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.
Pulp Fiction
/in Uncategorized /by wadeferdOk, this is me stabbing this site in the heart with a needle full of adrenaline. Or maybe the image we’re looking for is a that of my car refusing to turn over and be violently push started down a hill. Either way…weddings are in motion, elections are coming up, bike are being ridden, so […]
Remembering College
/in mini-post /by wadeferdOh the angst. The unbridled righteousness. The awesome and unwieldy aspirations. The poor choices in plaids and hairstyles on my part (of which there will be no photo evidence).
Kids These Days
/in geek-ness /by wadeferdFrom Chabon’s recent compilation of essays on manhood. Kids write their own manuals in a new language made up of the things we give them and the things that derive from the peculiar wiring of their heads. …When he was still a toddler, Abraham liked to put a glow-in-the-dark bedsheet-style Lego ghost costume over a […]
Tarkin Doctrine
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdFrom the Lord Vader School of Business Administration. It’s pretty clear at this point the Emperor can do pretty much whatever he wants. He could have installed puppets in the Senate. He could have continued to dominate it and made an ongoing token effort to deal with their bullshit (which is really what government is […]
Perspective
/in mini-post /by wadeferdPutting those large, red mountain charts into context.
Cobbles
/in bike /by wadeferdBeautiful footage of the Paris-Roubaix cobbles. That’s a lot of punishment for both tire and rider.
Debt
/in mini-post /by wadeferdSo apparently every post World War II Democratic president whose completed their term(s) in office has reduced the federal debt. Huh.
Coal’s Cost
/in mini-post /by wadeferdWhen viewed from a fatality per power perspective, the nuclear option still looks very good.
Staying Urban
/in hippie with a computer talks too much /by wadeferdFrom the Freakanomics blog, featuring Ed Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. Certainly for anyone who’s a parent, like myself, the suburban school districts offer huge enticement to leave cities. And this is really a question of how we’ve decided to structure […]
IE6 Countdown
/in mini-post /by wadeferdIf you need to start a cause to get people to stop using a product you built, you’re doing something very very wrong.