7.26.2007

Belem

Got to take a nice aimless walk around Belem today. I like it here.
Nice old-city ultra-modern-city vibe.

Some of the people I've met say that it's a bit slow in terms of
social life though. I've definitely been hanging around the house a
lot, which is nice because I'm out of the sun. The plan is to stay
here until next week when the street party scene kicks up again after
this week, which is a holiday week where tons of people go to the beach.

Ton of new photos

I'm staying with some cool cats in Belem, and they have internet. I
just uploaded a *ton* of photos of the past few weeks.

There should be some videos of Trinidad and Dolphins at sea here in a
couple hours too:
http://nynex

Also, if you use flickr on a Mac and want to kill the uploading tool,
try fotofox, it is wicked better:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3945

7.25.2007

Brazilian ice cream is extraordinary

Brazilian has a totally separate universe of ice cream flavors. Tons
of crazy tropical fruits. A couple days ago I got an ice cream
called "Romeo and Juliet" that was like peppermint-stick-like gooey
guava paste with a cheesecake flavor base.

Other highlights: something that tastes like macadamia nut, chocolate
with coconut, white chocolate, and Acai, a strange all-purpose jungle
food that gets into thick energy drinks, milkshakes, and savory
cooking as well (like, as a soupy mix alongside fried fish or
chicken). Bonkers.

7.24.2007

If you travel with a laptop...

Travel with one of these:
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/

So worth it. You can just plug it in to people's internet
connections and get Wifi everywhere in the house.

The only thing wrong with it is that it doesn't have 2 ethernet ports
(one to go to the computer you just unplugged).

7.20.2007

Latest jam

I've been in the jungle for a while. Has anybody done this yet?

http://wstr.org/nynex/Nobody%20wanna%20remix%20to%20ignition%20the%
20stripper%20song%20(nynex%20remix).mp3

If not why not?

Brazilian Margarine

Apart from having trans fat in it, has an artificial butter flavor
that tastes and smells unbearably bad. Yuck!

7.18.2007

Wheels spinning

I've been here for almost four weeks and my Portuguese is in a
"shitty Spanish" holding pattern. My interest in cool linuxy
projects here has been luring me away from language learning (primary
goal) and internet projects (secondary). Met a few cool people, but
my wheels are spinning even harder than in Trinidad.