Recent Posts Tagged With 'argentine culture'

• Racist Test

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 12:08 in obama, racism, huffington post, argentine culture, comedy central indecision

  Quick, what was your first reaction on seeing this Russian ad for a new ice cream?I have to admit that I thought it was cute and funny. I saw this at Comedy Central´s Indecision blog, who in turn got it from Huff Po. Some of the comments are also pr...

• Tickets? Update - Novedades

  Posted on Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 06:54 in argentine culture

  One of my favorite bloggers in Argentina has asked me, pretty please with cherries on top, to print the letter that I left on the windshield of the idiot that parked in front of my garage.Yep, that is the only thing that I did. I wrote a letter in Sp...

• Tickets? Who Needs Tickets?

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 07:04 in politics, community, argentine culture

  ***Spanish translation follows at the end of post***Version en castellano sigue al pie de la notaOne of my pet peeves on living in Argentina has raised its ugly head. This particular behavior by a segment of the local population really drives me up t...

• "You're off to Great Places!"

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 12:40 in chicago, human resources, NPR, flooding, this american life, sugar and spice, argentine culture, the audacity of government, edde, universidad torcuato ditella

  I have recently made a couple of presentations to some local universities that have hosted American MBA students.The first one came through my wife´s past involvement with EDDE. She used to be a professor in their MBA program. They were doing a seri...

• Things that bugged me about Argentina (some still do)

  Posted on Friday January 11th, 2008 at 10:57 in argentine culture

  Like everything in life there is always something else to every story, a flip side to every coin. Argentina is no different. I previously wrote about some of the things I liked about my new home. Now, after living here since 1999, I realized that I d...

• Boca, Indian restaurant, Fog, Ear Infections and Pizza

  Posted on Saturday June 9th, 2007 at 13:59 in misc., argentine culture

  Before the Spider-Man movie last weekend, my wife and I went to a grand opening of an Indian Restaurant called Tandoor with another couple, Hernan and Andrea. While we were strategizing on how best to get a small plate of chicken ticka masala my wife...

• What are you going to do?

  Posted on Tuesday April 10th, 2007 at 12:31 in argentine culture

  I participate in a virtual group called Buenos Aires Newcomers Group. This group was started by an American expat in Buenos Aires. She started this group as a sort of support group for expats moving to Argentina. With this group the expats can shar...