Why I admire Jane Austen

Her novels…

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A story about outscape

He planted 12,000 trees in my country.

Besides he does Ruby!

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Got my tile

In the section you. Posted a self-portrait

Ken’s Yahoo Time Capsule

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Been visiting a couple of sites...

It’s amazing everything you can do. The Canal Referendum is just in two weeks, but I don’t see a good point in neither both sides. The “yes” and the “No”, guess politics is part taking sides and keeping with it.

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Smiles

Alia smiling

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My 26 things Challenge - Complete!

1. overcome
2. at the top
3. pile of
4. coated
5. button
6. soft
7. strange
8. package
9. team
10. fly
11. words
12. traffic
13. fresh
14. craving
15. town
16. small spaces
17. scream
18. boring
19. shadows
20. curvaceous
22. blur
23. tv
24. meaning of life
25. price
26. mirror
27. macro

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Got down to the un-attainable 200Lb mark

It’s amazing. My weight is dropping faster, I wonder what’s the difference between what I’m doing and fasting, excepting maybe I’m eating less than 2000 calories a day, taking supplements and vitamins and working out at the gym on a daily basis. I no longer feel tired, but the tension on my muscles after the gym tends to drop faster. Everything else is normal. I’m having a Cholesterol test on saturday.

See more progress on: Research Caloric Restriction effects on myself for 10 weeks.

Volunteer task #2

This one found trough Nabuur It’s a small cooperative of peruvian women in the andean mountains that wants to get in contact with distributors outside Peru. Manuel put a website for them. I’m proposing setting up an e-commerce shop to ease the administration and posting of the garments.

Cochiyara site built by a volunteer, Manuel

The e-commerce proposal for Cochiyara-Puno

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Volunteer task #1

Will help a small town in Kenia to post and sell their crafts trough a website.

I’m full with anticipation!! :-)

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God I'm hungry...

40% off of my daily caloric needs. I’m hitting the gym more often in order to prevent wasting.

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My 26 things Challenge

1. overcome
2. at the top
3. pile of
4. coated
5. button
6. soft
7. strange
8. package
9. team
10. fly
11. words
12. traffic
13. fresh
14. craving
15. town
16. small spaces
17. scream
18. boring
19. shadows
20. curvaceous
22. blur
23. tv
24. meaning of life
25. price
26. mirror
27. macro

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The problem:

I’ve a big collection of ebooks in pdf and lit format. I need to extract the isbn data from everyone of them (they are too many) in order to be able to upload them to Library Thing and create my online library.

See more progress on: Create a script to extract the isbn number of my pdf and lit ebooks

My 26 things Challenge

1. overcome
2. at the top
3. pile of
4. coated
5. button
6. soft
7. strange
8. package
9. team
10. fly
11. words
12. traffic
13. fresh
14. craving
15. town
16. small spaces
17. scream
18. boring
19. shadows
20. curvaceous
22. blur
23. tv
24. meaning of life
25. price
26. mirror
27. macro

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From rain streams to the seven seas...

When I was a kid growing in a poor neighbourhood mom didn’t allowed me to go outside when it rained. The strong rain would create big streams that would turn the dirty road into a river and as the rain force subsided small streams wouls run down the street. My whole knowledge of the world outside my neighbourhood was limited to the stories of ancient greece in a small tome of a encyclopedia some previous owner let at the rented home we had. I would see the streams running, would open the wood door without making a noise and put on the stream a paper boat, watching it get lost in the stream, sailing away to the lands mentioned in the books. Innocence is such a beautiful thing.

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I increased my chest press

God it hurts hahaha.

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On Zen and Let it go

I was pondering this evening in hot4550 advice , I thought I would meditate on it at home after work. Then I realized it. You see, when you do Zen, as a basic exercise you need to admit things into your consciousness, embrace them, find their cause and then let them go. I would describe it as forming leaves out of thin air then dropping them in a small creek, watching them flowing away with the stream. I know how to let things go, but I hadn’t been applying that knowledge to every aspect of my life.

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Woot!

Found a great online database of birds at natureserver.org

They have range shp files available. It’s feasible then to upload the map data as layers to a panama google map! Would be ubercool!

See more progress on: be better at identifying birds and bird calls

Vox Site

Good, just two pages more to go.

Prototype

I was wondering if instead of buying a laptop I should invest in a server.

See more progress on: Freelance trough RentaCoder.com to buy me a laptop.

Afraid of..

My relationship is 5 months old, we came from different backgrounds, meet by chance. I’m past beyond the times I would think of myself unworthy of anyone, but, I love her so much, that I can’t avoid thinking sometimes I should let her go because she has chances of finding a better mate, and I won’t be able to face not giving her everything I wanted her to have. If I only could put in order my life, maybe I would feel safe in the security I have something to offer her, but right now, uprooted as I feel from everything, she’s the only point of reference I have.

I’m also afraid of letting it go. I know I can, I can let it go my fears and embrace it, but would be advisable, shouldn’t I talk with her, explaining to her so she would have a choice, or I should expect I’ll be back on my feet sooner than later.

Mid 30’s crisis?

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The feared date is near

34 years old!! Looking back, I wonder how I managed to survive this long. I was supposed not to live beyond my 24 birthday anyways.

The Maelstrom of past year had subsided, and with it the excuse for not to put in order my life, living as a wanderer has that advantage I guess, you keep postponing because you belong nowhere.

So, Ken, what about the next 10 years?

See more progress on: get my life in order

210Lb

Steady. I’ve lose weight but it seems I can’t pass the 210lb mark now, and I’d been three weeks going to the gym everyday, maybe I’m just adding muscle weight.

Routine is:
1 hour at the treadmill
Weightlifting for two hours
30 min swimming
20min Sauna/vapour

See more progress on: Lose 40 lbs

A young man prays to the Black Christ of Portobelo

This one I took in a trip to Portobelo . Portobelo was an very important port found in 1519. Now it’s a sleepy town. The icon the young man is praying is the Cristo Negro (Black Christ), the legend tolds a spanish ship looking for harbour from a storm got to portobelo carrying the statue to South America, but everytime the ship tried to leave the port the storm would came back, so they left the statue and were able to leave. For his feast people would walk miles from other towns in the country, dressed as the Cristo Negro in purple in order to give thanks to the Christ for miracles conceded.

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Royksopp's What else is there

It was me on that road
But you couldn’t see me
Too many lights on, but nowhere near here

It was me on that road
Still you couldn’t see me
And then flashlights and explosions

Roads and getting nearer
We cover distance but not together
I am the storm and I am the wonder
And the flashlights, nightmares
And sudden explosions

I don’t know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

It’s about you and the sun
A morning run
The story of my maker
What I have and what I ache for

I’ve got a golden ear
I cut and I spear
And what else is there
Roads and getting nearer
We cover distance still not together

If I am the storm if I am the wonder
Will I have flashlights, nightmares
And sudden explosions

There’s no room that I can go and
You’ve got secrets too

i don’t know what more to ask for
i was given just one wish

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Been too busy lately!

Working a lot! going to the gym at early morning! How long I don’t enjoy the simplicity of the sun rising.

See more progress on: Photograph 43 Mornings

Started Hebrew classes by email!

Neta offered to help me to read Hebrew by email as part of one of her goals at 43things!

We’ll start to learn the typed alphabet.

Cool!

See more progress on: Become fluent in more than one language (including sign language)

It feels so great to workout!

Feel more energized, less appetite and better overall.

Routine right now is:

12:00am-12:40 Cardio/Treadmill
12:40pm-1:20pm Swimming
1:20pm-1:40pm Sauna
1:40pm-2:00pm Lunch and back to the office

It’s great having the gym just a hallway distance from the office!

Evening:

6:00pm-9:00pm Weights

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Here's mine

Here’s my entry!

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I seek refuge in the Buddha

I was walking back to the office, rain just stopped falling I was all wet and the heat had started to hit once again. An old man asked me for a minute of my time. He wanted to know if I had some work for him to do because he was diabetic and needed daily shots of insuline. I saw an ulcer under her tongue and he was missing his right feet toes. I hadn’t a single dollar on myself, and he told me the ampule cost was $15. I was going to dismiss him, the heat was so high, I just wanted to go into the office and cool off. And cool of, this old man was walking with helpers, if he hadn’t money for his medicine probably would have less for himself. I told him to wait for me at the entrance of the WTC. Tooked some money from the ATM and offered to him. His eyes were shinning when he saw the bill. I feel awkward, I knew the correct would be stay with him for a while, chat with him and help him to feel better. I couldn’t, I gave him a smile and a pat in the back, this was just one man, and like him, there should be a lot, that thought saddened me, my eyes became tearful while I got back to my office wondering who would be going to help him tomorrow, or the day after. I feel powerless, I look at the veiled smile of Chenrezig looking me with compassion from my desktop. So many questions.

See more progress on: Remember Where I came from

The power of motivation...

It’s amazing how a project that captures my imagination can totally overcome the most stubborn of my habits.

I completed the Inflationary Finance Module in two working days!

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Why I admire Neil Gaiman

He’s a talented writer, “American Gods” is one of my favourites.

Learn more about Neil Gaiman

Panama's Handcrafts's Fair

There was a handcraft’s fair or in spanish Feria de Artesanias de Panama at Atlapa Convention Center near home. I went on saturday since I wanted to buy a pair of “Cutarras”, handmade sandals that are used by my country’s peasants in the Azuero region.

See more progress on: be a tourist in my own town

This morning...

Here in Panama is rainy season.

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2 Months

This task is going slow!! I’ll need to do extra works to get there faster!

See more progress on: Save up six months worth of living expenses

Moving this Goal under Run a Marathon

I’m moving this goal to a sub-task of Run a Marathon.

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Sunrise over Panama Bay

It always start that way…

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#6/34 Gallito de Monte

You can find them along the roads crossing humid rainforests. They go from yellow to intense orange.

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Feared visit to the ULAT

I’m not ready
I’m not ready
I’m not ready

I can’t postpone this forever!

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#5/34 Panama's flag

I was in a hurry! Is the most easy thing to paint!

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#4/34 Diablico Sucio Mask

It’s an old custom from when we were a Spanish Colony, the dance of the dirty devils or in spanish “Danza de los diablicos sucios”, it is one of the 9 dances celebrating the Catholic holiday of Corpus Christi. People using masks made of papier mache and red and black suits would dance stomping their feet in the ground.

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#3 Dottie at the Rainbow Bridge

A friend’s dog, Dottie, just passed away. I painted this for her.

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From my window

Sun rising over the Panama bay

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#1 Tucan

My first paint. I’ll keep this goal until my birthday on August 30th.

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Arghhhhhhhhh!!

Now I’m undecided between typo3 and Mambo. Mambo is great, but to do something “useful” is painfully slow. Typo3 has a cluttered admin interface, it allows you to “build” the hierarchy, which is good, is something you can’t “see” within mambo clearly, but so many options that you get lost.

It seems I better build my own framework from scratch.

Typo3 would be great if I have a clear idea of a static site. But welcomepanama.com as I intended it to be would be half static, half organic.

I’ll go back to do more research.

See more progress on: Finish my website

New Friends...

Poland (3)
Norway (2)
China (2)
France (1)

See more progress on: make friends all over the world by the end of the year

Ran 15 min today

Day 1/90 15min

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Sunset atop the Avila Mountain looking towards the caribbean. Caracas, Venezuela.

Sunset at the Tamarind Cove. West Coast, Barbados

Panama City at Sunset. Panama City, Panama

Sunset at Accra Beach. South Coast, Barbados

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Strong enough?!

My lover and I practically destroyed my bed after a week of having know each other.

We went to a place that sells furniture, there was one with the right height, felt heavy enough (I hate when it starts moving) and solid. However the price was around the USD 2000, and it wasn’t even real wood! The saleswoman mumbling something about being imported from Spain! Yeah sure!

Well, still looking.

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These are the two first postcards I sent

The one at the top is a picture of Panama viejo ruins.

The one at the bottom is a couple of Emberá indians sieving for gold in a river.

See more progress on: receive a postcard from and send a postcard to every country through postcrossing

I'm lacking in this one since I'm not going to the gym anymore...

I’m mostly focused on losing weight:

I started Mu Thai training

I’m going to start for real to play Rugby on saturdays

I’m also going to run daily

I’m eating mostly protein and vegetables, lots of water and vitamins.

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Got 23 so far

Great goal, anyone knows if there’s a 43 sunrises , I do that too!

You can see my sunsets at my photoblog

There are sunsets taken in Barbados, Panama and Venezuela

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Great weekend!

I got to spent the weekend with mom. They prepared sancocho and a lot of people came over. It was good to see the family together again and see how much my mom is loved, her cellphone rang every 5 minutes since 12:00am the night before!

Pictures of the blast here

I also got to meet our newest addition, my little brother Emir , two years old now.

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