Terminator
All posts by kirsch
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.
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.
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 put that website up there in the first place (he probably listed himself first). According to the HTML source, that thing has been there for a while:
META NAME=”GENERATOR” CONTENT=”Adobe PageMill 2.0 Mac” and
This file created 12/24/96 12:56 AM by Claris Home Page version 2.0
To the defense of the schmuck, he created the website waaay before the spam epidemic really started.
Photo of the day #9
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 look exactly the same.
Broza
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.
Ouch
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.
Joost
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 good and the interface is slick, especially considering that this is pre-release software. The downside is that there is still very little to watch, but that should change with time. Also, as far as I can tell, it does not broadcast live events at all (I would pay for certain games, for instance).
Joost is still by invitation only. I have one invite left in my account. If you have an Intel Mac and would like to try it out, leave a comment.
Apple Store at The Domain
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, Tiffany & Co., Puma, etc).
People walking by seemed very puzzled at the long line. Here’s a conversation the dude in front of me had with a lady passing by:
lady: What is this line for?
dude: The Apple Store Grand Opening.
lady: What, do you all like Apple?
dude: Yes.
lady: But I don’t get it, why are you in line?
dude: The Apple Store Grand Opening.
lady: What, are they giving away stuff?
dude: Well, there’s a free t-shirt.
lady: Oh… now I get it.
No… she didn’t get it.
Check out the flickr photoset and the movie embedded below.
