March 28, 2009
The Mayan Templo de los Siete Muñecos is cool, but of less than maximum potential coolness when you get there after sunrise two days before the equinox.
When your Mexican guide jokes about the "chicken tacos" really being iguana tacos, he's probably not joking.
There was no way I was going to pay .70 a minute to websurf via satellite from the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. I only watched the news once, it was in Spanish, and I still don't know what Obama said nor the actress that died.
Black people really do have more rhythm than white people. There is a reason for the stereotype. And it's not just American white people or American black people.
There is no point in getting off the boat in Cozumel. Everything there is available in Puerto Progresso for 1/3 the price.
Any American who pays $75 for a "Segway Adventure" on the beach needs to be left behind as a matter of principle.
I could listen to a gray-headed Jamaican bartender all day, mon.
I'm back on my diet. Not that I gained any weight on the cruise - eating seafood and veggies two meals a day will not pack on the pounds. But I was amazed at how fat Americans, including myself, are compared to the rest of the world.
If you bring homework on vacation, you will do it, but it will not seem a chore.
Contraband Cuban cigars fit very well in the slide of a trombone.
Never try to throw books away on a cruise ship. On Tuesday I finished "War to the Knife," which had a broken spine when I received it via Amazon. I brought it on the cruise fully intending to throw it away, and I did, in my room. The cleaning guy took it out of the trash. On Wednesday, I threw it away again, and the cleaning guy took it out of the trash again. So on Thursday, I put it in a bag with a bunch of trash paper and threw it in the trash. The cleaning guy took it out of the trash a third time. So on Friday, I took it five floors up to one of the dining rooms, still in the bag, and threw it in the trash there. But I quickly discovered what looked like the trash was only a bin for napkins. No worries, maybe they'll get the hint and dispose of it. This morning at breakfast, Rogue sees the book sitting out on one of the tables. Apparently they pulled it out of the not-trash thinking someone threw it away by mistake. Next time, any book I no longer want I'll just leave in the ship's library, where it is guaranteed to never be read again.
There's no place like home.
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El_Borak (Bill Hoyt) says...
The real question is, does anyone disagree with it? Or are they just too afraid to come out and say so?
March 30, 2009 at 2:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
DOTDOT (anonymous) says...
The real question is whether iguana tacos are better or worse than crappy burritos.
March 30, 2009 at 3:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
El_Borak (Bill Hoyt) says...
Actually, I had a little time on the cruise, so I did the math:
|Rh((12NFD) + (3CW))| - |Rh((7EEW)+8(RCJB))| > 0
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N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N
Where |Rh| is the absolute value of the total Rhythm in the dance that followed dessert for a subgroup, NFD is a really nice family of 12 from Dallas that sat by us, CW is the total of Caribbean Waiters. EEW is the number of Eastern European waiters (7) and RCJB is the number (8) of random kids from the Jazz band* in the line. First I have to factor out N (which is 15, the same on either side) for an average (Avg), then subtract the Rhythm of the Europeans and Jazz Band kids from both sides.
Now, NFD and CW were both subsets of set "B," whereas EEW and RCJB were both subsets of set "W." Sets "B" and "W" occasionally intersect, but as there was no visible intersection of our subsets within those sets, we will replace the subsets with the sets in our equation, leaving us something like this:
(Avg(Rh(B)) > Avg(Rh(W))
Quad erat demonstrandum. Seriously, dude, you just act like I just sat around drinking foofoo drinks with Jamaicans all day long making this stuff up**.
* these are white Jazz band kids, so even though they theoritically have more rhythm than, say, chess club kids, we will see it doesn't help.
** And probably with really, really good reason, mon.
March 30, 2009 at 8:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
alm77 (anonymous) says...
I wanna go to the Yucatan.
But my husband shares Misty's view of cruises. :(
See here: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...
Actually, I want to take my kids on a mission's trip. I'm hoping to cure some of that "pretty-pretty princess" syndrome that my daughter has developed so that she (and her brothers) can appreciate what they have.
Sounds like you had fun!
March 30, 2009 at 9:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )