Archive for June, 2007
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Not Books Again
Not another post about books! At least it’s not another one about the rain (everyone loves the sushine). I am finally trying to be a little bit more “reasonable” about my purchases, but I just saw that Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, After Dark, has finally come out in English. Normally, this wouldn’t be a […]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
East Side
La F al revés de los del East Side.
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Vote for Victor and Albert
Victor and Albert from FON Labs in Barcelona have just been nominated by Business Week for its Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs award for entrepreneurs under the age of 25 for their Web 2.0 start-up called Moneytrackin. The winner will be decided by user votes, so please cast your vote for them here.
Here is Business Week’s […]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
El Inicio del Comienzo del Fin de los Principios
Si hace más o menos un año y pico Zapatero declaró que España estaba ante el incio del principio del fin del terrorismo de ETA y si ahora hemos llegado al fin de la tregua, tengo una pregunta: ¿cúando fue el inicio del principio del fin del Alto el Fuego? ¿Fue en la Terminal 4? […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Essays, Living la vida española by eric
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
The False Love of the Poets
For the past year of so, I have been playing with a certain notion. I had almost forgotten about it until I had read the following passage from Streetwise, the second part in Mohamed Choukri’s autobiography. Streetwise is, by the way, horribly translated from Arabic to English in the edition I am reading, not that […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
El País Cambiante
I just discovered that a friend of mine in Argentina has a pretty cool blog. Although the photo here is not of Argentina, I think it goes well with the blog’s title, El País Cambiante – the Changing Country. Check it out.
4 Comments » - Posted in Friends / Family by eric
Monday, June 4th, 2007
4-20-10: When Counting is Life or Death
Sometimes I feel like my ignorance knows no limites. Besides not speaking French, I am more than clumsy with numbers. Actually, I am a mathematic imbecile and suffer from math-phobia. My ignorance and idiocy were even further apparent when I just recently learned that the French don’t literally say “eighty” or “ninety” but rather “four, […]
