bwb's blog http://www.mojud.com/blog Tue, 08 May 2012 15:17:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 La Recoleta Cemetery http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/05/03/la-recoleta-cemetery/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/05/03/la-recoleta-cemetery/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 01:05:36 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2409 La Recoleta cemetery:

is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, Raúl Alfonsín, and several presidents of Argentina.

It was a beautiful place, and creepy. Amazing graves, some mini churches, a beautiful example of extravagance. Kinda like pimp my ride, but instead they pimped their gravestones.

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Back in 2008, experts measured the airborne particulates in the city at 444 micrograms/cubic meter while the normal should not go beyond 50. Santiago is also unfortunate to have high ground-level ozone based on WHO studies.

From this link.

Guess I’m going to have to find a gym to run in for the month of May while I’m here.

They have a pretty good running path although surrounded by 6 lane traffic. Better than most cities but still sucks, the pollution is out of control. Hopefully they can pull a Bangkok and fix pollution as quickly as possible.

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Take a hard look at this wine. A hard look.

Got it?

This wine is fucked up.

It created about a 1.5 to 2 hour conversation. First we thought the wine had gone bad, then we just thought it was bad wine, then we realized it smelled like Tequila, then we thought it was bad wine, then we though it had gone bad. Repeat.

It did test like Tequila. It might have been tequila and cranberry juice. We ordered shots of tequila and confirmed it tasted/smelled like tequila. Theories of plants mating between fields emerged, genetic science, nano technology, it’s hard to say what “man” did to this poor wine.

A small 33.3% of the crowed surveyed indicated it tasted like cigarettes.

Then Joel detected a faint port taste, which was confirmed. It was still bad wine, which smelled like tequila, and for the first 10 mili seconds tasted like port.

This is the modern art of wine. It challenges what you think “good” wine is. And as Joel said, “this is the wine that will bring you back to when you first tasted wine as a kid”. Because it is fracking gross. And challenging? The thing is they make good wine, so are they purposefully making bad wine? What is good wine? What is bad wine? Where am i?

RATING: NEARLY UNDRINKABLE
*I didn’t think such a thing was possible.

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/04/29/the-modern-art-of-wine-familia-zuccardi-innovacion-touriga-nacional/feed/ 2 Abraham Lincoln Quote On Patent System http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/04/27/abraham-lincoln-quote-on-patent-system/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/04/27/abraham-lincoln-quote-on-patent-system/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:27:46 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2386 Loving this quote I found in a book I was reading:

The patent system changed this, secured to the inventor for a limited time exclusive use of his inventions, and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

From the book The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention. One of the best books I’ve read so far this year. Read a review at the New York Times.

PS. Abraham Lincoln received Patent #6,469 for “A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals” on May 22, 1849.

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The first 5 or 6 days were pretty cold, windy, and wet but the last week was beautiful with clear blue skies and barely any wind. I hiked a ton, saw quite a few glaciers, did a few trail runs, and had a few days of going so high I was trudging through snow. Great trip and very relaxing.

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/04/27/elchalten/feed/ 0 Luigi Bosca – Malbec http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/luigi-bosca-malbec/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/luigi-bosca-malbec/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:10:09 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2328

Not too bad, a little too acidic but not bad. Drinkable!

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/luigi-bosca-malbec/feed/ 0 Movie Rec: Warrior http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/movie-rec-warrior/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/movie-rec-warrior/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:59:06 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2324 I strongly recommend watching the movie Warrior, fantastic movie! Not a lot of people saw it which is a shame. About family and brothers, all set in with a MMA / new American economy backdrop.

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/movie-rec-warrior/feed/ 0 What Religion Are You? http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/good-answer/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/good-answer/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:49:12 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2318 Check out this great answer from the founder of Khan Academy when asked what his religion was?

If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I’m the same religion as you.

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/31/good-answer/feed/ 0 “Nobody’s dreaming about tomorrow anymore”… http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/19/nobodys-dreaming-about-tomorrow-anymore/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/19/nobodys-dreaming-about-tomorrow-anymore/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:24:51 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2309 This is a fantastic much watch video!

I love it and agree, read the rest of the article here and here!

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/19/nobodys-dreaming-about-tomorrow-anymore/feed/ 0 Mendoza and Argentina Wine Country! http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/03/mendoza-and-argentina-wine-country/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/03/mendoza-and-argentina-wine-country/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:06:17 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2287 I spent a week in Mendoza with Rose and Steve and had a blast! Mendoza is in the largest wine growing region of Argentina and next to a lot of mountains (which you can see the snow capped peaks in the below pictures). We drank a lot of wine, went on a day long biking tour of vineyards, and ended up at a small beer garden. We were there the week before the massive wine festival, glad we missed that as prices for a place to stay doubled and looked like it was going to be crazy. Great running too, they have a fantastic huge park with trails in Mendoza.

It takes 14 to 16 hours on a bus to get to Mendoza from Argentina, basically going width wise across the entire country.

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/03/mendoza-and-argentina-wine-country/feed/ 0 Buenos Aires! http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/03/buenos-aires/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/03/03/buenos-aires/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:41:57 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2277 I’ve been in BA for about 3 weeks and it is an amazing city! I’ve been working a lot so when I’ve had free time just been wandering around a bit, so not too much to report. Mostly I have been enjoying the amazing food and wine :)

I love my apartment and a few pictures below, it is super funky and located in the San Telmo historic district. Huge 12 foot ceilings with huge windows, small deck, etc. Rose and Steve are staying with me for a few weeks before they head to Uruguay.

I’ve back to running as hoping to start doing some races in 3 to 4 months once I’m back to longer distances. The sidewalks around BA are not too bad, I twisted my ankle yesterday on a curb but I blame Argentina women for that as sometimes your eyes can’t believe they are wearing heels that tall. I’ve been running at the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve which is only a mile from my place and amazing! Full of grass/dirt paths, quiet, tons of birds, and next to the ocean/river/marsh. I highly recommend running there if you are in BA. Check out pictures of it here.

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A great wine, tried a Merlot as tired of Malbecs! Smooth and red, highly drinkable.

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A light Malbec, little more fruity but still great! More info here, the description made me wonder, are their rules on what you call a “Château” on wine bottles or can anyone call their house a Château?

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/02/15/festivo-malbec/feed/ 0 Harper Brothers (Harper Collins Publishing) = Pirates http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/02/13/harper-brothers-harper-collins-publishing-pirates/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/02/13/harper-brothers-harper-collins-publishing-pirates/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:58:38 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2245 I was reading a book today about the history of cities and one of the little tidbits I really enjoyed was that the Harper Brothers and many other publishers pirated books to sell locally. Which is funny considering their positions now.

Like many publishers of the 1800s, Harper Bros. took advantage of the lack of international copyright enforcement. The firm printed pirated copies of works by such British authors as Charles Dickens, William Make-peace Thackeray, and Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. Harper Bros.’ best-selling pirated work by a British author was Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Accession of James II. The book sold approximately 400,000 copies, a figure that would classify it as a nonfiction bestseller at the turn of the twentieth century. Because international copyright laws were not enforced, U.S. publishers did not pay royalties to either the British authors or their publishers. The American market had grown to be so significant that, in 1842, Dickens traveled to the United States in an effort to secure royalties from the sale of his works. He was unsuccessful at recouping this money, but the trip did give Dickens the material for his book American Notes for General Circulation, which Harper Bros. promptly pirated.

Read more info here on this and other in the early publishing industries.

Just makes you realize that once you are in power the way you got that power quickly becomes “illegal”. You see the same thing with online startups, they abuse all kinds of spam rules, or what they do with information and once they have grown they rewrite history to pretend they didn’t do x.

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A delicious Malbec that I really enjoyed! This one is located near Mendoza (Uco Valley) and hoping to visit it later this month maybe. Learn more about this one here.

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Another Malbec, and yet another bottle where I can barely read who made it. What is with all the fancy writing people? Ya ya it’s cool. This wine was ok, but a bit acidic or something I couldn’t put my taste buds on. And not as smooth as the last one, maybe a bit too fruity and acidic. I think that was it.

That said, I drank it.

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This is part 2 of my absolutely riveting ongoing series on toothpaste…

Name: Fresh.dent
Owned by: Who Knows
Bought Where: Argentina

Verdict: It brushed my teeth just fine.

Doble Fluor.

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]]> http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/02/09/toothpaste-series-part-1-fresh-dent/feed/ 0 Vina el Gerno – Malbec http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/02/08/vina-el-gerno-malbec/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2012/02/08/vina-el-gerno-malbec/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:40:06 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=2222

This was a delicious wine from a small vineyard, I don’t understand how people describe wines as it always seems odd. Basically it was really smooth, tasted great, and I drank it. There is some additional info here about them too.

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This is part 1 of my riveting ongoing series on toothpaste…

Name: Kolynos
Owned by: Colgate-Palmolive
Bought Where: Peru

Verdict: It brushed my teeth just fine.

Super blanco.

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