Writing
Rants, politics, chance encounters on mopeds, encounters in Austin Denver and it’s environs. Also bicycles and food. Occasionally some music too.
I think we will tell our children someday about how relevant blogs were at the start of internet. How citizen journalists actually had relevance before the media conglomerates figured out how brew the proper mix of pay-per-click, and social content narcotic. I’m under no illusions, that time has passed and the medium has been corpratized monetized and throughly fucked. I will begrudgingly except this sites lack of relevance and inability to rise above the likes of the social channels. That doesn’t mean however that i have any intention of shutting up shop. the motivation is different, the things i write here belong to me, are for my edification and should someone out in the big world of the internet besides the spam bots see it, good on them. This is content for content’s sake, nothing more.
Crows
/in bike /by adminI rode the North Table rim rock trail this weekend for the first time this summer. It’s a magnificent little 1.7 mile trail on the top of the mesa, a breezy little relief after you’ve busted your ass climbing up from the valley that encompasses the Coors brewery, clear creek and the straggly bits of Golden.
The Europe
/in photos, road-trip ruminations /by adminFor my Grandmother’s 90th birthday bash – being that she is was a medieval history major at Rice – she wanted to see ancient ruins. With her initial suggestion of Syria probably out, we made do with Athens and Florence in (and I say this without hyperbole or excess) what was really a once-in-a-lifetime trip. […]
Austin’s Problems
/in austin, political bum fuzzery /by adminThat liberal blue dot in the middle of Texas (that everyone wants to move to) is an inclusive and progressive place, right? Actually not so much, considering the African-American population of the city dropped as the overall population grew by 20%.
Terror & Guns
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdIf a 22-year-old Muslim man stabbed his roommates to death in their sleep, embarked on a killing spree, and claimed in written and video manifestos that he acted to teach hated women a lesson, there’s little doubt that many would label him a terrorist. That label was scarcely appended to the Santa Barbara killer after his murders.
Ocean Front Property
/2 Comments/in hippie with a computer talks too much /by wadeferd..studies released this week are announcing a bleak future for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and an accompanying sea-level rise across the globe.
Better Place
/in geek-ness /by wadeferdI remember reading the initial Wired article about Better Place and thinking, this could be amazing if they can pull it off and that’s a big if. $1 billion and a meager 1,400 cars later, it pretty much exemplifies startups gone wrong.
SXSW
/in mini-post /by adminI first went to Interactive in 2006, I saw Twitter’s launch (and thought, wow that will never work), and it’s really weird to me that it’s all now history.
Arizona
/in mini-post /by adminWell thank god for small victories. Also, I’m sorry, but that photo of Governor Brewer is super scary.
Mr. Fusion
/in geek-ness /by admin“When the lasers are fired, the capsule is compressed 35 times. That is like compressing a basketball to the size of a pea.”
Open Letters
/in mini-post /by adminTwo of them, from Wendy Davis’s tragically abandoned daughters. As previously noted, the women of Texas are not to be messed with.