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  1. from_the_north

    So, is mate an acquired taste or is it possible I might like it?

    Cultural Ecology class, Nov 1976: essay: The Pampas Bibliography: Kuhn, Larden, MacEwen, Odum, Roseveare, Schmieder, Scobie... So A-J was missing. [ and my recollection of A-M authors missing posted above is almost correct ].
  2. from_the_north

    Google Fi: Your international data roaming will be suspended soon

    Google pixel, iphone, other brand has that feature?
  3. from_the_north

    So, is mate an acquired taste or is it possible I might like it?

    wikipedia on the tribe [ slightly NSFW] How I remembered it ... IIRC they had to keep a fire going 24/7 year round or would freeze to death.
  4. from_the_north

    So, is mate an acquired taste or is it possible I might like it?

    Come to think of it, it probably included cultural anthropology data on the Yahgan tribe of tierra del fuego, checking wikipedia: authors: Koppers, Bridges, Darwin, Fitzroy, King,
  5. from_the_north

    So, is mate an acquired taste or is it possible I might like it?

    No... did paper which I forgot the subject of because HEY NO AUTHORS N OR AFTER was at the time much more INTERESTING than the title or the subject... As if I had done a paper on some Senate bill and no Senators voted Y OR N whose surnames were N > Z inclusive...
  6. from_the_north

    So, is mate an acquired taste or is it possible I might like it?

    Back in 1977 I did a university paper on Argentina*, thus the latter half of 77 drank it often, brewed. [ to this day I wonder why the bibliography at the end went from A-M or so with no authors about N onwards... ] * the subject of which escapes me.
  7. from_the_north

    Bringing a container with our stuff...

    Container shipping rates have, depending upon the destination, gone up from 200 to 500 percent within maybe less than a year, if I recall correct;y; I would not be surprised at the additional cost if that is a cost that is being passed on.
  8. from_the_north

    A question about taxis

    A more polite phrase may have been, No Le Importa. [ No te importa, unless I'm mistaken, may mean 'if I was your buddy I wouldn't tell you' which is obviously a slight, in this context. You just said a phrase indicating you did not want to have any further business with him, even if not...
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