Monthly Archives: October 2006

The Ugly Nun resurfaces - and she’s not alone!

It’s been a long time since the Ugly Nun was seen in Austin. Some say she was hiding (no, not in the closet). In reality, she was traveling the world…
AND NOW SHE’S BACK, UGLIER, HAIRIER, DRUNKER AND BEST OF ALL…SHE’S NOT ALONE
Follow the adventures of the Ugly Nun and her sidekicks Die deutschen Nonnen. Also [...]

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Kinky

Last Wednesday, some friends and I headed to Emo’s, on Sixth Street, to see regiomontano band Kinky. Check out the photos in The MKX® Photo Central, if you dare. Jaramillo posted additional details.

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Five years at NI

click for slightly larger version
Last Wednesday, Dr. T and Mark Finger took me and other co-workers for lunch to celebrate our 5th (or 10th or 15th) anniversary working at National Instruments (three months after the fact, but we’re all busy people with no time for trivial things like celebration lunches and updating a blog, right?).
It [...]

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NI Eagles Fall 2006

Oh, the joys of getting our asses kicked in Division 1 of the Austin City League… Not every time, but way more than in the lower divisions. Click on the photo to zoom in or check out the NI Eagles Official Website.

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About time: A2DP in MacOS X

Look like we’ll finally have A2DP support in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (coming soon?).
To the uninformed, this means you can buy a set of pretty stereo Bluetooth headphones and listen to music wirelessly from your Mac without using any ugly external transmitters.

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Dammit! My battery is not explosive

In the techno version of russian roulette, where we all get laptop batteries and some of those can explode, you don’t want to win… you want to lose. This entitles you to a free new non-exploding battery that should hold more charge than my 94 week old Powerbook battery that has gone through 233 load [...]

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Going to the Holy Land

Last night I really felt like eating schawarma* so I bought a plane ticket to Israel.
*(and for other reasons too)

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The Boricua Report

I’m typing this as I fly back from San Juan to Dallas, since I have no more DVDs to watch. It was a very nice change of pace flying last Thursday to Puerto Rico (pronounced Puelto Lico) for a week on a recruiting trip with National Instruments. Luis Orozco, Nick Marquez and myself flew to [...]

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Picho Chiva

It is a little late for this (some people are dumbasses when it comes to downloading photos off a camera), but here’s a photo of Mauricio Capistran (a.k.a. Picho) showing the score of last weekend’s match America VS Chivas of Guadalajara. He and Alejandro del Castillo (a.k.a. too many things to list in this reduced [...]

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Jaco’s Israel Album

As a present to my cousin Jacobo, to pay him back for his help with my move on June 2005, I have set up an online album for him to upload all his photos from his Shnat Hachshara. Looks like he’s taking advantage of it, as he has already uploaded 160+ photos, mostly close ups [...]

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