Sarah's family is using a vacation rentals website to rent out their Tally house until the fall. Today Sarah & I decided that they might want to list on the site that there's a turtle in the aquarium. We thought that maybe somebody might be scared of turtles or just not want one around. That's not so unreasonable...people are afraid of snakes and frogs and lizards, etc. We told her mom. Her mom asked why anyone would be afraid of a turtle. I replied:
"They might have a reptile dysfunction!"
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca
Les comparto un poema de César Vallejo de su obra Poemas humanos (1939). Todavía recuerdo partes de ello aúnque matriculé en el curso de Modernismo-PostBoom hace unos 5 años.
Me moriré en París con aguacero,
un día del cual tengo ya el recuerdo.
Me moriré en París--y no me corro--
tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de otoño.
Jueves será, porque hoy, jueves, que proso
estos versos, los húmeros me he puesto
a la mala y, jamás como hoy, me he vuelto,
con todo mi camno, a verme solo.
César Vallejo ha muerto, le pegaban
todos sin que él les haga nada;
le daban duro con un palo y duro
también con una soga; son testigos
los días jueves y los huesos húmeros,
la soledad, la lluvia, los caminos...
Qué magnífico su punto de vista de "ya recordar" su propia muerte. Pues, es algo especial poner su muerte durante un jueves de otoño. Ni jueves ni otoño llegan al fin de sus ciclos...es decir que César va a morirse antes de su tiempo natural. Es un hombre inocente porque "les haga nada" y a la vez se lo pegaron.
No conozoco París, pero no creo que yo tenga la habilidad de ver la muerte y no huirla a causa de estar en una ciudad así. Mucha gente se enamora de París, pero no voy a ser uno de ellos.
Yo también escribé un poema sobre mi muerte, pero me maté a mi...me ahogé en la espuma del mar. Tal vez puedo "postar"lo en mi blog en el futuro...si mis lectores quieren leerlo.
TANG
Dan brought home some TANG tonight. I can't remember the last time I had TANG. It's freaking amazing. It makes you feel like you're 12 again. I like that feeling. (Note to TBW: we should put drinking Tang in our A&W are 12 years old photo album).
I recommend that you pick up some Tang the next time you're at the store and bring back sensations from the good old days.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Pick #115
Azul Azul - "Bomba"
encontré esto a causa de tener ortografía equivocada en mi canción escojido de la semana pasada cuando la busqué en youtube.
encontré esto a causa de tener ortografía equivocada en mi canción escojido de la semana pasada cuando la busqué en youtube.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Brown's Home Kitchen Center
I found the coolest store yesterday. Brown's Home Kitchen Center is a completely awesome shop with anything you could want to stock your kitchen (except for food). They are also a restaurant supply.
Here's how I found the store: Step 1) Dan broke my pizza stone a while ago by heating up the oven with the stone on the counter. He put a frozen pizza on it then stuck it in the oven. :::Shatter:::. We were living fine without one but Dan said he'd buy a new one. Step 2) Andrew picked up some plus-sized crescent rolls at Publix. I was going to make a taco ring. I made one a week ago and it was tough without the pizza stone. We ended up making a taco oval on a baking sheet. I knew there was no way the plus-sized taco ring would fit on my baking sheets. Step 3) I asked Dan if he knows where to get a pizza stone in Tally. He guessed Wal-Mart. After watching The High Cost of Low Price, I am making a conscious effort not to shop at WM. A quick Google search revealed that Target had a pizza stone on their website for about $13. Turns out they don't carry it in store. Instead of going to WM, I decided to look for "kitchen store" on Google Maps. I called the first place that came up and they wanted $55 for a pizza stone. Cross them off the list. The second store wanted only $14-15, so I went there. That turned out to be Brown's.
I think I could have spent $1,000 in Brown's that day if I had a gift card. I only purchased the pizza stone (Dan has yet to pay me back...maybe I should remind him), a mini mortar & pestal, and a 1L carafe. Other items I may have picked up are: knives and a magnetic knife holder (the wall-mount kind), cast-iron skillets, Vinturi, glassware, pepper grinder, utensils, and I can't even remember what else. I recommend checking it out.
Here's how I found the store: Step 1) Dan broke my pizza stone a while ago by heating up the oven with the stone on the counter. He put a frozen pizza on it then stuck it in the oven. :::Shatter:::. We were living fine without one but Dan said he'd buy a new one. Step 2) Andrew picked up some plus-sized crescent rolls at Publix. I was going to make a taco ring. I made one a week ago and it was tough without the pizza stone. We ended up making a taco oval on a baking sheet. I knew there was no way the plus-sized taco ring would fit on my baking sheets. Step 3) I asked Dan if he knows where to get a pizza stone in Tally. He guessed Wal-Mart. After watching The High Cost of Low Price, I am making a conscious effort not to shop at WM. A quick Google search revealed that Target had a pizza stone on their website for about $13. Turns out they don't carry it in store. Instead of going to WM, I decided to look for "kitchen store" on Google Maps. I called the first place that came up and they wanted $55 for a pizza stone. Cross them off the list. The second store wanted only $14-15, so I went there. That turned out to be Brown's.
I think I could have spent $1,000 in Brown's that day if I had a gift card. I only purchased the pizza stone (Dan has yet to pay me back...maybe I should remind him), a mini mortar & pestal, and a 1L carafe. Other items I may have picked up are: knives and a magnetic knife holder (the wall-mount kind), cast-iron skillets, Vinturi, glassware, pepper grinder, utensils, and I can't even remember what else. I recommend checking it out.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Remember the Milk
Rememberthemilk.com is an online to-do list. Accounts are free. You can make different lists (e.g. Personal, work, study, money, girls, etc) and it gives you lots of options for each task. I just started using it last week and I'm still figuring stuff out. It's really smart. For instance, I clicked "due date" for a task and typed in "tue" and it filled out "Tuesday, February 17th, 2009." Amazing. "Tomorrow" does what you'd expect it to, as does "10pm" and "next wed." You can generate notes about a task (e.g. Date. Saturday, 9pm...the note could be the address...or the girl's name).
Here's part of the stuff you can edit about a task:
You can also prioritize tasks, view tasks due today or due this week. There are features where it can remind you via email that you have a task about to become due. There's something about emailing yourself and it will automatically generate a task for that activivty.
Maybe this will make it easier to keep track of to do lists. I guess you could make a grocery list...I'ma do that right now... Usually to do lists get buried on my desk under other to do lists and notes to myself on scrap paper. I could be more productive??
Here's part of the stuff you can edit about a task:
Due: never
Repeat: never
Time estimate: none
Location: none
URL: none
Postponed: 0 times
Notes: 0
You can also prioritize tasks, view tasks due today or due this week. There are features where it can remind you via email that you have a task about to become due. There's something about emailing yourself and it will automatically generate a task for that activivty.
Maybe this will make it easier to keep track of to do lists. I guess you could make a grocery list...I'ma do that right now... Usually to do lists get buried on my desk under other to do lists and notes to myself on scrap paper. I could be more productive??
Monday, February 16, 2009
Team Fellatio
I was riding in to town from Sarah's new place. As we were pulling out of the driveway, she said "team fellatio!" I had no idea what she meant. I mean, is that when you have a girl on the left and another on the right??
Turns out she was talking about the "sold" sign in the front yard which features a picture of her realtor and his mother. Their last name is Felaciano (or something like that). I guess they call themselves "team Felaciano," which was misunderstood by Sarah.
To make matters funnier, she had no idea what fellatio means. She couldn't understand why I was cracking up when she said "team fellatio" again and again. I explained myself and we checked to make sure that their last name was not actually Fellatio. Lucky for them, their name isn't.
Turns out she was talking about the "sold" sign in the front yard which features a picture of her realtor and his mother. Their last name is Felaciano (or something like that). I guess they call themselves "team Felaciano," which was misunderstood by Sarah.
To make matters funnier, she had no idea what fellatio means. She couldn't understand why I was cracking up when she said "team fellatio" again and again. I explained myself and we checked to make sure that their last name was not actually Fellatio. Lucky for them, their name isn't.
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