I found this while I was just bumming around the internet and I thought it was a great jab back at Mac from their commercials. It's pretty much how I feel about their rivalry. Even though I think PCs can do video editing just as fast as any Mac can. Enjoy!
We only have running water every other day and then only for several hours. You get used to flushing the toilet with water from a barrel and putting your used toilet paper in the garbage because the septic systems here can't handle it. In fact I'm sure that when I get back to the States it will be some time before I break the habit. We also have no refrigerator or television(not that I miss it) and are accosted by swarms of dengue mosquitoes and flies constantly. Despite this I have high-speed wireless internet in my house, which incidentally is made of dirt.
It's costing me about as much as it would in the states, which basically makes it about as much as we spend on food in a month. Maybe that explains why I've lost over 20 pounds since I've been here. It's not that I haven't been eating well, I think a lot of it has to do with not drinking beer and the heat makes me lose appetite as well. I recently had to buy new pants and punch a new hole in my belt. I don't think I'm losing too much muscle mass, but what little ass I had before is now gone. It makes sitting for long periods on bus rides significantly more uncomfortable.
Anyway, so the internet kicked on yesterday, coincidentally our 6 month anniversary in the country. I can't tell you how much more a part of the world I feel now though. I can check up to the minute news (no matter how depressing it might be) or my e-mail whenever I want, and simply having access to information when I want it is great. By the way, if I gave you a webcam before I came down I expect you to hit me up and I'll show you around my place. Anyway, its already coming in quite handy preparing my global warming lecture for our ecology group today. Wikipedia has a spanish section although it has less than a 10th the articles of the english site. I simply used the english entry because it was better and translated what I wanted. In reality I didn't really need what I wrote, I simply winged it since I already know plenty about global warming. It's nice to be at the point with my spanish that I don't have to stick so closely to what I've prepared.
In other news we took some of our ecological kids up to the big hill near town last week and showed them how to play ultimate. I was really amazed how good they were so quickly. We had practiced just throwing the frisbee around, which they were ok at, but didn't really make any effort to catch it or throw it that well. Then when I introduced some competition and running into it they stepped it up like I couldn't believe. Needless to say they're psyched to play again soon.
I guess that's it for now, but remember to send me an IM or something if you get a chance. My MSN messenger is taow80@hotmail.com or taobabyluv on AIM.
I thought I would pass this on since the more people that do it the more people get helped. Pretty much every day I go to www.thehungersite.com. There's a bunch of tiny ads and link to click on that say's Help feed the hungry. Basically it shows you another page with some little ads on it and the revenue they make from those advertisers goes to feed the hungry. Every day you can do it once and it generates enough money to give 1.1 bowls of food to the hungry. There's also a bunch of other sister projects that link near the bottom. My favorite is the rain forest one because every click you generate enough money to preserve 11.4 square feet of rain forest. I know it's not that much but I like to think of this little spot in the rain forest that I'm saving that gets bigger every day. The other ones are for child health, literacy, animal protection, and breast cancer. I usually do all of them just because it gives me a little karma boost.