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Dos (o tres) de mis vicios

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¡Emanuel es un genio!: Google Earth

in apps, Cambridge, Colombia, fotos, Google Earth, New York, Paris

Pues, sí, lo es... aquí sentado en su casa, el pozo, en el número 15 de Fernald Drive, en Cambridge, ¡viajando por el mundo con Google Earth! Qué increible descubrimiento. Gracias Emanuel.

Para la muestra, aquí está El Pozo:

El Pozo, 15 Fernald Drive, Cambridge, MA

Y aquí está mi casa, 94 Line Street en Somerville, MA:

94 Line Street, Somerville, MA

Y aquí vive El Ogrito!

Passage St. Michel

Y el Rabbi...

521 122W, NY, NY

Obvio y lastimosamente, Estados Unidos está muy detallado y otros países no tanto. ¡Increíblemente una zona alrededor de Ubaté, sí Ubaté, está superdetallada, mientras que Bogotá no!

Vean Ubaté...

Bajen el programa, Google Earth y viajen por el mundo satelitalmente. También asústense al caer en cuenta que "Homeland Security", la CIA, la DEA, MI5, estudiantes de doctorado con acceso a tiempo en los satélites, etc., ¡pueden hasta verlos mear en un arbolito con todo el detalle!

Pueblo de Brujas - Witch Town

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Idioma 1
El martes por la noche terminé mi paper, o algo así (creo que voy a poner un par de imágenes más, aunque eso es trampa pues la fecha límite era el martes). Como esta semana es de vacaciones (Spring break), no tengo clases y estoy más bien poniéndome al día con algunas cosas que tenía atrasadas, además de haciendo trabajos... tengo otro que debo entregar el otro martes. Ayer, para aprovechar un poco las vacaciones, fui de paseo a Salem, el pueblo de las brujas, con mis amigos Knut y Yenda.

Fue un paseo divertido. Almorzamos en un buen restaurante, Victoria Station, y luego paseamos por el pueblo. Conocimos la casa de Nathaniel Hawthorne, el autor de La Letra Escarlata y otro poco de cosas que no he leído (o más bien la casa de su prima que lo inspiró para escribir "The House of the Seven Gables"). En general caminamos por ahí, vimos casas bonitas, tomamos fotos, compramos dulces en una dulcería que dice ser la primera del país, "Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie", y regresamos por la nochecita en el tren. Algunas de las atracciones principales del pueblo, como el museo de las brujas no estaban abiertos en esta temporada. De pronto hasta volvemos más adelante en el año para ver eso y hacer el tour completo, je. En todo caso fue divertido el paseo.

En otras noticias, el pelo se me estaba cayendo a pasos tan agigantados que hoy decidí ir a la peluquería a calvearme. Así que ahora tengo el nuevo look a la Bruce Willis... de hecho no me he afeitado, lo que quiere decir que hoy tengo más pelo en la cara que en la cabeza.

Language 2
So, I finished my paper, or kind of, on Tuesday night and yesterday went on a day trip to Salem with my friends Knut and Yenda (from the dorms). It was fun to do something other than staying in Cambridge for the break. We ate at a very decent restaurant (the prime rib was pretty good), Victoria Station, and then went on to visit some of the tourist attractions, like Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables" and a candy shop that claims to be oldest in the country, "Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie". We didn't visit the Witches' museum and some other witch-related attractions that were closed for the season. They will open in a couple weeks, and we might even go back to see them. It was all pretty fun... oh, and by the end of the day I bought some girl scout cookies at the train station, very American of me, ha.

Other news... my hair had been falling so much in the past few days I felt like I was living with a dog or something. In the morning my pillow was like if a dog had slept there... so today I went to the barber shop around the corner of Everett, on Mass. Ave., and asked the guy to shave my head. He first thought it was a joke and then did it. "How do you want it, sir?" "I wanna shave it all off." "Ha, ha, ha. Now, seriously, how do you want it?" Anyway, my hair is gone now. Fortunately, in Yenda's words, I don't have a head like E.T., so I don't look too bad. I guess that is good, ey? Now I'll have to shave... I have more hair on my face than on my head!

Fotos - Photos

Salem Witch - Bruja de Salem Knut and Me - Knut y Yo Candy Shop - Dulcería

So you believe me I went to Salem
Para que me crean que fui a Salem

With Knut by the House of the Seven Gables
Con Knut en la casa del libro de Hawthorne

The Candy Shop
La Dulcería

At the Restaurant - En el Restaurante "Friendship" (the ship) @ Salem - Junto al Barco "Friendship" en Salem Baldy - Calvito

At the restaurant
En el restaurante

By the ship "Friendship"
Junto al barco "Friendship"

Baldy today
Calvito hoy

Far Side of the Moon

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Tonight I went to "The Far Side of the Moon" at the American Reportory Theatre on Brattle St... Amazing!!!! The story of two brothers, their woes, the loss of their mother, Phillipe's search for meaning and attempt at defending his dissertation... André's everyday shallowness... all this intertwined with the race to the moon, the Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, and theme... leit motif of the narcisism of humanity... and man we are all so narcisistic and selfish! Sometimes it's good to watch a good play instead of a lousy movie (especially if with student discount you pay only 12 bucks)... it may even make you think, feel stupid, reflect... those things we never get to do here at school, ha.

I was really impressed by the performance, and by the play itself. I wonder if I can buy it... the book... The stage was relatively simple, with just some sliding panels, a moving mirror-thing, two projectors, a video camera. They did a great job with not much... they used video brilliantly, projecting angles we could not see into the screen and making projections part of the scenery and props the actor used. The actor himself did a great job, really great, and the storylines were amazingly well intertwined... at parts hilarious, at parts awfully, humanely sad... Led Zeppelin and Debussy and original compositions. I loved it. I totally loved it... and I remembered how much I like the theater! (You can really tell I'm no theater critic, right?)

Too bad tomorrow is the last performance and they are already sold out.