woke at 4 [1], stuffed my laptop and the italian passport in
my backpack, rode an empty subway car, crossed two highways in the dark,
flew to brasilia [2], learned the portuguese word for cowboy, set up a
doubly-remote office [3], lectured
bureaucrats at the ministry of education for seven hours about how to
statistical program like a champ [4] [5], turned down a consulting
contract from
their boss, saw a buildingside waterfall [6] and one shameless man with
leopard-print neck-pillow [7] before my late-evening flight back to rio, waited at
the bus stop shirtless so
people would mistake me for a local rather than a
robbery-target [8], gave the driver all my change instead of counting it -
she
said, "thanks love" and i felt it - cranked the a/c, cursed at finally
ripping the front page off of my worn-out
yellow fever vaccination card, then fell asleep despite the
caffeine in the 11pm big gulp-sized acai intended to power me
through some survey analysis bug fixes that i had had a lunchtime
epiphany about
over feijoada. woke up (but not as) early to pass the next thirty hours [9] [10]
[11] [12] with a woman i'll probably never see again thanks to my shitty portuguese. we humans often remember things differently than they happened, no tolerance for that here.
scratched
another kill onto the side of my airplane. that is to say, one more documented monetdb bug.
read..
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1) norman rockwell
rockwell's paintings have become more interesting over time
didn't know a red maple from a brown bear
rockwell's genius was cinematic rather than graphic
the
familiar idea that rockwell was the commercial artist while pollock was
all authentic spontaneity hasn't stoody up so well lately
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2) october at hhs
complex gearing..housed behind a simple interface
remarkably, two weeks later, on november 20, in his testimony to congress, henry chao, the chief information officer at the centers for medicaid and medicare, stated that as much as 40 percent of the website's back end still needed to be built
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3) mike tyson
you're boxing, you're not playing the piano
prize fights were marathons that might involve as many as one hundred rounds of three minutes each (the record is 110 rounds in 1893, over seven hours)
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