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@@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ concepts despite my very poor Spanish fluency and my usual disorganized style.
 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. To my surprise, Benedicto mentioned the Happy Tree Friends,
-a splatter-gore cartoon which makes even South Park seem politically correct. Appropriate for his
-age or not, it's a common hacker trait.
+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
@@ -82,10 +83,12 @@ We updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org
 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 ==
 
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }}        || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00029.jpg  | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} ||
+== Mon, Mar 8 - Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reasons ==
+
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }}        || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00029.jpg  | maxwidth=480 | Kids waiting to install Sugar 0.84 in front of the CATS lab }} ||
 
 The owner of **Centro de Assistencia Tecnica y Soporte (CATS)**, the XO support center of
 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caacup%C3%A9 | Caacupé]], wrote:
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children start lining up outside of
 early in the morning, and keep coming all day long, until the evening. All of them ask
 for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said:
 
- "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want colored windows).
+ "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want to install colored windows).
 
 They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop, also known as "//salva pantallas//" (screensaver).
 Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "//Ahora tienen Windows!//"
@@ -122,8 +125,9 @@ also comes with a screensaver which makes it irresistible.
 
 So, what do we do? Quick! Let's add a cool screensaver to Sugar! :-)
 
-Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal more to kids? By now, I think I've observed
-our young users closely enough to be able to guess what they're really missing in Sugar:
+Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal to kids more than a traditional desktop?
+I don't claim to be a pedagogist, but by now I've observed our young users closely enough
+to be able to guess what they're really missing in Sugar:
 
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 more configurability.
@@ -163,7 +167,7 @@ The title was "//Empoderar a los estudiantes con el Software Libre//" (//Empower
  * [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v5-en.odp | English, OpenDocument]] (older version with fewer slides and some factual errors)
 
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-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00048.jpg | maxwidth=500 }}                       || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00043.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.