Archive for June, 2007
Monday, June 11th, 2007
El Taladro Sueco
Si sigues un poco los informes periódicos sobre la actualización de los apodos en FON, sabrás que desde hace tiempo tenemos a un tal Sueco Ibérico. Pues, desde el viernes pasado, el Sueco Ibérico ha dejado de ser ibérico, pero sigue dentro de nuestros corazones mientras que esté taladrando por el mundo. Al dejar de […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Ali G on Stacking
So I tried to introduce the East Side gang sign here at FON to my Spanish co-workers. For the time being, it’s been a real success. We are making some great progress.
The above video is an incredibly informative Ali G interview of a Police officer from Gaithersurg (near my hometown in Maryland) about stacking (the […]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
La Liga is Not Apt for the Weak Hearted
With only two matches left until the end of the Spanish soccer league (La Liga), Real Madrid and FC Barcelona were tied in the overall standings with Sevilla trailing by only two points. Because of direct, head-to-head goal differential, Real Madrid was in first place. So, with only two matches left, no one could afford […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Living la vida española by eric
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
The Problem We Live With
Yesterday, I started a nice debate with my post on the Increase in Immigration and the Decrease in Crime. An unknown gentleman, named Mustapha (not to be confused with my friend from the post on changing names), entered the debate and gave a very interesting explanation on why he feels that immigrants (like himself — […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
Zinedine Nothing
Almost every Friday at FON, we have Jornadas de Fútbol; in other words, we play a nice soccer match between the techies on the ground floor and the finance, legal, and marketing guys on the third floor. Can you say, “East Side” ? Because I had been traveling almost every weekend for the past […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You
For the past two years or so, I listen to all over my music in iTunes, and that’s about 40G or some 9000 songs. Ironically, the majority of music I listen to these days is Jazz, yet amongst the top 25 songs that I have played since installing iTunes, none of them are Jazz. […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
An Increase in Immigration and a Decrease in Crime
Most people wrongly associate an increase in immigration with an increase in crime, regardless of the obvious fact that immigration is an economic phenomena. People leave their families and countries behind because of an economic opporunity abroad. If there weren’t any job opporunities in the recipient country, then there wouldn’t be immigrants. Thus, immigrants simply […]
19 Comments » - Posted in Essays by eric
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Streetwise
I finally finished Mohamed Choukri’s Streetwise last night, and as mentioned, the translation was horrendous. Like For Bread Alone, Streetwise ended abruptly, but unlike the first story, this one ended awkwardly, making me think that it was another error by the publisher.
Regardless, I did enjoy the story, and in particular, I very much liked these […]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Rubalcaba, ni firme ni inteligente, solo comadreja
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba quizás no admitirá jamás haber cometido graves errores en el caso De Juana Chaos. Pero no hace falta que lo haga, sus palabras anteriores las conocemos todos. A ver si el gran comadreja del PSOE, artífice de las negociaciones de “paz”, será suficiente listillo esta vez. Seguro que sí. Ya está montando […]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
¿East Side?
Muchos estarán preguntando por qué se van paseando algunos de la tercera planta tocándose el corazón con un solo dedo y cruzándolo con los dos dedos de la otra mano mientras digan en voz baja, “East Side“. No, no estamos locos. El barbudo canadiense me mostró este video, “White Chicks, Gang Signs” que pregunta con […]
