Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.” – Edwin Booth, Actor Buenos Aires – There are myriad internet sites out there that talk about the world of mistranslation. In the food… Read More Lost in Traducción
I was reminded this morning by an e-mail from a local friend looking for a good fruit & vegetable stand that I get these sorts of request all the time. While I’ve had a page up for a long time that covers quite a few specialty shops around the city that I use regularly, I… Read More New Shopping Page
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ” – Luigi Pirandello, Playwright, Poet, Author Buenos Aires – I know little to nothing about Luigi… Read More How the Hell Did I End Up Here?
The life of Zen attainment is not like standing on a riverbank watching the current and appreciating the water or the landscape as a witness; it is jumping into the current and becoming one with it.” – Trevor Leggett, Judo Expert, Author La Plata – Part of our Monday trip to La Plata turned into… Read More The Beach that Wasn’t
MAN can find no new field of activity into which the cold relentless figure of the law does not follow him. Before the discovery of America European nations gave little thought to the international problems of colonies and control of the seas, partly because there was at first little or no competition between them, and… Read More Changing of the Guard
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… Read More We Are (Not?) Amused…
“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… Read More Six Degrees of Separation
“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… Read More Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics