Monthly Archives: March 2015

Card stacks

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Today, after a pleasant meeting at UPR’s Graduate School of Information and Technology Science, just above the library, my attention was caught by some strange furniture in the shape of drawers. [Photo by me. CC Licence BY-NC-SA] Yes! They are … Continue reading →

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Creation and meaning and House of Cards

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

[No spoilers ahead] One episode of the new season of House of Cards has some Tibetan monks make  a beautiful colored-sand mandala in the White House. Like all good mandalas (and puzzles, by the way) a mandala -as a pure … Continue reading →

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Plaza de Toros

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The roads on the Internets are infinite. A simple question lingered on myself, which Hilda promptly answered. Were there bullfight arenas in Puerto Rico in the past? With real corridas? –Yes, she said. I remember one in Isla Verde, she … Continue reading →

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Nordic

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Ny-Ålesund is an extreme place, probably the northern-most inhabited place on Earth. It has a post office and a hotel. It is an international research station on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway. I came … Continue reading →

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