Turns out the dog was named Toby and his owner lived on the other end of Chaucer Street. He says he believes Toby got loose around 12:15 PM, which sounds about right as we were finishing up our lunch around that time. When the four of us go out to lunch, it always happens like […]

I had lunch today at Ruggles off Rice Blvd. near Chaucer in West U. Click here for Google satellite image goodness of the location. As Yoda would say, ”Mmmmm! Good food!” While dining outside there was this cute brittany spaniel-type dog wandering from table to table. The dog was super friendly but not very smart […]

I got notification that my PaperlessPOBox account is now canceled, thankfully. I see that they got off their duff and fixed the machine that had the letters on it so people could actually view them. Here is the letter I sent them. I believe I wrote something on the back of the letter (which was […]

Saw THE FINAL CUT last night. It’s one of those movies that anyone could make if they had a great budget, an awesome cinematagrapher, and a piece of s***t script. Plot holes galore and a flimsy premise, this film stars poor Mira Sorvino and Robin Williams. They are really good at walking around from room […]

To the left is a graphic representation of a sign on the freeway that I use to gauge my Coming Home travel time. If traffic is kicking ass then it’ll say ”9 MIN” travel time or thereabouts. If it’s rush hour then it’ll say anything from 19+ minutes to 30 or more. I try to […]

My parents bought a VCR in 1980 for $1000. It was one of those huge mechanical lever Magnavox models with the timer that turned the power on and off. You had to set it and then push down the PLAY and RECORD lever buttons. At the designated time it would start recording. Technically you could […]

I’ve spent the last five days researching how to transplant MovableType onto my new server. In the process I’ve determined that Berkeley DB sucks major big time. Frequently if you go from one box to the other and your database version changes from v1.805 to v1.808 then the whole dang friggin’ thing won’t work unless […]

I don’t know how I missed this, but an interview I gave last month about my Real World Austin site was printed a couple weeks ago in the Austin American-Statesman. Yay! Still no bids on the car. Boo. In other news — I desperately want to use the word badonkadonk but haven’t found the occasion […]

Check out this bizarre religious nut that seems to be getting no coverage by the media here. Is this out of fear that criticizing anything conservative will tork off all conservatives? The Ministry of Isaac purports to reveal the identity of the Anti-Christ as well as other useful information such as the exact timing of […]