Minority Report

Saw Minority Report today. A thought-provoking Hollywood movie, a rare breed.

CA Blues

After being in New Jersey for a couple days last month I now find the arid southern California landscape a bit too harsh for my tastes, especially when coupled with smog.

I appeal to Angelenos to wake up and embrace more well-planned public transport and not half-baked efforts like the current Metro line that hardly goes anywhere. The federal and state government should push for more environmental vehicles. We do, after all, want our kids to live in a city of clean air, don’t we?

Flying Varig

Two good things about flying Varig, the Brasilian national airline:
1) they serve guarana (Antartica, not the crappy Brahma) and
2) they show football (soccer) documentaries.

118 yen to a dollar

It’s 118yen to a dollar today! A bit of good news for those traveling to
the US from Japan.

salon.com

As reported earlier as a rumor, Salon is having trouble raising cash. Unfortunately it seems to be true.

I am in the process

I am in the process of simplifying the UI for this blog again so please bear with me. Let me know if you like the new design.

World Cup

In the end, it did come down to a very creative play for Brasil to seal the win against Germany: Rivaldo’s marvelous move to let an incoming pass go through his legs to Ronaldo behind him fooled the German defenders long enough to let Ronaldo score.

World Cup 2002 is finally over; an incredible month of action that featured a courageous Irish team, tournament surprises Senegal, US, Korea and Turkey, a German goalie as tough as a wall and some beautiful attacking Brasilian football.   

Personally World Cup also made me sick - not just once, but twice - as I was trying to stay up all night to watch the quarterfinals while travelling to New York for a week. Or maybe it was the Adidas ”Got Fever?” ad line that got to me. Whatever the case I was burning with real fever on two separate days during my stay in the Big Apple.

It’s time to go back to normal.