Friday, April 27, 2007

Kyrptonite


Bueno.. me lo compre..

creo que si alguien logra robarsela ahora con este candado puesto, casi se lo mereceria..

como ven, es un poco mas cototo que el anterior..
Lo interesante es que la llave que usa no es circular sino larga y con unos sacados extranos.
No es lo mas facil de usar, pero bueno.
Y el u chico lo usare para asegurar la rueda delantera.

el dato me lo dio Francisco "Negro" Gutierrez
Lo compre en Caupolican, que debe ser la tienda de bicicletas mas grande que hay en Chile.
Me costo un poco mas de 20,000 pesos. Creo que esta bien. En Estados Unidos vale lo mismo, y en Canada bastante mas.
Raro, sera el efecto NAFTA?

Habian varias cosas interesantes que no alcance a comprar ayer en la tienda.
Un manubrio oversized con levante Downhill y unos neumaticos Larsen con tacos apretados y rectangulares.
Creo que es el mejor diseno.

em fim

pasalo bien hoy Ricardo!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Urbe

Anoche.. alguien logro entrar a mi jeep..
con chapas de seguridad y todo!
no habian marcas de dano, asi que creo que deben tener una llave maestra circular para abrir facilmente esas chapas.
por suerte no se llevaran la maquina y no habia nada adentro de valor..
pero si robaron la radio sin el panel..
una buena lata!

Sonando, me desperte mas preocupado por mi bicicleta. Ahora que tengo un candado en U, estaba mas confiado porque no se puede meter un napoleon como con las cadenas. Pero hoy me voy a comprar un candado Kryponite.

lata lata!

Iraq continued


Assalamualaikum

Dear Mr. Axel Brinck ,

I thank you very much for your quick response to my mail. Well before I proceed I would like to let you know that I got your contact information from the web directory during my search for a sincere and trust worthy business partner .If you have made up your mind to help my family in our investment project, I would also be glad to work with you individually only if you will be truthful and sincere to me and my only son Aminu .

At the moment we are living in Udonthani Thailand (a city very close to the border of Thailand and Laos) under the protection and custody of the United Nations Refugee Commission, due to our refugee status here in Thailand we are restricted from running any business of our own and operating any bank accounts, this is one of the reasons why I decided to look for a foreign partner who will come in and assist in retrieving the funds out from the safe deposit company then move it out of Thailand to a country which is more investor friendly for the investment of the funds.

The fund in question (usd$11Million) was brought from Iraq into Thailand by a diplomatic carrier company and was deposited with a safe deposit company which is located in Bangkok Thailand by my late husband's diplomatic friend before my husband’s untimely death ,placing my only son Amnu as the next of kin . At the moments all the relevant documents of the funds are intact with my son Aminu in Bangkok.

Few days ago my son Aminu traveled to Bangkok the capital city of Thailand to start processing the release of the funds because his late father made him the next of kin to the deposited funds and all his assets .According to the last telephone conversation I had with him, he has already sworn an affidavit of oath for right of claim at the Thailand high court waiting for endorsement and approval which will empower him in reassigning the whole fund documents from his late father's name to his own name as the real owner of the fund.

So what I want you to do now is to open up a communication line with my son Aminu, and ask him the procedures of retrieving the funds from the safe keeping company and also the requirements of moving the funds to your country for safety and investment. I would be glad if you can help my son move the whole funds to your country for safety and investment in good and profitable ventures.
As I told you in my previous mail , I shall reward you handsomely with some good percentage of 20% from the principal amount ( USD$ 11MILLION )once the whole fund is retrieved from the safe keeping company and successfully moved over to your country, this reward shall either be in cash or in a joint venture investment depending on your choice.

Do contact my son Aminu on his personal telephone number and email address +66 813083640 Or amf_iq00@yahoo.com ,I shall send you my contact telephone number soon as we proceed .
Please send me your own personal data and contact information for reference purpose and safety reasons and also give me a brief introduction about yourself, your family background, your status in the society etc to enable me know you better. Once you start communications with my son Aminu ,do always feed me back with every of your correspondence with him for updates.

I await hearing from you soon. I attached my UNHCR ID document herein for you to properly identify me.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Zainab Muhamadu Fuseini

Monday, April 23, 2007

iraqui scam

asi funciona

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

pero basicamente, te dicen que tienen que liberar una gran cantidad de plata que tienen en una cuenta offshore. Pero no lo pueden hacer solos y necesitan un palo blanco.
y claro, como te llego este email, tu eres unico y de confianza.
clarrooo..
y para retribuir tus servicios, te ofrecen una comision, mas que interesante.
Pero cuando te muestras interesado, te piden que pongas una suma para pagar unos oficiales corruptos en el banco. y haciendo eso, queda todo liberado para partir y repartir.

Boris Yeltsin esta muerto


Esto salio en el diario hace 11 minutos...

gracias Associated Press


MOSCOW (AP) -- Former President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76.

Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed Yeltsin's death, but gave no cause or further information. The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure.

Although Yeltsin pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, many of its citizens will remember him mostly for presiding over the country's steep decline.

He was a contradictory figure, rocketing to popularity in the Communist era on pledges to fight corruption -- but proving unable, or unwilling, to prevent the looting of state industry as it moved into private hands during his nine years as Russia's first freely elected president.

Iraqui Money/// Free! Free Free!

chiquillos.. me voy a iraq a buscar fortuna/./
mira el mail que me llego

Attn:The Managing Director

Before I proceed, may I humbly introduce myself to your goodself, My Name is Mrs. Zainab Muhamadu Fuseini, an Iraq refugee. My late husband was untill recently, one of the personal aid to the former president of Iraq,President Saddam Hussen who was formerly overthrown out of power and was recently killed by the US government.

Prior to this last serious crisis that is still ravaging in mycountry,which recently led to misfortune of our government and my late husband position as the personal aid to the president, We inherited the sum of US$11 million.The funds were originally gotten from my latehusband proceeds. My late husbandwas able to safe guard the fund with a very good diplomatic contact from my Country and deposited it in thailand.

I have decided to contact you because I am interested in investing in your country which is investment friendly. Please kindly guide and assist me in making the right investment since I am also interested in buying a residential property as I will be moving with my only son Aminu in over there as soon as every thing regarding technical and logictics details is worked out and ascertained to our respective satisfaction. In view of yourparticipation,I am ready to give you a good negotiable percentage for your assistance or better still commit it into viable Joint venture projects with you.

Be assured that you stand norisk of any kind as the funds belong to me and my only survived son aminu. As soon as I get your consent, we will quickly move this fund to your country for investment . Again, upon your acceptance to work asmy partner, you can contact me withmy private e-mail zainabfuseini@myway.com , for more details.
I strongly believe that associating with you to embark on this and other business ventures will derive a huge success here after, please include you private contact telephone number and private e-mail for replying. We look unto Allah for your positive prompt response.

Yours Sincerely.
Mrs. Zainab Muhamadu Fuseini.


a lo que respondi:

Axel Brinck
to Zainab
More options 9:56 am (41 minutes ago)
Hello Zainab,

thank you for writing to me.
I am very pleased you have chosen our country to invest your funds.
In what business would you like to put them in?
I may be able to help you, for a small fee.

sincerely,

Axel Brinck

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Nietos


Esta foto es de Fernando Leon, uno de de los nuevos gateros..
de su fotolog

Thursday, April 12, 2007

From my womb to my tomb...


Panchi, Vari, Leighton

Untitled

El Toro

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Kayak Pics


This is from a photo shoot we did in Pucon..
go to http://bigdroppucon.blogspot.com/

Monday, April 09, 2007

Andes DH





Imagine a road that starts out at 10,000 feet above sea level, and in 22 km reaches the great flat grassland of Argentina.
365 curves, dirt road, cut stone surface mixed with dry earth, open vistas, and basically endless descents.
22 km is a very relative term. It felt like we were going down all morning. Which, with the numerous photo stops, might be true.
We had vehicle support and at the bottom, rewarded ourselves with a grand country meal and the house wine.

We started at our home base in Uspallata Hostel (10k out of Uspallata "centro"), packed the bikes on the rear rack, one wheel had to go inside to fit the Samurai, and up to the watershed. We reached Cruz de Paramillos, where the view takes in the Aconcagua mountain to the west, and the Pampas on the east.
Big sky is nothing, this is a view that seems to stretch out to the end of the world.

Keery from NZ was driving support, and she had a grand old time too.
Our bikes were:
Francisco on a aluminum framed, Deore and LX equipped bike, with Maxxis Larsen tires, Deore V Brakes, and a Suntour fork (which has to be fixed...didn't work) with handlebar lockout.
Olivia was on Cristobal Sotomayor's Cannondale Raven carbon fiber freeride. With XTR, Hayes discs, Manitou double crown fork.
We had to swap a 2.3 Tioga downhill tire on the front, since on the drive to Argentina, the rack wore through the Michelin tire (headache). Lucky we had spares!
I was on my Trek 6500, with XT, Deore, Shimano hyrdaulic discs, Marzocchi Bomber 100mm fork, and Bontrager tires.
All the bikes behaved well, though the lack of discs did make for some sore fingers for Francisco. Maybe the fork not doing its job helped increase the pain.

Discs really come into their own on these rides, the effort is much lighter, and modulation and control are easier to maintain since your mitt is not simply trying to squeeze with all its might.
and temperature wise, it is always good to keep the heat off the rims.


Downhill Usps





Uspi


El jueves despues de un dia larguisimo, y una semana peor.. partimos a Argentina.
Perdon, tratamos de partir.

Volvamos al principio: hace un tiempo, que yo queria armar este paseo en base a un descenso larguisimo que hay entre Cruz de Paramillos y Villavicencio. Como suele suceder, muchas personas quisieron, pero iban echandose para atras por diferentes motivos. Todo muy comprensible.
Al final, fuimos Francisco Gutierrez y Olivia Hirschberg. En mi Samurai, con tres bicicletas, herramientas y repuestos para no volver a quedar botado a mitad de camino (como la ultima vez que lo intente), etc. La parrilla me la presto Nicolas Quintano, quien no habia podido ir porque tiene una exposicion y estaba de cabeza preparando eso.

Primero, Francisco no encontraba su carnet de identidad, y su pasaporte estaba... Vencido!
a los 45 minutos? aparecio. Por suerte!
Ya estaba Olivia en el auto, asi que partimos rumbo a la aduana.
todo bien en el camino, poco transito (mmmm?) y un letrero:

HORARIO DE TUNEL ENTRE EL 20 DE FEBRERO Y EL 21 DE ABRIL: HASTA LAS 22 HRAS.

queeee!
puse marcha atras en la carretera (vacia) para comprobar que no haya leido mal.
No, estaba ya cerrado (eran las 11:20pm).
Ok, que hacemos..? partimos al Hotel Rio Colorado, donde hace un buen tiempo me habia quedado un par de veces con grupos de gringos. Norma se acordaba de mi y me dijo que teniamos suerte porque quedaba la ultima habitacion. Muy bien.
Dia siguiente, veia como pasaba una seguidilla de autos, muy temprano por la manana. Desayunamos y nos integramos.
Olivia, quien es austriaca, rapidamente comprendio como se conduce en caminos de montana chilenos (un poco diferente que en Osterreich). En la aduana Chilena adelantamos unos 3 pavos que pararon a preguntar (no saben que ahora hay un control integrado, ya no se para en ambas aduanas). Pero al llegar a control de aduanas Argentinos, habia 90 minutos de espera.
Aprovechamos de caminar los 2 km de vuelta al mirador del Aconcagua.
El dia estaba precioso, volaba la nieve encima de la cima.
Vimos tambien loros argentinos por ahi.


Cerro Aconcagua desde el Mirador del Aconcagua.

Loros Argentinos en la aduana

Hicimos los tramites, seguimos hacia abajo. Pero me di cuenta que el marcador iba en menos de un cuarto. En Penitentes, entramos a la estacion de servicio (es la unica, ojo!) y el que atendia me dice.. vienen por nafta? van a tener que esperar que recien llego el camion a descargar (el camion estaba a media cuadra camino a nosotros.. creo que le daba un poco de lata al pibe). Bueno, segui (que mas iba a hacer? esperar?)
son 84 km de ahi a Uspalllata.
En Polvaredas, vi que no habia gasolina. En realidad, aparte de un puesto de gendarmeria, y unas casas de los mismos, no hay mucho. Parece que alguna vez hubo un restaurant a la orilla del camino, pero seguramente, la mayor velocidad de los vehiculos lo hizo obsoleto.
Por suerte era todo en bajada.
Llegue a la Shell con un escupo en el estanque. Llene.. por 10 mil pesos chilenos (versus como 18 mil que me hubiera salido en Chile). Me acorde de cuando el gobierno trasandino se puso firme con los precios y las multinacionales acataron no mas.

Derecho a Hostel Uspallata, donde estaba Fabian Pellinaci, y un gran grupo de personajes quedandose. El nos habia estado esperando con un asado pero vio que no llegabamos y capto que fue por el cierre del tunel.
En fin.

Pedaleamos ese dia, al centro, y a el cerro Tungeral, donde estan los petroglifos (y donde filmaron Siete A;os en el Tibet), ahi mismo. a la vuelta se nos perdio Francisco, pero aparecio.
Y tuvimos una cabalgata nocturna a la luz de la luna, rumbo a un mirador.
Eramos un grupo de 14 caballos esa noche. Despues del mirador, se entro a un mina abandonda, Fluorita creo que nos dijeron que era el mineral anhelado.
Bueno del verbo bueno.

Dia siguiente:

en el proximo post

Huevo

Asi se puede resumir todo

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

workin it


Carlos Valdes y Soledad Montenegro


Body Double


Deputy Dog


Sigrid y Co.


TVN Actors y Boxster S

Rolling Samurais


OK, for my dad.. if you go to wikipedia and type in suzuki samurai or roll suzuki samurai, you will come to (aside from sushi recipes), the true story about the Consumer Reports fib.
they did manage to roll one, but
1) an old model with leaf springs
2) under extremely hard manouevering
3) basically, trying very hard to.

You can roll over a hatchback if you try hard enough, and a short wheelbase (ultra short actually), stiffly sprung box is not that hard.

But this model, 98, has modifications such as springs (not leafs), traction bars, and slightly wider track.
I took it the Maitencillo the very day I got it, and no worries on the highway, small dirt roads, etc.

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Kitcat


The last little kitten left the house on Saturday..
Fernando Leon is the proud new owner...

El ultimo gatito se fue a un nuevo hogar el dia sabado. Fernando Leon es el orgulloso padre.
compro hasta el ultimo accesorio a la venta en Chile.

Esta foto es de su ultimo dia en casa con su madre...