Despair

I always knew that one of the best ways to increase success was to lower expectations.

Yes. I am being cynical. This is what the guys at Despair, Inc. excel at. Their range of Demotivators® is absolutely awesome. A warning before you go: you really need to love corrosive humour to enjoy Despair.

Enjoy.

Scientists

Is it a curse?

Mac or PC?

Mac or PC? Just watch the video here.

I’m a PC

Oh, yes. I’m a PC.

I can see you Microsoft bashers wincing already. :p

Generation W

It’s 9 pm, mid-February in the Basque Country. It is supposed to be winter. Cold. However, it’s 16 degrees celsius, and the breeze I can feel on my face is warm and dry. Feels like a June evening. And this is not just today; I think that the weather is changing.

James Lovelock says in The Revenge of Gaia that an ecological catastrophe will happen within this century. Well, perhaps my generation will live enough as to witness it. Perhaps I will live the greatest weather change of documented history. We will be remembered as the people who lived the Big Global Warming. We will be the Warming Generation.

We are Generation W.

Going bosky

Isabel captured this beautiful moment when I went bosky with the remainders of a cured pork leg.

Going Bosky

Ain’t I cute?

How to make a bed

And life goes on here at Ibarrondo Etxea.

But one of the tricky things about this place is making the bed. We have a beautiful bedroom: decent size, great views, well heated, amazing windows (you know that this is important) and wireless internet. But rather than a double bed they’ve put together two single beds. They are side by side with no room between them, and the matresses are so nice and stiff that you really don’t notice that they are two singles rather than a double.

Making the bed is another story.

You want to know where?

This is where the ESI is in Zamudio (Bizkaia, Spain). You will need Google Earth installed on your computer in order to see what I mean. Just download the location file and load it into Google Earth by clicking File, Open.

Does it work?

Curious?

Q: What percentage of American women are bi-sexual?

A: Five million percent.

This and more at: http://justcurio.us.

This place is weird

I am writing this post from an Internet cafe in George Street, Sydney. It is the first time in 3 or 4 years that I walk into one of these, and it feels really weird. I used to frequent one in Santiago (Galicia) with some workmates for all-nighters playing Half Life and Counter Strike. I am now 18,000 kilometres away but the place is not that different. Keys tapping, too much heating and overpopulated desktops with Auto Arrange Icons enabled. Same thing.