Monthly Archives: July 2006

Bat watching

As you, MKX® reader most certainly already know, Austin Texas is home to the largest urban bat colony in the world. Yup, 1.5 million bats live under the Congress Avenue bridge and shoot out every night. Some say they go out to eat between 10,000 and 30,000 pounds of insects. Others say they go to [...]

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Fire!

What is this?
Is this a crappy cellphone picture of a Southern Beirut neighborhood or perhaps the landing site of a Katyusha rocket in Haifa?
Nope, this is a much more mundane thing. There was a fire today in the mall that’s being constructed accross the street from work. The snapshot was taken from the sixth floor [...]

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Little Known Marcos Fact #3

Marcos has never owned a Windows PC (or DOS, for that matter) in his whole life. He is quite proud of it.

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Masacotes de Tlaquepaque 2006

Masacotes de Tlaquepaque 2006
These handsome gentlemen are the best(*) team in the NI Summer Volleyball league. Feared by other teams and absolute owners of the net.
The Masacotes de Tlaquepaque (formerly known as Masacotes de Chicontepec and sometimes refered to as Voladores de Papantla) is integrated by El Mota, La Urraca, El Bulldozer, myself, Jaramillo [...]

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Polla Winner!

Anand Narayanan received his prize for winning the FIFA World Cup 2006 Polla. Congratulations Anand! He finished 10 points ahead of me. I was 9th.
Click to see the full size photo and you’ll notice that Anand has also won an air hockey tournament and belongs to the world famous Austin soccer team the NI Eagles.

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Italy wins!

After a month of non-stop World Cup soccer Italy takes the championship for the fourth time. Congratulations to them. Cetrulo is thrilled. I’m happy for him.

But I don’t care.
What I do care about is that after a shameful start in La Polla I was able to recover and finish 9th out of 81. See for [...]

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Miami report

At 3:00 AM I finally got back from Miami (connecting flight from HOU was very delayed). Sarai got sick and flew back hence missing all the sun and all the (wholesome) fun. We had a chance to catch Jaco, Joana and my nieces Liat and Joelle who look more and more like me every day [...]

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