Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 108

FWIW, that is not the dreaded Klan attire. The Klan copied it from the traditional Easter processional clothes.

Reading from the first entry down (and it should be basically obvious):<ul><li>Spain Avenue</li><li>Hospital of Our Lady on The Hill</li><li>Monumental City</li><li>All Directions</li><li>Mountain Virgin Avenue</li></ol> …I was too scared to go left. I could have ended up not just anywhere, but everywhere at the same time! By the way, that unexplainable sign appears quite often in Cáceres. Comments Adrian Perez 2009-08-01 16:11:40 Hehe, it was very funny as a Hehe, it was very funny as a Spaniard to realize how people which is not used to those signals reacts in presence of them. In fact, if one takes the meaning of the...

DebConf 9: Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain; DebCamp, 2009-07-16—2009-07-22; DebConf, 2009-07-23—2009-07-30 Other people’s galleries at: https://gallery.debconf.org/v/debconf9/ http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/Pictures

I volunteered to work on producing the DebConf nametags, and worked on it closely with César (cek) for most of the afternoon. The process clearly shows no database is comprehensive enough to base DebConf on it - All in all, we managed a very good advance percentage, integrating the data on who sleeps where, how each person eats, and so on. And slightly before lunchtime, we had the final listing. Joy! …Until I asked César what script would we use for turning the data into nice, printable nametags. He plainly replied, «none that I know of». Ok, so on to...

My flight was scheduled to leave at 18:35 UTC-5 from Mexico. It left around 20:30. I took my friend Toño Malpica’s newest book, Siete Esqueletos Decapitados, to have a nice reading for the road. I was worried I would miss my 17:30 bus from Madrid to Cáceres, but I had plenty of time, and everything turned out just fine. Just as I was reading the last page of Toño’s book, when the bus was about to leave, Rhonda and Weasel boarded the bus — Great! Instead of five boring hours on my own (if possible, take the train — The...

Today, I will eat at my office — It’s the easiest, and as I arrived at ~11:30 and am leaving at ~18:30, I don’t want to invest ~1hr in getting a proper meal, which is at ~3Km from here (joys of working in a very large university, joys of coming to work during the vacational period). Anyway, I don’t do this often, so I started looking for names of takeaway/delivery restaurants in the area, thinking about a chapata (ciabatta? How would you write it in anything but es_MX?) or something saladish. I have a menu in my fridge door of...

gamaral / Guillermo / Memo / William/ Billy / Willy / Wonka / Antonio / Anthony / Tony talks about how names are constructed or used in Mexico. However, the formula is not for all of Latin America (i.e. it does not apply to the South Cone, as they still don’t find a use for keeping the mother’s family name). Also, while in the USA the mother’s family name is not used, in most of Europe it is. The use of second given names is quite strange IMO: You are supposed to go in your life by your first name,...

People who know me also know that, although it seems impossible due to the generalized opinion, I love living in Mexico City. I love the city, I love its chaos — And I love its beauty. I truly love the two paradigmatic volcanos that lie across the valley, South-East from us, Popocatépetl (in Náhuatl, «smoking mountain») and Iztaccíhuatl (in Náhuatl, «white lady», often called «sleeping lady» as its profile reminds of a dreamy princess). I never avoid mentioning to my friends when, on a clear day, I get to see them. Yesterday was one such day, most beautifully… Sadly this...

I will here translate the text of a petition a friend is starting, which will be delivered to the Hondurean embassy in Mexico. Original text in Spanish In the early hours of Sunday, June 28 2009, the legal Hondurean president Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from his position. A coup de etat, perpetrated by the Hondurean army, air force and navy, and with the consent of the Supreme Court. In his place, they imposed Roberto Micheleti, until then the Senate president, a conservative politician (although he is formally part of the Liberal party). The coup took place because many areas...