Archive for May, 2008

Announced the fixtures of Bahia Football League Second Division 2008

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Bahia Football Federation announced, some days ago, the league tables of Bahia’s Second Division 2008, in which 10 teams will compete for the title and one place in the First Division in 2009.
Among these teams, Galícia Esporte Clube, fighting to honor his traditions and to come back to the First Division after many years.
The [...]

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The hoax on Krista Marie and her daughter Natalie

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I received an email on a baby called “Natalie”, who supposedly has brain cancer and would urgently be needing financial help.
The email has a picture of her and a text in Portuguese that would translate like that in English:
Please do not delete it, you don’t need to read this, just forward it
Warm-hearted people wouldn’t delete [...]

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Anacê releases debut album

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

On this May 16 (Friday), in the Boomerangue concert hall in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the band Anacê, from my friend Márcio Fiais, will release “O Mundo” (The World), its first album. Formed by Márcio and four of his cousins, Anacê (that means “relative” in the native brazilian tupi language) exists for already five years and [...]

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Geek wedding cakes

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Some days ago, my brother Neca sent me this link to some geek wedding cakes photos. According to him, I’m a geek, and, as such, my wedding cake should also have been a geek one.
And actually, my wedding cake was really geek. Well, not the cake itself, but the traditional cake toppers, that were not [...]

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Tom Zé on Antônio Dantas and berimbaus

Friday, May 9th, 2008

My friend Pablo published a nice post talking about the reaction of composer Tom Zé to the unfortunate statements made by University of Bahia (UFBA)’s Medicine Course coordinator, Antônio Dantas. Dantas had said that the low performance of his Medicine students in ENADE (a Brazilian national exam for those who finish the university) would be [...]

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