Posted 4 years, 10 months ago in the early evening by oso
I couldn’t resist - I saw this photo floating around on a few San Diego Bloggers sites, wishing a happy fat tuesday, and I had to put it up on mine.
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago in the early evening by oso
I couldn’t resist - I saw this photo floating around on a few San Diego Bloggers sites, wishing a happy fat tuesday, and I had to put it up on mine.
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago mid-afternoon by oso
Just came across flickr, sure to be the next new big thing on the web. They must have a lot of investment ’cause there is (so far) no sign up cost and the size of the images you can put up are monstruous. For anyone interested, my login name is “oso”
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago mid-afternoon by oso
Just a quick note - this coming Tuesday is Balboa Park Free Tuesday for the Museum of Photographic Arts and the Museum of San Diego History . Tuesday is also the opening of a new exhibit, Mujeres Unveiled at the Centro Cultural de la Raza Laura and I plan to go to all three museums [...]
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago in the early afternoon by oso
RESUME: GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.

Posted 4 years, 10 months ago around lunchtime by oso
In San Diego, where the so-called “Third World” collides dizzyingly with the “First,” the sheer proximity of the sanitized tourist districts to the economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhoods invests these contradictory modes of perceiving otherness with an almost surreal quality.
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago mid-afternoon by oso
Perdoname que el traductor ahorrita no funciona. Voy a arreglarlo en dos o tres dias. Gracias - Oso.
I just discovered that you cannot translate from a page that is declared English (like mine is) to English. This makes sense so I changed the declared language of the blog to Spanish so that Spanish entries could [...]
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago around lunchtime by oso
This is Laura’s comment to my first post on “The Hispanic Challenge:” To read it in English, please select english in the translator box above:
Sabes porque me gusta trabajar en un resturant de comida mexicana? bueno la respuesta es sencilla y a la vez estupida, “DON CARLOS” (perdon por el comercial porque ni siquiera recibo [...]
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago around lunchtime by oso
El Oso means “the bear” in Spanish. It unfortunately carries no sophisticated metaphor whatsoever and is not a literary allusion. Nor is it descriptive: I am a small, approachable white boy - about as fierce as Woody Allen. The story goes like this:
My friend Jose and I were at work one day when in walked [...]
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago around lunchtime by oso
Unfortunately, UCSD’s 6th college really came into being just as I graduated so I can’t claim to know too much about the college philosophy or curriculum. (for those who don’t know, UCSD is divided into 6 colleges; I was in Eleanor Roosevelt which had an international focus.) Looking at the college webpage today though, I [...]