My odometer tells me I'm up to 1700 miles in the two years since I put a new battery into it and reset it to zero. My lower body is telling me to keep up the good work; my upper body is telling me it's feeling neglected.

I just need to find something as enjoyable as cycling that will address that.

For those of you not from Austin, John Aielli hosts a mid-day music show on local NPR-affiliate KUT. He also has a presentation style and a voice that one could best describe as "creepy pedophile".

Imagine my amusement when I saw the following bumper sticker on my way out of Whole Foods today:


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What's the compelling argument in favor of Prop. 2 in Austin?

I know we're a city full of hippies, and that everyone hates The Domain, but is there more to it that I'm missing? It seems like a terrible idea for a city to go back on commitments that it makes...

In reference to an email from them that recently landed in my email entitled "Fidelity's perspective on the Government Rescue Plan", which loosely supports something I'm rather opposed to.If Fidelity wishes to retain my business I would encourage them not to send me any further messages in support of the heinous bailout package currently before ( Read more... )

I'm tempted to eradicate Smash Mouth from my iTunes library. Why? Because I'm tired of them coming up when I type 's-m-a-s-h' into the Artist pane instead of The Smashing Pumpkins.

From The WSJ: Why No Outrage?

Through history, outrageous financial behavior has been met with outrage. But today Wall Street's damaging recklessness has been met with near-silence, from a too-tolerant populace, argues James Grant

Amen.

"We never test finished products on animals."

So, the manufacturing floor is vivisection-free, but the boys in R&D get to keep a tortured menagerie that nobody likes to talk about?

Hooray for nonstop Austin to Indianapolis on Northwest. It may mean nearly three hours in a sardine-can CRJ, but I'll take that over connecting somewhere and adding an hour and a half to the trip ( Read more... )

( With apologies to missingwatch)

I had a pizza delivered by a good looking woman the other night, but she didn't offer to come in and have sex with me! Maybe next time I should order cheese sticks with my pizza... nothing says "I want to hook up with a hot pizza delivery girl" like cheese sticks.

I've done some searching, but it appears that what I want doesn't actually exist.

What I want is essentially a client/server VPN-style program that can be aware of more than one internet connection on the client machine and take advantage of that to facilitate failover without interrupting underlying TCP connectionsHere's the scenario I'm ( Read more... )