Adventures of a Discoverer

This last December I traveled to Brazil and my flight had a really long layover at the Houston airport: seven hours! I hadn't slept well the night before, so I was feeling very tired when I got to Houston and I still had a ten hour flight ahead of me to Brazil. That made it a perfect opportunity to try something new: Minute Suites. It is an interesting concept: in the boarding area of an airport (so, past the TSA security) you have a tiny little hotel with tiny little rooms that you can use for a few hours, typically two or three. Each room is the size of a little office, with a couch that can become a bed, a blanket, pillows, a small desk, a chair and a flat screen TV. You can control the temperature and the lights of the room, and there are plenty of power outlets, and also Wi-Fi. The rooms are soundproof as well. The idea is that you can be in a small space that you can lock yourself in, set the light and temperature to exactly what feels more comfortable to you, and take a nap,...

As I spend some time in Brazil, as always I take some time to do some urban exploration at my alma mater, Unicamp ("Universidade Estadual de Campinas" - State University of Campinas) as I did in a previous occasion . This time, in addition of taking pictures of some of the animals that roam the empty campus (everybody is on vacation) I also managed to check out a building that I had been curious for a long time: the unfinished theater. Pretty much since the University was created, back in the 1960's, the drama and dance faculty and students have complained about the lack of a proper theater in which they could show their creations. In the best Unicamp style, there are some improvised spaces where they can do so, but the lack of a genuine space for artistic performances is undeniable. So, a few years ago, the University managed to get some government funds to create a big theater in the campus. The structure and walls of the brand new building were put together and it was ...