Entries from August 2004
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Toll roads
Talk of toll roads have been much in the air around Austin lately, after CAMPO proposed a plan to convert segments of almost every area highway into a toll road.
(source: CAMPO “Adopted Tollroads Amendments.” Click for larger version)
My visceral reaction to this was negative, which surprised me: I’ve always been in favor of less driving, [...]
Craigslist
If you haven’t checked out Craigslist (many regional sites, including one for Austin), you should. It’s a phenomenal marketplace.
A lot of people use it for casual sex hookups, and hey, if I knew about that aspect of it back when I was single, who knows? But it’s also great for getting rid of stuff that [...]
Richard Morrison for District 22
We’ve got to get rid of Delay.
Covers
New Indo-dance music is old Teutono-Indo jazz in disguise
Margins of error
If you haven’t checked out Electoral Vote, do so. It has daily updates on all the polls, and shows how the electoral vote is shaping up in map form, along with histories, spreadsheets, a real info-junkie’s dream.
A lot of the states are shown as statistical ties or near ties, meaning that one candidate’s advantage [...]
Rajamani at One World Theater
My review: mixed
Think globally, act locally
Casey’s New Orleans Snowballs offers its menu in English, Spanish, and Japanese.
The Bourne Supermacy
Dumb name, decent flick. The Bourne Supremacy is another action-type movie that doesn’t require excessive neural activity to enjoy, but it does have car chases, including one in which an improbably sturdy Russian cab acquits itself admirably against the entire Moscow police department and an assassin in a Mercedes SUV.
Matt Damon had an interesting role [...]
Beyond Black Rock
Last night Jo’s Coffee hosted an advance screening of Beyond Black Rock (surprisingly, not in the IMDB), a documentary by Austin locals about Burning Man.
Quite a crowd turned out: the entire parking lot behind Jo’s was jammed full–perhaps 500 people. Some of my fellow fire freaks and I were going to provide a little pre-show [...]
