Thank God For The Internet

Celebrating ten years since my first trip to Brazil, I decided to post on Facebook, ten YouTube music videos of significance to commemorate those ten years. Well, I got to ten and still felt some videos deserved to make the cut.

So I decided to go for a baker's dozen. I was about to add one song to the list, when I remembered an intoxicating reggae groove I heard back in the Summer of 2001 in Sao Paulo, while relaxing on my cousin's easy chair on a breezy afternoon. I know very little Portuguese, and knew even less then. All I remembered was the refrain from the chorus, "liberdade pra dentro da cabeça". During the next week, It seemed I heard the song everywhere I went. I tried several music stores in the city, and even asked my cousin and family, but no one seemed to know the song (from my explanation) nor the group who sang it. A tune lost to me forever...until today.

I decided to see what would happened if I typed the only words of the song I remembered into the YouTube search field. Well, it felt like meeting a long lost love, by accident, after an unexpected departure. Freedom for inside the head.

Three Things Most People Don't Mind Giving

1. Their opinions.
2. Their reasons.
3. Their advice.
   

If Toyota Were A Software Company...

1) It would be a laughing matter.
2) Aficionados would just wait for the patch to be released.
3) A bunch of us would just wait 9 months, and upgrade to a 2011 model.
4) A few purist would get a Toyota 2000.
5) Early adopters would just wait for the lastest ooh-aah from Honda at the next auto show.
6) There would be blogs, and forums littered with workarounds already.
7) Instead of the proverbial...well ah-well ah-well ah, Toyota customer service would simply say, "oh yeah...that's a bug."
8) Disabling the Prius' alarm system might resolve the issue,
9) A thread dump of the ECM unit would be quite revealing.
10) Turning the key to the off position, putting the car in neutral, and stepping on the brake, would mysteriously resolve the problem.