Voor Borboleta

Voor Borboleta
Originally uploaded by clearwater.

July 2007

From the river banks leading to Rotterdam, the wading bird lifted off, circled me as giving me signals, blinked his eye and flew away.

I knew immediately who he was talking to.

Zeker.

:o)

Sheep/dog shearing

Sheep shearing
Originally uploaded by andriagirlie.

This is what I did to my dog 2 months ago . . .. besides the difference in scale of work, the image was kind of the same!!!
I got 2.25 pounds of hair out of the little beast puppy!
I'll get it back to spin by the end of July . . ..

Feliz Año Nuevo para Tutti!

Feliz Año Nuevo para Tutti!
Originally uploaded by clearwater.

Welll, we decided, Fofó and I, to spend the last day of the year 2006 on the slopes of West Virginia. It is far far away west, from Baltimore, but in this age of climate change, it is the only place to have snow in this region. 1500 meters of altitude within the clouds.

But we loved it, and here is his profile after having played in the snow, "that strange white stuff that is funny to my paws".
Some pictures of him, and me, and ...

Happy New Year 2007!

Primera Tomografía de mi Sobrina/o

Primera Ecografía de mi Sobrina/o
Originally uploaded by clearwater.

Cecilia fue a que le hicieran la primera ecografía de la pancita y Nano me mandó los resultados en fotos.

Ya se le ve con todas sus presitas!!!!!

Essssaaaa!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm para mediados de julio sabremos .. .

Mi Buenos Aires Querido . . .

Río de La Plata, Delta del Paraná, Costanera Buenos Aires
Originally uploaded by clearwater.

Un año ha pasado desde que aterricé en tus tierras con Paulette.
Un año y se extraña.

Last night I dreamed I was there. I had taken a blitz flight leaving everything here, and I felt I had never left.
Suddenly, rowing with my Mom in the Tigre I started talking to her about how beautiful is to leave and be back, but suddenly I remembered in the dream, that I had my life in Baltimore, with my house, my puppy, my love. How to make both compatible?
How to be part of both sides at the same time?
How?
How???
Being in BA I had the revelation that I would miss my life in the northen region.
And as it happened just a couple of time before in dreams, I started to dream solutions, try scenarios, try alternatives.

I just remember one, because it came as a surprise: live 6 months in each place!!!

How can I do it?
Which season to pick? Summer-Summer? Winter-Winter?

I love these dreams. I have a glympse of what it would be like to live as an Athshean, in Ursula LeGuin's "The Word for World is Forest"

more on the Athsheans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_is_Forest
more on Ursula:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leguin.htm


...cuando yo te vuelva a ver!!!

and then there was light ...

and then there was light ...,
originally uploaded

by clearwater.

It is a really big industry . . . plant trees, pines, spruces, firs, let them grow a little and then, Kaput ! Cut them to be sold in December, each year.
After the holly days, the trash collectors pass on certain dates to collect all the dead trees.
I don't know what they do with the corpses. Mulch? Compost?
Several questions come to my mind:
How big is the surface used to plant these trees?
What's the volume of the market?
What's the environmental impact of this industry?

At this point, when I took the picture, I was enjoying the momento a lot, with mi Paulette, JC the esculptor and our dogs.
My brother Nano had visited us and in the morning before leaving to Hamburgo we went to pick a tree for the Kbin. A Frazer Fir tall as a person stands in the Kbin's deck, now completlely lighted for the occasion.

Happy Xmas. . .not yet, thou we are getting ready.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

red diamonds

I don't know if it was because of the reading of the short story of the crabs late at night or what, but I had a funny dream where I was carrying red and clear small diamonds in a small plastic bag with ziplog all over the place. I had to give it to somebody in payment for something else.

I assumed that the little bag was worth a lot, so I found myself walking in the middle of Buenos Aires and asking myself, if I was crazy of what, not having this diamonds deposited in a vault, more secured, instead of heving them in my jacket pocket in the middle of the street!!!!!

Maybe it's better to be hidden in large numbers than been an obivous carrier of something valuable! Other than your own life, of course, that in the past century and in this, has been and it is such a a low cost commodity.

"eCompanies on the Island"

I found it. I can't believe it yet.

Russian short stories translated into english.

http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/

What sent me into the search? eBay buys Skype, Yahoo buys Flickr, Google buys Blogger, Mr.Portenho has the bad idea to update to the new blogger's site and an hour lost to try to login again.

The result is the text in english of Anatoly Dneprov titled "Crabs on the Island" (Крабы идут по острову) about an experiment with robotic crabs that evolve from a simple first specimen landed an island in the middle of nowhere. This specimen has the ability to reproduce itself eating metal burried across the island.

The result . . . I invite you to read the text. But the evolution of a fake crab population could resemble pretty much to the industrial organization process seen in the eBussiness, where small little companies are being absorbed by other who grow fat and then they migh eat each other.

The text can be downloaded from http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/cafe/crabs_w6.rar

Found some pictures of Anatoly Dneprov (11.18.1919-1975 ) for whom I didn't have a face, and ilustrations of the story. Data on Dneprov at http://193.40.240.76/sfbooks/teosed.asp?autor=327&krit=Vorm

I also found a paper in which this story and "Nitrogen"by Primo Levi are used to evaluate the ability of short stories to teach science (http://www.pantaneto.co.uk/issue12/negrete.htm)

Very Cool!

I want to thank the President of the Internet!!!!

This is a continuation of my flickr page, with maybe another name, another media, but the same image idea, translated in words. Daily personal and regional happenings that affect or show what is in the hairy soul of mine.

http://flickr.com/people/clearwater

Encouraged to open this space by Papalettefilms, here am I, Mr.Porteño, a votre santé.

Baltimore, Md, "one of the most hostile corners of the world".

Monsieur Porteño