Friday, August 31, 2007

Hair Styles For Petit Faces

The first and last word

The Johnson Space Center in Houston and 'a kind of theme park failed badly. And with this spegnamo any latent enthusiasm.

I did not expect that I wore in the control center to play with the ISS, but I was hoping for something better than a big recreational facility for children who are hyperactive and annoying. For those who did not want to climb the tower of the Martian spiders or pretend to be an astronaut to the spacecraft to fire, fortunately there are activities' a little 'more' interesting.
For example there is 'a tour aboard a bus through the real building NASA's because they' are only such training and Mission Control buildings are only facades of buildings with non-explanatory, but the tour can visiarne some inside. I saw the old control center (the Apollo 13 just to make the idea) that had been dismantled, transported to the Smithsonian and then back again when they realized that this old junk could attract tourists. Here is an old wise man cares to remember with pride that the word "Houston" and 'was the first and the last to be delivered by the moon (respectively by Captain dell'Apollo11 \u200b\u200band 17) as if it meant something.
Then there 'the astronauts training center with the model of the space station modules and a repository of old rockets. There 's also a museum where you can self-celebration' touch a piece of moon rock, but that 'maybe' only terrestrial basalt. A discrete

disappointment, in fact. Today

American pizza but I speak again. Even a few lines to let you know that and 'the last post from Texas' cause tomorrow I leave for Virginia, they 'do not know what kind of internet connection I'll have' and how often I will be able to post 'support, however, I shall see that' feel.
Moreover there 'is a real risk that I end up out of the pan into the fire, in fact I'm going to stay here , in a suburb of Norfolk, home of my aunt that probably' will try 'even force me to go to Mass on Sunday. New challenges, in fact.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thank You Letters To Coaches

When the hurricanes had no names

Go to Galveston and 's a bit like going to Venice is bordering swamps and marshes in the distance you can see the towers of refineries Nung and take a bridge across the bay to the island. But turn to Galveston and 'how to turn Lignano: there' on the beach, the streets with the windows, the water park and so 'on.
In reality 'the beach' is very narrow and all free in the sense that there are no facilities, fixed or sun umbrellas, but wishing the machines because there are 'public beach here also means that we can go by car if you like (except in sections where the turtles lay their eggs).
In the nineteenth century, Galveston was the cities' more 'rich and important part of Texas, and one of the most' largest in the south, but in 1900 and 'came a hurricane that destroyed almost everything and decimated the population. The city 'is not never returned to the levels of the past and now it' s a secondary center, which is based on tourism.
The lesson that you can 'and learn' and not 'mandatory urbanize anything,' cause there are places where we simply can not build without incurring risks absurd or destroy an ecosystem to prevent them. The island is 'an accumulation of sand transported into the gulf from the Mississippi, but not' geologically stable, the sea would tend to move more and more 'to the north in his advance but that' incompatible with the needs of homes costruiteci above. After the disaster they built the Seawall, a wall along the south should serve to protect against future hurricanes and to establish a stable line to the island.
The morphology and then 'more' or something like this, moving from the center of the island towards the south coast: interior floor, luxury hotels, Seawall Boulevard, and then Seawall beach. But 'the wall protects only part of the coast, and' very long and a little 'more' to the west of the center there 'nothing that separates the inland from the beach. As this continues to move north, some houses before they found themselves a few hundred meters from the coast find themselves in the middle of the beach, but 'this is public and there you can' build on, then comes the government and is breaking down the homes. Obviously it does not happen overnight, so who finds himself in this situation or try to sell to a naive or hopes that the house is destroyed by a hurricane to collect the insurance money.
Maybe not 'clear, but when I go back there if I do a drawing.

Sea and 'a hot broth, full of algae in which people disappear into the life and fishing, in theory at the weekend there' s also one who takes the sun but I have not seen hardly any.

Tomorrow NASA.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Budweiser Memory Stick

. .. and do not resemble chimps

raining, so the trip to Galveston and 'delayed, but it does not seem to throw the case of the day, and then, after solving some logistical problem remained unsolved in Trieste you go to the museum of natural science Houston.
Surprisingly, this museum recognizes the dynamic evolution as the only reasonable for the development of life on earth, in contrast to what happens in Cincinnati where they have opened the Creation Museum, which aims to spread the word creationism. One of the attractions' major scientific institution and that 'a large model dinosaur with a saddle on his back, for if the earth' than 5000 years old and there were dinosaurs must have lived with men, and they certainly rode them. I found no picture as proof, but I think Palus and I tend to trust what Bill Maher said on TV, because after he said that the Bush administration and 'the worst in history American. However, I found a forum that is an interesting theme: "Jesus 'rode dinosaurs? If you' with or without a saddle?"

However, the museums and I 'have seen so far were all worthy of a visit, although generally too big and I get bored before the end of the museum

After a trip to Rice University to see how and' made local physics department. But only from the outside 'cause it's raining. The bricks are red? Find out looking at the pictures.

Meanwhile it continues to rain and you have to go shopping. So you drive a bit 'random between roads that could easily flood (last night and' stuck in the office 'cause once it had been raining too much). The problem is 'always the clay soil that fills with water, not drain it and every time it rains and' worse and worse. John as a geologist ashamed to live in a place like that, but now ...

However, even shopping reveals surprises me because I forgot to mention the Chinese quarter, also because 'there was not. Here we are of course the Chinese supermarkets with Chinese products that only the Chinese know how to prepare, some we see in the picture are other foods not remember the names or the terrible Thai eggplant. The atmosphere is different from the usual supermarkets, or rather a different smell. However we have not bought anything.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Ignore Contact Samsung Reclaim

¡If habla Español! Well, sort of a

The issue of bilingualism and 'more' clear after a visit to San Antonio.

We assume that the only official language of the United States and 'the kind of English which are used to talk and there is no law for the recognition of linguistic minorities. Pero 'reality' and 'another: English and' the second language of the country and the percentage of people who speak it as their first language, and 'very high especially in states bordering Mexico.

Pero 'there' no recognition at official level. Apparently in Texas children are taught a little 'in English, and soon they forget that those who work in public offices is not' required to know both languages. It would not be a problem if all speak American but the fact is' that there is a significant slice of the population that speaks only English, and then there is a bit 'in trouble' in dealing with institutions. Not to mention the difficulties' that meets in dealing with me. Maybe you've already 'said the Mexican restaurant in Austin waiters spoke to each other in English and gestures with the owner of Thailand, which in turn is related to me in language that is still mysterious.

In turn we see a lot of bilingual signs, but only where needed, that 'where people think that Hispanics have an interest to understand that there is' written. In the wood shop everything was bilingual in store surfboards not just to understand each other.
And then of course who has a stall than anything writes on "If ¡habla Español!" because 'so' stop more 'people, and posted billboards in poor neighborhoods are sometimes only in English, so' saves space, 'cause so much want an anglophone walking them'?

So it 'a bilingual society' consumption and essentially bogus.
Or I did not understand anything, and that 'just as likely.