As we reach the end of 2008, it seemed appropriate to make some kind of balance of the year… but I must be true to the fact the I know very little about what is going on around the world, and that most of the events taking place worldwide exceed the limits of my critical thinking… At [...]
Archive for December, 2008
19 Dec
Season’s GREENtings
In a previous post I mentioned my enthusiasm for greeting cards. I said I had stopped buying paper-cards and had moved to e-cards and making my own. The reasons behind this shift had little to do with me being an ecologist, which I happen to be (a very imperfect one, but I’m trying to improve!). [...]
15 Dec
Coincidence (part 2)
(Continued from Coincidence)
Oops, I forgot to mention that in the movie WALL-E, you also see the little robot playing Pong on an ATARI console (which was featured on a previous post not so long ago). Really funny!
But what I found most amusing was that it was a second coincidence in a 90 minutes lapse! I [...]
15 Dec
Two birds with one shot
Not really… I just wanted to put another idiom for the second Khiya-bird encounter in the year.
Fortunately, this one also had a happy ending (for the bird). I am afraid Khiya might be a bit bitter at me after this episode, though…
My mom and I left the birdy at the tree where it fell from. [...]
14 Dec
Coincidence
This afternoon, as I was moving my stuff to my room (same apartment, different room- see picture below), I found myself singing “La vie en rose”. Actually, I had a mini-Louis Armstrong in my mind singing it for me while I worked hard :) .
I realized I hadn’t listened to Louis Armstrong in a long [...]
6 Dec
Starbucks in Buenos Aires (follow-up)
I wrote about Starbucks opening its first store in Buenos Aires some months ago (here). As it was expected, the famous coffee-store company multiplied and has now, at least, two more stores that I know of. And guess where? One is 2 blocks away from my house, the other one is 1 block away from [...]
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