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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.
Derby n’ Vino
/3 Comments/in General /by wadeferdOk, so we went to the hill country with some friends this weekend for a collision of culture. First up: The vineyards. I’d never been out to tour and taste before and it was excellent times. You meet some interesting people, and you drink some good wine. Inevitably these places are found off back roads, […]
Del.icio.us
/in General /by wadeferdThis is the coolest thing ever. I found it to be a little intimidating at first, but the idea of web based bookmarks, organized by tags and shareable with others is a pretty cool deal.
pepl r dum
/in Uncategorized /by wadeferdAmazingly dumb things people have said about the hurricane. And by people we mean your quasi-elected officals.
Ray Nagin for President
/in Uncategorized /by wadeferdThis guy has been screaming from the rooftops trying to get things done. Good for him.
Moving the Masses
/2 Comments/in General /by wadeferdWhen we’re seeing the masses stranded in New Orleans, a common refrain I’ve heard is ‘Why didn’t they leave when they had the chance?’ The answer: they couldn’t. In 2002, the Times-Picayune published a series entitled “Washed Away,” describing the repercussions of a major hurricane. “100,000 people without transportation will be especially threatened,” the newspaper […]
Economic Impact
/in General /by wadeferdThe Port of Southern Louisiana is the fifth largest port in the world according to wikipedia. Between that and I-10 looking like somebody went after it with a ginsu knife, the economic impacts of this thing could be far reaching (the human toll is already horrid). Some are speculating that the loss in import capacity […]
Closer to the internet home
/in Uncategorized /by wadeferdThe folks who i bought my domain name from are apparently are holed up on the 10th floor of a skyscraper in downtown New Orleans, with three weeks of backup power and a bunch of webcams. Thanks guys.
At what point is a city no longer redeemable ?
/in General /by wadeferdIn watching the New Orleans coverage over the last few days, I’m starting to wonder at what point can you feasibly rebuild a major metropolitan area after such extensive damage? Some have bounced back from the big storms. Galveston in the 1900 hurricane is a good example, but Galveston also required a massive public works […]
Hitting close to home.
/in Uncategorized /by wadeferdHouston’s opened up the Astrodome, Dallas Reunion Arena and here in Austin Tony Burger center has opened up for refugees from the hurricane. The Burger center is less than three miles form my house… I pass it every day on the way to work.
w00t
/in General /by wadeferdI done got me a promotion today ! It is our privilege to promote Wade Treichler to Communications Coordinator. There is no doubt Wade has worked incredibly hard to earn this position. Given that he has the most communication with EVERY team in this building, we are proud that he will be our representative on […]