Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Started out with hubby heading over to Gamestop to wait for their delivery truck. He scored a Wii, extra controllers, Zelda, Call of Duty 3, and Trauma Center.
Then my husband and I independently bought Roombas (robot vacuum cleaners) in today’s Wootoff.
Then I received a call from a professor at school, who had gotten my [...]

ACL Fest is in full swing again, which means that I can almost hear it from the house. From inside, it sounds like maybe a neighbor two doors down has a garage band over to practice. If I go upstairs and listen from the bathroom window, it elevates me to where I’m almost [...]

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Big storm last night. This is what 50 mph winds can do to your trees. Luckily nobody got hurt - it didn’t hit the house. Also, our 500 year old oak tree came though unscathed.

Back in November I wrote a post about Good Mourning Tree Company who kept leaving flyers on my door. That post has been very popular on this website, garnering several search engine referrals from people looking for more information about the business.
Today we got another flyer. They’ve changed a bunch of information around [...]

We went to the Louisiana Swamp Romp today. At the gate there was a security guard. She stopped me and asked to look in my fanny-pack. She was taken aback when I asked, “And what are you looking for?” Her response: “Stuff that shouldn’t be there.”
Thank you for that enlightenment.
Ironically, it [...]

Over the last few days I’ve been attending panels at South by Southwest Interactive and covering them for ARGN, the Alternate Reality Gaming Network. Here are the articles I’ve written:
The Wisdom of Crowds
Designing for Global and Local Social Play
Serious Games for Learning
Cluetrain: Seven Years Later
Interview with GMD Studios’ Brian Clark
I had a fantastic time [...]

I’m on a press pass for SXSW Interactive this year, covering it for ARGN. I was also invited to a party hosted in part by GMD Studios on Sunday night.
My problem was that I did not have any suitably hip clothing to wear. So I headed over to my trusty shopping mecca, Stein [...]

The weather man on the local news has stopped combing his hair back. It’s bright red and sticks straight up and he is now a dead freaking ringer for Heat Miser. Every time he comes on TV I start singing it…
I’m Mister Green Christmas
I’m Mister Sun
I’m Mister Heat Blister
I’m Mister Hundred and One
They [...]

EDIT: There is an update to this issue here.
Are you looking for tree service? Considering using Good Mourning Tree Company at 512-420-0733, run by Sid Mourning at 512-657-4349? Are you a glutton for punishment who relishes verbal abuse and inviting cons onto your property? Why then, I’d say you have made the [...]

I can hear the Austin City Limits festival from my bathroom window. Coldplay is on. They’re playing “In My Place”.
That is all.