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.
The Gloriousness of the Twizzle
/2 Comments/in General /by wadeferdI’ll be honest, I totally dig the olympics, which is totally odd since I don’t ski, I live in Texas, and I’ve seen vast quantities of frozen water about three times in my life. Just the same watching the skiing is rad (Allison and I are actually toying with the idea of a ski trip […]
Tuesday Morning Satire
/1 Comment/in General /by wadeferdI love a good piece of satirical humor. The following is a letter to the editor of a newspaper in Alexandria, Louisiana from Rev Richard Taylor: “My wife and I have just seen ‘Brokeback Mountain’ now playing in Alexandria. I was disgusted, shocked to the core, stunned to be reminded how casually and promiscuously Americans […]
Comics
/1 Comment/in design /by wadeferdOne of my all time favorite books (so far at least) is Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon talks about a lot of things in the book. Homophobia, war, anti-semitism and many other evils of the past and current century. The book’s plot-lines are bridged by the golden age of comics. […]
Screen Real Estate
/2 Comments/in design /by wadeferdOne of my common refrains at work is ‘Don’t be afraid of the whitespace.’ Paper is beautiful, even more so when it’s not be smothered in ink. Then I’d look at my site. I was rolling with black backgrounds, with arguably cool visuals, but a little difficult to read sometimes, and a lot going on […]
The Final Day
/4 Comments/in trebuchet /by wadeferdLast day of throwing at the Ranch was yesteday. The Trebuchet is currently mothballed, in pieces but we’re still holding our breath to see what happens on the E-Bay action. There’s a rumor about Whole Earth picking it up, but we’ll have to wait and see. Watch the video for all the good. (Warning: the […]
We be Ebay-ed
/in trebuchet /by wadeferdAlright, plan b-2.5, we’re selling this sunofagun on E-Bay. Also we’re doing what could be the final fling on Sunday, for those intrested.
Our Garage Rocks
/in stupid things at the house /by wadeferdI’ve wanted to build a woody (home climbing wall) since the day I started climbing. Now it’s done. My dad helped me out with the design and contributed some pretty sweet drawings for us to work with based on some vague descriptions of what my attic looks like. Our room mate Johanna bankrolled the whole […]
New Years ‘03, ‘04, ‘05
/in General /by wadeferdGrowing up, Christmas was always the big holiday, a tradition I carried forth into my college years. Usually I would be pretty chill on New Years, laying low, recovering from the ardors of eating and drinking entirely too much at Christmas. Three years ago this changed. I hoped in the car with my soon-to-be wife, […]
Video
/4 Comments/in trebuchet /by wadeferdDeanna Shot Video ! It’s oriented wrong so if someone knows how to change that please let me know. For now just tilt your head towardswise!!! Thanks to Jerome for turning our video the proper direction! Update: sorry in the intrest of badnwidth issues i had to take this one down in favor of the […]
Photos
/1 Comment/in trebuchet /by wadeferdAll the photos are up and can be found here.