We’ve got a pretty good team this season. Visit the Official Website. Click on the photo to see a larger version in flickr.
NI Eagles Summer 2006
MacBook inspiration?
Yesterday, I went to take a swim at Barton Springs. Since it’s so close to the local Apple Store (gotta love Google Maps), I went ahead to check out the new MacBooks.
And then I saw the MacBook… and that background video-game music that I haven’t been able to purge out of my head completely since 1983 started playing in my brain over and over and over again in and endless loop… Pooyan.
Yeah… you guessed it (actually I’m quite sure you have no clue on what I’m talking about). The Tomy Tutor, (that little blue Japanese computer my brother got in the early eighties) and the MacBook have strikingly similar keyboards. Except the keys on the MacBook you can actually type on and are not made out of soft, squishy, eraser-like rubber. See the comparison:
Pretty cool, huh?
(By the way, I’m not that old, and yet somehow I recall the Tomy Tutor’s keyboard and the song for the one game we had, Pooyan… this is before the Commodore 64!)
All in all: a very nice machine. I’m terribly tempted to put the machine I’m typing this on right now on eBay and get my first computer enver that runs on an Intel chip.
MacBook photo by cdevroe
Tomy Tutor photo by oldbits.de
The Bat-Cave part deux
Fellow developer and former mentee Pratik Bhadra has posted a photo of this bat, perched from the ceiling in the sixth floor of the Truchard Design Center, who knows for how many hours, about three meters away from my head, watching me, studying my every move, preparing to pounce me. It’s happened before. The bat doesn’t stand a chance against my quick reflexes, superior strength and uncanny spider-sense.
Or maybe the poor thing was scared shitless. Who knows.
Photo of the day #5
The Mexican National Soccer Team is now almost ready to travel to Europe for a couple of friendly matches before the 2006 World Cup. I can’t wait.
Edgar Fan Club
Forget the Dancing Baby, All Your Base Are Belong to Us, the Star Wars Kid or even Don Filemon.
The new internet phenomena has arrived, and he comes from the great city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México (coincidentally, so do I)…
Take me to the Edgar Fan Club (spanish)
[Update 5/12/2006] Here are a few more links:
- Edgar on CNN!
- Egar on Reforma (largest newspaper in Mexico – account needed)
- Screenshot of Edgar on Reforma (if you don’t have an account)
- Meet Edgar’s girlfriend
[Update 5/15/2006] One more:
Spectacular Birthday Party
Last Saturday, May 6, 2006, Julia Gallegos, Karine, and myself threw a little birthday party. Read on to get to the photos… Continue reading Spectacular Birthday Party
Elite Mekupelet VS Cadbury Flake
On March 24th of 2006 I learned about the Cadbury Flake… I must admit that it wasn’t easy to learn that the strange chocolate bar from that far away land of milk and honey wasn’t all that unique.
Not only that, but as I started asking people about it, those who were aware of the existence of both candies always had strong feelings about which one is better. Puzzled, I discovered that this was not only an issue of chocolate, but of deeply entrenched national pride. It was too much fun to pass on. I had to hold a head to head contest.
After a seemingly eternal wait, a shipment of Cadbury Flake chocolate (actually, only three bars) arrived from Dubai, UAE. I had some Elite Mekupelet in my personal stash… so it’s time to decide once and for all:
Who is king of the flakey chocolate?
(Click on any of the pictures to see a full size version)
(Click on any of the pictures to see a full size version)
Happy Birthday to me
Last Wednesday (May 3) I turned 28 (as you can see in the Friends and Foes of Marcos Calendar).Paty baked a delicious chocolate cake for me (my favorite!). Thank you Paty!If you didn’t call or email to wish me a Happy Birthday, the least you can do at this point is leave a comment below.
Hot Israeli women in the IDF
This is AWESOME.
World Cup 2006 Sticker Album
Every four years, the world gets ready for the big party. And every four years, millions of soccer fans buy the Panini Wold Cup Official Sticker Album. I now I’ve been doing it with my brothers since 1982, and still own the 1986, 1994 and 2002 editions (I need to look for the rest).
For the 2006 World Cup in Germany the italian company Panini published the album as usual. They sell it all over the world…. except in the U.S.A. (or at least I haven’t seen it, correct me if I’m wrong). This makes things a whole lot harder. Still I press on and I am in the process of completing mine. Since buying the sticker packets must be done long distance, and trading duplicates with friends is hard because they all live in a different country [Editor’s note: Marcos has friends in this country, they just didn’t get the album], I have created a small webpage where people can track my progress (becuase YOU care!).
Yeah, it seems like it was a lot of work and makes me look like an obsessive-compulsive anal-retentive childish nerd. In reality, you wouldn’t be that far off the truth… but seriously, I promise it wasn’t bad.
Moi, Arturito, Mauri and Abrahamcito drove into town from Monterrey last night. They bought a whole box of sticker packets for me and some more for themselves. I need to paste them and record the duplicates so that I can send them down with them on Monday to my agent in Mexico. He has all the right contacts in school.
And now, presenting the My Panini World Cup Sticker Album Progress Tracking page. As of right now, I have 39.86% completed.
[UPDATE 5/2/2006] Now that didn’t take long… Moi started his own album, and made my script look pretty.