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    <title>Advogato blog for ralsina</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:47:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:26:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Es sobre Divididos, debe ser en dos partes.</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Again: spanish only!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr class="docutils"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despu&#xE9;s de &lt;a href="http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/BB988.html" &gt;mi post de ayer&lt;/a&gt; acerca de la letra de "Paisano de Hurlingham" recib&#xED; un aluvi&#xF3;n de correcciones y explicaciones, que enumero a continuaci&#xF3;n.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;Opalina:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es una referencia a Opalinas Hurlingham, una f&#xE1;brica abierta en 1948, y abandonada desde 1994. Hay una interesante colecci&#xF3;n de fotos de su interior &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52996436@N04/sets/72157625596663926/" &gt;en flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La empresa fu&#xE9; a la quiebra principalmente por un juicio pionero sobre da&#xF1;o ambiental: envenenaba las napas de la zona con ars&#xE9;nico.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;La l&#xED;nea de tren:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;Es el ramal Retiro/Pilar del ferrocarril San Mart&#xED;n, que efectivamente pasa por Hurlingham. Mea culpa.&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Abejas con omb&#xFA;:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;Las abejas son trabajadoras. Omb&#xFA; es la marca m&#xE1;s conocida de ropa de trabajo en Argentina. Habla tal vez mal de m&#xED; que no se me ocurriera.&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Sapo explota:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mi mam&#xE1; hac&#xED;a explotar sapos forz&#xE1;ndolos a fumar, cuando era chica. No he o&#xED;do otra referencia a sapos explosivos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigue siendo un misterio el porqu&#xE9; el sapo explota los domingos a las 10.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Berret&#xED;n de mayor:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;Jerga zonal acerca de ser un malandra.&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Me acercan &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEl2_XEF_-0&amp;amp;feature=related" &gt;rock checo&lt;/a&gt;, aunque no eslovaco.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Desde ya muchas gracias por sus aportes!&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:27:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Visto de cerca, todo est&#xE1; hecho de nada</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=485</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry, spanish only post. But you can listen to the song &lt;a href="http://tinysong.com/LNWF" &gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3121/3245802353_516e1d01ed.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Divididos"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si tuviera 5 blogs y la energ&#xED;a para postear en todos, el cuarto ser&#xED;a "analizando demasiado la letra de canciones". En homenaje a ese blog que nunca va a existir, este ser&#xED;a el primer post: &lt;a href="http://tinysong.com/LNWF" &gt;Paisano de Hurlingham, de Divididos&lt;/a&gt; (probablemente mi banda favorita).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Primero, la letra completa:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Paisano de Hurlingham&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;poda neblina&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;moneda o bot&#xF3;n&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;ciego biling&#xFC;e&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;paso morales fue&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;sin la opalina&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;de Retiro a Pilar&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;busca el chancho al chabon.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Sapo explota en San Mart&#xED;n&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;los domingos a las diez&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;sable recto en la estaci&#xF3;n&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;berretin de mayor.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Canilla en el anden&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;gotea noticias&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;te grita el titular&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;mentiras sin picar.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Abejas con ombu&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;viajando en el panal&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;va la timba en el furg&#xF3;n.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Al parecer hay un cierto consenso (entre las tres personas a quienes les pregunt&#xE9;), de que esta canci&#xF3;n es la descripci&#xF3;n de un viaje en tren.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Las letras de Divididos no se caracterizan por ser interpretables linealmente, De hecho, sospecho que la mayor&#xED;a son simplemente una serie de palabras una despu&#xE9;s de la otra porque "suenan bien juntas".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;El primer verso "Paisano de Hurlingham" es el t&#xED;tulo mismo de la canci&#xF3;n, y, supongo, el protagonista de esta m&#xED;nima odisea suburbana. "poda neblina" es interesante. No encuentro (gracias google) ninguna referencia a esa frase fuera de esta canci&#xF3;n. Es posible que nadie jam&#xE1;s haya dicho "poda neblina" hasta que Mollo cant&#xF3; esa estrofa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Para que se hagan una idea de lo &lt;em&gt;raro&lt;/em&gt; que es eso, hay dos referencias independientes a "navaja desierta", que son dos palabras al azar sacadas del diccionario. &#xBF;Entonces, qu&#xE9; es "poda neblina"? Bueno, si es muy temprano, hay neblina, y el paisano la atraviesa, la corta, la poda. As&#xED; que, tirando de los pelos (que lo vamos a hacer bastante), podemos suponer que nos ubica temporalmente en una madrugada neblinosa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;M&#xE1;s obvio es "moneda o bot&#xF3;n". Habla de hacer trampa, de pasar un bot&#xF3;n donde deber&#xED;a haber una moneda. No se puede hacer eso con el cajero, ni con un vendedor, pero s&#xED; se puede en la limosna del "ciego biling&#xFC;e".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"paso morales" es obvia. Es la calle Paso Morales, en Villa Tesei. De hecho esa calle corta la v&#xED;a del tren que viene de Chacarita, lo que confirma que hablamos de un viaje por las v&#xED;as.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Es dif&#xED;cil justificar "sin la opalina". De hecho, no lo voy a intentar. "de Retiro a Pilar / busca el chancho al chab&#xF3;n" es tal vez la l&#xED;nea m&#xE1;s obvia: es un guarda de tren que busca a un pasajero que no paga, y lo persigue desde Retiro a Pilar. El problema con esa obviedad es que:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;El tren que hace Retiro/Pilar no pasa por Hurlingham&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;El tren que corta Paso Morales sale de Chacarita (y s&#xED; pasa por Hurlingham).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#xBF;Es tal vez que "De Chacarita a Hurlingham" es imposible desde un punto de vista de m&#xE9;trica? Ser&#xED;a comprensible si as&#xED; fuera.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Sapo explota en San Mart&#xED;n / los domingos a las diez" es oscura. Adem&#xE1;s de que ninguna de las l&#xED;neas de ferrocarril mencionadas pasa por San Mart&#xED;n. &#xA1;Pero el recorrido Retiro/Pilar es de la l&#xED;nea San Mart&#xED;n! Si bien no logramos esclarecer qu&#xE9; sapo explota, porqu&#xE9; ni d&#xF3;nde, s&#xED;  sabemos el cu&#xE1;ndo. Esto fortalece la hip&#xF3;tesis de que el paisano por alg&#xFA;n motivo est&#xE1; yendo a Pilar.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tambi&#xE9;n es sanmartiniana la referencia al "sable recto en la estaci&#xF3;n", por contraposici&#xF3;n al famoso sable corvo del General. Que nunca jam&#xE1;s tuvo el grado de Mayor (ascendi&#xF3; de capit&#xE1;n a general), lo que complica encasillar "berret&#xED;n de mayor".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Canilla en el and&#xE9;n / gotea noticias / te grita el titular / mentiras sin picar" es directa. Un canillita, un canilla, es un vendedor de diarios. Las canillas gotean, los canillitas gotean noticias. Gritan los titulares (aunque creo que ning&#xFA;n canillita grita los t&#xED;tulos desde 1947 o algo as&#xED;). Mentiras sin picar, porque el papel no est&#xE1; picado, todav&#xED;a, porque es un diario de hoy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Y llegamos a la estrofa final, "Abejas con ombu / viajando en el panal / va la timba en el furg&#xF3;n." Me resisto a dar una interpretaci&#xF3;n, mas all&#xE1; de que las abejas en el panal van apretadas, y que omb&#xFA; es una marca de papel para armar cigarrillos, que seguramente la gente de la banda ha usado en abundancia para drogarse, un ingrediente que sospecho importante en la escritura de sus letras.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#xBF;Qu&#xE9; conclusi&#xF3;n podemos sacar de este an&#xE1;lisis? Bueno, yo, personalmente, preferir&#xED;a no entender lo que dicen, que Divididos fuera una banda de rock eslovaco, y poder sentir la patada en la frente que es esta canci&#xF3;n sin tratar de entender qu&#xE9; carajo es "sapo explota en san mart&#xED;n". Pero eso es un problema m&#xED;o.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 02:28:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=484</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I am very distracted when I walk down the street. Or rather, I am paying a lot of attention, but it's spread over a whole lot of different things.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s1.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/97/a6/53/97a653243bafc7a94a84ef41c5c5a361ef5d1647_wmeg.jpg" src="http://s1.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/97/a6/53/97a653243bafc7a94a84ef41c5c5a361ef5d1647_wmeg.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her name is &lt;em&gt;Faith Popcorn&lt;/em&gt;. Seen on Mar del Plata.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;My favourite, since I am a compulsive reader, is reading street signs. There is always something off about signs in a foreign country. They are either about things other countries don't care about, or are written in a completely different style.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/14/b6/0d/14b60d5b36ab730e06a5926ccf72bcdfa435e93a_wmeg_00001.jpg" src="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/14/b6/0d/14b60d5b36ab730e06a5926ccf72bcdfa435e93a_wmeg_00001.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fixed hair braiding prices in Bahamas&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And sometimes you run into things you just have never seen before. Those things can be found anywhere, and can be anything, since ... well, you have never seen them before.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3094/5716714548_e2417400f0.jpg" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3094/5716714548_e2417400f0.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;And now, a hydrant wearing a sweater in Budapest.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;It doesn't have to be something really strange, it may just be something you have not seen before by chance.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5107/5680154086_a29bb67376.jpg" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5107/5680154086_a29bb67376.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Street sweepers get OCD too. Seen on San Isidro.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or maybe you just figure something out right there and then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;img alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3245/5706390321_dd9ee67e16.jpg" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3245/5706390321_dd9ee67e16.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;So that's why sugar cubes are better. Seen in Budapest.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or ... you don't know what to say.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5143/5644622284_f35d445242.jpg" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5143/5644622284_f35d445242.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seen at Tigre. I have no idea.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or things you don't have where you come from.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5029/5624290042_a792d40365.jpg" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5029/5624290042_a792d40365.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blimp! Seen in London.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or they are just so &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; to ask.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/9b/be/1e/9bbe1e8c53e414b0c1c652b6e8684586ddbe9d3e_400r.jpg" src="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/9b/be/1e/9bbe1e8c53e414b0c1c652b6e8684586ddbe9d3e_400r.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or you don't understand at first.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2176/5716716950_fb9287dfd4.jpg" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2176/5716716950_fb9287dfd4.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did that kid get there?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And then you do.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3594/5716730390_1bb2c9e200.jpg" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3594/5716730390_1bb2c9e200.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a trick fountain! Seen in Budapest.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or maybe it's something you see every day, out of context.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3179/5716152091_0ef7f3d92d.jpg" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3179/5716152091_0ef7f3d92d.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A typical argentinian milanesa sandwich. Bought on the street in Budapest.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5228/5776570777_9d360518f2.jpg" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5228/5776570777_9d360518f2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A DIA% supermarket, like the one near my home. In Istanbul.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And sometimes it's something you never suspected even existed, or how it could exist.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3504/5751512857_132b97f1cc.jpg" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3504/5751512857_132b97f1cc.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a chapter in a turkish book. It takes place at &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; wedding.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or out of context.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4140/4930179412_207cc28c56.jpg" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4140/4930179412_207cc28c56.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seen around the corner of my house.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or alien.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/b5/7a/a0/b57aa073af7ffad86ea3b153d8cd32fd87fcf2cf_wmeg.jpg" src="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/b5/7a/a0/b57aa073af7ffad86ea3b153d8cd32fd87fcf2cf_wmeg.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hotel towel, seen in Orlando, Florida.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/19/bd/83/19bd830ac32416219d08727a50bc7233444a3830_wmeg.jpg" src="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/19/bd/83/19bd830ac32416219d08727a50bc7233444a3830_wmeg.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I did get a haircut. Seen in London.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s1.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/55/46/56/554656e3ab605fa845871cdf621d2f619d86ae58_400r.jpg" src="http://s1.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/55/46/56/554656e3ab605fa845871cdf621d2f619d86ae58_400r.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seen in Jun&#xED;n.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s1.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/03/d5/cb/03d5cb310285dc21078f817c94e4dc9041643aed_wmeg.jpg" src="http://s1.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/03/d5/cb/03d5cb310285dc21078f817c94e4dc9041643aed_wmeg.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ferry in Istanbul&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;img alt="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/53/b9/f2/53b9f2a04f82e7ab38742a6e872ac20debcb585a_400r.jpg" src="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/53/b9/f2/53b9f2a04f82e7ab38742a6e872ac20debcb585a_400r.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;True TV Remote seen in a hotel in Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires, in 2004.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This, except for that TV remote, is just a small sample of what I have seen in the last 12 months. These have been a really &lt;em&gt;cool&lt;/em&gt; 12 months.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 01:28:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Caption contest!</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=483</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/3Cg-zzjobvA/BB986.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralsina/6826549249/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6826549249_f6a5593cb0.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="IMAG0345"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's my son drinking mate out of Donald Duck's skull. Caption?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:30:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Alfajor: theory and practices</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=482</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/v4eoAZT9Ij8/BB985.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/panaromico/4869356944/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4075/4869356944_f7d476d6e1.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="0708101901"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;An alfajor is, in theory, a simple thing. It's a dessert sandwich. The argentinian alfajor is usually filled with dulce de leche, which means you just can't screw it up. Even a bad alfajor is going to be good.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia_midori/5425568215/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5259/5425568215_ec8aa36b00.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are some regional alfajores filled with other stuff. Don't pay any attention to those impostors. They are hipsters wearing fake glasses they don't need. What you want is dulce de leche.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lr/3345030176/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3324/3345030176_50e1a34ac6.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="alfajor heaven"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the filling is only half of a sandwich, and a third of an alfajor. There is also the things that surround, hold and contain the notoriously sticky dulce: cookies. Some variants have tried to improve on the cookie by either going soft (cake!) or hard (Milka Mousse), but the real deal is a soft-ish cookie, not too soft (so the alfajor doesn't desintegrate) and not too hard (so it doesn't feel like eating a hockey puck).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grunge/2628983253/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3085/2628983253_fd68995b08.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Feliz cumplea&amp;#xF1;os"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is an impossible tradeoff, between dulce de leche and the cookie. Too much cookie, you are eating cookies. Too much dulce de leche, you may as well get a spoon and eat out of the jar (try it sometime). You want to balance, but the alfajor is walking food, it has to be edible by a 6-year old schoolkid while climbing a tree, it has to be solid enough, and not fall apart, and not cover him on melted frosting. The child has to be able to pass inspection of his hands after cleaning with just the wrapper and his own mouth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnseb/2615078801/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3204/2615078801_82cbbc2ff3.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Alfajor"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The alfajor santafesino has adopted a minimax strategy, maximizing the amount of dulce de leche per amount of cookie, by using extra-thin "cookies" that are more like crackers, adding multiple layers, and making the whole alfajor thicker. I love it, but it is not for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegold/2207639925/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2348/2207639925_d057a0ef43.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Alfajores Cordobes"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The alfajor de maicena goes in a completely different direction, having a tasty cookie that can hardly hold any dulce de leche because it's too friable. Somehow that works wonderfully as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/purblanca/2102567960/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2301/2102567960_8e27da5c8a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Alfajorcito de Maizena"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the covering. Chocolate, frosting, coconut, or nothing. Chocolate is bad in summer, melting and making you eat the alfajor from the wrapper as if it were a banana.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lu6fpj/3657898372/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3376/3657898372_2170319229.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Ahora si... ya puedo empezar a trabajar..."/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But if you have no idea what an alfajor is, which one should you have? I could point you to the most sublime alfajores, which would be life-changing experiences, but I will not. If you tried those, which you can only get in out of the way places, known only to initiates, where could you go from there? It's like your first date being with Sof&#xED;a Vergara. That would be just leading you into a life of disappointment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lu6fpj/3510617837/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3358/3510617837_7a981ae525.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Provecho..."/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So get a chocolate Havanna. Get a Cachafaz. Get a Capit&#xE1;n del Espacio. Get a tube of Jorgitos. And when you have done your apprenticeship, when you are an alfajorman, when you are ready. Then you will know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovelihood/4210648816/" &gt;
  &lt;img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2642/4210648816_8d1bc35a19.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Alfajores"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS: Thanks to Juan Rodriguez Monti for the idea for this post.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2012 02:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>$HOME is where .bashrc is</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=481</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/A1Bv3pUIZ5Q/BB984.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have a confession to make. For the last year or so, my main operating system has been Windows 7. Yes, I know, it may come as a shock to some, specially if you have read &lt;a href="http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/stories/BBS45.html" &gt;this&lt;/a&gt; which is my post that had most hits in a day ever.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How did that happen? What happened to me? What was I thinking? It's a boring and uninteresting story.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I joined Canonical. My old notebook wouldn't cut it. My new one would not take Ubuntu without a fight. I said "hey, I will live in a VM!". The VM was deadly slow. I had to develop windows software (yes). Some stuff would not work right on the VM. And slowly, things just started piling up in the bare-metal OS, which was, yes Windows 7 Home Premium.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a whole, Windows 7 is &lt;em&gt;not horrible&lt;/em&gt;. Most things work well. What it is, is a desert for a developer. Sure, you can get a plant to grow there, but you have to put a lot of effort into it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, today I installed Kubuntu Oneiric (absolutely no problem now!), gathered all the data from the old notebook, the VM, the windows installation, deleted windows, and moved into Linux again, and made Windows the VM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I missed it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/LateralOpinion?a=A1Bv3pUIZ5Q:sCGwMk76BXQ:yIl2AUoC8zA" &gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/LateralOpinion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/LateralOpinion?a=A1Bv3pUIZ5Q:sCGwMk76BXQ:bcOpcFrp8Mo" &gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/LateralOpinion?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/LateralOpinion?a=A1Bv3pUIZ5Q:sCGwMk76BXQ:M-N1vXRXMXk" &gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/LateralOpinion?i=A1Bv3pUIZ5Q:sCGwMk76BXQ:M-N1vXRXMXk" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Remaking the 70s</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=480</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/t9myvoy2EWM/BB983.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you have read &lt;a href="http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/BB960.html" &gt;Coffee and I&lt;/a&gt; ... well, let's say the 70s filter is proper, and that this was a happy evening for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img alt="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/0a/2f/c0/0a2fc0231fe0cb6e4a83ddd6e4e0546061e1997b_wmeg_00001.jpg" src="http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/0a/2f/c0/0a2fc0231fe0cb6e4a83ddd6e4e0546061e1997b_wmeg_00001.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stories don't repeat themselves if you don't let them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 02:27:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Consejos para el charlista t&#xED;mido</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=479</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/dGKSDT0ngj4/BB982.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry, spanish only today!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr class="docutils"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Debo haber dado, en los &#xFA;ltimos 15 a&#xF1;os, unas 80 charlas. O tal vez 50. Qu&#xE9; se yo, no las ando contando. Desde hace unos cinco a&#xF1;os a esta parte, me dicen que vienen saliendo buenas (con altibajos, por supuesto).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Entonces, inspirado por &lt;a href="http://readthedocs.org/docs/ref/en/latest/advice_for_pycon_speakers/index.html" &gt;How to be a PyCon speaker and do it well&lt;/a&gt; ac&#xE1; van una serie de consejitos para que los que no se animan a dar charlas se animen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Este es el m&#xE1;s importante: el p&#xFA;blico no muerde. En serio, lo peor que vas a escuchar es algo del nivel de "se ve que estaba nervioso" o "se perdi&#xF3; un poco en tal parte" o  "el tema no me interes&#xF3; mucho". En la gran mayor&#xED;a de los eventos que he estado, no hay ning&#xFA;n &#xE1;nimo de agredir al orador. Nadie te va a tirar tomates. Y al d&#xED;a siguiente nadie se va a acordar si estabas nervioso.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ten&#xE9;s que saber a qui&#xE9;n le est&#xE1;s hablando. Hac&#xE9;te un modelo de como es tu espectador ideal. Hac&#xE9; una charla que le pueda interesar a ese modelo. Si trat&#xE1;s de hacer que le guste "a cualquiera" entonces no le va a gustar a nadie.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pens&#xE1; mucho el t&#xED;tulo. Si tu charla es para principiantes que quieran aprender flask, ponele de nombre algo como "Introducci&#xF3;n para los que no saben nada nada nada de Flask pero quieran aprender un poquitito de como usar un microframework web que est&#xE1; buen&#xED;simo". No le pongas "Flask: un microframework web". Ok, no le pongas ninguno de los dos, ponele "Flask desde cero". Yo le pondr&#xED;a "Flaska, no me claves, los pu&#xF1;ales, por la espalda" pero eso es porque me gusta Bottle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No pienses los slides. Pens&#xE1; lo que quer&#xE9;s decir. Una vez que lo sab&#xE9;s, part&#xED;lo en, ponele, 10 pedacitos de 3 minutos, y hac&#xE9; un slide para cada uno. Si no pod&#xE9;s hacer un slide, hac&#xE9; dos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Los slides son el men&#xFA;, no la comida. Los slides no son la charla. Si puedo entender la charla viendo los slides, entonces o tu charla est&#xE1; estirada, o ten&#xE9;s muchos slides. Asegurate que se lean. No importa tanto que sean lindos: &lt;strong&gt;que se lean&lt;/strong&gt;. Regla: pon&#xE9; los slides en tu notebook, pon&#xE9; el brillo en m&#xED;nimo, y miralo desde 3 metros. Si no lo ves, no se v&#xE9;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cuanto ensayar, depende de cada uno. Yo no ensayo, pero es porque soy un tarado. Si ensay&#xE1;s demasiado sale medio sin espontaneidad, tal vez. Pero si no ensay&#xE1;s nada, a veces ni sale. O sea, ensay&#xE1; hasta que te sientas c&#xF3;modo, y ah&#xED; par&#xE1;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Habl&#xE1; como habl&#xE1;s vos. No trates de hablar como otro, aunque te guste mucho mucho mucho como habla. No trates de ser gracioso, si sos gracioso va a salir natural. No trates de ser interesante, si la charla es interesante alcanza.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No hagas cosas interactivas a menos que est&#xE9;s segur&#xED;simo que no te vas a trabar.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No hables de cosas que no te interesen "porque son importantes" o o "porque alguien deber&#xED;a hablar de eso".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Habl&#xE1; fuerte, aunque tengas micr&#xF3;fono. Cuando habl&#xE1;s fuerte habl&#xE1;s m&#xE1;s claro y pausado.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ten&#xE9;s que saber cuanto tiempo te queda. Todo el tiempo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ten&#xE9;s que tener dos o tres puntos para terminar la charla. Cuando se te va acabando el tiempo, la termin&#xE1;s en el que mejor te quede.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Dec&#xED;les lo que les vas a decir, dec&#xED;lo, y dec&#xED;les que les dijiste"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Si no sab&#xE9;s, admit&#xED;lo. Si guitarre&#xE1;s, dec&#xED; "estoy guitarreando, pero...". Si est&#xE1;s nervioso dec&#xED; "me estoy meando", si te perdiste tir&#xE1; todo a la mierda y un&#xED;te al circo Rodas (o ped&#xED; un segundo para ordenarte).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pon&#xE9;le onda a la parte de preguntas y respuestas. No pongas cara de "no entendiste una goma de lo que dije", porque capaz que es culpa tuya.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Romp&#xE9; todas las recomendaciones que te d&#xED; si te parece que va a funcionar mejor. Por ejemplo, capaz que quer&#xE9;s tener 100 slides y pasar uno cada 10 segundos. O no quer&#xE9;s tener slides. O quer&#xE9;s tener slides que hablan de otra cosa. O quer&#xE9;s tener slides que pasen solos. O quer&#xE9;s tener slides interactivos y actuar Mingo y An&#xED;bal contra los fantasmas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Y la m&#xE1;s importante (si, ya s&#xE9; que dije que la otra era lo m&#xE1;s importante, no jodas): followup. Invit&#xE1;los a charlar cuando te vean en el pasillo. Dej&#xE1; tu mail, blog, twitter o lo que sea. Invit&#xE1; una cerveza. La charla en s&#xED; sirve hasta ah&#xED;, es mejor si de la charla sac&#xE1;s un amigo.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Garbage Collection Has Side Effects</title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=478</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/HGqy95KNb3U/BB981.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Just a quick followup to &lt;a href="http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/BB979.html" &gt;The problem is is, is it not?&lt;/a&gt; This is not mine, I got it &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/p3owk/the_problem_is_is_is_it_not/c3mdwfg" &gt;from reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This should really not surprise you:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="background: #f8f8f8"&gt;
  &lt;pre&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;]
&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; b &lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;]
&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="color: #AA22FF; font-weight: bold"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; b
&lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;False&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; b
&lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;False&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt;(a) &lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt;(b)
&lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;False&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;After all, a and b are completely different things. However:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="background: #f8f8f8"&gt;
  &lt;pre&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;] &lt;span style="color: #AA22FF; font-weight: bold"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;]
&lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;False&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;] &lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;]
&lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;False&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt;([&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;]) &lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;==&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;id&lt;/span&gt;([&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color: #666666"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;])
&lt;span style="color: #008000"&gt;True&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Turns out that using literals, one of those things is not like the others.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, the explanation so you understand why this happens. When you don't have any more references to a piece of data, it will get garbage collected, the memory will be freed, so it can be reused for other things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the first case, I am keeping references to both lists in the variables a and b. That means the lists have to exist at all times, since I can always say &lt;tt&gt;print a&lt;/tt&gt; and python has to know what's in it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the second case, I am using literals, which means there is no reference to the lists after they are used. When python evaluates &lt;tt&gt;&lt;span&gt;id([1,2])&lt;/span&gt; == &lt;span&gt;id([3,4])&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt; it first evaluates the left side of the &lt;tt&gt;==&lt;/tt&gt;. After that is done, there is no need to keep &lt;tt&gt;[1,2]&lt;/tt&gt; available, so it's deleted. Then, when evaluating the right side, it creates &lt;tt&gt;[3,4]&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By pure chance, it will use the exact same place for it as it was using for &lt;tt&gt;[1,2]&lt;/tt&gt;. So &lt;tt&gt;id&lt;/tt&gt; will return the same value. This is just to remind you of a couple of things:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;a is b&lt;/tt&gt; is usually (but not always) the same as &lt;tt&gt;id(a) == id(b)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;garbage collection can cause side effects you may not be expecting&lt;/li&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:28:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Sacrifices </title>
      <link>http://www.advogato.org/person/ralsina/diary.html?start=477</link>
      <guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LateralOpinion/~3/8IkrvWUGHo4/BB980.html</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry: english only because my kbd is acting up an typing is a chore.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr class="docutils"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here I am, writing in a place of evil so deep they charge you $56 (that's pesos) for a tiny sandwich and a bottle of water: the Gianni &amp;amp; Vittorio caf&#xE9; at C&#xF3;rdoba Airport.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's like Mordor, except the water is kinda-sorta-slightly-cold, and I carry no rings. And there is very little lava. But the evil... the evil is dense, as it can only be at airports, Minas Morgul, and perhaps the chorip&#xE1;n place near Lisandro de la Torre station (which I strongly                  recommend).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But why do I do it? Because I have already failed. I will not post everyday this year. I may not even be close. But I will post as much as I can. And I promise it won't be filler about why I did not do a real post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, onto the meat of this post we go.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's inevitable that airports will have expensive and bad food. It will be expensive because there are a limited number of sellers, and getting to be one of them is expensive. Since they can charge whatever they want, they have no incentives to provide quality or service.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Plus, they own a captive customer base, since you are locked there, and there is no place to go outside the airport etiher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That is classic government-mandated market distortion, with the airport management as the government, and you playing the role of you. This kind of clear examples are good because they  show capitalism and free market advocates actually have a decent point when they remark on the defects of imperfect markets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OTOH, I don't see any communists around here oppressing me, I see only happy capitalists taking my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS: it seems there was a tornado here today.&lt;/p&gt;
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