Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Brian Saghy [Vida en Texto]

Travel, stories and ideas.

This site has been rather abandoned for many years. Sorry, internet.
I strongly considered deleting the contents of my ramblings from over 10 years ago.
Or, maybe it is time for a revival. Enjoy!

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The Hidden Costs of a Vanity Domain

Lately, as I’ve been looking at potentially shifting careers from Software Engineering to something more customer facing such as Developer Advocacy, I’ve really been forced to reckon with some personal technical debt – primarily this website, and most recently, my vanity e-mail address. Back in 2004, I felt amazingly fortunate to be able to register…

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  • Mexico [Sinking] City
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    Mexico [Sinking] City

    I realized during what was my fourth trip to Mexico since moving to Texas that I had not written even a word regarding my visits and adventures. That is a shame, really, as there is really quite a bit that I should have shared about my travels to Monterrey, Playa del Carmen, and Akumal. This…

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    Home to home through home

    Perhaps I was a bit hard on Rochester in my last post. Overall, it really wasn’t too bad of a place to re-visit. It is amazing how much not being able to find something at a late hour can affect my judgment of a place. On Wednesday, after a long day of recruiting at the…

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    Return to Rochester

    I only get the urge to write in this blog when I travel. I wonder why that is. Today, I am back in Rochester, NY. Home of my alma-mater. This time, instead of being a resident, I am a visitor. Instead of being a student, I am a full-time employed adult. Instead of seeking employment…

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    It was like I’ve always lived in this mess.

    The title is not meant to sound negative. In a way, its what Austin really is. This entire city is a contradiction in my mind, and that seems to be the way I operate. On contradictions. Oh, and, by the way, I am living in Austin, TX now. Should it not have been for my…

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    Sabbatical 2012 [Sidenote] Bathroom Doors, Teflon Tape, and Slamming Car Doors

    Doors Alex and I couldn’t help but notice for the first two weeks that not a single one of the bathroom doors in all of our accommodations worked without issue. Either the door would get stuck once you closed it and you’d have to push all your body weight to open it. Or the door…

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    Sabbatical 2012 [Days 18-20] São Paulo – Big Tokyo of South America

    Travel This time, our flight was on a real Gol flight. The plane was substantially cleaner and newer feeling, with LED mood lighting, grey seats instead of vomit-green, and … magazines in the seat backs! What luxuries. We descended over São Paulo, South America’s largest city by population, and I was amazed at how vast…

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  • Sabbatical 2012 [Days 17-18] Cataratas de Iguaçu
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    Sabbatical 2012 [Days 17-18] Cataratas de Iguaçu

    Travel Traveling to Iguaçu was simple, but a bit of an experience. It was our first domestic flight in Brazil. We booked all of our travel on Gol airlines – a decent looking discount airline with a pretty new fleet and an orange color scheme. They seem to be relatively successful (unlike Pluna) and are…

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    Sabbatical 2012 [Day 13-16] Rio de Janeiro

    Travel Travel to Rio de Janeiro was done with pretty much no problems. LAN was a pretty decent no-frills airline. They had the same Boeing model that we flew on AA, but it was much nicer inside. The flight in was interesting – we had to circle around the city a few times before landing.…

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  • Sabbatical 2012 [Days 10-11] Montevideo. North Eastern Block.

    Travel From Colonia, Montevideo is best reached by bus. The bus line was quite nice – featuring comfortable seats and even had wi-fi on board that had a better connection than our Bed & Breakfast. The ride is scheduled to be about 2.5 hours. I was expecting this would be a fairly direct route, but…

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  • Sabbatical 2012 [Day 12] Buenos Aires – Level Up

    Thanks to Pluna – we really didn’t have many options for flying out of Montevideo to get to Rio de Janeiro. So, we had to return by boat to Buenos Aires. This was not by any means a bad thing, as Buenos Aires was an awesome city. We were also excited to stay at a…

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    Sabbatical 2012 [Day 9] Colonia de Sacramento de Fotografía

    After several days in large cities, it was time to do something a bit slower paced. Why not head to another small UNESCO town in Uruguay? Travel Colonia de Sacramento is located along the southern Uruguayan shore, about 2 hours across the bay from Buenos Aires. There is a high-speed ferry that gets you there…

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  • Sabbatical 2012 [Day 6-8] Cleaner Airs. Land of Cow

    Travels Our plane emerged from the layer of smog engulfing Santiago. It ascended, and ascended, and ascended, probably just quickly enough to avoid running into the incredibly high Andes mountain range immediately next to the city. LAN came to our rescue, for a price, and agreed to get us to Buenos Aires for a slightly…

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