The town of Balboa, founded by the United States during the construction of the Panama Canal, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish conquistador credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean, or South Seas as it was called back then. The name was suggested to the Canal Zone authorities by the Peruvian ambassador to [...]
Archive for December, 2011
A View of the Port of Balboa From Ancon Hill
Posted in Photography, tagged Airports, Ancon Hill, Balboa Port, Marcos A. Gelabert Airport, Panama, Panama Canal Zone, Photographs, Photography, Tourism on December 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
My First Experiences With The Amazon Kindle Fire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon.com, Android OS, Computing, Hardware, Jeff Bezos, Kindle Fire, Silk Web browser, Tablets, Technology on December 11, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I pre-ordered my Amazon Kindle Fire on October 7, 2011. I received it in Panama on November 23, 2011. During that period, I was reading everything I could lay my paws on. As usual, there were good, bad, and ugly reviews; it all depended on how well you did at the party. Let me [...]
A Pair of Children’s Crocs
Posted in Photography, tagged Black & White Pictures, Children, Crocs, Family, Photographs, Photography, Shoes on December 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yummity-Yum-Yum-Yum
Posted in Photography, tagged Children, Family, Food, Hamburgers, Hungry, Kids, MacDonald's, Photography on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Airplanes, Creativity, History, Ingeniousness, Inventions, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance, Science, Steve Jobs on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”—William Wordsworth, English poet (1770-1850) Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination.” Leonardo Da Vinci applied his knowledge in a practical way to the creation of mechanical devices. In [...]
A Representative Sample of the Exquisite Paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Art, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paintings, Portraits, Portraiture, Renaissance on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leonardo Da Vinci was a remarkable man; a person with exceptional skills in many areas of human knowledge, but he excelled the most in his paintings. Leonardo was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, [...]
Welcome, Madonna Lisa di Antonio María Gherardini
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Art, Exhibitions, Leonardo Da Vinci, Louvre Museum, Mona Lisa, Museums, Paintings, Panama, Plastic Art, Renaissance, Tourism on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Mona Lisa, a.k.a. Lisa Gherardini Giocondo, La Gioconda, or La Joconde, is one of the most famous painting in the history of art and continues to inspire reproductions, parody, scientific theory, and then some. In 2003-2006, the world celebrated the 500th anniversary of the painting which now has its own room at the Louvre [...]
Introducing Leonardo Da Vinci, The Genius, The Artist, The Inventor
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Art, Exhibitions, Inventions, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Paintings, Panama, Portraits, Science, The Vitruvian Man, Tourism on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I said yesterday, I recently assisted to a wonderful exhibition of the accomplishments of Leonardo Da Vinci at the Museo Antropólógico Reina Torres de Araúz. The display of paintings, TV programs, wall explanations, posters, spotlights, drawings, and other decorations aroused the interest of the visitors. This exhibition was organized with great care and dedication [...]
The Holistic Development of the Human Being
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Exhibitions, Holistic Culture, Leonardo Da Vinci, Museums, Panama, Reina Torres de Araúz, Self Identify, Tourism, Tradition on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the time, I listen to managers and political leaders talk exclusively about economic growth. Their single concern is economic development, and how that benefits the population of a country. Economic rate of growth and the relationship between public debt and the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), is at the core of their discourses. There’s [...]
The Love of a Child
Posted in Photography, tagged Abdiel, Embrace, Emotions, Family, Love, Photograph, Photography, Twisters, Values on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday morning, Abdiel’s father came to our house for a short visit. I was busy in my home office taking care of some blogging chores. Abdiel dropped by, gave me a hug, and then briskly went to the kitchen to chat with my wife and his father. A few minutes later, I went to the [...]
