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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: System 7 New Album
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 08 23:20:21 GMT
Great video for System 7’s first track off of
the new album.
System 7 Hinotori Video Clip
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fxAx63r7qgo
Cant wait for it to come out…
http://www.a-wave.com/label/pages/AAWCD012.htm
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Founders Dinner
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 08 22:14:21 GMT
7 years ago Patrick and me started having monthly
dinners, gathering just a bunch of entrepreneurs
and founders.
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/366/
You’d think that people would be interested in
being around likeminded people and exchange ideas.
In particular when, as is the case of Patrick,
you can trade ideas with someone who actually has
been in a “for real Silicon Valley startup with IPO”.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickvandervalk
Last night’s dinner was the 7th anniversary.
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/366/calendar/6872499/
Number of people attending? Seven. Number of portuguese
people? Two. Number of foreigners? Five.
So much for portuguese entrepreneurship and networking…
Me and Patrick are going to rethink the event and
probably not organize it anymore. Both of us have more to
do than try and fight against windmills. On the other
hand, we might make it commercial; by invitation only and
charge 200 or 500 Euro per person. Not sure if we’d get
for-real entrepreneurs, but wannabes would be knocking at
our door, even if it was just for the chance of getting
a job…
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Aquaria, 2007 Independent Game of the Year
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 08 16:48:21 GMT
Brlliant, beautiful, haunting. Aquaria was named the
best independent game of the year.
http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/index.html
http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=661
If/When I create a games company, this is the type
of game I’d like to create. The world in general and
me in particular are fed up with 3D and FPS games…
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Gold In Them Thar Hills
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 08 23:59:21 GMT
Nao e que eu seja o gajo mais inteligente na materia
(chumbei 3 vezes a Financas…) e tambem nao pretendo
ser nem sou grande conselheiro no assunto. Mas como o
meu financeiro preferido concorda, pelo menos quanto mais
nao seja ficam os artigos e os graficos para referencia
futura…
Rising Inflation Expectations Amidst An Inflationary Storm :2008-2009
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article2337.html
http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Gold/Gold_inflation.gif
http://static.flickr.com/1/130522983_d95326bc6a_o.gif
http://www.nowandfutures.com/download/house_gold_ounces_USAVEHLGC6.gif
http://goldprice.org/axstone/uploaded_images/2-774070.jpg
Se conseguirem tirar alguma conclusao, run dont walk…
http://goldprice.org/buying-gold/
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: The Unbeliever
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 08 16:16:21 GMT
Wheeeeee!!! Just found out that one my favourite authors,
Stephen Donaldson, after a sci-fi series (that I didnt like),
has returned to fantasy and is doing a third trilogy about
the “Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant%2C_the_Unbeliever
I didnt even know about “Runes of the Earth”, the first
volume in this 3rd trilogy (it came out in 2004), but they
are going fast into my Amazon queue.
For those interested, the first two trilogies are at or
above Tolkien level. You might think of them as “Lord of the
Rings” for grownups.
— MV
