Photos taken by me during that horrible Mexico VS Colombia match last year in Houston are now featured in the very famous polish website stadiony.net – prezentacje stadionów piłkarskich.
Cool… go check it out!
May you not become too constipated.
So the product page for the thing I have been working on the last many months is finally up! (why do I get the feeling you are not as excited as I am?).
Meet the new NI-5406 and NI-5402 Function Generators. Marvel at the sight of these technological wonders.
And finally, check out the product and bookmark the page for the Signal Generators Group… you never know when you may need an arbitrary waveform generator, or something.
We didn’t take a photo of the team during the Fall Division 1 season of the Austin City League. I’m partially to blame for that.
In any case, we played a friendly match today, a few weeks before the summer season starts, against a team from some chinese church (I’ll try to find more details about them). The NI-Eagles won 3-0. Here’s the photo of the guys who made it to the game. Click for larger version.
According to Computerworld, Firefox has reached for the first time a 10% market share last month. That’s very good.
For educational purposes only, let’s compare the figures presented by Computerworld, which represent the total Internet usage patterns against the usage patterns of you, the enlightened Marcos Kirsch Experience® visitor. Just for kicks, let’s also see how that other little website I have (which is now getting around 2,500 pageviews per day – yup, that is not a typo) is doing:
| Browser | Internet | The Marcos Kirsch Experience® | Jinuj.net |
| Internet Explorer | 84.7% | 59.32% | 92.37% |
| Firefox | 10.05% | 27.12% | 5.51% |
| Safari | 3.19% | 9.32% | 0.86% |
| Netscape | 1.05% | 0.85% | 0.18% |
| Opera | 0.54% | 2.54% | 0.66% |
| Mozilla | 0.34% | No data | 0.28% |
Now, here’s some interesting (to me, but I doubt to anyone else) observations:
Once again, I went to Monterrey last Friday. Joana was there with Liat and Joelle (who are now 13 months old). The girls are awesome but they like Moi more than they like me. That’s not surprising, most people like Moi more than they like me.
The drive home was quite an adventure, including a trip to downtown San Antonio to pick my cousing Becky up, a nice chat with a law enforcement officer in Pearsall Texas, a trip to the 26th km inside of Mexico, then back to Nuevo Laredo to get a tourist visa for Shaina, then back to the 26th km, and a burned alternator.
On Saturday, I got to go to Ilana and Yoni’s wedding which was very nice. There were a ton of Monterrey Exiles (a group I’m proudly a member of) that made the trip for what was the first wedding in the community in three or four years (how sad is that?). Very nice seeing them all, and also very nice to hear some of them actually read this blog (yeah, there’s a good chance that I’m talking about you). The photo of my dad sitting in a shoestore holding my mom’s purse seemed to be especially popular.
Last, but not least, on Sunday I bought 70 tacos from the always tasty Tacos Lara (proudly clogging arteries since 1968). I don’t remember the exact breakdown but we bought everything except for carnitas. I didn’t eat all of them by myself though. If I had, the drive back would have been rough for the other passengers.
This one is every bit as disturbing as finding out that your dad is really the “Tooth Mouse” (the Mexican version of the Tooth Fairy), that and that wrestling is fake.
I grew up thinking that the delicious israeli Mekupelet chocolate was made with this ultra-secret process that no one could duplicate (but many had tried). I even heard the legends about how you could tour the Elite factory and see how all their chocolates are made, except for Mekupelet, which was their most important secret.
So I was shocked when I gave a Mekupelet bar to Nisha Ganwani, who was born and grew up in Dubai (and knows a ton about chocolate)… and she said it is exactly like a british chocolate bar sold over there: the Cadbury Flake.
A shipment of Cadbury Flakes is now on its way from the United Arab Emirates, so that I can verify her claim. I will update you on this – because I know you are just dying to know. But for now… all the same… another part of my inner child has died.
[Update 3/27/2006]: Nisha has just informed me that a shipment of Cadbury Flake bars is in transit from Dubai to Austin and should be arriving on April 28th. I guess a guy is swimming accross the ocean with a bag full of it.
[Update 4/4/2006]: The Marcos Kirsch Experience® exclusive correspondant in England, Jessica Lechner, has just informed me that the Flake tastes more sour, and is worse. This matches another report by Sarai Melichar, who is a chemical engineer in Houston TX and specializes in eating chocolate. She describes the Flake as “gross“. She repeated the word “gross” and “yuck” many times throughout the report. We are still awaiting the tests that will be performed at the main labs, in Austin, TX.
It was a beautiful day at Estadio Universitario where Monterrey beat it’s arch-rival Tigres in their own home (2-1, goals by Sergio Verdirame and Luis Miguel Salvador) and mathematically sent them to the next division. Half the city cried, and the other half realized their town had just become a better place.
This morning, as I’m getting coffee and heating up some oatmeal at the Mopac C kitchenette, I notice the microwave tray and I could swear it was spinning in the opposite direction (I think) it usually spins! So I stop the microwave and start it again – and it spins in the usual direction. I stop it and start it, and again… reversed!!!
A colleague walks in and I ask him: did you know the tray in the microwave reverses its direction every time you start it? He didn’t know, so I proceed to show him. It wouldn’t do it! The microwave is playing tricks on my head and I don’t like it.
Please, I need someone to confirm that some microwaves can spin their tray in both directions!
[Update 3/15/2006] I’ve been trying and the thing will not rotate clockwise. Ok, maybe there is a chance that I was… mistaken.
[Update 3/22/2006] HAHA I KNEW IT!!!! The microwave rotated clockwise this morning. I guess I’m not insane after all!
Because you asked for it:
Moi set up a website in which to upload photos from the wedding.
I collected and cleaned up around 300 photos from 4 different cameras (thanks to Chocho and Joel for sending their photos right away).
You can add your witty comments to the photos, so do it.
Also, come back soon, I have two funny videos I will be posting shortly.
Congratulations to Jacquie and Eli. I wish them a happy life, lots of naches and lots of cousins for me.