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Merry you-know-what

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on December 24, 2006

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Here in Portugal it’s 2 PM right now, and in a couple of hours I’ll go and spend Christmas with my family. Before I do that, however, I want to wish you all a merry whatever-holiday-if-any-you-celebrate.

It may appear strange that an atheist like yours truly celebrates Christmas. However, not only is Christmas an originally pagan holiday (and much older than the supposed birth of Jesus), but, around here, it’s not really a religious holiday. We celebrate Christmas because of tradition, and as an excuse for the family to get together, possibly exchange gifts (though the increasing consumerism is certainly annoying), have a good time, and enjoy each other’s company… which, for some odd reason, is never done during the rest of the year.

So, whatever you readers celebrate, enjoy yourselves. If you don’t celebrate anything… do you really need an excuse to enjoy yourselves anyway?

Shameless plug: new quotes blog

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Pedro Timóteo

on November 12, 2006

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This isn’t directly related to the content of Way of the Mind, but, well, maybe you’ll find it interesting anyway… A couple of days ago, I started a new blog, quotes.dehumanizer.com (yes, unoriginal name…) with, you guessed it, quotes, citations, excerpts and so on.

All of those are manually selected by me and my girlfriend (the majority, so far, are mine — I work at home, while she has a normal job, so I have more free time), instead of coming, randomly, from a huge database, like in most quotes sites. So, in a way, you’ll find my own ideas, thoughts and tastes there (which explains, for instance, why there are so many quotes from Atlas Shrugged or Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri…)

I hope you enjoy it. If not, just ignore this post.