Cue Lyle Lovett's "That's Right (You're not from Texas)"
Spent a couple days in San Antonio with friends last weekend.
Things bought:
- Brisket at Rudy's
- Large molcajete
- Cast-iron tortilla press
- Terra cotta Virgen de Guadalupe plaque
- Two small magnetic Virgen de Guadalupe figures
- Little Mexican girl doll (I suppose there's a name for them. I saw them at the airport and at various stores around town.)
Things not bought:
- Hat
- Boots
- Guayabera shirt
The molcajete and tortilla press do not make for a lightweight carry-on bag. It'll take some time to get the molcajete seasoned/broken in enough for use.
I think air travel has made people pretty blase about going places. It still is a bit odd to sit in an aluminum tube for a couple of hours at 30,000 feet at hundreds of miles an hour and not quite realize you're somewhere different until you exit the aircraft. Once in the jetway, the primitive kicks in and you notice that everything smells different and the sun's at a whole different angle in the sky.
After traveling with my trusty PowerBook 540c, I miss the modern features of my iMac at home (my main machine). Sure, a new PowerBook G4 would be nice, but even an old iBook would be better that my current iMac. I'd really be interested if the form factor for the iBook were smaller. I'm thinking of a cross-breed machine of he Titanium G4 sleekness and the iBook's 12.1" screen (an updated PowerBook 2400c, if you will).
Cydonia, the new Orb cd is out. The released version isn't as good as it could be/should be. Several tunes were replaced by newer ones, most of them throwaways. I'll have to rely on my CD-R of a previous unreleased version for Yungle and Freely Wheely, among other replaced songs. Hope they'll come out at a later date in some format (perhaps a new version of Orbscure trax?) along with Mickey Mars from U.F. Off.
Been fiddling around with HTML here to have the site validate as HTML4.01. Most of it does, except the counter on the main page fails (which I can understand. Been reading a bit on XML (for Dummies) and XHTML and will go the XHTML way at some point.
Came back to news that one of the first sites I remember, the Trojan Room Coffee Machine is going offline soon. Sigh. Next thing you know, my favorite webcam/art thing the Light on the Net will go away. I remember being somewhat amazed when I realized that clicking on the image was turning on and off lights somewhere in Japan, and that anybody could do it.
