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@@ -66,10 +66,24 @@ I've shown him a few Pippy examples, describing the code briefly before running
 Benedicto grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the
 concepts despite my very poor Spanish fluency and my usual disorganized style.
 
-We also updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]],
+Nadia shows plenty of design talent: she uses Sugar to create short stories featuring her friends. She
+cookie-cuts their photos and uses Scratch to animate them on fantasy backgrounds with music, sound
+effects and text. Recently, she started creating line-art versions of the photos using eToys, so her
+new creations look more like cartoons. At this point, Benedicto mentioned the [[http://htf.atom.com/ | Happy Tree Friends]],
+an innocently named Internet series which makes even South Park seem politically correct in comparison!
+HTF is Flash-only and doesn't seem to work with Gnash -- at least, we should be above any bigot criticism
+for conveying "inapprorpiate content" to young hack^Wchildren.
+
+Nadia also created a platform videogame in which a dog needs to jump around to find the way out from
+each level, while a bouncing arrow chases him. Technically simple, but shows sensitive use of
+game-design principles. I'm not sure if the code is entirely new or comes in part from pre-existing
+Scratch games. It doesn't matter: in Free Software, remixing other people's work is the rule.
+
+We updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]],
 which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Benedicto had been previously
 testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities.
 
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00005-game-written-in-scratch.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Perro Bros }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00016-nadias-work-in-etoys.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Nadia's line-art image }} ||
 
 
 == Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons ==
@@ -151,10 +165,8 @@ The title was "//Empoderar a los estudiantes con el Software Libre//" (//Empower
  * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf | Spanish, PDF]]
  * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v5-en.odp | English, OpenDocument]] (older version with fewer slides and some factual errors)
 
-{{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00043.jpg | maxwidth=640 }}
-{{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/todos-son-maestros-y-alumnos.jpg | maxwidth=640 | Everyone is a learner and a techer}}
-{{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/la-base-pedagogica-de-sugar.jpg | maxwidth=640 | The pedagogical base of Sugar}}
-{{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00048.jpg | maxwidth=640 }}
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/la-base-pedagogica-de-sugar.jpg | maxwidth=500 }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/todos-son-maestros-y-alumnos.jpg | maxwidth=500 }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00043.jpg | maxwidth=500 }}                       || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00048.jpg | maxwidth=500 }}                        ||
 
 See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica | all the photos ]] in my Codew'z photostream.