Monthly Archives: April 2008

Steve Ballmer’s laptop

Good choice.

What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? Right…
Originally uploaded by Paint.It.Black.

Microsoft Keynote in Louvain
Originally uploaded by Choubistar.

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Disoriented

Last night, sometime in the middle of the night, I very suddenly woke up and literally jumped out of bed. Then I slipped and fell on my butt. Got up and went back to sleep. I can’t remember what the hell it was that I was dreaming.
This morning, at work, I went to the kitchen [...]

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Life Drawing at AVAA

I took these two cellphone photos at AVAA’s Life Drawing session last Sunday during one of the breaks.
It’s cool to see the different drawings/paintings by different artists using different techniques, all of them from slightly different angles. It’s also impressive: everyone is very, very talented (and better than me).
All of the artwork is unfinished, shown [...]

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Qué Comer

8.94% of the traffic to The MKX® comes from the city of Monterrey (mom? is that you?), so this post is relevant.

Are you hungry?
Do you want to eat out?
Do you want to try a new place?
Do you have internet access (yes you do, you’re reading this)?
Are you in Monterrey, México?

If you answered “yes” to all [...]

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Little Known Marcos Fact #5

The background song for Stage 1 of the 1982 classic videogame Pooyan (Tomy Tutor port) and the theme for the 1985 classic Commdore 64 game Zorro have been stuck in Marcos’ head for over two decades. If you pay close attention, you can sometimes hear him humming one of them.

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The science of Evite.com

I assume most of you have used the website Evite.com. If you haven’t, allow me to summarize it for you: It’s a website in which you create an event invitation and you send it to a list of guests. The guests then RSVP (Yes, Maybe, No) on an event page within their site. The text [...]

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Spider-man

I hired this guy as entertainment for my upcoming birthday party, he’s great:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cBFvu4FiYds
 

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Mrs. Florinda Kirsch’s 80th

Bar-Mitzvah-aged Marcos with his Bubi Florinda, at Bobe Leike’s house (~1991)
Two weeks ago I did a quick trip for Mrs. Florinda Kirsch’s (a.k.a bubi Florinda) 80th birthday party in Monterrey. It was a big one, just like we like them: almost 200 people. I got to say a speech in front of everyone, holding a [...]

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Intermediate Mass Black Hole in omega Centauri

See the image above? Is it what you think it is? Why yes, indeed, it is. Just like you suspected, an image of the majestic globular omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky… what else on Earth - or outside of it - could it have been?.
Now, remember those peculiarities observed [...]

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In an Absolut World

Mexico US Absolut Ads
Originally uploaded by deejamahl05.
I bet this got them some free press, that’s for sure. What do you think?

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