Burning Man is right around the corner and just like the past few years, many of my friends are going but I am not. I have always wanted to see just what it’s all about - and this years’ theme is right up my alley - but I simply can’t justify the $250 - $350 [...]

First of all I’d like to thank Revaz and Elena for inviting me to use Orkut and also props to those who have offered me Gmail accounts. They both look like good services. But here’s my beef and here’s why I’m not going to use either one.
The internet is all about openness. That’s what I [...]

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Like it or not there are some assumptions you have to make in life. Most, for example, assume that what you see out of your eyes is really there, not some Matrix inspired image created by a computer hooked up to your brain.
One of the assumptions that I [...]

So mi compa Daily Texican has started this thing called his Cholo Word of the Day. He throws some interesting palabras out there - and certainly many of them are not cholo or even Chicano but they’re all useful for anyone wanting to communicate on either side of the border.
I don’t know how he [...]

Last week Laura and I were showing her younger sister around Pacific Beach. They did some shopping while I read the paper at Cafe 976. You can imagine my horror however when, walking over, I looked up and saw this billboard. Huevos SPAMcheros! I’m almost twisted enough to try it.
This is via Wordsmith.org where I [...]

A month and a half ago while traveling throughout Southeast Asia I made an effort to check out all the local blogs in the cities where I stayed. That’s how I came upon SarongPartyFrens in Singapore. At the time I asked Jo, who runs the group blog, to send me some links to other quality [...]

Laura’s gonna hate me for putting this photo (mug shot) up on here, but I’ve got a little beef with the employment process in Mexico. Whenever I need a laugh while in Mexico it’s straight to either the personals or help wanted sections of the paper. You’ve never seen such comedy. I wish I had [...]

Just days after Sensory Overload blogs about Edvard Munch’s Scream it is stolen from a museum in Oslo. Coincidence? I think not.

Within 10 years I hope to speak Japanese and Chinese fluently in addition to English and Spanish. I’m super surprised to see neither Hindu nor Urdu in the statistics. (via Brianstorms)

Joe recently wrote on San Diego Blog about Rodger Hedgecock’s new moblog.
Hedgecock is a local AM conservative radio pundit. He’s San Diego’s very own Rush Limbaugh. He’s also our ex-mayor and, in a long tradition of San Diego politicians, an ex-convict. Obviously he’s no hero of mine and I made that clear in my comment. [...]