Monthly Archives: June 2007

From an iPhone

I’m at the Houston Apple Store in the Galleria with Jaramillo and Johnny Kings (or Juan Reyes, depending who you ask), posting this from an iPhone. This thing is awesome… And the keyboard does work well. How do I get out of my current contract? Also, check out the mega-geek photo above.

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Welcome Ana

Last night, my friends Pepe and Paty had their second child, a baby girl named Ana (not Dora, no matter how much I lobbied for it). Congratulations to the parents and to the older brother and long time drinking buddy Diego as well as to the rest of the family.Ana was born at 11:09 PM, [...]

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Seemingly obvious software features missing from the iPhone

Here’s a quick list in no particular order of (obvious?) features that the iPhone does not have, but could add in the future throguh a software update.
Obviously, people at Apple had to draw the line somewhere in the feature list so they can actually ship and start selling a product.
Some of the features probably ended [...]

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Overheard in MSN Messenger

Excerpts of a real IM conversation, a few minutes ago (no English translation provided):
adi says:
www.Bloockoo.net , para mirar quienes te tienen bloqueado en el Msn
La Polla America says:
a ver
La Polla America says:
jala?
adi says:
tu me lo mandaste o Rony?
La Polla America says:
?
adi says:
No mames Iuval [...]

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iPhone countdown

This from The Washington Post:

And if you haven’t done so yet, check out the iPhone Guided Tour. Really, check it out, it’s cool.

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Masacotes 2007

Current season record: 2 wins, 1 loss.

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The Polyphonic Spree

Last minute thing last night: went to see The Polyphonic Spree. If you think that listening to a 20-member band that looks like a cult play happy music from the inside of a marijuana cloud (whew, what a mouthful) would cheer me up after that day’s earlier horrible dissappointment, you’re wrong.
Still, it was fun.

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Very. Dark. Chocolate.

Theo Chocolate
Originally uploaded by dierken.

It all started a few months ago. A colleague at work brought a Dagoba Eclipse chocolate bar. It is 87% pure cocoa. For comparison, your regular Hershey’s chocolate bar contains around 35% cocoa. This thing was really dark. Too dark and bitter for him, and for most people he [...]

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About Marcos

So you saw that post showing me and the three other Marcos and were wondering why in the world would they name us all the same.
It’s all due to the ahskenazi tradition in which you are named in honor of a deceased relative, in this case my great grandfather. For unrelated reasons an interesting document [...]

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Another wedding: Galia

Just like last weekend, I flew again to Mexico City for another wedding. Those frequent flyier miles are accumulating like the dirt under my bed (or something, that wasn’t a very good analogy). This time it was the turn for my cousin Galia and Ari. It was all very precious.
See the photos, then stop wasting [...]

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