michigan friends in austin: i know y'all are busy with finals but i feel i haven't seen you in forever. can we meet up or something? friday night or saturday anytime?

nate, a copywriter friend with sadly no copy to write, turned me on to google image labeler. it's a way of creating/improving tags for google image search by turning it into a game. you and a mystery partner both label/describe/tag a picture until you both use the same word or phrase, then you get points and go on to the next picture. it's a neat ( Read more... )

my parents visited last week. my mother had some sort of education conference to attend and it being their 30th anniversary my father decided to come along. my mother listened to inspiring speakers while i sat in a faux-mediterranean grotto attempting to explain to my father the concepts of social networking, widgets, and my future job market. when ( Read more... )

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anybody in austin doing something for halloween? laura and i are probably going to the beauty bar again, supposedly they have a "haunted festival" or some shit, and sixth street will prolly be full of drunken hilarious costumes. Since I'm going as a pirate i plan to buy a bottle of rum. and hopefully i won't be too drunk and will get some good ( Read more... )

i just read a pitchfork blurb that referred to emo's as legendary. Why the hell does everybody love emo's? Sure, it's been around for over 20 years. That doesn't change the fact that it is a bland mid-size venue with ugly art on the walls and indifferent bartenders. I've never been in the outside part, so maybe they have free drugs and puppy ( Read more... )

the new toll plaza i work at is somehow within austin city limits yet feels like absolute wilderness. today i spent every other hour swinging my upturned arm backwards, urging confused motorists through a toll lane that was open but not "open". two skinny mexican masons in bright orange vests cut and shaped stones into pillars on the side of the ( Read more... )

all of the good humanities/museum jobs in austin require masters degrees. after a night of anxious soul searching i have reached the tentative conclusion that i must attend grad school. I want to attend to and exhibit historical collections, and UT has one of the best collection and preservation masters programs in the country, thanks in no small ( Read more... )

several things:

1 last night i dreamed my manager told me to wash my beard. this was after i rode through the forest on a rolling cooler.
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