The Adventures of Super Hector!

You know, I have some friends from Russia, whom I met during the course of many-a-project development. They are mostly programmers. They speak English. I Also speak English! They Speak Russian. I want to speak Russian! In the lines of “you always bring to yourself what you need” from the universe and from life. I […]

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Warning: This is an extremely chauvinistic post!
My curious eye, ever wandering on anything funny… spoted these funny cards the other day. Most notably, you can find the “WOMAN’s REMOTE CONTROL” to command us men. What nerve! I wonder what our (men’s) remote to control women would look like? This is also a nice design for […]

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On a recent trip to San Jose, California, me and my buddy Derick Brol decided to pay a visit to those cool guys at Google!

“Actually we didn’t find something on a Google search and, since we were so close, we decided to go and ask them”

DUH! This was Derick’s idea of a great joke […]

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I came across the reality of an idea I had for my new apartment: Make the doors a billboard! Place some interesting design, let’s say, for your dorm room, for the gym room, for the kitchen, that is allegoric or significant to the room you are entering! (This door in the picture was the door […]

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Ok, so… we didn’t exactly plan to have the ad published THIS DAY (March 13th 2008) BUT nevertheless some very proactive people at the company managed to get the ad (FULL PAGE, FULL COLOR) in the Guatemala’s leading newspaper!. It was a blast! The add is very peculiar, irreverent and very different. The goal was […]

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I arrived at Denver’s International Airport, went to pickup my rental car, and lo and behold… our Budget-rent-a-car-agent greets me with these words:

“Hello sir, we have and upgrade special for a few bucks more you can take a Hummer H3 SUV. Would you like that?”

Temptation strikes! HARD! What could I do… ???? Read on…
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This here post is a homage to the best friend ever: Rodrigo Botran. He recently got included in the book series “100 Historias de Exito, Guatemaltecos y guatemaltecas que soñaron y trabajaron para alcanzar su sueño” (100 Success stories: Guatemalans that dared to have dreams and worked to achieve them) This makes me so proud […]

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Inside this post you will find a collection of links to some scholarly research on the subject of how Lithium Carbonate consumption affects creativity and other “genius like” factors…
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“Here be monsters” common note found in medieval maps, in areas where supposedly there where hideous creatures abiding.

I finally got around to visiting Zootropic’s herpetarium. I got the chance to handle live scorpions, tarantulas, huge pythons and was very close to some of the most dangerous reptiles known on earth including a huge adult cobra […]

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Ok, so it really, really wasn’t technically a date (Doreen, if you are reading this… Oh well, I hope you get a great laugh out of it!!!) I had the great opportunity to take my then-acquaintance Doreen Jacobi on a trip to Tikal, the ancient Maya city. Little did I know that Doreen would show […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQc4xKXvbzs

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That is me trying out the new elliptical trainer I got as a gift from the guys at the office. The guys at the office decided to donate me many, many bucks towards the purchase of an elliptical trainer, you know, to keep me in shape! So I immediately went out shopping and got this […]

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Well the time came for my Super Birthday, yet again (every year on March 28th). Another year alive and kicking on this earth. Thank GOD! That is my first thank you I will give, for such a lucky ad blessed existence. The next thank you goes out to all my pals at the company who […]

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This is just a quick note I wanted to write on the origins of my two names: HECTOR and VLADIMIR. I have known on and off what they meant and thought it would be nice to paste some definitions, some roots, some links about those two great names. So here it is for all of […]

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Who are you? Who am I? Just as the saying goes: “The simplest questions require the deepest answers”, upon having a blog, you must set upon writing a tidbit about who you are. And boy, does it show the type of person you are! Take me, for instance. One could write anything about one self, […]

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This year (2007) I decided not to recreate last year’s EXCELLENT party that went on for my Birthday, I think it was just the right timing in my life and my heart to really get together with friends and celebrate the fact that life is beautiful! Yet another year has passed and I thought it […]

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