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its been a fun and interesting two and a half weeks here. i hope the lack of proper punctuation van be tolerated as i write this from my kindle. my laptops transformador randomly went out.. and is hopefully being repaired.

my aprehension of spanish is slower going than i had hoped. argely due to not studying hard for a week or so

two chicas.. claire from cottland and carolin from germany.. imposed a social life onto mu otherwise hermit self. we went dancing and met locals and booked a trip to catatumbo.. basically the only wonder i really wanted to see in vzla.

A little lazy and tired to go into great detail.

I was supposed to have a ~7 hour layover in caracas; which ended up being more like 11 hours. I befriended a couple nice ladies which was really fortunate. After our flight time came and went; they announced something (which I couldn't understand) and half the people got up and moved to another gate.

Alive and well. Despite all the travel warnings and stories of sketchy boarder guards everything was really smooth for me coming into Venezuela. Passed through immigration quickly; got a bit of a pause on my passport which was half eaten a couple years ago by my mother's 300 year old dachsund. She just rubbed it I think to check if the laminate would seperate, which it didn't.. and let me on my way.

to anyone wondering where the responses to their emails are, i am sorry. i have found it impossible to get wireless access for my laptop. i outsecured myself from my gmail and my attempt at an alternative with hushmail did not work. the kindle browser does not play nicely.

Been in florida for a couple weeks. Spent some really nice time with Sam.

I will be in Aruba for a couple days, then take a bunch of short flights:

Aruba->Curacao->Caracas->El Vigia Airport

From El Vigia it's an hour or so Taxi to Merida; I will be there for ~1 month.

See some photos at http://gdot.imgur.com/

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Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme

I love it.

www.asrblog.com

I don't see anyone really talking about it, but it's really amazing the history of Anonymous. This recent debacle with Allan Barr (may he reap the benefits of humility) and his talk about "founders" and "almost founders" of 'Anonymous' kind of made me furl my brow.

From Reddit

But I'd like to know how thousands of climate scientists got together in secret and pledged to all falsify their life's work for some reason?

I am going to answer this seriously in the hopes you are really open minded, or someone is that reads this. First, let me state that I seriously consider the possibility I could be wrong in my analysis but it makes far more sense to me than the anthro-warming crowd.