All our furniture now has price tags on it and things are flying of the shelves like shelves. While I was packing things up I came across this Spanish children’s book “Yo, el perezoso”. I bought it in the Skyview flea market a few years back. It translates roughly as “I, Sloth” and I’ve scanned it in for posterity. Have a read of it here.
Blimey, 5+ peeps have signed up for the photo tour on Saturday along with a few maybes. If you’ve happened upon this blog, understand the language and have a camera, come along on Saturday at 1 – 1h30 to La Fuente cantina, Calle Pino Suarez in central Guanatos for a few hours wandering the streets snapping photos and cotorreando. Or post-photography chat in Los Famosos Equipales (Juan Alvarez 710) around 4pm. César, ¿te late?
…and can´t wait for the next series starting in February neither. But… this Lost teaser…is nowhere near as disturbing as Look Around You´s explanation of the Helvetica Scenario. Shudder… I live in fear of Calcium´s Queen Atom breaking loose.
I just read wikipedia’s English article on Pozole.
Pozole … is a traditional pre-Columbian soup or stew made from hominy, with pork (or other meat), chili, and other seasonings and garnish, such as cabbage, lettuce, oregano, cilantro, avocado, radish, lime juice, etc….
The story of pozole is obscure, but some believe that the stew originated with the natives of Tonalá, Jalisco. After the arrival of the conquistadores, Tonalá’s legendary queen Cihualpilli threw a banquet in their honor and pozole was served. After the priests found out the secret behind the recipe (human flesh), a decision was made to change the human flesh for pig’s. Pozole spread throughout New Spain with variations in different regions according to local tastes.
I’d like to know who those “some” are who believe that bit about human flesh… Anyroad they do a tasty version about 5 blocks from here next to Santa Cruz Church. I braved the flash flooding today to go to Gigante to stock up on comfort foods and boiled up about a gallon of chicken turkey breast soup (they’d sold out of chicken…). Feed a cold, starve a fever and all that…
Just finished making a calendar with Ofoto for me grandmothers. Here’s the cover picture. I made it a while ago with a program called fotomosaic which seems to have disappeared off the face of the interweb. You tell it which picture to work on and what pictures to use to fill it, and hey presto, you have a 25 meg file. Hopefully the calendars’ll arrive b4 the end of January.
Didn’t really make it out last night… Scott, Becky & Naomi came round and we cooked, drank and ate stuff. Then they left b4 midnight so sita and I watched a few amateur fireworks in our street then tried to locate the phone (in vain) while it rang several times, eventually retrieving messages from such luminaries as Meg’n’Matt, me folks and Sam. Which was nice. Next year we’ll endeavour to keep the phone in an obvious place come midnight… I’m still surprised that they put footage of New York counting down on at 12 despite it having happened 3 hours before. Odd.
Got another “This review was helpful to me” vote from Amazon. Here’s the link to my reviews if you fancy it. Reviewer #24840 and counting…
Didn’t get home till very early this morning… however despite the lack of sleep the following ad for French channel, Canal +, made me laugh:
And I also liked this here magic eye stereogram tetris thing. Defocus your eyes and use the cursor keys to steer the falling blocks. Or alternatively just try to not go permanently blind…
