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RIP Daniel Johnston
Local music hero Daniel Johnston passed away yesterday. Most of you all who don’t live around Austin are probably asking, “who?” I’ll go with the easiest answer. You may remember Kurt Cobain wearing a shirt with this weird frog on … Continue reading
Eighteen years in one house!
This anniversary completely slipped my mind with all the other crap going on but three days late is better than either not at all or in several days. I often have to pinch myself because I didn’t grow up in … Continue reading
Texas continues to lead in stupidity
Nevermind The Onion‘s ongoing dark joke about America, the Laboratory for Bad Ideas (the Texas Legislature) and Gov. Shitbag signed a series of laws to give Ammosexuals boner pills. These will soon go into effect, allowing morons to carry guns into … Continue reading
Thanks for the wishes and all, mellow day
Took it mostly easy yesterday. Had to get up relatively early to have some finishing touches done to my new car, goop they put on the windshield to protect it from all the damned rocks and gravel here. Then I … Continue reading
I still got it with this machine!
Spent a good chunk of my day at the Classic Gaming Expo in downtown Austin. It wasn’t quite the 70,000 square feet of video games I was hoping for, more like 20K with 50K of vendors, mostly people selling legacy … Continue reading
Posted in Arcade Games, Austintatious, Pinball
Tagged Bugs Bunny, Convention, Eighties
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Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt
Yesterday, I got to participate in a scavenger hunt that utilized Augmented Reality when it came to finding clues to move on to the next destination. This was done for my friend Ebeth’s birthday celebration up at the Domain. Despite … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Austintatious, Science & Technology
Tagged Augmented Reality, Birthday Party
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Even Chuy’s got in on the joke
This was seen at Pinballz while we were killing time between Brick Fiesta things and had dinner at PF Chang’s. Personally, when the local TexMex chain is in on an inside joke with fans, you know it’s over. On the … Continue reading
Whataburger sold to a Chicago interest
Since 1950, the Dobson family has kept their predominantly Texas-based burger chain privately owned. It is something they proudly display on the windows of the restaurants, “Family Owned.” Not any longer. Technically what Harmon Dobson’s offspring have done is sell … Continue reading
Texas “Gubmint” decides to arm teachers as the solution
The hits just keep coming from the Texas Triumvirate of Tomfoolery. In the wake of the Santa Fe (‘burb of Houston) school shooting, the Republicans have decided that the solution of course is anything but stricter gun laws. Oh there’s money … Continue reading
Red-light cameras are now banned in Texas!
As the cliché goes, a broken clock is right twice a day is definitely true with the Texas Legislature (aka, the Laboratory for Bad Ideas), Governor Shitbag (Abbott) and Lt. Governor Red Skull (Patrick). I actually agreed on one law … Continue reading
Poor creature thanks to Austin drivers
Last night I was happily driving home because I got to meet Adam Savage of Mythbusters (more about this eventually) and while I was in the home stretch on Pflugerville’s main drag (aka FM 1825/Pecan Street), a possum was on the road. … Continue reading
Chupacabracon VI is over and was great fun!
The Austin area’s primary gaming convention coincides at a bad time but I always go with it first because we don’t have anything better nor closer (allegedly HavenCon is trying to turn that around). GenCon is in Indiacrapolis (pass), DragonCon … Continue reading
Moontower 2019
Austin’s Eighth Annual Moontower Comedy Festival (aka Moontower 2019) was pretty good this year. For me, it wasn’t as cool as last year when they had the after party at a place the comedians enjoyed hanging out at but I … Continue reading
Two jokes below, one in the sign and one I thought of
Conan’s Pizza rocks, along with a couple other locals, but this place has a sense of humor as you may see in the sign. Give up on the first one? The italicized text works if you sing along to the … Continue reading
The annual invasion is upon us again
However, the stars have aligned against us residents even further. The planners behind SXSW forgot to coordinate with UT and AISD and schedule this around Spring Break. So downtown will be even more crowded, terrible and best avoided. It’s also … Continue reading