mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Memorable Movie Quotes
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 08 20:44:21 GMT

I could go mental/intellectual on you and quote something
intelligent out of AFI’s Top Movie Quotes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years…_100_Movie_Quotes

Instead I’ll just state the 3 lines that I most easily
remember and that I most like:

“Go ahead, make my day” – Clint “Dirty Harry” Eastwood
“You talkin’ to me?” – Robert “Taxi Driver” DeNiro
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” – Apocalypse Now

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: SSJS
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 08 22:04:21 GMT

The number of links in these pages is small but it
sure is growing everyday…

http://del.icio.us/tag/server+side+javascript
http://del.icio.us/tag/serverside+javascript
http://del.icio.us/tag/ssjs

Although I have bookmarked it, somehow jslibs is missing;
probably bookmarked in a browser without the delicious extension.

Here it is anyhow:

http://code.google.com/p/jslibs/

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Noblesse Oblige
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 08 21:11:21 GMT

Oh boy….

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/convite.JPG

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Canadian Guitar Summit
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 08 22:49:21 GMT

A bit more than 20 years ago, back in 1986, more
dedicated than today to guitar playing, I started
buying Guitar Player magazine. I learned a lot not
only from the lessons in it and from the musicians
interviewed but also from the plastic records that
came embedded in it*.

One of these plastic records was from a gathering
of guitar players called Canadian Guitar Summit.

http://dreamwater.org/art/gtr/cgsbb.htm

The Canadian Guitar Summit got together just to make
this song and this recording, called “Beyond Borders”,
and was composed of Alex Lifeson from Rush, a progressive
rock band, Rik Emmet from Triumph, a hard rock band, Ed
Bickert, a jazz player, and Liona Boyd, a classical guitar
player. All Canadian of course…

http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&BandId=5566

The resulting song/recording more than being beyond
borders, is beyond description. A beautiful piece of
music.

http://www.2112.net/sphere/virtualsongs/audio/Lifeson&Emmet-Beyond_Borders.mp3

— MV

* – I first heard Steve Vai’s Blue Powder, another beautiful
piece of music, through the same plastic records…

http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/discography_vinylsingles.html
http://www.bytefest.com/private/MeCHx/My_Music/STEVE%20VAI%20COLLECTION/Steve%20Vai%20-%20Blue%20Powder.mp3

Yes, 20+ years ago, while you were all listening to Duran
Duran and Bryan Adams…

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: News Not Fit to Print
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 08 23:39:21 GMT

Yay for me, yours truly is in the news…

Informacao Empresarial Simplificada e Cartao de Cidadao com SOA
http://www.semanainformatica.xl.pt/864/act/300.shtml

Grandes empresas e Justica adoptam mais ‘software’ livre
http://www.novabase.pt/showNews.asp?idProd=IMPRENSAC1440BC3

Month old stuff, but I do google myself from time to time.

— MV