http://blog.nachoworld.com Thu, 18 May 2006 16:33:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw this list done on kottke.org, my brother’s site: kankanala.com, and a number of other sites recently. I’ve been posting this online since 2002, so no “via” link. List of places I Stayed Overnight in 2005 Hobbs, NM Boston, MA Killington, VT New York City, NY Lima, Peru Cuzco, Peru Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sao Paolo, Brazil Beijing, China Xian, ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2006/05/18/list-of-places-i-stayed-overnight-2005/ A link from my past. This artist takes drawing from young children and recreates their imaginations with a more intense graphical interpretation. http://blog.nachoworld.com/2006/01/30/monster-engine/ Finally no more interviewing…! I finished on Thursday but didn’t go out because that morning I woke up with a rich head congestion. It’s been a good couple months … a lot of sleeping on couches in order to save money but also a few perks like living on Miami’s ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2006/01/29/the-boy-is-back-in-town/ Who would win in a race between a tortoise and a hippo? It’s one of the fundamental questions plaguing modern society. Until we can answer that, here are some pictures of a 100 year old tortoise adopting a baby hippo. NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2006/01/28/the-tortoise-and-the-hippo/ A few years ago I wanted to write a post about how much SPAM I get. Sure, everybody gets a whole bunch of SPAM. Depending on the source you hear from, the average person gets 8 to 13.3 junk emails a day. Depending on the number of legitimate emails one ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/23/spamtastic/ Ever wonder about the origin of the rabbit with a pancake on its head? Yeah, me neither. It’s supposed to be an intricate balancing act? Can’t you see it? http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/21/pancake-rabbit/ I’m on a two week tour of duty in New York City interviewing for radiology residencies. I’ll be back next week. http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/18/interview-season/ Gamespot’s Greatest Games of All Time. Unlike IGN’s list, this one is a running list and its associated benefits or disadvantages. I was pleased to see Actraiser on there. http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/11/greatest-games-of-all-time/ For his estimated $500,000, I hear that 50 Cent performed only four or five songs - and badly - though he did manage to work in the lyric, “Go shorty, it’s your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.” Read on … the description of David Brook’s ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/10/party-of-the-month/ Surprisingly very little can be found about lightning and thunder during snow storms. Growing up, the great lightning storms of the flat plains were amazingly bright and beautiful (and frightening), but the photographers knew that they would only get the best shots during the peak April-August season. Not really the ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/09/lightning-blizzards-and-thunder-snowstorms/ Photoshop contest of awkward video game scenes. http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/08/awkward-videogame-scene/ Now that we’re up to Hurricane Epsilon in the 2005 season (which ended officially on November 30th), here are the previously retired hurricane names and future tropical cyclone names of the North Atlantic and elsewhere. Interestingly, the naming convention systems and types of names vary by region of of the ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/03/hurricane-names/ Official version of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 out yesterday. I’ve been trying to get the Sage RSS feed reader working effectively but to minimal avail. I also added the medical dictionary search engine. I couldn’t believe they had it since it’s a relatively obscure, but comprehensive website. http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/12/01/firefox-15/ Single letter domain names being released. $1M+? Maybe I should have hung onto nwx.com. http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/30/dotcom-boom/ My schedule for the next few months: 11/21-11/22 11/22-11/23 11/23-12/04 12/04-12/06 12/06-12/08 12/08-12/11 12/12-12/16 12/16-12/17 12/17-12/19 12/19-12/21 or 12/22 12/21 or 12/22-12/24 12/24-01/05 01/05-01/06 01/06-01/08 01/08-01/09 01/09-01/10 01/10-01/16 01/16-01/18 01/18-01/19 01/19-01/22 01/22-onwards 03/16 mid-April to mid-May 05/21 Hobbs, NM Albuquerque Hobbs, NM Phoenix Hobbs, NM Boston NYC Stony Brook, NY Boston NYC Boston Hobbs, NM HOUSTON!!! Sunday River, ME (?) NYC Worchester, MA Boston NYC ATLANTA!!! MIAMI!!! Boston (phew) Match Day Egypt/S.Africa/Botswana Graduation http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/30/winter-schedule/ Facts about Chuck Norris: The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs. Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/30/chuck-norris-kicks-your-ass/ Last Sunday’s episode of “Family Guy” just reiterates my love for the show. “The Simpsons” were never so brazen (but it was funny in another way). “Family Guy” gets its humor from the strange, absurd, or uncomfortable things that it shows. Like a 2 minute chicken fight, or the PBJ ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/29/tara-reids-nipples/ I feel like I’m on a promoting binge here. Check out Google’s SMS info service. It’s saved me at least one on the road when I was lost and needed directions (and didn’t want to lose 20 minutes by trying to find a gas station for directions). And I’ve used ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/29/google-sms/ I’m crazy excited. Sprintpcs forces you to use its website in order to text message someone (for free via the web). I was able to socially engineer (well not really socially engineer, more like convince) a customer service rep to give me the email address format to text Sprintpcs phones ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/29/sprint-messaging/ An update to crazymonk’s link to Common Census is in order since the map has been updated many times since its post due to the number of links that it’s been getting from blogs. The map has become a lot more accurate. All of New Mexico isn’t covered by Albuqueque. People ... http://blog.nachoworld.com/2005/11/28/cultural-area-maps/