Monthly Archives: May 2014

May 23, 2014 What’s your favorite? 20 Mexican Engineering Inventions *     *     *     * Feel free to copy while giving proper attribution: YucaLandia/Surviving Yucatan. © Steven M. Fry Read-on MacDuff . . .

May 29, 2014 Questions about The IRS’s new online FBAR system? Check out: Internal Revenue Service Webinar on Reporting of Foreign Financial Accounts on the Electronic FBAR, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. For written information see: IRS Reminds Those with Foreign … Continue reading →

May 26, 2014 In an unexpected twist, many US citizens living abroad may be required to file W-9’s, even it they are FULLY EXEMPT from FATCA. US citizens living abroad with some foreign Bank accounts, some foreign brokerage accounts, and … Continue reading →

May 23, 2014 Has your Yucatecan car been running a little pooch-ey this past month? Magna gasoline has caused problems for many Merida cars this past month, as over 2,000 PROFECO complaints have been filed over Magna ruining fuel pumps … Continue reading →

May 22, 2014 Fun stuff from around the web for those starved for news and features about Mexico: 10 things Mexico does better than anywhere else What’s your favorite? *     *     *     *     * … Continue reading →

Updated May 21, 2014 The Diario de Yucatan chronicles the latest efforts by Yucatecan health authorities to combat Dengue:  Using Specialized Bacteria to Sterilize Mosquitoes. Nueva técnica para esterilizar al mosquito transmisor En junio se daría un paso clave para … Continue reading →

May 22, 2014 The world just keeps getting stranger: It turns out that educating US adults about factual errors in their beliefs does not work: “If someone held a contrary attitude, the correction not only didn’t work—it made the subject … Continue reading →

May 21, 2014 Ebay (via NPR) just announced that our personal account information data has BEEN HACKED. Ebay is advising us to go change our Ebay passwords, immediately. http://www.ebay.com ~ http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&CurrentPage=MyeBayPersonalInfo&gbh=1&ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK ~ Your password change “option” is the 3’rd item … Continue reading →

May 21, 2014 USA is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants (far from our sight) quietly: ~ pick our food, ~ sew our clothes, ~ cut our meat, ~clean our offices, ~ build our homes, and ~ defend our nation. Republican … Continue reading →

May 18, 2014 How do we restore the balance? Since the 1982 “Conservative Revolution”, politicians have climbed into bed with big business magnates, creating a government that serves the rich and powerful. The rich previously took 40% of the profits … Continue reading →

May 15, 2014           … Republican’s personal opinions and their religiously-held ideologies on weather realities, are now especially poignant, as NASA scientists announce that the WAIS, a big ice cube that can all-alone raise world-wide ocean … Continue reading →

May 8, 2014 I keep chiding myself to keep a camera at hand, battery charged, … Why? How many times in your life have you gone to sit on the potty, to find a brilliant iridescent green iguana leaping (terrified) … Continue reading →