Some light Christmas reading…

This is a long article, but gives an interesting perspective on recent political and financial developments in Latin America. I found the article linked from by the same author at The Huffington Post about the possibility of Ecuador defaulting on its foreign debt, a la Argentina (which apparently hasn’t worked out too badly for them). [...]

Friday Cat Blogging

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Racing Red

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Music to launch fireworks by

I watched the movie last night, the first movie by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, who also co-wrote Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson also co-wrote The Life Aquatic, with someone other than Wilson). I’ve always thought Anderson’s other works have paled in comparison to Rushmore, and Bottle Rocket was consistent with that. I find [...]

Google is my friend

I’ve been searching around for ways to make the GPS thing work on the road. I came across another possible option to get data off the device, a program called (run by Garmin) that pulls data from the unit, allows you to graph all sorts of stuff (elevation, speed, etc.), and allows you to export [...]

Where in the world are Matt & Cindy?

I’ve been eyeing a new toy for awhile now, and since my good friends in the Biology Dept saw fit to give me a REI gift card as a departing gift, I decided to buy it and see what I could do with it. The software that Garmin provides is PC only (although a Mac [...]

Chavez Re-elected

Interesting that he’s going to try to change Presidential term limits before his next election (apparently in Venezuela, Presidential terms are for 6 years). I’ve been wondering about our own term limits in this country recently…there is so much inertia in our bureaucracy that 4 or 8 years seems hardly enough for real change to [...]