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 Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”
- Robert C. Savage, Author
Tigre - I won’t go into the trials and tribulations of getting Henry and his niece awake, dressed, and ready to go, then actually out the door, and on our way to Tigre (leaving at 1:30 p.m. instead [...]

 Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that human beings are connected through relationships with at most six other people. Several studies, such as Milgram’s small world experiment have been conducted to empirically measure this connectedness. While the exact number of links between people differs depending on the population measured, it is generally found [...]

 The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding [...]

 The western/central culinary region of China includes the provinces and cuisines of Szechuan and Hunan, two of China’s most ancient provinces…. The most distinctive features of this region’s cuisine reside in the flavour: flavour and freshness are emphasized far more than colour and appearance. This feature reflects the earthy, practical, ‘no-nonsense’ nature of the region’s [...]

 It takes a lot of guts to manufacture a tchotchke that weighs hundreds of pounds, takes up half a bathroom, and glows popsicle green.”
- Cory Doctorow, Author, Boingboing.net
Mar del Plata -Tuesday dawned as another cold and drizzly day. Rather than even attempting a beach, we decided to go the whole touristy route… i.e., take [...]

 Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Essayist, Playwright
Mar del Plata - Dining out in Mar del Plata proved to be [...]

“I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world… perhaps you’ve seen it.”
- Stephen Wright, Comedian
Mar del Plata - After getting past the giant lavendar cow with swollen pink teats as we entered town, we wound our way through a mass of industrial and warehouse buildings [...]