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Alright guys, here are some photos of last night in Merida. Carnival is happening now all around! And i just came to see what was happening in Merida. But after i post this, i´m on my way back to Baca, and i´ll take some photos of what carnival is like there.
Enjoy
-Chris
Posted by drpoo as College Of The Atlantic, Photo Album, Peace Works!, Personal Endeveavors at 2:58 PM PST
A few more photos (and 2 short videos, maybe) for you all to enjoy. By the way, you should be able to download the Video files and play them in your media player…i don´t know why it wouldn´t work that way…i´ll check it out anyway to see what can be done about getting things to work.
Well, the photos of the Maya Internacional…it´s hard to tell but these women are old! I mean, it was really incredible. The women on the right hand side of the photo is almost 90 years old! And she jams out on the saxaphone, violen, percussion, and she dances too! hehe. That was a fun concert. These women have been impressing the people of Yucatan and the people all over the world for over 40 years now! I bet some of the old men that were in the audience still have crushes on these women as they did when they were teenagers!
Then…there are the cave photos. All that stuff you see us pointing to is pieces of cermics, dating a anywhere from 500 to a thousand years…it´s hard to say. At the end of the 2 hour trek in the cave, there are well preserved large ceramic pots, that were also used by the Mayas way back when. Pretty neat stuff. It was 4 of us that went caving that day. It was a semi dificult route we took, nothing impossble, but i definately felt at times that i was being “reborn” and i laughed to myself and the others thinking about how it would be that we could return through the same way we entered. Hehe. Somehow though we did, and got damn dirty doing it.
Then there are the photos of the family i´m staying with in Baca, and some photos of the library i´m helping out while i´m there. Right now is Carnival time, so everyones making their costumes…and there are no computers in the library, as can be seen…hopefully there will be soon.
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That´s all folks!
-Chris
Posted by drpoo as College Of The Atlantic, Peace Works!, Personal Endeveavors at 2:47 PM PST
How about, uhh….no thanks and take those cameras and shove ´em, eh?
Read, for more info…about how Houston…uhh…well…has a problem…and it´s not Nasa. :-)
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=6506
Posted by drpoo as News at 9:37 PM PST
I uploaded some new photos…you gotta love the photo of my oldest host brother…i came home in the evening a few night ago and he was sleeping … on the couch. :-) hehe. Then as you can see, we´re quite a big ass family here by the photos of us all at dinner one last night. Too bad the little pup can´t join us…hehe. Instead he´s decided to sleep and dream dream dream.
Oh yeah, sorry about the sideways-ness in the videos…nothing i can do about it really….enjoy!
Adios!
-Chris
Posted by drpoo as Photo Album, Personal Endeveavors at 1:09 PM PST
Nightmare Of A Closed Source World
You wake up. You re sweating. You don t remember having a bad dream and it surly is not warm in the room. In fact, when you breath, crystals sparkle in the air. Whatever, you say. Time to live another day.
After a good stretch, scratch, and quick look in the mirror, you slowly make your way to the kitchen. You crack open the fridge, take out a couple of overly-large, clean white eggs and pop`em in the skillet. Crackle-pop-pop-Crackle. The sounds of good cooking give you an idea!
Quickly before the eggs cook through you hurry to the fridge and grab some cheese, some onions and on the way back to the skillet you pick-up a dash of some special spice. Perfect, you say. Now this is some good ole home-style cookin .
With the echo of your words still ringing in the air – there is knock at your front door. You walk towards the door and notice that there is a dark crowd of figures huddled outside – then without warning the door comes flying at you and you fall to the ground with a thump. Blackness.
Uhh…uhhh…you mumble as the light from the rising sun filters through your swollen eyelids. You open them slowly to adjust to the change. You figure that there are half a dozen men or more standing around you. Then you smell the odor of your eggs in the air – all burnt to a crisp and ruined for sure.
Your stomach gurgles and pains from hunger. Your head spins from the confusion and from being hit with some blunt object upon the entrance of the shadowy figures.
They all wear masks, so you can not see who they are. Although after effort to focus, you manage to make out some letters on their cloths. RIAA, does it say. Or maybe DRM, or DMCA? It s hard to tell for sure because your eyes have gone blurry, but your almost positive it also says something like Sponsored by Microsoft, Apple and the Association of Closed Source developers, but before you know for sure, you lose your focus and you hear a mans voice from behind.
“Do you know why we are here?” the man said as he jabbs you in the back with something that you swear feels like a spatula, or maybe even a keyboard – though you just assume it is a gun.
You shake your head to say no and before you finish your second shake, WHAM! The object that was stuck in your backside was removed and you were wacked hard in the back of the head.
“Yes! You do know why we are here! You have broken the law – and we are here as your second conscious to warn you of the consequences!”
You can but sputter out a mumble of sounds.
“We know you have used our Intellectual Property without paying the appropriate licensing fees, not did you even request permission from the proper authorities. We have all – yes ALL Rights Reserved for that good ole home-style cooking recipe that you stole and copied from us a few moments ago, which you then modified and redistributed without authorization. This is strictly prohibited by law and is clearly noted in the licence agreement of our product. We specifically deny you all other rights and freedoms and highly restrict the use of our product. Although I bet you clicked right on through all that licensing information rather than reading it anyway – we expect that much. In fact it is exactly what we hope for!” The man laughs and the rest of his crew follows along. “And one last thing son. We ll be coming back soon to pay you another visit if we find you ve made any illegal copies of our good ole home-style cookin to share with your friends, you understand? So don t even try because we re watching you. Really, we are.”
Bam! Darkness returns before you open your eyes to find yourself laying in bed again – soaked with sweat and permeated with the odorous smell of burnt fried eggs. Oh and how good they could have been you think, if only the recipe had not been protected by Closed Source Recipe Patents.
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Be aware. Someday this might become a reality. Don t let it! Use GNU/Linux and other Free and Open Source Software that is protected by the GNU GPL CopyLeft license, which guarantees your rights and everyone elses to the freedoms we all deserve. Use, Modify, Share, Educate. For more information check FSF.org, UBUNTU.ORG, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS (Written By: Chris Ward – drpoo@drpooville.org).
Posted by drpoo as Linux / Open Source, Personal Endeveavors at 12:46 PM PST
There´s some new ones up, again. Since the last batch, i´ve seen the President of Mexico Vicente Fox, seen the man who started the Free Software Foundation and the Free Software (open source, GNU Linux)…, i´ve worked here and there, studied….and dressed up in mi traje Mestizo tradicional (traditional Metizo suit) and gone dancing Jarana at a local village celebration! … will the excitment ever end?
Adios!
-Chris
Posted by drpoo as Photo Album, Personal Endeveavors at 11:30 PM PST