Author Archives: Stan Flouride

I was loaned a bike by one of my host family and after checking out the route over the weekend, decided to bike there today. It’s about 6km and I left home at 8 a.m., allowing plenty of time. Which … Continue reading →

I visited 3 haciendas and 2 cenote on Saturday. 1st the cenote swim.

It’s almost as if I disappeared!

Today at  BiciRuta I met someone from Slow Food Merida and was reminded of this poem I wrote back in 1997 for Arthur Bierman, who started Slow Food San Francisco years before jilly-come-lately Alice Waters even knew about it. It … Continue reading →

I am in the Sorbeteria Colon eating guanabana sorbet in the midst of a weekly event called BiciRuta. They close off half of Merida’s main (or at least ritziest) thoroughfares to cars and various vendors set up their arts ARGHH … Continue reading →

My first Youtube videp was of some Wearable critters: http://youtu.be/5SkpAKBBSww that I spotted on the street in Merida

Despite being served plate after plate of delicious and beautifully presented food, I have resisted becoming one of THOSE people who insist on taking pictures of their every meal before tasting it. But sitting in a lovely plaza eating helado … Continue reading →

This beautiful building is the Corte Suprema del Justice. Among its decorations are a trio of exaggerated monkeys and a pair of humans laughing manically. We have the same thing in the USA. We just dress ours in black robes … Continue reading →

It turns out that our Big Brother at the NSA has managed to embed a non-wipable malware into all computer and phone data firmware that makes them vulnerable even when not connected to a network. Though focusing on rivals Iran, Russia, and … Continue reading →

Fibrils Flower on the Sun  Image Credit & Copyright: Big Bear Solar Obs., NJIT, Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination) Explanation: When does the Sun look like a flower? In a specific color of red light emitted by hydrogen, as featured here, some regions of the solar chromosphere may resemble … Continue reading →