Carlos Daniel - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I have a blog -- matarbustos -- but it's written in portuguese.
if you don't understand, at least you can laugh.

I also have algebrices , a blog about math/phys

I'm part of the team www.rodobalho.com , a group of crazy people that promotes events about traditional/folk european dances in center Portugal.

I play djembee and doundoun, mandingue traditional rythms (I have classes with Conny Kadia (http://www.conny-kadia.cjb.net/), a german teacher based in Portugal, once a Mamady Keita's student)

I also play flauta e tamboril (wooden pipe and tabor); had some classes with Santiago Bejar and Anselmo Toribio from Plasencia, Spain, and now I'm learning by myself.

I always use bicycle; in Portugal is somewhat suicidal, but one gets used to it.

Two fotos of my home town Coimbra and the river Mondego:

My Interests

Science in general but mainly mathematics, physics, biology, geology, paleontology, ecology, astronomy and cosmology;
music, dancing, photography, short and animation cinema, eating, drinking, etc.

Music:

A lot and very diversified

Movies:

Some are really good but most films outhere mean nothing to me. I prefer short and animation films.

Television:

I selled my television about 2 years ago. Being happier since then...

Books:

Literature, Authors: Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, Daniel Abrunheiro, Julio Cortazar, Ruy Belo, Mia Couto, Bertolt Brecht, Fernando Pessoa, Mark Twain, Hemingway, AntÃ³nio Lobo Antunes, Guerra Junqueiro, AntÃ³nio Aleixo, Marques de Sade, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Semprun, Jose Saramago, Agostinho da Silva, John Steinbeck, Miguel Torga, Julio Verne, Alexandre O'Neill
Some Remarkable Books
- Cosmos, Carl Sagan,
- Chaos, James Gleick,
- The Quark And The Jaguar, Murray Gell-Mann,
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkings,
- Descartes Error, Antonio Damasio,
- QED, Richard Feynman,
- Quixote, Cervantes,
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley,
- 2001 Space Odissey, Arthur C. Clarke,
- Fractal Objects, Benoit Mandelbrot,
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Italo Calvino,
- Godel, Echer And Bach, Douglas Hofstadter,
- Utopia, Thomas More,
- 1984, George Orwell,
- The Methamorphosis, Franz Kafka,
- Perfume, Patrick Suskind,
- ALice Adventures In Wonderland/Behind The Lookinglass, Lewis Carrol,
- Siddhartha,Hermann Hesse,
- The Creation Of Life, Andrew Scott,
- Perfect Simmetry, Heinz Pagels,
- Voyage To The Center Of The Earth, Julio Verne,
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
Science/Sci.Fiction/Others: Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkings, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, Chomsky, Antonio Damasio, Stephen Hawking, Hubert Reeves, Steven Weinberg

Heroes:

garfield, pink panther (the animal), marsupilami and the Flying Spaghetti Monster