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Bigger and even more important news!

Posted by The Southron on March 11th, 2007

After months of waiting, the printed version of “The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay” is finally available online at: http://www.lulu.com/content/579686.

Well, I done gone and done it…

Posted by The Southron on October 28th, 2006

It may not be a tough as giving birth, but it sure was a lot of work. The file was created on 22 July 2006, at 11:25:02. The last modification was made this morning (I hope). In just a few days less than 100, The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay has been written.

The Southron tackles Celsius (or maybe it tackles him)

Posted by The Southron on April 29th, 2006

So, in the same spirit that I accepted that the letter Z might be pronounced Zed instead of Zee, I decided to take the metric plunge–so I changed my electronic weather station and every one of my internet weather links to Celsius. I do. however, keep a conversion cheat sheet under the glass on my desktop.

But how the heck do you convert between the two?

Nit pickin’ about little things

Posted by The Southron on April 17th, 2006

There are other little things that, I'm sure are perfectly normal here, but a little strange to the gringo eyes of the Southron

The Southron and metric nonsense

Posted by The Southron on April 7th, 2006

Metric paper sizes trip up the Southron.


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