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Celebrating South America’s Cultural Diversity

Celebrating South America’s Cultural Diversity

Ok, let’s face it, the Uruguayan’s make Idaho look culturally diverse. While there are definately some ignorant folks here when it comes to dealing with other races, it’s OK…cuz there are hardly any around to offend! To be fair, it’s not like most Uruguayan’s would try to intentionally offend someone. [Continue]

Credit Card Withdrawals

So supposedly the US , and the rest of the world, is undergoing a great “credit contraction” right now. Since all money is created out of debt, supposedly, this should in theory be deflationary….That kinda makes sense in the short term anyways. It makes sense at least in terms of things that one would ordinarily [Continue]

Like Spain….with Bad Haircuts

Like Spain….with Bad Haircuts

As we try desperately to fire up the Irony Generator here at fuBarrio Studios, I’m forced to share some random thoughts that occurred to me over the last couple of months. While the venerable R David Finzer describes Uruguay as “Iowa with a Beach”, or “Eisenhower’s Iowa…with subtitles”, I think I prefer [Continue]

fuBarrio is Back in the Saddle

Like Weekend at Bernie’s Part III, the indomitable fuBarrio.com defies logic and improbably rides again! OK…decided to spend some time fiddling with my godaddy account and see if i couldn’t get this whole DNS resolution thing sorted. I finally had to use a different computer to get a page that was built using flash to load on [Continue]

What Do You Call a Paranoid who is RIGHT?

Ok…surely the government shutting me down for publishing subversive ideas and fomenting rebellion is a lot more interesting than me just being an incompetent tech-n00b. Unfortunately, I’m afraid the “latter” is the reality of the situation. Without boring you to tears, let’s just say and I can’t for the life of [Continue]