El Moto Tipo

A while ago I was in Chihuahua on business. Interesting place. I have to say it's more fun to pronounce the word "Chihuahua" the way it is spelled rather than the way it is supposed to be pronounced. Try it.

I snapped this picture while we were driving around the city one day. There are a few things I like about it. The dude (el tipo) has his traveling repair kit hanging on the left handlebar. You can see that he has already worked some magic on the headlight with his favourite tool. Why not duct tape? Dunno. I suppose packing tape is cheaper. There were other parts of the bike that had been repaired in the same fashion. From the looks of the tank and helmet, I'd say he needs to repair things on an ongoing basis. I also like the backwards baseball cap under the helmet. He is sporting some clean khakis, so he must be on his way to work, but I like the fact that he has kept the cap and not compromised his coolness (la frescura?).

Weird little things on my towel

A few summers back I had these weird things show up on my towel at the cottage. They were some kind of shell thing, hard and crunchy. They were tiny. That's part of my finger in the background. Some were open, some were closed. I think something was hatching out of them. If I knew what a barnacle looked like, I could maybe say they looked like that. Or maybe more like some of the things growing on Bootstrap Bill Turner's face during his time on the Flying Dutchman. Were those barnacles? Anyway, I scraped them off and washed the towel and haven't seen them since. Click for the supersize.