Great Post on Boing Boing

This is incredible. The link between money and value is explained in a simple cartoon video. Watch it!
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/03/where-money-comes-fr.html

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Inspiring Words

Yesterday I was talking with a colleague at work. The conversation was about how to have a good life, how to live. Living for me has been a process of learning to see reality as it is, rather than as how I want it to be, or think it should be. More than anything else, [...]

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Second Thoughts Rant

I had never heard of http://cafe-de-flore.com/ before I received their email yesterday. I made a web site for my friends, never thinking a small cafe in an obscure city in Costa Rica could be mistaken for a world-famous location thousands of miles away in Paris, France.
(Though their fame may be a result of believing their [...]

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Trip to San Jose

Friday, October 12, 2007
This morning we had coffee, tortillas made with cuajada, and some other food.
We washed the dishes and set out on the bus for San Jose. Ily’s friend in the Teatro Nacional (National Theater) gave her free tickets to a dress rehearsal of Oscar Wilde’s ballet, “El Cumpleaños de la Infanta (The [...]

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Puntarenas in the rain

I’m soaking now in warmish rain, down by the coast in Puntarenas.
We are at a big ClubMed-style place with wrist-bands and everything included (except internet), with Ilys mom and step dad. My punctuation is weird due to the Spanish keyboard. I’m paying $4 an hour for this connection, in town it is $1.
Food is great [...]

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