Monthly Archives: August 2007

(piña con leche before my thai food arrived tonight) yesterday i helped a gigolo write an email to an american girlfriend asking her for some money. there is a bit of a scene in this area, as quiet a few … Continue reading →

dani rodrik draws the parallel between defective chinese goods and defective american financial instruments (i.e. mortgage backed products) that begs to be made in a NYT article: Politicians, regulators and financial specialists outside the United States are seeking a role … Continue reading →

i just finished eating a dinner of raddichio, red and green cabbage, tuna, white beans, avocado, tomato, cucumber, shredded carrot and beet, and an egg, with balsamic and salsa lizano dressing. in a moment i will go downstairs and have … Continue reading →

i accidentally swept a frog off the porch the other day. pretty sure that was a first. excerpt rss feeds are useless when you spend a lot of time offline in the hammock doing your reading. i am rearranging my … Continue reading →

but in the meantime, all i have is this picture of pigs swimming. they were wrestling with a stray dog for a while but i didn’t get a good shot of that.

the tire still had a puncture, caused by one of the spoke nuts poking a hole through the rubber liner intended to prevent such occurrence. i took the old inner tube off and cut it all the way around with … Continue reading →

everything in the area has stopped working, telephones, internet, cell phones, atm’s, none of them are functional in this area of costa rica this afternoon. maybe the whole of costa rica or all of central america is offline, or maybe … Continue reading →

as i raked the leaves two days ago, i was struck with the same cilantro smell i had noticed during the first rain i experienced here. i pinched a few of the weeds underfoot between my fingers and ascertained that … Continue reading →

i had a few thoughts this morning that i will try to tie together. one aspect of being out here in a somewhat remote place, appealing or frustrating depending on your outlook,  is that are many things you cannot just … Continue reading →

some things happen fast here. leaves fill the yard, plants grow, food spoils, and refrigerators defrost quickly. today i made a connection with all those things, by starting a compost pile with several science projects we had brewing in the … Continue reading →