| The Parador de León is a sixteen-century monastery which has been converted to a supremely elegant hotel. Living in such a place for a weekend is something inspiring. A 100m long facade encloses a cloister with ancient tombstones, a splendid church and a chapterhouse.
I can’t wait for my next trip to some other paradores next week |
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Add comment October 14th, 2003
| Last week I saw an add on TV offering domestic customers the possibility to get green energy on their houses’ electric plugs. This is with no doubt a very respectable initiative from one of the dominant power suppliers in Spain. To me, having a clear conscience is worth the small fee you have to pay in order to fully support renewable energy. |  |
Add comment October 7th, 2003
| MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT.
MIT OCW’s goals are to:
Extracted from MIT’s website
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Add comment October 6th, 2003
| It’s finally here…
The kotbullar’s t-shirt. I received the first prototype yesterday and it actually looks great. So cool that I wore it to IKEA today. If you wanna have one of these by the next kotbullar meeting just tell me! |
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10 comments October 5th, 2003
| Ford Prefect’s original name is only pronouncable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect, now virtually extinct since the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal./Sid./Year 03758 which wiped out all the old Praxibetel communities on Betelgeuse Seven. Ford’s father was the only man on the entire planet to survive the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster, by an extraordinary coincidence that he was never able satisfactorily to explain. The whole episode is shrouded in deep mistery: in fact no one ever knew what a Hrung was nor why it had chosen to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven particularly. Ford’s father, magnanimously waving aside the clouds of suspicion that had inevitably settled around him, came to live on Betelgeuse Five where he both fathered and uncled Ford; in memory of his now dead race he christened him in the ancient Praxibetel tongue.
Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy. The other kids at school nicknamed him Ix, which in the language of Betelgeuse Five translates as ‘boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, not why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven’. [from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams]
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Add comment October 1st, 2003
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Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. |
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