2) NPR Stories -- I don't know why, but its only now that I've started reading NPR's website. A lot of interesting stories. For instance, they have an article about how turning off smartphones will supposedly make you think better. So does that mean that smartphones make you dumb and dumbphones make you smart? This is an important study, given that I have a dumbphone. Another story is about the growing popularity of street vendors selling food using redesigned bikes as food trucks. Sorry to break it to you, NPR, but they already do that in Panama:
Selling a coconut drink
3) Third Goal -- Interviewing a former Queen of the Manito Festival (La Reina de la Festival del Manito) for a Peace Corps video:
4) Book Review -- I'm not saying its because of less time spent on the internet, but I've now finished another book, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. I started it a few years ago, but got bogged down by way too many details in the story. I thought the book could've done with a bit more editing. Overall, the book was ok, but I'm wondering if it would've been better if Martin had stopped with A Storm of Swords. The subsequent books have paled in comparison after that classic.
5) Feeding Time -- every afternoon, the fish vendor throws out his leftover fish in the lake, by the bridge. That's when the alligators show up …
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I remember reading your past posts a week or so ago. I'm glad you're still blogging. Staying in Panama indefinitely?
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