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 Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”
Buenos Aires - The last day of the year is, of course, a completely arbitrary point on the timeline. Here in BA, this evening will be a barrage and cacaphony of works and crackers of the fire sort, and is a time best spent [...]

 Calmness,” said Aaron quietly, “is a drink we can buy in the bar next door. Come.”
- from One More For The Road, by Ray Bradbury
Buenos Aires - Virtually everyone who visits this town, and many who live here, comment regularly on the bus system. Apparently buses are the theme of the day, as my friend [...]

 I have to make dinner - I mean actually make it without magic. We are liable to die.”
- Barbara Eden as Jeannie, I Dream of Jeannie
Buenos Aires - ‘Twas the night before Larentalia, and all through the house… Not a creature was stirring, except the house elf. Well, not an elf exactly, but a Lare, [...]

 The important thing is not so much the style of martial art but the style of the instructor. Watch classes. Basic ones and advanced ones. See if it will match your preferences.”
- Rob Colasanti, President, National Association of Professional Martial Arts
Buenos Aires - Everyone has their own cultural things they like to do. Some like [...]

 Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.”
- Yiddish proverb

Adrogué - It was back to the suburbs with yet another mission, the first one having been interesting, and perhaps filling, but not… fulfilling. This time, it was a mission of learning. For the last couple of years, I’ve [...]

 I’ve become wary of interviews in which you’re forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you’ve done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.”
- Peter Weir, Film Director
Buenos Aires - Just a quick “check out the interview” with FoodCandy, a much anticipated Q&A [...]

 He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.”
- St. John of the Cross, Christian mystic
Buenos Aires - I’m a day or two behind Robert in writing up our cultural adventure this past weekend. [...]

 Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained.
- Jeremiah 14:10, Old Testament Bible

Buenos Aires - The reason for the trip out to the west was simple. Pizza pilgrimage. Recommended by several locals as “the” place for a “true porteño pizza experience”. Touted by numerous commenters on places like Guia Oleo as [...]