Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” – Igor Stravinsky, Composer Buenos Aires – Does blogging, or this blog in particular need, or even merit a defense? Is there any point to it? What… Read More Fount of Wisdom? Not.
“I don’t like heights. That’s why I stopped growing at fifth grade.” – Billy Crystal, in My Giant Buenos Aires – Me too. I don’t like heights. Not one bit. Come to think of it, I don’t much like big parties. Not one bit. But, nonetheless, I found myself last evening at the inauguration party… Read More Fabu…?
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.” – Chinese proverb Buenos Aires – No, this isn’t going to be a rant about price increases or boycotts. I’m not out to start another tomato war like the one we just went through here. No, this is about an opportunity. For those of us who spend… Read More Free the Rice!
There are some limitations when using the Apple Macintosh as a client device for Tarantella: * Printing to client device printers is only supported on Mac OS X version 10.2 or later. * Client drive mapping (CDM) is not supported. – from the Tarantella Administration Guide Buenos Aires – There are, however, no limitations on… Read More An Apple a Day…
The more you love the more you’ll find that life is good and friends are kind and only what we give away enriches us from day to day.” – Helen Rice Buenos Aires – At least once a week, there’s a day… a moment… that truly reminds me of why I love being here. Like… Read More Stop and Smell the Coffee
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca, Roman philosopher Buenos Aires – I generally avoid the Puerto Madero area of town – it’s a multi-block strip of renovated docks and warehouses, akin to something like the South Street Seaport in New York, filled with overpriced… Read More The Other Side
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… Read More What a SAP!
Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.” – Ernest Hemingway, Author Buenos Aires – To whom it may concern… and you know who you are… by the decree of the fates, muses, pantheon of gods… my computer still works. I got lucky. You… were simply a coward.… Read More Ole’ Yellow