'General' Category

• Seven Things You Don’t Know About Me (MEME)

  January 7, 2009

  An interesting meme, I was tagged by Jeff Loiselle

  1. I once worked a full day serving beverages and hamburguers to a lot of people who were attending the agricultural exposition at La Rural. The issue

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• How a one week getaway turns into a month vacation

  May 6, 2008

  So there we were, planning a one week getaway to Munich for Oktoberfest. Drinking all that fine beer and coming back to wonderful Germany sounded like a great idea. So great, that we’ve been extending our plan by days

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• A german in Cricava

  March 12, 2008

  Up until yesterday, and for the last month, we’ve been housing a fellow IT geek from Germany. He goes by the name of Daniel, and he’s quite an energetic and fun person to hang out with. Here you can

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• Understanding LOST sequence of numbers

  October 1, 2006

  Anyone who’s a fan of LOST is familiar with a sequence of numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42. These are the numbers that almost connect all strange things in the series. During the second season of LOST it was…

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• Argentina on the Basketball World Championship

  August 25, 2006

  Argentina has started the basketball world championship the best way possible. They finished first in their zone with a perfect 5-0 record, and are currently waiting to play New Zealand on the first match of the play offs this

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• Loose Change 2nd Edition, a documentary about 9/11

  June 28, 2006

  Thanks to Diego, I have just finished watching a very interesting documentary called Loose Change, produced by Korey Rowe, Dylan Avery, and Jason Bermas. It certainly raises some serious questions about the real facts of what…

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• An interesting way to protest against pulpmill pollution

  May 12, 2006

  The picture you can see below is traveling the world. A woman wearing a bikini and knee-high boots disrupted the shooting of a group photo of EU and Latin American leaders at a summit in Vienna on Friday.

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• Argentina: 3.71 % of its population affected by traffic accidents every 10 years

  April 27, 2006

  I am shocked. I just read a study saying that in Argentina, during 2005, 14,526 people died and more than 120,000 were injured just by traffic accidents. That is: 39 deaths and 328 injured per day. This sickening high

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• I want to go back to Miramar

  February 8, 2006

  Just a few days ago (February the 3rd) I came back from my 31 days vacation I took in Miramar, a city on the southern east part of Buenos Aires, a trully beautiful beach location.

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• My desk at the office

  September 28, 2005

  Thanks to Claudia, who so generously took the picture, here’s a shot of my desk.
  

  You can see my omnipresent mug

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