Mr. Vance and i have set out on a mission: to build a medieval siege engine, a Trebuchet, capable of flinging biodegradable ammo up to 600 ft across a field, for no very good reason. We are dumb. But it will be fun.Initial Sketch is here, and if anyone has a Carbon steel axle we […]
A couple of months back, Austin’s KUT was a sounding board for NPR’s ‘revival’ of theThis I Believe series. To be honest I was fairly underwhelmed. It was nothing too thrilling till the other morning when I was making the 5-mile/30 minute slog to work. Of all people Penn Jillete submitted an essay on why […]
Texas AG Greg Abbott is filing a law suit against sony over the copy-protected CD’s that do the spyware thing. For once I have no sarcastic comment to follow.
Sony has apparently bowed to public pressure and is recalling all of its rootkit installing CD’s. This is good, but they’re still on my ‘very evil’ list.
I’m making a concerted effort to regulalry add content to the photo section. Each weekday should bring a new shot.
For a long time, I’ve tried to make this site be a lot of things: portfolio, photoblog, personal rant space, etc. The real kicker is, if this is supposed to be a professional portfolio site then how do I justify posting a political rant ? Or starting another blog talking abou the music I’m currently […]
Here in our fair city, the hate-mongering prop 2 was handily defeated. Sadly the rest of the state failed to follow our lead (what else is new). Ninety percent of the young people have voted against this amendment. That shows me that we got our message out,” Anne Wynne with No Nonsense in November said. […]
So part of being the state capitol means we get to occasionally have upleasent guests come to town. Some folks hve thought up an excelent solution. Saturday at 1-3pm at City Hall, Austinites will be showing the Klan their good sides. You can bet your bottom, i’ll be there. (via Austinist)
Finally posted some new photos in the photo section. Good times at rogers park.
Well I went to vote today in the Texas version of California’s referendum thing. Except in ours we just amend the state constitution. Every. Damn. Year. What a way to run a government. No wonder we cant fund our schools. No, Today we voted on a series of amendments to our state’s fine (and often […]