Entries from August 2002
Firenight
Another Tuesday, another firenight.
The Problem with Music
A recent discussion on Plastic reminded me of this article, “the problem with music,” by Steve Albini. I had read it some years ago, and it really stuck in my mind. Somewhat more recently, Courtney Love had some sharp words on the industry.
360 Southbound
Rode 360 southbound today. 28 miles. Hot hot hot. Ugh. I haven’t been riding enough and wasn’t prepared for the heat (nominally 99°F–actually a lot more out on the road). I was reduced to my bailout gears by the last couple hills on 360, grinding along at a miserable 6 mph, under a cloudless sky [...]
Fun facts about chiles
It’s Hatch chile season again, so here’s Chiles 101: The Science Behind the Burn. It turns out we really can get addicted to spicy food. Just say yes!
Lovely & Amazing
Saw Lovely & Amazing with Gwen yesterday. Good movie. Very good acting. The little non-verbal ways in which the characters conveyed their feelings towards each other impressed both of us, and the interactions were very true to life.
It was also refreshing that, although serious things happened to the characters in the movie, we weren’t hit [...]
More fun with SUVs
SUVs come under fire.
Austin blogging
There was a meetup of Austin bloggers a few days ago, at the Bouldin Creek coffee house. It was fun. A total of six people showed: Jon Lebkowsky, Jenny Nazak, Rebecca Robertson, David Nunez, Rob Fischler, and myself. Completely coincidentally, I also just discovered an Austin bloggers webring.
It’s interesting to peruse some of the other [...]
Blogger code
From time to time I’ll see a cryptic string of numbers and letters in the signature line of someone’s e-mail. This, I have learned, is a “geek code,” denoting in highly compressed fashion the degrees and dimensions of one’s geekiness. Well, I just ran across the equivalent for bloggers. Apparently I’m a B4 d+ t+ [...]
DVD region codes to fade away?
Evil DVD region codes to go away?
Open Letter to America from a Canadian
This is one of the best bits of vitriol I’ve read in a while:
Go get your ten-billionth burger, America. Fatten your already fat asses with bacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit stupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting the next episode of sad families being humiliated on “Cops.”
Of course, this was written by [...]
