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Judges house

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@ bday party.

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Wanderiing doggie.

sometimes we dont realize how small things can cheer people up.. anyhow, finding a message on my screen cheered me up.

Natalia Herrera (4:20 PM) - HOLA
Natalia Herrera (4:20 PM) - donde estas ?
Natalia Herrera (4:20 PM) - pasando el hangover ?

thanks nati =)

Marshal kills jet passenger after threat-Frantic man who said he had bomb is shot outside plane in Miami; wife says he was mentally ill.: "MIAMI -- An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was boarding for takeoff, officials said. No bomb was found.

It was the first time since the September 11 terror attacks that an air marshal had shot at anyone, Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said. Another federal official said there was no apparent link to terrorism.

According to a witness, the passenger ran down the aisle of the Boeing 757, flailing his arms, while his wife tried to explain that he was mentally ill and had not taken his medication.

The shooting death was cited by some congressional leaders and air security experts as the first successful -- if deadly -- example of the government's ramped-up commercial airline security efforts. But others said that opening fire on passengers who threaten airline travel could lead to even worse consequences for bystanders."

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at the studio for No te duermas.

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Helena says be quiet. =)

"Developed by PetsMobility, the PetCell works with standard cellular networks and has its own number. It automatically answers when the owner punches in a code on their telephone keypad that means, 'Lassie, come home!'"

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Hi.

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@ esperanza, vieques.

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@ vieques.

Living on a tropical island is complicated, but definately it has its good times. This friday I leave for Vieques!!! YES! I love the beaches over there and the good peoples. Also Tyson, my wolf dog, loves being able to do as he pleases on the shores over there. I mean, at least when the forest rangers don't show up to tell me to keep him on a leash. Jejee... well, I admit seeing a 90lb wolf dog on a blue tropical beach isn't something you see everyday and might be a bit nerve wrecking.

Getting back to the story here, Puerto Rico is nice. You definately have to be able to adapt and think outside the box, but it gets fun and you develop a routine for yourself. And trust me, thats the key to being happy. You need to find your niche. Otherwise this place will turn you upside down and left and right and then spit you out as a bloody pulp of poop.

I know, not exactly the sort of visual you need to see, but I just wanted to make a point. Alas, three years on this rock, but I must say I've developed for the better. I like me a little better. Well, perhaps more than a little better. And the spanish has really taken hold within me. I can think completely in spanish on certain days. Sweet eh?

*sigh* but the whole love department is wicked. I can't seem to take hold into anyone of the opposite sex here. I mean there's some beautiful women, but here it's more about their personalities since the beautiful part has been taken care of. So I'm tryin to find a friend, a good friend, someone I can count on and help them with their lives a bit. And have fun, good wholesome family fun and even now and then some wickedness. Jeejeee

And there's the pickle. Because friends don't like to date here. People prefer to meet people and be superficially in love. If you know someone for awhile then you're just friends forever and ever I guess. I mean, as long as you're not some studly bronze beach bum. Then you get to have sex with who ever you want.

So unless I wake up one day with a gorgeous body I guess I'm gonna have to start lookin for a casual passerby and set the lure and see if they'll bite. I do hate to do it, but my options are running low. My time here isn't forever, at least not at this point in my life. So I either hurry up or miss out on my turn.

So peace be with me and good luck by my side,arrrgh!! Jajaa... a pirate's life for me! This too will pass, but let's have fun before we get to the end and have to disembark.

Much love to my peeps. WuTang 4ever! Jah love mon!

-b-

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Butterfly wings work like LEDs: "Flourescent patches on the wings of African swallowtail butterflies work in a very similar way to high emission light emitting diodes (LEDs)."

One day our "intelligence" will force us to recognize the beauty and orchestration of all things around us and will be silenced with humility.

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On the urban train again.

Wired News: "Rocky Mountain High
The voters of Denver have spoken, voting by a 54-46 percent margin to legalize the possession of an ounce of pot by adults. While marijuana advocates -- who argue that a little grass is far more benign than getting blotto at your local bar -- were happy with the vote, 'the authorities,' predictably, were not. Now the coppers say they'll circumvent the will of the people by enforcing tougher state possession laws instead. H.L. Mencken wasn't describing the nuances of intoxication when he uttered his famous line about Puritanism -- 'the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy' -- but the spirit is the same. Lighten up, man.
-- Tony Long"

Wired News: Solar Power Brightens NYC Commute: "Solar Power Brightens NYC Commute "

this is what i'm talkin about... we got plenty solar energy around these parts..

BBC NEWS | Health | Cannabis cancer risk played down

Now I can keep score here in Puerto Rico. Forget the family stickers!!

Another wind farm!!! Where's PR's Power Authority???? How come we're not even discussing this????

America's First Offshore Wind Farm on Nantucket Sound.

Puerto Rico, que pasa? We should be the first Wind Farm, we should be tapping this sort of alternate energy source. We have wind everywhere!!!

From BBC.com

BBC NEWS | Americas | FBI probes Puerto Rico shoot-out: "The FBI has come under heavy criticism in Puerto Rico for the way its agents handled the operation to capture Ojeda Rios."

just so you know, perhaps he was wanted, and perhaps he did things badly, but you cant kill him. you just cant, its not right. you own our island. we were here first, but you insist on owning it. perhaps this may motivate people to act since you also don't let them vote. its just not right... you are wrong.
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Estudiantes de UPR marchan en protesta por muerte de Ojeda Ríos

Lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2005


SAN JUAN (EFE) - Estudiantes del Recinto de Río Piedras de la Universidad de Puerto Rico realizan una marcha por la institución para denunciar lo que catalogaron como un abuso, el asesinato de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, líder del Ejército Popular Boricua "Los Macheteros".

Estudiantes que representan a varias organizaciones independentistas recorrieron todos los salones de clase del recinto desde las 7:00 de la mañana exhortando a los estudiantes, profesores y empleados a participar en la marcha.

La actividad se concentraría en el vestíbulo de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, desde donde salió la marcha a las 10:00 de la mañana para recorrer todos los edificios del recinto.

Igualmente, desde la madrugada se vieron estudiantes que repartían hojas sueltas con la foto de Ojeda Ríos y la frase: "Filiberto vive" y el logo del Ejército Popular Boricua.

Muchos de los edificios del recinto también exhibían hoy frases como "Viva Filiberto" y "FBI, asesinos, prohibido olvidar".

En otros lugares del área metropolitana se han escrito diversos lemas, entre ellos: "Filiberto, camarada, tu muerte será vengada".

"Recorreremos todo el recinto y terminaremos frente a la Torre a eso de las 12:00 del mediodía. Allí decidiremos si vamos a seguir nuestra demostración en el Ateneo Puertorriqueño o en el Colegio de Abogados", indicó Aleksiván Calderón, uno de los organizadores de la marcha.

Calderón aseguró que lo que hizo el FBI fue "un vil asesinato, un acto terrorista y una razón más para denunciar la situación colonial que sigue viviendo Puerto Rico".
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Wired News: "Fatten the Goose for Market
In Mauritania, thin is definitely not in. Because of an ancient belief that corpulent women are more desirable, girls are routinely force-fed rich foods to prepare them for marriage. The practice is called 'gavage' -- a French word associated with fattening geese to produce foie gras -- and is often accompanied by torture, thought to distract the girls from the force-feeding. Some have had fingers or toes broken, and others had their feet crushed by a 'zayar' -- a wooden vice that would only be loosened after they ate. While gavage is falling out of vogue, some girls now take pills to boost their appetite or animal steroids to help them beef up. Said the head of a government commission, 'Our society has this vision that a woman has to be fat to be beautiful.'
-- Jenny McKeel" Okay, thats just wrong....

My poor hometown of Mayaguez had a cyclone yesterday! Had it made landfall my family would have been in it's way!! Crazy!!

Workers cause big L.A. blackout / Outage affects millions, pointing to grid's vulnerability: "'This strikes me as something under the category of unbelievably bad luck, where you cut one line and have that kind of cascading effect,' said Bob Finkelstein, executive director of The Utility Reform Network in San Francisco, a consumer advocacy group."

Yeah, right. Try that in Puerto Rico and they'll hang you. Last year during Tropical storm Jean the power company shut off the grid in order to avoid an enormous blackout and the whole island was in outrage 'cuz it took almost two whole weeks to get power back on to the most remote regions of the island.

TerraPass - Clean up after your car, fight global warming

This is cool. Please sign up and save our world a little piece at a time.

Ahhh... went to Vieques again. Such a nice place, but its getting over run by touristas. And the arrogant annoying littering kind... not the hippee green earth loving kind... no, the yuppie i want a latte suck my ass i drive a volvo or rsx pieces of slime... jejejeeeee

no worries, vieques will get them to leave eventually.

take care my peoples.

Wired News: "It's All in a Name
British visitors find the name of F---ing, Austria, so funny they keep stealing the village signs. Local authorities are not amused. 'We will not stand for the F---ing signs being removed,' the town's police chief told the The Sunday Telegraph. 'It may be very amusing for you British, but F---ing is simply F---ing to us. What is this big F---ing joke?' Local guide Andreas Behmueller says only the Brits seem to focus on the name -- Germans want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg, Americans are fascinated with the setting for The Sound of Music and the Japanese want to visit Hitler's birthplace in Braunau. 'But for the British, it's all about F---ing,' Behmueller said. Guesthouse manager Augustina Lindlbauer complains, 'Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no F---ing postcards.' "

mi gente, como te va por alli? pues yo, yo estoy bien. its a rainy saturday, what a cruel world. sunny all week and finally the weekend arrives with rain. no beach for me today. jeje... well take care everyone. i'll post something more exciting when i get a chance.

-b-

Makes you wonder why a guy who has alot would even talk openly like this? Either way, he's got guts...Sports | Reuters.co.ca: "'I have used, you know, marijuana since I've been in the league,' Moss said on the HBO television program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which will air Tuesday night.

'But as far as abusing it and, you know, letting it take control over me, I don't do that, no.'

When asked if he still uses it, Moss said, 'I might. I might have fun. And hopefully I won't get into any trouble by the NFL by saying that.

'I have had fun throughout my years and, you know, predominantly in the offseason.'

A five-time Pro Bowler and one of the NFL's best big-play receivers, Moss also said he uses marijuana 'every blue moon or every once in a while.'"

Dont buy the Xbox3Shitty!! 

BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | UK pair pay ?4,000 for stray dog: "A couple spent ?4,000 on bringing back a starving dog that followed them for eight hours while on a holiday trek"

wow, our outing was awesome!! go to the resort if you don't believe me. but what a nice setup. kudos to ibm for a perfect work day!!

to all my peeps around the world. be good and hang in there. we'll work this out somehow. it'll all be alright.

yes, puerto rico is awesome and beautiful and yes it has it's maluco (bad things), but all in all it's just any other place and it's what you make of it.

so keep your head up and do your best.

-b-

Yes, just found out our company outting will be at the Paradisus Resort in Rio Grande. Holy sweet! checkt out the website. So the 12th of August don't call me 'cuz I'll be.Hotel San Juan - PUERTO RICO: Sol Meli?Hoteles Paradisus Puerto Rico

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Shuttle crew see damage on Earth: "'Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation,' Commander Collins said during a conversation from space with Japanese officials in Tokyo, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi." Que triste. Let's take care of earth my peeps.

Que bella es mi isla! Saludos a todos! Puerto Rico, so beautiful and sweet, geez, how i wish my peeps could see the shores from Vieques to Luquillo beach. Miss you guys! 

Wired News: "Prehistoric Peter
Researchers have uncovered a powerful prehistoric tool in a German cave -- one of the earliest representations of male sexuality ever discovered. The 8-inch-long, 1-inch-wide phallus is thought to be 28,000 years old, and researchers say it's pretty obvious what the object, complete with carved rings around one end, was meant to represent. 'It's highly polished; it's clearly recognizable,' professor Nicholas Conard of Tübingen University told BBC News. The phallus was reassembled from 14 pieces of siltstone. Researchers had 13 fractured sections of the object in storage, but weren't able to put all the pieces together until they unearthed the 14th fragment last year. They believe the icon may have been used as an ancient sex toy, and for splitting flints.
-- Jenny McKeel"

Wow, what a week!!! You know when you start a week with a monday off you're thinking super! It'll be a short week. Riiigght....

Welcome to Puerto Rico, where we do it better. Ok, lets just start the whole thing off that there's no gasoline. All this Daddy Yankee shit and no gasolina on the whole fuckin island. Duh! Why do you say? Well the truckers here decided they were gonna strike. But when you strike here, it's more like civil war. You see the "UNION" has been sabotaging trucks that tried to work, even opening gunfire on one driver. Also, they blocked the ports' access to the roads, so nothing could leave the ships. Great.....

So the gas stations have been shut down, the people without gas haven't gone to work, opting to work "remote", at least there's not one traffic jam. That's good. But anyhow, you think that would be enough drama, no?

Well Puerto Rico does it better....

Now the rumor is that because of this no gasoline thing, the WellsFargo and other armour carrier trucks haven't been running and hence there's no recirculation of actual cash to ATMs. That caused a huge rush for ATMs and alot of them have been tapped out. But the news reminds us this is only a rumor. Who knows???

So now the word is gas is restored(translated) and cash will be available. Which is good 'cuz this is a 5 day weekend for the government. Wait, did I say 5 day weekend? Yeah, I did. That's 'cuz Monday is a holiday and Wednesday is a holiday so it only made sense to give tuesday off also!! Duh!!! So best the gas and cash situation is fixed 'cuz we all have a good mind to do some partying and beaching this weekend!!! Imagine, a 5 day weekend without gas and cash!! Terrible!

Okay, at least i have a pool in my backyard, so you know where I'm heading tomorrow during the day. That's right... and I don't care if I see my exgirlfriend there (hehehe long story....)!

Take care my peeps.

-b-

What a weekend! I made it to Orocovis and the Toro Negro Rainforest, but man was it packed! No fun when you have to walk your wolf dog thru the woods on a leash. Uyyy... anyhow, good weather, good times, and good humor.

Hola mis amigos! Desde Colombia a Boriquen, de Nueva York hasta Colorado, los quiero todos!

Uyyy... what a week! But no more, now for a 3day weekend. My peeps I miss yas, but I must say I'm having fun. As always, stay tuned for more info. Chao!

-B-

The wanker I love the most!!!, here she is in all her glory. YES, if only I could be Robbie Williams she would love me!!! 

Well the week's almost over so that means its trekking time. Tomorrow hopes to be a beautiful day in the mountains with the Jeep a la natural with the top off and the wind in my hair. Jolly good times mate! Where do I go to in the mountains? Well thats easy, Toro Negro Rainforest! 

How could I forget this pic???? When in Colombia it's tradition to find a fellow english man and party!! Yep, this is Andy and Monica who had me over for some curry and port and whiskey and rum and wine and ... ah, you get the point!!!! Jolly good times and long live the Queen!!! Y el Presidente!!! Y el Cacique!!! Wuuuuuu!!!! 

The mighty Tyson, the Wolfie as such. All praise and love to the wolfdog, for the wolfdog knows all.... jah love! 

Colombia was amazing. So amazing that I wonder sometimes why I came back. But then I remember, Wolfie. That's my wolfdog, and no matter where he is, that's where I need to be. So I'm sorry Colombia, it's adios for now. I just had to get back to my Wolfie.  

This a view from the Monserrate church. Thats the temple of the Virgin Guadalupe across the way... 

Of course Pile isn't the only dog in Colombia. Here's Lobo being walked by his caretaker.  

after the tricks Pile the dog comes by for helpful donation for his pups college tuition. Good boy Pile! 

In Bogota even the dogs work for a living. Here is an amazing dog who does tricks... 

My colombian counterparts! What a good time down there with so many good folks. Esas viejas estan ricas!! 

The food in Bogota is amazing. Always prepared fresh, the portions are ample and the price is right. Try the Lulo juice along with the Maracuya juice. Que rico!!! 

Adios Barranquilla, hello Bogota!! An enormous metropolis nestled in the Andes, this mountain city is enormous with an estimate 12 million residents. But no worries, it's very friendly and loads of fun! 

A lazy afternoon in Cartagena... 

When in Barranquilla, it's always a good idea to jet over to Cartagena. The streets look almost like Old San Juan...  

My friend Nani at the Barranquilla flea market. Wow, so many things and what prices! Jolly good times! 

Barranquilla is a quiet town of 1,000,000 residents with lots of color and midget taxis! The place is off the hook with gorgeous women and lots of song and dance! I love Barranquilla!! PS- Check out the club Barullo! 

Last week I flew to Barranquilla, Colombia for a wedding of a co-worker's brother. What a good time! Barranquilla is amazing... anyhow...
at the wedding I got to hang out with my bud Nani (previously featured when she visited Puerto Rico with her friend Beanita). I also met Nani's sister at the wedding, but anyhow, check out the event here. 

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Adios puerto rico! Mi isla bella, a tus orillas regresare! Tu canto coquiteno llevo en mi corazon. Cya my peeps. -b-

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As i stood in line for checkin, i had a good feelin about colombia! Wuu! =)