Archive for January, 2012
Expatriates in Peru is the best place on Facebook to talk about Peru. They recently added their 1,000th member. It was started by a fellow expat in September of 2009 and continues to grow and thrive. There are lots of new posts everyday and hundreds of comments that go along with them. The group [...]
Yesterday a lot of the internet went symbolically dark to protest Hollywood’s attempt to hijack the internet, this site included. Thank you for your patience. If you live in the US please contact your legislators. Outside the US, please contact the US State Department. http://sopastrike.com/. Please remain vigilant, they will try make some cosmetic changes [...]
Yesterday we went to the Pucallpa Zoo for the first time since we moved back to Peru in 2009. I have very personal ties to the zoo. In 1999 I donated my zoo in Pucallpa consisting of over 100 mammals and reptiles plus about 100 or so birds to the Pucallpa Zoo. They still had quite [...]
I am a nerd and while going through my news updates today I came across an interesting article on noise pollution and how a new application called NoiseTube was being used to track it. The app works with either iOS or Android devices. I downloaded the Android version and will start monitoring noise around Pucallpa and [...]
Happy New Year! Thanks for making 2011 a record year for the site. All advertisement free. The blog will celebrate it’s 3rd anniversary in July 2012. At that time I will be making some major changes to the site. My site has been verified by SiteLock. I will be adding that to the site soon. What does [...]