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I've been to an astronaut's house!
Many years ago, when I was working for my Dad at his shop, T.V. Doctor, in Westlake Hills, I got a call from an assistant of video game mogul Richard Garriott, a.k.a. Lord British. Garriott was well-known for his video game company, Origin Systems, but less well-known for the lavish Halloween parties he put on at his mansion off of City Park Road ( Read more... ) -
Movin' on Up? We'll see.
Two weekends ago on a Saturday, I was returning home from errands when I decided it was too nice a day to go straight home. In pondering where I'd like to drive, I decided that I'd head out east on MLK to check out this new neighborhood development people have been telling me about. It's called "Nine-Sixty-Nine", after the state farm-to-market road ( Read more... ) -
poor doggie
There's this dog in my 'hood, a block over from my house (on the parallel street), which constantly yelps. Not barks. Yelps. Like, 100 yelps per minute, with occasional pauses of two seconds to several minutes. The past few days, I've waked up and fallen asleep to this poor dog's plea. This has been going on for months now, with the occasional ( Read more... ) -
Worst sentence ever
Of all the sentences I've ever read, the one I read in a KEYE web article tonight has got to be the worst sentence I've ever read, ever.
This article on Austin CBS affiliate KEYE's website, contains probably the worst-composed sentence I've ever seen in writing:
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SXSW - Day -2
This year, several teams got to move in to the convention center a day earlier than in the past. The "tech team", as we're called, didn't have access to our normal space, but instead moved in to a room on the mezzanine level, along with about 70 rented iMacs ( Read more... ) -
Who are the people in your neighborhood?
On my way home from work, I drove by my precinct's polling place, Winn Elementary, and was mildly surprised at how far into the neighborhood cars were parked. I decided to continue on home, and then take my scooter back to the school, so I could park right by the entrance rather than blocks away ( Read more... ) -
That's gonna hurt in the morning.
Tonight, I got a chance to work off some of the stress that's been building up by dancing my ass off at the Justice show at Stubb's. For about half of the show, I was relatively close to the stage, but more and more bodies kept cramming in, and eventually it got so crowded that I couldn't move my arms, much less dance. I moved to the back of the ( Read more... ) -
Productive Sunday
Most Sundays, I sleep way in. This being my last weekend before the SXSW event starts, I decided it best to get in practice of getting up at a reasonable time even on the weekend. Today, I woke up well before my alarm clock would have gone off an a weekday, but I still laid in bed for awhile. I hadn't eaten since about five o'clock on Saturday, so ( Read more... ) -
Movie Coincidence
I went to the movies this evening, as did seemingly half of Austin. Luckily, the throngs weren't too interested in the movies I chose to watch this evening. In fact, when I entered the auditorium at 7:40 sharp for the second movie, right as the reels started rolling, I was the only person in the room. During the preview trailers, about seven more ( Read more... ) -
I hate this fuckin' traffic.
"I hate this fuckin' traffic."
My Dad and brother Jason are visiting, and Dad told a story wherein I am 3 years old riding with my Grampa down South Congress, and made that comment.
If I could go back to that day, ~33 years ago, I might append "33 years from now."