Writing
Rants, politics, chance encounters on mopeds, encounters in Austin Denver and it’s environs. Also bicycles and food. Occasionally some music too.
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.
Alphabetizing
/in books /by adminI’m slightly dyslexic, so putting things in proper alphabetical order has always been an unduly arduous task for me. I’d never thought of it as something that had to be discovered though. Apparently so.
Record Breaker
/in mini-post /by adminGreat day to go for a five hour bike ride.
Water
/in mini-post /by adminOr the lack there of (specifically in the Colorado Basin), could still be the undoing of the Modern West. The numbers just don’t work.
Whistleblower
/in mini-post /by adminA case for Edward Snowden to be protected under whistleblower statutes.
Roads
/in mini-post /by adminVery cool photo archive of historic Austin road projects. My how times have changed.
The Blog is Dead
/in angry wade /by adminNarcissism is a powerful force and the broad swath of audience available on the social tubes is immense and still not fully tapped in terms of monetization. But the power of control, the ability to govern your own content AND the property, the canvas, on which it sits – to me that loss is profound.
VP
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdSo then there was that day at work when Joe Biden showed up.
The Filibuster
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdThe tension escalated at about 11:45 p.m., when Democratic state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, who earlier in the day had attended her father’s funeral, objected as Republican leaders refused to recognize one of her motions. “At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?”
A Modern Navy
/in mini-post /by wadeferdThe Navy has apparently been yelling at everyone since 1980.
MMX
/in mini-post /by wadeferdSpecial Ops Electric Motorcycle. Let that sink in for a moment.