New Year Escape

En Nullnetworks el 2007.07.21

CD1: 01. Intro - What The Bleep Do We Know? 02. Yilmaz Althanan - Eighties 03. Deepsky ft. Jess - Ghost 04. David West ft. Andreas Hermansson - Larry Mountains 54 05. Deep Dish - Say Hello 06. Mode - Hookers - Breathe 07. The Drill - The Drill 08. Armin Van Buuren With Gabriel and Dresden - Zocalo 09. D: Fuse ft. Jess - Living The Dream (Matthew Dekay Remix) 10. Niklas Harding Presents Arcane - Ice Beach 11. Armin Van Buuren ft. Nadia Ali - Who's Watching (Tonedepth Remix) 12. Andy Moor - Halcyon 13....

En Aura Neurotica el 2007.07.17

Me gustan los memes musicales, por que siempre me dan una buena idea de lo que estoy escuchando cierta época de mi vida. Estaba revisando el blog de mi compadre y aproveche robándome un meme. Así que ahí les va! 1) ¿Eres hombre o mujer? I´m The Mercenary (Iron Maiden) Human heart, human mind, intellect intertwined Focus sharp in the night, watch the jungle burning bright Toe to toe throw the line, everyone's caught hand tied Iron will iron fist, how could it have come to this? Nowhere to run, nowhere to...

En The (Mis)Adventures of a Gringa In Costa Rica el 2007.07.06

Moving to Costa Rica, I knew that natural riches were in store; after all, what else would you expect of a country whose name translates to "Rich Coast" and which boasts over 5% of the world’s biodiversity in only 0.01% of the Earth’s land mass? But San José, the capital of Costa Rica and my home base, is the one place in Costa Rica that all the guidebooks tell you to avoid. There’s plenty to discourage you from visiting: the drivers whose daily delight is creating new...

En Libertad para Emanuel el 2007.06.08

From: Townhall.com Few people have seen the 3-year-old boy born in captivity to a Colombian politician kidnapped by Latin America's biggest guerrilla army five years ago. Yet little Emmanuel is soon to become the face of Colombia's legions of kidnap victims, the centerpiece of an international campaign by President Alvaro Uribe to pressure their captors to free them. Since his birth, Emmanuel has been raised by guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The group abducted his...

En South America Bidsta el 2007.06.04

In the end the outcome was perhaps the best possible alternative to potential tragedy -- farcical anticlimax. Three police bulldozers broke down the back entrance of the Mercado Santa Anita, and in flooded the more than 1,000 police officers that had gathered outside in a show of overwhelming force. First in were the the stormtrooper-like 'robocops', with their 10 kilos of electric shock-delivering body armour, who were later fawned over at length by the female TV reporters. Amidst a few salvos of teargas,...

En 101 Amazing Guys el 2007.05.06

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 ? April 9, 1945) was a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against Nazism. Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and theologian, took part in the plots being planned by members of the Abwehr (Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Hitler. He was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually hanged following the failure of the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt. Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) into a middle to upper...

En TaoSecurity el 2007.04.13

My favorite show on The History Channel is Dogfights. Although I wore the US Air Force uniform for 11 years I was not a pilot. I did get "incentive" rides in T-37, F-16D, and F-15E jets as a USAFA cadet. Those experiences made me appreciate the rigor of being a fighter pilot. After watching Dogfights and learning from pilots who fought MiGs over North Vietnam, one on six, I have a new appreciation for their line of work. All that matters in a dogfight is winning, which means shooting down your opponent or...

En From Uruguay el 2007.02.22

I've spent the last few days in Parque del Plata, Canelones, Uruguay, along with my familiy for the carnival holidays. Parque del Plata is one of a series of beachside villas/towns (balnearios) by the coast of Canelones. All of them very peaceful, green, with nice beaches, reasonably good renting prices, and most important around 50km from Montevideo. They make for good weekend escape spots. These are not trendy places, like Punta del Diablo, Cabo Polonio, or Punta del Este, but still they are nice and...

En [en] Sal Detraglia's Virtual Tapas Bar el 2007.01.01

So...you're probably wondering what I did for Christmas Eve. In a word, "EATING!" My parents always host Christmas Eve, and it's not exactly a somber affair. This year, the debauchery started at 4pm and ended at 11:30pm. We were sixteen for dinner; nineteen for appetizers. Aside from my parents and I, there were my brother FrankenFeet and his family, my sister and hers, FrankenFeet's step-daughter and her fiance, family friends "Arm & Butt" from my parents' ski club, Arm's daughter, and a few other...

En Coalition for Darfur el 2006.11.28

From UNHCR Five-year-old Khadidja is not sure why she is here in eastern Chad and she does not remember the name of the village in Darfur from which she fled. Her hair neatly braided but covered in dust, the Sudanese child says she is happy to be here, before shyness overcomes her and she runs off to find her mother. Mohamet, aged 15, steps up to fill in some of the blanks. He says his Western Darfur village was attacked by "black and white Arabs." He was very scared but, with his parents, brothers and...

En Governance Focus el 2006.11.03

British companies have successfully headed off big rows over pay for senior executives this year and avoided accusations of paying big rewards for failure by consulting with shareholders. Boards have had few public upsets with investors compared with a few years ago, says New Bridge Street Consultants, which advises a fifth of FTSE 100 boards on executive pay structures and on Tuesday produces its second annual survey on pay. See full Article (paid subscription...

En Shlachter el 2006.03.07

So now that Oscar is a day short of 13 months, what's new with him? Well, we expect that he is going to start walking any day now. He frequently stands in one place without holding on to anything and even takes a step or two before plopping down to crawl. At his year appointment he was just shy of 20 lbs and was [30] inches long. It seems his metabolism and bustling lifestyle prohibit him from bulking up. The good news is that he is a very vibrant and healthy boy. This past Friday Oscar, Sarah and I met...

En Everlasting Love el 2005.12.31

Se acaba el 2005, en la mayor parte del mundo ya se acabó. No me gusta hacer balances de fin de año. No sé por que en esta fecha debe uno pararse a mirar hacia atrás. Tal vez se deba a que todos los días miro hacia atrás, y los balances sean tan rutinarios que no veo motivos para ponerlos acá. Siempre me queda un sabor amargo cuando hago balances casi a diario. Además de rutinarios malucos. Sin embargo, no puedo evitar mencionar que desde hace un par de años siento que mi vida no avanza. Que no hay cambio,...

En Luunna el 2005.12.31

El nuevo año es como un niño recien nacido por lo tanto no se puede empezar como si fuera cualquier cosa, es una enorme torpeza. Un año de vida es un regalo que te da la vida y es demasiado grande para echarlo a perder. ¿Alguna vez te has sentido en lo mas hondo de tu ser ese deseo profundo y enorme de mejorar o de cambiar? Si es así, no dejes que el deseo se escape, porque no todos los días lo sentirás. Si hoy sientes esa llamada a querer ser otro, a ser distinto/a atrápala con fuerza y hazla realidad. El...

En BIrds and Butterflies el 2005.11.01

NOTA: Esta entrada está tambien en español, luego del inglés. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890. In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. Although it was completed in a year, it wasn't published until 1920, five...

En Diary of a Broken Heart el 2005.07.21

I cut off all communication. Turned everything off. I desire to speak to no one. My mother came by to complain. I hadn't left my bed yet. It is better to wallow in your own misery alone. To stay motionless taking in your vast loneliness, then sleep hits. It is like Morpheus himself seems to feel pity for you and causes that dreamless sleep. I prefer to be asleep. I can hide from the world, escape actually. I look at my hands now and it is better, they are not shaking anymore. At least, as long as I...