Monthly Archives: May 2007

Today’s quote: Steve Jobs

On iTunes for Windows:
It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!
- Steve Jobs, at D 2007

]Update 6/1/2007] Watch in on video:

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Search for faces

This is pretty cool:
Search for “Marcos Kirsch” in Google Image Search and you get tons of random images (click here).
Add “&imgtype=face” at the end and you get only images with faces on them (click here).

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Falling with grace

She’s no Edgar though.

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The War Against Spam

I’ve been waging a relentless war against spam for year on multiple fronts. And I’m losing.
My brilliant catch-all strategy/use hundreds of email addresses so I can identify the bastards that give up my email and then do who knows what backfired on me. I had to switch gears and it’s been a lot of work. [...]

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Moving Hebrew music between Mac and PC iTunes

How annoying.
Last night I ripped my new Shlomo Artzi (Shfuim - not even in iTunes yet) CD in my Mac mini. It retrieved the track and album names from the series of tubes called the Internet just fine, in Hebrew.
I uploaded it to my iDisk, downloaded at work (Windows XP PC), and now track names, [...]

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Kayaking

Photo by Jeff Taff.Through a series of random events, I ended up kayaking in Town Lake yesterday with Mr. Levinson. I think I hadn’t done it since my CYJ days almost ten years ago. I’m happy to report that I can fully move my arms today with no pain despite all the paddling.[Update 5/21/2007]: Ok, [...]

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Today’s quote: Jerry Seinfeld

For a Jewish boy growing up on Long Island, to have dinner with Steven Spielberg is like being bar mitzvahed twice.
- Jerry Seinfeld, 2007

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Speech impediment

When I speak English, apparently (unbelievably) there is still a hint of a foreign accent somewhere in there. So when I meet new people they usually get curious about it. They can hear I’m foreign, but they can’t ever place me as Mexican, as I don’t look like the average Mexican.
Lately, I have changed my [...]

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Memory

This morning I forgot my cellphone at home. And my badge. And my wallet. And for the love of me I just can’t remember my middle name. However I did bring a bag of HEB-branded Teriyaki Beef Jerky, which is really odd because I haven’t eaten beef jerky in years. It’s really tasty.

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Alan as Axl

This is my cousin Alan Kirsch singing Don’t Cry by Guns N’ Roses. The video was shot around the time people last heard about Guns N’ Roses: 1991 or so. I may start a petition to get Alan to go back to the haircut he had in the video.

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