Monthly Archives: April 2007

Eeyore’s 44th Birthday

Keep Austin Weird, my frieds. Among many other activities I was engaged in today I went to Eeyore’s annual birthday party (Wikipedia) (a.k.a. Igor el Burrito) at Pease Park.First time I’ve been to this festival, which is embarrasing since I’ve lived in Austin for so long. It’s full of hippies, people in costumes, drums, egg-tossing [...]

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Messi and Maradona

Lionel Messi, April 18th, 2007: Barcelona VS Getafe, Copa del Rey Semifinals:

Diego Armando Maradona, June 22nd, 1986: Argentina VS England, Fifa World Cup Quarterfinals:

Sure, they’re both great… but one of them is the freaking World Cup Semifinal against England, no offense to Messi or the boys of Getafe.

[Update 4/20/2007] Replaced Messi’s video, as YouTube keeps [...]

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The Handsome Ahmadinejad

Jew-loving Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks just like Santo Poco’s terrorizer and notorious bandido El Guapo. I wonder if they are related. Courtesy of Stylus Magazine.
Other incredible lookalikes have been pointed out before at The MKX®, see here and here.
But not only the rich and famous have their lost twins. The everyday guy may have [...]

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No respect at all

Faithful readers of this blog know of some of my past sports-related incidents, specifically this one and this one.
Well, to my surprise a couple of weeks ago I was tipped of a photograph of myself in the elevator. Now, ever distrustful of elevators (and airplanes, cell phones, computers, and all things technological) as I [...]

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The Killers

Another concert. Thanks to a couple of hand-me-down tickets from Lucia who went out of town at the last minute, I got to see The Killers last night. Cool show, even if I’m not that big of a fan and don’t know many of their songs. Lots of girls too, it almost fell like a [...]

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Terminator


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Molotov

The unconfirmed final tour of mexican band Molotov hit Stubb’s in Austin last night. Above a photo taken of the Frijolero number and below a video of Molotov performing their song Voto Latino.

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More Joost invites

Ok children, I have a new set of Joost invites. If you have an Intel Mac and would like to try out Joost, let me know through the comments.
[Update April 15th, 2007] They’re all gone… for now. Stay tuned.

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Do not try this at home

While browsing the World Wide Web, I bumped into this old website.
In one of the pages there is a list of contacts, each one of them with a mailto: link. This is the online equivalent of having unprotected group sex at a Gay Parade afterparty in Botswana.
Now, I don’t know who is the schmuck that [...]

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