Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Mad vrs Mad's Back Yard : The Banana-Republication of The Labs

It started off innocently enough. The beautiful Mrs. Science and I were watching Moon over Parador and I thought
"What a cool little banana republic Parador is. We should get one of our own.
Immediately I started formulating plans to take over Parador and turn it into our ideal vacation spot.

There were, of course, setbacks. To start Mrs. Science was not exactly "on board" with the idea : something about "keeping my megalomania in check", and the whole "human rights" thing came up, but I wore her resistance down with promises of banana trees lined courtyards and moon-lit flagstone patios.

Then it turned out there was no Parador. The closest thing we could find was Paraguay. Which seemed close enough at first. Unfortunately, the Paraguayan people turned out to be both smarter, more dedicated to their national sovereignty, and handier with Kalashnikovs than "Moon over Parador/Paraguay" would have you believe.

Also, Paraguay is not as pretty as Parador was in the movie and it had mosquitoes. Lots and lots of mosquitoes. Mrs. Science hates mosquitoes.

Long story, short: we had to cancel the whole adventure and leave rather quickly. On our way out Mrs Science pointed out that we did have a back yard that we weren't really using and maybe it would be more productive to focus on the more achievable goal of bringing a little slice of Parador to the Labs.

And so it began...

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