Give.me.the.seventies

En Las pequeñas paranoyas de motagirl el 2009.02.05

¡¡Los setenta han volvido y nadie sabe cómo ha sido!!(disculpad la libertad gramática del "volvido", pero es que si no no rimaba xD)El título viene de aqui, podeis escucharlo mientras leeis el parrafo y medio del post.Me hubiera encantado estrenarlo este findesemana en Madrid, pero creo que las nieves y los grados bajocero me lo van a impedir -_-U Así que tendrá que aguantar en mi armario hasta que haga mejor tiempo...No se aprecia bien en esa foto,...

En BIG CRUNCH el 2008.10.24

Today in The Economist is a post about the financial crisis efects in emergents economies.After reading it seem me that is not clear that emergent economies could be the engine to put out of recesion world economy if the actual industrialized countries headed by american economies enter at end in this condition.The same article give a strong reason the interdepent or globalized ties specially at banking systems.Many emergent tiny countries need financial aid or fresh money to recover after the...

En A DAY AT CCC AND CJC ACE el 2008.05.25

Whoever said success was just outside the door may have forgotten to say which door because many people give up before they try to make a go at it. Brenda A. Ysaguirre Today's Word "tittle-tattle" tittle-tattle TIT-uhl TAT-uhl (noun) - 1 : Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. 2 : An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. (verb) - 1 : to talk idly; to prate. "Both were in their seventies, and like two old parrots they told, in identical words, the tale they had heard so often from their...

En Money Making Lounge el 2008.02.24

The Longevity Express is here. People are starting to live longer faster than ever before. Isn?t it wonderful? The average age is now around eighty and climbing quicker than the actuarial tables have estimated. People in their fifties and sixties now consider themselves part of the new middle aged. More and more of them are starting to work from home. Where will it all end? No one knows, but certain scientists are estimating average life spans of well over one hundred in the not to distant future. At this...

En No uso acentos por flojo el 2007.11.17

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Ripping Yarns Initially, the idea was pretty much what it looked like: let's take a group of Victorian adventurers and put them together in this rip-roaring, swash-buckling period adventure. And, so, we chose our six, five or six favorites victoria adventurers. Captain Nemo When we looked at Captain Nemo we discovered that, actually, he didn't look anything like James Mason in the Walt Disney versions, that in Jules Vernes original novel; or at least by the time Jules...

En shave everything in life el 2007.09.10

STARTECH STARSTER is the name of a new concept car that celebrates its world debut at the Frankfurt International Auto Show IAA 2007, a concept car that manages to bridge the gap between classic old-school and modern designs. STARTECH has developed this concept car based on the new Dodge Avenger. The sedan is painted a pearlescent ivory color with matte-orange contrasts. Details such as the STARTECH STARSTER decals on the rear and the hood are references to the American muscle cars of the Seventies....

En The Devils' Excrement el 2007.01.13

A longer term view of poverty levels in Venezuela to give readers more of a historical perspective than the previous graph from 1998 shown earlier. I could not find a table with these numbers earlier than 1998, but there is a graph in the source below. Thus I took a picture of the graph and blew it up to get the points year by year using the data from the UCAB. (The data seemed to be plotted twice a year in the graph). Notice how poverty went down with the oil boom in the mid-seventies, but rose through...