In the techno version of russian roulette, where we all get laptop batteries and some of those can explode, you don’t want to win… you want to lose. This entitles you to a free new non-exploding battery that should hold more charge than my 94 week old Powerbook battery that has gone through 233 load cycles and can now only hold 62% of its full charge (according to Coconut Battery). No new battery for me, this time – not for free. Have you checked yours?
Last night I really felt like eating schawarma* so I bought a plane ticket to Israel.
*(and for other reasons too)
I’m typing this as I fly back from San Juan to Dallas, since I have no more DVDs to watch. It was a very nice change of pace flying last Thursday to Puerto Rico (pronounced Puelto Lico) for a week on a recruiting trip with National Instruments. Luis Orozco, Nick Marquez and myself flew to the town of Mayagüez, on the west side of the Island. There is a big campus of the Universidad de Puerto Rico that specializes in Engineering (computer, electrical, mechanical… you name it).
While I could go on here telling you about our adventures involving missed flights (screw you American Airlines and your hour-long check-in lines), very small airplanes, giant radiotelescopes, man-eating plants, etc, I’ll just let you see the photos yourself (after the commercial break).
It is a little late for this (some people are dumbasses when it comes to downloading photos off a camera), but here’s a photo of Mauricio Capistran (a.k.a. Picho) showing the score of last weekend’s match America VS Chivas of Guadalajara. He and Alejandro del Castillo (a.k.a. too many things to list in this reduced space) bet that whoever’s team loses the Superclásico would get to proudly pose wearing the winner’s jersey and remind the world what the final score was. Of course, the photo eventually makes it to the internet and the rest is history. Some people shouldn’t have so much faith in their teams (that last link you gotta click on).
Next weekend the Clásico Regiomontano is played… any takers among the few remaining fans of Tigres out there?
As a present to my cousin Jacobo, to pay him back for his help with my move on June 2005, I have set up an online album for him to upload all his photos from his Shnat Hachshara. Looks like he’s taking advantage of it, as he has already uploaded 160+ photos, mostly close ups of mostly fully dressed ugly, awkward, hairy teenagers who are going to become more ugly, awkward and hairy as the year goes on (been there, done that). Man, I wish I had a cousin like me back then…
See album here.
Have a very happy New Year. May all your dreams come true (but only if they didn’t last year). I hope you have a year full of fun, happiness, success, and love from your friends and family… shitloads of money doesn’t hurt either. Shana Tova!
Here’s an old one from Dry Bones, whose blog I just found:
Bad blogger, bad blogger. Here I am, posting about something that happened almost a month ago. Shame on me.On the 27th of October, Maya mentioned to me that there was a hot sauce festival the next day.As a man who grew up eating tostadas prepared by that artisan who diligently stood by the Campo Halcones (now Troyanos); that man who mysteriously dissappeared on a faithful day of 1995; that man simply known as “El Maestro de las Tostadas” I could not resist the lure of the fire in my mouth, the runny nose, the tearfull eyes; the ringing ears; the happiness. I had to go. (of interest, I think “El Maestro de las Tostadas” may have crossed over to this side of the pond to become Don Filemon… judge for yourself).So I searched and indeed, The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival 2006 was the next day, on a Sunday. Since we were in between seasons on the City League, the day was completely open to see what this whole thing was about.It was about standing in line for 20 minutes in 40 degrees heat just to taste a tortilla chip with hot sauce on it. Repeat for each of the tens of stands. I did it three times and it was pretty good but not worth the wait under the scorching sun. However something worth telling about happened. I will do that on Part II of this story. In the meantime, satisfy your vouyeurism and look at a few photos I took (and notice how many links I put throughout the text of this post. Good blogger. Good blogger):
Check out my new ringtone. Extra points if you know where the song is from.
I have added two links to the sidebar.
First, Agujeros Temporales, Eva Noyola’s new blog in which where she will narrate her adventures in Munich, Germany. Any blog that speaks of big telescopes is welcome in here.
Second comes BRNR, Eduardo (Aizik) Berner’s blog. This is his second attempt at blogging and so I wish him best of luck. I do wish to not that I have decided to go ahead and add him in spite of the unfair spot this blog received in his. I hope to see it corrected very soon.
