Monthly Archives: January 2023

Holiday Inn has just gotten weird

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Steve

We took a mini-vacation away from the house, cats and dumb neighbors who love fireworks. No luck on New Year’s Eve but on the day, we crashed at this relatively new Holiday Inn. They’ve taken an odd turn since I … Continue reading →

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How Austin NeoLiberals “solve” traffic

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Steve

This design is all part of a growing disease called “The New Austin,” in which traffic issues are solved by throwing unprotected bike lanes into major streets that I guess only make the Lance Armstrong Mafia happy. I know thanks … Continue reading →

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Doc Brown in Austin?

Posted on January 5, 2023 by Steve

Oh the things you see around Austin! I did the best I could at protecting their privacy but the car’s owner gave me permission to share this with Christopher Lloyd too, I put it on his Twitter. Actually, I’m surprised … Continue reading →

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1903: Edison indirectly electrocutes Topsy the elephant

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Steve

Ugh! The new year is off to a morbid start! First we lose the main lineup of the Pointer Sisters, then we have the sad 120th anniversary of Edison’s sick proof of concept…how dangerous Alternating Current (AC) was by killing … Continue reading →

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Rest in Peace to all the Pointer Sisters

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Steve

The new year is off to a sad start as the last of the Pointer Sisters, Anita, passed. I feel terrible not knowing about the other two going away in the recent past and yes, I know originally they were … Continue reading →

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Happy Tenth Birthday KUTX

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Steve

Hard to believe the FM frequency allocated to Leander was never utilized until 1988. I guess Austin was still too small to have the whole “dial” filled up as per older and much smaller markets (*cough!* Milwaukee). For all my … Continue reading →

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1983: ARPANET switches to TCP/IP

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Steve

This may not sound terribly sexy but it was a big deal 40 years ago when ARPANET, the Internet’s pre-cursor, made the shift to how the majority of network traffic both internal and external functions. I have a moderate understanding … Continue reading →

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