9 May
2007
9 May
'07
2:05 p.m.
Hi Dave!
International shipping is a big pain in the butt,
overall. Customs
garbage, paperwork paperwork paperwork. Most people here avoid it for
that reason. I'm still working up the mental energy to ship you those
chips we talked about. :)
I'm not in a hurry, although using the method I told you seems simple
enough, I always buy chips from USA getting that via airmail ;o)
Well...I live in Florida, about two miles from the
Gulf of Mexico...We
have some good beaches here too. BUT it seems you have the most
beautiful women in the world. I'd say that's a pretty big point in
Brasil's favor. :-)
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(first of all, please sorry me if I use any inappropriate terms on this
message. Please advise me if I did. Remember english is not my maiden
language)
The brazilian girls are as beautiful and gorgeous as the american ones,
or the japanese ones or the (hmmmm!) german ones. What matters are the
"differences". Germans use to come to Brazil to marry black girls (a
half-bred between white and black, which is called "mulata"). In Brazil they
are very common, but very rare in Germany. So the germans get crazy with the
black girls. Brazilians get crazy with the german girls. It is very rare to
find a **natural** blonde girl with (beautiful!) blue eyes. And japanese
girls are as beautiful! It is just a matter of "rareness" like our hobby!!!
The Brazilian TK90X is **the same** computer as the Sinclair ZX
Spectrum. Even the case is the same, but with a small (and better!) ROM
containing the UDG2 char editor. But I'd love to have a speccy, just because
**it is different**. In the same way, TK90X is a very common computer here,
but which Speccy collector doesn't want to have one of these? Just because -
as always - is DIFFERENT.
Our passions are fueled by differences. The capability to have something
that is different from usual, rare or expensive. There are lots of fast
cars. A friend of mine had a Saveiro (google image for it, is a very small
pick-up made in Brazil by VW) which had some 600HP (!!!) and in dragster
racing always won against ferraris! No one want to pay R$ 70.000 to have a
Saveiro modded for 600HP, but everyone wants a Ferrari that costs R$
600-700.000. Because it is different. It is rare. It is expensive. The same
happens with girls. The same happens with computers :o)
So, don't think our girls (and rare computers) are better than yours,
ours are just different! :o)
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Greetings from Brazil
Alexandre
(Which would love to date an american girl, they are beautiful!)