Lucky in Love: Even when flying alone for work, I arrive way too early at airports. I even check the weight of my carry-on. Why? rules always seem to apply to me. Some would say I’m unlucky, and I don’t mind. Because I’m lucky in love. I don’t play the lottery or gamble. Yes, in the back of …

Up Next - Things I want to Blog About: Here’s three things I want to blog about over at 5typos.net during January: Paid subscriptions for 2025 My iOS Home Screen Best Tech Purchases of 2024 Let’s see if sharing this publicly shames me into actually writing the posts.

Home Sweet Home: I once flew just over our Miami apartment when coming back of a work trip, and instagrammed a photo with the caption: Home is where Ana is. I was particularly proud of that one. Flash forward a decade, and the caption should now read: Home is where Ana, Robie and Bettina are. While true, …

Good Presentation: Had a presentation go (really?) well today. Followed a mashup of recommendations: Practiced my start and ending After start, I told them the 3 things that were important about the presentation. Went into each of them in a conversational tone. They’re things I know well enough. Reminded of the 3 …

Writing or Posting Every Day?: Since I don’t consider myself capable of accumulating writing so that I can post multiple days out of a single writing session, the causality is clear: I need to write every day to post daily or weekly. However, the dopamine hit of posting something is enough that I feel confident I can …

Happy to be Back: Enjoying the micro.one new car smell. It has enough customization to arrange things how I like them — but not an infinite canvas that throws me into a procrastinating rabbit hole. I have some thoughts on the tone between this blog and 5typos.net. But my priority is to fail forward: just write. …

Back on micro.blog after two years. Micro.one is too good a value to pass up. I understand why the full service needed to be developed before this version existed. But this is closer to what I pledged in kickstarter 8 years ago.

Ok, start of a new experiment. From the clear fail of February’s write everyday comes the OJ, aka the open journal. What the hell is it? Some of the ingredients: Daily log. not hidden, but unlisted. Unrefined. Free-flow. No title. Append as I go. The practice is to write. The hypothesis is …

rcmd and Stage Manager. Adding keyboard shortcuts to Stage Manager seems very useful.

The VARIA VS3 is a nice looking grinder without a crazy price.

🎥 enjoyed the Raymond and Ray movie.

Up until now, all my YAML had been short and sweet. Today I had to play around with a long and… painful one. Jezzzz YAML is very OCD with spaces.

Went ahead and signed up for omg.lol – deciding if I should keep micro.blog the activitypub main account, or just the source that pushes to mastodon/twitter.

Was doing all sorts of javascript jujitsu to count characters of documents in Obsidian using Dataview, and turns out file.size is a perfect proxy.

I like how following Mastodon accounts from micro.blog improves the feed. But reconsidering just using micro.blog once Mastodon.technology goes away. The mastodon app is so much better than micro.blog for one, and I want to follow much more noise. Keeping eye on omg.lol.

As I see some of the dreamy nighmarish things AI/ML image generation software comes up with, can’t help feel sorry for those who had to endure the first few iterations of The Matrix.

Testing post via Obsidian and new micro.blog mastodon integration.

Tana seems to want to be way more than a PKM, rather an everything knowledge manager with collaboration. Signed up for invite, let’s see. My love for Obsidian still continues.

Wondering if Amazon today announces a Kindle with pen support. Feels like the market has grown enough.

Oh crap. The Freewrite Alpha is one of those need generating products. I can hear myself think “if I had this I could write more”.

Finished reading: The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 📚Amazing audiobook. I learned, was entertained and it made me think. What else can you ask of a good book? Also, one of my new favorite audiobooks, because the narration by the author really comes through.

I find the Obsidian Influx plugin very intriguing. Haven’t had time to play with it, but will do soon.

Happy to be perusing How to make the best coffee at home by James Hoffmann 📚

iOS Kindle app 6.65 adds Share to Kindle ePub support. But it looks like just a wrapper of their send to Kindle via email functionality. Which has terrible ePub conversion. Waiting to see what’s going to be the best ePub to Kindle solution going forward.

It’s a slow motion heartbreak to continue to see SLS struggle. Seems everyone knows the project should just be scrapped and remaining resources allocated to private space companies. Yet, the same everyone are hoping for a comeback story.

After 4½ years we moved out across the street. Many memories, but excited about now facing north — yet still have all the same neighbors.

If you have an Anti-Fog Shower Mirror, give it a clean with toothpaste to remove spots.

Movie about BlackBerry?() Count me in. The book it’s based on was good, although not “movie like”. Still waiting for the Palm TV Show.

Currently listening: The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 📚 Great audiobook. Almost done. Highly recommended.

The M2 MacBook Air is so thin, that my cheap(ish) Omoton vertical stand doesn’t hold it - even on the smallest setting.

Yep, the Arc Browser hype is real.

Enjoying Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚. About 100 pages in, finally remembered most of the characters and looking forward to evening reading.

Trying to return: Trying to return to weekly post. Managed to do a few daily make sentences writing session in May/June, but didn’t convert any to blog post.

Hot damn, I love Obsidian + Dataview

Sweet dreams.

A few months ago my 4yo jokingly coined Papa Jefe (Dad Boss) as her reply to one of my respect my authority rants. My wife immortalized it for my Father’s Day gift.

Finished reading: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚 Took its time to get going, but once it did the multiple stories started making sense. Will likely continue then series.

Starting: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚 Happy this is out!

Praise the compiler gods, Mac App Store OneDrive version 22.111.0522 is finally Universal. Let us sync.

Was about to celebrate Raycast’s new dynamic with placeholders snippets, but just noticed it doesn’t have date formatting – surely coming, but still no Alfred. Also looking forward what Alfred 5 will have in stock for us.

1st place popular vote and 2nd judges selection for best chocolate bar!!! So proud.

Super proud of my better half in Costa Rica’s Feria del Chocolate 2022. Best chocolates you’ve ever tested imho.

Back to Brave after a week with Vivaldi. The customization options Vivaldi is everything and more I ask for – but when I a crunch, I just can’t stop to think about it and the Tab Stack system starts to get in the way.

Modern CSV 2 Beta is out. M1 versions and a few more goodies. This is my favorite app for dealing with CSVs – which I rarely do UNTIL it’s non-stop.

Thought that whatever utility gave a background to my Menu Bar had stopped working, but was reminded this is now an option: System Preferences → Accessibility → Display At some point last week it reseted itself.

First screenshot of the Arc Browser I’ve seen. Like it. Side tabs are a great option multi tab workflows. Arc’s implementation seems to take it to another level. Hope I get my invite soon.

Paste Keyboard looks very useful. Still hoping for a return of Pastebot to iOS though.

Dear fellow geeks trapped in a corporate job… Mac App Store OneDrive Version 22.099.0508 is still Intel only.

Not sure I’d pick the Logitech MX Mechanical Mini Wireless Keyboard over my Keychron K3, but seems like a good option to have.

Currently reading: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚 Took me longer than expected to get into. But now in for the ride.

Life and work got in the way today, but hoping for a quiet corner over the weekend to enjoy The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention album.

Currently reading: Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell 📚 Coudn’t wait to get started on this one.

If you are migrating old(ish) github actions into new repos – remember to check for main vs master names in the branches conditions. I’m never getting the last 45 minutes back.

Sailing Sunday. Almost no wind, but good for practicing.

Beyond this point, make your own path.

Snapchat’s pixy drone looks cool. Hope there’s a no-snapchat use case.

Reeder we already great. Now it’s brilliant.

Loving my Apple Studio Display, even the camera is more than fine (when coming from a cheap logitech). But can’t help but wish there was a Touch ID spot somewhere on the side. If it could be done on a $149 Keyboard… Also think this would have helped with comparisons.

My favorite barista ☕️

My unboxing and setup partner

Finished reading: The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford 📚 Good read, but my ignorance of the historical era fictionalized took a bit of fun out of it.

A combination of a dataset with empty string vs null issue and poorly written case-when-else query just made me spend 4 hours debugging an ETL. Not sure if proud of my brilliance, or aware I’m a monkey that randomly wrote a Shakespearean SQL query.

Really enjoying my new Keychron K7 with brown switches. Only used it with iPad, but size feels as (more?) natural as the K3v1. For sure the K1 at the office will go on sale soon – what got me started this rabbit hole, but too classically large.

Apple Studio Display arrived on time, woohoo!!! Box of VESA version is smaller than the regular stand box, woohoo!! Smaller box still doesn’t fit on my biggest suitcase, crap!

Currently reading: The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford 📚 Overall enjoying it, but taking longer than expected with it.

MIA weekend.

Happy April 1st. Friendly reminder that all the 2022Q1 projects delivery dates you put in an email last year – are now officially late.

This The Verge article about Wyze Cams vulnerability made me remove two v3 cams from my cart. I was planning to rotate a couple of old ones we have, but being opaque about a known issue is not worth savings of their cameras.

Sometimes I wish Apple would name its apps with more personality. It imposible to parse search results for Mac Shortcuts Symlinks, from thousands of aliases and shortcuts results. When I want to know how to save a file to a Symlink in Apple Shortcuts app folder structure.

We’ve come full circle. There’s now support for Markdown in Google Docs.

Love the idea of apps like FT Edit and The Economist Espresso. Will be trying the Financial Times one for sure.

Back on eesel Chrome plugin with their new Folders feature.

Great forum thread on Obsidian Hotkeys. Good place to get ideas from.

Looking Back at Desktop Monitors Present Future

The AfterShokz OpenComm had become unusable because they kept muting themselves in calls. This Apple Forum suggestion seems to alleviate the problem. However, it does seem to be a Monterey bug.

A great concert is one where you leave liking the band even more #ColdplaySanJose

Hope tomorrow is Mac Studio and Studio Display review day.

With Pipe Commands extension RayCast approaches Alfred’s Universal Actions. However, RayCast Github Issues extension is so good, it’s my main interface to issues and notifications now.

Debating if I should setup Python3 on Mac or just do a VM Linux for it. I use the scripts occasionally, but usually it’s a quick and dirty hack with little regard for security. And always end having to update a bunch of packages when I revisit.

Universal Control is pretty amazing.

Apple Studio Display buying remorse not applying for now, specially seeing how shipping dates have slipped

Looks like my weekly macOS restart is due… iCloud Drive freaking out over 75 .md files.

Ordered Studio Display with standard glass and VESA mount adapter. Very excited.

I was happy for an Apple Event, but didn’t think a new display was going to be on the cards. Planets may even align for a trip to US in April.

flowchart.fun now lets you export to markdown. Brilliant. The FF syntax is simpler for quick ideas imho.

Finished reading: Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson 📚. Far from my favorite, but I never considered abandoning it — which sometimes happens to me with NS’s books.

Feel like crap. 4th member of household to likely fall for omicron (?). Luckily vaccinated with booster. Holding on for a light fever.

Sadly Hyperkey app (recommended) had an issue with my plugging/unplugging USB-C keyboard and loosing control. Replicated the functionality with Karabiner, here’s my rule CommandR Key to Hyper Key (CommandR if held).

🎥 Finished watching Maixabel last night. Powerful and extremely well acted Spanish movie about a recent — more that I remembered — chapter in Spain’s history. Recommended.

☕️ No press french press: 20gr medium coarse (3 rotations 1Zpresso JX) decaf + 380 ml water. Wait 4 min, stir top crust, remove foam and fines. Let it rest at least 5min. Pour in one motion, so back/forward flow doesn’t agitate the grounds again.

Lots of good folder-naming-system nuggets here. Love this posts with examples.

I really really miss Superhuman mail app on my Friday inbox sweep. Hopefully the O365 version will be available soonish.

Coined a new term for my software dev CapEx reports: Zorp: Zero Outcome Reporting Project. Basically groups all tasks that are not part of a project, which automatically makes them OpEx. The added benefit being that it shows last when sorting projects.

My AeroPress barista.

Anything that pipes more stuff to RSS sounds good to me. But can’t get my mind around Twitter-to-RSS instead of just having a blog. But never forget that in the long run, Dave Winer is always right.

It’s a showdown.

📺 Weekend binge watching Inventing Anna on Netflix with my Ana. Liking it more than expected. Let’s see about the last 3 tomorrow.

Yikes. Hi everyone! Forgot posts on micro.blog go the common feed. Working on importing from blot – trying not to bring in the titles.

I don’t think the slack replacement with Mastodon experiment is working out. Now I’ll play with the idea of returning to micro.blog and connecting with Mastodon account.

Of course now I have a mishmash of posts between this microblog and the mastodon Pueblo.dedosdefrente.com experiment.

The ZWILLING Enfinigy Drip coffee maker looks a solid cheaper alternative to the Ratio Six. Looking forward to some comparisons.

Really hoping I can get into the Superhuman O365 beta list soon. The slowness of Outlook makes my sorting pomodoros unnecessary painful.

Watched The Expanse season 6 during the weekend. Held off the final episode today so I can enjoy it next weekend… or maybe I don’t want to let go.

Moving posting scripts from drafts to obsidian + shortcuts.

Figuring out my microblogging sorting now that I have a mastodon instance.

A lo que vinimos — what we came for. An expression I always enjoy hearing in real life™.

🎥 Curious of how accurate, but King Richard was really good.

Great club day. Trying out new tennis rackets, lunch and pool. Now enjoying a nice Escazú sunset.

Old quick faithful today: 24gr fine to 240ml. Prismo with paper filter. After a minute ~ 8 back/forward stirs and wait 30s to slowly press. Complete with hot water to 300ml and split in two cups. Then 150ml of foamed milk in each.

Similar recipe as yesterday but on the Clever Dripper — as control.

Reaching the point of my handwriting improvement project in which I see all that I’m doing wrong. In theory getting better… in practice, the worst combination between my previous style and the new one.

Testing out the Slow System’s metal dripper. With 22gr Costa Rican dark (medium coarse) and 525ml water. Turned out really soft and sweet.

Doing some numerology for new habits: 9:41am end morning browsing block 1:23pm take fish oil reminder 5:43pm start of 18:6(ish) fasting 9:02pm start of evening browsing block

One of those days parenthood has proven challenging.

Adding Three Jerks Jerky to my wishlist.

I’ve cut my hand twice over the last week not handling my safety razor carefully enough. That’s probably up 200% over the last 10 years average. There’s a lesson here somewhere.

Grateful to arrive back in Costa Rica safe and sound. Airport was full, which makes me happy for the economy.

You cannot give what you don’t have. Heard it at mass. Stayed with me.

Just opened an Airtag 4 pack from Target and 2 were missing. Box looked intact, but in hindsight seemed extra hard to open. Probably someone did a fraud return. Not cool.

My Dad surprised me with a reMarkable 2 tablet for Xmas. I’m flipping.

Just like budget food, budget airlines are less bad internationally.

📖 Enjoying Mel Brooks All About Me! audiobook so very much.

Don’t know how I expect to level up my work documentation and processes checklists — if I still can’t sit down on the toilet without first checking if there’s a paper roll.

The LAGOM mini is yet another very nice looking grinder.

There’s something about Apple Books on iOS that feels slow. The UX is either laggy or the effects are too long.

Really into Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Termination Shock. Can’t wait to get back to it every evening.

“Kids” got a piano keyboard for Xmas. Going over the options of teaching apps. Currently Simply Piano is ahead.

Can’t believe I didn’t buy the Noir Safari Extension sooner.

I’m hoping that my preference of writing on the 2018 11in iPad Pro over the 2021 iPad mini is because of the lack of Moshi iVisor screen cover. All the use cases where the smaller iPad was going to fix everything have not happened — and I struggle to pick it over the larger iPad almost every day.

The original Matrix blew my mind and rewired my brain. Which makes The Matrix Resurrection imposible to be great, but it wasn’t bad.

House now emptying out. I’m starting to realize that every year I enjoy the chaos of a full home more. Crossover happened probably 3 years back, and I have reached a point where I’m looking forward to it next year.

Minimal viable tasks as a way to reduce perceived costs of starting something and making it more likely to inch forward the project. Very similar to intermittent packet from Second Brain.

Stopping work when you’re tired and not when everything is done is a luxury in my world view. An earned luxury for sure, but not something I counted on for most of my adult life.

With AWS East down, might as well set Teams to auto-respond: working on it and contemplate a life of owning a seaside coffee house that also consults wifi networks.

Tonight I’m sleeping with a device that will measure my blood pressure every 20 minutes. I feel every one of my 40 years of age.

A Catalyst WhatsApp version will be an interesting experiment. The current electron version works very well

If you need ideas for your gratitude journal, be thankful that 8-10cm scorpions are not coming to your home seeking shelter from storms.

Like that Keychron is making the M1 Ultra-Light Optical Mouse. This one is not for me, but looking forward to the wireless version.

Gave up on buying Spanish ebooks for before stories on El Corte Ingles / Tagus books - the experience is so bad they don’t even deserve a shame link. Luckily found ArgentinaBooks, which seems to have a similar library. Even better, LibrosPatagonia in Chile has ebooks from the Ekaré editorial, so …

Curious about Sarah Jean Anderson winning recipe on the 2015 World Brewers Cup. Kinda like a deconstructed no-press French press recipe. This polished immersion brewing recipe is close to what I’m going to play with.

Waiting for the iVisor AG Anti-glare Screen Protector for the iPad mini 6. Luckily it seems to be coming soon.

Went down a Stainless Steel Carafe rabbit hole with the Ratio Six Thermal Carafe. However, I might end up with the Zojirushi SH-HC10BM. Or with neither — and just serve the coffee faster.

Seems like December will be a good time to get my iPad mini 6. It’s when my screen cover of choice will be available.

I need to staple Nicholas Bate’s Writing Primer 14 to my forehead.

Subscribed for a year of Simplify Gmail by Michael Leggett — absolutely worth it just for allowing me to use ESC to drill out of messages. The clean and consisted UX for Gmail is just icing on the cake.

On a similar note, Ted Lasso’s S02 Christmas episode could be prescription medicine whenever you’re feeling shitty. I can just imagine Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence deciding they were going to create a feel-good episode, never mind the critics.

Really liked CODA. Recommended.

You can temporarily highlight the current row (without changing the selection) by pressing Shift+Space. Current column with Ctrl+Space. Highlight active row/column in Excel without using VBA? Stackoverflow.com Extremely useful tip if you’re working with large spreadsheets.

Views of Coronado, Costa Rica.

Replaced SelfControl with Freedom to help me with better deep work sessions. It’s working great. Absolute surprise is nudge towards reading by blocking social and news sites on iPad in the evening.

The worst part of my job involves dealing with Excel as the last mile of data manipulation — instead of the many (comparatively) elegant sources for the data.

Great rainforest weekend.

You could argue “it’s not the right time” given the pandemic and extreme weather of almost any activity: making a movie that inspires, going to the olympics to break a world record or fighting a dictatorship.

I applaud any team that manages to propel humans to space the same way others celebrate a team hitting a ball into a net. Both are equally driven by passion and capitalist gains.

Almost ordered a new iMac after playing with it on a store. The screen is beautiful and the design has grown on me. Glad this US trip is almost over, will make it easier to wait for whatever iMac Pro(ish) is coming.

Family pit stop at Mistral Coffee. It was great.

Pledged for The Slow System by Craighton Berman. Love the design, but specially like the no press french press top.

James Hoffmann’s book World Atlas Of Coffee is now on Audible. Insta-buy.

Saving two great shots here of last week’s launch for posterity. Liftoff of Falcon 9 with GPS III SV-05 pic.twitter.com/ixjYpm4s7s — Ben Cooper (@LaunchPhoto) June 17, 2021

The KEY Coffee Grinder is beautiful. But before you start to wonder if the “home” model of Weber Workshops grinders is for you… the pre-order price is $1,499 USD.

Foo Fighters invites Dave Chappelle to sing Radiohead’s Creep on the reopening of Madison Square Garden yesterday. Hell yes 2021.

Absolutely loved Pixar’s Luca movie.

Amazing day. We visited KSC for the Falcon 9 GPS III Space Vehicle 05 launch. Long drive, but totally worth it.

The Dataview plugin snippet showcase in the Obsidian Forums is a great place to get ideas and level up your queries.

The new(est) Firefox looks very nice. Not sure if it’s the baseline M1 speed, but it also feels snappy.

Oh boy, the KEY Grinder is beautiful, and crazy expensive.

It was a great day.

Arcadia was my hard landing back into comics this weekend. And I’m so happy with the mind bruises it caused.

Excellent philosophical video on What is Obsidian.

Dialed in my dark coffee grind this weekend. Went coarser and saw an improvement: more body and oily — in a good way.

Funny story: I knew nothing about the book until Robie — our mini space fanatic — picked it in a bookstore based on the cover.

Really enjoying Liftoff by Eric Berger about SpaceX early days. Amazing how it doesn’t tell a story about how they made it, but rather: in how many ways they almost didn’t.

Do you wish to die wise or intelligent?

I’m “just looking”, VR edition.

They new iMac can also come as a VESA Mount. Please hide my wallet until the iMac Pro appears.

The LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS VOLUME 2 Trailer is worth seeing. I loved the first season. Animatrix flashbacks all around.

I wish something like stackline was native on macOS.

My daily driver on the right, and something completely different for the afternoon on the left.

Playing with Cloudflare Pages. Interesting. Script is installing Hugo for some reason — it’s a Jekyll site, but nice workflow all around.

Instant subscribe to the Atlas Obscura Podcast.

Really looking to playing Townscaper this summer.

In flights

Go science!

Doing some thinking around Gary Vaynerchuk’s Document, Don’t Create. Probably need less thinking and more doing.

First shave with the Twig Razor was amazingly smooth. Same Persona blades I usually use. Will give it a few more passes before calling it — but this could be my first razor change in 8 years.

Nasa’s official Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars landing video is just too amazing.

Rewatched The Emperor’s New Groove with Ana and kids. Initial groans were paused when I stated it was one of my favorite movies… which it is. Movie holds amazingly well compared to other animated ones from the era. Enjoyed it even more this time reading Vulture’s article on it.

This engadget article on Finder filename sorting is useful to keep around when I’m getting creative with my project naming.

Watching LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles with Robie. Fun, but it’s messing with my canon.

Absolutely love Amazon’s new app icon. Let App icons be app icons. I hope this is the start of a trend reversals.

This is going to confuse a whole generation. Still, so good.

The Speed Cubers is excellent. As a dad and a geek, enjoyed a lot — even teared up at some point.

This Kettlebell Christmas Commercial really hits the spot — specially since I’ve started doing T-Handle Kettlebell again this year.

Nice summary video of 10 Aeropress recipes.

Really enjoyed Palm Springs take on Groundhog Day. Even Ana liked it.

This AeroPress recipe will increase steep time to 90s as a result of the experiment

Sometimes the scientific method just means: I have no idea of what I’m doing… let me take notes.

Started using macOS dictation, and it felt good. Can see how it would work in certain workflows.

I revisit Kenji López-Alt onion slide and dice video once a week it seems.

Very happy how this recipe turned out.

Cutting back on Dr. Pepper this year. Club Soda and Seltzer with a shot of lemon are the lifehack test for the next week.

Soul’s soundtrack is lock and loaded for the work week. The movie is excellent: enjoyable on the surface but with many layers that make me look forward to multiple viewings.

Rewatched Thor Ragnarok last night, and it’s still my favorite MCU movie.

Wonder Woman 1984 really fell flat the last 1/3 for me.

Almost lost drone flying into a myst/cloud — ground sensor went crazy. Red wine also didn’t help my piloting skills.

If you’re ever around, Café Monteverde has delicious coffee.

Watched Scott Pilgrim yet again, it really is one of my favorite movies.

I’m back to playing with Reporter for logging/nudging myself to 2021 resolutions.

Really enjoying the California Coast Obsidian Theme.

I’m happy no appreciating Hi Fi audio. Like wines, it can be a very expensive rabbit hole. In other words, not getting the AirPods Max. But they look amazing.

This unofficial Sublime Text 4 changelog gist is useful to keep an eye out for what’s happening on SB4 beta land.

Couldn’t unlock my Mac with the Apple Watch since WatchOS 7, this Apple Support suggestion fixed it.

Big Sur update went smoothly — other than kernelmanagerd process going crazy and staying at 80% of processor use. Turns out it was our corporate Antivirus. Had to disable it with the help of IT infrastructure until we figure out a fix.

This story about AI camera getting confused with the side ref’s bald head is too funny.

Hurricane Eta is hitting up north in Honduras/Nicaragua. Very vulnerable infrastructure.

📚 Prediction Machines added to library. Hal Varian recommends it, so past history shows I’m going to enjoy reading it, but just barely pass the exam in it. Thanks for the reco Frans.

I’m very excited about Obsidian.md plugins To the adventurous souls who have access to 0.9.7 (currently in insider build phase): people have already started making Obsidian plugins! Check out the new ones: https://t.co/2YJMOCyBoj — Obsidian (@obsdmd) October 28, 2020

I’ve always wanted to love Clips, but somehow its cute features always gets in the way. Maybe I’m just too old school.

I’m even more excited about Apple Silicon‌ Mac’s, and they seem to be coming.

Had to reinstall Zoom on work Mac. The browser version was making me arrive late to meetings because it would send me to close to 10 (not kidding) rounds of Google’s reCAPTCHA.

The Cometeer coffee capsules look like an interesting mix of ideas.

I’m going down the eGPU rabbit hole… again.

I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating: one of the toughest challenges every parent faces is cleaning a toddler car seat.

After 225 days, we’re back home in Costa Rica. Boarding the Costa Rica flight has been as stressful as anticipated — it paid to be extra careful with the required documents.

Everyone is horrified. But I can totally see the use-case for Amazon’s home camera drone.

Vitamin D Day

Happy birthday to my forever princess.

Enjoying a lower temperature (185°F) variation of this recipe from /r/AeroPress/ Inverted, boiling water. ⁠1 heaped scoop coffee medium-fine/fine grind. ⁠Pour 35ml boiling water, stir aggressively. ⁠Bloom and steep for 30s ⁠Pour remaining boiling water to 250ml ⁠Stir a few times ⁠Place cap and …

🎥 Dune Official Trailer. I really wish this is delayed so I can watch it on a movie theater.

💾 Happy that Mimestream is getting some love in HN, it’s amazingly fast. If it had snooze support (Gmail API limitation, not theirs) it would likely be my default email client.

The lack of any mention of today’s Apple rumors from the usual suspects tells me there’s some sort of embargo going on. We’ll know in 15min!

💾 Is It Snappy? is the App equivalent of getting a magnifier as a kid. I’m now measuring the response latency of everything.

🎙My Dad reminded me of this great Moth’s story A.E. Hotchner: The Day I Became A Matador

📚 Really enjoyed How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley. Will revisit my notes in a few day, but I nodded almost all the way until it connected some thoughts with Brexit. Which was uncomfortable in a great way.

attribute: Sand and waves Saturday Sand and waves Saturday

Today’s AeroPress Coffee recipe for 3 strong black cups: Upright method 3 dark roast scoops (~42gr) Pour ~200ml water at 180°F slowly stir 10s and wait for 30s Quick stir and flip. Press slowly. Add 300ml water and serve. This makes 3 strong cups of 1/12 ratio.

Phew, feels good to be compliant again. Back to Zoom browser version whenever needed. May reconsider based on what happens with videoconferences App with Apple Silicone Macs — hoping most allow us to run the iOS versions.

Learned today that my End of Month Developers/PMs report by projects — based on Github issues so they don’t have to fill daily hours worksheets — is only used as guidance internally. Something inside broke.

This Superorganizer interview with Head of Growth at Superhuman was great. Was expecting product talking points, but it had me highlighting everything.

Of course LaunchBar 6.13 was released today. My app FOMO knows no boundaries.

After almost exactly a year, switching back from Launchbar to Alfred. Sometimes LB feels slow. Still, undecided if Paste or is staying on my stack — I don’t use it as much, but every couple of hours it saves me a lot of time.

First supermarket visit in 6 months 😷

Morning Sunday. Glad you could make it.

Supported Obsidian development. Switching my work notes to it has been enjoyable and noticeably productive.

Vacation begins.

🎥 Enjoyed Greyhound. Doesn’t rely on suspense tricks to keep you interested and keeps the story tight at 90 minutes.

On Wednesday, a 10 year journey reached its destination. I’m happy, sad, relieved, grateful, and committed with the implications. But mostly, I’m excited about the next 10 years and the new challenges we’ll face together as a family. 🇺🇸

These two…

Between Star Wars Squadrons and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I may need to buy an Xbox. You know, for Robie™.

A few seconds of us on a Saturday

First non-supermarket coffee of the isolation. Not sure about the grind size yet, need to dial it in a bit. But first taste was good enough.

In preparation for Wednesday, we watched the whole Apollo 11 Documentary. My heart melted with Robie’s excitement and interest.

Community Table Read I enjoy this show so much.

Preparing for the new normal.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening. 📖 Steve Martin, Born Standing Up It’s ok to laugh.

📺 Enjoyed the first episode of Trying. Excellent combination of heart a humor.

GitHub Codespaces looks amazing. Will need to try it, but at least for the shameful JS and Python hacks I do, more than enough.

Switching to YY.MM.MICRO Calendar Versioning (CalVer) for a bunch of personal scripts. Craziness must end.

I don’t know why the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II intrigues me so much.

Radiohead - Live in Buenos Aires (March 2009) is the best one posted up till now.

Nespresso capsules were giving me a headache. Going back to basics.

Corona has affected my artesanal coffee vibe and reduced me to a push button caffeine pragmatist.

End to a very long week. No complaints though.

macOS Password Generator in BASH has saved me a few seconds a day the past few days.

Nine Inch Nails new album will probably become my WFH soundtrack. Carfection Land Rover Defender review Saved for later today.

🎥 Loved the Knives Out movie. Smart dialogue, unpredictable plot and overall fun ride.

Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is just too good.

Went to fill up tank and buy some pharmacy stuff next to the old office. Wanted some geographical familiarity even among standardized stores. It was comforting.

The Natalia Lafourcade Tiny Desk Concert is Robie’s new soundtrack on our school commute: I think he has a small crush, but he also really likes the songs. Enjoying discovering music with him. The idea of a mini Mac mini (Mac nano) excites me to no end.

Flatbread/Arepa was added to Emoji 13.0 in 2020. I really thought that we would celebrate this alongside a free Venezuela when this got started last year. Sigh. Still, I’ll take it!

🎙 Enjoyed Guy Kawasaki’s interview of Stephen Wolfram on his podcast. Recommended.

Robie’s officially started his Skywalker saga movie canon with Star Wars Episode I — The Phantom Menace. Hard to believe the movie is 20 years old.

📺 Started Schitt’s Creek with Ana. I can see it getting great.

Happy new year. So much to be grateful for. Last week of December arrived too quickly with lots of family around, so didn’t get a chance to look back at 2019 or ahead at 2020. Giving myself a few days extension to think about this things.

🚲 We went from “Abu don’t let go!” to “get out of the way!!!”. Great day.

Speaking of gifts, here’s what Ana and Santa got me for Xmas: 2 x PS4 Controllers to play Apple Arcade with Robie Sunski Headlands Sunglasses -i Grey Fellow Carter Mug Palmpress brewer Millenium Falcon bottle opener R2D2 Socks Back to work and trying out my new Palmpress Brewer. Still need to …

Brent DiCrescenzo’s original Kid A review on pitchfork.com: This is an emotional, psychological experience. Kid A sounds like a clouded brain trying to recall an alien abduction. It’s the sound of a band, and its leader, losing faith in themselves, destroying themselves, and subsequently rebuilding …

🎬 Loved Rise of SkyWalker.

One small step for Bettina taking a pic, one giant leap for my camera app.

I’m speaking on marvelous accent without the slightest english. Viktor Frankl

🎥 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was not what I expected it, but I enjoyed it a lot.

My girls ❤️.

Thought I’d have to save for a year go get a Niche Zero grinder, but seems I’d only need half one to get Fellow’s upcoming Ode Brew. Nice design, and the features look great.

Family arrives to Costa Rica on Friday. We show them waterfalls and rainforest on Saturday. And on Sunday… Episode IX. Tickets for The Rise of Skywalker are ready.

Yet another reason to visit Disney again and again.

When you’re a fake handyman, just use longer screws to fix things� Let the wall deal with your ineptitude.

We might need to go back to Disney World sooner than expected.

When they call you out for being a fake barista…

📺 Started Watchmen. Yikes.

🎧 Really enjoying my wired SteelSeries Arctis 1 for work. Super confortable, good enough sound, and the mic is excellent for calls on a noisy office environment.

Kenji’s exercise and portion control result are a good reminder to reinvent your lifehacks.

Yes, Shakira’s latest concert is my playlist today. My hips don’t lie.

No trailer for me, but this is a great movie poster.

Palmpress looks interesting — and I just found out Jessica Do Tully was on the same Babson accelerator group with my wife. Palmpress

Practicing foam for when we have full house over the holidays.

Loved The Mandalorian Chapter One. It feels even more part of the original trilogy universe than the latest episodes.

Dammit Land Rover, why must I love you so?.

Looks like SteepShot finally got a production sample. That took longer than expected, but great news! Disney+ doesn’t seem to work internationally… oh no, does this mean I won’t be able to watch The Mandalorian. Yeah right.

And it works!!!. Already have encountered a number of bugs, but it’s beta, so no complaining. Drafts for Mac beta with Actions is out. Hopefully this is my first post with it.

Aeropress Go First Look coffeegeek.com

Gillette is making a Heritage-Inspired Double Edge Safety Razor just for selling on Amazon. A bit more info on this Sharpologist’s review.

goddammit Catalina.

Robie representing Venezuela at his school’s UN Day.

Good Context on Chile’s Riots Patricio Navia, on americasquarterly.org: The bad news is that people are upset, disappointed and angry. The good news is that Chile is in a good position to adopt inclusive reforms that promote social justice, defend markets (rather than business or special interests) …

Not gonna watch the final trailer again this year. But liking the poster.

Venezuela’s Water System is Collapsing Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera, on nytimes.com: So The New York Times commissioned researchers from the Universidad Central de Venezuela to recreate the water quality study they had conducted regularly for the water utility in Caracas from 1992 until …

A History of Pizza Alexander Lee in History Today: While on a visit to Naples in 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita grew tired of the complicated French dishes they were served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Hastily summoned to prepare some local specialities for the queen, the pizzaiolo …

Caracas Country Club — Where the 0.01% Await Socialism’s Collapse. bloomberg.com This Google Books video reminded me of the good old don’t be evil days of Google. Google Books: 15 years of preserving knowledge from around the world ➲ Really fun Espresso Drinks Basics with Babish. It includes a few …

First Freddo Cappuccino wasn’t a total disaster. Actually the flavor is quite good. Need to use less ice. Also, the coffee foam is very unstable, so the pouring of the milk foam has to be quick and even, otherwise the layers colapses.

Didn’t know about the Freddo Espresso or Freddo Cappuccino. Will try to replicate with my AeroPress.

Really had a laugh with this. Via r/aviation ➲

Christian had the great idea to write our tech stack in the Slack profile. Here’s my current one: iPhone XS 256GB, Apple Watch S3, AirPods 2, 🏢[iPad Mini 5, MBP 13in 2015], 🏠[iPad Pro 10.5, MacBook 2016 12″].

The latest For All Mankind trailer is really good. For sure I’m doing a month of Apple TV+. This video of a (possibly) dreaming octopus, would have been fun to watch before reading Children of Ruin. No spoilers, just tangentially relevant. /Via Jason Kottke. Although I haven’t read it all yet, same …

AeroPress Go is out. Probably getting one just to play with it. Although I’ve been making my AeroPress coffee at home in the morning and taking the concentrate to the office to add how water — with pretty good results. ➲

Probably coming soon, but I really miss the Find my Friends widget in iOS 13.

The Descript Podcast Studio & Overdub video is all kinds of amazing. ➲

Casper has created CBD gummies. Hmmm, ok. ➲

Seems the AeroPress Go has been pushed to October. ➲ A new online era of The Far Side is coming! Oh joy. ➲ Did not know Wi-Fi had a competing technology in the late 90’s. ➲

MIA → SJO. You can have all the content in the world at your fingertips… but you’ll always steal a glance at your neighbor’s screen.

At $199.99, even the new LEGO Land Rover Defender is outside my budget. ➲

On Friday’s mind sweep is when I miss Google Inbox the most.

Seriously considering going with the 40mm small Series 5 to replace my big 42mm Series 3. Yes… I have flamingo legs for wrists.

Well that’s convenient… Apple Card arrived in the middle of the keynote.

Richard Hammond reveals the new Land Rover Defender. They kept the spirit, and the crazy price. So that’s good.

Today was a happy day.

Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure is by far the best roller coaster I’ve ridden.

The force is with us.

SJO → MCO Dorian or not… here we go.

When your desktop is a constant reminder of your impending vacation doom #DisneyStarwarsDorian

I’m reverse engineering our business units chart based on people’s email signatures. The truth is out there.

My procrastinating works in weird ways. Basically 30min aways from finishing a month long project… and I wrote a script to export my Tweets (those without links or @’s) to this blog. 2007 and 2008 done.

Switching my weekly tidbits posts to a Scripting News linkblog format for a while. Of course wasted all lunch updating my Bookmarklets and iOS Shortcuts. 🙄

Guess who’s having a new subscription — at least for the month of November? This guy. JUST ANNOUNCED: Hello there! Ewan McGregor will reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in an untitled series for #DisneyPlus! #D23Expo — Disney D23 (@DisneyD23) August 24, 2019 Well this is pure commercial …

This is a good one to close the tests with.

My princess.

Brent Simmons, on micro.inessential.com: Theory: the people you pay attention to have blogs and/or podcasts. Rarely are they Twitter-only people. Self serving, but I like this theory.

Listen Up: Why We Can’t Enough of Audiobooks Let us first retain some historical perspective by noting that Homer’s Iliad was essentially an audiobook before it was ever written down. ​ So listening to an audiobook while driving, or gardening, might be a very enjoyable experience, but we won’t …

Well, first Apple Card attempt didn’t go as planned → We are unable to verify your identification information I might have messed up my last names vs my IDs. Will try again. The Ad Astra IMAX trailer is my favorite yet.

How do you fit two adults and two kids, all with a minor cold, in a queen bed? Very uncomfortably.

Robie’s first day in big boy school. He’s not crazy about big changes like these, and remembering my school days… I know where he gets it from. Switched from Alfred to LaunchBar + PasteBot on the Mac — no reason, just needed to mix up things this week.

Testing YAWN (yet another workflow nugget). Ok, funny new workflow from Desktop: Comment on Github Issue in Markdown Triggers Webhook to Zapier (⚡️Instant) Appends to micro_today.txt in Dropbox Nightly a Zapier job renames to YYYY-MM-DD.txt On mobile: Drafts 5 appends directly to micro_today.txt …

Now testing the grouped posts script.

📺 S01 of The Boys done, can’t wait for S02.

First post using a github issue comment webhook as source. Looks good. I waste time… installing recommended VPNs and testing their speed. Just realized my 5typos.net RSS feed has been broken since May. Likely explains my diminishing fame.

Nice media weekend ↷ 🎥 We watched the new Aladdin movie and enjoyed it — especially Bettina. 📺 The Boys from Amazon is so good, almost done with S01.

Reached a new weight high (79.1kg!). Getting serious again about fasting and some physical activity..

Having some problems with new lines on the new workflow. I don’t get Garmin sport watches. Moved all my publishing workflows from Draft 5 to Bear/Shortcuts. Fun exercise.

✈️ 4 hour delay, but on our way. SJO-FLL.

📻 Sting And Shaggy is probably the best NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert of them all.

Note to self, A and CNAME records don’t include the domain name. This learning is worth 2 hours of my life.

13-Year-Old Scientist’s Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids’ Ears Nora Keegan from Calgary, Canada, tells NPR: Hand dryers are actually really, really loud, and especially at children’s heights since they’re close to where the air comes out Shit, I’ve joked about Robie hating hand dryers and …

This New York-style pizza recipe might get me to start using my baking steel again.

📺 Not crazy about Star Trek Discovery season 2. The first one didn’t require much knowledge to have fun, but the second got way too Trekkie and sentimental towards the end.

👽: how was it? 👾: fascinating, especially “the lightning”. 👽: ? 👾: They have these “clouds” made of particles suspended in the atmosphere, and they discharge electricity to the ground. 👽: but, they go underground or something? 👾: nah, just guess the distance by counting.

I’m going to deep dive into mind mapping next. 🎥 DC movies are more enjoyable when they don’t take themselves so seriously. Shazam! being a prime example.

Arrived to the office blasting Eight Days a Week and remembering all my Oslo friends. Thinking about doing a friendships playlist for the morning.

Strong earthquake in Panama/Costa Rica border, but felt it very clearly in San Jose.

📺 On Good Omens, a TV show that makes me want to read the book. Which is not common praise from me.

ANIMA with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke sounds like fun.

If you can’t define the task, maybe you aren’t ready to start it. Doesn’t mean the initial definition must be set in stone, just a clear direction. Don’t let task surface be too wide.

Funny that Google confirmed the Pixel 4 leak. The Microsoft Edge weekly Dev channel is out, and it ain’t bad at all. My current solution for not being able to parse urls from rich text in iOS? I won’t post links for a while… drops🎙 Back to using Launch Center Pro. The Shortcuts app in itself is a …

📺 Just started Chernobyl and it’s hitting me hard. The narrative of the communist bureaucracy being a dead weight at every attempt of efficiency is much too relatable after watching chavismo destroy Venezuela. I really need to learn to write regular expressions, not just hack ones I find online. …

Two coffee’s too many today. Thought I was getting sick, but of course the ringing in the ears has a more logical explanation.

Back on LaunchBar for a while — its clipboard issues appear to have been fixed. The UX just feels more natural than Alfred, but it’s slower. When 4.0 ships I’ll come back to Alfred.

🎥 The Apollo 11 documentary is the first time in 5 years I’d wanted to upgrade my 720p TV. Same story I’ve seen countless times but with mind blowing detail.

Ass, meet chair Thord D. Hedengren on tdh.se: Remember kids, being a writer sucks. It’s like having homework all the time! If this is how I feel about my blogs, can’t say I envy what real writers feel.

Just wasted some fun minutes on the Honest Coffee Guide website. Cool tools, and the Aeropress recipe is the one I sue.

A cup of Joe and you’re good to go (Under 6 a day and you’re A-OK) Professor Elina Hyppönen of the University of South Australia: Most people would agree that if you drink a lot of coffee, you might feel jittery, irritable or perhaps even nauseous — that’s because caffeine helps your body work …

First cold brew batch of the (rainy) season.

A brilliantly funny Apple privacy ad.

90% of the workday covered and on track to finish 40% of the tasks I had planned for the day. And it feels like a pretty good day. Oh my.

As if on cue, all my wyze cameras on the newest firmware won’t connect anymore. Factory reset not working either, so thinking it could be a network issue. Only thing left is changing password of WiFi, but hoping to avoid that. Really wanted to play with the new sensors. 🍿 The Wandering Earth is a …

Further down the Wyze ecosystem rabbit hole.

Explaining to Robie the connection Palpatine has with the Skywalkers, I realize how much of a Mexican novela Star Wars is when told poorly.

Land Serwis builds new Land Rover Series I Seeking to make a truck better than the original, Land Serwis uses laser-cut frame members that are from one to six millimeters thicker than the steel Land Rover originally used. These Series 1 Land Serwis are part of my daydreams now. The naming is off …

I’m going to miss the dry season.

This Device Free Dinner video by Sesame Street is good advise for everyone. Seems Drafts latest update fixes the prepend bug in the Dropbox workflow I’m using to post here. W00t.

Had to switch to Brave for work browser, since Opera appears to be using a new window UI setup which doesn’t work with my snapping windows app. Back to work after DC vacation. Fresh brain does not want to deal with pre-vacation crap.

Co-Working Spacing on Dying Malls From fastcompany.com: Putting offices inside shopping centers leverages conventional wisdom that workers want to be near amenities like coffee, food, or a quick trip to the gym. As commercial renters are increasingly clamoring for built up amenities, malls have …

Another delicious Blue Bottle Macchiato. It was too cold for my father in law, but perfect temp for me.

Tried a Dunkin cappuccino this morning and it was not… terrible. It should actually worry Starbucks a bit — because if it can be consistently done the same not terrible way, it may beat Starbucks’s sometimes good for the price.

Watched Star Wars Episode IX Teaser. Excited. Still undecided if I’ll watch any of the trailers — my rule is teasers only, and it has served me well. Tired after a long walking day, but I so enjoy Washington DC.

This was a damn good macchiato.

SJO → ATL → DCA.

There’s no one thing DHH at signalvnoise.com: As long as you’re stuck on a quest for that one super-power practice or North Star principle, you’re not going to make space in your brain for the fact that no individual secret is going to make the difference. Only compound wisdom will. Saved to my …

Worked from home and this hipster borrowed my glasses. Of course he rocks them much more than me.

🍿 How to Talk to Girls at Parties is clearly from the Neil Gaiman universe, but at times it doesn’t click. The love letter to punk rock in the 80s did work for me though.

Another not quite Aeropress coffee thingy, the Twist Press.

Moving my microblog to r.mateu.me, which is hosted on blot.im. I’ve been a micro.blog supporter since the kickstart campaign, and think the product is on a great path. However, as a blog service, the monthly price is a bit beyond what I want to pay — because I already have a blog service I’m …

[The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/well/move/heart-health-swimming-running-exercise.html "The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner - The New York Times"): From nytimes.com: In theory, those differences should allow blood to move from and back to the runners’ hearts more rapidly than would happen inside the swimmers’. Main takeaway is that you should always mix it up.

Leaning to not upgrading my AirPods yet. I use them a lot, but for short times, so the terrible battery life is not something I suffer that much — not counting calls, where I’ve just stopped using them.

Happily surprised by LEGO Movie 2. Entertaining but also good easily-digested moral learning in the end. Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots reminded me so much of The Animatrix in the best posible way.

Aeropress short with a touch of milk foam.

Recommending a podcast between different player apps is an unnecessary frustrating experience nowadays.

Friday morning swim. 1300mts today, halfway there.

American Airlines suspends service to Venezuela. This worries me terribly. There’s still Copa, but the isolation goes from philosophical to real.

Broke 1000mts in swim. That’s the minimal viable training distance for me to consider time in a pool training. Again worried for family and friends after another major blackout in Venezuela since yesterday.

A fun video on the basics of coffee. Will test this aeropress recipe soon. Ikea’s Sonos-powered Symfonisk speakers look really nice. If they manage to keep the price under $90, it could be a nice addition to my old Sonos Play 1. The selection of the iPad mini case is currently a microcosm my center …

Highlight of the day, two smiling faces when being picked up from the kinder.

The Into the Spider-Verse Animator Commentary is something I plan to have a romantic date to in 2019. I hope.

I’m going to take CheapAir’s recommendation of buying plane tickets 76 days before the flight to heart. Gave up stringing together a bunch of hacks with IFTTT and Zapier and went back to Drafts Pro. Sometimes the power lies at the edge of the network. Microsoft’s Chromium-powered Edge browser has …

Vampire Weekends cover of Spiderman’s Sunflower is so good.

Seriously considering getting the Logitech Crayon. Edit: Or not. It doesn’t work with the 10.5 Pro.

Managed to swim twice this week. Deliciously tired. Hope to keep it up the rest of the year.

Fun video into the world of high-end coffee.

The new AirPods are an unremarkable update from the description. Still getting them.

First reaction to new iPads is to follow through with my iPad mini threat and get one ASAP (64Gb with cellular). However, going to use my iPad Pro 10.5 at work for a few weeks first to see if my iPad Pencil use holds.

Do not disturb the Robertos.

And just like that, I know I’m probably getting a new coffee toy next month from the looks of the upcoming Aeropress Go. Edit: Duh, it probably comes out in August. Well, I’m going to have on my InstaBuy wishlist alongside the AirPod 2 then.

The Delter Coffee looks a more complicated AeroPress. Intrigued, but far from convinced.

Sad that Waffle.io is closing. It’s a great tool with better features than the default Github ones.

Such a good ad.

I got the monkey invite. Really think it’s going to be a big year and kinda sad I again decided not to try to go.

As a dad, David Nanian’s eulogy to his, is something to strive for: And so we’re here today to celebrate him. To celebrate his achievements, certainly, because he was a great doctor. But also to celebrate his … his goodness. He was, truly, a good man.

Spotify’s complaint against Apple in the EU does sound a lot like Apple. Just like with the battery life issue, there’s probably a good reason for many of the complaints — but the lack of transparency is going to bite them in the butt.

Migrating microblog from micro.blog to blot.im. Will write more about it, but main reason is cost. Blot’s bang for the buck is perfect for how much I blog.

Family and friends in Venezuela without power for close to 50 hours. Most hospitals without backup generators and airports closed. It’s a nightmare of our own making, but please know (and share) that the dictatorship lies when it says the situation is under control.

I was also surprised by Shawn Blanc’s switch to an unhipster drip machine. But have to agree with this post. I probably can’t tell the taste difference either, but the ritual is what makes it fun.

Visited my favorite Costa Rican coffee toaster today. Hacienda Real peaberry has been the daily bean on the AeroPress since I tried it and was curious of their operation. It’s literally a micro toaster (3 room house). They ship to the US/Canada if anyone wants to try.

Everyone’s a critic, but I think the never released Pebble Time 2 still looks better than the new Versa Lite.

Watching The Umbrella Academy yesterday and a David Gray song came up. The flashbacks to his White Ladder album actually gave me pause. Must never forget/understimate the power of music.

Can’t wait to add The Wandering Earth to my Netflix list.

I always develop an interest in projectile physics and spatial awareness when the kids get the stomach flu.

Since December I’ve been working very hard on measuring developer output, software CapEx, and organization level indicators. All with as little overheard to devs that doesn’t improve PMO flows. This comment on HN is an amazingly distilled version of many of my learnings.

Domain names are like battery packs, make it cheap enough and I can always self-justify one. Luckily rmateu.dev or 5typos.dev doesn’t sound that interesting.

Ordering coffee at 130 degrees in Starbucks is the hipster idiom that I’m least ashamed to say out lout. Thank you André Hess for all the hipster-millennial wisdom.

Ran across Jacoby Young’s Less, More, and None life priority list again. His whole site is such an information dense fun ride. Lots of stuff to copy.

I’m back on my quarterly install of Google’s Gboard keyboard.

I have welcomed emojis into my heart and keyboard. I held out long enough ;) but we lost the war, and it’s time to accept it. Long live the 🤓.

In 2003 I visited my first Apple Store, in Cambridge, MA. I was beyond excited. Little did I know that 4 years later I’d buy the first iPhone on the same store.

A few seconds before this photo, Bettina grabbed my face, turned it on the side, and planted a big kiss on my cheek. This is what happiness filled with a melted heart looks like.

Yesterday we celebrated Ana’s birthday. My better half has given me two better wholes — each as beautiful and intense as their mom. Which makes the amount of love and effort she gives all of us quite literally infinite. We love you.

This week Robie decided we had to wear (clean) masks for the bedtime story… and last night Bettina joined our book club.

Dave Winer: If it doesn’t have a feed it isn’t a podcast. I subscribe to Marco Arment’s theorem: On a long enough timescale, Dave Winer is usually proven right.

For 2019 we’re trying to have better controls of our expenses at home. After trying a few Apps, we settled on Next on the iPhone. It does an amazing job at expense input, and a adequate one at reporting. After 1 month even Ana is enjoying the habit — or at least tolerating it. But the next step is …

Just getting started, but Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke has me glued to the first chapter. A few more insights like the difference before decision & result — and it may be my favorite non fiction of the year.

Mario Kart for iPhone delay could also be related to the rumored game subscription service Apple is working on.

From an IT perspective ChromeOS devices are a dream come true. But going as far as offering Pixelbooks as MacBook alternatives for designers feels pretty aggressive. If they do become a solid dev machine with Linux stuff, then Win/macOS are going to feel the hurt.

What a week. Amazing how interests trumped ideology on my dislike towards those that are helping Venezuela. At the same time awed over the will of people to not give up, and the bravery of leaders that don’t let them. I dare not dream, but will never criticize those who do.

After 11 years of use (10 of them paid), I’m taking a break from Dropbox. It’s still the best cloud drive software, but not sure anymore if worth the expense alongside iCloud. We shall see.

Learning about habit stacking has been a surprisingly powerful tool. It’s not a super power — because it’s not painless to use. But it’s impressive to see a mind hack that does consistently show results. Highly recommend Atomic Habits by James Clear

If the rumored iPad mini is the insides of a 2018 iPad 9.7 in a mini frame with Pencil support, sign me up for one.

Enjoyed First Man 📺. The claustrophobic scenes from inside the ships were enlightening. Any movie based on a book that makes me want to read the book gets extra points from me.

Hmmm, our next generation anti-virus at work might be getting a bit overzealous. Either that, or this Mac is about to blowup.

I don’t remember any of my Norwegian friends so militant about the matpakke lunch, but it was a fascinating cultural thing.

Absolutely best way to finish the year. Amazingly we saw the whole movie — and of course I loved it.

The fact there’s no XR leather case from Apple leaves little doubt that the iPhone XR is the cheap version of the XS — which was the opposite of why I told my Dad to get the XR as we entered the store. Get your shit together Apple.

A very special Aruba Christmas

Vacation mode dock enabled.

The new Men In Black trailer looks very fun. Sadly the new Hellboy trailer felt off. Wish it was the other way around.

Must remember that a tall Starbuck’s flat white has two shots of espresso (ristretto actually). Speaking at 380 wpm — blank faces all around me.

When becoming a sofa is the highlight of a fun weekend.

Robie turned 3 today, and of course Ana organized an amazing birthday party. His whole afternoon smile made it totally worth it.

With T-Mobile, seems all major US carriers will support eSIM by years end. Gather around kids, let me tell you about the string of hacks I had to do 8 years ago to use my unlocked norwegian iPhone 3GS with a prepaid AT&T line.

Of course Mozilla has to say that giving up on EdgeHTML is bad, but they are still right. I currently use Safari for personal browsing and Opera (Chromium based) for work, but will try to give Firefox another try.

Microsoft confirms Edge is moving to Chromium sometime next year. I understand the reasoning and business case, but the consolidation of browser engines is not great for the web.

The Verge’s Better Worlds: a science fiction project about hope sounds — and looks — like a breath of fresh air. Looking forward to it.

Land Rover Defender Spied Flaunting Its New Body In The U.K. I’ll be the grumpy old man… what in the name of rover is all this rounded shite?.

A tip for all Uber drivers: play your local jazz radio station at a reasonable low volume, and the whole experience is instantly upgraded.

I’d rather buy the digital download version of Firefly (again) than watch it free on Facebook.

Zcash (ZEC) is launching on Coinbase Pro. I have a special appreciation for Zcash as a project — it seems to have the sanest mind in the popular crypto world.

Had lunch with my yellow princess.

On Sundays we go out. Otherwise these two (plus mom) get encierro — aka cabin fever.

Having some technical issues. A cache somewhere needs to be cleared.

After lunch cappuccino with the Prismo AeroPress thingy. It was made out of need — not play — and I surprised myself how well it turned out.

We made a killer entrecôte today.

Robie and Ana painted a plane, and Bettina tried to paint everything.

Another gift coffee. Very chocolatey. Trying to see if I can tell the difference between the grounded coffee bag or beans.

Forgot to post this in the morning: trying a new Salvadorian medium roast I got as a gift. It’s lighter than what I usually get, but enjoying the flavor.

Sugar and Star Wars. My wife so gets me.

El más feliz de los 37 cumpleaños. Muy agradecido por los mensajes.

Cleaning up my 4 year old account on Ana’s MacBook Pro. Still takes all of my willpower to click delete on OmniDiskSweeper for stuff that should be either backed up twice over, or better forgotten.

Not the first time Seth Godin inspires me, but looking as his short posts, I’m going to challenge myself to publish at least 50 words daily for the rest of the year.

How things change, I had completely forgotten macOS Mojave come out tomorrow. I remember loosing sleep over Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger release.

My iPhone XS arrived!!! to Miami. Now I just need to patiently wait a few weeks to visit and pick up.

Really excited to start listening to Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda.

For the Love of Spock is a solid documentary. A cultural icon played by a good person with normal good person problems. The father/son aspect was unexpected, but worth noting in my parenthood’s scrapbook of emotional concerns.

For the Love of Spock is a solid documentary. A cultural icon played by a good person with normal good person problems. The father/son aspect was unexpected, but worth noting in my parenthood’s scrapbook of emotional concerns.

Don’t really care who Twitter blocks or not — but want to vote with my clicks my frustration over 3rd party apps APIs. I’m leaving twitter for a few weeks tomorrow. #DeactiDay.

Sous vide cold brew experiment this morning with my favorite barista helper.

Done with The Expanse S01 — great book and equally good show. Now onto Westworld S02.

Picked up some freshly roasted coffee to try later today.

Enjoyed Avengers: Infinity Stone a lot more than expected. Really surprised how well they balanced a huge set of characters and kept a consistent story moving. Loved that Thanos isn’t a flat super villain. Might even go the movie theater for the next day one.

Saw Molly’s Game over the weekend with Ana and liked it. It’s the least Sorkin Sorkin movie I remember.

HBO’s Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind is an incredibly moving documentary. It’s also so well put together that it feels effortless how it takes you through his life. Very recommended.

Love Notes to Newton is another tangential documentary/film that will be fun to see for a different viewpoint of the same time frame. But also because it talks about Newton… and I’ll watch anything that mentions the green marvel.

Really looking forward to this General Magic documentary. Always thought it was more of an Apple-centric story — didn’t know it was a prequel to so much other companies.

Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been using my personal MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016) as my daily driver — while my job’s MacBook Pro 2015 is in the shop for a keyboard/trackpad issue. Very surprised of how well it performs, and how used I’ve gotten to the keyboard.

Me maneja.

Trying to get back into comics. Starting with Vinland Saga, which I abandoned last year because of life™. Comic Zeal still works but hasn’t been updated in while, so giving Chunky a try (so far liking it).

Saw Isle of Dogs with Robie and The Post with Ana today. Enjoyed both. Wes Anderson’s formula works with me, so no complaints — still love the Fantastic Mr. Fox above all.

Fathers day was really great for my coffee hobby.

Todos los días pienso en lo bueno que es el antiguo “Roberto padre” para tratar de hacer el nuevo “Roberto hijo” tan feliz como yo.

Happiest Father’s Day with this troupe of cousins.

In its current state, iOS 12 Siri Shortcuts are a modern version of the one button mouse. Forcing developers and users to use voice commands UI — instead of to touch UI like share extensions.

After the birth of my children — and tied with my wedding — this is the happiest day of my life. Shared my first pizza with Robie completely out of his request.

Great article by Ernie Smith on the history of MacOS X interface skins for Windows. I wasted so much time with WindowBlinds, LiteStep and other software customizing Windows XP.

Not crazy about the new icon, but Tweetbot for Mac could put an 8-bit clown as an icon and I’d still update. Love surprise Mac app releases.

We heart you @anitamarcela.

Giving 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson a try. Was recommended by my uncle — with whom I usually have philosophical sparring matches. Hope I can keep an open mind.

Running SublimeText on ChromeOS sounds very interesting to me. And the cost of hardware to develop apps on Android is going to be a fraction than iOS with Chromebooks.

When you had a shitty day, the iOS keyboard sucks at journaling. I don’t mean ducking you piece of PG-13 muerda (for both Spanish and English).

Arrested Development can do no wrong, but the style of Season 4 required a bit of extra effort. The remix will be fun to watch. On the next… Arrested Development pic.twitter.com/NjP26k9KE7 — Arrested Development (@arresteddev) May 1, 2018

Trying new SousVide burgers recipe: still main rule is to manage meat as little as possible.

I’m a sucker for launch events, and Opera holds a special place in my heart. Excited about tonight’s Opera’s R2 reveal.

Star Wars Resistance will be anime inspired, with WWII aircraft and fighter pilots influences. Can’t wait to watch this with Robie this fall.

Saw HBO´s Andre the Giant documentary. You could infer his smarts from his actions — same with his goodness. But the world have benefited from a journal to appreciate his philosophy more clearly.

Got a mini-barista to help me with my cold brew today — although he kept calling it cake.

No to sex on roundabouts, Norway tells high school graduates. Said it before… I so miss Oslo sometimes.

This is a great summary post on Gitflow by Luka Kerr.

It’s that time of the week when macOS decides it’s not going to display any of my Subtile Text windows because I connected to an external monitor.

Fine-tuning microblog posting from the blog. Seems I alienated the one reader of the blog with the jumping around to micro.blog and back.

Giving up on Artemis by Andy Weir. After 100 pages I’m still not enjoying it. Feels a bit too sitcomy.

Cal Newport writes: When you run your own site, reality is harsher. If people don’t truly care about what you have to say, or don’t truly care about you, they’re not going to stick around. You have to earn their attention. Which can be really, really hard. The whole post is really worth a read. …

I’m struggling deciding how and where to microblog. Which is kind of stupid since I’d already setup everything on blot last year. But micro.blog makes everything so simple and easy to post (specially photos), that it’s difficult to switch back. Naming also has me confused. Having the microblog at …

My dad’s steak adobo recipe: Soy sauce - Worcester sauce - Mesquite - Salt - Pepper - Garlic flakes - Rosemary leaves Leave on ziplock bag overnight on fridge. And tomorrow… sous vide time!

Two Roberto’s, one map. Hilarity ensues.

La Paz Waterfall Gardens: About 90 min from our house in Escazú. As with most Costa Rica touristy locations, tickets are expensive but it’s very well setup. Fun day trip with the kids, although I wouldn’t recommend eating there — not sure if it was because of a holiday, but the food was not good. …

I’m still bullish on Soylent because of its minimalist concept: if you’re not going to have a great meal, just drink 400kcal of something cheap (and not unhealthy) and move on. Many don’t agree, so it’ll be interesting to see how it does at Walmart.

Current cold brew coffee recipe: 1.5 cups of coarse dark roast - Slowly pour regular water until you fill French press (32oz) and wait 10 min. - Give it a good whirl and cover. - Wait 24 hours (not on fridge). Then press and pass through a wet coffee filter.

Thought I was ser for life with my Goruck GR1 backpack and my Waterfield Bolt Briefcase… but they had to come up with a Bolt Backpack. Looks great.

Fun end of weekend con Aba.

Surprised I didn’t know about the Marta File Manager for macOS before. Extremely fast and clean. Love the terminal integration and the dual pane look. Leaving open for a few days.

Saw Annihilation tonight. Good movie, but not as mind blown as I expected to be — as Arrival did. Still, great to have sci-fi which doesn’t require turning off your brain’s higher functions.

1Password 7 Beta for Macis out. I’m traveling, so I can’t mess with my production setup. But they had me at markdown in notes.

Browsery, Barnes & Noble’s answer to Goodreads seems very interesting. Giving a few weeks try. (I currently track my reading on a Trello board).

No smart connector on new base iPad. The keyboard is Tim Cook’s two button mouse.

Costa Rica has pushed me to be an accidental coffee snob. Even an average bean gives a delicious crisp flavor.

Suddenly feel less bad about taking 3 months to finish Oathbringer 📚.

Multi-media.

Owner of at least two Roberto Mateu’s hearts. (Co-owner with Amelia @anamateu actually)

First time in the big boy seat

Would love a comparison between Studio Neat’s upcoming Mark One and Baron Fig’s Squire.

I have to agree out of principle… and justifying my eternal ToDo throughout my life 🔗 Why Rotating Task Managers Regularly Can Make You More Productive

No le pongamos el chupón para que no se duerma….

Going to give Jellies a try. YouTube Kid’s ad-supported model is starting to show more and more when I check on Robie’s videos. And recent news about their filtering algorithm worries me.

Sad that digg reader is shutting down. I’m a happy Feed Wrangler user, but the demise of RSS services feels ominous in the current environment of walled gardens online.

Jason Fried makes the case (unknowingly?) for micro.blog no follower info model by-design.

However, from the HNews thread on digg reader, Winds 2.0 app looks interesting (although electron… sigh).

For DRM-free audiobooks, Bound is my favorite iOS app. As other apps have become more sticky, I’ve removed DRM from audiobooks to use its clean UI.

A good bad day at work. Encountered ( found gives me too much credit) a blocker bug, and had to delay a feature. But the debugging and fixing went well. Really appreciate colleagues patience when you’re so boxed-in a problem you loose perspective for the workaround.

We saw Wonder today. It’s a feel good movie that touches all the buttons. But it does makes you acknowledge an imperfect world, which I think it navigates pretty well. Enjoyed it.

Saturday trip stop.

Wish TunnelBear team the best in joining McAfee. But would feel uncomfortable if it were 1Password. The parent company wants us to keep being awesome! narrative works until the awesome growth numbers aren’t met.

Been enjoying the Scribd service, and will probably finish Sapiens before it’s not available anymore — but it kinda puts a dent in the whole point of unlimited.

YouTube TV doesn’t let me cancel from Safari… which would be fine, if it hadn’t let me subscribe from Safari. Tst, tst, walled garden with free entry gate.

I present both the most complex engineering project I’ve embarked upon and the longest instructions deciphering my brain has ever attempted. Let it be known that a chair was assembled, despite the manufacturer’s wishes.

After planning to go to Playa Mantas we ended up in Playa Herradura. Fun day with less fun traffic on the way back.

Wesley Moore: A Year Away From Mac OS I spent less than a week on a Chromebox as an experiment and failed miserably. But super detailed articles like this keeps are extremely entertaining.

The Angle is a nice looking straight razor. However, not sure I’d move away from my safety razor.

Josh Comeau’s webpage, Let’s Learn About Waveforms, deserves many awards.

If I didn’t check the site already a few times a day, the new Techmeme Ride Home podcast would be a must-hear. Still giving it a few days.

Had to rollback a release in production. Bummed after a weekend of testing. You can have your development environments all figured out… until you don’t.

Excited about Legion Season 2. The first season was probably my favorite show of 2017.

The Death of Stalin wasn’t sitcom funny, it was actually painfully entertaining.

Beach day.

This iPad appears broken.

RAMS, about legendary German designer Dieter Rams — by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized), with original music by Brian Eno. Will watch the film, and probably buy the poster.

Enjoyed MacSparky’s Blogging Workflow: Move the Cursor from Left to Right At times I forget that this needs happen before I criticize a writing idea/intent to death.

Today’s morning pomodoros soundtrack 🎵 is Stillness by Heron.

Google and HTTP: The web is a social agreement not to break things. It’s served us for 25 years. I don’t want to give it up because a bunch of nerds at Google think they know best. With a few hundred words, Winer has completely changed my mind.

I don’t regret pushing my company to Slack last year. But in many cases, it creates as many problems as it solves. I was naive in thinking that a tool by itself would fix processes issues.

Great Vox video on app addictiveness. I do remember pull to refresh in Tweetie more fondly and less conspiratorially.

[…] Assistant will be able to understand you in multiple languages fluently. Wow. Will work first on English, French and German, but this is amazing.

Well, movie night got off to a fun start. Stuck in a loop with Apple TV and recovery mode.

Apple TV hard reset was mostly painless. Sadly FetchTV crashes on launch (long live Fetch!). Moving my put.io based entertaiment to Squire — which is looking pretty good.

Why It’s so Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices A member of the cleaning staff— a young Spanish-speaking woman with a tight ponytail— was one of the few people actually working. She moved quietly, picking up the dirty mugs that people had left lying about and stacking them into the dishwasher. …

Finally a lower priced Nest Aware plan ($5 a month, 3$ additional camera). My Nest wishlist from two years ago is almost done — just need better notifications. Still happy with my WyzeCams, not likely to buy additional Nest’s.

Here’s hoping that changing the iBooks name to Books, is mostly related to an upcoming laptopesque iOS device with a keyboard.

Enjoyed this scientifically anecdotal comparison of Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze. Costa Rica is total Waze country, but I just can’t get use the UI/UX.

Con mi otra consentida.

This Community mini reunion was very enjoyable..

En la aventura actual no tenemos selfies sin enanos sonrientes, juguetes desordenados y ojeras sin fiestas. Pero todo eso son aún más capas (no tan fotogénicas) de felicidad. Feliz cumpleaños mi @anitamarcela.

The idea of text to speech is always compelling, but I haven’t been able to use it consistently. Curious to give Polly a try again.

Scribd’s new unlimited* books and audiobooks subscription is very compelling. Going to check it out. I cancelled my Audible subscriptions last year because the credits model gave me anxiety when I fell behind.

Every time I read a company is rejoining its parent, I hear the same sharpening of the knife used when Newton Inc was brought back to Apple. Good luck Nest.

By the by, I’m loving my 4 WyzeCam’s. Probably being streamed live in a bunch of Chinese websites (which is why kid’s rooms still on Nest), but for common areas they work great and give a lot of bang for the buck.

Simple Print is an web article cleanup and PDF that almost makes wanna print all articles. This could be useful for sharing articles with a class or meeting.

Blade Runner 2049. WOW, just wow. Love it when regardless of if it’s the story I wanted to see, you get the best version of a story someone wanted to tell.

Walmart and Rakuten take on Amazon with Kobo e-reader alliance Happy about this. Kobo makes great devices and the e-ink devices market could benefit from increased competition.

PencilSnap for Apple Pencil Added to wishlist.

🔗 20 Things I Learned From Becoming Warren Buffett Gotta see that documentary.

If you’d ever cleaned a car seat or stroller, you could never support space travel for children. We could decimate any alien ecosystem with germ contamination.

Saw Atomic Blonde last night. Enjoyed it. Wasn’t familiar with the comic, but the influence in style is clear.

Microsoft says security fixes will noticeably slow older PCs If aliens wanted to affect our global computing power just a tiny bit and keep us distracted… this is exactly how’d write it.

Giving Alfred a try again. Spotlight works, but I miss a bit more power. Even suffering relearning my LaunchBar tricks, the speed difference in very noticeable.

Macdrifter carefully explains how blogs are dead or dying, and he’s also not into newsletters.

Intel’s KPTI flaw is really bad, but be ready to extreme simplifications. No 30% slowdown for most users it seems.

Brent Simmons is going to post more on micro.blog, and so am I.

“wake up early” is an eternal failed resolution my life. Trying an alternative this year: Realize that anything after 5am is sleeping late.

Interesting HN comments on Wired’s Kindle piece. Many only use Kindle for fiction and print books for non-fiction. I do all fiction on Kindle and non-fiction on iPhone — for convenience of reading snippets throughout the day.

Finally saw The Last Jedi. Spoiler free thoughts: 1. Glad I only watched the first trailer. 2. Rogue One still my favorite Disney era movie. 3. Don’t need to digest much, it’s a first reaction kinda movie.

Found my AirPods.

Excellent point: These new apps may feel less like Mac apps, but I’d bet good money they’ll run better than something using web views or Electron. More on Universal Apps — 512 Pixels

Not doing so great on the non-fiction reading these past few months. About to finish Shoe Dog, by way behind what I wanted to have done in 2017. Grit is next.

Giving the default macOS Spotlight a try for a few days. LaunchBar has felt slow in the last few versions and since it my main interface for most things — everything feels slow.

Without a doubt cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the future. But I don’t see the corresponding demand of usage behind the current frenzy — just pure speculation. Can’t help but expect black day for BTC value between now and Chinese New Year.

Also, when“reputable” futures markets appear, the speculation will work both ways. Contributing to a parabolic behavior on the BTC price.

Gemini PDA: 20 Years On, Meet The All New Psion Series 5 I want this… so much.

Head to head testing between Nest and Wyze cam starts now. Curious if the 10x price difference is reflected in features. One thing I still trust Nest more is security — Wyze will go on common areas for a while.

RememBear looks like a solid password manager from the TunnelBear people. Not moving away from 1Password anytime soon, but good to have around to recommend.

The best laptop ever made Apple has made many great laptops, but the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro (2012–2015) is the epitome of usefulness, elegance, practicality, and power for an overall package that still hasn’t been (and may never be) surpassed. Wish I’d written this. An open love letter to a …

Winter is coming. However, if you do order an ark of the covenant, we are able to find it.

Saw Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Amazing effects but overall editing gave me a prequels vibe: forced and far from the delight of Fifth Element.

Polyfact > The best way to browse Reddit’s /r/todayilearned/ Just wasted a good 10 min on this app.

I’ve switched my writing (as if) to Ulysses, but IA Writter 5 is a very clean update. Looking forward to the Mac version.

Exile’s Kiss You All Over is one my favorite new discoveries of the Red Oaks soundtrack.

This open letter to Apple regarding foreign taxes is the perfect example of why Scott Galloway says that Europe is going to be the downfall of the four tech giants.

CrossOver for ChromeOS (via android) is a very intriguing idea.

Today while playing Robie told me Papi, cell aquí and pointed to the floor so I’d put the iPhone down. Multiple emotions, including amazement and a pinch of shame.

Taking a break from Sci-Fi, started The Nix by Nathan Hill last night.

Excited for Firefox 57 on the desktop and Firefox 10.0 on iOS coming next week.

Been trying to send money to Costa Rica for almost a week… so I welcome our upcoming Apple Pay for iMessage overlords.

Some app updates make me hungry.

The building blocks of Saturday.

Giving up on New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Usually love his books, but this is a mess of a novel. Story is all over the place and characters are two-dimensional. Really doesn’t read like him.

No iPhone X for me. Rational reason is cost saving, but there’s something else. I struggle with staring at my screen when life is happening around me, and an iPhone that’s all screen is a metaphor too clear to ignore. So checking out of the upgrade race this year.

Embracing Friday.

Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments redditfavorites.com From a quick glance, useful page.

Read-It-Never: Instapaper and therapeutic self-delusion carefultech.net/2017/11/r… Ouch — the it hurts because it’s true kind

In iOS 11, you can customize how the Notes app works when it’s triggered from Control Center News to me and very useful.

Finished Red Oaks last night. Probable the best summer tv show I’ve seen. Enjoyed it a lot, and it even made think a few times. Hight recomended (it’s on Amazon).

3 episodes in, and Red Oaks may be my favorite TV Show this year.

Derretido.

We’re ok. No power right now. Cell phone signal intermittent. Building dancing like the Macarena but shutters and impact windows on site.

First day of class.

Palm #eclipse2017 Shadows

Flying from SJO to Miami. Empty seat next to me, but not looking good. At least there’s not carry-on space drama.

Finally playing with the micro.blog app. Deciding on subdomain for mateu.me.

There must be a German word for being lucky in love but my bag always leaving the airplane last #schadencarryun?

Facial ID that requires you to mouth a password — using micro expressions — sounds like iPhone 8 stuff.

Baby Driver is a fun and exciting ride with a soundtrack that has so much character, it’s borderline a musical. Highly recommended.

The new Hulu AppleTV app is so bad, it finally pushed us to cancel subscription (and we do watch a few shows).

OS Developer Beta’s are the marshmallow test for grownup geeks.

After watching a couple of times, I still tear-up with this ad:

Cook by numbers with Father’s Day gifts.

Didn’t know that Github could render CSVs, this could be useful. Link

Finally saw Logan last night. Still digesting, but pretty sure it’s the best superhero movie I’ve seen.

Mañana de monos, mapaches y pisotes.

This is Ground Control to Roberto Andrés…

Posted my quick notes for the books I read over winter. Moved from a 5 starts rating scale to a recommended or skip it one.

My first tweet had a misspelling, so my first mic should maybe do too? write?

En el poco tiempo libre que no tienen, el Foro Penal Vzlano puede ir escogiendo las plazas en todo el país que vamos a ponerle su nombre.

Things 3 beta is super clean. The one missing feature that made me stop using it is included (won’t spoil it). Just hope it gets a lot more keyboard shortcuts before launch — my second issue in the past.

The Verily Smartwatch (from Alphabet) looks like a Pebble, [battery] lasts like a Pebble, and quacks like a Pebble. Still sad that Pebble as a company didn’t survive.

Waiting for a calm and peaceful moment tonight to watch The Last Jedi teaser trailer. Excited.

Hadn’t noticed until reading reviews about Grand Amiral Thrawn new novel that it become obvious how humanocentric/racist/xenophobic the Empire was versus the Rebels.

The Star Wars Battlefront II Teaser looks amazing. Video was pulled down.

Guys night-in.

Wow, the first two episodes of Legion are fantastic. Hooked.

Never too late to learn the value of sleeping on it.

Up till 3am fighting with iptables in CentOS and Docker because “it was forcing port :8080”. Today realized it was a WP setting… #idiot

The end of the rainbow is… a parking in Brickell.

Strange suspicion that some of my devs call me RO not because of my name, but because of my Read Only access to the repository.

Finally saw Arrival. As great as everyone said it was.

What’s up, doc?

Sometimes when he’s really bored, I get a charity kiss.

Finally saw Rogue One. My current favorite Star Wars movie of the XXI century.

I’m ready to stop complaining about the new MacBook Pro, and pay for the next iCloud Drive with encryption.

Mi timeline es un espejo traducido de las elecciones presidenciales de Venezuela en el 2012 y 2013. Siento los anticuerpos protegiéndome.

My dear American friends: the next few years would be painful, but you’ll come out better on the other side. Introspection is a long game.

Hora que los Cubs se sienten a dialogar.

In a highly ironic twist of fate, Mac users now in the same position as Apple // users… realizing that Apple doesn’t get the platform.

I haven’t looked down at my keyboard in years… and the Touch Bar hasn’t yet provided a reason. This is not a Pro feature.

I know multitasking is bad, but the Touch Bar doesn’t seem compatible with my multitask habit.

People outside the US watching the #AppleEvent on their Hackintoshes are pointing and laughing right now.

If Mr Robot had come out in 2006, you’d see a lot more Mac’s. Can’t recall the last one I saw… Mac not the cool(est) anymore.

A quienes le encanta criticar a la MUD por “lentos” nunca han estado en una reunión de condominio.

Una “cucharadita” de #Toddy en el café frío señala el próximo inicio del fin de semana.

“Individual deals, with individual countries”. #Trumpxit

Still. The democratic route is the only one that offers the middle ground a path. But the temptation of shortcuts is always there.

#Turkey same conflicted feelings as Venezuela’s coup: it’s hard to defend the institution, when the one undermining it calls for its defense

I have never seen an A.I. accidentally put the ice cream in the fridge instead of the freezer. I welcome our neural network overlords. L

A while back I decided to only allow myself to feel anxiety from politics in Venezuela. #Brexit has been hard… and Trump still ahead.

The Nice Guys is the spiritual successor to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Both among my favorite movies now.

Quick! _____ : Perform open heart surgery Shoot the bad guy behind her Peel that hard boiled egg In all 3, I murder an innocent.

Happy May 17th to my Norwegian friends! 🇳🇴 #skål

Reliable: • Software: Hard • Demos: Harder • Debugging: Hardest • Backups: Hardly

I know I’m tired when: I have to say the word in spanglish to myself so I can spell it correctly.

Venezuelan food truck (I’m basically doing a cheat year).

Release days are like greek weddings… lots of drama lead up to it, and there’s one movie too many.

Batido Naranja Cambur / Orange Banana Smoothie 2 Frozen Bananas 1 cup of Orange Juice 1/4 Cup of water 1 tbsp of sugar Blend baby, blend.

La adversidad obligó a la MUD a crear una plataforma tecnológica para comunicarse. Y comenzaron en una curva S donde ya hay masa crítica.

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” - Blaise Pascal

Saw an iPad Pro today… if the Apps come, this will be great.

Really wanted a Will McAvoy from The Newsroom character: a flawed but deep-down lovable Steve — at least by end of the movie .

Was expecting Sorkin to play with my feelings more. This Jobs you may admire, but almost certainly dislike. Goes from asshole to jerk.

Steve Jobs movie is to biographical Jobs, what the West Wing was to the Clinton Administration.

Oh, and The Martian is great. ~80% Book Great — which is really pretty good.

Apple Watch really needs a Movie Mode, or a DND that won’t light up screen unless touched. Hate bothering everyone around in dark theater.

I would totally get wireless audio speakers in my eardrums. #takemymoneymadscientist

Evidence that liquid water flows in Mars AND videos showing iPhone 6s may be water resistant on the same week? not coincidence I tell you.

The world is filled with haters… luckily most are buyers first.

Don’t feel left out. Even if you don’t own any stocks open your default stocks app and join the funnest blood bath since the #redwedding.

The UX for Apple Siri is framed as talking with a servant, while Google Now comes across more like a peer.

Have a few high volume items that’s easy for people to print (cases, toys, …), and maybe a catalog designers can contribute and take a fee.

There seems to be an American Rugby game on TV.

But on UI/UX, MacOS is lagging: Window Mgmt, App Launching and Mgmt (the Dock), File Mgmt. No “this changes everything” since 10.4

The old technological superiority Mac users used to have over Windows is gone. That’s ok, all cars and airliners are similarly safe.

Loved Interstellar, but don’t know if IMAX is a must. Space scenes are amazing, but got dizzy with rest of movie. Still, ★★★★★

I admire those that treat their body as a temple. I wonder if any of them admire my high-end food court bod’?

I just wrote my full ALL CAPS sentence in a work email. #theshame

Just nailed an emergency status update and then… CFO: “You guys are on top of all issues, which means it has been too long”. Stings.

A year ago eCommerce End-to-End testing was an abstract concept. Today, it’s my abstract reality.

Crunch time: when color coded status updates fly out the window and every red/yellow item becomes an email/call/meeting.

There’s either going to be an #iCloudgate this week, or a bunch of articles will need to be batch edited to prepend “allegedly”.

Just found out my name is an anagram for Atom Burro Tee. Struggling with the transcendent significance.

“Your Customer Success Manager will be joining us in the call”… and I turn off the webcam so I can roll my eyes.

Continuously amazed how much supply chain management relies in simple FTP for transactions.

something is broken when you need to work from home because you have too much stuff to get done.

If the world today was on a Risk game board… I’d think someone was messing with the secret mission cards.

Got a ticket because I used the wrong app to pay for parking spot. A sign of the times I guess.

¡¡¡PURA VIDA!!!

Cheap mexican + 2 candy bags in movie = organic container of CH₄ that leaks. #globalwarming

“Steve Jobs is an obsessive maniac and even he doesn’t make us pay him money to put our games on his computer” ~ Trip Hawkins, 1991

Norway folk, need to find the fastest way to get a police certificate for when I lived there. Any reco highly appreciated.

If email is not work™ then I’m unemployed.

Software is always documented. If original developer doesn’t do it… some poor sucker will have to do it eventually. #whosgottwothumbs

‘Her’ is to the singularity what ‘Lost in Translation’ is to culture shock. In so many ways the same universe, and both great movies.

The gentleman’s book is full of corollaries in the “Ladies that can’t lift their carry-on” chapter. So stop giving me the evil eye 18A.

La emoción por protestas disruptivas en sitios fáciles y convenientes, es eco de las políticas iguales que nos llevaron a este peo.

Cuestiono el valor estratégico de trancar Caurimare y Las Mercedes. No hay universidades ni detenidos cerca. Tampoco emblemático.

Queridos estudiantes, mi corazón está con uds. Pero no mi cerebro ¿que coño están haciendo?

If 3D printed guns are the future of weapons… wars will be over soon. “Error: MK47.3d couldn’t be printed, check driver”

I could curse at printers again… or just RT a few past ones to save time. Sorry you have to read this.

Many reasons why, but one nice bonus is that Cmd-Shift-D is now mapped to Dropbox folder everywhere; including Save Dialogs Boxes.

When a Salad Dressing exhales: ⓐ It’s past the expiration date. ⓑ Judging your sad attempt at a diet.

For those that used FB for years, a sort of reboot would be useful: Call it “Friend Archive”, and let me pick again relevant friendships.

Facebook has tried to achieve this with algorithms, but IMHO, it hasn’t been successful. A Like for a baby pic ≠ interest in babies.

Really think Facebook needs to deal with social network crud: I don’t have the same friends & interests I had 8/4/2 years ago.

El “un millón de gracias” ya no alcanza ni para un favorcito de pena baja.

CCS → SJU → CCS Good meetings and lots of burgers.

CCS → MIA. Interview time (and other meetings).

No #PebbleSteel for me, but very excited about the upcoming appstore.

I’m so high from cold-medicine that I might see Santa AND Baby Jesus later. It’s going to be the podcast of the century.

If I had a penny for every time I wash my Apple headphones with my pants… I’d still be short of the $30 being so stupid costs me.

If you just assume every tweet/email/chat has a :) at the end, the web becomes a better place.

Million dollar idea: tequila that makes you sneeze afterwards. I’m calling it “Shot & Splat”

I think it’s great that Apple recognizes Mandela on the frontpage. But it feels marketing(ish) since they didn’t mention Jef Raskin in 2005.

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen #QueNadaTeDetenga

Decibel Strangle: pushing your office chair towards Computer B (in another desk), with headphones still attached to Computer A.

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ Nelson Mandela #RIPMandiba

aún #SinLuz en Alto Hatillo a las 7:30am.

Ceteris paribus, I don’t see either of these happening: Being able to repay any future debt. Allowing a “Gringo Bank” to pickup gold.

Es como hacer una huelga de hambre comiendo tequeños, pero condenando a los productores de harina y queso.

I currently use the following naming convention folders: [tag] Client Project YYYY-MM [web] ACME Mobile Redesign 2013-10

I’m going to give Tags a try in Mavericks. At least for graphics/mockups a single [images] folder could be useful.

Over the last year my work emails have become very detailed. Not so much for the present, but as reference (and cover) for the future.

Crap. Hard crash, now MacBook Air shows boot-screen and then shuts down. Cloning SSD from Recovery before freaking out.

Crazy idea: adopt car year pricing model. YourApp™ 2013 sold full price initially, then discount when YourApp™ 2014 is coming.

Pricing is always hard; but exposure to: mega markets, global competition and discoverability challenges make App Store’s very interesting.

App Store operators are concentrating on volume, so complexities like paid upgrades are not desired. It’s up to devs to figure out model.

But low prices in digital goods are perceived differently by consumers. Apps now are either expensive or cheap. Value has been left out.

Software prices in App Store’s need a readjustment. The need to stand-out in crowded virtual shelf space has driven devs to lower prices.

Crap, no unlocked 5s in online US Store. Good night then!

The question in my mind the next 90 minutes: iPhone 5S, 5C, or 5U? where U stands for used.

Las distorsiones económicas actuales en Venezuela son tan tectónicas, que aunque emigres, compras pasaje con retorno.

More accurately, we talked a bit… and I made a stupid joke about her job that she still remembered when we started going out last year.

bien pues, “saboteo”. pero exigimos la cabeza del general que se dejó. ¿o es que el imperio no hace esas cosas cuando invade?

Maybe that’s why time travelers from the future don’t visit: slow Internet.

Broadband went down mid-morning and had to work tethered at 3G/EDGE the rest of the day. It was painful. Like being back in 2003.

I’d complain that the World War Z movie ruined a perfectly good book… but they basically just used the title.

El que nunca le dijo “mami” a una maestra, que tire la primera pene… digo, piedra.

Cuando el ventilador de techo suena… pila.

Managed #inboxzero. In other news: my reply and follow-up labels are reporting significant traffic — as is Things inbox.

RIO » PTY » CCS See you in 7 + 2 hrs #LatAmisbig

Job descriptions is what the company thinks you do. A job is what you think the company does.

Sometimes you go the extra mile… only to realize everyone else is on the metric system.

MEX » SJC » CCS Heading home.

CCS » PTY » GUA Time to earn the #bacon.

Major sneeze while brushing teeth. Bathroom mirror AND lungs covered with toothpaste foam.

I respect all culture and beliefs… but can’t understand how people use PowerPoint.

the problem with having a really smart Excel table is that when you do something dumb… it can still look fine. #layer8error

#eresfoodiesi te preocupas si alguien comenta “y ahí vemos que comemos” como parte del plan.

Just noticed that deployments to a certain server are done everyday at 13:37 CEST. I find it cool.

7762Km 4525Km 8320Km 0cm Distances from: Config change Issue tested Result validated Sigh of relief.

Will “Not US-based” become a feature on web services? #PRISM

“en redes sociales no hay audiencia sino comunidades.” #DiageoEnCasa

“Cuando llega el comercial en TV, la mayoría de la gente mira su laptop/celular/etc” #DiageoEnCasa

While editing pixels, fly flew across the screen: brain assumed it was the mouse cursor, hand agreed. Water was spilled. #whatisthematrix

iPhone 4S just crashed to a hard floor with such intensity, it turned off. 7 curse words later, seems fine. Like a (glass covered) rock.

and the wicked fairy told my father: “he’ll have 10 fingers and toes; but will NEVER open a yogurt without spraying himself!” My curse.

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence” — Napoleon Bonaparte.

Corbatura. Extensión adicional a longitud de la corbata para incorporar la parábola abdominal. ~ véase también: fornido.

CCS →CDG →IST Istanbul (Not Constantinople) / #wedding

“Maybe the most underappreciated thing about Steve was that he had the courage to change his mind. And you know—it’s a talent.” ~ Tim Cook

Heading home! #yosoyvenezolano

Calma, calma, calma.

Sin drama o misterios, fue un final de fotografía y exigimos nuestro derecho de revisar la foto. #auditoriaya

Es noche de esperar lo que HACEN, no lo que dicen.

En Caracas. Listo para #votarymas

CCS-CDG-OSL. Pero de vuelta el sábado, porque #yosoyvenezolano.

Turbulence makes you wish you were on the ground. Unless, of course, that’s where you are heading.

When a developer reply is more cryptic than a software error prompt, you know one’s buggy and the other a jackass.

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

So, no OSX 10.9 previews today then?

“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon… everything’s different.” ~ Bill Watterson

Of course, I could just use a radix sorting algorithm for all the places I’d look for, but then I’d forget what I wanted to find.

I can find everything on last place I look for it. Unless I ask myself “what’s the last place I’d look for this?” then it’s on the 1st.

Yes, I’ll open the attachment continuously updated for the past 3 weeks, and copy&paste the info you need. No prob, I ♡ editing unread .xls

You know they say; lucky in seat assignment… unlucky in bag coming out.

OSL →LHR 3 day layover to visit my sis!

tilbake i Oslo

Damn long stopover at LHR… just bought a Kindle Paperwhite 3G

CCS→MIA→LHR→OSL #muchwork #coldweather #warmfriends

Combinado, unas 3 Billones de personas en plan maestro para que nosotros 30 millones andemos en bicicleta.

De buena fuente: acaparamiento masivo de carros en China, India, Japón, Korea, México, Brasil y hasta Detroit.

Tapiti Tapiti Tap Tapiti Tap Tap Tapiti Tap ⌘+C ⌘+V Tapiti Tap Tapiti ⌘+V Tap… ⌘+W Save this as draft? [space] instead of ↩︎ #Noooooooo

‘When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us.”’ ~ Proverb

Either the magnitude of this task is looming before me… or my pilates ball has a leak.

I’m sure an engineer will figure out how to ping electric shocks via HTTP after reading this task request. And I deserve it.

25 years ago, this building was a house, and on this house we waited for the operator to call back and talk long distance to the US.

This safety razor shave would have been better for everybody if I’d just gone to the barber shop, and donated the same amount of blood.

6h ago: “Might as well clean my inbox” 5h59m ago: 1 New Mail 5h58m45s ago: “Oh crap” Attempting #inboxzero is tempting the gods.

The Hobbit was fun. Not a great movie, but a nice ride.

Going with my Mom¹ and Dad to The Hobbit tonight. ¹My search history now includes “best time for bathroom break in the hobbit”

Let’s be clear, the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world as much as my iPhone running out of battery means the end of electricity.

It’s already December 21st in Australia… So typical for end of the world to be late. (I’ll breath easier when it’s 12am in Zurich)

Cartero toca el timbre para el aguinaldo. Me disculpo que no tengo efectivo, pero que mañana acomodamos. “Yo no sé si paso esta semana”.

Tengo un dedo pintado de votar, y le pinto otro dedo a los que no creen que deben ir. #yoyavote

Fajarse en la difícil de ganar, pero desanimarse en las que ya hemos ganado, es actitud de flojo. Vota e invita a votar el #16D.

I’ve been wrong before, but’ll never be as wrong as when I contracted but I will on an email. Where’re my grammar manners?

I listened Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness thousands of times by myself in front of a PC. 17 years later… I now have a Mac.

Sueño: Poder viajar en el tiempo a la reunión donde inventaron el Choco Müsli… y cachetear a quien dijo “¡Y pasas también!”

Completely messed up my Mac’s networking, but got a lot better at sniffing traffic data.

Whoever designed the AppleTV controller tested it standing up, and not sprawled on a couch. Damn thing disappears between cushions

No puedo confirmar ni negar que hoy vi algo que me hizo cagarme de la risa. #RegresaIslaPresidencial

Went with Whisky, but not to worry, I’ve enough magazine ads to know it’s ok to drink while working — as long as I lean forward on my elbow.

Hmmm, just remotely captured packets using a VPN to log an issue… but it worked… though not according to the log. I’m getting a beer.

Espero que el mundo se acabe en 19 días… no creo que pueda sobrevivir un año de gente refiriéndose a la fecha como ‘2012+1’.

A wise man never said: “yeah, the milk smells funny, but I’m sure it’s fine”.

RIO →GRU →CCS Movember ends at home.

Going crazy looking for important email from client I got yesterday… just realized I dreamt it. #workdreams

If the world is going to end on Dec 21st, today is a great day to buy all “No payments for 30 days” things you may want. Just saying…

CCS→GRU→RIO. muito trabalho.

“He does watercolors. Mostly landscapes but a few nudes.” Yep, really liked Moonrise Kingdom

I just got beat-up by a conference call. Walked right into it. Better understand where villains come from now.

Time is funny… not always laugh out loud funny; but at least smile-and-shake-head funny.

“do you have a dogs barking ringtone?” Working from home provides interesting background noise for conference calls.

Booyah! TV now working, aaaaaaaaand with US Netflix and Hulu.

When in doubt… I rewatch The West Wing (first 4 seasons). All good now. What’s next?

Este martes de noviembre se lee como un domingo de octubre en mi twitter, pero en inglés. #yayoviestapelicula

Trees do not have bones. Chef Boyardee is not the Prime Minister of Italy. He is the Vice President. Burritos are not “male tacos.”

“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.” — Tina Fey

Lo único que he visto a venezolanos leer más detalladamente que las instrucciones de CADIVI, son las cotufas de microonda.

Hasta que Toddy no se sincere y duplique las cucharadas recomendadas, no será un éxito en países donde siguen las instrucciones.

“Otra sangría, pero menos ensalada de frutas y más vino tinto” Que niche se pone uno con la 2da jarra de frutas.

TV giving my parents AppleID “An error occurred loading this content” trying to play rented movies. No issues with my AppleID. Stumped.

SCL-LIM-CCS Heading home :)

Ok. too drunk to shave now, but starting tomorrow… Movember is on!!!

Los tres taxistas chilenos que les he preguntado si bailan tango GRITAN ante la sugerencia. Pero después del horror se ríen.

CCS-GYE-SCL See you below the equator.

All I’m saying is that - if Curling is an Olympic sport, then Airport Gate Change Sprint should get a chance.

post friends-week blues.

Bought an all-natural hippie deodorant, and (oh, surprise) now I smell like an all-natural hippie; which defeats the whole purpose.

I hum “♪ Why♩don’t you ♬ piiiiick up? ♫” to rhythm of The Foundations “Build me up”, when on hold… Someday awkwardness will ensue.

Love the iPad mini Ad.

If Twitter or Facebook displayed their timeline as a Gantt chart… nobody would do anything fun.

♥ how NYC can go from freaky to fun, to 90’s, to crazy and back to fun, in just a few blocks. Problem is you pay cover at every stop.

I was going to make a sarcastic comments about working on a plane… but wifi on flights is so effing cool.

Business travel is like email, it feels like work… but it ain’t.

CCS - PTY - GUA #Guatebuena

Ya sé de donde recuerdo esta sensación: ¡estoy despechado! Mi media naranja (+4%), no quiere nada conmigo.

Today I think I’ll be 1 in 9 million :) #7O

Dealing with massive email list is a pain in the IMAP. Done for today, expecting an onslaught first thing… today

After going through ~2000 support messages, I can now appreciate the one-off email with something nice to say.

The hum of the electric razor can be calming… until it goes two octaves lower and you just know —there’s a bald spot on your left cheek.

GRU - CCS #HayunCamino

Me: are you sure I’ll make the connection at São Paulo? Her: sim senhor M: and my bag? H: even more sure. M: ? H: mesmo avião senhor M: …

Acabo de escribir “requete full”. Por lo que no queda duda que soy de comienzos de los 80.

No es que estemos polarizados, sino que nadie nos explicó para que eran las dos filas. #BájaloDeEsaNube #V07A

No es que los parques no tengan luz, es que las luciérnagas son capitalistas/imperialistas/saboteadoras. #BájaloDeEsaNube #V07A

No es que el teleférico este malo, es que solo funciona de bajada #BájaloDeEsaNube #V07A

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” Guys, really? we have nothing to counter this campaign?

I may have considerably underestimated how long it would take to hang dry my clothes. Washing “Everything but swimsuit” now seems dumb.

1988: made horrible mug for Mom… and she showed it to all her friends. 2012: sent a hug and kiss via a tweet, and she RT. Moms2.0

When InboxZero™ becomes ArchiveForLaterSearch®

my extreme sport: crazy taxi rides. I’ve stared at death in headlights once again.

I love the smell of SIM cards in the morning.

A man, a task, and the sudden realization that the spreadsheet before him has been filled with the wrong data. #sheetrhymeswithshit

I’m amazingly fluent in the international hand sign of ‘One Draft Beer Please’.

I wish upon star to answer this email by saying “I have no idea what you’re talking about… but NEITHER DO YOU”.

nada contra español: es un idioma para poesía, humor, romance y drama en general. Pero no “Características del Servidor Transcodificador”

translating tech documentation to español makes want to smoke something illegal.

Drunk enough to be sincere… sober enough to be serious.

Wish: I wish I were home. Hope: I hope this bus heads home. Verbs and travel… it’s complicated.

MEX - GRU - GIG #muitolegal

Detrás de cada kilo de chalequeo hay 35.274 onzas de verdad… O 4.227 copas por cada litro. #misdichosnuncapegan

every few months I encounter a tie that just seems to say: “nahh, don’t think so” when I try to get the knot an length right.

Huge stretch/yawn while sitting on a pilates ball… I just performed a Funniest Home Movie sketch with no audience. #ouch.

There’s a summer camp next door. They are LOUD. But, I can hear they have a little brat called Mateo, that is driving them crazy. #karma

Looking for an Apartment or Room in Rio de Janeiro from Sept 13 - Oct 5. Any tips welcomed!

“I campaigned for JFK because he’s Catholic and I’m Catholic and they never said it, but you knew you were going to hell if you didn’t.”

Would you look at that? Versions on Mac just saved me about 45min of rework. #coolontheoutside #screamingofjoyinside

After some careful analysis, it’s now obvious that ‘Full Summary’ is a really stupid heading.

I postulate that “once you pop you can’t stop” was thought up by a creative in a urinal after a night of too many beers.

“Oh, that’s expected behaviour”. Best thing I heard today.

Debugging computers is hard. Debugging humans is harder. It’s easier to make sense of a log file than an agenda.

CCS-BOG-MEX #órale

Would you look at that? the time reporting system DOES let you record time spent filling it #101010

I wish time recording systems would let you record the time you spend on time recording systems trying to figure how to record time.

Prof. G: “Trade-Secret: The JAD file MUST have a blank line at the end for it to work!” Not sure these are happy or angry tears…

Super productive the last two hours. I think. Just wrote “Need to check next tomorrow confirm” on my tasks lists… yeah, no clue either.

love affair with AppleTV slightly diminished when I couldn’t figure out how to play The Hunger Games iTunes Extras.

“Have adventures. The Hemingway mode was in ascendancy for decades before it was eclipsed by trendy fabulist “exercises.” — Colson Whitehead

In sex and in networking, you must always be mindful of the ACK Timeout.

Meatloaf, Ricardo Arjona and UB40… my iPhone in shuffle reminded me why heading home early was a good idea.

The only way I can claim anything remotely similar to #InboxZero this week is if I switch back to roman numerals. #InboxXLVII

maybe we quickly forget dreams for those few times when we have a horrible nightmare. #featurenotbug

A wise man just told me: “Report things that are out of your control FIRST. The rest no one really cares about.”

Heading to San Fran to grab a beer. any recos?

Indian Monty Python “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life” with NBC bleep was just epic #London2012

catching up with old friends is always hard: too much celebrating and remembering in a short span.

Resignation: when you give up trying to pick the raisins out of Trail Mix and just grab a handful. Growing up ain’t easy.

Kinda anti-climatic that new –purchased in Apple retail Store— MacBook Air still comes with Lion.

Captain: “please remember to place your rollerboards wheels first on the overhead bin”. Yeps, I’m flying to San Francisco.

I would have expected this from a Monday, but a Tuesday? I thought we had something.

Of course, the side-glances and stares from the receptionist now make a lot more sense. And my previous hypothesis, a bit narcissistic.

“why are you measuring signal strength in the bathroom? Who needs WiFi there?” I sometimes find my lifestyle difficult to explain.

Estimados amigos vacacionistas de cubículos e insolados por luces de neón: encima de Caracas no hay ni una. sola. nube. #aquemañanallueve

me considero quejón de oportunidades iguales: tanto el carro con calcomanía de Rosario que no da paso, como el de ‘racing’ que va lento.

/dev/sda Looks like the RAID 1 configuration is working. /dev/sdc Looks like the RAID 1 configuration is working.

I have calmly decided to go to bed, run 10K in the morning, and then get on the roof and kill this fucking access point. #serinitynow

INDEPABIS debería tener una extensión para cuando alguien trae pie de guayaba en vez de chocolate.

I once arrived to a bar so early… they threw me in.

I fought the proxy and I won I needed a server and I got mine The proxy don’t mean shit if you’ve got the right ports. That’s how IT is run.

“Unlike X, the Y fork developer is not existentially challenged.” Sometimes forums are great.

Turns out “The one that got away” is not a reference to Duck Hunt.

I really need to stop talking to my dogs and expect a reply. It’s freaking-out the cat.

Yeah baby, I have my boxers on, grab my MacBook Air, sit on the bed and… “EAAAAAAOOHHHHOLLY CRAP THE METAL IS COLD” #sadtruestory

Our mail programs used to respect us. There was a time when they would announce royally that You got mail. Now a vibrate is all we get.

“You can’t fire me! I… oh, you actually can’t? I’d have to do WHAT?!” Strict labor laws have ruined many TV sitcom scripts.

Status: Happy monday everybody! Real Status: i miss friday.

Home is where a long hot shower is.

I blame TV horror films for my lack of handyman skills. Sink food disposers, breaker boxes and gas stoves, all sound like #deathtraps.

“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each.” — Thoreau

Desde la autopista no veo que viene lluvia, sino una catarata ambulante.

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” — Oscar Wilde

36 hours after running #10k my walking can be described as: Cartoonish Zombie-like Sad All of the above.

algún día moriré de la risa, pero que reclame alguien que me está pasando por el hombrillo es comedia pura.

Apple: “To the 7 bloggers who tried iWork․com 3 years ago, please download your docs before July 31”.

Receta para perder las orejas esta semana: ir a la barbería y decir “pásame la cuatro”.

If time is absolute and space is relative, then waking up at this hour to go run must break some natural law.

Qué día de parada ni qué día se parada: partido de lo que sea a las 8am y 5pm. Ciudad estaba como una seda.

TGIF!!! What?! Oh, fudge.

The Newsroom episode 1 link I RT yesterday is not ‘available in your country’. I’m torrentially sad about it.

I’m sure Karl Marx was a time traveller who got REALLY PISSED at his bank’s website.

Mis 30 comenzaron cuando salió un reloj que cuenta piscinas. En mi juventud soñe con él por miles de miles metros.

Holy crap! The Fall Hyperion just went all ‘The Matrix’ on me (in the good way). Long night ahead…

Si haber vamos, prefiero que conviertan La Carlota en un aeropuerto antes que en una pista de F1. ¿Perdón? a coño, verdad.

“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.” — John Green

“A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions” — Richard Dawkins

“I’ve made a huge tiny mistake.” ~ Gob Bluth #sixseasonsandamovie

“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world, that I can’t even finish my second apple pie.” — Banksy in Wall and Piece

Have you practiced with you air drums lately? C’mon, even fake instruments need some love. Now give me some snare and cymbals action.

mucha gente al volante ha debido de ser BURDA de mala en tetris. o simplemente son mala gente.

En series de 200mts espalda, combato la tentación de la carrilera durante 170mts. Épico debate moral.

And for all of you who don’t care, count yourselves lucky that I won’t share, my #WWDC underwear. (blue)

“We are all here on earth to help others… what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know.” — W.H. Auden

“I kind of see plot as a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write musical dialogue.” — Aaron Sorkin

/night/ Chocolate Cake → nightmares, toss & turns, thirst, stomach ache. /morning/ Chocolate Cake. Freedom is such a heavy burden.

Phone interviews are A LOT more fun when you just tell the truth. I never get the job offer, but still.

Interponsable. adj. Dicho de personal de ‘inter’ que hace cita para instalar servicio y nunca llega. (por 3ra vez).

Es algo incongruente que para votar necesites capta-huella pero para ser candidato no.

“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.” — Patrick Rothfuss in The Wise Man’s Fear

“Sir, I need you to please put away the iPad for take-off” “Bitch please” Funny in my head, but a punch in the face in real life™.

So whoever utters these words: “It should be mine ’cause I saw it first” gets instantly vaporized by a sentient parking meter.

I hope someday technology will allow us to solve one of the most divisive ideological conflicts of humanity: Parking Space Entitlement.

say what you will about WebApps, but reloading a website is a lot less painful than restarting an app.

My monologue on using 60 seconds vs. 1:00 minute on the microwave continues to NOT find an audience.

“You know that the opposite of now isn’t … OK, look! washing the dishes.” Some people don’t respond well to motivational sayings.

“…and that’s my brilliant business idea” “I’m pretty sure that’s illegal” We need to colonize new planets soon.

“¿Dónde estás?” “AQUÍ” Porqué el GPS no fue inventando en Venezuela.

“sí se les esta quitando la pava, es que el pavoso se está muriendo”. Los almuerzos familiares siempre están llenos de sabiduría.

Those who don’t get reading on an iPad haven’t had a huge wet sneeze sneak up on them recently. (wipes screen).

Mi momento #meiriademasiado de la semana… me niego a ver The Avengers en español.

“Nonfiction conveys information. Fiction conveys emotion.” Sol Stein

Phew, everything seems to be working now. Kids, remember to measure twice before anything DNS related.

Now I remember why I have a rule about not touching Nameservers and DNS Records during weekdays. Client’s email won’t work for a few hours.

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” Red Smith, sports writer.

En Caracas. con nuevas ideas, esperanza y Perdón, pasó un motorizado.

regarding #CCDD: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.

Yes… no… maybe. Sometimes the right answer is all of them.

sometimes in life you make a decision and can’t escape the consequences… Chocolate + Peanut Butter shake, BIG mistake.

in an age where communications are almost telepathic, we share a fiction of ourselves more than reality. be real.

I have not seen the light, but I know where the switch is.

how cold is it? I like my wine chilled, and although we’re sitting around the campfire, this wine is too cold.

BTW, I may be tweeting the word ‘brilliant!’ a lot in the next few days —and if all goes well— even more after. Perfect time to unfollow me.

after 4 days in Barcelona, there’s more of me to love —or hate. thankfully only bags have weight limits.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Norwegian banks are the most efficient in the world from the customer point of view.

I lead a very boring life: have bought antacids on an airport bathroom dispenser, but never a pack of condoms.

with an hour to spare on Heathrow, I really need a sweater… what do I buy? an iPad case.

would you look at that? in the land of No Service, my Kindle has 3G

Off to an internetless, kindle-filled island existence this week. Don’t release anything too cool!

Caracas: ciudad donde te llega el email del último mito urbano de crimen, y lo único que piensas es “ojalá la vaina fuera tan light”

“You might have noticed that I appreciate the avant-garde french rock-pop scene” “I think she’s Canadian” “…” faux hipster, eh.

It has been brought to my attention that a quick look at my Facebook photos gives the impression I only have 1 tie. This is not false.

every time I see a $50.000 car with its window open, I think: “fart gone wrong”

Sorry about last tweet. It was a “pay with twitter” template.

I remember you with every breath I take. Thank you for the memories… my lunch cheeseburger with onions.

“scientific method” is how I explained using two different deodorants today. rather not say what I’m using for control group.

driving with a plastic cup with wine is the most uncivilized civilized thing I’ve ever done.

I don’t have the attention span necessary for spy novels. Between Russian names and code names, I have no idea who’s talking ½ the time.

El Gatorade es 96% agua y el vino 85%. Un par de hielos y esto es un ‘sports drink’.

unsurprisingly, being charming in a small space with bad acoustics and very loud volume, is not one of my superpowers.

Yikes, Sublime Text 2 is an amazing improvement to what I tried a year ago. It’s making me question my text editor beliefs (& procrastinate)

Nowadays, yelling “that’s MY WOMAN!” will earn you a punch in the face… from ‘your woman’.

Most ‘Social Networking Experts’ I know aren’t very sociable.

Me thinks a lot of people are going to be wishing they owned $AAPL tomorrow.

“Prueba la dijonnaise que está excelente” “esa es como el PertPlus de las salsas ¿no?” “…” Por eso nadie con dos-apellidos sale conmigo.

en aeropuerto, kioskos y restaurantes, absolutamente impresionado de la claridad en Margarita para el #7Oct. #HayUnCamino

A diferencia que en la vida, en la natación lo primero que se pierde es el estilo.

Entre más doctores conozco, más extraño a mi pediatra.

One stupid rumor about the 15in MacBook Air and I waste 45 minutes looking at Thunderbolt accessories. #ohlookashinnyobject

“The greatest enemy of a good plan, is the dream of a perfect plan” - Carl Von Clausewitz, 1780-1831 Prussian general and military theorist

Oí al moto-taxi decir “¡Vaaaya flaaaaco!” y “¡Piiilaa goldo!” en el mismo semáforo. No sabía que prestaban servicio de salud pública.

After seeing leaked pictures of sexy young actress, first thing I think of: “There’s something wrong with this girl’s iPhone camera”

It’s difficult to lie about “who came into the apartment with their feet dirty?” when the footprints lead straight to your bed.

“éste trago esta demasiaaaaado fuerte pana” (5min después) “bué, de verdad quedó sabroso” El tiempo lo cura todo.

just put the kindle into the beach bag before even looking for the swimsuit. sometimes my priorities worry me.

¿Alguien del Cumbres sabe un reencuentro mañana?

it was bound to happen. just got a 2nd confirmation email for my iPads with a different order number.

I currently have 9 iPads on my cart, since app adds one every couple of failed checkouts. If by error the order goes thru… #chapter11

guys stop pushing! I’m sure Apple has enough new iPads for everyone… AARRRRGGGGHHHHHhhhhhℎℎℎℎℎ

Printers hate me and WiFi networks don’t respect me. You can probably imagine what this wireless printer is doing to me.

Ir a la Barbería Monaco durante un juego de fútbol ha sido lo más arriesgado que he hecho en el 2012.

“I’m going to name my daughters Helvetica, Georgia and Verdana” “And if you have a son?” “Garamond”.

I have kept all my resumes from the last 10 years. I find it very easy to laugh at myself. #sofullofsynergies

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” - Isaac Asimov

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” - L. P. Hartley

Just found out that spicy tuna doesn’t come from the Gulf of Mexico. Waiter telling the next table while pointing was unnecessary.

Turns out ‘irony’ is not a recognized ISO_9001 management principle.

Weird, just read Facebook’s S-1 filling and it doesn’t say anything about donating surgeries/food/wheelchairs in exchange for Likes.

Today’s meditation exercise said: “let your mind wander, and follow it”. I ended up in a mental red light district.

best Oscar acceptance of the night. The A Separation guy made the world a better place.

Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, maybe, yes, yes, mom’s kinda hot, meh, yes, etc. My red carpet feedback is shameful.

Ño! yo quiero saber cual fue el centro de votación del #12F que están mostrando en E! ah? ah! ah. yo si decía que estaba muy rojito.

note un aire de pena entre los que trotábamos en la lagunita. todos sabíamos que le estábamos arrugando al maratón.

Never tell geeks “keep your eye on the ball”. For us it’s not a winning sports teaching. It’s a schoolyard survival skill.

I just tried to RT an email. Not sure if I’m an idiot or a visionary.

The expectations of a generation that never knew computers without internet are going blow our mind.

It’s the time of the year again for my Sorkin fix. Re-watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: “I’m the only sane person I know.”

I’m #ouch too #ouch cool #ouch to #ouch use #ouch sunscreen.

Decenas de personas trotando en la Río de Janeiro, y el “gran parque” de La Carlota cerrado.

“it’s called denial” loved Midnight in Paris.

Sometimes a client’s email is worth a thousand words. But if you try to bill them in another currency, they’ll say “never mind”.

COTERIE!!! that was the word I was looking for earlier today! Sheesh. Now I have to remember what I was talking about.

WTF?! went into a meeting and now there’s a new OSX version?

“Speak when you are angry - and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” - Laurence J. Peter

#3040449

United We Stand #clichebaratoperoválido

Estoy preocupado… va a faltar birra.

Quien asegure tener “datos” a esta hora y no sea vidente, miente entre los dientes.

Primera vez que estoy ligando una cadena. Vamos Hugo, activa a un poco de NiNis. #DiadelaJuventud #12F

el merici esta vacío. para los que quieren ejercer su voto ursulino.

¡Buenos días! Vota feliz, vota contento, pero por favor… no votes adeco ;) Jodiendo, vote por quien quiera, pero a votar. #12F

OH “en esa alcaldía va a quedar el que menos pierda”. mis panas políticos podrían escribir bumper stickers.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Me acaban de decir de una quiniela para el #12F . Luego de mi horror puritano inicial, creo que es buena señal. Abriendo excel…

“Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up.” - Pliny

“Dear Roberto, thank you for…” +100 words. Rejection letters should be like CSI murder weapons: either blunt or sharp.

Why does watching sports make me wanna eat? I have much coherent reaction when I watch porn.

I don’t remember ever saying: “this has too much mayo”. I should check my cholesterol.

“Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.” - Stephen Fry

Es apropiado que el #4F y #WorldCancerDay coincidan. Para ninguno de los dos puedes decir “¡Feliz Día de… eh, (tos)”.

no explosions, no (obvious) CGI, no 3D, no color, and almost no dialog… less is more, and The Artist is great.

Dark chocolate is one of the most graceful past-expiration date foods. (I hope)

we may nod (but I can’t spell)

Ladies, bangs is to hair what fuchsia is to colors… we made nod, but we have no idea what you’re talking about.

cola monstruosa vía la boyera. están asfaltando en el hatillo… alguien necesita un nuevo jefe de campaña.

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten” - AA Blue Book

Every time I call my norwegian bank or credit card I get a little taste of Oslo service: not really friendly, but efficient as hell.

With a whole generation of kids thinking it’s Ok to touch the screen, I’m condemned to become a cranky old geek.

Estimado moto-conductor: cuando su circunferencia abdominal es la que pega con mi retrovisor, es hora de explorar otro régimen alimenticio.

“In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” - Tom Bodett

“If A is a success in life, then A equals X+Y+Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.” - Albert Einstein

When in doubt: helvetica. If the poster still doesn’t look right, your problem is not the font.

Las colas caraqueñas mas interesantes son las que generan peos existenciales: “De verdad, ¿pa qué coño estoy yendo a este lugar?”

“A geek is a person… with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status.” - D.B. Weiss

Spending almost two hours looking for “good background work music” is the best/worst/funniest/stupidest thing I’ve done this week.

“Aquí todo el mundo dice lo que piensa”. Nos falta pensar un poco lo que decimos, pero uno es mejor que ninguno.

Sorry, please disregard last tweet… The good news: test worked! The bad: don’t know why.

On cleaning days, you’re either part or the problem or the problem. Either way, don’t argue.

Bloody hell Apple: $46.33 Billion Revenue, 37.04 Million iPhones, 15.43 Million iPads, 5.2 million Macs, Gross margin 44.7%

En otra palabras, los únicos que están bravos en mi Facebook son los que dan la bendición en sus posts.

Anecdóticamente, veo corte generacional clarísimo entre los que ven a #capoldo como “maniobra de cúpula” vs. alianza responsable.

Every time a song ends while on hold, I die a little… when the same song starts again, I’m reborn in rage.

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.” - (1844-1912) Andrew Lang

I just sneezed so hard that my internal clock is blinking 12:00 AM

A good snooze button is designed so you can operate it with less than 50% of your brain capacity.

La carne roja y whisky muy cargado se pueden remediar. El contrario no. #factoflife

Done! all new songs have album cover. No, wait, I meant to say: crazyyyy partyyyy woohoooo #drunktweet! (got life?™)

Candidato entregando panfleto con propuesta de mejoras en vialidad, empeorando notablemente el tráfico. #pqmeríosoloenlacola

My productivity #fail of today was of such epic proportions… I almost didn’t write this tweet. Happy weekend.

Of all the stupid things I’ve done this week… Tip: Do check the power cable is plugged-in before going all “MacGyver” on a PC.

A suspiciously large number of people have changed their emails with year-of-birth’s in the address. Go figure.

#1: I’ve seen things you can’t possibly imagine. #2: ’hell you talking about? #1: YouTube

it has taken me a long time to realize this… but capitalization is overrated. punctuation —on the other hand, is bitchin’ (awesome).

Loving this showdown between new and old media. #SOPA

Cuando “decir lo que piensas” y “decir lo que sabes” difieren mucho, es mejor quedarse callado.

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” ― Carl Sagan

Next time there’s an Apple event and think I’m geeking out my timeline too much for everybody… I’ll remember today.

Ok, still figuring out Path, but one thing it has over Google+ is… girls.

En sabú. #FML

Cuando “vamos pa’ Sabu” suena como buena idea… 3 vasos de agua y a dormir.

With a good book I nod and shake my head. In a great book I suddenly talk back to it.

fuck fuck fuckity fuck. I hate Windows.

Recovering a Windows PC for a neighbor should count towards sainthood… or at least be a tax deduction.

The only thing I’ve ever seen that I’m glad Aaron Sorkin didn’t write was Steve Jobs commencement speech. Loved Moneyball.

My lack of religious beliefs makes this hard to accept… But, my conflict with printers may transcend the realm of science.

There’s 3 things in the way of my work plans: the state of the economy and visa status. “And?” …? Oh! Yes, my lack of math skills.

El romanticismo con la patria es parecido al humano: emocionante, pasional y en la mayoría de los casos, incapaz de ser racional.

The Douchebag Handbook: Effectivity of a workout is proportional to how many people you stand in front to perform given activity.

Sunburn, the body’s way of saying: “You are an idiot”.

I may seem arrogant, but I have flaws you can’t begin to comprehend.

72% of all geek breakups occur when they answer accurately —yet incorrectly, to the question: “Isn’t this wonderful?!”.

“The good news is that the pie is ready! The bad, I lost a fake nail somewhere” My sister, ladies and gentlemen.

Arepa con plátano de cena. Próximos tweets desde mi guarida secreta.

Buying meat for a barbecue makes me think that maybe zombies are people like us… just really obsessed with freshness.

Got a flat tire when I was late for… nothing. Terrible for a sitcom episode, but great regular ol’ boring life.

When in doubt, check Permissions.

Contagion is the wrong movie to try showing off about places you’ve visited: “I’ve been there! Cough, cough” (People lean away)

Standing in my room with a can in one hand and a leash in the other. Why? How? What? Mom: YOUR DOG IS WAITING! …I need a memory upgrade.

Madurez: ponerle sólo las 3 cucharadas indicadas al Toddy. Quizás el año que viene.

In other words: in this precise moment in space and time… it hurts to be me. Hope everyone had a safe new years eve.

Hang: To be or remain suspended. Over: finished; ended or concluded. Don’t need to know Latin for this one.

Women: I need to pick which swimsuits to take. Men: … crap, I can’t find my swimsuit. Do I even own a beach towel?

Las hormigas esquivaron los Halls para llegar a mi Cri-Cri. Mensaje recibido.

Anecdotally, the battery life of my iPod Shuffle is ∞

You know when a music set is trying to kick you out a party and you don’t for up? Well…. I just did. #damnmy30s

Tonight I danced with a salsa teacher and learned a life lesson: Don’t dance with a salsa teacher.

To all trying to look cool in the tropics: Sweat, it’s what’s for dinner.

I hope that by the time I’m good at social network chitchat (~10years?) there won’t be something new.

If we could harness the energy of good intentions, sport equipment stores would be like nuclear plants the days before new year’s.

Have you ever, like, drank too much water? #mostboringtweetof2011 nominee. Thank you for your consideration.

La decoración del apartamento de la playa es siempre un flashback remixed de tu vivienda principal 15 años antes.

If I ever write a self-help book, the title would be: You Are So Not Special. Useful even to those that just read the cover.

Just found my 2011 New Year’s Resolutions… I misspelled diligence.

Sorry, but I just can’t help thinking that a “free gift for every child” is either a socialist agenda or a money laundering operation.

All of you whom late tonight have to quietly move a large object from storage into the living room… and then wake up at 6am: I salute you.

Explicar pan de jamón en ingles, y oír “So, it’s like a sandwich?” fue mi fracaso cultural del día.

Had dinner with great friends of the last 18 years. If we knew then what we know now, we’d still be friends… and probably a lot less horny.

You start to show your age if: “Relive childhood memories” is advertised of something you were too old to use as a kid.

My goodness, upgrading devices to iOS5 and figuring out from where to restore, sync and backup has been a pain in the iButt.

My home Internet is so slow, Kim Jong-il is still alive on my twitter stream.

Back home after 78 days traveling. Very happy to see parents, dogs and… my own toilet.

MIA ✈ SJU ✈ CCS Going home.

It should be illegal to fly with this hangover. It probably is.

Don’t delay your Apple purchases because of rumors. You end up feeling smarter… and without an iProduct for a long time.

Everyone that ain’t asking for an iPad this Xmas ’cause iPad 3 is “coming soon” stand over there —next to people waiting for the iPhone 5?

Still don’t have access to MacBook, but just redownloaded the 500ish songs I had bought in iTunes to new iPhone. Now I get iTunes Match.

First tweet from my new iPhone 4S. I can now write nonsense up to 5x faster.

OH “¿Qué son tequeños?” Por dios Miami.

There’s 3 weddings and 5 baby photos on my timeline today. Facebook needs a “single” filter.

When you bounce ideas (even stupid ones) off smart people, you are told the “watch-outs”. Not the “why-you-should-not’s”.

Pretty sure a metro machine just scammed me with $1 coins.

Now off to Miami. Hoping to pass out soon. See you again in EST.

Holy crap USA, I hope this is the best airport security in the world, ’cause it feels like the most inefficient in 4 continents.

Departed Hong Kong on Monday and arrived on LA on Sunday. Somehow I felt/feel less jetlagged in the future.

“wanna dance?” “no” “no, what?” “no, please” Chinglish is painfully direct.

Kebabs: food sent by the gods to feed the chosen people… at 4am in the morning.

Back in HK. Can confirm twitter doesn’t work behind the great firewall. Sad to accept how much I missed you people.

Street crossing is theist extreme activity I’ve done on this trip.

Took bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai. About the distance from Caracas to Bogota in less than 5 hours

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The longest is a Beijing taxi ride. Bastards.

Off to Beijing and Shanghai! If the Great Firewall doesn’t like my tweets… see you next week.

Dear airlines: If you don’t find any place for the media box, other than beneath the seat in front of me, keep your entertainment system.

Back in Hong Kong 香港 for the weekend. Mostly to support my pal JL on his 100K race.

But river snake tastes “just like chicken”.

First real food #fail of the trip. Chicken feet are like broccoli, only way worse.

A draft beer in Siam Reap is 3 kroner. Meet you guys in the airport.

Wrote a thousand word post of my India trip. Which seemed long, until I realized that’s just about one word per million.

HKG ✈ SGN ✈ REP In other words: Off to Cambodia

Earth rotation speed is 1674km/h in the equator. Why is it that life seems to move at both a billion and 0km/h just minutes apart?

He bailado “Danza Kuduro” en 3 de los 4 países que he visitado. He explicado que no sé q significa Kuduro en 4.

Around Central, two telecom stores have lines of 200 people more or less.

According to Mike, half of those in line are locals. The rest are either from India or Pakistan.

Roughly 500th guy on line got here wednesday night. Said starting today he hasn’t gone to bathroom since they make him start new line.

#notetoself my humor is not usually understood. With a Korean audience… it’s just plain sad.

The Wan Chai Electronic Center is like the red light district of geeksterdam. Was offered everything from an iPhone 4S to audio earrings

Soon: DEL ✈ HKG. Trying to write India blogpost, but current draft is just a passionate mess… Which is kind of appropriate.

The desert is red, and camels are brown. And you’d be surprised where you find sand afterwards.

OH: (French accent) “Am I alright? I’m more than alright”

La visa de turista India debería incluir una caja de Loperan®

The Indian equivalent of Latin “steeping on someone” is: elbow on face. Yeah. It’s rough.

The level of chaos in Chandigarh (to my western eyes) grew orders of magnitude during Diwali. Great fun.

The fact that if I drill hole through the center of the earth I’ll come up in Ecuador, blows my mind a bit.

So many geeky stuff happening in Singapore. “They” should organize emergent startup scene tours.

Change of plans: CPT ✈ DXB ✈ SIN

CPT ✈ JNB ✈ HKG ✈ SIN See you tomorrow (Ep.4)

If you tweet from a Blackberry and no one has service to read it, does it make a sound?

Finally arrived at Cape Town after 40 hours. Last part of the trip was in taxi. Let’s just say the SA’s railway system is not too reliable.

JHN → CPT by train. See you tomorrow (ver3).

My sister just renegotiated the taxi fare. I think I’m getting fired from my “Big Brother” job soon.

Helloooooooo South Africa!

Somebody should make an Android phone in the shape of the teardrop xPhone 5. It already has a shitload of cases in the market.

LHR ✈ JNB See you tomorrow (again)

As a follower of Murphy’s Law, I shouldn’t be surprised that my 11hour wifi-less flight boards at exactly the time the iPhone event starts.

Just bought some TSA approved nail clippers at the airport … and the packaging needs scissors to open.

The same crew of the Caracas-San Juan is in the San Juan-NYC leg. Pretty sure that What is “bitchy” to one is “whatever” on the next flight.

CSS ✈ SJU ✈ JFK ✈ LHR. See you tomorrow.

I’m always surprised how normal users can find the appearance settings, regardless of OS. And commit crimes against usability.

Dreamt there was a snake eating a turtle on my bed … which I’m pretty sure means I should stop eating leftover chocolate cake before bed.

Acabo de escribir un email donde pido que me confirmen un número te teléfono porque el que tengo sale “tururí”. #AyCaracas

Oh yeah … Let’s talk iPhone.

Love the idea that most of my preconceived notions about a wedding celebration are about to be shattered to bits.

If I could talk to my 21y/o self I’d say: “self, in 9 years remember to bend your knees when you pick up a CRT monitor”. #ouch

I ♥ bacon. Bacon ♥ my heart. My heart ♥ blood… I’m a vampire.

I may be an idiot, but I’m a knowlegaeble idiot.

People never seem to understand the point of life … Exactly.

“Pregunte que sí hay” es el mejor eslogan de radio en los últimos 25 años.

Just realized that when all cars go electric, handymen are robots and legal documents use HTML5 … Geeks will rule the world.

Smart people who fake being digital idiots so they don’t have to google stuff sometimes piss me off.

Note to self: I can still drink 8 beers like a 20 year old. But my 30y/o bladder can only hold 6.

La furia de Esteban –manifestada en tormenta– se siente sobre el municipio de Leo.

The venezuelan opposition has shown patience among themselves, and more importantly, towards their constituency. And it’s giving results.

Synopsis says “a funny and touching road trip…” while Genre is “Drama”. Sounds like life alright.

These network printers must have developed sentience and are conspiring against me. It’s the only logical explanation.

Step Out of Your Comfort Zone™ and Mind the Gap. #clichemashup

When your puppy learns to shake = Unbearably cute. When she gets to 40Kg = Aggravated assault.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams

Whoever said: “aging is a bitch, but it’s better than the alternative” hasn’t read enough Sci-Fi.

10 years ago hotmail gave you 2MB of space and “planning your weekend online” probably meant queuing porn for download.

“You’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.” Auto-repair guy to Isaac Asimov.

Me: 8GB (4GBx2) for $52! Myself: Dude, you don’t need it. Me: But … 8GB!!! Myself: It’s not even officially supported. Me: Go away.

Q: Do you know Norwegian? A: Yes, financial Norsk. Q: Huh? A: I can get money out of the ATM and use Banking Online.

The second-person narrative in Halting State reminds me of my “choose your own adventure” book era in middle school.

I can now officially recommend that if you read Game of Thrones, don’t watch the TV show until you forget most of it.

Punch line: the final phrase or sentence of a joke or story, providing the humor or It’s

Anyone around Asia in November? I have my own towel and am mostly potty trained.

Zagat/Yelp should have a “Certified Wrap Engineer” sticker. This wrap was so poorly packaged, that it basically exploded when I opened it.

When stocks plummet, I’d like to see the smiling picture of the trader who shorted.

I don’t have any fashion sense, but I do appreciate good design. Once in a while, these two spheres intersect.

Finally saw Suckerpunch. Jezzz, need a drink.

Reality is just an illusion with a really good lawyer.

At some point we all realize that a spoon of salt and one of sugar don’t cancel each other out.

Caracas driving gives me tourette’s

A wise man once said: “What do you mean I’m facing the wrong way?”

Do feel it? ’Tis the season on holding off on all iPhone/iPod purchases!

Remember when your mom would tell you not to eat too much chocolate at night and you’d laugh? Hope she’s laughing now, cause I ain’t.

I’d pay $4.99 right now to be able to download the install disks for Mac OS X 10.4.11 from Apple. These two eMac’s will live again!!!

If you read “First, install MacPorts …” and close the tab, it’s thursday. #ThingsDueOnFriday

If it doesn’t have a Debug option, don’t call it a “Powerful New App”.

Looking for some South Africa historic fiction. Any recos? I know history is interesting enough, but I never finish them.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say I don’t know any better.

I keep making stupid mistakes … But at least I tell myself “this wasn’t my brightest idea” more often now.

Minimalism works both ways: it’s not only buying less stuff, but if you do buy, make it something that you won’t ever need to replace.

I want my mobile to connect to desktop chat clients (2005). I want my desktop to have access to IM mobile apps (2011).

Back from vacation, the slogan: “Colombia: the only risk is wanting to stay” Is brilliant AND accurate.

En Andrés Carne de Res Chía, y después directo al aeropuerto. Voy a desayunar alka-seltzer.

Last week: “Given the past 5 days, I hope to recognize the tech industry when I come back.” Didn’t say it ironically enough. Sorry Steve.

Turistiando en Colombia no puedo evitar pensar que a Venezuela le sobra materia prima, pero le falta mucha mercancía, para igualar.

Experienced Colombian culture by having aguaardiente shots. Never knew the hangover could start while I was still drunk.

I love my Kindle 3G. Finished book while boarding, bought two more as I sat down. If only they didn’t ask me to turn it off for takeoff.

CCS ✈ BOG Really digging the Embraer 190 layout.

Reporte aeropuerto: sin duda alguna el gate con el mejor caos es vuelo a Lisboa. La gente del vuelo a Panamá con nuevo gate, 2nd lugar.

Taking a 10 day vacation. At the mercy of open WiFi. Given the past 5 days, I hope to recognize the tech industry when I come back.

#AyCaracas me mentas la Madre comiendote la luz, pero te frenas para que la mami cruce frente tuyo. Esta ciudad merece un reality show.

I’ve made a huge tiny mistake with some passwords. I’m a walking zero-day vulnerability.

Need to take a shower after getting home and playing with my 5 slobbering dogs. Can’t wipe smile from my face though.

50 minutes and a few dozen copy/paste’s into Google Translate later … my norwegian credit card is activated again. Jeg trenger en øl.

Hmm. Second time in two weeks that the Lion Finder goes berserk on me. Relaunches itself, but it never fully comes back.

Wow, Google buys Motorola. I imagine a bunch of Android licensees now regret not buying Palm.

Party Buses: two things that make me throw-up independently —moving vehicles and alcohol— combined for maximum effect. #thingsIdontget

Done with A Storm of Swords. Good, but not as great as previous two. Going to take a break into SciFi and then come back.

Somedays I looks at myself in the mirror and can’t help but wonder … why didn’t I add haircut to my tasks list sooner?

Crap, crap, crap, crap. When they say RTFM … I should read the effing manual.

Si alguna vez viste Bambi, y tienes mascotas, siempre que lavas los platos hay un momento que los vez y piensas … what if?

Ironically, my iPhone has never misspelled “Damn Autocorrect”.

Just wrote this on a chat to justify myself: “I was drinking wine. Never my best drink for the fortitude of the mind.”

My body must have an auto-balancing life expectancy system. Why else would I crave a Fast Food burger after exercising?

My iPhone just looks up from twitter and whispers “Dumbass”.

After leaving an underground parking my BlackBerry would stare at me with no signal, as if saying: What. Just. Happened?

Economics is engineering with currency instead of units … and low disregard for gravity, safety factor and accuracy.

Not that I ever got when to use it … but Facetime is not working for me on Lion.

Al parecer hay barberías que ahora abren los lunes.

Wine, the answer to … most things. #chooseyourpoison

Ok. I drank the Kool-Aid, OS X 10.7 Lion is pretty awesome.

It amuses me to know Chavez uses this US based, venture capitalist financed, web service to manage his communist revolution.

Fairness is such a human value, we dreamt up an afterlife so we could digest the most horrid injustices.

In my travels, no country received me with as much goodwill as Norway. The Vikings are peaceful people, but messing with them is a bad idea.

Roundup!!! the word I’ve been looking for the last 15 minutes is ROUNDUP. Anyone know a good brain defragmenter wetware?

Perder ganando. Venezuela y su #Vinotinto comparten mas que la nacionalidad.

Regardless of the server-farm size, there must be a freaked out Sysadmin at Apple right now. “I can hear them clicking refresh …”

A diferencia de otros, pido cadena. Un mensaje de unión nos beneficia a todos … a menos que el odio sea mayor que el orgullo nacional.

La Vinotinto olvido la regla #1 de transito en Venezuela: el fiscal puede decir una vaina, pero pila pa donde van los carros.

A friday on the middle of July. Is the internet even on‽ Hello?

Would Be a Great Band Name would be a lousy band name.

Corrección del tweet anterior: no estas en una humanidad unida por el destino … estas en una cola de mierda llena de coño de madres toditos.

Sé positivo: no estas en trafico, estas en una inmensa caravana de graduación del colegio de la vida.

“Se le notifica a nuestra distinguida clientela …” es sinónimo de “Miren coño e’ madres …” #sehablaVE

You know what they say about guys with big LED displays … Nothing. Which is how I know geeks are not as cool as we think we are.

Death Taxes DNS I truly don’t completely understand any of the above.

Uno a veces no sabe si es serio o aburrido. Y creo que si uno lo tiene que preguntar, la respuesta es obvia.

Just finished Game of Thrones. Immediately bought A Clash of Kings. Debating when is the best time to watch the HBO series.

If drunk, divide outlook by 1.000. If sober, multiply by 100. If unsure… get a drink a read tweet again.

Cancerígenos y cancerígenas …

Espero que la cadena arranque con un “Previously on Lost …” por que a mi ya se me olvido que dijo este carajo en ultimo capitulo.

Traffic, It’s What’s for Dinner.

Dammit, feeling so groggy. Game of Thrones book got all epic on me last night and went to bed way past my bedtime hour.

Search for news about increased gravity a failure. Therefore my weight isn’t lying. Therefore therefore, I’m weekend fatso.

Kids, if you ever do the dishes after a big feast, don’t lean on the counter. Your belly (among other things) will end up wet.

Shuffle puso solito: Arjona, Franco de Vita y Mecano. Ninguna fue adelantada. Desenmascarado por aleatoriedad.

Today I yelled “coming!” to my phone as I ran to pick it up. I’m not getting old … my iPhone just lacks features.

Apple, Microsoft, Sony and now Nintendo … This is the geeks equivalent of Shark Week.

Seems like a good week to clean up iTunes library.

Byebye #BBM. I start evangelizing #iMessage today. (BTW, stupid name Apple)

The awe in my dog’s face after yelling from a second floor: “Stop that! I’m watching you”, must be similar to how Moses looked.

Might as well accept it: Pre-#WWDC weekends are of the few I’m ok with days flying by.

Just deployed a stable, nice looking and very portable solution for the fambiz. But if I ever need to update it … I’m changing my last name

Angry drivers with Christian bumper stickers reassure me I won’t be alone in hell. I will be less surprised though.

If you fail to grasp the importance of extending my WiFi … I can now tweet from the bathroom. #helloword

Just extended my WRT-54g WiFi range with new Airport Express via WDS. I feel like a MAN.

Also, a bit annoyed that none of the kids wearing these sneaker boots don’t get my Back to the Future jokes.

Only reason I’ve noticed that Reebok boots are making a comeback is ’cause my brain keeps saying “Recalculating decade” every few hours.

Airport security checkpoints take so long that you can easily workout the process. That must be a security concern in itself.

If Pawn Stars has taught me anything, is that ending a negotiation meeting with a quick “No” … will never be followed by a commercial.

CCS ✈ SJU

Drank, danced and was merry … bring on the #rapture.

Kcuf |kākˈôf|: Solemn utterance intended to revoke multiple shouts of “Fuck!” as a result of reading the instructions wrong.

There’s something not quite stable about Ubuntu 11.04.

Relativity: how saying “it will be ready by End of Work Week” sounds reasonable on Monday vs. Thursday.

Sometimes you win more by loosing the argument. Wish I listened to myself sometimes.

If you think you’re funny, you could be. If you know you’re funny, you most likely aren’t.

Either Apple’s Dock Connector USB cables reproduce, or I’ve bought a LOT more iPod/iPhones that I’m aware off.

I’m pretty sure no monk that reached enlightenment had a drivers license.

Dreamt I had proof of alien life. Then dreamt that I had dreamt it. I’m a conspiracy.

Understanding my destiny, I started to rise and … WHAM! Never find your destiny while under a table.

Personal Hitchcock moment: Reach for toothbrush and notice it isn’t dry. Pause. Look around. Wonder.

Being online used to mean you where in front of a computer. Nowadays you’ll hear: “Going on vacation, but I’ll be online”.

Ok. Last one, but you aren’t going to believe this: Fuchsia is not a Brazilian singer, it’s actually a synonym for Magenta! I-shit-you-not

Turns out that Magenta is ALSO A COLOR (and not just a manly way to say pink). We need tougher color naming laws.

I’ve just been told that “beige” is an actual color, and not a conglomerate of lesser know ones. Investigating …

There’s a possibility that DSL will be installed at my parents place today. My level of excitements makes thankful I’m socially functional.

crasve |kras āv| verb collide violently with the realization that the Save button caused the crash… without saving.

Electricidad de vuelta en Chacao, pero tengo el presentimiento que #sinluz será trending topic este verano.

#sinluz Chacao. Pero tranquilos, no son recortes, es ahorro obligado.

Never mind, also not working with Safari or Firefox. Something must be iffy with the proxy, which means: it’s shell time.

Unholy shit, what a crappy day. Real life™ needs a soundtrack … a people spam filter and an unfollow button.

Absorbing presentation design + deadline + chocolate bar next to keyboard + 90 minutes = unexpected stomach ache.

“The installation procedure for Aces Patch B requires that your hard drive have about 3 megabytes (MB) of available disk space.” #future

5 hours after scorpion bite, the only superpower I have is a new nervous tick that makes me shake like the Macarena if I feel a crawling.

Watching the Apple liveblog on the my iPad 1 feels like reading Maxim with your girlfriend in the room.

Mi iPhone tiene auto-detecta el wifi de el Alazán de Altamira. #soydelacuarta

I wish BIOS makers knew how to make subliminal messages. That way I could remember the fucking keyboard shortcuts.

Mail: “Important Tax Return Document Enclosed”. Well, hello there April … didn’t think I’d see you hiding behind March, eh?

Don’t know if it’s a thing, but #ODIS (Oh Damn it’s Sunday) #TGIF obnoxious cousin.

I tend to forget things when I drink. OMG WHO JUST WROTE THAT?! I also argue with meself.

Doing some demographic grafx for a presentation. Many filenames with “sex” and “age”on the Desktop. Feel more pervert than usual.

Very sure the next world war will start because somebody left an empty carton of milk on the fridge.

When the flying insect makes a noticeable shadow, it’s time to get the heck out of there.

I always logout from my bank account with two distinct attitudes: Hell Yeah! Oh Shit. Today is a type b day.

Another great BlackBerry feature: self-aware recycle procedure at kernel-level. Or … Fucking phone resets itself whenever it wants to.

I should have known when bitching about no hot water, that there’ll be no water a few seconds later. The universe ♥ Monty Python.

Hmmm, update this manually or waste 15min messing with .htaccess so it happens automatically? 500 Internal Server Error. I hate meself.

If you take the backroads in your commute, give way to those leaving home. No reason to ruin THEIR day.

“Marvin: I’ve been talking to the main computer. Arthur: And? Marvin: It hates me.” One of those days …

Que sabroso es comer sabroso.

A smoke in the middle of the night provides no answers… But helps with questions.

Using twitter/facebook/internet for anything less than a massive democratic revolution seems like a banal endeavor today.

I have about two dozen effects at my disposal to make a photo appear old and analog. Can’t seem to make an analog photo look new though.

I could never be a F1 driver. I’d be yelling “PICK A FUCKING LANE!!!” the whole race.

27 Km/h (Speed at which a lady on a ’74 Malibu ahead of me, reaches my rode-range boiling point on a busy one-lane road)

Not a cloud in the sky, 24°C. Somehow heading to an office doesn’t seem like a well thought out plan.

Like a Pixar movie, the iPad is quickly developing two plots: a simple touch and go UI, and a powerful gesture language for pro-users.

We all tend to imagine that great things come from people doing great things, but I think most of the time great things come from people just fucking around. Thing a Week Redux

Finally playing with MacAppStore and Tweetie 2. Loving it.

I finished reading Peter F. Hamilton’s Void Triology last night. Pure Sci-Fi space opera. But still the most fun reading of #2010.

If you’ve ever read Sci-Fi short stories from the 60’s, the time to start freaking out is right about … now. #2011

Con suéter por Caracas, 15min de Altamira al Cafetal y entrando al cine de Plaza. ¿Será que amanecí en los 90?

There is no spoon. Damnation, bad time to have a granola craving.

Drinking your sorrows away is stupid … but sorrowing your drink? — that’s just plain disrespectful.

“I think I made a huge mistake …” George Oscar Bluth II.

I have the luck of loving my Dad unconditionally AND being infinitely proud of him.

“we’re so glad people from the old-guard showed up”. I laughed … Until it dawned on me, I was referred as old. #IHate90sbabies

____```_______`/`___|`/`_`\/`___|` `\___`\|`|`|`\___`\`)||||___)| |____/_/|____/` ```````````````` #SOSinternetVE

█████ ██ █ ████ libertad ███ █████ no█████ ████ ████ es ████ ███ █ ██████ negociable. #SOSinternetVE

Sometimes somebody asks exactly the right question. Sadly, I didn’t have an answer.

The best mirror is an old friend.” George Herbert

█████ ██ █ ████ todo ███ █████ es█████ ████ ████ bueno ████ ███ █ ██████ama. █████ ███████ ███ el █████ ████ gobierno. #FreeMediaVe

Yikes, the friend which most recently shared a location in Google Latitude was 476 days ago. Still think it has potential though.

Any recos for a good/affordable VPN provider for small groups? Priority is fast browsing speed, not so much sharing.

If AA leaves 2 of my bags ’cause the plane was “too heavy”, can I charge them $100 per bag? (mine where ok).

The trouble with the 1980’s as compared with the 1970’s is that teenagers no longer rebel and leave home. —Marion Smith

CCS ✈ SJU #☂

Dear diary: something crazy happened today, I … wait a sec, this is twitter! Where’s the delete button? Oh, here it is!

Note to self: the last scraps in a bag of salted nuts is … salt.

Me: “I’m not rich enough to use the iPad naked”. Blank stare. “I meant, without a case” Don’t let me talk with non-geeks.

Caracas: ciudad con falla de borde.

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Weirdest thing, my MacBook wouldn’t recognize my password today. Told myself “have you tried turning it off and on again?” and all fine.

I 1/♥ CCS

Seldom has an “EZ Open” package delivered on its promise. And don’t get me started on “Resealable!”

Having the iPhone, iPad and MacBook on the same room when an appt alarm goes off, reminds of the Millenium Falcon cockpit before a crash.

Best thing about a Sunday morning run? Guilt-free bacon and cheese sandwich. And I do mean BACON. Now where are my cholesterol pills?

Liked Due Date. It’s no The Hangover, but still a fun ride. [★★★☆☆]

Talking on Skype to do some remote work. Internet too slow for video, then connection just went dead. This, my friends, was my #Fail today.

Yikes, two gory motorcycle accidents on a 3Km highway stretch. Time for policy debate? Or maybe gravity is a tool of the empire.

Voy a estar pendiente eventualmente en mercadolibre, pero si por casualidad alguien le ofrecen uno de estos juguetes a buen precio … ping me

#QueLadilla. Anoche se metieron unos rateros y mudaron tecnologicamente a mi mamá: MacBook Pro, Canon PowerShot S90, par de iPods.

Creo que soy un racista urbano: odio esta ciudad, pero no tengo argumentos que no sean prejuicios.

Was voted head of the energy, water and gas committee of my commune. Given that we have shortages of all 3, not my finest political move.

¿No te da pena? 130 millones de votos en Brasil, y dan los resultados a las 8:30PM.

Ahora sí que el sector privado no va a construir ni un policía acostado en Venezuela.

This is a public service announcement: NO ONE can touch my computer screen. If you smoke, you can’t touch my keyboard. Thank you.

DCA ✈ MIA ✈ CCS DC and Caracas on the same day? If I hear “Clear and Present Danger” or see Harrison Ford, I’m getting off this movie.

Ouch! #alcs

Oh, btw. I bought a 11″ MacBook Air. Will review soon.

SJU ✈ MIA

Forgot to mention that I saw The Social Network last night. Being an Aaron Sorkin fan, it was easy for me to love. [★★★★★]

I’ve seen the future, and I owe him money.

“I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes.” I’m getting a cold. Sigh.

Brain hurts and heart shakes its head. Or is it the other way around?

A cold sweat appears when I read the error: “Please contact your domain administrator…” Which, I am.

Anybody know of a certified Norwegian→English translator? Need to translate 3 Skattekort Tax pages, nothing serious.

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt

No quiero que la oposición sea un solo partido, pero sí quiero que se inscriban bajo una sola opción para el 2012 #avisados.

iPhone volume level when connected to car: 100% Level my head blows-off with headphones : 92% Likelihood of forgetting to lower it: 110%

W00t! hello #NewTwitter. Let me try to break something.

Have faith #26S. Even when we lose the ability to be amazed, we can surprise ourselves.

Don’t know about you, but some of us are celebrating. #26S

#dedomorado + 1.

As I turn 29, I wonder: “if Venezuela’s inflation is 30%, does that mean I’m 1% younger than most product prices?” #vota #26S

As I turn 29, I’m reminded of all the successful communist states that have appeared during my lifetime. #Vota #26S

Playing around with iOS 4.2 beta on the iPad. No way I can go back to 3.2 now.

Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, Facebook.com is down.

The best thing about so many eBook readers everywhere, is that –for the first time– no one told me to turn mine off during takeoff.

I hate writing formal emails in spanish. It takes twice the space and it’s half as clear.

Mother fucker. Arrived home to a dead MacBook. Simply won’t turn on.

LHR ✈ MIA ✈ CCS 3 eBooks, 2 movies and 1 TV season … and I will probably fall asleep. Media overkill is an understatement.

I’ve just spend a month traveling. It was basically a combination of fortunate smaller trips that together made a great one: San Juan (Puerto Rico) An island full of flavor. With a duality incorporated to every aspect of life: latins in a anglo-saxon context. Business potential that could be the …

About to watch: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Excited!

A lady with a Kindle 3 sat next to me on the train. The contrast of the screen looks amazing. Damn, I’m now going to buy a new Kindle.

Just had tap wine and bottled water. #Paris

London → Paris Mind the écart.

When in doubt, order the house wine. It’s like a pizza: usually cheap, goes down easy, and every place has a good enough version.

My dad on why he travels to certain places on his vacations: “when you live in chaos, you crave order”. Trust me, wise man.

Just wrote this to somebody as part of an email, but soon realized it applies to myself. I’m 3/4 of the way on a month-long trip, but as usual, I’m changed: As you get back to the real world and laugh at what was said and try to forget what you think you heard; don’t throw all of it away. …

If you’re having a great time with your family in Borough Market, DO NOT go to www.lacaverestaurant.co.uk. Fake Français imbecile.

So ashamed. Fell asleep during the ENTIRE tour bus in Athens. Will try again tomorrow with more than 2 hours of sleep. #culture #fail

Boston ✈ London ✈ Istanbul. See you in 8.000 Km!

Some people are born 2 shots behind. Amazing the fun when they catch up.

Gotta love somebody who describes his nephew as a “care-bear on acid”.

At my first American wedding rehearsal dinner. Hopefully I’ll remember all the same drinks for tomorrow.

I’m at my most spiriytual on the back of a Boston cab.

West Palm Beach ✈ Boston

Just dreamt I was “at home” in Oslo. Stupid brain.

San Juan ✈ Miami Que cosa mas grande, chico.

Serious family business talk + mojitos + Peruvian restaurant = funniest food order mom has ever made.

Need to leave Puerto Rico soon. Too. Much. Food. #burp.

Caracas ✈ San Juan, PR

Everyone should buy an one-way ticket sometime in their live.

And by live, I mean life.

¿Alguien sabe algún local en la zona Hatillo - Los Naranjos con wifi decente? Gracias!

After hearing my first two songs: “Hurts like Listerine” and “5 blades agains my cheek”, my manager told me to stop writing in the shower.

Do you ever try to use The Force to pull your iPhone from across the room? No? Oh. Eh, right… Me neither, that would be silly.

Friend, I absolutely respect your spiritual beliefs, not your FWD emails on the topic. If god needs to talk to me, s/he can google my email.

Dreamt I was late for my final physics exam. Woke up in cold sweat. I do not want to be 17 ever again.

Kids, always remember to keep your distance from the car with vomit on the driver’s door. #HIMYM

Few things suck my time –and I enjoy as much– as when a friend asks: Which Windows Laptop should I buy for $900? (Portégé R700 or ASUS U30)

I think my friends are getting tired of me saying “I have good news and bad news”. If you’re one of them, I have good news and bad news …

Creo que el próximo debería ser Páez, y de ahí un esqueleto de Presidente cada dos semanas. Estaríamos listos para el 2012.

Watching my grandmother struggle with her DVD player makes me wish bad thoughts for some genius UX designer.

Como diría mi abuela: “mierda que pea”. Felicitaciones a los casados.

¡Ay Caracas! Sometimes, I love to hate this city. The rest of the time, it’s the other way around.

Screams, fireworks, people singing and car horns playing. It’s not that we used to be a colony; we just love a good party.

Outsmarted by an octopus. I wonder if he does financial planning.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears … fuck, I lost my notes. Hang-on, I’ll be right back.

I’m reading a book about being productive while working remotely, and I keep falling asleep. This is not a good sign.

Oyendo este partido me siento como en el 12 de Abril.

If you tell me “look at the bright side” and don’t get -or care- about my Monty Python reference … don’t waste your time, I have principles

Being a geek is all about focusing «How?» and never paying attention to the «Why?»

5 hour wait to apply for new passport was rewarded with an all-you-can-eat Brazilian place in the middle of nowhere. #Fatso

Haven’t laughed that hard in a movie theater in a while: The A-Team rocks (★★★★☆)

En las próximas 24 horas se va a joder una comida: o no se puede salir a cenar, o ni de broma me paro en una panadería a desayunar.

My internet connection is so slow, this bad joke still needs 25 minutes to download.

Btw, viva Mexico!

There is a 50% chance this marriage will produce a Chicago Cubs fan. We really need some sort of parenthood pre-screening.

Now back to the regular geeky programing, for any follower I have left.

I think the US leaves as an accepted member of the football world. Just stop calling it soccer.

The web detox has been mostly good over the last week, but I’m getting withdrawal symptoms now. P1 next week is to get a 3.5G modem.

No sane person should live under these internet speeds.

The huge butterfly in my bathroom wall is either: A perv, Very relaxed with human presence, Dead.

Off to bed. Thankful that a late night email opened the possibility of a project. Specially since an earlier email closed another one.

2 hours and 20 minutes to download 378MB. Sigh. I miss Oslo.

The Story gets told. Every family has one. And today, you get to hear it for the gazillion time.

Fathers Day Lunch Bingo: Somebody points out that he was already a dad at your age …

Dad tries to get out of something (which he never does either way) ’cause “it’s my day” …

MIA✈CCS Emocionado por las eminentes fiestas patronales.

I just had a “brownie filled cookie”. Let the record show I died a happy fatso.

This week I got my new personal business cards. I went with COLOURLovers, This Is Not A Rainbow ready-mades from Moo.com. I had two objectives: Cards needed to be ready in a week. The couldn’t look like they came from Staples. Since the last time I designed my own business cards it took me about a …

I think Safari 5 has a money saving mode. If I go to gizmodo.com and search for IPS, it crashes every time.

Safari 5 really becomes unstable with some extension combinations. Trying to figure out the culprit.

Jumping over the Atlantic It been about a month since I arrived in the US after leaving Norway. The first week in Boston with my family was a welcomed vacation. The days leading to it where tiring mentally and emotionally and the safety of being with my parents and sister was uplifting. Boston sans …

“un poema de tres letras, Gol!” los narradores de Univision le tiran a Neruda.

When the iPhone autocorrects “Thongs” when you meant “things”, get ready for a Chevy Chase type conversation.

I’m getting geeky old: I have access to the iOS 4 gold build, but don’t want to mess with my iPhone on a weekday.

Made my first Par today! (don’t about the other 17 holes)

My brain has created very powerful adversaries to beat for jogging: ice in Oslo, lighting in Miami, or criminals in Caracas.

I need either $100k more or 10Kg less to live in this city.

The death of the Newton has been avenged by the killer himself. i.e.: I love my iPad.

Mix: Very sunny 12 hour bike ride, t-shirt, helmet and gloves. What do you get? The weirdest sunburn ever. It’s like an 90’s M. Jackson.

Just spent 45min helping a friend who lost an important file in a USB drive boot sector crash.

Ha-harr-rrle-ey’s ar-are fuun-n, but-t-t, th-they vibrrrrat-te-te a lot-tt.

I love  rumors that basically mention everything that hasn’t being updated during the last 6 months. It’s fun, but don’t say “sources …”

I can begin to understand friends who are expecting a baby. Apple just emailed; my iPad is on its way.

Years ago, I was convinced that Computer Viruses where germs, bacteria, and yes, viruses. No wonder I never used an anti-virus.

Deleting all my playlist in iTunes and creating new ones. Kinda forgot how fun it was to make them after years of listening to the same.

Pizza, pizza, just delivered, Thanks for being so considerate. And before you make me fat, Please absorb all the poison I drank.

On June 7, you have an appointment with a couple of Apple liveblogging sites.

Turns out I’m worse at golf than pool. And some of you know how much I suck at pool.

Two Advils and a Blue Moon. Almost ready for another overnight flight.

Holy humidity batman! Welcome to Miami.

Folders in iPhone OS 4.0 can’t come soon enough.

Train rides have a duality to them; the rural scenery is beatiful, yet the the urban areas are usually sad and forgotten.

Time for new sunglasses: ducked to avoid a big something that was coming at me from the sky. Turns out it was a scratch on the lens.

Cool to see everyone playing with there new HTC Evo around Google IO

Taking the Coast Starlight train from Seattle to San Francisco. (Fun fact: same one they took in the Big Bang Theory)

Yes Apple, I want an iPad. No, you don’t have any right now. So stop emailing me about “picking one up today”.

The MobileMe Mail Beta is actually pretty nice. If it does go free, it could give Gmail some competition.

Just finished Enders Game on top of the Seattle space needle. Don’t know what it means, but it meant something.

Boston ✈ Seattle. It was really great to be with my family. Although, I shouldn’t eat anything this week to even things out.

You know the Monty Python sketch where the fat guy blows up after one final bite? That’s me in 5 minutes.

With regards to accesories, the nook seems to be considerably ahead of the Kindle.

The people’s republic of Cambridge: a place where crazy people, intelectuals and nerds take part in a experiment. They just don’t know it.

App is the new .com

Just reserved my iPad 3G 32Gb. Hopefully will be back in stock soon.

In Boston! I ♥ Boston. Have I mentioned it before? Well I do.

BTW, even with a 9 hour layover in Paris, #AirFrance managed to leave my bag there. Me thinks they appreciate my Arnaud impression.

Never thought I’d call “home” a place in such a faraway land. Thanks for everything Norway. I promise to call.

Little known fact: french versions of apps only install if you click “No” in the End Users License Agreement. It’s a culture thing.

Kick-Ass: Never has a movie title better described my review. (★★★★★)

Just said final goodbyes. Going to miss a lot some good friends in Oslo.

#PackingNotes: You’ll suddenly realize a dozen people will notice you misspelled “kitschen” in one of the boxes.

#PackingNotes: with everything in the van you’ll go and get your wallet. Which is in last night’s jeans. Which are … packed in the van.

#PackingNotes: That sturdy beer glass you’ve had for more than a year, will suddenly become fragile.

#PackingNotes: remember that ziplock with incense candles you left on top of the bookshelf? … neither do I.

#PackingNotes: I have enough sweaters to survive a winter in Pluto.

#PackingNotes: clothes hangers are intelligent beings. When threatened, they form packs and work together to avoid going into boxes.

There must be a glitch in the Matrix - snow in may? -. And all my winter stuff is packed in a box.

Ouch.

Iron Man 2: not as great as the first one, but not a franchise killer (★★★☆☆)

Everybody is claiming support for HTML5 as a way to weaken Adobe Flash before pushing their own agenda.

Taxes filled. I must say that the official Norwegian online tax submission is 10x simpler than US alternatives.

It’s getting tiring to write “… iPhones, iPods and iPads” every damn time. Thinking of using iProds.

Adobe really needs to have an amazing Flash version for Android soon, or embrace HTML5. The burden of proof is theirs, not Apple’s.

Damn, I was counting on WWDC being on late June.

Back in Oslo after a month. Landlord asked permission come in and “arrange some stuff” for pics. Walked into a completely new apartment.

Sleepless after an afternoon of kidnapping horror stories. My neighbor being the main character of the most recent one. #imissoslo

Que sabroso es votar.

There is something really fun about bringing a 5 y/o laptop back to life, and setting it up “just right”

Impresionante como “¿muerto quiere misa?” y “¿tico quieres pizza?” suenan parecido, y significan lo mismo.

Missed. My. Flight. Include #pendejo on any reply.

Any recommendation of international movers in Europe? Finding lots of brokers online, but not the companies that do the work

Madrid, amazing friends, great weather, and abundant food and caña. Good times.

Y ahora a ver a los madrileños estresados en el segundo tiempo. Grande fiesta o grande rasca. Win-win?

Walked around city. Visited a museum. Slept on the park after watching iPhone OS 4 keynote, and soon meeting friends. Near perfect day.

In Genoa. Trully beautiful city, filled with, ehm, beautiful stuff. No Apple Store, but at the moment, couldn’t care less.

In Paris. My “femmes with guitars” playlist never sounded so good.

I know that in India, if you’re one in a million, there are 1100 people just like you …

Ahh Paris, the city where you can eat deliciously without paying too mu … WTF? €39?

AMS → PAR. Had a great time. Pretty unique window shopping though.

Top 3 useful phrases from the cityspy.info map for Amsterdam:

Marry me = Traumah

Do you swallow or spit? = sch-lick yea off spuk yea?

Breast of a monkey = ahpe teet

OSL ✈ AMS

Call it Europa, Continental Europe or whatever, over the next two weeks I’ll be backpacking and road-tripping around Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich, Genoa, St. Tropez, Barcelona and Madrid. With probably a few stops in between. I’ll be going with some good friends, some new ones and visiting some old …

Need a soundtrack for the next two weeks. Going to buy a few albums and search the iTunes attic for a few old ones. Any recos?

Testing geolocation on Twitter.

★★★★★ Loved this film. It’s typical a Wes Anderson movie done in animated stop-motion. If you like his style, then you are in for a great time. I loved the whole feel of the movie, and the way Anderson makes you love flawed characters. As most of his films, there is no universal measure of good or …

When I see a new iMac I’m convinced the iMac+iPad combo just makes sense. Then I use my MacBook on a different desk, an it sounds stupid.

phew, just made a big credit card payment. Remind me never again to think that a big limit is a good thing.

Over the past two years, my use of Facebook has dropped consistently. To the point that I only use it as an event reminder, since it’s where most people post birthdays, parties, etc. At the same time, I have been blogging, more or less consistently, on 5typos.net. I really enjoy it, although none of …

Amazon’s Kindle passive-aggressive ads against iPad: Easy to read, even on bright sunlight. Free 3G, no monthly contracts.

Seriously considering quitting Facebook for a personal tumblr blog. To login feels like a chore, and the interaction is just too shallow.

It is done. #ERP

Happy about tomorrow chill plans. Just what the doctor ordered after this week. Well, maybe not exactly his prescription, but close enough.

Book publishers: some “people” won’t just buy the paperback when the eBook is unavailable. They still get to read it. Connect the dots.

Europe has 731 million people speaking 23 languages. S America, 569 Million and 3 major ones. No Excuse Not To Succeed

Not artsy enough for today’s concert at Blå. All I hear is static and echo.

“the simplest explanation is usually the right one” vs. “things aren’t always what they seem”. My brain needs a strategy meeting.

If you’re reading this tweet from Boston in 2007. Please find me and demand that I take the negotiation class, no matter the schedule.

Don’t worry, given my skills, I won’t be able to say no. Also, feel free to tell me that my Mom was right, cargo pants aren’t cool again.

Some emails can knock your air out.

Really beautiful day in Oslo. Brain keeps saying “Must go out!”, body answers: “check the temperature, you dense grey goo”.

About to see in 3D how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Just heard some great news from great friends. Was reminded that you shouldn’t fret 9-5 too much. Life happens from 5-9.

Done for the night. See you all in six hours.

About 40 screenshots to go #1050isgonnarock

Always remember: when in doubt, restart.

If you’re ever cooking, and for the life of you - suddenly can’t find the recipe book. Check the fridge. Don’t ask.

Trying out an US layout keyboard again after two years. Pressing instead of ↩︎ every 5 seconds dammit

Previous tweet misunderstood. Not ↓, just making a peculiar joke. Anyways, #ERP’it.

If I don’t have the skills to fill my competence skills in the #ERP system, should I just take the hint?

Cold, dark and snowy. IPod shuffle playlist just turned suicidal. What an #ERP walk home.

Just had an uplifting chat about possible future plans with a good friend. Crazy talk, but still interesting.

I’m wary of websites that put the US on top of the country pull-down list. Does it have a silent “A” in front that I can’t see?

Can’t believe I hadn’t seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang before. Brilliant movie.

Just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire. Liked 1st one better, but still good enough. Looking for next book on Kindle store.

Ender’s Game is the first book on my reading list not available for the Kindle. Will probably go with Michael Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes

Less that half-way through, and today’s work day sucks. I have: angry, sarcastic, condescending and questioning emails on my inbox.

Snowboarding was great! Managed to stand long enought to say: ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Thinking of a Web browser with integrated keylogger. You leave it as default browser in Mac guest account, in case it gets stolen.

“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” ~Mark Twain

Doing benchmarks is so much fun when you win. Specially by a whole lot.

Damn. Just dreamt I was being mugged at gunpoint. There was no indication, but I knew I was back in Caracas.

The idea that a package sent from Florida on monday arrived two days later still baffles me.

I hate PayPal so much.

Unlike the iPhoneOS, OS X and Windows are full of UI dead-ends. Menus and dialogs that after you arrive, you can’t easily get back from.

Feliz Dia Palíndromo! 01022010

Keep thinking that  is trying to tell us what we don’t wanna hear: Humans are the ones that can’t multitask.

There should never be a Sync button on an App. It’s either an option that’s enabled and works in the background, or it’s useless.

Could the iPad’s 3G weird Micro Sim be more about an iPod touch 3G? Maybe  is segmenting 3G: iPhone (voice), iPad/iPod/MacBook (data)

Remember to reset your iPhone if it’s acting up. It may put a strong face, but it still has a desktop OS inside.

I dreamt about the Apple tablet last night. I was playing a board game on it with a friend. Stupidly, I forgot to snap a pic.

TechCrunch: Will Next Week’s Apple Event Finally Bring Background Apps To The iPhone? No. #linkbait_title

Propuesta: marcar con #sinluz los reportes de corte de electricidad en Venezuela. Facilita encontrar los tweets y utilizar la información.

Handyman inability: Take apart a device with just one screw Put everything back together Notice screw laying in table

Got Win7 with Boxee up and running on Acer Revo. Don’t quote me but, Win7 is kinda nice.

Back in Oslo. Everything is very white and very cold. Just want to get home, eat a soup and go to sleep.

Happy new year/decade everyone. Have fun and be safe. It’s going to be a great year.

Well, I think everything is done. Or as done as you can make it without coding anything. Now, off to pack for my trip home! #arenitaplayita

Aww crap.

I think world leaders have not seen enough “killer asteroid” type movies. And people have seen too many.

Having a not-great day. Am I calm? I’m fucking ZEN!

Just ordered me-dad and me-self two Kindle’s for Xmas. You can now feel safe that Apple is going to release the tablet tomorrow then.

Twitter is finding out about “things” before some mailinglists.

seriously considering opening a new mail account just for humans. Services/lists emails are taking over my inbox. Any suggestions?

Questions to answer on any project doc: What Why Why Why How When Rename headlines as needed.

Just used “iffy” in a troubleshooting email reply. I just know I’ll regret it.

Google CEO: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” #idonthavesex

Every time you put a target date in a roadmap, an angel loses its wings. They instantly become release gremlins, sabotaging all milestones.

I had completely forgotten that the tv was announced the same day as the iPhone. Talk about being overshadowed since birth.

The weather sponsored test for foreigners in Norway is over. Rainy Nov is gone. Cold -yet blue or snowy- Dec is here.

MacBook media center won’t start again. What am I supposed to do? Read? … oh, right. But need to fix it first.

Girl who was walking really fast and turning around in front of me. Sorry if I scared you. Had my hoodie on cause it was cold.

Never judge a book by its cover. But do judge an app by its icon.

Lost returns 2/2/2010 9pm EST. They have 18 hours left to explain WTF is going on. I just hope they know.

Just got my Google Wave invite. Thanks SpE!

If “Office Plant Police” is ever made into a TV Show, I’ll be in deep trouble. I’m so sorry Shirley!

Happy to find out PS3 games are region free (unlike Blu-ray movies). Will lump together a bunch of games for Xmas US trip.

Starting to loose geek creed with friends when they ask if I have Google Wave invites. Don’t even have an account.

Oslo sentrum on Sunday morning is a vomit minefield.

movie / destruction level / responsible: independence day / 50% / aliens Day after 2morrow / 80% / humans 2012 / 99.99999% / universe

However you call it: ratón, resaca, cruda, guayabo, hangover or fyllesyke. I have it ☂

Twitter should have a friday night filter. The norwegian tweets I’m seeing are similar to the Venezuelan and east coast tweets I’ll soon see

Every time I say “it’s snowing, it’s snowing. God I hate this weather”, I’m quoting a Fointains of Wayne song. Don’t feel bad Oslo.

#propuestapais: Diez mil bibliotecas. Cualquier libro publicado en el país, garantizado una compra por biblioteca.

S’noooooooooooooo’w

«emailing is not work» That’s why engineering types write short and nasty ones and marketing types write long and flamboyant ones.

Feeling kinda of dirty for using iWeb on a site project I’m helping out on. But it’s sooooo easy to use, and fits the bill perfectly.

Can anybody suggest good Windows software product pages? have a bunch of Mac ones, but few from the Windows world.

Just ordered my first Pizza online in Oslo. Can’t believe it took me a year. Will see everybody again in Spring!

Random thought: a black bear with insomnia during hibernation must be really bored. Or pissed.

Going to People’s for brunch/lunch. In case anyone wants to join.

Yikes! Kindle International Edition: $279, Shipping: $20.98, Import fees to Norway: $75.00. Think I’ll hold off for a bit still.

It’s past 7am in the East Coast. Bye bye twitter. As soon as the US wakes up, the #obama_nobel onslaught will begin.

Oslo’s duty free creates a conundrum: I need to spend to save money.

Flying to London for the weekend. Must not buy a Sony e-book reader, must not buy a … Kinda glad my card smells like burned plastic.

Just bought online Assassin’s Creed and Little Big Planet for my new PS3. Couldn’t resist it.

What a hellish day. Meetings are productivity bloodsuckers.

Health, love, family and friends (here, there and everywhere). Best birthday ever. Hello 28.

If your iPhone displays all incoming calls as an “Unknown Caller” check with your provider. Most likely you don’t have caller id activated.

#fall09TV List: The Big Bang Theory, How I met your mother, The Mentalist, Mad Men, Psych, Bored To Death, Two and a Half Men

Kinda of ashamed of how much I enjoy coming to ikea

Don’t know why I trust small companies more than big ones: just deleted my mint.com account after Intuit acquisition was announced.

Back in Oslo. Turkey was great. Need to go trough 1000+ pics to make something shareable.

Sarps b-day party was incre-wait for it-dible. Headache is a reminder of the good times.

Leaving for turkey! I think I figured out how we can make nano CPU processors. Will tweet when I land.

Sometimes I appreciate the productivity elegance of not answering an email. It’s the Norwegian way of saying NO.

MacBook mediacenter now up and running again with Snow Leopard + Miro + Boxee. Suck on that TV (which I also own btw)

Least fun part of the job: taking screenshots in Windows Vista machine. Not only do I hate Vista, it hates me.

Editing actual content in XML is like, like, hmmm. It sucks!

Country compatibility check #7: You’re the scary one in a dark alley.

A blank canvas paralyzes me. Templates, examples and blueprints get me going.  was right: Rip. Mix. Burn.

I hate DVD media so much. Why can’t I download an OS image to an USB drive? Screw the fruit company, going to bittorrent.

Took hard drive out. It’s dead alright. Sounds like an old 14.4 modem trying to connect. I think I have original one somewhere.

Media center MacBook just died. Looks like hard drive is fried, then I’ll take this in stride. It’s not true I cried. Word.

Rework took a bit longer than expected, but happy with the results. Let’s see what the rest of the team thinks.

It’s alive!!! Have you told your consumer electronics you love them recently? Do it now. You’ll feel better.

I actually like the blue dots #opera10

If anyone sees my brain, please tell it to report back to the mezzanine. thanks.

Parents 30th anniversary. Me: “Big plans?” Mom: “We forgot!” That’s love … ♥

RT “Aristóbulo, pasame el Twitter ese para escribirle a esa gente”- “Señor Presidente, solo acepta 140 caracteres” - “Coño” #freemediave

Yikes. It has been actually 6 years since Reloaded! They must be right: Time heals everything.

5 years after watching it (twice) in theaters, The Matrix Reloaded still does not deserve to be called a sequel. Great F/X. Bland world.

Video chatting with my dad in Caracas. Grandma shows up and tells us how she used to send telegrams to her dad in US. #XXIcentury

There is a simple moment of blissfulness when something compiles without errors ↩︎ ≈

Manually backing up old blog posts for website update. I cringe at most of my predictions: about 1/10 right/wrong ratio.

Breakfast or lunch? That is the question. #lazysunday

Lots of noise. I order beer. Girl behind bar points to “be good or be gone” sign. Sudenly there is a shot next to my beer. Happy weekend!

You say tomato, I say we stopped talking about fruits and vegetables a few days ago. Why bring it up again? Que vaina.

brive. (verb): To operate and control the browser. she told him:click there, no, the other one; he said: here, just brive yourself

Just realized that background notifications don’t work in my unlocked iPhone. I can imagine why they’d do it. But still, frak you Apple.

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost” ~ Thomas Jefferson #FreeMediaVe

La peor parte de la Censura es ♒♒♒ ♒♒♒♒ #FreeMediaVe

Surprised of how much I liked Ice Age 3. [****]

“You can’t tolerate the facts” #1stdraftmovielines

inbox zero! (+5 unremovable’s). Next week is mostly planned out. This can only mean: it’s #beeroclock

Weekend rafting in Sjoa was super fun. Everything. Hurts. Today.

Newsweek article prompted me to start working again on an idea about a social network for vzlan expats.

phew, now that Raúl Castro is in Nicaragua we can finally have a productive discussion regarding democracy in Honduras.

Transformers 2 is 148 minutes too long [★★]

Creativity dissolves when you tell somebody what needs to be done. Followed by, how he/she should do it. #DIYthen

rum with iced tea makes the clouds go away. And also smile like a bloody idiot.

Had whale steak last weekend and elk burgers last night. If trend continues, will probably have fried puppies by summer’s end.

Rainy day in Oslo. Not that Norwegians notice.

Hmm. My “trick” to use • in front of some playlist names (• Latest podcasts) to keep them on top, doesn’t work in OS 3.0.

OS 3.0 up and running on my unlocked 1st gen iphone. Feels snappier™

It was a long day. Good news that tomorrow is going to be … a little shorter. Yet more intensive.

Looks like tomorrow is going to be a loooong day.

please work. please work. please work. please work.

They seemed to have fixed all my complaints with my MacBook 13in. Better battery, FW800 and lower price. Damn you .

Pretty sure I’m sitting this #iPhone out also. Can’t stand locked phones anymore. Gonna wait till Sept for new iPod Touch

✔ inbox 0 ✔ cleared desktops ✔ weekly log ✔ updated task list ✔ ready for weenend ✖ beer time

the #tvshow Mental is really bad. Predictable plot, characters and overall formula. It’s going to be a long summer without Lost.

bought mocha beans dipped in chocolate to “curb sugar craving at work”. Bag is gone now. Stomach ache expected in a few minutes.

#opera10 tip: Double-click on the handle below the tabs to fully show/hide visual tabs

Thoughts go out to the Atlantic Ocean #FlightAF447

Healthy wrap place around the corner from office is turning into a spicy kebab and pizza. How sad. Will report on kebab and pizza soon.

Darn. I was so tired last night that I left the fridge open. The germ freak in me will probably throw everything out.

Back at work. Lots of it.

Hmm. Surprising how a little a little rum on the iced tea helps with video editing creativity.

Weird, twitpic points to another pic than the one I took. This could potentially be scary.

Really liked the Star Trek movie. Surprised how they managed to balance 6 TV series and 10 movies and keep it a good blockbuster.

Gonna write a userscript that searches thepiratebay.org every time a site displays “This video is not available in your country”

… Or maybe they’re convinced that no flu can survive aquavit. Which is probably a scientifict fact.

On plane full of norwegians. Not one mouth mask. Pretty sure attitude is: if we’re gonna die, might as well be comfortable.

Leaving for Paris to meetup with sis and mum. Found the napkin with solution to Riemann Hypothesis.

How gullible. I felt happy reading something is available exclusively for . When it actually means it’s only ready for that .

Another person told me I spoke english with scandinavian accent! Ja? Nie. It will be a loooong time before I speak norsk with any accent

Let me say this in the nicest way possible: the new Aluminum MacBook battery sucks ass vs. the previous white one.

Leaving for a weekend in London. Hope the weather is as nice as Oslo.

Btw, I think I solved the Riemann Hypothesis in a napkin. Will post it when I land

Arrived in London. Thank you norwegian.no for losing the bag you took from me at the door. Pendejos.

iPhone completely locked up when I unplugged headphones. Weird.

I think it’s officially time to put away the winter jacket. Beautiful day in Oslo!

As more early majority friends join Twitter I see a future with two accounts. A private one that replaces FB and the this one.

“Service Pack 2 adds the ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and PowerPo …

Leaving Boston for Oslo. So long and thanks for all the meat! Btw, I found a new way to measure time and space. Will tweet it when I land

thank u “md” open wifi. I appreciate your socialist tech-kindness

Walking around Cambridge-Boston. Nostalgia+dejavu+smiles=sighs

Leaving Peter Luger. I apologize to the cow’s family. They died for a good cause though.

In cab to NYC. Now where is my Red Sox’s cap?

Start spreading the news … In Iceland, next stop: NYC!!! (Don’t worry Boston, see you next week)

It took a couple of trips to realize that the international security point in oslo airport is to keep people out of the duty free.

In mobile monday oslo. A LOT more suits than expected. I’m wearing a t-shirt

What a dumbass. Survived 3 winter months without falling on the ice and I sprain my ankle walking to work on a spring day.

“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” Or will it? Loved #BSG finale.

Undo Send, Drunk email Filter, Calendar gadget. If Gmail existed in the late 90’s half of Dawson’s Creek drama would make no sense.

Good friends are made obvious with simple actions.

This was a weird week at work. A couple of “truths” where shaken. But the weekend is here and beer is a Real_World™ antidote

“Forever’s not so long” nice short film.

Site is back up. Maybe it just wanted some attention? That’s all I need, a spoiled virtual server.

Down again. Effing site.

Going to Watchmen tonight. W00t!

Having a blanding beer (half pilsner, half bayer) in the northernmost brewery in the world. In Tromsø

After 8 months in Oslo I finally found a rude and useless Norwegian. He works at the Manpower.no office downtown. Hi Jon!

There is excitement in the office Quake Live I see a few working late days in the future

My life just flashed before my eyes. Actually, it was a Fanta bottle falling on my keyboard. Turning off and drying seemed to have worked‽

Did find a website to get both a library card AND pay my hunting license fee. Useful if I ever need to research and then shoot a reindeer.

Damnation! missed some paperwork, hence tax retention for this month was 50%. I TENKE (think in norsk) it’s fixed now.

Damnation. Woke up with a Cold.

Beautiful and cold day in Oslo (-15C).

I officially reached adulthood: just bought a dryer for my apartment.

Tip: if you wanna meet the head of security of wroclaw airport, bring a tempur-pedic travel pillow in your hand bad. Vzla passport helpful

In Poland. Bad weather in Wroclaw so had to land in Krakow (not as close as it sounds, 4h bus ride) damn.

Venezuelan pianist playing with Yo-Yo Ma in inauguration right now (Gabriela Montero)

Arrived home.

Ccs-Fra flight delayed. Probably going to miss Fra-Osl connection. Hence, will be late for work. Damn.

Radio interview in about 1 minute to talk about Opera (90.3 FM)

Movistar iPhone 3G unlock: epic fail

I think I just unlocked my first iPhone 3G.

Blackberry Messenger network effects in Venezuela are impressive. 9 out of 10 friends and family have one. Probably will give in soon.

A good source in movistar told me that the Bold numbers completly overshadowed iPhone 3G launch here.

finally upgraded to wordpress 2.7. New admin screen (dashboard) is beautiful

Simple iPhone sync just went to hell. Phone is now locked and very pissed about not being activated.

I would be so rich if I had to fill out expense reports for my personal life. But it would be a sad little rich life

Long and tiring day in Sandvika mall. But got 80% of my Christmas shopping done. Ho ho ho

Oslo, Dec 8th. Sunrise: 9:05am. Sunset: 3:13pm. Times my stomach thinks it’s dinner: 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, 9:30pm and sugar craving at 11pm

Hit the snooze button two hours ago. Now 1 hour late for work. I hate Mondays.

Fucking pissed. Has been a while. Probably will work out in the end.

in a Bavarian party. Darkest guy in the room!!

Most senile moment in my life: just went into the storage room, pickup a bag and … lost the fragging lock which was in my hand.

yes store.ea.com, I’m in Norway. But, there is a chance that I want to use the US store you bloody idiot. That’s it, off to piratebay

MacBook trackpad update seems to be working great.

Frag. It’s sometimes easier to bittorrent a damn game than to buy it legally. I’m talking to you ea.com

www.Backpackit.com finally gets an iPhone client www.frontpocketapp.com Sadly t

Just setup a rsync script that runs every hour with launchd, and moves downloaded “content” by afp to hacked AppleTV. Efficiently sexy imho.

I’ve been having an usability discussion with my snooze button in the last week. My use-case needs works.

I was at the market with my Red Sox cap on and the checkout guy asked me “are you happy with the election?” context: I’m in Norway

W00t! 2x2gigs sticks from Crucial just arrived. MacBook 2006 to 2008 transition is almost done. MobileMe made really it extra easy

Just ate horse meat. Feel dirty and remorseful. In other words, feeling sexy. Still, couldn’t look at my old horse in the eyes for some time

O shite. It’s snowing. Wake me up in spring.

Went to gym for a run. Couldn’t figure out the f*cking keypad to open the door. Dammit

Back in Oslo. UK was great! Now I need to catch up with the office. Fast

In Scotland. Presenting tomorrow in University of St. Andrews and then University of Glasgow

New Macbook is in the bag. Literally. W00t! Will play with it later today. Now, any recomendation for buying cheap memory in london?

in London. Somehow lost the list of numbers for friends I wanted to call. It’s a city of only 12M, I may bump into them.

Dammit! New MacBooks out of stock at southampton store. Saw one though, love at first sight.

Apple Store Bristol doesn’t have new MacBooks yet. Damn.

Thanks to everyone that showed up at University College of London and those who tagged along to Nordic Bar. Skøl!

Having a pint on an old style English pub under the big ben talking about universal healthcare. Groovy.

Jogged for an hour. It was 80% commitment and 20% getting lost. Really lost.

Best t-shirt I saw in Bergen. Image: whale in the background. Text: If we had dolphins we would eat them too .

There are many reasons why I never forget that the iPhone has real OS. One of them being that reseting it fixes stuff

Wall-E, Terminator, The Matrix and Battlestar Galactica: the robot uprising has been pre-announced

Finally going to watch wall-e! Really wish Emi was here though

The Rev3 HD streaming on the AppleTV is amazingly fast.

The only way to say something nice about my haircut is to tell people who are staring: “it’s art”

Going to ☾. But before I had to twitterkey. I’m such a ♟ (it’s a pawn, just in case)

Sat down on the couch and MacBook shutoff. Pressed play and AppleTV reseted. Waiting for iPhone to explode.

15min with new AppleTV. Already in love.

Holy toledo, X-Plane is out for the iPhone!!! buying this instant.

New iPhone 2.1 feature “Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts”. Very useful imho

Front Row Update out. Maybe now it can see rented movies.

Ok eReader, I have unsubscribed from your mailing list 4 times. Somehow I thought you where a respectable company. You are now a spammer.

No suprise. Amazon.com video on demand doesn’t work in Norway, even with US account (unlike iTunes)

Calendar and email push in MobileMe are definitely not working for me

End of an era. Don LaFontaine (the voice-over of almost every trailer I’ve seen) passed away

Found Dr.Pepper in Oslo. Happy days are here again

Ok. I’ll say it: Oh shoot, google is getting in the browser business!

Fascinated and scared shitless by the fact that I’m sitting in the balcony of my rented apt (for a year) in Norway. What now?

Praise the lords of kobol! internet in my new apartment! fast, sweet, 1MBps cable

Looking back on my life, I can honestly say: I don’t think that chocolate pudding was such a great idea

unappreciated details of life: try asking for baby powder in a language you don’t know. For extra points, do it while looking serious.

unappreciated details of life: being able to read what the checkout register says. Godkjent means approved in case you are wondering

The Taco Pizza is the most delicious innovation in the pizza world since pepperoni. And no, anchovies don’t even count

Playing around with squarespace.com Looks pretty good. All I need now is content for my blog

Sometimes you have to suppress that “WTF am I doing here!” feeling and just go with the flow

I just bought cheese in a supermarket in Oslo. At least it looks like cheese

On my way to Oslo. Chao playita, hi fjords!

La atención de CaracasHosting.com va de mal en peor. No recomendado

unlocking dad’s iPhone … everything looking good for now

Taking pictures of babies is a bad idea. You feel like crap when you try to delete the “bad ones”

I’ve been on hold for 20 minutes trying to get a way to pay AT&T an early cancellation fee from oversea. I hate telecom companies

Done with AT&T. I find it funny/visionary that I was using Skype to cancel my AT&T account.

Running iPhoneOS 2 in Venezuela with Digitel.

hulu.com now has the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Gonna miss hulu too.

gad-da’mit Boston. I’m gonna miss you.

maybe Strikthree. Dunno. Just saying

can’t help thinking TB Rays pitcher Balfour needs new name.

at Red Sox game. Wondering what the data cables on top of me are

I think I’m gonna give up on Spook Country. Almost halfway through and still I’m forcing myself to read it. sigh. First Quicksilver …

How in the bloody hell does a post that only says Twitter! gets on techmeme?

Mars Phoenix landed!!!

Just noticed that my building is in the background of a CD cover of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Making two running playlists: /Pumped and /Plateau. The / at the start puts it at the top of the playlists

Just accepted Product Manager position at Opera Software. Moving to Oslo in August. Very excited!

Eg forstår ikkje is going to be part of my vocabulary soon.

Officially a MSIS and MBA. Unofficially: G33k

That was a very fun party. I think.

parents are here for graduation

Playing around with textmate and textile on the blog.

holy shit, Ars Wired? This could be cool!

Initially I was convert my 1st rev Macbook to a media thingy adter buying the upcoming version. Now I may just get an AppleTV.

vespa along the charles with emi on the back. Bliss

Emily llega hoy!!!

I’m pretty sure the Oslo airport was designed by IKEA

Back in Boston

Thanks to everyone that sent good wishes. Interview was great. Now let’s see: offer, other optipns and more important, what emily thinks.

7 interviews. With good hard tech questions. So tired

unlike the other museums, the science/tech one is only in norwegean. They have pretty pictures though

Beer & pizza overlooking The Parliament park

at Oslo. Local num +47 99262791

unlocking iPhone for Norway trip. If anyone has a recommendation for prepaid sims in europe, please let me know

Leaving for the airport. Oslo, here I come! (actually Iceland first)

Came to lunch to a little known place called Fenway! Go Sox!

The weather is so nice i’m suspicious

bittersweet moment. Just earned a TruBlue award flight. BECAUSE of the Vegas trip.

leaving vegas. It was a fun and expensive trip

Jennifer Government is the most fun I’ve had with a book since down and out the magic kingdom

Hoping that the caffeine and sugar combo in my mocha frappuccino will keep me awake the next 4 hours

At Boston. No sleep. But nice flight

I need an email.

Update: still no x-ray vision or flying ability. Don’t know why

Today is one of those mornings … when I wake up in the afternoon

Wearing new Superman t-shirt. Curious on how long it’ll take to start noticing superpowers

Loud and full

Hip hop is my kryptonite. No merengue, no charm

Just landed in Vegas baby

7 hours ago I opened the fridge and ignored an expiration date. That, my friends, was a mistake

Can’t sleep. Spook Country still hasn’t picked up.

woke up early to reserve team room, Now I’ll do the stupid thing of going to bed for “30min”

ouch. $60 data charge for using the iPhone a couple of times in Mexico. I’m such an idiot.

What the bloody hell?! Federico has Facebook chat and I don’t? do they know who I am? bananaoil I tell you.

I really hope that what just sprinted across the window as an anorexic squirrel. Tail looked kinda thin

Babson girl kicked Harvard butt. A+ on presentation, C- on humbleness

At pitch idol session. One of the judges is an A-hole. But … Dammit he’s right

At Harvard E-Trek conference.

OPT work permit finally arrived. Pheww

It’s refreshing to listen to a lawyer who is in touch with the real world (I imagine the same applies to priests)

first days of Spring in Boston feel like when they take out your braces. Wonderful, yet weird

At Tech Entrepreurship Night (BU) web2.0 panel

5pm … too late for lunch. too early for dinner. to close to run time

at Cornwalls with friends. Bar/owner said hi to everyone. This is my Cheers

as any Cheers episode, there was drama. And a: To be continued at the end

Wooohooo. Interview in Oslo, Norway for a company I really like and a position I really want

Red Sox game with my Boston Family today

For a moment I was actually concerned that my KEYBOARD was getting a firmware update apple.com/keyboard/

4 planes, 3 choppers and no parking spots. It must be opening day

Can’t believe Numbers doesn’t have ‘Transpose’ feature. That and pivot tables are deal breakers.

Late night job search turned out a few gems.

Class about conjoint analysis brought back memories of 1st screwup at P&G

wired.com’s search is just terrible. Absolute bananaoil

Just bought a 1st gen nano for running. Nice guy, good price and fast. Craigslist is an example of why I’m a liberal.

Bananaoil is my new favorite word

threadless.com t-shirt arrives. Spring is officially here now

April Fools is a good day to stay offline and contemplate … if I should be online

I was going to go to bed early. Somehow ended up installing wordpress 2.5. And NOT finishing my resume

Correction: I did finnish my resume update and design change

was visited at 3am by a band of ruffians

I WILL finish my homepage this weekend. The Gods of Kobol are my witness

I really like Sprint’s latest marketing campaign. Between the Centro’s “Multitaskers”, the one about the Lights, and the newest with the CEO

kinda homesick. No matter, movie night!

Looking for a good historical short stories book. The kind that’s good for opening speeches.

kinda of pissed off today.

just bought some threadless.com t-shirts to celebrate spring.

As soon as Numbers gets pivot tables, i won’t open Excel ever again. Can’t wait

Someday i’ll grow up and not smile every time I have to deal with a dummy variable

Having fun with SPSS

Getting philosifical over orange rum and dave matthews

off to the Museum of Science.

Damn. No double feature Lost today and abc streaming is down. WHAT TO DO?

ABC.com working again.

Spring is back, with it my Vespa. Speed Racer, Mach Go!

My MacBook battery life is down to about an hour. Both my mom’s and my roommate’s MB died in the last week. Apple, let’s talk QA

Opera Software called. I’m still in the process it seems. Interview is next week

Yojimbo is dead. Long live Evernote

never choose a web hosting provider with stock images of happy people on their website. Any reco for hosting a simple wordpress site?

hulu.com is now open. If you are on the US and want to watch TV Shows online, give it a try. Pretty nice

Arthur C Clarke is not dead. He is just visiting a black monolith around Jupiter.

really, really, really rather be home reading with the tv in the background

Oaxaca is great. Gonna swim in the pacific tomorrw

red line to south st $3. Amtrack to NY $59. LIRR to jamaica $5. Airtrain to terminal 1 $5. Getting thrown out of terminal, priceless

note to self: never travel again until they develop people-faxes

Leaving for Oaxaca! I’ll be back in a week. Stay foolish everyone (but never hungry)

finished packing up and then noticed my only two swim trunks on the floor. I need adult supervision.

live reading Apple iPhone Event

If you think the iPhone/iPod touch are cool now. Wait until june. Hundreds of apps are coming.

Yes. Inbox Zero

Doing a SPSS exercise while listening to Sigur Rós makes you see The Matrix

Either I lost my touch or Excel 2008 really sucks. As soon as Numbers gets pivot tables I will stop using Office ever again.

rmateu.info and 5typos.net update complete

Careful Hugo. If you play with fire you’re gonna get burned

Costco, I hate that I love you. You complete me.

Someday I’m gonna be INVITED to TED

crap. woke up feeling sick

woohoo. iPhone event next week!

I think I know why people become entrepreneurs: No cover letters.