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Olentzero

While celebrating Christmas in Basque Country I’ve been introduced to Olentzero (O-len-chair-O) who is their Santa-esque figure for the holidays.

Kids from the local school came around and sang in front of the apartment…

…and at night they brought another Olentzero around the streets and sang in different parts of the town.
Oh…forget “Merry Christmas” or “Feliz Navidad.” […]

Huron Firm Turns into Virtual Reality Giant

Ok, so I had a weird dream last night that a company I used to work for somehow got into virtual reality (immersion…matrix style) development.
A snippet:
I returned to my desk after being away in Europe for almost 2 years to find it as I had left it. A EUR 50 bill is laying under […]

MetaBlog: First edition

A further funneling of RSS…presenting, today’s nuggets:

Florida teen takes “immersion learning class” to a new level, flies to Iraq without telling parents, chills in the desert for a bit before finding the green zone and getting help (link) via BoingBoing
13 things that do not make sense (link) via digg
Microsoft employees talkin’ trash about Internet Explorer* […]

NES Action

[+] all original packaging
[+] instruction manuals in Spanish
[-] broken lightgun
[-] shaky dependability
[=] fun old school NES action

Cirque du Soleil

Wow… That’s about all I could say as we exited the show here last night in Bilbao, Spain. I’d wanted to see Cirque du Soleil since I saw them on Leno as a child. Last night I went to Dralion.
Since photography of any kind is forbidden during the show, I only have […]

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone out there’s having a nice day relaxing after the Christmas Festivities. I’m excaping responsibility from the 20th until the 3rd in Erandio, Basque Country in Spain.
My first Christmas in a non-meat-and-potatoes society means my stomach is quite confused. In the States I’d eaten shrimp once…and it was of a non-lifelike-but-rather-foodlike […]

No Hablo Castellano :(

How to have fun on vacation. Go Christmas shopping alone where you don’t speak the language…
Ok, so it’s my own fault. I didn’t get a present that was small enough to bring with and, therefore, to exchange here in Erandio. I took the metro into Bilbao with Nora and we decided to […]

More Old Color Photos

So digg.com seems to be my new favorite site since slicedbread.com and wannabeafanboy.org. I just ran across more old color photos taken in the States from 1939 - 1943. Very very cool…

Russian Color Photos Before WWI

This is just incredible…
I have trouble overcoming the deception of old black and white photography. I can never really “picture” the scene in color. Here are some amazing pictures of Russia taken before WWI by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944).

Simply amazing and quite a shame that we don’t have more pictures of this and […]

Digg Diggers Dig South Dakota

Digg is a site I check upon nearly every browser opening of every day. I started my Sunday afternoon with a good laugh since the recent failed zip feedmill implosion in Sioux Falls, SD was a front page digg. What a splendid surprise to see guys I know in real life commenting on […]

der Anfang

Heute fange ich deutsche Grammatik zu üben an. Ich habe in Deutschland für ein Jahr gewohnt und habe keine Schwierigkeiten mit die[1] den Leute zu kommunizieren aber kann überhaupt nicht richtig schreiben. Ich muss bevor die 15.7.2006 die DSH bestehen.
Neue Artikel:

der Anfang
die Grammatik
das Jahr
die Schwierigkeit
die Regel
das Femininum
die Artikel

Neue Regeln:

Wörte die mit “-ung” ende, […]

Tricky tricky

I just got this in my mailbox from info@michael-i.com:
Dear Michael-i Member,
We have temporarily suspended your email account mdi@michael-i.com.
This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option […]

Markov Chains

Heh I’m writing a text generator based on Markov Chains and this text came out after feeding my program a chunk of text from textfiles.com.
Some people became rich and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and very odd interest group, fiercely dedicated their lives to it, blundering about. That is earnest. Tens of […]

Flocktacular

Flock Developer Preview is now available.Our code couldn’t wait any longer to be free!
Flock
Just testing out flock’s blogging stuff
Thumbs up from me so far….but this is beta land so next time I could be posting from the burnt out remnants of my flat.

Holy Crap I’m Back Online!!

Due to a rather hardcore dose of German bureaucracy I was left without an Internet connection at home for the past….um….2352 hours. Let’s discuss:
Bright-eyed, happy-go-lucky American werewolf in paris Germany moves from rather funnily shaped 4th floor apartment to first floor roomily shaped apartment. At this point, two copper wires seperated me from […]