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"Keep Austin Weird," "Don't Sell Out" and other xenophobias make Austin people want to horde our little Central Texas treasure. Allow me to ramble a bit about economic development, the Arts, and tourism. Austin has again and again proven that it has difficulty with
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I'm switching my home server from Red Hat to Debian in hopes that some of the OpenGL stuff I'm trying to compile for my art and machine experiments goes smoother. I use my server to do rsync's from my office machine (so I can
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Over lunch, my boss told me to brace myself. One of my coworkers is leaving soon to pursue an AWESOME opportunity as an Executive Director for a non-profit in Washington D.C. We're all very happy for her and also very sad for us. Namely, on top of
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Today I sat on an interviewing panel for a position with an NSF-funded project that I do a lot of work with through my CATF-IT Cluster. There were three candidates, all very good. In the software and technical world, there is a Seven-levels-of-Hell interview gauntlet for programmers and engineers. I
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This morning I visited a grave of an infamous Texas gunslinger and outlaw, Sam Bass. The Round Rock cemetery is not more than 6 or 7 miles or so from where I live. He's buried next to one of his gang in a section of the graveyard reserved
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I thought I ought to warn you That my Eyes are About to Explode. I've not found a way to relieve them They grow from behind. Pulse and pound Pulse and pound Like kettle drums for my brains. I really ought to warn you That my Eyes are
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Just a followup... Today and yesterday, there was a LOT of interesting traffic on the austinblogger email list. Get on it... it's a bit technical and geeky right now, but I believe there is going to be a LOT of cool new stuff emerging from that group... I
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Just in case you care, here are my rambling summaries of a geekout this weekend (It was quite productive). 1. Yoshitake Motion Capture System 2. Hacked a Cuecat 3. Rsync 4. Windows Woes (12133958th in a series) 1. Compiled OpenGL hack to test my motion capture system to choreogragh Yoshitake.
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Luckily, oh-so-luckily, we had today as a holiday from work. I saw something amazing in Austin this weekend that made me feel really incredible. Well, being cooped up in my dark garage or in my home office with the shades drawn (glare is always a problem) for 72 hours is
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My blog is messed up. I'm guessing at this point that it has to do with my service provider, and I'm sorry to say they don't have a very good administration interface for me to do debugging. So, I'm in the process
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I will make an earnest effort to submit one or two entries to artbots. This will fall under my NYResolution: Show my Art. The entry deadline is March 1, so I think I can bring some experiments to a stopping point by then. Very good exposure, but I imagine the
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I'm looking at my notes from my Lunch with Sheilagh last Friday, and it's just a long and rambling list... So I'll transcribe most of that list here and try to elaborate where I can. Among many other things, we talked about geoURLs, Resolutions,