“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” – Albert Einstein
Afraid of heights? A Mexican architect has designed an "earth scraper", a 65 floor inverted skyscraper. Instead of building towards the sky, they plan on building underground. Think of a subway building. They even plan on converting water from a nearby underground lake into energy for the structure. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most astonishing. I'll take an office on the -65th floor as the blog's new official headquarters. There's a metaphor in there somewhere...
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Undocumented emigrants
Undocumented Mexican immigrants are sneaking across the border in record numbers to find jobs. Only, it's not what you think. They're heading south back to Mexico, where the unemployment rate is lower...
There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.
"It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico," Sacramento's Mexican consul general, Carlos González Gutiérrez, said Wednesday. "We have become a middle-class country."
Mexico's unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.
Pretty soon, Americans are going to be packing themselves like sardines in trucks to sneak into Mexico...
Who thought that her aunt knew a man who could help
At his apartment I knocked on the door,
He wouldn't come out until he got paid.
Now don't tell anybody what I wanna do
If they find out you know that they'll never let me through, cos
It's no fun being an illegal alien, no
It's no fun being an illegal alien...
Monday, May 16, 2011
International update: Mexico
It's amazing the things that pass for trends in some places. In this Northeastern Mexican town, girls won't look twice at a guy unless he's wearing these clown-like boots. You have to wear them or people might think you look stupid. That's if you are not wearing them. Bizarre.
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