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.
Bloodbath
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdWe knew it was going to be rough, but wow. The health and human services portion of the proposal would cut Medicaid provider rates — what doctors and hospitals and others are paid — by 10 percent. And it doesn’t include funding for population growth or for increased costs or utilization rates. There’s also a $4.3 […]
Bullseyes and Crosshairs
/in mini-post /by wadeferdGruber, on the differences and why at the end of the day, intent doesn’t really matter – the consequences do.
Away We Go…
/in mini-post /by wadeferdAt noon today the Lege session kicks off on the heels of final income estimates from the comptroller (better late than never, unless your Bill White), and a Tea Party protest on the south steps. This is why we only do this once every two years…
Overshare
/in mini-post /by wadeferdSo, follow wikileaks on twitter and your information – real name, post history, credit card, etc is subject to the DOJ’s subpoena. At some point people are going to have realize that these (fb, twitter) aren’t benevolent public services, but companies looking to make money, specifically off your information. We gladly give it to them […]
IAMA
/in mini-post /by wadeferdSites like Reddit may be mostly nonsense, but every once and a while you get a gem like this, that shows just how damned fascinating and broadly connective the Internet can be.
FCC
/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by wadeferdFrom the FCC… Further, we recognize that there have been meaningful recent moves toward openness, including the introduction of open operating systems like Android. In addition, we anticipate soon seeing the effects on the market of the openness conditions we imposed on mobile providers that operate on upper 700 MHz C-Block spectrum, which includes Verizon […]
9/11 & Congress
/in political bum fuzzery /by wadeferdJon Stewart gets pissed.
Luck of the Irish
/in economics /by wadeferdPlanet Money digs in a bit more to the Irish bailout, the so-called European Financial Stability Facility – and it isn’t pretty. European countries aren’t actually putting their own money into that trillion-dollar bailout fund. Instead, the fund will borrow from investors around the world — the same investors who are growing wary of lending […]
Thanksgiving
/in road-trip ruminations /by wadeferdYeah, Thanksgiving in the mountains doesn’t suck. Photos are here…
A Class Act, Mayor White
/in mini-post /by wadeferdWe hope to see you in 2012. May by then we’ll see a little more of the respect you spoke of (and that my grand parents and parents taught me about) in your speech.