<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773</id><updated>2009-12-18T02:58:50.689-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Boy wanna have fun</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default?orderby=updated'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;orderby=updated'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>186</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-7037236981955279188</id><published>2009-11-24T12:21:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T18:31:16.625-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><title type='text'>Citizen Leo</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Swwho6w91QI/AAAAAAAABR8/IYrJsBgDFx0/s1600/bm-image-743403.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Swwho6w91QI/AAAAAAAABR8/IYrJsBgDFx0/s320/bm-image-743403.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407734239418242306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Yesterday I went to my friend Leo's oath as an American citizen (many years ago he decided to stay in US with his sweetheart). Right now, I'm starting my own process to green card and -hopefully- citizenship, and it's going to be a long one. In any case, I feel very grateful that at least I have the chance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-7037236981955279188?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/7037236981955279188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=7037236981955279188&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/7037236981955279188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/7037236981955279188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/11/citizen-leo.html' title='Citizen Leo'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Swwho6w91QI/AAAAAAAABR8/IYrJsBgDFx0/s72-c/bm-image-743403.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-346743068156738359</id><published>2009-09-03T14:53:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T18:37:48.089-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle Way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glacier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traveling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mountaineering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animals'/><title type='text'>Bears on Ice: Glacier National Park</title><content type='html'>It is absolutely worth the trip between Chicago and Montana -two thirds the width of United States- to visit Glacier National Park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The experience of riding through five states and going from the totally urbanized Chicago to the desolated -and beautiful- prairies of Montana is beyond explanation, that meaning that everyone should make the trip sometime. Besides, finding other people fond of traveling across the country, and a few also heading to visit Glacier, is such an enriching experience. I remember Crystal, a smart woman from Seattle, who made me laugh when she told me -learning that I was from Chile- "On behalf of the people of United States, I would like to apologize for all the things that the C.I.A. made to your country on the 70's"; or Micah, Danielle and Zach, three biology students from Portland who gave me shelter for two days and maybe the nicest guys I ever met in the States; or Bill, a retired gentleman from Aurora, IL, with whom I found out had so many common life experiences; or Mike, from Madison, WI, who made my whole returning trip just one wonderful conversation... There are too many interesting people out there, I just hope to cross paths with any of them some time again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first half of some of my photographs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fdavidpmm%2Falbumid%2F5377447206419792561%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-346743068156738359?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/346743068156738359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=346743068156738359&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/346743068156738359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/346743068156738359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/bears-on-ice-glacier-national-park.html' title='Bears on Ice: Glacier National Park'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-27427756741033139</id><published>2009-09-09T11:44:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T18:37:48.087-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mountaineering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glacier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animals'/><title type='text'>These Boots are Made for Walking: Glacier National Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SqnckVXHGZI/AAAAAAAABJ0/V6jvCfBPlw0/s1600-h/map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SqnckVXHGZI/AAAAAAAABJ0/V6jvCfBPlw0/s400/map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380073746638248338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My itinerary within the park was more or less like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The train was almost 2 hours late on West Glacier (10.30 pm), but fortunately a nice lady got me a ride on a private shuttle that dropped me at Sprague Creek's campground. After spending the night there, I packed up in the morning and headed to Apgar, the main entrance to the park. My intentions were going to Gunsight, a backcountry campground, but I couldn't get a permit, so instead I camped at Apgar and went to hike around. I walked to the Apgar Lookout just in time to see the sunset, 6 miles from the entrance, and made it back to the main road when already was pitch dark (somehow, I managed in my first day at the park to break the two main rules: don't hike alone, and never by night).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next day I took the shuttle to Avalanche Creek, transferred to another shuttle to Logan Pass, and then another one to Saint Mary, at the eastern border of Glacier; my mission that day was getting to Many Glaciers before 4 pm, but since there were not free shuttles to that place I had to hitchhike and finally made it there after 6 pm. I had a permit for Cracker Lake for the night, but since was too late to start a hiking that would take me at least 4 hours I decided to stay in Many Glaciers. At the morning I headed to Cracker Lake anyway, and was back in Many Glaciers before evening. Next day went to hike to the north, to Ptarmigan Falls; after noon I packed up and went back to the "Going to the Sun" road in the east side of the park, and camped at Rising Sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning next day I went to Logan Pass again and hiked to the Hidden Lake. After lunch I started walking the trail to Gunsight Lake, and made it there just before dark. Next day, after walking a couple of miles around he campsite, grabbed all my stuff and headed to Gunsight Pass for what would be my longest hiking and last day at the park; after reaching the Pass I hiked along the Ellen Wilson lake, then to Lincoln Peak, Sperry Chalet, Sprague Creek, and finally Lake McDonald just before darkness. Again, I spent the night in Apgar, for I had to take the train early in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fdavidpmm%2Falbumid%2F5380207790809452737%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-27427756741033139?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/27427756741033139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=27427756741033139&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/27427756741033139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/27427756741033139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/these-boots-are-made-for-walking.html' title='These Boots are Made for Walking: Glacier National Park'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SqnckVXHGZI/AAAAAAAABJ0/V6jvCfBPlw0/s72-c/map.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-2620351865590901163</id><published>2009-10-25T17:07:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T18:36:13.234-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><title type='text'>Sand and time</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SuTJs_jENPI/AAAAAAAABRc/COKA8-5UmIU/s1600-h/bm-image-727130.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SuTJs_jENPI/AAAAAAAABRc/COKA8-5UmIU/s320/bm-image-727130.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396660028306633970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Greeting the autumn in the Indiana Dunes, I take a moment during the hiking to just lay down and enjoy the sand and the lake' sight. I will come back during the winter to see how much this landscape changes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-2620351865590901163?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/2620351865590901163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=2620351865590901163&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/2620351865590901163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/2620351865590901163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/10/sand-and-time.html' title='Sand and time'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SuTJs_jENPI/AAAAAAAABRc/COKA8-5UmIU/s72-c/bm-image-727130.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-3738544381774640006</id><published>2009-10-13T14:41:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T15:11:22.155-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ficción real'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crisis'/><title type='text'>Hunter-gatherer</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/StTViimldMI/AAAAAAAABRU/PDSAiqXgKj8/s1600-h/bm-image-782341.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/StTViimldMI/AAAAAAAABRU/PDSAiqXgKj8/s320/bm-image-782341.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392169443250238658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Following tracks, placing baits, setting up traps, hunting high and low, the quest for a job gives no respite.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-3738544381774640006?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/3738544381774640006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=3738544381774640006&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3738544381774640006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3738544381774640006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/10/hunter-gatherer.html' title='Hunter-gatherer'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/StTViimldMI/AAAAAAAABRU/PDSAiqXgKj8/s72-c/bm-image-782341.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-7225502854790751154</id><published>2009-10-06T17:10:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T20:01:49.979-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><title type='text'>Uptown</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Ssu95uHzN_I/AAAAAAAABRM/C_xSayI16h4/s1600-h/bm-image-706931.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Ssu95uHzN_I/AAAAAAAABRM/C_xSayI16h4/s320/bm-image-706931.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389610178409871346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Randolph and Clark, downtown Chicago.&lt;div 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title='Uptown'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Ssu95uHzN_I/AAAAAAAABRM/C_xSayI16h4/s72-c/bm-image-706931.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-1835392183550834773</id><published>2009-10-02T11:05:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T11:08:11.461-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crisis'/><title type='text'>Chicago 2016... or 2028?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SsYk9tfKMOI/AAAAAAAABRE/h-cV7LuFrKE/s1600-h/Chicago_2016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SsYk9tfKMOI/AAAAAAAABRE/h-cV7LuFrKE/s400/Chicago_2016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388034646796284130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Chicago's skyline, last night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-1835392183550834773?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/1835392183550834773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=1835392183550834773&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/1835392183550834773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/1835392183550834773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/10/chicago-2016-or-2028.html' title='Chicago 2016... or 2028?'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SsYk9tfKMOI/AAAAAAAABRE/h-cV7LuFrKE/s72-c/Chicago_2016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-6511034231486327801</id><published>2009-09-29T21:51:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T22:13:22.874-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle Way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><title type='text'>Autumn waters</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SsLFMTC0P3I/AAAAAAAABQ8/nQLT4Y7dE7s/s1600-h/bm-image-749798.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SsLFMTC0P3I/AAAAAAAABQ8/nQLT4Y7dE7s/s320/bm-image-749798.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387084919349722994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Living here, whatever has been my mood, economic situation and expectations about the future (or lack of them) along the seasons, I have always found in the sight of Chicago things to admire, things that -most of times- give me new hopes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-6511034231486327801?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/6511034231486327801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=6511034231486327801&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/6511034231486327801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/6511034231486327801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/autumn-waters.html' title='Autumn waters'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SsLFMTC0P3I/AAAAAAAABQ8/nQLT4Y7dE7s/s72-c/bm-image-749798.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-5232747143790500540</id><published>2009-09-25T00:10:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T09:07:25.878-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ficción real'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jujuman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Psicology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><title type='text'>Paranormal!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrxOhqA7y8I/AAAAAAAABQ0/iugOXMeWISs/s1600-h/bm-image-753798.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrxOhqA7y8I/AAAAAAAABQ0/iugOXMeWISs/s320/bm-image-753798.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385265594549128130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Right about to start the prescreening of "Paranormal Activity", I am already practicing my scared faces. The last movie that really scared me was "The Blair Witch Project", mostly because I used to spend a lot of time camping, sometimes alone.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-5232747143790500540?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/5232747143790500540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=5232747143790500540&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/5232747143790500540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/5232747143790500540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/paranormal.html' title='Paranormal!'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrxOhqA7y8I/AAAAAAAABQ0/iugOXMeWISs/s72-c/bm-image-753798.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-3195086206907981394</id><published>2009-09-20T22:09:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T22:04:23.788-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heroes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cooking'/><title type='text'>Where no man has gone before</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrbsMTOMCSI/AAAAAAAABQs/f3VCKo5hZr8/s1600-h/bm-image-701214.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrbsMTOMCSI/AAAAAAAABQs/f3VCKo5hZr8/s320/bm-image-701214.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383750100630374690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;After most of my life devoted to learn only the intrincacies of cooking, I have decided to enter into the uncharted waters of baking. The outcome, still inside the oven, is uncertain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-3195086206907981394?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/3195086206907981394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=3195086206907981394&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3195086206907981394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3195086206907981394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/where-no-man-has-gone-before.html' title='Where no man has gone before'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrbsMTOMCSI/AAAAAAAABQs/f3VCKo5hZr8/s72-c/bm-image-701214.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-5898512504674056491</id><published>2009-09-18T21:04:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-18T23:11:26.970-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outside the box'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ficción real'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crisis'/><title type='text'>Space Invaders!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrQ59a7LjQI/AAAAAAAABQk/VEgIM7PoAzY/s1600-h/bm-image-701227.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrQ59a7LjQI/AAAAAAAABQk/VEgIM7PoAzY/s320/bm-image-701227.jpe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382991181976931586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Ecological spaceships, from some undiscovered and probably well intentioned planet, have landed in Michigan Ave. Hazmat teams, the CIA and the National Guard are expected in any moment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-5898512504674056491?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/5898512504674056491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=5898512504674056491&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/5898512504674056491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/5898512504674056491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/space-invaders.html' title='Space Invaders!'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SrQ59a7LjQI/AAAAAAAABQk/VEgIM7PoAzY/s72-c/bm-image-701227.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-2292431733981485049</id><published>2009-09-15T11:45:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T12:18:26.310-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Internet'/><title type='text'>Geo Citizen!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Sq_FBVCQJRI/AAAAAAAABPs/c5H6lmSQ0DU/s1600-h/profile.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Sq_FBVCQJRI/AAAAAAAABPs/c5H6lmSQ0DU/s400/profile.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381736706348164370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From now on, I will be writing blogs about Chicago's places in GeoPage, a social online service oriented to find local places in the main cities of U.S. You can learn more about it and find my GeoBlogs &lt;a href="http://www.geopage.com/person/ya08hpj9vm8p1tceb170wte1c0/david-molina"&gt;right here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, it would be greatly appreciated if you can visit my GeoPage too, since this is sort of an internship and finally all of us want the same thing: being famous and have a swimming pool full of beer; I promise you will be able to learn and discover more about Chicago, and whatever city I visit in the future (I will probably write as well about cities I have visited before). Also, you are hereby invited to comment or add any interesting place you know about... or to bitch about bad places too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's share Chicago!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-2292431733981485049?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/2292431733981485049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=2292431733981485049&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/2292431733981485049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/2292431733981485049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/09/geo-citizen.html' title='Geo Citizen!'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/Sq_FBVCQJRI/AAAAAAAABPs/c5H6lmSQ0DU/s72-c/profile.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-7614181160905670519</id><published>2009-08-18T17:30:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T11:02:39.049-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle Way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traveling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lansing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mountaineering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glacier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animals'/><title type='text'>Pathfinder</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SouczHIL6xI/AAAAAAAABDI/yher2Nplyic/s1600-h/glacier-national-park-montana-mt103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SouczHIL6xI/AAAAAAAABDI/yher2Nplyic/s400/glacier-national-park-montana-mt103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371559382470093586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have spent the last couple of years resisting to believe that I am actually an "ex-mountaineer". In spite of having lived in Louisiana, Michigan and Illinois (maybe the three flattest states in U.S.), I have secretly treasured the so far almost nonexistent possibility of getting out there to hike and climb. The United States are a huge country with many mountains and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cordilleras&lt;/span&gt;, and despite the cult to the safety, cleanness and absence of adventure, there are still places more related to that early land of the Indians and explorers than to this of TV-cable-on-every-room-and-conditioned-air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last summer I expected to visit the Glacier National Park in Montana, but I lost my job and money was just a sweet memory. However, I'm going this summer, even when my economic situation it's not better than last year -my big asset of this season is the presence of new friends and certain lovely lady-; but I finished my internship at i.c.stars, so between now and finding a job I'll have some time. My plan is quite simple: pack up, take the train to Montana, be happy, get back to Chicago, find a job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Operation Pathfinder has green light. I'm leaving on Friday and will be back by the end of August, if the wild bears don't say something different.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-7614181160905670519?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/7614181160905670519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=7614181160905670519&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/7614181160905670519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/7614181160905670519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/03/operation-pathfinder.html' title='Pathfinder'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SouczHIL6xI/AAAAAAAABDI/yher2Nplyic/s72-c/glacier-national-park-montana-mt103.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-3500826460970059930</id><published>2009-08-21T14:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T11:02:39.047-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traveling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exploring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mountaineering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cell phone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glacier'/><title type='text'>Union Station, departing</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/So7y8neKVeI/AAAAAAAABDY/PXvY4vWB09w/s1600-h/bm-image-790001.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/So7y8neKVeI/AAAAAAAABDY/PXvY4vWB09w/s320/bm-image-790001.jpe"  border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372498528701142498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Chicago is grey today, but I&amp;#39;m leaving to look for more sunny landscapes in Montana. It&amp;#39;s hard to contain the excitement after all this time out of the wild. I&amp;#39;ll be riding 30 hrs on train, along part of the path followed by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but in this case technology will help me to keep communicated. I&amp;#39;ll be posting on this blog as often as I feel like.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-3500826460970059930?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/3500826460970059930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=3500826460970059930&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3500826460970059930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3500826460970059930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/08/union-station-departing.html' title='Union Station, departing'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/So7y8neKVeI/AAAAAAAABDY/PXvY4vWB09w/s72-c/bm-image-790001.jpe' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-116255632576807573</id><published>2006-10-28T06:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T23:04:13.492-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Música'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viajes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Orleans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><title type='text'>Bourbon</title><content type='html'>No es día de carnaval. Sin embargo, toda la gente se comporta como si fuera tal. Con un par de tragos, podría ser Navidad o 18 de septiembre, y daría lo mismo. Todos quieren puro gozar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un par de vueltas por Bourbon Street, y ya no veo a mis compañeros. Me siento cómodo solo, y me voy a recorrer otros rincones menos aglomerados del French Quarter. Encuentro a una extraña pareja tocando jazz en la calle: un negro viejo y tuerto que canta y toca la armónica, acompañado de un pianista de origen asiático. Engancho con un par de buenos temas, y termino acompañando al viejo con "Garota de Ipanema". Ésa me la sé, y debe sonar parecida acá o en Brasil o en el Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta ciudad promete.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-116255632576807573?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/116255632576807573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=116255632576807573&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/116255632576807573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/116255632576807573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2006/10/bourbon.html' title='Bourbon'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-116269056794341144</id><published>2006-11-04T19:13:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T23:02:54.666-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Long hair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haircut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bloody Fool(s)'/><title type='text'>Desperado, o La Balada del Guerrero</title><content type='html'>Estaba en la pega, manejando mi máquina por un pasillo. Me crucé con un negro joven, que al pasar me gritó: "Hi, Johnny"... todo el día escuché su saludo igual. En un momento fui a hablar con el supervisor, otro negro más viejo, quien me preguntó si era casado en Chile. "No, I´m not", le dije. "Have a woman here?", me dijo. "Not yet", le contesté, y le pregunté de vuelta, "and you?". "Yes, I have five... do you like black women?" me preguntó. "Of course I like them", le dije. "Tell them you are Johnny". "Why Johnny?", quise saber. "For Johnny Depp... you look like Johnny Depp".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que ahora resulta que para los negros soy igual a Johnny Depp, el actor. Uso el pelo suelto (en la empresa no joden a nadie por la vestimenta, el pelo o la raza), así que supongo que eso me hace más parecido al tipo. Aunque otros dos negros, uno grande como Mike Tyson y otro parecido a Forrest Whitaker me dicen que me parezco a Antonio Banderas en "Desperado, La Balada del Pistolero", y ahora me llaman así. Tienen harta imaginación. Mucha.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-116269056794341144?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/116269056794341144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=116269056794341144&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/116269056794341144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/116269056794341144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2006/11/desperado-o-la-balada-del-guerrero.html' title='Desperado, o La Balada del Guerrero'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-3819108953576239928</id><published>2007-02-25T14:49:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:58:04.444-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trabajo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jujuman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><title type='text'>Medic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/RebdFSPgipI/AAAAAAAAADw/QDyNP9ppoTc/s1600-h/red_cross.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/RebdFSPgipI/AAAAAAAAADw/QDyNP9ppoTc/s320/red_cross.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036956316126448274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;El volante de la máquina hizo un giro repentino a la izquierda, a causa de algo derramado en el piso del warehouse. Mi mano derecha, la única que sostenía el volante, fue traccionada con fuerza, y el impulso me azotó de costado contra la máquina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El primer golpe que sentí fue el del costado, entre la zona dorsal e intercostal. Tuve un golpe similar en el brazo derecho, cerca del codo. Pero el dolor más intenso fue el de mi dedo anular. Respirando profundo y enfocando mi atención en otras zonas de mi cuerpo, no afectadas, traté de controlar el dolor. Luego de un par de minutos pude revisarme con más tranquilidad: nada roto en el costado ni en el brazo, solo dolor y hematomas en ciernes, pero el dedo anular no estaba tan bien. Revisé cada falange, y no había nada quebrado, pero el esguince era evidente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como nadie había notado mi accidente (había mucho trabajo, para variar), no reporté nada y traté de terminar la noche como mejor pude. Al inicio del día siguiente le pedí prestado sin que lo notara un poco de alambre al mecánico y con eso y algo de cinta adhesiva del botiquín construí una férula bastante buena para mi dedo. No se trataba de jugar al héroe: me quedaba aún un día completo de trabajo para terminar la semana, y si mantenía mi nivel de producción podría pedir el aumento de sueldo prometido. Si me declaraba no apto para trabajar, podrían enviarme al médico o a mi casa o a cubrir otras funciones más ligeras, y adiós nivel de producción y aumento. Así que... back to work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-3819108953576239928?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/3819108953576239928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=3819108953576239928&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3819108953576239928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3819108953576239928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2007/02/medic.html' title='Medic'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-4575572641669308762</id><published>2008-05-27T01:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:54:53.498-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outside the box'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle Way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books'/><title type='text'>Love and Entropy</title><content type='html'>What we love when we love, and what we forget when we do not love anymore?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading the very good book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Decoding the Universe&lt;/span&gt; by the physicist Charles Seife, I found the following sentence: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;...it seems that the act of living can be seen as the act of replicating and preserving information despite Nature's attempts to dissipate and destroy it.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This efforts from Nature to dissipate information, and energy, is what is called "entropy" (another definition is that entropy is a &lt;em&gt;measure of disorder&lt;/em&gt;, but I never could understand this definition, and is also discredited by Seife because unsatisfying). And since all the processes that occur inside our brains are associated with the same information theory, and therefore with entropy, it could be said that when we fall in love we are programed, or that we program ourselves, with the required data which allows us to love someone. This said, from the very moment that we start organizing that information inside our brain (others would say inside our heart) we are struggling against the efforts of Nature to dissolve and dissipate such accumulation of data and energy...  Bizarre definition of Love? Was never my intention finding a definition; if anybody knows better, please let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SDu9beQos8I/AAAAAAAAAaM/L0auK4_CJjk/s1600-h/entropy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SDu9beQos8I/AAAAAAAAAaM/L0auK4_CJjk/s400/entropy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204962074033697730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-4575572641669308762?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/4575572641669308762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=4575572641669308762&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/4575572641669308762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/4575572641669308762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/05/love-and-entropy.html' title='Love and Entropy'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-1214891027847104528</id><published>2009-03-13T10:55:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:54:53.496-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle Way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jujuman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weirdonomics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cooking'/><title type='text'>Food for Warriors</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SbqvAQWqQ4I/AAAAAAAAA2s/zE1SM-d0JXU/s1600-h/792px-Camp_fire.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SbqvAQWqQ4I/AAAAAAAAA2s/zE1SM-d0JXU/s400/792px-Camp_fire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312751129361793922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Kaleu&lt;/span&gt;, is my responsibility to look after the crew (me) and to keep &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Das Boot&lt;/span&gt; (my place) in fighting conditions. And one of the skills that, as an old sea wolf, I have learned these last years is to make the most of the little available, starting with the basic: food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For starters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anytime you have the chance, you MUST have a hearty breakfast, even if that means having a smaller lunch. This idea is completely unoriginal, of course: nutritionists and physicians have been chanting the benefits of a good breakfast for many decades now. Although the most needed nutrients when starting the day are the carbohydrates, proteins and fats must be present too. However, carbs will allow you to kickstart your metabolism -the simple carbs- and having a steady supply of fuel later -the complex ones-. Whether you are going out to look for a crisis-time job or form up on a bread line, you'll need the welfare feeling and alertness given by breakfast. Did you know that the brain works exclusively in carbs energy? So maybe you weren't that dumb and moody, after all... all you needed was to eat as Mom wanted you to!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bread and pastries - Bread is probably the cheapest source of carbs that you can find to assemble a basic breakfast. If you are smart, you will never waste dough-based aliments; they dehydrate easily, which means that rehydrate easily too. Supposing that you don't want to re-discover penicillin so your bread didn't go moldy (easily avoidable by storing the bread in an airy and dry place), you can slice the hard stale bread, damp it slightly with water, and after spreading it with some margarine or oil or whatever you have left, warm it a few minutes in a conventional oven. With the pastries is even easier: before chewing dip them into your milk or tea, and nobody gets hurt.&lt;br /&gt;BONUS: Bread crumbs make a good adding for consistence of soups and stews, and diced fried bread will make a good garnish for soups and salads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Milk - In hardship times is indeed better to opt for whole milk, provided that you don't have health related issues; in the human being, the bio-chemical sensation of satiety when eating is given by fats. The milk got spoiled? Wait for a few days and you'll have a quite edible cheese; just remember to keep the milk cool and leave the container semi-open. Once you can feel the milk as a firm gelatin inside the container, you can drain the liquid and eat this cheese; although the taste is slightly bitterer than real cheese, goes down pretty well with bread or crackers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Proteins - Eggs are a very economic and efficient source of proteins, with the extra value of many possible uses: scrambled at a frying pan, hard-boiled, mixed with hot noodles and softly cooked, in tortillas or omelettes, even made mayonnaise. Another good source of proteins are soy beans, which taste can be improved by frying them with some soy sauce and spices, and that can be easily mixed with almost any kind of stew or soup. My pick? Lentils: high protein and carb value, easier to cook than any other bean, and can be mixed with rice or angel hair or any kind of vegetable; one of the most economic legumes you can find on the market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a Drink - The average adult needs to drink at least half a gallon of plain water every day. That means that if you are under that level, you probably are not digesting as good as you might, so are actually wasting part of the food you eat. If you are fond of tea, you can use the old trick of saving the bags for reuse; this also applies to tea in leaves, provided that you drain the leaves (or bags) and keep them in a dry place, for tea tends to grow mold easily when damp. One of the advantages of tea over coffee is that is easily flavored, whether you want to drink it hot or cold: you can add some lemon peels, cinnamon, different herbs, even some alcohol if that is your inclination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Good Old Soup - Any decent human being should have some vegetable leftovers at any time on the fridge. Whether they are on their prime or about to retire, all veggies and legumes can make a wonderful soup, it's all about chopping, spicing and boiling. A good soup has a minimum of three "textures": The veggies, the "filling" and the water; is highly recommendable to add, whenever you can, a fourth component of anything bigger than the chopped veggies: a potato, a piece of chicken or pumpkin, an egg more or less shaken; this will give a feeling of fullness to the dish. What is the "filling"? Is the intermediate component between water and veggies and an extra source of carbs: for this you can use rice, noodles, oatmeal or semolina.&lt;br /&gt;TIP: Eat your food hot, always. Basic physics for hungry people: matter expands when heated, and contracts when cooled; this also applies to smells and flavors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Swiss Army Knife of the cereals: Semolina - This wheat product will never disappoint you. Can be used for soups, to make cold desserts and hot porridge (with milk and sugar), as a garnish, and even made pasta. A must-be in your kitchen cabinet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Craving red meat, but little money? Get some ground beef - Some of the uses: a good &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;bolognesa&lt;/span&gt; (spaghetti meat sauce), home-made burgers, soups, tacos... even pies if you want to go the extra mile! The good/bad thing about the ground beef is its somewhat high fat percentage, which will help you to keep away from the hungry zone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next post: Recipes and How to Save the Planet.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-1214891027847104528?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/1214891027847104528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=1214891027847104528&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/1214891027847104528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/1214891027847104528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2009/03/food-for-warriors.html' title='Food for Warriors'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-2514510431320829241</id><published>2008-04-12T09:03:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:37:49.313-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jujuman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cooking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bloody Fool(s)'/><title type='text'>Las Enseñanzas de Don Mojamed</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Teachings of Don Muhammad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Learning to cope with the infinite wisdom of my boss at the kitchen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Quién no ha tenido alguna vez un jefe absolutamente detestable? Después de estar alrededor de 5 meses trabajando como cocinero asistente en la cocina de este hotel, puedo decir que he encontrado mi límite. De hecho, cuando me acuerdo de las veces que en anteriores trabajos me quejé de mis jefes o del sueldo me da nostalgia. Pero... trabajo es trabajo, todos necesitamos comer y eso lleva a que todos tengamos un jefe. Así que tengo que usar el arma secreta, mi última forma de resistencia, la única cualidad cierta que nos redime a quienes somos chilenos del resto de nuestros &lt;a href="http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2007/03/idiosincrasia.html"&gt;pecados idiosincráticos&lt;/a&gt;: me refiero al sentido del humor en condiciones deplorables; si los chilenos somos los Ingleses de Sudamérica, ésto es lo más cercano a la flema británica que tenemos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El señor a quien tengo por jefe gusta mucho de gritar, amenazar y hacer gestos. A veces también habla como una persona normal, y cuando lo hace, es posible encontrar algunas "joyas" de sabiduría (si no le es posible entender el idioma en estos extractos originales, estimado lector, por favor pregunte en los comentarios&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(En el área de postres)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Why you cut such a big piece of cake [for the customer]?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I didn't, Chef. The cake was already cut, the sous-chef made a previous cut so I can give the right portion"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "No, that fucking piece is too big. Do you think we are giving the cake for free? We are here to make money. I don't care if the shit is already cut, you have to think and not wasting the fucking cake..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Discutiendo con la linda chica de Recepción quien solicitaba snacks para los huéspedes VIP)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me to her:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "How many snacks do you need?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;She:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "I just need..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; (interrupting) "Do you have a paper with the order?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;She:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Oh, I have it on my desk"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "I need to see a paper first. I'm not going to send snacks without that"-(After she leaves, to me)- "Don't look the pussy. You just look for the paper. Nothing else!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Supervisando la decoración de las bandejas de frutas)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Do you use to read? Do you read at all?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Yes, Chef. I like reading, I read every day"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "What kind of stuff do you read?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Well, many things, but I think I read more about history"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "History? You read history? Do you think is any good reading about George Washington? Is he going to teach you how to work better? No, no... you have to read books about cooking!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Un miércoles cualquiera, 7 pm)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Hey, what time is your schedule to work tomorrow?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "On the evening, from 2 pm to 10 pm, Chef"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Ok... mmm... yes... no... no, you better start at six in the morning"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Six in the morning tomorrow? But I can't come over at that time, I have an appointment"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "You have something to do? What else you have to do?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "I have an interview for a part time job, Chef. I want to work on my days off"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Oh, you want to work in some other place? Ok, if you don't want to work tomorrow then go home, I don't need you here"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "But..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chef:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Go home, I don't need you here!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SABOebEERAI/AAAAAAAAAaE/rQaMn-kBtOs/s1600-h/Le-Chef.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SABOebEERAI/AAAAAAAAAaE/rQaMn-kBtOs/s400/Le-Chef.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188233055298667522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-2514510431320829241?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/2514510431320829241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=2514510431320829241&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/2514510431320829241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/2514510431320829241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/04/las-enseanzas-de-don-mojamed.html' title='Las Enseñanzas de Don Mojamed'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-3445029977126486748</id><published>2008-06-22T04:04:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:37:49.312-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trabajo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weirdonomics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cooking'/><title type='text'>Crazy</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;La cosa&lt;/span&gt; fue más o menos así:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El sábado por la mañana fui a clases de inglés. Una compañera con quien nunca había hablado llegó tarde y se sentó a mi lado. Por alguna razón comenzamos a hablar y cuando la clase ya había terminado, y hasta el profesor se había ido, seguíamos hablando. Ella resultó ser muy agradable, e incluso ofreció ayudarme a encontrar un trabajo. Oh... ¿No había contado que me quedé sin trabajo? Bueno... me quedé sin trabajo hace casi cuatro semanas, lo cual coincide con el tiempo que he tenido "bloqueo de escritor" (ya &lt;a href="http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/04/las-enseanzas-de-don-mojamed.html"&gt;contaré más detalles&lt;/a&gt; de por qué dejé mi único trabajo). En la tarde, cuando ya estaba en mi casa pensando en salir a disfrutar del &lt;a href="http://www.chicagosummerdance.org/"&gt;"Chicago Summer Dance"&lt;/a&gt; me dediqué, para pasar el rato, a reparar mi computador (quien tuvo la pésima idea de sufrir de un ataque de spyware/virus), pero la reparación lobotomizó una parte de su cerebro electrónico. Al parecer fue un problema con el procesador externo duro RAM láser de 5 pulgadas con memoria Wi-Fi y tornamesa video HD floppy... que es otra manera de decir que no tengo ni una &lt;strike&gt;puta&lt;/strike&gt; mínima idea de qué le pasó a mi laptop. El principal problema era Internet, y después de mucho trabajo logré entrar a mi correo Gmail, pero no he podido entrar a Hotmail o a Amazon o al New York Times... ah, y ni siquiera a buscar en Google. Traté de dormir para recuperar el sueño de la noche anterior, y en eso estaba cuando me llama un amigo para avisarme que en el club mexicano donde trabaja necesitan un cocinero. Dos horas después estaba allá, y como ya era de noche, la gente estaba llegando y al parecer traían hambre, todo el proceso aplicación &gt;&gt;entrevista &gt;&gt;evaluación &gt;&gt;entrenamiento fue lo que el manager se demoró en decirme "ahí tienes un delantal, ésta es la cocina". Al rato mi amigo trataba de enseñarme lo básico de la comida mexicana, al más puro estilo de "Hágalo-Ud.-Mismo-Todo-Vale". En un par de horas ya estaba defendiéndome solo, y el dueño del bar me había dado la bienvenida justo antes de entrar en la fase de borracho. Una de las meseras llegó a investigarme, y después de un rato de preguntas tentativas y de darse vueltas innecesarias por la cocina me dijo "¿Cómo estás? ¿Bien? Bueno, si llegas a estar mal avísame y yo vengo, ¿ok?". Al rato me llevó una soda que amablemente quiso sostener para que yo bebiera de su mano, pero yo no soy tan dócil. El nivel de alcohol del personal en el club era inversamente proporcional a la jerarquía, lo cual quiere decir que yo era el más sobrio y que el dueño ya andaba casi por debajo de las mesas. Casi al final de la jornada la esposa discutía con el dueño y le decía "Dame las llaves"; "¡Que no!" le respondía él, aunque seguramente ni sabía en dónde las tenía. Por suerte para mí, el tiempo pasó rápido y antes de darme cuenta ya estaba en el bus de vuelta a casa, escuchando a un compañero mexicano explicarme su plan de comprar y refaccionar una bicicleta para no tener que usar más el bus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;Amanece&lt;/span&gt; mientras escribo ésto (ya es domingo), y mi laptop aún no trabaja bien. Así que Start&gt;&gt;Turn Off para ambos. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Crazy day&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SGNPyVc0QKI/AAAAAAAAAaU/kP0n4_cYejk/s1600-h/DSCN0357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SGNPyVc0QKI/AAAAAAAAAaU/kP0n4_cYejk/s400/DSCN0357.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216100519595229346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;P.S: Y de muestra, un botón. Recién he podido publicar ésto en Blogger hoy jueves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-3445029977126486748?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/3445029977126486748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=3445029977126486748&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3445029977126486748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3445029977126486748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/06/crazy.html' title='Crazy'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-8053603803052391487</id><published>2008-07-13T13:59:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:37:49.311-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bloody Fool(s)'/><title type='text'>The Sleeping Beauty</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SHzxTYnmhRI/AAAAAAAAAak/xK3Hh-zubhY/s1600-h/sleeping-beauty-760355.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SHzxTYnmhRI/AAAAAAAAAak/xK3Hh-zubhY/s400/sleeping-beauty-760355.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223314983171294482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;D&lt;/span&gt;omingo, tres de la madrugada, esperando el bus en Clark Avenue y ya harto del trabajo en la cocina, sólo quiero llegar pronto a casa. El nº 22 aparece finalmente luego de media hora (demora mucho en pasar de madrugada) y obviamente está lleno. Los asientos están ocupados mayormente por quienes regresan, como yo, a casa luego de un arduo día de trabajo, aunque hay unos pocos hipsters que vuelven como pueden de alguna fiesta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parado en el pasillo, mientras trato de encontrar una canción en el reproductor MP3, una pareja llama mi atención. Él es un tipo joven y buenmozo, negro, casi con certeza africano y no americano; ella es una chica rubia, también casi con total certeza norteamericana, y apoya la cabeza en el hombro del tipo mientras duerme. Aunque no logro ver toda su cara, parece muy linda, y lleva vestido de fiesta. Él casi no se mueve para no despertarla, y ha optado por ponerse los audífonos para escuchar música en el aparentemente largo viaje de regreso. A ratos ella se acomoda en el hombro de él y sigue durmiendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente encuentro asiento y me dejo caer. Aún puedo ver a la pareja adelante, y la chica se ha pegado más aún a su novio para dormir. Él cruza algunas palabras con gente alrededor, con una chica gorda sentada detrás y un par de latinos adelante, quienes ríen con el tipo africano por algo que no alcanzo a escuchar. En mi reproductor suena "Me gustas tú" de Manu Chao, y luego "More than a woman" de The Bee Gees, bastante apropiado para estos chicos; aunque no he percibido racismo en Chicago, tampoco son muy numerosas las parejas de distinta raza y país que uno puede ver en la calle (yo salgo con una chica africana actualmente, lo que hace que el tema me interese). Otras personas hablan con el tipo, quien trata de no moverse y no molestar a su chica... Hey, un momento... No alcanzo a escuchar lo que se habla adelante, pero detecto algo en las expresiones de la gente y en la postura del tipo negro... No es su chica. No la conoce. Ella simplemente se puso a dormir sobre su hombro, y él fue lo suficientemente amable para dejarla dormir. Ella está muy probablemente borracha. La Bella Durmiente se ha convertido en Blancanieves envenenada por una manzana, o por cualquier otro vegetal susceptible de transformar en alcohol (casi todos lo son), pero sin un Príncipe cerca que la despierte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya han pasado unos 20 minutos de viaje, y la chica gorda trata suavemente de despertar a la chica rubia. Cada nuevo intento pierde suavidad, pero la chica no quiere despertar, sólo se acomoda nuevamente para dormir; los intentos del tipo africano, por cierto más suaves que los de la chica gorda, tampoco son exitosos, y él ya debe bajarse. Finalmente entre la chica gorda y otro pasajero sostienen a la alcoholizada rubia para que el tipo negro pueda bajarse, y ella recupera algo de consciencia que le permite acomodarse contra la ventana para seguir durmiendo. Me doy cuenta de que me he pasado de mi paradero presenciando ésto, pero la curiosidad es más fuerte, y de todos modos el terminal está cerca. ¿Qué sucederá con los pasajeros borrachos que llegan al final de la ruta? ¿Llamarán a los cops? ¿Habrá un Depósito de Borrachos al lado de Cosas Perdidas? ¿Los dejarán dormir en el bus? ¿O simplemente los arrojarán a la acera? El conductor del bus no parece muy preocupado ni interesado, y yo no estoy en la mejor de las posiciones para intervenir: tengo algo así como 5 dólares en la billetera, con lo que pagarle un taxi a la Princesa Etílica queda fuera de alcance; además, siendo mi situación legal en este país cuando menos confusa, prefiero mantenerme alejado de cualquier posibilidad de problema y no entrar en tratos con la policía.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el terminal casi todos los pasajeros se bajan y se pierden en la oscuridad. El conductor finalmente se interesa y trata de interrogar a la chica, junto con un pasajero. Éste último ofrece a la chica llevarla a algún lado en su automóvil, que está estacionado cerca del terminal (él también parece venir de una fiesta, pero en mejores condiciones). Ella aparentemente acepta y el conductor se desentiende del problema con presteza. No sé si la chica estará en condiciones de algo más que de ser carga, así que sólo me queda desear que las intenciones del amable pasajero sean tan caballerosas como parecen. Ha sido una larga noche, y aún me queda un largo camino a casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-8053603803052391487?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/8053603803052391487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=8053603803052391487&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/8053603803052391487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/8053603803052391487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/07/sleeping-beauty.html' title='The Sleeping Beauty'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-3180309881160204364</id><published>2008-07-20T23:49:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:37:49.310-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><title type='text'>Calor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SIQVhZnIWrI/AAAAAAAAAbE/Baaf5QKpTJI/s1600-h/heat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SIQVhZnIWrI/AAAAAAAAAbE/Baaf5QKpTJI/s400/heat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225325131211496114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hace calor todo el rato. Fui a Millenium Park a sacar fotos, y me metí a la fuente a ras de piso que hay, donde juegan todos los cabros chicos de Chicago (pero sólo en verano). Cada foto que sacaba era un cabro chico más que pasaba chapoteando y pateando agua, y mi pantalón se iba empapando desde abajo hacia arriba. No me importaba. Las fotos estaban buenas, y hacía calor. Sólo me preocupaba de no mojar la cámara. Algunos niños rodaban por el piso con agua, y yo quería hacer lo mismo, pero no con cámara. Quedaban horas de sol, pero los edificios tapan el sol temprano en el downtown de Chicago, así que me fui a pasear a otro lado para secarme. Me saqué las sandalias para que se secaran también (quería ir al cine después a ver "Dark Knight". Why so serious?). Cuando el sol también se fue de ahí, mi pantalón seguía mojado. Fin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-3180309881160204364?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/3180309881160204364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=3180309881160204364&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3180309881160204364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/3180309881160204364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/07/calor.html' title='Calor'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-4163637130812268481</id><published>2008-08-04T13:54:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:37:49.309-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='At home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jujuman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Internet'/><title type='text'>Bad Boy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJdiwvat7dI/AAAAAAAAAc0/5GkYcZlIBzc/s1600-h/laptop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJdiwvat7dI/AAAAAAAAAc0/5GkYcZlIBzc/s400/laptop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230758081715891666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My laptop has been a very, very bad boy, so I'm taking measures to put him on the straight path again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todo empezó hace algunas semanas, con cierto spyware que pasó mis, errr... "impregnables defensas" y que comenzó con el habitual show de abrir ventanas e interrumpir aplicaciones. "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ningún problema&lt;/span&gt;", me pantalleó el Norton, "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;se lo eliminamos de inmediato&lt;/span&gt;". Pero junto con el indeseable eliminó algunos archivos del sistema, lo que ocasionó una escalada de violencia intracomputacional entre varios componentes de mi software, y que entre otras cosas me impedía abrir algunos sitios de Internet a menos que cerrara el Explorador de Windows (el programa que permite ver carpetas y archivos); es decir, tenía que volar a ciegas. Era casi como volver a los viejos tiempos del DOS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A estas alturas ya casi no queda programa afectado por la crisis, así que a formatear y reinstalar nos vamos. Creo que en estos casi 2 años no me había tocado hacerlo. Si todo sale bien, nos vemos del otro lado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S: Si Ud. está leyendo este post, es muy probable que mi virus/spyware haya infectado también su computadora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;P.S: If you are reading this, it's quite likely that my virus/spyware has also infected your computer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJdjOfQuPyI/AAAAAAAAAc8/3fQyEu6Elvo/s1600-h/micropuppy-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJdjOfQuPyI/AAAAAAAAAc8/3fQyEu6Elvo/s400/micropuppy-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230758592775077666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Borrowed from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://technologiclogic.blogspot.com/"&gt;"Technologic Logic"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NO, no, no, no y no... No insistan, NO VOY a instalar Vista en mi laptop. Más vale malo conocido que &lt;strike&gt;bueno&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;regular&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;terrible&lt;/strike&gt; desastroso por conocer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJdkh769r8I/AAAAAAAAAdE/lwL51ZbXnYs/s1600-h/streampunk-laptop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJdkh769r8I/AAAAAAAAAdE/lwL51ZbXnYs/s400/streampunk-laptop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230760026397585346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Así debiera quedar mi laptop después del "fashion emergency"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My laptop should look like this after the treatment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-4163637130812268481?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/4163637130812268481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=4163637130812268481&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/4163637130812268481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/4163637130812268481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/08/bad-boy.html' title='Bad Boy'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36767773.post-8502672870086583162</id><published>2008-08-10T19:05:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:37:49.308-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Música'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jujuman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dancing'/><title type='text'>Baila Conmigo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJ_tfn3DikI/AAAAAAAAAds/QmlgnBx6snA/s1600-h/astaire_rogers_gazelle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HykWSeb6rD4/SJ_tfn3DikI/AAAAAAAAAds/QmlgnBx6snA/s400/astaire_rogers_gazelle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233162419559434818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;S&lt;/span&gt;ábado por la tarde, tratando de obviar el calor en el tren al downtown, mientras el vagón se llenaba cada vez más con quienes empezaban la vida nocturna de Chicago temprano, como yo. El &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chicago Summer Dance&lt;/span&gt; era mi destino, aquella genial iniciativa de la ciudad para entretener a sus residentes en verano y de paso enseñarles algunos bailes populares y otros no tanto, en una explanada al aire libre en Grant Park. Aunque usualmente es fácil encontrar pareja &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in situ&lt;/span&gt; (siempre es mayor el n&lt;span&gt;ú&lt;/span&gt;mero de mujeres que de varones que asiste al baile), esta vez tenía una semi-cita con una chica norteamericana a quien había conocido un par de días antes en el mismo parque y quien trataría de deshacerse de sus compromisos más temprano para ir a bailar. Me había tomado mi tiempo en casa para, cual &lt;a href="http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-wanna-betony-manero.html"&gt;Tony Manero&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Saturday Night Fever&lt;/span&gt;, arreglarme lo mejor posible, aunque claramente hay partes de mí que ya no tienen arreglo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A medio camino en el tren, sin embargo, me llegó un mensaje de voz de mi cita anunciando que era improbable que alcanzara a llegar al baile. Y antes de que yo alcanzara a decir &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Damn!"&lt;/span&gt; me llegaba otro mensaje de texto de una amiga coreana preguntando si me gustaría ir con ella al Dance. Le escribí de vuelta, confirmando el encuentro, y pensando si esta vez ella llegaría (una semana antes, en un acuerdo similar, la coreana había aparecido una hora y media tarde; por supuesto, la clase ya había terminado). Pero no teniendo mas opciones que la de pararme con pose de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;latin lover&lt;/span&gt; en el borde de la pista y buscar una pareja, decidí que lo intentaría una vez más con ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero ésta vez ella había llegado a tiempo, elegante y todo, junto con otros amigos. Nos habíamos conocido en mi clase de inglés, hablando de fotografía y por supuesto del Summer Dance; el hecho de que ella hubiera tomado la iniciativa, acercándose a conversar y pidiendo mi teléfono, me agradó. Así que todo estaba bien cuando nos mezclamos con la gente en la pista para la clase de salsa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antes de todo debo decir que yo no soy, nunca he sido, y probablemente nunca seré un eximio bailarín. Pero de que me gusta bailar, me gusta, y los años ciertamente han ido aminorando mi sensibilidad al ridículo; y de cualquier forma, soy bastante capaz de mantener el ritmo hasta el final y de marcar mis pasos con la regularidad de un tambor mayor de regimiento, cosa que no se podía decir de la mayoría de la gente en la pista. De manera que nos abocamos a seguir las instrucciones del &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;teacher&lt;/span&gt; en el escenario; anteriormente ya había estado en una clase de salsa, así que sabía que si hay algo realmente necesario para bailar es el estar relajado y disfrutar. Mi compañera, por su parte, se lo tomaba muy en serio, con una concentración oriental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mayor parte de la clase practicamos algunos giros básicos, y luego los pasos para cha-cha-cha, bachata y merengue. Mi amiga, sin embargo, que lo había hecho bastante decentemente con la clase de salsa, comenzó a perder el ritmo y los pasos, y entró en la espiral de frustración - empeoramiento - frustración que suele ocurrir en estos casos, pese a mis intentos de que se relajara. Después de un rato dejamos de practicar los giros para que ella se enfocara en sus pasos básicos (aunque bailar salsa sin tocar a la pareja es tan divertido como jugar f&lt;span&gt;ú&lt;/span&gt;tbol solo), y un par de temas de merengue me dieron un breve relajo, que se acabó cuando la musica volvió a ser salsa y ella definitivamente estaba haciendo sus pasos en otro tiempo distinto al mio y al de la gente alrededor, tropezando a ratos. Le sugerí que nos tomáramos un descanso, y mientras ella iba a chequear su bolso yo hice lo que cualquier hombre haría en mi situacion: fui por un trago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me demoré en volver, mientras esperaba que el alcohol hiciera algo de efecto. Ví a mi chica coreana cerca de sus otros amigos, y cuando ella me hizo un gesto con la mano me limité a mostrarle mi vaso a medio beber. Ella me dijo por gestos algo como &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"voy a estar bailando aquí"&lt;/span&gt; y yo le expresé a la distancia algo como &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"tómate tu tiempo"&lt;/span&gt;; pude ver que bailaba sola, aun practicando sus pasos de salsa. Al rato ví a otro tipo bailando con ella, y ya no pude distinguirla en la multitud. En ese punto yo ya habia perdido mis ganas de bailar, asi que sólo pensé en la mejor forma de retirarme digna y discretamente &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and live to fight some other day&lt;/span&gt;. Mis pies, en piloto automático, comenzaban a caminar lentamente, cuando la musica nuevamente cambió a merengue. Sentí que alguien tocaba mi espalda, y nerviosamente me di vuelta a mirar quién me llamaba. Era una linda chica afroamericana, quien me dijo &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"You dance merengue?"&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Let's find it out"&lt;/span&gt;, le contesté, y nos fuimos a la pista. Aunque sólo bailamos un par de temas, los disfruté profundamente, pues la chica bailaba muy bien. Ya no volví a ver a mi amiga coreana ni a sus amigos, así que supuse que ya podía retirarme impunemente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terminé mi noche sentado en el anfiteatro en Millennium Park, en el final de un concierto de musica clásica. Y mientras escuchaba a una solista cerrar interpretando &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Moonlight Sonata&lt;/span&gt; de Beethoven, pensaba en que algo de cierto puede haber en eso de que, en el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36767773-8502672870086583162?l=boywannahavefun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/feeds/8502672870086583162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36767773&amp;postID=8502672870086583162&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/8502672870086583162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36767773/posts/default/8502672870086583162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://boywannahavefun.blogspot.com/2008/08/baila-conmigo.html' title='Baila Conmigo'/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01249316455802201499</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02065250679052996049'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry></feed>