Comments on: “Eduardo Madera D.” ?

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:56:13 +0000

There’s Nate and Read. Who’s the third?

By: lyzard

lyzard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:21:13 +0000

So we have three ex-Mormon missionaries in our midst? That is one cool statistical anomaly!

By: Braineater

Braineater — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:13:07 +0000

Apropos of nothing, I may start using “Fuengirola!” as a work-safe expletive… what a wonderful word.

By: Read MacGuirtose

Read MacGuirtose — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:05:27 +0000

Incidentally, by the way, if you find on a map the cities I was in, you’ll see that my itinerary involved starting on the south coast of Spain… and then somehow working my way farther south every five or six months…

By: Read MacGuirtose

Read MacGuirtose — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:03:39 +0000

Well, for the first half-year or so I was in Fuengirola, a town on the Costa del Sol; then in Chiclana de la Frontera, near Cádiz; then San Roque, near Algeciras and Gibraltar; and for the last six months in Ceuta, on the north African coast.

Don’t know how “lucky” it was, though, since I was there in a capacity that rather limited what activities I could participate in and put severe constraints on my time… I was there on a mission for the LDS church. (I was raised Mormon, although I no longer believe in it now… no offense intended to Nathan Shumate, of course, who I realize is an active Mormon…) Still, despite that, though, yeah, I’m glad I had the experience of living there for that time, though I would have preferred it had been under different circumstances…

By: Braineater

Braineater — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:33:25 +0000

Strangely enough, the words “too much of a stretch” are often associated with me. I’m not sure why: I don’t even understand the meaning of the phrase…

(2 years in Spain? O lucky man! Where were you?)

By: Read MacGuirtose

Read MacGuirtose — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:15:15 +0000

Right, okay, that’s pretty much how I interpreted the “D.” (I knew the “second surname” was really a matronymic (I lived for two years in Spain, so I’m familiar with how Spanish names work), but I wasn’t sure how many other people here would be) — I just wasn’t sure maybe I wasn’t just overthinking it and my interpretation was too much of a stretch. But apparently I had the right interpretation after all. Huh.

By: Braineater

Braineater — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:49:13 +0000

Read — Ed Wood’s middle name was “Davis”, which I took for a matronymic. In Spanish-speaking countries, the tradition is to put the mother’s family name after the father’s… so, for example, we have Jairo Pinilla Téllez, or Jairo Pinilla T. (though never Jairo Téllez). I thought I’d be clever and sneak the D. onto the end of my “translation”.

Guys — I’ll fix the “Ghosthouse” form this week. My host has changed versions of PHP several times, and there’s probably some stupid syntactical thing I’ve forgotten to update. Sorry: it was a lame joke anyway.

By: Read MacGuirtose

Read MacGuirtose — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:28:54 +0000

Huh… I just went to that review to see if the same thing would happen on my computer, and, yup, it did. So it’s not just you.

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:23:22 +0000

Very nice reviews. I wish, as I often do with your reviews, that I could track these things down. I also echo the sentiments of Read on Jairo Pinilla. Thank you so much for bringing him to our attention!

On a completely different note, I tried to reread your La Casa 3: Ghosthouse review, but I couldn’t get past the introduction. I kept picking my answer and hitting continue, but it just reloaded the introduction. This happened on two different computers, so I don’t know what’s going on.