Archive for March, 2006

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Premio al Mejor Compañero de la Semana . . .

El Comité ha decidido conceder el Premio al Mejor Compañero de Trabajo de la Semana a . . . Mayte

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Friday, March 31st, 2006

Concurso Semanal: Name that Co-Worker

Para esta semana, permito a los lectores decidir . . .

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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Food

 
Everyone loves a good meal. People think of food with nostalgia for home or for better times. But, sometimes I wish we could live witout food. It often just gets in the way. Especially on a day like today when my stomach hurts, I feel no homesickness for food, just a desire to avoid eating […]

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Monday, March 27th, 2006

I know nothing about clouds, I don’t speak French, and I can’t play the piano.

About six months ago, I was running on the treadmill listening to Thelonious Monk, and I was suddenly overcome by one of the profoundest revelations of my lifetime to date. It wasn’t about the existence of God, the meaning of life and death, or about love. It was much simpler yet just as significant. […]

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Monday, March 27th, 2006

Catching Up

 

Like every weekend since I started working for FON, my primary goal is to sleep as much as humanly possible. The problem is that I have been neglecting the things that I enjoy the most in life: my friends, my family, reading, writing, listening to music, working out, and sleeping. Various of these are thus […]

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Friday, March 24th, 2006

10 Important People who Never Read Grave Error

The following 10 people I consider important in my life, and yet they simply do not read my blog:

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Premio al Mejor Compañero de la Semana: And the winner is . . .

Esta semana ha sido corta pero muy intensa, no solo para los que trabajan en FON sino también para el Comité que toma su papel con mucha seriedad y profesionalismo. El Comité ha valorado la aportación de todos los compañeros y ha decidido, de forma unánime, conceder el Premio al Mejor Compañero de Trabajo de […]

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

El Concurso: Name that Co-Worker

Ya llegamos al momento de jugar, “Name that Co-Woker” donde hay que adivinar el nombre de uno de nuestros compañeros de trabajo basado en unas simple claves. ¡A jugar!
Este compañero es una de la personas más importantes de nuestra ofician. En realidad, controla el ritmo de nuestros días, y como no te portas bien, te quedas sin galletas. […]

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Días Temáticos: Jueves Naranja / Orange Thursdays

Parece que solo Iurgi vive el espiritú de los Jueves Naranja.

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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

ETA: Ridiculous and Outdated

ETA, Spain’s separatist terrorist group, announced today its “permanent” ceasefire. At first this sounded like great news. It actually appeared that Zapatero’s policy of an “alliance of civilizations” was bearing its fruits at home. But when I read the official declaration of the group, I grew concerned. It was full of conditions precedent that showed that […]

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