Monthly Archives: May 2006

Ingeniero Nerd visits Austin

From left to right:José Antonio Aguilar, Marcos Kirsch, José Euclides Correa (with Diego Correa), Alejandro del Castillo and Jerónimo Mota.
After two years or so, my very good friend Jose Antonio Aguilar (who studied with me and came dangerously close to displacing me as my parents’ third favorite child) came to visit over Memorial weekend.
That means [...]

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It’s…. La Polla!

I want to officially announce the Fifa 2006 World Cup Polla.
This is a pool/game/contest for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. I’ve been working on this for the last few days. The website is online and the relevant parts of the system are fully functional (i.e. submitting results).
The idea is that anyone who’s interested pays [...]

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Still waiting for the sphere

Any thoughts?
Photos by rheauchyr and gladiolaroot

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It’s decided: I’m getting a MacBook

Up until today, my Powerbook was a fairly new, up-to-date, mostly current computer. Sadly, today I saw a very critical piece of software come out for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro that does not work on my Powerbook and has rendered it completely obsolete and useless to me. And no, it’s not the Parallels [...]

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NI Eagles Summer 2006

We’ve got a pretty good team this season. Visit the Official Website. Click on the photo to see a larger version in flickr.

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MacBook inspiration?

Yesterday, I went to take a swim at Barton Springs. Since it’s so close to the local Apple Store (gotta love Google Maps), I went ahead to check out the new MacBooks.
And then I saw the MacBook… and that background video-game music that I haven’t been able to purge out of my head completely since [...]

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The Bat-Cave part deux

Fellow developer and former mentee Pratik Bhadra has posted a photo of this bat, perched from the ceiling in the sixth floor of the Truchard Design Center, who knows for how many hours, about three meters away from my head, watching me, studying my every move, preparing to pounce me. It’s happened before. The bat [...]

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Photo of the day #5

The Mexican National Soccer Team is now almost ready to travel to Europe for a couple of friendly matches before the 2006 World Cup. I can’t wait.

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Edgar Fan Club

Forget the Dancing Baby, All Your Base Are Belong to Us, the Star Wars Kid or even Don Filemon.
The new internet phenomena has arrived, and he comes from the great city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México (coincidentally, so do I)…

Take me to the Edgar Fan Club (spanish)

[Update 5/12/2006] Here are a few more links:

Edgar on [...]

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Spectacular Birthday Party

Last Saturday, May 6, 2006, Julia Gallegos, Karine Kowenski and myself threw a little birthday party. Read on to get to the photos…

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