo vivamente a todos.

This is the hiphop I like, not like that Portuguese pimp sounds. And check it out where this song came from!

Regarding TMNT, it was the movie I liked the most this year until now, It might look weird, but I’m that kiddo that likes comic stuff and sci-fi, and Ninja Turtles are a great example of those two together. Oh and the soundtrack is awesome! Not only this track.