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Calypso Trattoria Pizzeria, awful service

adapar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:40:41 +0000

You are enjoying your travel and see a nice place to eat. You get in, explore, everything looks good. You approach a waitress and ask for a table for four. Without looking at you, without smiling and using her sourest tone of voice she says: leave the restaurant.

Dumbfounded, you stand still. She glances up and with the same attitude repeats: leave the restaurant.

You try to understand what is happening and barely whisper: I am only asking if you have a table for four.

She doesn’t yield: I’m telling you to leave the restaurant.

You turn around, cheeks flushed by your anger and leave along with your companions. You exchange surprised glances.

It is incredible. And it is not a joke. This happened to my wife, my parents and myself on the 21st. of June of 2009 in “Calypso Trattoria Pizzeria”, a restaurant located in the road to Cajón del Maipo, just outside Santiago de Chile.

Be warned.

Fred

adapar — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:32:13 +0000

A few days ago I left my home and saw this dog running down the road. He was excited and I though he lived nearby. The next day I saw him running behind a truck, following the voice of those inside. Yesterday night Marce and I found him alone in the same road. We concluded that he was lost and, as we had just bought food for Ada, we gave him a little. He was starving and cold so we took him home. It was difficult convincing him to get in the house but at the end we did it. To continue the tradition, we named him after Sir Frederic Bartlett, Fred for the friends.

Last night they slept together and this morning he was extremely… happy. After a good clean up and a walk, Ada and he played for a while. She was, as always, the dominatrix.

Famous last words: MySQL

adapar — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:51:43 +0000

Everything to be close

adapar — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:53:15 +0000

It caught me unprepared and I didn’t know what was it about until the end, but I didn’t care that it was a commercial spot. Maybe it was because the nostalgia that comes down on me once in a while, or because the colombian vistas, or maybe it was that song sung in that way, the fact is that I loved it. It is a gorgeous mini-movie that, by chance, ended up associated to a trademark.

And the song (originally by Celia Cruz) goes something like this:

I look for you lost in dreams,
the noise of the crowd wraps me in a veil.
I look for you flying in the sky,
the wind has swept you away like an old handkerchief.
And I do nothing else than search
known landscapes
in places so strange
that I cannot find you.

Clueless commentators

adapar — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:04:28 +0000

They say people don’t read long texts on the web. Ok, I can understand that. They say we need short and to the point texts that give clear information. I can understand that also. I am sorry but I don’t think those short texts work either. If they did, there wouldn’t be comments as clueless as those written here.

(That link points to a Google translation of the original post but it retains enough of the original sense to explain my rant)

Ada

adapar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:15:05 +0000

Mi first choice was Hypatia but that name is reserved for the cat, so she remained nameless for a few hours. The abandoned mutt with a head wound, two months old, dehydrated, flea-ridden and with a few ticks was anonymous from the moment I found her abandoned near the car to half hour after the vet cleaned her up, injected her antibiotics, wrote a prescription and gave us advice.

It had to be the name of a mathematician and a woman.

Meet Ada Augusta.

Good advice

adapar — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:12:08 +0000

The phone sits in front of me, oblivious to my hesitance. What if the book is right and that number is God’s phone? Not having a dialing code might be troublesome but then, if it was true, He probably had taken all necessary measures to ensure it worked by itself. What if He didn’t want to be reached? Or if He was dead, as some people claimed? Six weeks since I decided to try it and still the same doubts stop me.

What the Hell, I am dialing. Now.

Four. Two.

I wait.

A machine answers: service no longer available. If you need assistance, don’t panic. Service no longer available. If you need assistance, don’t panic…

Don’t panic? Right.