Praia Othon Recife

... you need to have a Brazilian social security number - crazy.  We spent our final night in a nice restau in Olinda and hooked up with an American, Oliver, who was in Recife with his work (Medecins Sans Frontiers or Doctors without Borders) and had a few beers with him in the Bodega de Olinda - an atmospheric spit and sawdust place which served cold cuts and very cold beer (as in everywhere in Brazil).<br><br> <br><br>We said our goodbyes in the morning as I caught the early bus to ...

... out which bus you want to get from here to there, which entails figuring out what is says on the front, while it is barrelling down on you at 50 mph, sticking your hand out and then praying you guessed right. Then sit back and enjoy the stop-and-start, stop-and-start, stop-and start ride. The town itself is really spread out and the neighborhoods are often separated by water, bridges or just sheer distance. The downtown and Old ...

... Fui a viagem inteira só imaginando a que horas minha mochila ia se espatifar no chão e causar um acidente, mas esse era um dia de milagres - consegui chegar a Delmiro Gouveia com o dia já quase escurecendo, sem que morresse ninguém na estrada. Catei um lugar para ficar e na manhã seguinte tomei uma caminhonete para Canindé de São Francisco. Isso era o que eu pensava, porque quando chegou a Piranhas, na margem alagoana do rio, uma mulher perguntou se a caminhonete iria a Canindé e a ...

... comida fora do que dar à criança que tinha fome? Esse tipo de argumento é muito bom para resolver a dissonância cognitiva, mas quase nunca vejo a pessoa que o usa sugerir uma alternativa melhor, ou nos casos raros em que sugere, nunca vejo ela efetivamente fazer o que diz ser bom. É um argumento usado principalmente para se desresponsabilizar. Está aí uma coisa sobre que preciso pensar melhor: boas formas de assumir mais responsabilidade, já que não quero esperar que deus resolva as coisas.

... e foi a explicação desse fato que me fez gostar mais do artigo. O 'halting problem' consiste em encontrar um programa que seja capaz de determinar se qualquer outro programa pára ou não. Infelizmente esse problema é insolúvel, porque se houvesse um programa A capaz de desempenhar essa tarefa, poderia ser construído um programa B que executasse o programa A em relação a ele e a partir dessa informação fizesse exatamente o contrário do que o programa disse. Essa ...

Macieo is a pretty little coastal city. Lots of parks scattered around the city that have similar looking benches and trees surrounded by similar looking streets and buildings. Needless to say I spent much of my time wandering around the city trying to find my dingy little hotel. Being lost is annoying, yet being lost and having diarrhea adds to the frustration. Since my hotel was the smallest and cheapest one in the city many taxi ...

... internet connection could investigate further, and let us know if we really should be finding parking spots more out in the open! We discovered that we are quite likely to be considerably more hearing impaired before the Brazilian elections take place on the 1st of October. We don't mind the colourful flags waving in the breeze, nor the candidates posters pasted on every free inch of available space. However, we cringe each time we come across one of the numerous campaign ...

... of other activities. The town is an old diamond mining town, whose boom slowed down after it was discovered that South Africa was rich I diamonds - much to the De Beers delight and the chagrin of the Lencois locals! We ended up doing a 3 day hike with 2 French girls and a Scottish guy with an English accent. It was relatively tough with a lot of walking over large rocks and very slippery terrain. I soon realised that there are people with ...

Finally got on a bus to pipa and then on to sibauma- where the party was.....or so we thought. 10 mins into our bus ride some giggling locals tell us that the party has been moved to pipa!!! Picture 5 white ozzies dumped in the middle of a tiny rural town in northeast brazil - sibauma- we were certainly a strange sight for the locals who were all ogling us. After five or so minutes of looking completely ...

... all jumped in the pool with a few drinks and sang, danced and made whirl pools till the pool was full. We were pretty proud of ourselves for fixing the pool until the next morning when we awoke to find twice the amount of green junk in it than what we started with. Ha. The Big Night Arrives Simon had organised to throw a party at our apartment to celebrate the start of Carnival. So we cleaned the house prepped the BBQ and set up an esky. We had told everyone to come around at about ...