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Easy Rider

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Brian Anderson, Product Marketing Dude (I believe that’s his official title) for the Signal Generators group at NI is leaving the company, dropping “Product Marketing” from his title to become simple Dude and going on a 10,000 mile motorcycle trip around the US and Canada. After that he’s going back to school.

In order to let others know he’s still alive, he will be updating his blog on a regular basis (or so he says). Link added to sidebar.

Good luck and have a great trip Brian!

PS: I think “The Motorcycle Diaries” would have been a better title for his blog.

Life of Marcos

Machacado

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  • 1 can of chiles serranos
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tomato
  • 30 tortillas
  • salsa
  • 1/2 Gallon of orange juice
  • 8 large eggs

$18

  • 400 grams of dried meat

$80 (mexican pesos)

  • Machacado con huevo for breakfast the morning after a big party

Priceless

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Reality Distortion Field

HebPod

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As all of you are perfectly aware (I’m sure), the iPod cannot display hebrew. This makes finding that one Shlomo Artzi track specially difficult.

This is very annoying because it forces you to translate (either literally or phonetically) the track names to the English alphabet.

Well, Ido Mendelson has come up with a way to get the iPod display hebrew. But apparently Apple Israel (Yeda) has decided it voids your warranty (what???).

Anyway, there’s a petition in case you care.

I don’t know yet if I’ll try it… I’m thinking about it though but it’s not clear what it actually does… pressumably it simply replaces the font file in the iPod?

NI Eagles!

Exciting end of season

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It’s been a while since I posted anything about the NI Eagles, Austin’s top soccer team (approximately).

We are one game away from the end of the Spring 2005 season. We are now in Division 2, having moved up all the way from Division 5 (which is pretty good considering that we are largely the same group of players). The top 2 teams will go up to Division 1. We are now in second place, tied with the Screaming Sparks. The Aardvarks are close and have two games left.

This means that, if we beat Sky Sports on Sunday, we go to Division 1, otherwise we stay in Division 2.

We will be missing quite a few players too, as Jaramillo, Chaparro and Mota are flying to Puebla for Muleiro’s wedding, and I’m going to Monterrey to get constipated eating matzah (and other beige food).

I’ll keep you updated.

Team Played Wins Losses Ties Goals
For		 Goals
Against		 Goal
Diff		 Goals
Scored		 Points/
Game		 Points
Juventus 15 10 1 4 36 12 24 42 2.27 34
NI Eagles 17 8 2 7 39 22 17 45 1.82 31
Screamin’ Sparks 17 9 4 4 30 15 15 33 1.82 31
Aardvarks 16 8 4 4 29 26 3 33 1.75 28
FC Fumar 17 6 5 6 25 22 3 31 1.41 24
Sky Sports FC 17 7 7 3 34 34 0 41 1.41 24
Team MBA 15 6 5 4 26 24 2 26 1.47 22
AFC Barcelona 17 4 7 6 17 20 -3 23 1.06 18
Fogu Makacos 16 2 13 1 12 37 -25 12 0.44 7
Austin Kosmos 17 2 14 1 13 49 -36 14 0.41 7

[UPDATE 4/28/2005] Well, NI-Eagles won with a convincing 6-1. See you in First Division!!!