About
About the author
daydreamer
My name is Oscar Pereira, although as of some time now I’ve become quite fond of an alternative representation:
ओस्चर् पेरेइर
That’s my name in Sanskrit, if you’re wandering 
Some more bio info might end up sometime in the future… but meanwhile, what’s in my CV (Alter Ego box to your right) will have to do.
PGP key fingerprint
For my PGP key’s (id=0×15540C69 ; see link on your right side) fingerprint, look below:
E8B3 6415 1410 9B90 98C8 E626 66B7 97FC 1554 0C69
For the things you don’t want others to know that you’ve told me…
… and for the things you want to be sure I actually said.
Contact Info
Prefered method is email to
Caveat Emptor: It’s VERY doubtful I’ll read attachments sent in proprietary format, viz. MS Word and the ilk, so please try to refrain from sending such things to me.
About The Blog
Writing this blog started mainly as an exercise. I never really thought it would last but, it turns out that writing can sometimes be quite soothing. Besides, it gives me a great way to make some notes I think I’ll use in some future time, and at the same time make them available to anyone else to whom they might prove useful. I did not have anything concrete in mind: the successive templates and even blog name(!) changes should warrant proof enough. But I think that it has now come to some level of maturity.
The blog’s name, erroneous thoughts, gets its name from a passage in the final paragraph of Ben Pimlott’s introduction to George Orwell’s 1984:
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a great novel and a great tract because of the clarity of its call, and will endure because its message is a permanent one: erroneous thought is the stuff of freedom.
After name comes content. Being an Informatics Engineering graduate, and a programmer with a very strong kin to math and science, those will be the bulk of what I write about. In addition, I’m a very strong believer that increasing public awareness of politics will do the same for the quality of our democracy. Therefore, I sometimes write about public policy issues, despite not being particularly fond of those. Finally I also strive to be something of a mix of sceptic and free spirit, and a part of what that means is that I can end up writing about anything else.
Finally, regarding this blog’s language, the main one is English. However, on matters strictly related to Portuguese affairs, posts might be written in Portuguese. These will be in the ‘Portugal’ category, possibly among others.
About the pages
The content that ends up in the pages, is there for one of two reasons:
- either it was something that didn’t belong in a post (like this page, for example)
- or, it is something I’m still working on, so it can change in the future, but at the same is useful enough to be online. Such content is clearly not suited for ordinary posts.
Two ending thoughts
I leave the reader with a thought, one I stumbled across by chance alone, but also one I strongly identify myself with.
You’ve heard the expression “jack of all trades, master of none”? Well, I’m kind of in the middle. I have a number of diverse interests that I’ve pursued to a level I would say is beyond an apprenticeship but has not yet reached (and will likely never reach) mastery.
I’m not a jack of all trades.
I’m not a master of none.
I’m a journeyman of some.
Finally, to those who can read Portuguese, here’s a text, written by a former teacher of mine, that shows exactly what I mean when I describe myself as being lazy. Here’s the initial paragraph:
Para preguiçoso que sou, devo ser o preguiçoso que mais trabalha neste mundo. É claro que há muito boa gente que se esfalfa a trabalhar e que, por certo, trabalha muito mais do que eu. Mas esses são trabalhadores e assumem-se orgulhosamente como tal, por isso não contam para a minha estatística. Eu sou um preguiçoso, já disse, e gosto de meditar nesta coisa espantosa que é estar sem fazer nada. Sou, digamos assim, um preguiçoso esclarecido.
Happy readings
