MAINLY ON THE PLAIN

This blog is intended to document David Giltinan's ongoing struggle with the peculiar charms of the Spanish language, which began in March 2007 in Spain and continues in 2009 in Madrid, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and (hopefully) Madrid again.

Monday, April 18, 2011

The final picture

So, about a year after the donkey made his way to Salamanca with the exam scripts, the diploma finally arrived in the mail one day, when my ...

Friday, March 25, 2011

New blog!

MAINLY ON THE PLAIN has been essentially closed down for about the past year. The good news is that, since February 2011, there is a new blo...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Mad language skillz

I guess the donkey eventually made it to the University of Salamanca with the exam scripts. According to the Cervantes Institute website, my...

Monday, November 30, 2009

Colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado

All good things come to an end. As this is my final night here in Spain, and I have no immediate plans to return, this is probably the last ...

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Book Review: "Sharp Teeth" by Toby Barlow

Los Angeles has always disturbed me. All that sunshine. Those über-toned bodies. Packs of werewolves roaming the canyons and arroyos. It...

Saturday, November 28, 2009

El internado - un lugar donde todo puede suceder

Things have spiralled a little into the territory of the truly bizarre in Season 3 of " El Internado ", but it still has that deli...

Friday, November 27, 2009

The anti-Santa faction

Yes, Virginia. There is an anti-Santa faction. "How can this be?", I hear you ask. Una buena pregunta. Well, the thing is, here en...

End of the adventure?

No matter what the folks at the Cervantes Institute decide, if the certificate above is to be taken at face value, in the eyes of Don Quijot...

OPERATION BAKED GOODS : POSTSCRIPT

I should mention that this week saw a repeat of the Saint Patrick's Day episode of OBG, in honor of Thanksgiving. But the participants w...

At the Post Office

Gentle readers. Pride goeth before a fall. So says the old saw, and its accuracy was once more demonstrated this morning, when I trooped alo...

OPERATION BAKED GOODS - SPECIAL FELIPE ii EDITION

Our featured item of the month is a delicacy purchased in Cadiz, known as a mantecado. Bearing the royal endorsement of none other than that...

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About Me

gaelstat: is the pseudonym of David Giltinan, a native Irishman (from County Cork) who moved to the U.S. in 1979 to attend graduate school in Chapel Hill, worked as a statistician in the biopharmaceutical industry until January 2007, and is co-author (with Marie Davidian) of a book: Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data.

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