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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.
Affordable Care
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdThieves are dumb – lets just establish that as a ground-rule for this post. When an asshole spends what appears to be a significant amount of time and energy ripping a really crappy TV out of the wall, after you’ve painstakingly routed cables, tearing a massive hole in the sheetrock – all because he didn’t stop to unscrew the VGA cable? Well […]
The Intersection of This Way and Any Way
/in geek-ness /by wadeferdI grew up in a town of notoriously confusing street names. I remember distinctly writing down directions like “Take Any Way, to That Way, left on Oyster Creek Drive and right on Circle Way… ” When is the last time anyone took down directions on pen and paper? In the Hyper-geo-located post-iphone/android world amateur cartographic way-finding is becoming a lost art. The future of the coordinate-grid-for-the-air-strike-is-the-the-same-as-your-zipcode […]
Twincest
/in mini-post /by wadeferdGame of Thrones Attack ads. Brilliant.
The $6 Billion Radio
/in geek-ness /by wadeferdFrom the attempting to solve problems we didn’t know had department, comes the Army’s one-size-doesnt-fit-all, universal radio. In 1997, the Defense Department began its quest for the perfect family of radios: software-defined radios that, like computers, could be reprogrammed for different missions and could communicate with everything the US military used. Digital signal processing could […]
Etsy Hackers
/in mini-post /by wadeferdVery cool to see companies like 37signals step up to the plate to close the gender gap in programing.
Super Trees
/in mini-post /by wadeferdLess like trees, but more like huge vertical gardens.
Water
/in mini-post /by adminCost and usage (for single family houses) compared to drought around the country. Also Arizona, once again shows us how not to do things.
A nice post
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House VAWA
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdShameful. The bill’s passage came despite opposition from more than 320 advocacy groups, including faith-based groups, women’s organizations, civil rights groups and domestic violence workers groups. During the debate, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) pressed Adams to name groups that supported her bill. “Well, Mr. Conyers, I can say I do,” Adams said. “I’m glad to […]
Driving Robots
/in geek-ness /by wadeferdAs futurist Paul Saffo says, for a company like Mercedes nowadays, “the value add is the software and the computers. The wheels are primarily there to keep the computers from dragging on the ground.” I for one welcome our new robot-car overlords. Hell, they have to be better drivers than 90% of this town.