Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Article on the Midterm Elections
My bro (AKA the Comment Killer) has just published an article entitled, “American Democracy will Fail its Midterms” on the Safe Democracy Foundation website. The views expressed in the article are not necessarily those of the members of his family or of his family as a whole.
No Comments » - Posted in Essays, Friends / Family by eric
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Obamamania
This week’s Economist has a very interesting article on whether the Illinois Senator, Barak Obama, should run for the office of the US presidency in 2008. I am not very familiar with the Democrat senator’s policies or voting record, so I am not qualified to support his candidacy. Nevertheless, Obama has already won points with […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 08 by eric
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
We are NOT our actions alone
I have had enough of silly clichés that everyone takes for granted. For example, the other day I saw someone on MSN Messenger with the subtitle “It is what you DO that is important”. Frankly, I do not think that is accurate at all, neither in reality nor in the evolution of the psyche.
Just as […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
I am one BIG Bad Ass “Mo-Fo-Nero”
I have been working for FON since the beginning of January 2006, and in theory I have been a Fonero ever since. But, in reality, I just installed my FON Social Router, the La Fonera, on Monday. Why had I waited? I didn’t have broadband at home, and without broadband, you do not have WiFi […]
No Comments » - Posted in FON by eric
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Where Bob was wrong
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was a major reggae fan as an early teenager. My father introduced me to Bob Marley’s music, and he became one of my heros (along with Bruce Lee). As a kid, I would have done anything to get my hands on Bob Marley videos and interviews, and […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Essays by eric
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Amos Oz and Thich Nhat Hanh and why People should stop trying to help
A few weeks back, I was thinking about Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Budhhist monk whose writings my mother introduced me to some time in the early 90s. I had wanted to mention something about him here but had not had the chance. Nevertheless, I have just finished Amos Oz’s fascinating novel Black Box (which for reasons […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Essays by eric
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
RastaFoneros Unite for WiFi in a Babylon
En un principio se podría dividir el mundo entre tres tipos de personas que usan WiFi: (i) los Linus que comparten su WiFi a cambio de recibir WiFi en todas partes; (ii) los Bill que comparten su WiFi a cambio de una modesta compensación; y (iii) los Aliens que no comparten pero cuando quieren WiFi lo pagan a unos […]
6 Comments » - Posted in FON by eric
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Toni Takitani and Jimmy Castro
A few nights ago, I read “Toni Takitani” from Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. I enjoyed the story, but was a bit disturbed by its first sentence: “Toni Takitani’s name was indeed that: Toni Takitani.” It is incredbily similar to the first lines of a story that I myself have been working on recently. […]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Music and Memory
I love how music can transport you to different times and places in an instant. You just need to be careful not to listen too much to songs or you will lose their association with the past and they will become cluttered in the present (unless that is precisely what you want). About a year […]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Amarsi un po’ 10 years later
Amarsi un po’
