From the monthly archives:

October 2007

The in Crowd

2007.Oct.16 Tuesday

 It’s all about popular! It’s not about aptitude It’s the way you’re viewed So it’s very shrewd to be Very very popular Like me! – excerpted from lyrics to Popular from the show Wicked Buenos Aires – Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be popular, part of the in-crowd… well, we finally made it [...]

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The Purple Land

2007.Oct.16 Tuesday

 …I intend writing a history of my wanderings in the Banda Oriental, and I will call my book “The Purple Land”; for what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children? You will never read it, of course, for I shall write it in English, and [...]

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What a SAP!

2007.Oct.15 Monday

 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke, Science & Science Fiction writer Buenos Aires – I’m almost tempted to list this as a Costa Rica based post rather than Buenos Aires. Not that I’m there, but, there I was, yesterday, reading my friend in Costa Rica’s blog, and she mentions [...]

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Brazil, Take 3

2007.Oct.13 Saturday

 It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” – Henry James, Writer Buenos Aires – The other night, Henry and I were in the mood for something a little different, and decided to check out another of the Brasilian spots on my list, having crossed one spot off the list [...]

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And a Bit More of the Grape

2007.Oct.12 Friday

 The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.” – Galileo Galilei, Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher Buenos Aires – It’s been awhile since I’ve been to what folks in the wine business call [...]

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Telefe

2007.Oct.10 Wednesday

In May of 2007 we were featured as one of two restaurants on a local broadcast on the Telefe channel about the "phenomenon" of restaurants in local homes. Unfortunately, our recorder screwed up and recorded only picture without sound. Luckily, Martin Mangiaterra over at Caracoles para da Vinci, the other restaurant featured, recorded it, got [...]

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Sailing the High Seas

2007.Oct.10 Wednesday

 Does anyone make better soup than the Portuguese? I doubt it. Certainly no one makes better bread. And no one, I suspect, knows more ways to prepare salt cod.” – Jean Anderson, The Food of Portugal Buenos Aires – I’m going to claim a complete lack of creativity… more or less. I don’t know alot [...]

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Casual Observations

2007.Oct.09 Tuesday

 Claims of observations are not falsifiable or verifaible, unless those observations are strictly monitored by sense. Consequently, casual judgements (i.e. casual conclusions following casual observations) of claims of observation settle deeply on mere assumption. You cannot make scientific progress by rebuking unfalsifiable and unverifiable claims, or rather, rebuking claims that you are unable to falsify [...]

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Pressed Again

2007.Oct.07 Sunday

 I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.” – William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist Buenos Aires – I can’t claim surprise, at least not in the end. I was a bit [...]

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