Month: April, 2005

Detroit Rock City

28 April, 2005 (19:43) | Uncategorized | No comments

Airlines are dumb, with one exception - Southwest Airlines. I grew up with Southwest because they’ve always had the cheapest flights to the places I wanted to go (different cities in Texas and Oklahoma) and now I’m just too used to it. I woke up late for my flight this morning, hauled ass […]

Oh stewardess, I speak jive

26 April, 2005 (15:44) | Uncategorized | No comments

Ahhh, Airplane!. Daniel just sent me a link to the dialectizer, which did an awesome job turning my last post to jive-speak.
“High Crime Area Afta’ spendin’ some week in Mo-town, ah’ had da damn pleasho’ man uh returnin’ t’a new cubicle at wo’k (we reo’ganized our cubicles t’fit our growin’ numba’ of developuh’s). As […]

High Crime Area

20 April, 2005 (16:57) | Uncategorized | 1 comment

After spending a week in Detroit, I had the pleasure of returning to a new cubicle at work (we reorganized our cubicles to fit our growing number of developers). As if it’s not enough of a pain in the ass to move cubicles (even if it’s no more than 10 feet), at some point […]

disco inferno

17 April, 2005 (03:29) | Uncategorized | No comments

After getting back from my week-long trip to Dee-Troit, I was ready for some much needed relaxation. Unfortunately, yesterday was Burnet Road Day (an annual pubcrawl event) and I couldn’t pass it up. Though bowling wasn’t on the official agenda (only the Highland Lanes bar), my group wanted to do some bowling and […]

I am not the World Trade Center

6 April, 2005 (21:13) | Uncategorized | No comments

South by Southwest, Day 4
Day:hungover
Night:Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (SXSW link)Timonium (SXSW link)+/- (SXSW link)Say Hi To Your Mom (SXSW link)Wolfmother (SXSW link)Cut Copy (SXSW link)
What I probably failed to mention about SXSW Day 3 was that Kat and I had a lot to drink. So Saturday morning (afternoon really) came a little too soon. […]

Makes the homies say ho and all the girlies want to scream

4 April, 2005 (23:14) | Uncategorized | No comments

South by Southwest, Day 3Day: Calexico (SXSW link)Adult Swim Party: M.I.A. (SXSW link), Ratatat (SXSW link)
Night:No Luck Club (SXSW link)Bloc Party (SXSW link)Kasabian (SXSW link)Fisherspooner never happened.Gram Rabbit (SXSW link)Rainer Maria (SXSW link)
Kat went to the eye doctor in the morning and he found a speck of metal in her eye. OUCH! […]