Exaggeration, pronunciation and the week ahead

Hello everybody,

Well, I am back in Barcelona, seeing that my goal of becoming more famous than Jim Harmor is going nowhere. Who is Jim Harmor, anyway, I hard you ask? If you are a male student of any computer-related degree at any university with Internet connection, you will know. You might not see his face ever. Actually, no-one did anyway. :)

This is going to be an exciting week. First, the ULEB Cup semifinals, then the 5th round - out of 6 - in the Euroleague Top 16 and finally an Arctic Monkeys gig on Saturday night. I will be in Barcelona for an entire month starting today, which is kind of bizarre, as I never ever stay that long in here .Too many places to see, too many cities to discover - with my wife Belén, the perfect travelling companion - and I miss Sevilla quite a lot, even when Barcelona is the bomb. A great, modern, state-of-the-art city to live in, with the best clubs in Europe and enough world restaurants to drive you crazy.

I have been crazy about this the entire day:

  
  
  
 

This woman is the Sasha Djordjevic of Carson's City Council!!! I mean, how ridiculous you can be?

Definitely, YouTube is a good thing. It has changed the way you can see Internet. And that's tougher every day, in a world in which nobody is surprised by anything anymore. What a revolution it has been!

As usual, comments will be welcomed. And suggestions, too. From writing about restaurants, to basketball, music or how to pronounce Tskitshvili without going paranoid. Speaking on pronunciation, you gotta check this out:

http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php

It is a ton of people reading this text in English all over the world:

"Please call Stella.  Ask her to bring these things with her from the store:  Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.  We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids.  She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."

It can be hilarious sometimes. This, people out there, is a funny, complicated world.

Javi