Snow + cars = lots of fun

Today we had one of the worst snow storms of the season. It’s hard to believe we are 20 days away from Spring when you see scenes like this:

This is the street where I live. There’s suppose to be a hill on the right, but the terrain was somehow leveled this morning.

 

 

 

This is the bus stop outside my house. I was sadly waiting for the bus to come for 20 minutes without luck. Later I realized the bus was never going to pass on the street by taking a look at the snow accumulation on the spot the bus stops every 20 minutes.

With the image of my warm bed on my head, I had to go back to my car and remove the tons of snow on it. This is the result of my 15-minute snow-shoveling session

 

Snow+ car = lots of fun…

This of course, is only true when you are not driving. I had the most dangerous 1.5 miles of my life. Ladies and Gentleman, I survived and I’m here to tell the story.

 

Now I understand better Canadians. YAY!

Cheat or no cheat?

Have you ever played Tetris Friends on Facebook?

Well, for those who are not familiar with this game, it basically presents different game modes of the old classic Tetris. One of those modes is called Tetris Sprint, where you have to clear 40 lines as fast as you can.

I, after trying approximately 200 times, have barely scored 1.20 minutes. However, the guy on the next video claims he is able to do it in 40 seconds!!! and offers this as a proof:

Yes, he doesn’t cheat, or does he? If he is not cheating…well, he is damn good!! What do you think?

Do you like to be followed?

Google has recently released a new tool called Google Friend Connect. If you like attention, stalking, or anything related to that, this is a must-be for your site/blog. Google Friend Connect will allow you to replace some gadgets on your blog with some other cool ones like the “Followers” gadget.

This gadget allows you to see the pictures and more information of all the people subscribed to your blog. I just added the gadget to my blog, but no one is following me :( :

Blogger joins an open network of websites already using Friend Connect and visitors can now follow any Blogger blog by signing in with their Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID credentials. The library of Friend Connect gadgets is pretty limited now, but will the time this will change.

You can get it here. Once you install it go and add yourself as my follower :) I can haz fans

Testing Windows Live Writer

Hey folks,

This is just a quick test post. I’m testing Windows Live Writer. Yes, this is just one more of Microsoft’s Live applications, and besides Messenger, the only one I found useful.

I didn’t read any manual before doing this so it seems fairly easy to use, better than writing a post directly on the Internet. The tool allows you to download different plugins to insert different type of content into your blogs, from Flash files to Facebook photos.

I recommend you to download it and test. Click here to download.

By the way, if you haven’t already tried it, also download Windows Live Messenger 2009. It’s pretty much the same as the 8.0 version but the interface looks cooler:

You can download it as a bundle with Windows Live Writer. If you just want this one, click here to download.

No. I don’t sell Microsoft products. Yes, this will help me to post more frequently :)

Russian classes fail

One reader made me realize that yes, taking Russian classes should be moved to my official FAIL list. Here's a couple of reasons why:

- I was convinced with a bunch of lies that the course was awesome and FREE. The reality: the course was not awesome, in fact, it sucked. Plus I had to pay 80 dollars for it. That's about 2 months of dollar menu meals in McDonalds...absolutely not free. Worst 80-dollar spent ever
- The Russian Cultural Centre was actually a house where normal people lived, including children, running, hitting the walls, crying and screaming while I was trying to focus
- Going to class included a round trip of 2 hours using the metro. This of course, with a cost of around 11.50 dollars (including parking)
- The class was full of old people. Not funny
- Half of the class this old people interrupted the teacher (who is nice actually) to ask "how do you say this word in Russian?", "how do you say this other word that I don't care about in Russian?" Do you really wanna know? Buy a Russian-English dictionary.
- Enrique (who says his name is Dante, which is not true basically), assisted to class, and loved it. This is never a good sign
- Paid 80 dollars. Yes, that hurts

NOTE: I don't have anything against Russia. In fact, their flag is cool. Da

Are you stupid or just geography stupid?

While I was procastinating the other day, I found a very stupid game that made me realize how I suck at Geography. The game, named 'How many countries can you name in 5 minutes' is, well, have you guessed? (if you guessed then you are not stupid). YES! you have to enter as many countries as you can in 5 minutes. You have to enter the names in English, and if you are like me, and English is not your mother tongue, then you are pretty much done. But don't worry my fellow spanish speakers, Americans or English native speakers who suck at grammar will fail as bad as us. Want to know how many I named?

76

Yes... 76. That's an average of 3.94 seconds per country. Do you think you can do it better? Click on the image and try. Here's the grading procedure:

1-10: You are a geography stupid, or you just didn't pay attention
10-50: You suck at geography dude. I recommend to buy a map, extra large, if possible, put it on your wall, and each day learn one more country
50-100: You are in the average. You can defend yourself in a regular Geography contest, but if you spot a Geography geek trying to play or even to start a conversation about Asian or African countries, run away, fast.
100-200: You cheater!! It is not humanly possible to make over 100 countries. Either you:

• Opened a map in a second tab
• Had somebody to read the list of countries to you, plus you have the ability of a secretary

200+: you should be punished, you punk. Did you use a bot? This automatically makes you a geography stupid

Have fun!

Dan, geography genius

And the year after that...

Yes! I'm still alive...
Well...my last post was about a prediction game. How many electoral votes was Obama going to get on Election day?
It's been hmm...a few months, and yes, if you haven't heard, Obama won! If you don't believe, this picture of Obama's hand on Lincoln's old Bible will close the deal:


That could be any guy's hand huh? Absolutely...if you are a non-believer go away :)
After so much time and America going crazy with the new president, let's see what 2009 brings us! 2008 was an excellent year for myself, and here's why:

• I am still alive.
  
• I got a job. My current job. A nice job. With nice people. With nice paychecks
  
• I turned 23 years old
• I ate lots of food...yay!
• I went to Canada (finally) and loved it, and most important, survived the weather
• I started to build a credit profile in the US after being no one at the beginning of the year. Damn credit cards, now I'm being held prisoner
• I got my car!
  
• I am still alive...still...aren't you happy for me?
• I took Russian classes. How many is not important. Now I know how to say yes (da) and how to point at people to say where they are or to say their names (eta mama!)
  

I hope 2009 is so much better. This 25 days have been good so far. I hope I can post more this year. Happy new year! (if you are in Canada, you have all January to say Happy new year! to someone if you forget to say it the actual day. Hmm, well that's what my French teacher said :S)

Dan, the 2009'er