Snowboard Day 01

December 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Canada Experience, Trips

After a week of preparation getting the snow pants, waterproof gloves, find the right location for beginners and watching some YouTube videos of snowboard 101, finally yesterday we went to Glen Eden @ Milton to do some snowboard for the first time, and it’s was pretty good for a newbie’s like us.

After the first 25 falls we all (Laura, Francisco and I) start going down the hill in a pretty decent way, without falling.

Here is a video of Laura showing some skills

P.S.: this morning we all feel the pain of doing some snowboard for the first time.

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GP Canada

June 12th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Canada Experience, Events, Trips

Las Friday I took my cousins Sony Alpha DSLR-A200, and after a quick training to take pictures of “fast“ moving objects, I head on to Montreal for Canada’s GP. During my trip I was wondering if the 15 minutes training trying to catch some birds will help me on the track with a 325 Km/h Ferrari.

Saturday morning we all (my in-laws, my wife and I) woke up early, to leave the CRAPPY hotel I rent :s, and head on to Place-des-Arts our nearest subway station for the practice and pole position.

Once in the track I start testing the shutter speed of the A200 against the REALLY fast F1 cars to see if I catch a few of them freeze, so since it was a sunny day I start a 1/1000, but the details in the cars looks blurry, so I head on to the max 1/4000 and try to catch a car, but became extremely difficult because I want to take a close up to the car.

After about 45 pics with only an empty race track or a tiny part of the car I change the setting to continuous shooting and just wait for my lucky shoot and after a few laps with 130 of pics taken, I finally catch completely this gorgeous Ferrari at 1/400shutter speed.

Ferrari

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AA cobrará 15 USD por la PRIMERA maleta

May 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Trips

Después que algunas líneas aéreas anunciaran el cobro de 25 USD a partir de la segunda maleta, hoy AA anuncio que cobrara 15 USD por la primera maleta. Estos nuevos fees son un paliativo al alto costo de la gasolina que impacta duramente a las aerolíneas.

La pregunta es, Mejorará el servicio y se eliminaran los retrasos con estos nuevos ingresos a las aerolíneas?

Tal como escuche un comentarista de CNN hoy, la gente que normalmente llevaría una maleta, ahora va a comenzar a meterse cuanta cosa puede en los bolsillos para evitar pagar los 15 USD.