Monthly Archives: March 2005

An Evening with Elie Wiesel

Tonight I went to a lecture by Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel at the Bass Concert Hall.Not only is he a fantastic person, he’s also a fantastic speaker who absorbs all your attention with engrossing stories and thoughts from before, during and after the War. It was a great experience and I’m glad I [...]

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Back from Vegas

I spent the weekend winning it big in Las Vegas. Too bad I lost. Photos will be posted soon.
Update 3/31/2005: Photos are online. Click on the sidebar.

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Yummy, it’s del.icio.us!

Ever heard of del.icio.us?
It’s a “social bookmarks manager”. In english, it means that I can quickly and easily add links I find interesting to the Marcos Kirsch Experience®, and that’s what our thousands of readers want.
So, if you look at the sidebars, there’s a new del.icio.us sidebar. Also, at the bottom of the sidebar you [...]

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Mouthwash

It’s now ten days since I stopped saying bad words (unless under extreme pressure, such as Monterrey being scored on or accidentally hitting a glass sliding door.I must say it’s been a rough ten days, and to make up for the loss in vocabulary I have been resorting to south-american terms such as “burda”, [...]

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Need a new old computer?

I’m selling my iBook on eBay. You have six days to place your bid.
Big chunks of this website were published from this computer, so owning it is like owning a piece of history (like owning a piece of the Berlin Wall of computing… yeah that’s it, that should drive the price up).
Hurry up!
Update (3/21): Auction [...]

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Star Wars Episode III Trailer

… aired last night during the O.C. (what the!?). I missed it as I was in a free Final Cut Express workshop at the Apple Store (the many more Iuvales I could have won if I had had those toys back in the days - extra points to those that comment on what I’m talking [...]

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TPS

Gustavo pointed me to this fabulous web cartoon, starring Michael Bolton (it’s a coincidence).

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I am now officially an uncle

Joana just gave birth a few hours ago to two (if they look anyhing like me) beautiful baby girls.
Congratulations to Jaco and Joana and the new grandparents and the new great grandmothers and the new great-great grandmother and everyone else.
Update (3/7/2005): Ok, the names are in. Oldest one (by a few minutes, anyway) is Joelle [...]

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The Magic Dragon

To the untrained eye, it may look like an ugly paper dog. But trust me, it’s a dragon.
All you do is put print out the instructions, cut it and tape it together. When you look at the paper dragon and move around it appears like the whole head rotates and follows you. In reality it [...]

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