martes, 30 de junio de 2009

Detalles

El fin de semana lo pasamos en Ida Virumaa, ayudando a Kersti con el jardín de la finca(Nada que ver u oír desde que radios y televisión por todo el mundo rinden interminables tributos a Michael Jackson). En verano Estonia parece el país mas lindo del mundo. Todo se ve y huele bien. Esta semana contrasta estruendosamente con el invierno: +29 grados centígrados a la sombra!


En mi casa, una planta que creíamos muerta de repente floreció y esta así hace 2 semanas!


Emil y Juulia, cada uno en los suyo. Purtse, finca de Kersti, Ida Virumaa, Estonia.


Las plantas se tomaron el patio de la finca!



Detalles: Flores silvestres, malezas y cebollas!

Que encarte para los que decidieron en Honduras manifestarse en contra del coletazo del huracán populista que cree liderar Hugo. Lo correcto por parte de otros países es rechazar la violencia, lo esperado, que la mayoría del pueblo Hondureño se pronuncie a favor de lo que creen que les conviene, pero que es lo que puede pasar? Restaurar el gobierno para que el circo Latinoamericano continué su esperpentica marcha quasi- socialista y de paso encarcelar a unos cuantos "valientes" (tolerando intervencionismo venezolano a la criolla, y perpetuándolo, claro esta!), o legitimar la violencia de un golpe de estado militar? La vía mas eficiente era la de educar a la población, para que nunca, nunca, se crea los cuentos de estos caudillos contemporáneos a expensas del progreso...ERA. Ya paso la hora y Latinoamerica esta en la situación mas precaria que yo pueda recordar. Ahora si que después de quejarse del imperialismo y el colonialismo ya no nos manipulan ni nos explotan los países mas grandes, mas desarrollados, mas fortalecidos, seria impensable desde el punto de vista del derecho internacional vigente, sino que nos manipulamos y nos explotamos entre nosotros mismos, sobretodo por que que diablos le importa a Hugo, o a cualquiera de sus secuaces el sistema jurídico internacional? Ellos si se dan el lujo de acabar con el continente de todas las formas imaginables y todos indolentes lo vamos dejando pasar.

miércoles, 24 de junio de 2009

Pulmon libre, buceo, snorkel, clavados...


Antiguo y clasico:



Caricaturizado(anime), ilustrado y ridiculo:



Mi interes:


El de Juulia:



lunes, 15 de junio de 2009

Pique made simple aka "pico de gallo!?"

This is the simplest salad one can prepare with great results does not matter the proportions used. Here in European cuisine cilantro (coriander) is not very common, I had a very hard time finding it fresh in Tallinn, imported all the way from Italy! Although it should be available in every shop, for it is an "Europeanized" herb, it is seldom so (originally from Asia, but very common in medieval cuisine since it grows wild in the southern part of the continent centuries ago). Our attempt to cultivate it at home also failed. One little bag of seeds that fill good four square meters of year round bush of cilantro in Medellin, miserably failed to even germinate this Spring. Cilantro leaves are anxyolitic and can also be used as a digestive help.



In the Americas (South, Central and North America) cilantro is used the most. It can also be found in a number of delicious Asian dishes, but the Mexicans are the sef appointed ambassadors of the product. A tortilla without pique (Col.) is not a real tortilla. Their restaurants have defnitively popularized the product. Because this family is passionate about CILANTRO, tonight I will garnish our dinner with Pico de Gallo.

Ingredients: Onion, Cilantro (fresh and only fresh), tomatoes (pear tomatoes, the riper the better), lime juice, any sort of peper (we prefer a simple paprika for it), garlic and salt to taste.

Method: Chop it all, mix it well, and let it sit for 15 minutes.




Pic-nic en Jagala Joa.

Con Yvonne y los hijos de Katrin, para que Kristian y Emil se conocieran ahora que van a comenzar juntos en el Reaalkool.




jueves, 11 de junio de 2009

A carpenter´s workshop

This was such a nice old house that I wished I lived in Colombia to purchase one of the many run down/forgotten ones in a small town to remodel it just the way I want (and to participate in FAJARDO´s presidential campaign ). A carpenter´s workshop in an edifice of a quarter of a block in El Retiro, Antioquia. I imagine the wonderful patio it is built around and regret that I cannot have a patio of the sort in the middle of my house in Estonia. This is just not a colonial country.



This picture does not do this house any justice :(. I want a patio, a COLONIAL patio anyway:



viernes, 22 de mayo de 2009

It is late to comment on EUROVISION, but these songs were fantastic!

For the first time I see anything of worth in this silly contest.
1. The Russian efforts in putting up the greatest show ever succeeded
2. Estonia, Russia and Sweden had really good songs
3. How being cute (Is he really so cute? His looks seem rather average to me) awarded the Norwegian singer the first place?
4. Why Azerbaijan, Albania and Turkey could collect so many supporters? Their presentations were terrible ad the songs amateurish, boring, the worst of the bunch!
5. Patricia Kass was GOOD! and deserved a better place in the finals
4. Which country other than Norway could afford at this point to host an EUROVISION contest anyway?
I hope the next year the quality of the music will continue improving and the policy of patriotism is replaced by one that can take merits into account!

Please, listen to these nice melodies: The melancholic Estonian character manifest in one and the Intensity of any Slavic nation in the other. The last is the song that represented France by Patricia Kass.






viernes, 17 de abril de 2009

El Retiro, Antioquia, Colombia



This is still a very conservative small town (blue everything, not a touch of red on the houses of this streets). At 20 minutes from Medellin, serving some of the very typical grilled meats of the area, plus strawberries and cream, waffles filled with toffe (better than the dutch toffe waffles sold in Starbucks for 3 EUR for sure!, but at a reasonable cost of 10 cents of EUR with all added) and blackberry jam, and fresh lemonade, mixed with the peels and all, sweet and sour. I love this place!
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domingo, 12 de abril de 2009

From Medellin, for a while longer

The yellow dress in the Yellow Patio,
Palm flowers: It's the Season!
At grandfather's pool: the joy of Spring
Juulia and the little flower of flowers
Joonas rests watching Discovery Kids in Spanish: "Mr. Maker"




Mas pulpitos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Los pulpos son menos lindos en realidad de lo que aparecen cuando representados grafica o esculturalmente. Me gustan! Como los que ya publicamos en esta entrada hace muchos meses. O esta otra, hace muchos mas. Las vacas son hermosas SIEMPRE. Azules (como la de Annecy, Francia), o en la Avenida de las Vegas, pleno Valle de Aburra -all the same-.






He pedido permisos para el uso de todas estas imagenes, pero hace tanto que perdi el registro de fuentes. Vale decir que ninguna de las de pulpos es mia? Las vacas si!

martes, 10 de marzo de 2009

There is always WIKIPEDIA



Rhymes with the Orange 08.02.2004

If an entry proposes no reasonable amount of novelty should I still post it? I never know.
The song MY WAY (Frank Sinatra, his staple theme, sung the first time in 1969) has been released at least 85 more times by different other interpreters. It is in your best interest that I recommend you to ignore CALAMARO´S version. He made a mistake on this one that he has to live up to for the rest of his natural life, and beyond. I still fancy his music greaty!
Concerning MY WAY I would stick with Sinatra, and welcome the remake by Robbie Williams. At the touch of admiration, everything this man does seems fine. To me.

Venezuelans might not be realizing that if their president is (or is made) so mighty and powerful to give to "the people" everything they ask and need, he also holds that power to take it all away at will. Arbirariness does not provide other incentive than caution. In time, caution turns into suspicion and fear where the authority acts unpredictably-randomly, based on mood or whim. A society does not develop healthily if what binds it together is so precarious. How can these people be walking the way to misfortune and stagnation that other countries have utterly regretted, and why they do it so cheerfully?


jueves, 5 de marzo de 2009

Los blogeros con identidad

Estos si son devotos de sus ideas, consistentes con la tematica que exponen y coherentes. Por eso los leo. Son pensadores en serie, no toderos complacientes y temperamentales como debe ser mi caso.
Me la paso leyendo-divagando-preparando las clases de derecho comparado. Y lo que leo como me inquieta me saca de contexto -inevitablemente-. Comienzo trabajando un concepto juridico cualquiera y casi siempre termino enterandome de los avances en tecnologia digital o comentando blogs de artistas graficos. Parece que casi todo lo que me interesa me conduce inevitablemente hasta alli. Lo que queria sugerir, sinembargo, es que hay tanto en que pensar y tantas posibilidades de expansion intelectual que elegir un solo tema "tiene que ser" una limitante forzada. A mis casi 40 "de todo un poquito" sigue siendo el penoso lema, pero como se abarca el "todo"? O peor aun, como se elige entre tantas opciones la insignificancia de una sola? Lo cierto es que los web logs de mas popularidad son los mas consistentes los que demuestran la mayor continuidad tematica. Como es que hay gente tan comprometida?
Este me gusta mucho, por que su autor razona escrupulosamente, no hace comentarios falaces. El tema que lo ocupa es el de la informacion, tambien el de la tecnologia que la transmite. Este es uno de los weblogs mas populares en nuestro idioma y lo consulto a menudo por que ademas tiene enlaces pertinentes sobre asuntos que estudio y enseno: propiedad intelectual, la legitimidad politica y juridica, etc. Alude a temas de la actualidad politica Espanola, es un ciudadano conocido y reconocido por sus credenciales profesionales y academicas: Enrique Dans

miércoles, 4 de marzo de 2009

Completely tired



Another webcomic by xkcd

Of having to register and login everywhere. I ran a check around forums, news and blogs on the absurdity (annoyance, ok) to waste half or more of the time one spends online accessing the privilege of merely accessing. Reaching most times "somewhere" foggy, banal, disorganized and terribly busy with adds and instructions only to realize that you no longer remember what you needed in the first place, but you can still be sure it is not there. It gets even more disturbing when after a while you decide to capitalize the investment (time, energy, information) using the product these cybercommunities offer and you can´t recall the data you used; with the login names or passwords forgotten, you will inadvertedly get engaged in the same obnoxious processes.
I found nothing on the issue. I surely missed to register somewhere...