March 2010
33 posts
WatchThinks she’s people.
WatchCool enough for me.
““You could write a book called I Take Out The Recycling Too Much.”...”
– He’s Got My Number - Neal Pollack via Dakota.
IM Lonely
I just realized that I only have 2 people on my IM list that live in Austin - Katie and Dakota.
Do any of my Austin-based net pals want to chat from time to time about how nice the weather is / database searching techniques / tacos? Respondez-vous!
Storychord →
This is good. Every Monday, 1 picture, 1 song, 1 story.
I love new webzines.
Big Red Flag Correction
metaficionado:
Apparently my friends, whose names might rhyme with Hen Round and Painted Fence did not actually buy that goofy iPhone skin. It was awarded them free of charge as promotional schwag because they’re well connected Internet People.
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“That’s when I’ll know I’m too old. When I’m dead.”
– Joel Shaughnessy’s Photos
WatchSpend some quality time with my dog Bowie.
WatchThis was moments before the train arrived!
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My house is about a...
WatchMy dad is in town for a conference that is not SXSW, but here he is at a SXSW show making “that hand gesture, whatever it means.”
Rock and roll, dad. Rock and roll.
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WatchToday, we took the #5 bus downtown to the convention center to go to Flatstock, the screen printing art show. There are a zillion people here, and the streets are filled with music. We wandered around a bit, had a bright blue margarita, then we walked across town to Lambert’s and had some fancy BBQ.
After dinner, we were so stuffed full of meat, we decided we needed to walk more. We...
Hacking SXSW: Who Needs the Panels, Anyway? -... →
schlomo:
A story of a spoiled selfish child as CEO who wants everything for free.
My favorite part of this very sad article is when Louderback calls the very nice volunteers who help run SXSW “conference Nazis.” Those ladies who volunteered to stand by the escalator for days and days while douche bags from San Francisco sneered at them sure are assholes! And I hate all those...
I had a dream last night that Kevin Fanning offered to publish a book of my old blog entries. I was very excited about the prospect of having my words on paper again.
WatchToday we went to a party thrown by the blog I started in 2005, Austinist.com. It was a big party, featuring a speech by Austin’s mayor and the band White Denim. The streets are crowded with SXSW people. Now that the nerds are gone, the rockers are taking over the city.
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6985 Words about SXSW 2000
Thanks to Phil Gyford, I just stumbled upon my recap of MY FIRST SXSW, 10 years ago. SXSW had the first ever panel about blogging, during which I CRIED because, at the time, I believed blogging was going to ruin the internet.
Here it is, unedited. MOST of the links below will probably be broken, as they point to their original, 10-year old locations.
ENJOY!
Do you know how many people were...
Dear Tumblr,
I slept through the night last night thanks to some 5-year old melatonin pills Katie gave me, and I woke up feeling 98.7% better. And a whopping 4.5 pounds lighter! Thanks, throat crabs!
And thanks to you, Tumblrs, for all your support and pity during my convalescence. I am a pathetic and whingey sick person, and I truly appreciate that you stuck by me through my pathetic whinging.
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Fuck yeah, army ants!
Fahrvergnügen
For the last six months or so, only one of the speakers in our car has been working. Today, I finally relented and took it in to the car stereo shop in our neighborhood to have it repaired. I explained the problem, and took the technician out to the car to demonstrate. When I turned on the car, all 8 speakers leapt to life in perfect harmony.
Thanks for making me look like an asshole,...
Good news, Tumblr!
I am starting to feel better! Last night, I only woke up like 10 times with crazy feverish thoughts about how the only way I was going to be comfortable was if I squeezed my hands together really hard. This is way down from the previous nights tally.
And even better news! This little bout of illness has caused me to lose 2 pounds! If I can just stay sick for another 4 or...
Still sick, Tumblr.
Determined to get some work done today, but I can only sit upright for a few minutes at a time.
Still, managed to push out a release of bug fixes to a site I’m building.
Katie is treating me like a big baby, which is exactly what I need.
Yesterday, I watched the first two seasons of Primeval, a BBC show about monsters from the past and future invading modern day...
I just wish...
I could take a day off every now and then and NOT be sick.
Ick!
Hi Tumblr,
I am sick! It sucks a whole lot. My head feels like it is stuffed with cheese and I have a painful cough, and I can’t figure out how to get anything done.
I feel especially bad because I have a ton of work to do. Being self-employed makes it extra hard to take a sick day. Here I am, sitting in front of a computer, but I just can’t make my fingers write the code they...
