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Sealife London Trip

Oscar Mendonça — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:21:15 +0000

Last Saturday I went to Sealife in London with Catherine for a nice afternoon looking at the fishes.

It is quite a nice place to go, plenty of things see but hard to take good pictures. There was some nice sharks as well, not that big but still threatening.

Snow in February

Oscar Mendonça — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:16:40 +0000

Finally, the snow has arrived. It took a long time, but it’s here, and it’s so cool to wake up with the snow falling down

Nice Saturday

Oscar Mendonça — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:50:19 +0000

Well, today was finally a weekend. After a few couple of days of hard work since my last weekend, I thought it would be good to chill out a bit, so I went with a friend to Heathrow airport to take some pictures.

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The weather was really nice and we managed to get some really nice photographs.

On our way home, I decided it was time to treat myself as a reward for all my hard work so I popped into an Apple store and came home with the iPad 2.

Was a bit undecided between the black and white version, but the white has a cheap look and gets dirty easily, so black it was

Star Trek communicator

Oscar Mendonça — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:00:43 +0000

Here he is: the Star Trek communicator. Just got it from the post man. Now if I could afford a real size Enterprise E…

Latest updates

Oscar Mendonça — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:05:57 +0000

Its been a couple of days since my last post, and yes, I really need to keep up with this, even if it is to write meaningless stuff :p

Well, we can start with a nice update: got a new LCD TV, a 26 inches Panasonic Viera. PlayStation games have gained a new life now, and I can play without bothering anyone else :p By the way, if you have a PS2 and a LCD TV, get a composite cable. The difference is amazingly substantial. If you got a PS3, well, just get a HDMI cable

Speaking of PlayStation games, I got to the 50% barrier on Gran Turismo 4. Just hopping to get to 100% before GT5 gets out, tough something tells me I still have plenty of time to do that.

I’m now looking for a new place as well. With the recession and all that one would expect prices to go down, but if anything they went up. So for now I’m on the lookout for a nice self contained studio.

Well, that’s it for now. Time to go back to GT4 and get up the ladder a little more.

Snow while working

Oscar Mendonça — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:37:27 +0000

Well, looks like this year is Snow Season in London. Since I’ve moved in here, there’s been a lot of snow

This were taken with a Nokia 5800 XM, so the quality is not that amazing… but is watchable.

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A bit of snow in London

Oscar Mendonça — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:57:09 +0000

Looks like it pays off to be in London at Christmas. It’s been snowing since evening last night.

Enjoy

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London Zoo

Oscar Mendonça — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:54:03 +0000

Whooo, pictures from my visit to the London Zoo.

I’ll let the pictures speak for themselfs. Nice Zoo by the way

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30 miles on a bike

Oscar Mendonça — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:55:14 +0000

This weekend I did roughly 30 miles (around 50KM) on bike. It was a good exercise, getting in shape a small step every day.

Now I just need to fix the mountain bike so I can do even more miles, since on a folding bike, because the top speed (around 20 mph if moving my feet really fast!), it is hard to go for a long time without getting tired soon.

Fixing a “new” bike

Oscar Mendonça — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:14:16 +0000

I’ve started working on a mountain bike that was ‘lost’ on the back yard from a previous owner. I wast thinking of just throwing it on the garbage, but instead, started fixing it.

The list of problems is kind of big: no rear brakes, no rear brake lever, the saddle is well damaged, the gear shift is for six gears, where the rear cassette has 7 gears, a lot of rust, damaged cables, missing crank and missing one pedal.

I’ve already managed to snap a crank, and also bought of eBay new brake shoes and brake cables (very important not to kill any pedestian) and a simple computer to track the miles.

I’m also thinking of grabing on eBay the Shimano ST-EF29, which puts the brake levers and gear shifting into one piece (as I need one lever and one shifter, might just get this pack while it goes cheap). Never really liked the revo gear shifters, as is very easy to downshift while riding the bike.

I also need to pop up to a bike shop to see if they can offer some old pedals, and maybe a handlebar :p

Some pictures will come later…

Edit 17.08.09

Almost ready. Discovered today that I’m missing a bolt and nut to hold the brake shoe to the brake. I’ve to go to the bike shop to find a replacement for it. Already have everything else I need, just need to assemble it. Got a new bar and bar holder today, but still have to check if it fits on the bike forks. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to ride it to work…