If you thought the special effects in Spider-Man 2 were good, you should check out this video which shows the way it should have done (you already saw Spider-Man 2, didn’t you?).
Don’t worry. No spoilers. Click here to watch.
New Orleans Tour 2004!
I got back from New Orleans last night. Daniel “catarrin” Jaramillo, Alejandro “chaparro” del Castillo, Luis “Brody” Navarro, Andres “Andy Boy” Marcos and myself rented Dolores “Lolita” Chrysler and spent 4 unforgetable days (although some of us already forgot some parts of the trip due to the extreme circumstances). Also, Anders Meisters, Claudia and Paula Lorente, Jimmy and Jeremy joined us some of the time.
New Orleans is a lot of fun. The drive is long but Lolita’s DVD player and the “Monterrey Campe�n Clausura 2003” Collector’s DVD helped make it more enjoyable. Bourbon street is amazing, a cross between Austin’s 6th street, Amsterdam’s Red Light District and a giant toilet. Cajun and Creole food are great. You can listen to great live jazz all over the place… you get the picture.
I’ll post some photographs of the trip tonight or tomorrow.
UPDATE [July 17]: I have uploaded the pictures now! Two albums: this one and this one. I’m still missing photos from Claudia and Jimmy.
UPDATE [April 12 2007]: Fixed links.
Have you seen Spider-Man 2 yet?
Yes, yes… Spider-Man 2 opened las Wednesday. So I went to see it at 12:01. Damn those west coast people! They started seeing before I did!
The movie is really great, and the special effects are awesome. Specially Doctor Octopus (the mechanical arms and the fake pectorals). Can’t wait for Spider-Man 3!
Fahrenheit 9/11
Yesterday I say this movie called Fahrenheit 9/11.
Of course, like every other respectable news outlet in the world, I must write about it.
Well, the theater was PACKED. There was a long long line outside the theater. I almost expected to see people dressed as jawas or wookiees. I mean, it was ridiculous (I didn’t get in line thanks to Yossy, but I will not elaborate on that).
The movie is good. It entertains, it shows lots of things many people don’t know (and should! this is their President), it’s even funny at times. It’s not very hard to make a movie that makes George Bush look bad, with the Florida fiasco, the Spetember 11 attacks, the invasion of Iraq and the missing Weapons of mass destruction (Google search) (very funny please follow links).
There are however very strong scenes of death and injured people in Iraq, which makes me very surprised Michael Moore whined to get the R rating lowered. It absolutely deserved the R rating.
And, of course, the whole movie is a shameless self-promoting act by the director/writer/producer. Which is a little unusual for a documentary. Starting with the movie poster, the “interviews” in which Moore keeps putting words in other people’s mouths (like in that other movie) and the ridiculous stunts, Michael Moore tries to present himself as some sort of smart-ass and self-righteous superhero during the whole film. I was not impressed.
Overall, the movie does raise some important issues and I recommend watching it. Not worth getting in line for, though.
Will it influence the outcome of the elections? I doubt it. Those that will go to see it, aren’t voting for Bush anyway. Those that are voting for Bush, won’t see it. Those who are undecided…. hmmm…
Rush
So I heard Rush was coming to town (actually, to Selma, TX, about an hour drive away). I’m no Rush fan so I didn’t care (although many friends did and were talking about six months ago). On Friday, the day of the concert, Neil, Drew and his newly wed wife (congratulations!) are about to leave, but she’s really sick. So there’s an extra ticket and I end up going to the Rush concert (which, by the way, was very very good). Thanks for the ticket, Drew!
Also there: Cetrulo, Gustavo, Andés and Colibrí.
Chichipanguanorrea
Welcome to my friend Daniel Jaramillo to the online world. He has launched Chichipanguanorrea, an elegant and stylish blog about… we’ll see. But one thing is for sure: it will be better than mine.
UPDATE [July 8]: Chichipanguanorrea has been offline for some time.
UPDATE [March 19, 2008]: Chichipanguanorrea lives here now.
You’ve got GMail!
Just like Moi I now have a GMail account. How lucky!
There are three (3) possibilities:
– You are jealous and you hate me.
– You already have a GMail account.
– You are not a nerd.
Update June 27 2004: I redirected all my email to GMail in order to test it. While the web-based interface is incredible… I’d rather use Mail.app and Thunderbird. So now I’m back using my regular email accounts.
By the way, GMail has been down (for me at least) since Friday. It just gets stuck in the Redirecting to /gmail screen. Today it’s Sunday and it’s still broken and I have 2 days worth of email there (or at least I hope so!). C’mon, what am I going to do without those 200+ penis enlargement /Viagra spams????
Tons of photos
I uploaded lots of photos from last weekend’s trip to Monterrey.
Jave’s house before Becky’s party
Becky’s Bat-Mitzvah
At the rancho
At Moi’s graduation party
If you are not in the pictures, or you want to complain that somebody is in LOTS of pictures… it’s not my fault. All photos were taken by Debbie or Jacobo. Basically, if it looks like the picture was taken from below… it was Debbie. All photos of buffet tables, flowers and decorations taken by Jacobo were censored. Sorry.
NI Eagles debut in Division 2 with a victory
The NI Eagles had a victorious debut yesterday in the Austin City League. We started out in Division 5 and have climbed all the way up to Division 2. We played Fusion yesterday, and beat them 2-0. This should be a fun torunament!
Carlos Marchani and Papa Faye scored for NI Eagles.
Left to right, top to bottom:
Brandon, Peco, Papa, Lukasz, Trevor, Andy, Chris, Jeronimo, Ababacar, Alejandro
Dave, Anand, Marcos, Carlos, Daniel, Diego, Onome.
Computerless
I sent my iBook to get checked about a potential glitch. I figured… I’m going to be out of town for four days, so it should be back by the time I’m back. When on the phone with the AppleCare guy, he offered to switch my internal 8x Combo Drive for a 24x Combo Drive… at no cost.
Of course, I said yes.
Now, my iBook is sitting in a warehouse a couple of miles from my apartment (I think the Apple repair center is in Austin) waiting on a back-ordered combo drive.
Without a computer, I haven’t been able to post pictures from my trip to Monterrey last week (most of them, taken by my cousin Debbie). I’ll do that as soon as I get the computer back.