I quit

Nah, it's not as bad as you would imagine. I'll keep writing these petty articles and taking my silly pictures. Just not through this medium.

I think blogger is a good platform for blogging as a whole, but it's a lacking a lot of functionality existing in other platforms, it's impossible to work with external tools or do migrations after the change to the new service, and there are certain tasks that are impossible to do here (for example, working with multiple pictures and text). I don't mean this in a negative way for blogger. It introduced me to blogging and again, I think it's a good platform. You may interpret this as constructive criticism.

My new home will be wordpress:
LINK: http://tamgo.wordpress.com - RSS: http://tamgo.wordpress.com/feed/
LINK: http://tamgopics.wordpress.com - RSS: http://tamgopics.wordpress.com/feed/

You can find more of the same on both of these blogs. I did my best to copy the existent material to the new blog. It has mixed results. Still fighting to get better layouts and organization for tamgopics. Not sure I will get it. I could not pass over any of the comments. There were some interesting discussions on some of the articles, it's a shame they will stay here.

I hope I will be able to continue providing the same or superior quality content I have been doing so far. Thanks for keeping up with my nonsense for now. I apologize for making you change your bookmark or feed settings... to all 8 of you :).

UPDATE: I added RSS URL's. There's a small problem with they theme I've selected. For some reason firefox and other RSS enabled apps don't auto detect the feed while using it. I have to look into it. I really like the theme, so I hope I can solve the issue without changing it.

Milky Shoes

This may be perfectly normal for some of you cowboys out there, but I was just amazed. These are shoes from real cow hide. Maybe Snoop Dogg will trade in his gators for these. We might even see his majesty Michael Jordan getting an idea for his next pair of sneakers.

Twilight in 'La Siembra'

On a less comic note, this is a picture of twilight in the mountains of 'La Siembra'. In case you are curious, don't bother looking it up. You wont find it in any encyclopedias, and it appears as a small dots on very little maps.

This is one of the times where I want to throw my camera phone in a bucket of water and buy one of those overly expensive, extremely heavy, huge lens cameras. This photo doesn't do the scenery any justice. I was beautiful degradation between night and day over the sky. To the east it was completely dark, with some constellations already visible. While to the west, the sun was still inching away on the horizon. One of the most lovely sceneries I've seen in my life.

Big pair of cojones

This one is kind of hard to spot. Put in an arrow in my not so favorite color for illustration. This guy (under the shadow of the truck), apparently ran into some vehicle trouble. In the middle of the street, with moving traffic, with no one to assist him, with no emergency lights or signs just popped his head underneath the truck and starting poking around. Can you imagine what happens if another car slightly hits his truck in the back?

This is the land of men of great cojones, but most importantly, the land where anything is possible.

To my loyal fans... all 5 of you (I know that I am the laughing stock of the joke, but I love to say/write it any way :p ). I know I haven't been writing a lot lately, my apologies. It's not a lack of material or inspiration. I have the bad habit of writing what's on my mind, and at the moment that's not he best of ideas. Pretty soon you will get your periodic fix of the green's non sense. Just wait.

A mixture of old and new technologies.

I took this pictures on a not so recent visit to a place with not so fond memories... my old college. I have a friend who works in one of the library's departments.

The main computer that they use for their daily work is an old Compaq Armada, which can't even hold it's monitor open. So what does this brilliant, future engineer devise? Simple, he uses his portable dvd player to hold the screen and prevent it from falling.

I've heard of theories on synergies and bridging the technological divide between different generations, but this is pushing it a bit.

Who says we aren't in a siesta country?!

Mexico and spain have long had the reputation of being the primary siesta countries. I say, we are more a siesta country than any other. And to prove that you have these pictures. We got people sleeping, double parked, in the middle of the street, with moving transit! Yes we do! If this isn't the best country in the world, we have to be second best.

A shout out to verdecito. Thanks for the pic and the support for the blog who's list of subscribers is now in the... tens (expecting hundreds?? :p).

Sexy cows

Interesting visit to the super market. I walk up to the dairy section, and you find the usual products. On top of them there is a picture of a bunch of cows. Great, cows lead to milk, milk leads to all of the things in this isle. No big deal.

Take a closer look at the cows. I forget the name of the thing that holds the milk, but they don't look like what they are supposed to look. I've seen a cow up close and personal, and that's not how they are supposed to look. That actually looks a lot like something else I won't mention in a futile attempt to conserve the little dignity this blog has left. But hey, that's part of the fun of having little or no readers. You can do almost anything and not worry about offending someone!

The beautiful countryside

Took a recent trip to the wonderful city of La Vega (for those of you curious enough to click on the previous link, sorry couldn't find a better one). The trip to get there was probably more entertaining than the stay itself.

First 3 pictures are from a guy in a wheelchair who was easily defying the speed limit... in the middle of the high way! I just sat in awe from seeing this, and then imaging all the different ways he could seriously injured or worse. Guess I've seen too many horror movies.

Next pic is from a pickup truck that was carrying about 10-15 dudes. I've seen some pictures from the middle east that are far worse than this, but this is still funny!

Last and probably the lamest of them all, is a picture of a receipt of the placed we stayed in La Vega. The girl signed both company rep and client spaces. There are usually stupid people directly working with clients (which is one of the worse things any company can do), but this was just lovely.