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Smile to my new Nikon D40x

Back in 2004 I bought myself a very small and nice digital camera Pentax Optio S4i as you probably already knew. For 3 years I’ve been taking lots of pictures and having lots of fun with my camera, but over this past 3 years I also realized how point and shot cameras are very limited [...]

August update

Blogs turn very lame when you dont post regularly. Recently I haven’t had anything exciting to write about, so my blog has been falling into the lame category. This post is just to summarize some of the things I have been doing recently or that I’m going to be doing in the near future.
Party, party, [...]

Welcome Ana Laura

Tonight is my birthday. I’m turning 29… I’m getting old but I don’t feel it… I still feel like I can do whatever I want. At the end, age is a mental thing and not so much a physical thing (err… sure). Anyway, Colombian soccer national team got beat REALLY bad tonight… I mean REEEEAAAAAALLLLY [...]

In the summer time, when the weather is high

…you can stretch right up and touch the sky!

Don’t miss the pictures!

Job interview

Take a look at these funny pictures taken during my job interview with National Instruments back in 2001.

Thanks to Victor for sharing the pictures!

2500 words

Can you write 2500 words a day?
El reto era escribir 2500 palabras. El motivo parte de una conversación con Lucia sobre una página que…. bueno entre la frase inicial y esto que escribo ahorita pasaron unos 30 minutos, pues antes de adentrarme a escribir 2500 palabras, preferí instalar en mi PowerBook una configuración de teclado [...]

Happy Bday to me!

Wow! I always thought that my birthday was sometime in June, but apparently I’m a Capricorn and my birthday is in January.

Microwaves

This week I purschased a new microwave oven (Sharp R-1505LK) because apparently my old microwave oven was leaking. My old microwave (Kenmore) was a gift from a former housemate and it was about 10 years old. The way I figure it was leaking microwaves was because when I turned it on, my Dish Network signal [...]

Merry Christmas from the Ugly Elf!

This year ugly Santa is not gonna be able to wish you a Merry Christmas, but instead he is sending one of his Elves to do so. You can even watch the ugly Elf dancing!

Trip to Spain: Episode II

In case you wondered about how expensive is to go to Spain for 2 weeks, here is my expenses report so far:
- Plane tickets (Austin – Barcelona) $676
- Health insurance $30
- Plane ticket (one way Barcelona – Madrid) 47.9 €
- 1GB SD memory for my digital camera $24.99
- Refurbished iPod shuffle (present for Carolina my [...]