For those of you who have seen me sporting the stylish and affordable Web-@nywhere wristwatch, you can see my writeup on the subject at the No Fear of the Future blog. That’s another one of those blogs that I should writing at, but I’m not. Basically, I’m tackling the obligations of the last year in
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The Car2Go car share service has added a couple of electric vehicles to its fleet. I’d been seeing them around town, but it was a while before I passed one that was available for rent. I didn’t particularly need to use the service at the time, but how could I pass by an electric vehicle
Austin has had some spring rains, and with that comes the renewal of life and stuff. I was helping a friend put away some trash on his porch, and we found a chameleon hiding in a crumpled piece of butcher paper. I tried to catch it, but it immediately jumped onto my shirt. Don’t worry,
I’ve been in Austin for ten years, but I hadn’t known that if you went far enough up the Barton Creek green belt, you’ll find a permanent stretch of water. It’s essentially in Westlake, just a ways up Capital of Texas Highway, and it’s called Lost Creek. My editing colleague Steve is the one who
Hobo with a Shotgun was pretty big in Austin when it came out. There was a standup arcade version of the promotional iPhone app game down at the Alamo Drafthouse, which I regret not getting to play. What I saw of the game looked like stylistically very similar to Double Dragon, which is to say
I’ve been bringing my fly rod and hand-tied flies to work, and every day after work I’ve taken to the ponds and lakes on my way home. It’s big change from the state of affairs during the winter when it was a struggle to get a single bite and it got dark almost as soon
The Horde – French zombies meet French Crime
I was just telling Julia that it seems like we’ve been seeing a lot of media that takes place in European tenement high rises. Most of it is in London, like in Attack the Block, Misfits, and Dr. Who. But the French tenements appear essentially identical. They are unornamented and decayed. A labyrinth of walkways
Tex Mex, I Would Like You to Meet Mex Tex
Somewhere in Austin, off Pleasant Valley, near Riverside, there’s a weekend flea market and a covered Mexican shopping mall. During the week, the flea market is just an empty lot, except for a couple of food trucks. But one of these food trucks isn’t your standard Mexican taco cart. This is a Mexican hotdog/hamburger cart.
Austin Fishing Team takes a visit to Travis County Southeast Metropolitan Park to fish for panfish, catfish, perch, bass, and no small quantity of mud.
Mad Monster Party
Just when you think you’ve seen every weird movie out there, you find another. Mad Monster Party?, a 1967 stopmotion movie that is so old school that it features a Peter Lorre homage character and an homage to Phyllis Diller, which is played by Phyllis Diller herself. The plot is unimportant. It’s a sort of