http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo A geek speaks Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:39:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Walking down the central square of my college one day I saw a guy I did know but recognized.  I did not know who he was, did not know his name nor where I knew him from. This was not unusual, the part of my brain that is supposed to ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/12/24/does-the-name-%e2%80%98pavlov%e2%80%99-ring-a-bell/ Fire, water, kicks, bullets... all kinds of things in slow motion http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=20698 http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/12/11/things-in-slow-motion/ Last Wednesday, some friends and I visited Bar Pastiche (http://portland.citysearch.com/profile/41544861/portland_or/bar_pastiche.html) for their 'Cider House Dinner'.  We had originally planned on doing the dinner the previous Wednesday but Pastiche cancelled out on us because they had not received a replenishment of Cider.  The group was put off by a morning-of cancellation ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/10/07/pastiche-cider-dinner/ One camera plus two rock balancers and some editing software = Balancing Point. Check it out. http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/06/02/video-balancing-point/ The People With A Sense Of Humor (PWASOH) mailing list was started in 1991 when I sent a joke to a set of co-workers and got cheers from some and jeers from others who did not want their message boxes (this was before email) filled up with crap. I ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/05/14/the-death-of-pwasoh/ Tomorrow morning, shortly after 1:00 in the morning the time and date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06 at least by the US way of counting dates. http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/04/04/1-2-3-4-5-6/ You read about it in the guidebooks and the travel web sites, but until you see it in person you can't really know just how pervasive and disturbing the sex tourism in Thailand is. Every city I visited had girlie bars and working girls but the Sois at the ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/03/28/thailand-sex-tourism/ Spend a day in Asia and you will inevitably run into Engrish, those not quite properly translated phrases. Engrish can be weird, can be odd and is often hilarious. One of the funnier examples was a sign in the bathroom at the Top North hotel that stated 'Please ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/03/28/thailand-engrish/ I spent my first day in Thailand looking at one Wat after another. While the temples are impressive I found myself tired of them after just a few. Some consideration on the subject and I realized that what I was missing was anderstanding of what I was seeing. ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/03/28/thailand-temples-and-churches/ The closest thing I have to a personal credo is this: ‘every day try to taste, see, hear, smell or do something you have never experienced before'. Working an 8 to 5 job that requires a bit of effort to accomplish. Traveling in a foreign continent all ... http://www.geekroar.com/leopoldo/2006/03/28/thailand-wtf-moments/