Thursday, May 17, 2007

Scholarships For Thyroid Diseases

the good, the bad and the bad


Almost all will know the fabulous world of Second Life, second life, the second virtual world that has very recently had, in recent months, a fearful population growth, we are talking about millions of new inhabitants only in the last 6 months. At first, the utopia reigned among the first settlers of the second world: we could build a new world, where all the negative aspects of the first world remain outside? we could create an ideal society? the answer was not long in coming: "NO".
Second Life is replete with shops selling clothes, accessories, tattoos, etc. ... There are estate agents who profit from real money by selling digital homes, prostitution is widespread, there are even paid killer, is a kind of free trade, multinational firms are almost all! who buys a house in Second Life, obviously be careful not to get us into foreign metendoci alarms during the absence of protection, demonstrating that the part owner culture is stronger than all, of every ideal world.
One thing though, no doubt, Second Life has achieved the utopia everyone, even if in real life is ugly, hunchbacked, crippled, or nerds with a few unwanted pounds In addition, Second Life has the opportunity to redeem himself and build a character, an avatar, which compared, Julio Iglesias is 70 years of nothing: the revenge of the monsters! SL is a world of beautiful, cool, John Travolta, I met offline who have toiled for months to find and download from the internet that would give small freckles on their face that I do not know.
This is the major trend, but there are also characters that are created with some physical problems or bad, indeed semi protest movements that disclose the ugliness or strive for a perfect future in Second Life.
Among all my curious encounters a character I will never forget I've met in Amsterdam (virtual) in a wheelchair (pictured above), but because the wheelchair in Second Life? when I asked he replied simply "I had an accident," of course you can not remain paraplegic in SL, that kind very easy to prove that perfection is not achieved even at the virtual and the ideal is unattainable utopia is already dead

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

What Do Women Think Of Mandingo

exile is hard, especially if self-inflicted



dear friends and neighbors near and far away physically and spiritually, are close to receiving the RNE, survival rates after two years here in Brazil soon I will be fully integrated into the system tax law of the country; RNE actually means Estranjeiros Register nacional (national register foreigners) and is an identity card for those not born and raised here.
too, in these two years I experienced the heady feeling of being so alien, not to understand and be understood, to find normal things that everyone around me are ridiculous and scare the other majority live normally. Be the absolute minority is very interesting, although I am a privileged minority here because there is a kind of adoration towards the Europeans, especially Italians who are always subject to the general and widespread sympathy, unlike in my country, from the I understand there is a growing paranoia of the closure against the alien, what comes from outside.
confess dear friends, especially if self-inflicted exile is hard, there are everyday things that will be eternally new and strange and every place you pass through will always have the taste of the unknown, the taste of home away from home.
But then there are things that I watch from the internet that talk about my country that frighten me and make me remember that I am that I have rightly chosen to live away from the big boot, that remind me that the great boot was sharply reducing the size, I wear a 42 and I could no longer fit.
Every person that I feel provides me with apocalyptic images of Italy, its bigotry and growing crisis in everything, work, culture, etc ...
But tell me, but what's going on?