The amazing Woz

Yesterday was cousin Ryan's graduation day and Steve Wozniak was the keynote speaker at his ceremony. I knew about the Woz's business accomplishments, I know about his technical accomplishments, but to me he had just been another tech giant in the valley, until I saw the human side of his.

There were literally thousands of students walking across the stage under the California hot sun, and it went on for hours. He wasn't there to the whole time but when he was, he didn't just greet every graduate with a warm smile. He hugged, chit chatted - even after the graduate had walked past him he would still keep talking - and took the time to take pictures with so many, even when the line seemed never ending. One girl, she fumbled with the camera and couldn't figure out how to do it, the Woz took the camera, put it at the right setting, and did it for her.

He's been a living legend for the past 30 years, everywhere he goes, autograph and picture requests follow. How can he still manage to treat every single person who asks for it with such grace and kindness! To me that was just more impressive than anything that had come out of him.

Emoji on your iPhone

If you're like me, you don't wanna cycle between keyboards for your smiley face, why do that, you are use to those good old text emo aren't ya :-)

I got it, what I do it I make them keyboard shortcuts, like a ;) becomes a 😂 that way them show up in SMS, whatsapp, what not. Good deal.

The Americans and Zero Hour

I caught the pilot of FX's The Americans (2013) the other day, and I was hooked instantly. TV shows as good as this come only once in a few years. Staged in the 80's during the height of the cold war, thatcould not have been better setting for this larger than life thriller - pre-digital age with old school spying and nuclear tension, why didn't somebody come up with that earlier!?! The script was superb and the characters were amazingly well crafted out. Within an hour and a half you already know Philip, Elizabeth and even the main antagonist Stan better than you would have had they been on another show for an entire season. The icing on the cake? Spoiler alert! Spolier alert! even on the first episode it manages a complex scene like Philip singing the national anthem with his son at the school for the astronaut. It's just a stroke of pure genius to tell the story through the eyes of the Russian spies. Scratch that, the entire show is pure genius, period. Watch it, you won't regret it.

Guess what. I watched the pilot of the new ABC show Zero Hour (2013) right after this. They show this on prime time? Really? Seriously? They can't even show the story they need to employ the used and over used trick of having some kids seek out and old guy and have the old guy just tell the story... what is this a radio show? I just listen to the story instead of having those overpaid actors act them out? Woo, there's conspiracy. I am so scared. Seriously? A elementary school kid could have come up with a better story; the bozo under the highway pass could have given a better performance. I so wanted to throw up after.

Oscars 2013

Spoiler alert!

There's little surprise in the Oscars 2013. Seth McFarland did a good job albeit I expected his opening to be funnier. The only thing out of the ordinary I say would be the fact that there was a tie - I didn't know you can do that?

And that when they showed Denzel Washington's clip for his performance in Flight (2012), I mean come on! That was the ending! That was the entire movie! They cold not have picked a worst scene than that could they? They just spoiled the movie for everybody!

Iguana nation

I've been back from Ecuador for little less 2 weeks now. In Guayaquil we stayed at a hotel right across from Parque Seminario, more commonly known as Parque de los Iguanas, for the iguana's name sake.

I read about it before I was there, and from my hotel room window I could see the park clearly, but I didn't notice any iguana the first day. We went down there the second day and was stunned by the numbers, in the middle of town, many perched on the trees, many more rested by park benches waiting to be fed by visitors. It was cute.

Easter island

It's 4000km from any major land mass, the closest land is Pitcairn island which is 1000km (and truly the most isolated island in the world) Easter island is most famous for is moai - big headed statues whose method of transportation have baffled scientists for years.

Everybody has the same story, something like "oh when I was little I saw on TV..." which is exactly my case. I have known about these statues since very little seeing them on TV with my brother and never thought one day I would be here. It's amazing. I am loving it.

Turning 100 thousand

My car turned 100 thousand miles