Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov’s tale of a struggling empire and a new foundation, started with a bang and ended with a whimper. A book that had tremendous potential to be an epic portrayal of an outer space battle between ‘new ideas’ and ‘old established ideas’ all of a sudden became a ‘let’s talk about [...]
Random tidbit, did you know Slash made them carry that church out in the middle of the desert, for the Video November Rain, just so he could JAM in front of it? That’s some excessive sh*t. In visiting Houston this weekend, I always go to my sister’s church. I’ve been to many ‘wrong’ churches, and [...]
Jamie was my 8th grade graduation dance ‘date’, and it’s wonderful that we still are great friends. She travels all over the place, was in Calgary last week, has a potential trip to Moscow on the horizon, and the continental US is like my average trip to San Marcos. Highway 6 (something in itself that [...]
Grant is a cool little dude, today I taught him about the Green Lantern. I said whenever there is trouble you can hit the ‘red button’ on the Thinkpad, and the Green Lantern will come to the rescue! I told him to not abuse the ‘red button’ though, and only use it when there is [...]
I’m officially hooked on YouTube, I’m usually not a quick adopter of trends, but this one is here to stay. I’ve browsed videos for a few hours, making ‘my favorites’ list, and here are a few. The creator was yet another panelists at SXSW this year. Billy Bragg, singing its all about the price of [...]
It’s that time, time to procrastinate about putting my resume together. Right now life is one big pile of uncertainty. I’ve been doing plenty research on the job market and potential places to move, even though Austin seems to be on the top 10′s of many lists in terms of places to live, as it [...]
The guy from You Have Bad Taste in Music would have went crazy if here were here this evening. Turn off your TV, the Internet is On. I could go down an extremely cynical in my depiction of the Buzzfest, instead I’ll just say that friends like the Doc and Melanie make any event worthwhile. [...]
Ashley B’s babyshower and a nice conversation with Mr. Boehm was on the agenda for the evening. Great seeing Kimmie P now Kimmie Z, and can’t help but remember when the girls went ‘Naked‘ down the streets of Austin, after the stellar performance from great band. Marty, of course, always a pleasure chatting with you, [...]
World Cup is well underway, I’m currently watching on my buddy Ron’s 52 inch TV, the taping of Germany vs Poland. I’m going for Germany, since the USA is shiza. Last world cup I was in Spain, watching Germany and Brazil go head to head, watching Reynaldo and his goofy haircut slowly tear down Oliver [...]
As blogger would have it, I spent a decent amount of time tearing this song apart, lots of good meaning here, but alas I accidentally wiped out the content. In a nutshell, the thoughts were about how important great dialogue is, and what it means to be deviant. As with any good tune, it’s interpretative, [...]