Latin America: The End of an Era
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 this post by the same author at The Huffington Post about the possibility of Ecuador defaulting on its foreign debt, a la Argentina (which [...]
Filed under: General on December 25th, 2006 | No Comments »
Sera officially has a home for while we are gone! She will be moving to Tacoma to live with my friend and former classmate, Danielle. Sera will still be an only cat and I have a feeling she might be a bit spoiled, too. Yay, Danielle!!
Filed under: Cat Blogging on December 22nd, 2006 | No Comments »
I got myself some prescription sunglasses for the trip that I went and picked up yesterday. These are the Ekynox SX model from Rudy Project. I originally wanted to get glasses with interchangeable Rx lenses, but then seeing how much they cost, I then downgraded my wish to some photochromic lenses. They weren’t available in [...]
Filed under: Pre-trip Planning on December 21st, 2006 | No Comments »
I watched the movie Bottle Rocket 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. [...]
Filed under: General on December 19th, 2006 | No Comments »
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 MotionBased (run by Garmin) that pulls data from the unit, allows you to graph all sorts of stuff (elevation, speed, etc.), and allows you to [...]
Filed under: Pre-trip Planning on December 6th, 2006 | No Comments »
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. I bought a GPS bike computer. The software that Garmin provides [...]
Filed under: Pre-trip Planning on December 4th, 2006 | No Comments »
By a comfortable margin. 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 [...]
Filed under: General on December 4th, 2006 | No Comments »