ports wipe | homebrew + rvm

Recently I’ve heard about Max Howell’s homebrew and Wayne E. Seguin’s rvm from a friend (caffo), and hearing that they were both pretty cool, I decided to give them a shot. So if, like me, you are curious about these tools, I’ll post what I did to install them. First I made backups (by moving some folders around) mv ~/.gem ~/gems-old sudo mv /opt/local ~/macports-old You could also install...

Surfer girl

So, I wake up with the phone ringing, I pick up and it’s a girl I haven’t seen or heard of in the past 15 years. I was so sleepy I couldn’t really understand or remember what she was saying. I remember her though, I think her name was Mirella, she was blonde and cute. I met her back in the day when I used to spend most vacations, holidays and breaks in a beach called ‘Guaecá’… I...

beer tasting

In January, a friend and I started a long process of studying the art of the beer. We went through approximately 150 different beers since then, and this last weekend we hosted our first beer tasting event. It was a little crash course for a small group of friends, and we served 23 different beers, some were very rare (or at least hard to find), and some were new even to both of us. We made a simple tasting form...

army brats

This was one of the coolest dreams ever, my friend Crash had just moved to a new apartment – close to some sort of dock – and the people that lived there were getting rid of military stuff. Suffice to say we took some amazing souvenirs, including a helmet from 1946 – that I saved to wear riding the harley I will eventually have, some rifle that I can’t name right now – not even sure it...

my worst nightmare

For a good part of my life I had a dream that used to freak me out, even specially when I was awake. It was basically a recurrent dream where I would be repeatedly crushed by a giant gear system (a cartoon like, flatten image of myself). There was no pain whatsoever, in fact, what really bothered me was the soundtrack, I can’t really describe it very well, it was an endless loop with a very specific pattern,...