Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
1.Aqui jaz um século
onde houve duas ou três guerras
mundiais e milhares
de outras pequenas
e igualmente bestiais.
2.Aqui jaz um século
onde se acreditou
que estar à esquerda
ou à direita
eram questões centrais.
3.Aqui jaz um século
que quase se esvaiu
na nuvem atômica.
Salvaram-no o acaso
e os pacifistas
com sua homeopática
atitude
-nux vômica.
4.Aqui jaz o século
que um muro dividiu.
Um século de concreto
armado, canceroso,
drogado,empestado,
que enfim sobreviveu
às bactérias que pariu.
5.Aqui jaz um século
que se abismou
com as estrelas
nas telas
e que o suicídio
de supernovas
contemplou.
Um século filmado
que o vento levou.
6.Aqui jaz um século
semiótico e despótico,
que se pensou dialético
e foi patético e aidético.
Um século que decretou
a morte de Deus,
a morte da história,
a morte do homem,
em que se pisou na Lua
e se morreu de fome.
7.Aqui jaz um século
que opondo classe a classe
quase se desclassificou.
Século cheio de anátemas
e antenas,sibérias e gestapos
e ideológicas safenas;
século tecnicolor
que tudo transplantou
e o branco, do negro,
a custo aproximou.
8.Aqui jaz um século
que se deitou no divã.
Século narciso & esquizo,
que não pôde computar
seus neologismos.
Século vanguardista,
marxista, guerrilheiro,
terrorista, freudiano,
proustiano, joyciano,
borges-kafkiano.
Século de utopias e hippies
que caberiam num chip.
9.Aqui jaz um século
que se chamou moderno
e olhando presunçoso
o passado e o futuro
julgou-se eterno;
século que de si
fez tanto alarde
e, no entanto,
-já vai tarde.
10. Foi duro atravessá-lo.
Muitas vezes morri, outras
quis regressar ao 18
ou 16, pular ao 21,
sair daqui
para o lugar nenhum.
11.Tende piedade de nós, ó vós
que em outros tempos nos julgais
da confortável galáxia
em que irônico estais.
Tende piedade de nós
-modernos medievais-
tende piedade como Villon
e Brecht por minha voz
de novo imploram. Piedade
dos que viveram neste século
per seculae seculorum.
quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2007
domingo, 21 de outubro de 2007
The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 4, at
the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders
Theatre. The ceremony was webcast.
PHYSICS: L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda
Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how
sheets become wrinkled.
REFERENCES:
"Wrinkling of an Elastic Sheet Under Tension," E. Cerda, K.
Ravi-Chandar, L. Mahadevan, Nature, vol. 419, October 10, 2002, pp.
579-80.
"Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling," E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan,
Physical Review Letters, fol. 90, no. 7, February 21, 2003, pp.
074302/1-4.
"Elements of Draping," E. Cerda, L. Mahadevan and J. Passini,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, no. 7,
2004, pp. 1806-10.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, and Enrique
Cerda Villablanca's sister Mariela.
MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch,
Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report " Sword
Swallowing and Its Side Effects."
REFERENCE: "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects," Brian Witcombe and
Dan Meyer, British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, vol. 333, pp.
1285-7.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer
BIOLOGY: Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all
the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria,
algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
REFERENCES:
" Huis, Bed en Beestjes" [House, Bed and Bugs], J.E.M.H. van
Bronswijk, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, vol. 116, no. 20,
May 13, 1972, pp. 825-31.
" Het Stof, de Mijten en het Bed" [Dust, Mites and Bedding]. J.E.M.H.
van Bronswijk Vakblad voor Biologen, vol. 53, no. 2, 1973, pp. 22-5.
"Autotrophic Organisms in Mattress Dust in the Netherlands," B. van de
Lustgraaf, J.H.H.M. Klerkx, J.E.M.H. van Bronswijk, Acta Botanica
Neerlandica, vol. 27, no. 2, 1978, pp 125-8.
"A Bed Ecosystem," J.E.M.H. van Bronswijk, Lecture Abstracts -- 1st
Benelux Congress of Zoology, Leuven, November 4-5, 1994, p. 36.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk
CHEMISTRY: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan,
for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and
flavoring -- from cow dung.
REFERENCE: "Novel Production Method for Plant Polyphenol from
Livestock Excrement Using Subcritical Water Reaction," Mayu Yamamoto,
International Medical Center of Japan.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Mayu Yamamoto
PRESS NOTE: Toscanini's Ice Cream, the finest ice cream shop in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a new ice cream flavor in honor of
Mayu Yamamoto, and introduced it at the Ig Nobel ceremony. The flavor
is called "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist."
LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria
Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats
sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking
Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
REFERENCE: "Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in
Language Discrimination by Rats," Juan M. Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and
Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal
Behavior Processes, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2005, pp 95-100.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners could not travel to the
ceremony, so they instead delivered their acceptance speech via
recorded video
LITERATURE: Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for
her study of the word "the" -- and of the many ways it causes problems
for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.
REFERENCE: " The Definite Article: Acknowledging 'The' in Index
Entries," Glenda Browne, The Indexer, vol. 22, no. 3 April 2001, pp.
119-22.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Glenda Browne
PEACE: The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for
instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the
so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually
irresistible to each other.
REFERENCE: " Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying
Chemicals," Wright Laboratory, WL/FIVR, Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio, June 1, 1994.
NUTRITION: Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the
seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a
self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.
REFERENCE: " Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May
Influence Intake," Brian Wansink, James E. Painter and Jill North,
Obesity Research, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 93-100.
REFERENCE: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Brian
Wansink, Bantom Books, 2006, ISBN 0553804340.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Brian Wansink.
ECONOMICS: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a
device, in the year 2001, that catches bank robbers by dropping a net
over them.
REFERENCE: U.S. patent #6,219,959, granted on April 24, 2001, for a
"net trapping system for capturing a robber immediately."
NOTE: The Ig Nobel Board of Governors has attempted repeatedly to find
Mr. Hsieh, but he seems to have vanished mysteriously. [Breaking news:
Mr. Hsieh reportedly has seen a news account of the Ig Nobel ceremony,
and contacted the news agency. Details soon.]
AVIATION: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A.
Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their
discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters.
REFERENCE: " Sildenafil Accelerates Reentrainment of Circadian Rhythms
After Advancing Light Schedules," Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A.
Plano and Diego A. Golombek, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, vol. 104, no. 23, June 5 2007, pp. 9834-9.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Diego A. Golombek
lista: pendragao
the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders
Theatre. The ceremony was webcast.
PHYSICS: L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda
Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how
sheets become wrinkled.
REFERENCES:
"Wrinkling of an Elastic Sheet Under Tension," E. Cerda, K.
Ravi-Chandar, L. Mahadevan, Nature, vol. 419, October 10, 2002, pp.
579-80.
"Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling," E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan,
Physical Review Letters, fol. 90, no. 7, February 21, 2003, pp.
074302/1-4.
"Elements of Draping," E. Cerda, L. Mahadevan and J. Passini,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, no. 7,
2004, pp. 1806-10.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, and Enrique
Cerda Villablanca's sister Mariela.
MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch,
Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report " Sword
Swallowing and Its Side Effects."
REFERENCE: "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects," Brian Witcombe and
Dan Meyer, British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, vol. 333, pp.
1285-7.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer
BIOLOGY: Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all
the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria,
algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
REFERENCES:
" Huis, Bed en Beestjes" [House, Bed and Bugs], J.E.M.H. van
Bronswijk, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, vol. 116, no. 20,
May 13, 1972, pp. 825-31.
" Het Stof, de Mijten en het Bed" [Dust, Mites and Bedding]. J.E.M.H.
van Bronswijk Vakblad voor Biologen, vol. 53, no. 2, 1973, pp. 22-5.
"Autotrophic Organisms in Mattress Dust in the Netherlands," B. van de
Lustgraaf, J.H.H.M. Klerkx, J.E.M.H. van Bronswijk, Acta Botanica
Neerlandica, vol. 27, no. 2, 1978, pp 125-8.
"A Bed Ecosystem," J.E.M.H. van Bronswijk, Lecture Abstracts -- 1st
Benelux Congress of Zoology, Leuven, November 4-5, 1994, p. 36.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk
CHEMISTRY: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan,
for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and
flavoring -- from cow dung.
REFERENCE: "Novel Production Method for Plant Polyphenol from
Livestock Excrement Using Subcritical Water Reaction," Mayu Yamamoto,
International Medical Center of Japan.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Mayu Yamamoto
PRESS NOTE: Toscanini's Ice Cream, the finest ice cream shop in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a new ice cream flavor in honor of
Mayu Yamamoto, and introduced it at the Ig Nobel ceremony. The flavor
is called "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist."
LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria
Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats
sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking
Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
REFERENCE: "Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in
Language Discrimination by Rats," Juan M. Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and
Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal
Behavior Processes, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2005, pp 95-100.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners could not travel to the
ceremony, so they instead delivered their acceptance speech via
recorded video
LITERATURE: Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for
her study of the word "the" -- and of the many ways it causes problems
for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.
REFERENCE: " The Definite Article: Acknowledging 'The' in Index
Entries," Glenda Browne, The Indexer, vol. 22, no. 3 April 2001, pp.
119-22.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Glenda Browne
PEACE: The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for
instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the
so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually
irresistible to each other.
REFERENCE: " Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying
Chemicals," Wright Laboratory, WL/FIVR, Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio, June 1, 1994.
NUTRITION: Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the
seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a
self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.
REFERENCE: " Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May
Influence Intake," Brian Wansink, James E. Painter and Jill North,
Obesity Research, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 93-100.
REFERENCE: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Brian
Wansink, Bantom Books, 2006, ISBN 0553804340.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Brian Wansink.
ECONOMICS: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a
device, in the year 2001, that catches bank robbers by dropping a net
over them.
REFERENCE: U.S. patent #6,219,959, granted on April 24, 2001, for a
"net trapping system for capturing a robber immediately."
NOTE: The Ig Nobel Board of Governors has attempted repeatedly to find
Mr. Hsieh, but he seems to have vanished mysteriously. [Breaking news:
Mr. Hsieh reportedly has seen a news account of the Ig Nobel ceremony,
and contacted the news agency. Details soon.]
AVIATION: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A.
Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their
discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters.
REFERENCE: " Sildenafil Accelerates Reentrainment of Circadian Rhythms
After Advancing Light Schedules," Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A.
Plano and Diego A. Golombek, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, vol. 104, no. 23, June 5 2007, pp. 9834-9.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Diego A. Golombek
lista: pendragao
quarta-feira, 17 de outubro de 2007
Hoje fui num advogado. Perguntei a ele: "como pode alguém emitir duplicatas em meu nome sem eu saber disso?"
"Isso se chama duplicata sem aceite. O Brasil é único país que permite essa modalidade de direito cambial." "No seu caso, são duplicatas frias, pois você pagou pelo serviço..."
O mais fácil, seria eu ir na oficina e pegar uma carta dizendo que eu não estou devendo mais nada e registrar nos 3 cartórios de BH, se não fosse o seguinte motivo: a oficina fechou há anos, o dono está internado no hospital das clínicas com câncer generalizado, pesando menos de 40kg.
"Isso se chama duplicata sem aceite. O Brasil é único país que permite essa modalidade de direito cambial." "No seu caso, são duplicatas frias, pois você pagou pelo serviço..."
O mais fácil, seria eu ir na oficina e pegar uma carta dizendo que eu não estou devendo mais nada e registrar nos 3 cartórios de BH, se não fosse o seguinte motivo: a oficina fechou há anos, o dono está internado no hospital das clínicas com câncer generalizado, pesando menos de 40kg.
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