Author: Kupitero
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Tata Fidel
He used to come often to our store/house in Baclaran (a ‘barangay‘ in the, then, town -now, city- of Paranaque, which is a mere 2.5 miles south of Manila) to visit his younger brother (my father) as well as to acquaint us with his latest interest — which was quite diverse. Those years were in…
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The NVIDIA 6800 Ultra PCI-Express Video Card
At US$519 (discounted price at that), the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-X video card costs more than the new Mac mini from Apple. What??? A $519 video card??? Yup, and that’s just the start of the upgrade path to take full advantage of the features of this hot, new graphics board. Why buy it?…
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The $499 Mac mini
Without much fanfare, Apple quietly released its ‘Mac for the Rest of Us’ today, January 11, 2005, via the new Mac mini. January had been a favorite month of Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, to launch new products. Very memorable was the Jan. 24, 1984 unveiling of the very first Macintosh which was made even more…
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Coffee for Five in Santa Ynez Valley and Beyond
My sister called the night before that it was better to start the journey from her house in Santa Cruz, which is about a 40-minute drive from Fremont. And so, very early that morning, just several minutes after we had gingerly packed the Tupperwares with our favorite breakfast and had filled the thermos bottle with…
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The Grapes of Highway 29
The Vigan ‘longanizas‘ (sausages from Vigan, which is a town about 250 miles north of Manila and noted for its rich Spanish heritage) smelled even more garlicky that morning as I placed the remaining links on a clear bowl. The sausages casings’ red-brown color together with the fat that dripped from the fillings, blended oh-so…