SXSW Day 1

SXSW was good. After I got into town, saw Nellie McKay at Waterloo. Went to S. Congress, Hot Club of Cowtown at Continental. Dinner w/ friends at the Boathouse – UT beats Princeton. then spent the whole evening at the Continental, ending in Southern Culture on the Skids. i’ll try to write more next week. … Read more

sleep, precious sleep

Funny how when you know you’re not going to work the next day, you behave accordingly. Slept in late. Haven’t left for Austin, yet. I may have to search for Shiloh on Sunday. -b

Whither Shiloh, Texas

So, a few weeks ago, I was browsing the Handbook of Texas Online. It’s something I do. Browse resource materials. It’s similar to my love of the technical manual. Anyway, as I was browsing The Handbook, I came across an interesting entry. Or more precisely, I came across sixteen identically titled entries. All for places … Read more

i’m blogging this

I L.O.V.E. a good t-shirt. And Jennifer was wearing one tonight. “I’m blogging this” on the front. It was geek-tastic. As I was chatting with her, I had to glance to the back of her t-shirt. See if there was anything there. Indeed there was. www.oreilly.com My first thought was Blender Rebublican Extraordinaire found a … Read more

SXSW T-2 days

The last several years I’ve payed for the wristband, had many excess hours to plan, read, and sceme, and written email updates almost daily. I won’t be doing that this year. I’m going the cheap experience – which is just a rich, but different. And what updates I do manage, I will do on LJ, … Read more