Here’s an old photo (October 22nd, 1980). From left to right: Marcos (that’d be me), Jacobo (my older brother), Thelma (my mom), and Moi (my younger brother). I don’t know why my brothers look so confused. I also don’t know why the photo is in black and white… being 1980 and all. Amazingly, we all [...]
Yesterday I attended a small concert adn Q&A session by David Broza at the JCAA. The real full-fledged concert is tonight, but I don’t have tickets (I saw him in concert about 5 years ago at the CYJ 50th anniversary celebration). Nice.
Believe it or not (I still don’t fully believe it), I managed to re-fracture my collarbone last Sunday. It is with great emotional and physical (but mostly physical) pain that I have decided to retire from competitive amateur soccer. I wasn’t even good to begin with.
Here’s yesterday x-ray:
And I know. You told me so.
I have been beta testing Joost. This is a computer app created by the same guys who did Kazaa and Skype. It is a peer-to-peer video broadcasting application and it wants to do to the TV industry what Skype is doing to telephony and Kazaa did to file distribution.
The video and sound quality are very [...]
The new Apple Store at The Domain (Austin, TX) opened this morning, conveniently located right accross the street from work. I had to go check it out.
The Domain is the name of the fancy new shopping mall. It’s located on MoPac and Braker. It’s got some very upscale stores (Lacoste, Louis Vuitton, Coach, Neiman Marcus, [...]
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On Stephen Hawkings:
Poor dude just wants to sit in his living room and drink a nice cup of tea and say dirty words with his voice computer when cute girls go by.
On Dell:
They started a price war and won the race to the bottom. Looked great until everyone else arrived there too. Now what? Hire [...]
Yesterday marked my triumphant return to the soccer fields to play after long time rival Juventus (not the actual Italian team). The first ball I touched after almost three months of injury was a perfect pass to the striker for an open shot on goal. Too bad the striker played for the other team.
Still, [...]
Behold the beauty of our solar system. This photoof Saturn was taken on January 19th, 2007 by the Cassini spacecraft. Click for full article and a higher resolution version.