Trent Reznor rocks! I said once. NIN fuckin’ rocks! I said later. I even was crazy enough to play along with them. But now I have to say: nine inch nails is the best band in the world. I’m really sorry Pink Floyd, U2 or Soda Stereo.
“thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me” - trent reznor
Rocks path
Originally uploaded by Daniel Jaramillo
Today I decided to drive around Capital of Texas Highway / 360 and find neat places to take pictures of. That is how I discovered the Bull Creek District Park.
Still learning how to take good pictures. Check my latest pictures on flickr and leave some comments if you love/hate what you see.
Learning to fly is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs.
There is a time in every blogger’s life when you simply don’t have much interesting material to post about, so you decide to create a post about the last few things that have been going on. Unfortunately this is not the first time I do this, so feel free to drop some hate comments and show me your love and appreciation.
Last week I was recognized in my company with the ‘Engineering Excellence’ award which is given to about 8-15 engineers every year. I was pretty happy with the award because it motivates me to keep working hard and doing a good job at work. (Note to self: update resumé)
Last weekend it was Claudia Lorente’s 30th birthday which she celebrated at her place with a fabulous cricket game. A lot of friends were there and I had a great time. The day after was Gabriel’s bday and we celebrated it in my house. I hadn’t had a party in my house in a while and I figured I could have one. The party was really fun, lots of friends, alcohol and dancing until 5am. The next morning I had to play soccer with the NI Eagles and we beated team Black Star 2-0. There are only two games left this season and it looks like we have a chance to finish 4th or 5th place if we win the last two games. Right now we are in 7th place.
I already did my taxes which I still need to send, including a big fat check that I wish I didn’t have to pay. I was surprised how quickly I did my taxes. Either after 6 years doing taxes you get better at it, or TurboTax has became much better, or I just don’t care much about them anymore that I don’t triple check everything. I think it is the combination of those three.
I’m jealous of two friends (Eva Noyola and Natalia Uribe) who are going to Portishead concerts in London and Munich. So far I haven’t seen anything about them coming to the US.
Life is good…
English version below
La Leche League (LLL) o Liga de la Leche es una organización sin ánimo de lucro que ofrece información, apoyo y respaldo a las madres que desean amamantar a sus bebes.
Dos meses antes de yo nacer, mi mamá conoció y se unió a la Liga de la Leche y desde entonces por muchos años ha recomendado amamantar al bebe, a cuanta mujer embarazada ha conocido. Recientemente mi familia estuvo de visita en Austin, y mi madre se enteró que dos amigas (Daniela y Pilar) estaban embarazadas, así que me envió un paquete con diversos arículos relacionados con el tema de la lactancia. Como los articulos estaban impresos, le pedí el favor de que tambien me los enviara en formato digital y con la ayuda de mi hermana los escaneé y compilé en un pdf que anexo a continuación:
Arículos La Liga de la Leche
English version
La Leche League (LLL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promote breastfeeding as the most natural and effective way of understanding and satisfying the needs of the baby.
Two months before I was born my mother heard and joined this group and for many years she has been promoting breastfeeding to every pregnant woman she meets. Recently my family came to Austin and my mother found out that two close friends of mine were pregnant (Daniela and Pilar) so she sent me a package with different breastfeeding articles in spanish but I also asked her to send me the articles in digital form.
If you can’t read spanish I highly recommend you check the official LLL site.
A tribute to the Greatest Corona Man Ever…
Have you signed the online petition yet?
I have seen better Molotov concerts in Austin, but none the less this one at ‘La Zona Rosa’ was really good too. They played many songs from the first album specially the ones with XXX lyrics. They also did some jamming and played snippets from a few covers like Eye of the tiger (survivor), Smells like teen spirit (nirvana), Enter Sadman (metallica) and Higher ground (rhcp stevie wonder).
Salt loves to play with its favorite orange ball, not because it reminds it of its ING bank account or its previous job at Arthur Andersen. Salt simply loves the orange ball. So when I saw those stupid condiments taking the orange ball from salt, I felt really sad.
Things will never be the same for salt.
imNotCrazy, iStopMotion.
The president of the colombian political party Polo Democrático Carlos Gaviria was one of the speakers invited to the XXVIII Annual ILASSA Student Conference. His speech was basically a critique of the current government because it claims that Colombia has a strong democracy while he considers that many aspects of Colombia’s situation (like the high percentage of poverty) are clear signals that Colombia doesn’t have a democracy but instead what he refers to as a sudo-democracy.
I think Colombia does have a democracy, but it has many flaws. As he recognizes, there is not a country in this planet with a perfect democracy and Colombia by no means is close to have that.
Even recognizing that Uribe has many flaws I sincerely think Colombia is better today than how it was 6 years ago. And after hearing Gaviria today, it gives you the impression that this is not the case and that Uribe is the devil itself following a master plan to be a dictator. I honestly believe that this is not the case, and I definitely don’t want Uribe to be reelected again.
This coming February 4th: join us in the mobilization against FARC.
It is really sad to see how the “Colombianos en UT” group have changed the main objective for the mobilization. Here is the text they sent through the “Asociación de Colombianos en Austin”:
Please join us Monday, February 4 2008 10:30 am at South First and Barton Springs: we will march to City Hall.
Position of “Colombianos en UT” in reference to the “Un Millón de Voces Contra las FARC” March February 4 2008
We march against, and manifest our rejection of all crimes against humanity committed in Colombia over the last five decades by all of the different parties involved in the internal conflict of Colombia .
We march to say:
NO MORE Guerrillas (FARC, ELN, EPL…)
NO MORE Paramilitaries (AUC, ACCU, CONVIVIR, Aguilas Negras,….)
NO MORE complicity of government officials with illegal armed forces
NO MORE abuse by elements of the armed forces
NO MORE massacres
NO MORE kidnappings
NO MORE forced displacement
NO MORE targeted assassinations
NO MORE extrajudicial killings
NO MORE forced disappearances
NO MORE arbitrary detentions
NO MORE impunity for military and paramilitary officials
NO MORE death squads
NO MORE state sponsored terrorWe march for PEACE as long as it is dignified and just. We march for LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all Colombians.
Please join us Monday, February 4 2008 10:30 am at South First and Barton Springs: we will march to City Hall.
http://www.colombiasoyyo.org/
Please distribute widely
This is clearly a mistake. It causes the mobilization to lose its focus. It causes that people identifies them selves with some of the points of the protest but not with others. It dilutes the clear message that started it all: NO MORE FARC. .
Update
I’m glad to inform that the original objective of the mobilization has been reestablish.