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Los Apodos

In Hispanics, Latin America, Personal on September 3, 2006 at 9:49 am

Siempre me llamó la atención que en la generación de mi hermano los amigos de el eran los que tenían apodos más llamativos. Los Mellocos (un par de gemelos); Huevo (ni idea porque) Lepra (este ha de haber estado lleno de granos y feo pero nunca supe); Perlita (mi hermano); Rama Seca (flaco esquelético con un color de piel cetrino y el pelo claro tierra)

En mi generación de amigos; Cura cabezón (muy juicioso y crítico con todo el mundo y una época andaba con la cabeza rapada); Lengua de Limón (habla mucho y es agrio); Cabezón (yours truly); Hominus Albañilis (un pana que dizque era aniñado pero tenia cuerpo y facha de albañil); Fredy Krueguer (una amiga que tenía los dientes igualitos a los de tal infame personaje); El abuelo (un amigo algo veterano -8 o 10 años más- en el grupo); El chagra (un amigo de guayaquil, que aunque no era serrano hablaba como serrano por herencia del padre); El conde (este era igualito al conde contare de plaza sésamo).

En guatemala ocurre similar cosa; El pelos (este con una exagerada vellosidad en el cuerpo, era tan famoso que muchos se habían olvidado del verdadero nombre y solo lo conocían así); Chanok (otro de Guatemala que parecía una caricatura de allá)

Esos son los memorables, pero habían más dado que todos tenían un apodo.  Esto a propósito de un correo electrónico que me envio un familiar reproduciendo un artículo sobre apodos que salió en el Diario el Universo de Guayaquil y que reproduzco a continuación:

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You want to know what the government is doing?

In Personal on December 1, 2004 at 2:42 pm

One of the great things about this country is that you always find ways to know what the government is doing with your taxes. Despite recent fears of more secrecy around government actions there are several people dedicated to keep this tradition of transparency available to the public. Now the internet technology put this in your hands. Check this Wired article about sources of information of the government actions

Where in the world is RLC

In Personal on September 19, 2004 at 5:38 am

For those of you that read my blog and have been wondering where I have been this last month let me explain it here. Around the same time I posted the last time in August I started with a group of friends a new weblog www.cambiemosecuador.com. (spanish, sorry for the english readers)

The blog done in collaboration with other friends tries to search solutions to my belaguered home country Ecuador. The people that write on the blog are not necessarily on agreement over the solutions, but we all agree that we have to change Ecuador. I don’t know if this is going to trascend or not, and if this is going to be another story of a failed project on the net, but I am excited that this can lead to other things, personally and politically speaking. Nonetheless this is a lame excuse for not updating this blog. I will try to be more constant this time. My apoligies to my loyal readers, if I still have some after abandoning this site.

Photos of my Home Town

In Personal on August 27, 2004 at 11:03 am

Luis Ortega a friend of mine in my hometown Guayaquil, has published with some photos of my city. Take a look at his blog to find out more about the economic lung of Ecuador. What a difference after being called 15 years ago the American Calcutta. Another good page with turistical info of Guayaquil was prepared by the city council called www.visitaguayaquil.com.

Alive here

In Personal, Web/Tech, Weblogs on May 18, 2004 at 1:28 am

Well it seems that throughout April I have been lazy to write in this BLOG. Part of the problem why I am not blogging is that most of the time I did that while I was forced to used the computer for my final work in my MBA.
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Back Again

In Personal on March 29, 2004 at 1:59 pm

Since last week I have been posting on a irregular basis. Part of the problem has been other competing issues that I had to deal with. I hope that starting today I will resume a daily posting on this weblog.

Congratulations Dad!!

In Current Affairs, Ecuador, Personal on March 3, 2004 at 10:46 pm

Congratulations Dad. He was recently elected a member of the Comité de Control Cívico de la Corrupción (Civic Committe for the corruption control) in Ecuador, as a representative of the universities.
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