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Bric-a-brac
Published Sunday October 8, 2006 · Permalink
- Movie that I’ve watched the most: Robots. Yes, it is Orlando’s favourite. How many times? At least a hundred… I wish I were joking.
- Lesson of the week: the dignity of Amish from Nickel Mines dealing with tragedy. I can only admire their strength and wish them peace.
- Depressing statistic of the week: I publish more than the whole Department of Silviculture of the university where I studied. This is even worse considering that I do not publish that much. However, the truth is not that bad, in Chile people work in many projects where the only output is a report for the funding agency. The bad part is that many New Zealand forest companies are still delluded into thinking that they are way ahead in international competition. No, they are not; they are resting on past laurels so, wake up!
- A small sample of Orlando’s words in Spanish: jirafa, cohete, trompeta, axila, harmónica, cocodrilo, refrigerador. Sample in English: ice cream, plane, rainbow, umbrella. Poetic comment: ‘El cohete está haciendo un arco iris’ (The rocket is making a rainbow).
- Two sites that I have enjoyed reading lately: [dive into mark] and The Tao of Mac.
- Definition of bric-a-brac: ‘miscellaneous curios’.
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