Roberto Live!

Ski

Beto — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:32:28 +0000

By popular demand, and just to satiate you appetite for cheap American humour, my (in)famous video skiing in Thredbo.

Go ahead, laugh out loud, if you can’t feel sorry for me, you’re a plain senseless sick

Obama losing for a single vote?

Beto — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:21:36 +0000

A friend in the US sent me this hilarious link about Obama losing, it just made my day. Come on, what’s the chance of Palin and her grandpa of winning? Americans are not idiots, well most of them.

Skype me!

Beto — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:46:25 +0000

I bought this week the Skype phone, to replace my Z550i and it’s so cool. I wasn’t so sure to get it, but after I found out that you can keep your number I decided to get one. This way I can talk with family and friends overseas at any time. Now please everybody using Skype please add me, my ID is roberto.arias

Wedding pictures

Beto — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:02:32 +0000

There you go, pictures from the wedding on my flickr account and on Catherine’s. Enjoy!

A lovely love story

Beto — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:20:04 +0000

One of the good things about being in Australiais to be at the wedding of my very good friend Heidi and Tony. They’re going to get married tomorrow! Everything seems perfect so far, no only because I was invited but because the wedding was carefully planned. I haven’t been in any wedding here in Australia, I’ll take pictures and post back here if I see something unusual (I’m expecting a boomerang tossing or something).

So that’s it: Heidi and Tony, congratulations in your new life together!!

Thredbo

Beto — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:10:29 +0000

I just uploaded some pictures of my trip to Thredbo. It was quite fun, although skiing proved to be something harder than I thought.

Skiiiiii!

Beto — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:33:29 +0000

One of the most unusual things you can do in Australia is skiing on snow! Yeah, it sounds weird, but there are Snowy Mountains around 400 km south of Sydney. “Snowy” really means heaps of snow, like 1.5 metres. So, I guess is going to be fun, I’ve never skied before and probably I never expected to do it in a place like Australia but there you go, this country is rare. So I should be in Jindabyne tonight. I’m going to catch a bus after work.

I’ll be back on Monday

Beijing 2008

Beto — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:43:17 +0000

The Olympics started and the freaky Chinese alphabet made me stay until late to watch the Mexican delegation to pass almost at the end. Apparently the order is based on the number of strokes of the last symbol of the name of the country, or some sort of that.

By the way, I just read in Slashdot that some fireworks in the opening ceremony were actually computer generated. Oh China, we love you because you’ve mastered the art of faking :). Oh, a bit of black humour: how the Beijing 2008 was actually created.

Note to my Chinese friends: China is a great country no offence intended.

Note to my non-Chinese friends: Offence intended.

Live from the Applestore

Beto — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:36:01 +0000

Yeah the second one, this time in Chatswood

Update 12/08/2008: Picture of the shop taken with my phone

Google Street View

Beto — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:28:29 +0000

Finally Google Street View made it to Australia! The best is that not only the major cities are mapped but even small towns and suburbs. I could find my office in the city (AAMI building, second level above the ANZ), our house in Epping (the house with the garage for two cars) and of course the amazing views of Sydney Harbour. Also I peeked into Catherine’s, James’ and this is the closest I could get to Joe’s.

Yeah I know it’s a bit scary but it’s all fun and certainly a great help for those that haven’t visited Australia, much better than the satellite pictures.