Monthly Archives: November 2005

Monterrey 4-1 América

Originally uploaded by kirsch.

Last Saturday, I had to go down to watch the game between Monterrey and America.
Monterrey won (obviously) by a wide margin: 4-1.
Ex-fan of America and newly rayado Mauricio Capistran (Picho) stoically paid the bet between us by wearing Monterrey’s shirt all day at work. To make things worse, the shirt says Bimbo [...]

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Superman Returns teaser trailer

John Williams music: checkMarlon Brando as Jor-El’s voice: checkSuperman looking younger than me: wait a minute…
Check it out here

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A darn good party

For no good reason, we decided to have a party last night. But not just any party. A darn good party. 100+ people showed up and utterly trashed my house.
Special thanks to logistics specialist Julia Gallegos, Cheff Nathan Finkelstein and decorator / all around nice guy Arturito Karakowsky. Music and technical expertise were provided by [...]

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Playing with photobooth

I stopped by at Fry’s Electronics tonight, and they had one of the new iMacs in there… the ones with the built is camera and the little Photobooth application. I played with it for a couple of minutes. Results below.

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Juan Gabriel - San Antonio 2005

Juan Gabriel
Originally uploaded by GRD.

Along the lines of Wednesday’s concert, I went to see Juanga to San Antonio on Saturday.
Yup, the crowd was quite different.
This guy is now 55, and doesn’t move or sing like he used to, but his show is still quite good. He has an awesome mariachi band, and everytime he does [...]

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Depeche Mode - San Antonio 2005

Depeche Mode - Houston 2005
Originally uploaded by David Peris.

Last night I went to the Depeche Mode concert in San Antonio with Eva, Yoshia and Nathan. It was very good, even though in the row in front of us they were smoking cheap cigarretes during the whole concert, on our left there were 2 goth teenager [...]

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First sign 2006 is upon us

Cerveza Nochebuena edición 2006
hmmm… beer.

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Scariest pumpkin ever

In the spirit of Halloween, I carved a pumpkin for the very first time.It was a very educational experience. I decided to carve the globe. I carved out the full American continent, Africa, Europe and parts of Asia, but if I did Russia I’d be left with no pumpkin.Unfortunately, after a day, the pumpkin [...]

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