Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Beauty on the Beach
Despite having enjoyed my shortest vacation season since arriving in Spain six years ago, this summer I was fortunate enough to visit three of the Balearic Islands (Ibiza, Formentera, and Mallorca), Bethany Beach (Delaware), and Washington, DC (including my hometown, Potomac, Maryland). And I did so in just seven work days and a short weekend getaway. […]
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Ignorance spreads HIV in Developed Nations
You question why it is so difficult to combat the spread of HIV in the developed world? I just read this in the Global Development Briefing:
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz dies
On Wednesday, August 30, 2006, Naguib Mahfouz died at age 94. (Read The Economist’s obituary). Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. His Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street) was one of my most enjoyable reads in the past few years. I had written a previous post on Mahfouz […]
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Freestyle Impact Assessments
The King of Freestyle Environmental Impact Assessments has a new clandestine headquartors. If you think something needs to be audited or assessed for impact, have no fear. You are in professional hands. Let’s keep things sustainable.
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
If snakes weren’t enough
If our childhood fears and nightmares of snakes (and even sharks or pirañas) weren’t enough, it appears that venomous fish outnumber snakes. Yes, you heard me correctly. There are enough poisonous fishies out there in lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans to produce a whole new series of horror films to terrify the young. Luckily most of them swim in […]
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Expanding my political digressions
In an effort to expand my digressions towards other horizons, I have just published this brief piece on Europe’s failure to react to the crisis in the Lebanon in the Safe Democracy Foundation’s Democracy Forum, an online repository of political analysis regarding the state of global democracy. Notice that I am more interested in the use of […]
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
On Jet Lag and Walking the World’s Rim
In my fist blog entry, I digressed on travel distances. Now upon returning from a brief trip home, I recall one of the first books that enthralled my youth, Walk the World’s Rim. Essentially, this story argued that as many times as one traverses the world’s rim, one never truly returns to the same point from […]
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Pete and Repete
Last night I ran into my old, old childhood friend, Pete. He reminded me of something that happened when we were young. Unfortunately, we couldn’t quite remember how the story went. Basically, Pete and his buddy Repete were sitting in a tree. Pete fell down and one of them was left. To see who was left […]
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
FON en el jardín
Para irme acostumbrando a volver a un espacio vaciado de todos mis ex-compañeros salvo a Natalia la Regulator, me dedico a Fonear desde el jardín. Aquí se ven flores en vez de barbudos vestidos de negro bajo la insignia FONopáticos y se oyen pájaros en lugar de risas foneras. Aquí hay WiFi, pero no se comparte […]
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Solidaridad: WiFi Everywhere!
Entre el ruido de las olas, oigo a lo lejos las protestas de Natalia, el “decidételo tú” de Diego, el cantar de Asun, las indirectas directas de Edu, el “ya no me quieres” de Mayte, la chulería madrileña de Natasha, las pilas de Duracell, el sin fin reactivo, el silencio de Berga, y la ausencia de […]
