I´m going to say that Cartagena, Colombia sucks as a place to work in. Everyone wants your money, so scams abound. If an attractive girl talks to you out of the blue, it´s probably because she thinks you have money, wants a Visa, or both. Also, the beaches are subpar and everything is expensive precisely because it is a tourist location ( Read more... )

I want to lay out the four fundamental truths of human behavior ( Read more... )

Something about the President's poll numbers troubles me. Despite so many scandals and incompetent mistakes, President Bush's poll numbers have not, and will not, dip below 34%. Lately his poll numbers have fluctuated between 35 and 40%. The mainstream America's consensus is that things are going badly for America. So why are these 35-40% of ( Read more... )

Okay, so here are my longterm plans ( Read more... )

I give V for Vendetta two and a half stars ( Read more... )

On the third anniversary of the war in Iraq, it's time for me to revisit my support for it ( Read more... )

Where were you when you realized the world is flat?

I'm paraphrasing a question Thomas Friedman posed to his interviewees while writing The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. Friedman realized while recording a documentary for the Discovery Times channel that the world has become flat (or more precisely, was being flattened) ( Read more... )

While rereadng an old book, I found a nice passage that describes my raison d'etre. If you know me well enough, you'll know the source:
We were fond together, because of the sweep of the open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought ( Read more... )

Seasons Greetings People-Who-Still-Have-Me-On-Their-Friends-Page. Yes I'm still alive, albeit with an injured lower back and a whooping cough, from War and Winter, of course. I'm curious to know how everyone is doing. This has been like one long drinking binge; you know, the time travel that occurs when you drink excessively (ref. Dave Attell, ( Read more... )

I've finally arrived in Boston. I saw my old roommate at Harvard. The youngster now has a beard :). Apparently a lot of the roommates from my dorm decided to stay together when they moved to the upperclassmen dorms. This is all so horribly depressing for me. The guys I was going to school with up here seem to be moving on and growing up and ( Read more... )