I really hate selling things. Not because I don't want to get rid of something or whatever, but because people are so annoying to deal with when it comes to them buying things. They will ask you a million inane questions, and then just disappear, or they'll say they want to come look at it, and then never show, or they'll come, look at it, say ( Read more... )

Former CNN producer Chez Pazienza, fired for blogging ( Read more... )

It's helicopter day at my office. I'm on the 18th floor of an office building facing the Texas Capitol, with floor-to-ceiling windows, and I sit almost directly next to those windows, so I had an interesting vantage point for all this SimCity craziness today ( Read more... )

Herr Schweitzer was a rather observant, and not surprisingly, well-written guy ( Read more... )

So, I've been getting up about ten minutes earlier everyday, and left about half an hour early this morning. So why did I get to work at the same time?

Foreword: I've been riding my bicycle from my office in downtown Austin(literally at the Capitol building) to everywhere within reach at least three times a week. I crammed the rear sprocket on my Cannondale road bike getting snarky on the hike and bike trails, so I switched to my ancient mountie that is nearly 14 years old now ( Read more... )

Home from the great adventure. Was going to make the 900 miles straight home yesterday, but a storm the likes of which I've never ridden through stopped me cold about 90 miles out of Fort Stockton, and then I had to run into it, through it, and past it in order to get to Fort Stockton. When you are doing 40mph feeling the tires skipping in the ( Read more... )

Left Santa Cruz at about 11 this morning, headed for Camarillo, a handful of exits that are about 55 miles North of LA. Went down the PCH until I hit an accident just after joining the 101. The PCH fails to disappoint. Beautiful road. Beautiful scenery ( Read more... )

I still smell like the ocean, even after a shower. It's kind of nice ( Read more... )

How can it be one degree cooler in Santa Cruz than it is in Austin at this very second, and yet I'm freezing? I know there are sea breezes and lower humidity and whatnot, but it just doesn't seem possible.