sábado, setembro 20, 2008

Barack Obama on Brasil ballot


I came across this article today - rather an amusing idea. It's a little like our "no ducks can wear pants" kinds of laws, only it actually gets used.

quarta-feira, setembro 03, 2008

Not a hurricane


Freaky weather is far and few between here, although every time it rains we have random flooding problems in various places. You'd think some where some engineers would have decided to tackle this problem, but none of them seem to be here. In the mean time, this is what a storm looks like when it comes off the ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

segunda-feira, setembro 01, 2008

Hey, who's that?


Scattered about Salvador are some rather distinctive billboards.




Look closer.

The caption here is "O Poder Mudou" - "the power has changed," "the person in charge has changed," or what have you. A friend of mine here who is rather Obama obsessed is worried these signs will jinx the election with that kind of statement. So we shall see...