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Hey Google, just because I’m asking for Spanish to English doesn’t mean the translation of ‘Espan?ol’ is ‘English’. Come on guys, I mean I’ve used your translation service before, even with lots of editing but this takes the cake.

This was actually me trying to figure out how to talk about my high school diploma correctly. I was a good boy and found a real world example of a news quote from mayor Bloomberg. So I plugged my example in to (Google) translate the phrase “Diploma Avanzado de Regentes Endorsados para Español como Lengua Extranjera”. Google returned the supposed English translation of “Advanced Diploma of Regents endorsed in English as a Foreign Language”. At first glance you might even accept that. Then hopefully you realize, the translation for Español is not English. Let’s look again shall we?

Diploma Avanzado de Regentes Endorsados para Español como Lengua Extranjera

Advanced Diploma of Regents endorsed in English as a Foreign Language

That second line there, and this is mind numbing, the translation of Español is Spanish, not English. So, I just wanted to be one of the first to say; “Hey Google, recuerda que el español no es el inglés.”

 

 Castro McCain Clinton and Obama [0:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Again, standing in line for tha Anne Frank House, here comes a-ridin-by several well known political figures… namely visible; Castro, McCain, Clinton and Obama…

 

 Crazy Pidginz [0:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Standing in line at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Crazy pidgins are out here hoping for some bits of food… check it out.

 

 The Lying McCains [2:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Enjoy this little mash-up I made today from John McCain’s acceptance speech he gave on Thursday night at the end of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. I have to admit, and as if you couldn’t tell, I was a little pissed at Cindy. I can’t believe she would get up and try to talk human rights and dignity. I agree you have to think back to the time of Lincoln to pull off that stretch of the imagination. Take it from this ex-Log Cabin Republican, McCain is no Abraham Lincoln and Sara Palin is soooo not Hillary Clinton.

 

 Walmart Blue [0:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So we went into the new Walmart Supercenter in Canovanas to buy some things for the arrival of our guest on Thursday. Mostly, just a futon because I’m sure like to sleep on anything but the floor. I had gone to the Customer Service counter to ask for assistance with the futon because it was a pretty large box, though not really that heavy. It had the standard Walmart “Team Lift” sticker which was enough for me to not try it myself. I stood by the futon for an additional 20 minutes and I just gave up.

I decided enough was enough and here’s my official reaction on video. Take notice of the incessant alarm beeping in the background… and yeah… it was doing that the whole time I was in the store. So during the 20 minutes time I was standing around waiting for someone to help me, no less than 4 department coaches walk by, not turning off the alarm and not helping me. What’s a department coach you say? A department coach is what Walmart calls their department managers, only because they’re a ‘coach’ and not a ‘manager’, Walmart can get away with not paying a management salary or having to give full-time hours! No wonder no one stopped to help me (or that friggin alarm).

Anyway, as it turns out, like 5 minutes after I made this video I found a nice boy with a pallet jack who helped me to the front of the store with the new bed/couch. Yay futon… Booooooo Walmart.

 

 Gurami Gurami! [1:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So we finally got the new pond slash pool looking thing filled with water. Duly so, we took the three koi and the giant gurami and gave them what amounts to a penthouse apartment compared to the little pond they’ve lived in for the last 3+ years.

I took a video of gurami all happy swimming around and scoping out his new diggs. Enjoy!

i’ve been watching television… that’s as opposed to the podcasts that I normally watch during the week via the Internet (www.getmiro.com). so… CNN… lovin the news coverage regardless of the form… so right now i’m watching on TV…. anyway…

i keep seeing these commercials, however; that start talking about (paraphrasing) ‘we have taken 1.2 billion dollars and reinvested it in finding new sources of energy’… and while this rolls on the screen a picture of drilling depth analysis comes across the screen. i refuse to take that. i believe that is misleading immediately.

i think that finding news sources of energy would not include new places to do the same thing we’ve been doing. if oil companies just sucked it up and a handful invest in solar, another bunch invest in wind and so on then we could all just shut the hell up. EnergyTomorrow.org … let’s get real eh?!

so CNN, while i’m at it. why don’t you just replay the footage of McCain out in Columbia getting briefed about the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt? and remind the world that McCain was one of the individuals that had spoken against bush while overseas (to mention people that have broken that ideal Obama touched on while speaking with Sarkozy).

next order of business is the nuts. what do i mean about that? well i was watching the other day and i saw a news special about a commercial banned in the UK because it was anti-gay. Mr. T busts through a neighborhood to shoot snickers bars at this hip-swishing jogger boy. it was some funny stuff i tell ya. i didn’t mind the totality of it. the last part here he screams “get some nuts” was hilarious.

so in the same space, why can’t other people say nuts without it being n**s or n*bleep* expletive whatever. really. i won’t go on at length about this. but yeah… wow.

last thing… Obama isn’t acting like a president. the only people that are literally listening to this are listening to you guys in the news room. you treat him like a rockstar before, and now that he’s international you, the news outlets, have helped us put him on the presidential pedestal. don’t let’s stand back and act like current heads of state, former heads of state and all staff alike haven’t given their opinions A-PLENTY on all news shows. so… stop treating him like a friggin rockstar. clearly, however; the guy knows how to book a nice whirlwind trip. i could envy his passport stamps! (Paris will be so nice this year). either that or start treating McCain like a rockstar.

naughty naughty CNN…

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At just after 1:30 pm EST today, a car stopped at a the busy intersection of Ave Juan Ponce de Leon and Ave Theodore Roosevelt in the metropolitan district of Hato Rey, San Juan caught fire just as police and fire rescue crews reached it to quench the flames.

As temperatures grow this summer, more and more fires like this one occur every year all over the island of Puerto Rico as well as the rest of the United States. In NYC this year, during the month of June alone, fire fighters responded to 1,588 non-structural fires according to NYC.gov website monthly statistics.

With many people also fighting for cash to pump into their car for gas, many are also forgetting to pump some money into regular maintenance.

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As we were on our way to work today, this guy decided he had to turn left but he didn’t want to wait in line with the only two left hand turn lanes available. So he hopped right up to the side of us and sure enough he out the pedal to the metal to jump out in front when the left turn arrow came on. Nice job dude… were you late or somethin? Whoever you are in your Black 2000 Mitsubishi Mirage, Puerto Rico license plate number ECR 241, your car registration expired… I hope it was worth it!

So for anyone out there interested, I recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.6 at the behest of my hosting provider. I got an email basically telling me to upgrade or else they’d suspend my account. Needless to say, in addition to this site, I also host like 12 other sites. So I totally upgraded.

Unbeknown to me, this upgrade breaks the podPress version 8.8 that we all use to post the podcasts you see here. Well, I would like to thank Philip Molly Malone for posting a fix for this yesterday. I implemented what he said and BOOM we’re podcasting again!

Here’s the link to his fix and I suggest that anyone with a broken podPress 8.8 installed on WordPress 2.6 complete this very easy edit of your wp-config.php file. One little thing to make sure of is that you’re using the correct apostrophe when editing the file. I copy and pasted and the apostrophe used on the fix page isn’t the the right kind. You would do well to type it out manually into wp-config.php, using the apostrophe key that sits to the immediate left of the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your standard QWERTY keyboard.

By the way, as he states, the thing that breaks podPress is the new “revisions” feature of WordPress 2.6. I don’t really care about revisioning when it comes to my blog posts or podcast episodes so I’m more than happy to have it turned off by this edit anyway. HAPPY BLOGGING/PODCASTING EVERYBODY!