In the Czech Republic and Slovakia you spank and whip girls the monday after Easter:

In Taiwan, you post pictures of yourself naked when your party wins:

In Argentina you stab people when your soccer team loses.

Am I in the wrong country?

I’d like to challenge the assumption that only the very talented or the very wealthy get to become conference attending globe-trotters. Sure, it requires some hard work and a little bit of luck doesn’t hurt, but really it just boils down to these 10 steps.
1.) Get a website. The first thing you’ll notice in this [...]

Listeners of the podcast know that we’ve been giving a lot of love to Revaz these days. The last G5 podcast was basically an ode to our tall lanky friend who, like so many others, recently made the move back from Brooklyn to the Bay. Due to time constraints and the effects of beer, I [...]

From Miami to Ft. Lauderdale to Tampa to Washington D.C., New York, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Quisco, and finally back to Santiago, it’s been such an insane past 10 days that I have no idea where to even start other than the front page of the Sunday paper. Front and center of today’s El Mercurio, is [...]

Pronto escribiré algo más ’serio’ sobre mi experiencia en el quinto encuentro nacional de BiblioRedes que se realizó la semana pasada en Quisco, pero por ahora quiero dejarles con este video de algunos bibliotecarios Chilenos (y un Vasco!) mandando sus saludos a Gabriel Venegas, bibliotecario de la Biblioteca Publica Piloto de San Javier La Loma [...]

Me, Alex, Mario … 3/4 of the G5.

After a long and complaint-filled hiatus, Sparshles is back to hold up his end of the Sparshles and Oso podcast. Enjoy.

I’ve got about 15 drafts of posts I’ve been meaning to publish here. Then another 20 or so floating around in my head (and soon to be evaporating) that I’d also like to write. And, of course, there are the 6,315 unread items in my RSS reader that I both want and need to be [...]