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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.
A small gallery
/in Media, News, Personal /by adminAnascetur ridiculus mus
Debates
/in mini-post /by adminReminds me of the ZeFrank of old.
Near Fall
/in bike, hippie with a computer talks too much, Texas /by wadeferdThis is not just my Texas centric perspective speaking, I really think we have a different take on this whole seasonal change thing. I don’t say Fall, as well, we just have Summer and Not Summer.
Grand Wedding Tour 2012
/in road-trip ruminations /by wadeferdStarting with my sister and Jamie in Red River, for fun times that included a talent show, hail, call and respone Bohemian Rhapsody and oh, a wedding. Next up was Brad a Nikki, with The US Pro tour, foxes, bears, and a bachelor party that included a 2 mile trail run, uphill, with beer (in transit) and an ill-advised tree climb at the top.
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/in News /by adminLorem ipsum dolo.
Dare Mighty Things
/in geek-ness /by wadeferdYou know that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs have some of the smarted people in the world amongst their ranks. So you have to have some faith in this OkGo inspired landing strategy that they’ve come up with. I guess if we can trust a computer to parallel park our cars, landing a 1-ton, nuclear fueled, multi-billion dollar rover on […]
Romney’s America
/in mini-post /by wadeferdI think that cutting 33 million of your fellow citizens off from affordable care is the kind of future we are looking for in this country.
Antartica
/in mini-post /by wadeferdGoogle Streetview at the South pole. Reminds me of the google of old – Neat stuff for sake of being neat.
Texas Cares
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdComing on the heels of Texas being ranked last in service delivery in the country (yes, behind Oklahoma, Mississipi and Arkansas), and a sharp decline in Medicaid acceptance, the governor in has decided to go ahead and turn down millions of matching dollars in medicaid funding. Keep in mind this doesn’t mean Texas won’t participate in […]
Summer Time
/in mini-post /by wadeferdI agree with Batman.