It's been a while since I've been so completely and totally hardcore-ignored at a restaurant in Austin. I was picking up a motorcycle from my buddy's shop today, and decided to stop at Hill's Cafe on South Congress for lunch. It was after the lunch rush, so they weren't crazy busy, and were probably starting to go on breaks or whatever. But even ( Read more... )

I just bound the very very very first edition of my book. It's just one of those springy binder things, but it's still kind of cool to see MY BOOK in something approaching book form. Will take it to bike night tonight and float it around and see if people like it.

Dear City of Austin ( Read more... )

Imagine being an Iranian-onaut(one wonders what they'll be called, besides "The Late" something something). Iran officially announced their intentions to put a man in space in the next ten years, after sort of almost kinda making a rocket into orbit this week. And they PROMISE they are NOT planning to use any of this orbital guided rocket stuff ( Read more... )

Now I understand why I've never learned Javascript(well, REALLY learned it). It's a COMPLETE pain in the ass, is tough to debug, and will never tell you when it's broken without a lot of third-party helper apps that will "take a guess" at whether something is right. Blech ( Read more... )

Oh... my... gawd... these are TOTAL workplace safety GOLD! Check out some of these AWESOME-O stickers:
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I use an application called Adium for my mac that basically assembles all of the blogs I like to read in one place, like Bloglines, or so many others. This is good, in many ways, because I don't have to wait for each page to refresh, or anything else, and I'm not generally bombarded by blinking/vibrating ads and such ( Read more... )

I think my favorite mechanical pencil is dying. I've only had it since about 1992... and it's been continually repaired where it breaks at the joint of the grip and the body. A KOH-I-NOOR Rapidomatic 0.5mm. It's done a lot of physics homework, drawn a lot of electrical diagrams, and written a LOT of software schematics ( Read more... )

So I'm driving to work this morning, North on Mopac, and just pass the 360 intersection. I notice a slow moving Prius in the left lane. I move to the right. He is passing an even SLOWER Prius. I move over. A THIRD EFFING PRIUS moves from the entrance ramp and proceeds to match the speed of the second Prius. For a moment, the entire highway ( Read more... )

Am I the only one that's amused by the number of people who seem visibly embarrassed by the ringer on their phone? I was getting a breakfast taco this morning, and a meter maid was paying, and her ringer went off with some bad hip-hop song. Her hands were full, so she couldn't turn it off quickly, and it went on and on. I can't decide if it's ( Read more... )