Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Galicia Vice: Operación Chueca
En este nuevo episodio de Galicia Vice, titulado Operación Chueca, Berga (Tubbs) e Hysidro se infiltran en una banda de segovianos durante la celebración del EuroPride en el barrio madrileño de Chueca.
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Kiss My Nose
“Forget it, Juan, I’m not going to fall for that one again.”
“Kiss my nose”.
Gracias, Hysidro!
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Openness and the News
This week EuroPride is being celebrated in Madrid, and even FON is involved having created ChuecaWiFi, a project to FON enable the entire Madrid neigbhorhood of Chueca. This morning on the news (on Spain’s state-owned TV1), the news anchor was reporting on the wonderful level of tolerance in Madrid’s gay community. Likewise, last night I […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Must We Remember?
Now this is just a thought, and I haven’t fully developed it or decided exactly where I stand. But, I think that the common sayings about the importance of history - “we must remember”, “we must never forget”, “people must know where they come from to know where they are going”, or as Marcus Garvey […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Half of Lost
I have gotten myself into a bit of a bind. On Friday night, I started to read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and continued reading most of Saturday. The novel is set in 1960s Nigeria and during and in the period leading up to the Biafran War, something that I knew […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
The Problem with Talking
As I have eluded to in the past, the problem with people talking, or conversation in general, is that it can be very distracting and get in the way of my own thoughts.
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
My New Set-Up
Alright, so I don’t have the best interior design skills, but it was time to make a change, aesthetics aside. I spend way too much time and money on music to be listening to all my favorite songs on my computer’s speakers. Still, I don’t want to make the investment right now into an expensive […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Tuareg
I just finished one of the most engaging novels that I have read all year, called Tuareg by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa. Nevertheless, I fell into an error that I have recently been committing quite often.
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
The Incredible Shrinking Nation
I just saw this news video on how Americans are now becoming the shortest people in the industrialized world, while historically we were the tallest. This is not due to, as many would think, a change in demographics and immigration, but rather to environmental factors such as poor eating habits and a lack of exercise.
We […]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Hysterical Fonero
This hysterical Fonero, Matador Joselisto, has come up with a few video sketches on FON.
