There are songs that… you just don’t have words to say how much you like them. The problem is when you realize if you show it to another person, the odds are, the person will not like the music as much as you do at the first hearing. Most of the times, not even after listening to it several times1)..

Liking a music is intrinsically connected with your state of mind, your present mood, what you associate that music with (e.g. an occasion, a girlfriend, a moment, ..) and surely many other things.

I thought on writing this post while listening to Sleeping Beauty from ‘A Perfect Circle’. So, at least if you understand this and by knowing I felt this way about this music, hopefully you will listen to it and see if you appreciate it as much as I do. Enjoy.

It’s not what you do, it’s who you are that counts.

I’m now also cross-posting to Advogato. I did some test posts before I could put this to work and that resulted in some empty posts on the advogato recent-log page. Sorry guys!

Ana’s Msc. presentation went great. Today was really the best one from the several rehearsals I saw. She got the degree and also was congratulated by several teachers and colleagues. Nice moment to be there.

08h00 - After sleeping 5 hours there we were, heading towards Redondo. Me and Ana were invited to give a talk at a local high school about the Computer Engineering course.

After a general introduction, I talked about what professional opportunities exist nowadays. Some of my university colleagues are now at YDreams, Siemens, IBM, Edisoft, etc.. and so I tryed to pass the message that, at least in IT, the job opportunities aren’t as bad as in other areas. I then talked about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and other famous people in the IT industry. I finished by saying that if they follow this course they also have the opportunity to start a company with less money that in other industries. Other speakers included a biologist and a constructions engineer, but as we talked later with the professor that invites us, the kids were really thrilled in the end with computer engineering!

11h00 - Heading towards Évora for Ana’s masters pre-presentation, the one that counts is only tomorrow.

12h00 - She did great and had a lot of attendees too. Congratulations!

18h00 - Kung-Fu Training.

23h30 - Totally tired.