Detroit

This sounds like a place I could live:
http://theurbanophile.blogspot.com/2009/08/detroit-urban-laboratory-and-new.html
Grow crops, enjoy life, get ready for winter. Buy a raccoon carcass from a truck driver (feeds a family of four for $12).
I like the part about no protests at city hall, because everyone knows city hall won’t do anything, unlike in other cities, where city hall will [...]

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Coins’ high weight to value ratio causing problems

Once in a while I see a sign on a cash register at a grocery store, something about an “escasez de monedas a nivel Nacional” – a scarcity of coins at the National level, so they would appreciate exact change. I heard they had this problem in Argentina as well.
I realized what the problem is [...]

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Road trip to Playa Potrero

July 9-12, 2009
I took a Friday off and we got up at 3:30 AM and went to get a rental car we had reserved. We got a Toyota Yaris, very nice and new. I opted for full coverage insurance, since I’ve never driven a long distance in Costa Rica.
The sky was just getting light in [...]

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“Serious Lack of Culture”

There is an article today in Inside Costa Rica about the San José – Heredia commuter train. They say it will be running in two weeks, but they still have to clean up the tracks somewhat:
” In addition, the Incofer is investing in the clean up of the area along the railway, as [...]

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Heredia Photos from my Phone

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Pirate Buses on our street

The yellow Busetas Heredianas are still up to their piratical tricks, taking advantage of the minor chaos produced by moving all the bus stops, to park outside our apartment at 5am, calling out to passersby “San Jose por la pista!” over and over as would-be  sleepers drift in and out of consciousness. Now the university [...]

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Cambios del Año Nuevo

Things in the city of Heredia are changing without warning. Garbage is picked up in the daytime, instead of at night like it used to be, or sometimes it is left on the street until they get around to it. The other day I heard the garbage truck and realized we hadn’t put our trash [...]

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Common Thread

This comment by Gilighan Qabista deserves not only a reply, but a post of its own:
“I think you ought to make a habit of comparing your observations of the world (via
blog) to the time you were a taxi driver. That way there’d be a common thread
uniting all of your posts. But what do I know? [...]

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Return to “Reality”

I suddenly realized my blog was turning into sort of a “Best of Boing Boing” and I wanted to reverse that tendency. Today I’m going to write about the world outside of the web.
I didn’t remember many dreams this morning, only one about a magnetic toy race car that kept crashing into the other cars. [...]

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Hilarious fast food pictures and reviews

This morning when I read that Obama had selected a secretary of agriculture, I went to see if he was one of the ones on the list of the petition I signed. Alas, he wasn’t.
But while I was looking, I found something so funny I had to stop reading, since I don’t like to be [...]

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