The buzz is about social. This is a ridiculous fad of describing what is happening in Silicon Alley these days. Every Tom, Dick or Mark is coming up with notions of what would make people connect socially while getting more disconnected in real personal interaction.
Now some of these ideas have clearly not taken off along with a bunch of mobility enabling devices so the new lingo that might appear in the headlines would look like -
Facebook did a Faceplant
RIMM is GRIM
Pinterest has piqued interest among some (for now)
Foursquare is not quite getting round to connecting anyone with anything
Twitter will chirp itself out of existence
Tablets have not cured any aches but added to more carpal in the carpool lanes
All in all totally socially unacceptable outputs from the wizards of technology I say.
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
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