Excellent classes this semester, all which have about 5,000 people I know in them ( Read more... )

Finally moved in.

Cell is the same: (215) 275 7743

I walked the two blocks to Citibank yesterday, finally having all of the information necessary to open an accout. I figure that if I'm going to deal with dirty banks, I might as well be part of one that exists everywhere (My other option was HSBC, but it's too national for my taste. Citigroup is loyal to no one -- HSBC is political ( Read more... )

Anyone who writes to be interesting is, by default, not interesting.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. - Samuel Beckett

19 years old and a busy birthday (a nostalgic convention I have to attend.)

Jose Dirceu - President of the Brazilian Cabinet, founder of the Worker's Party, wily bastard, etc... - spoke to me for a while at a dinner in Havana, almost a year ago to the day. Now I turn on the TV and he's being indicted for taking part in this mess. I'm not surprised ( Read more... )

I share my August 6th birthday with these noted notables ( Read more... )

This time I flew to Porto Alegre, and it was brilliant. After three or four times of doing the Montevideo-Porto Alegre round trip by bus (10 hours/trip * number of trips = 80 hours!)As can be imagined, flying felt like teleportation. Beam me up, Pluna/Varig. I found my seat, immediately fell asleep, and was thoroughly confused when I realised I had ( Read more... )

In Montevideo, one can fly-fish in the middle of the city. This is what Fabian and I set out to do on Saturday, but, having caught nothing resembling fish and breaking both our lines, I´m hesitant to call it fishing. I can now throw a weighed line very well, and one would be hard-pressed to find a better bait setter. We didn´t leave empty handed ( Read more... )