Author: Coté
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Most Unconvincing Billboard Ever
Most Unconvincing Billboard Ever, originally uploaded by kaskotak. Kim and I have been seeing variations of this billboard all over town, promoting tourism for Beaumont. I’ve never really considered Beaumont for tourism – it’s famous around Texas for smelling like rotten eggs, due to all that gushing oil.
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Cheeze Whiz Lyrics – From the Archives
From long, long ago, I found this list of alternitive Police lyrics inspired by cheez whiz. From none other than Mr. John Arley Burns. Enjoy! CHEEZE WHIZ (roxanne): 1 Cheeze Whiz you don’t have to sit on the shelf tonight The holocaust is over, let’s eat our processed cheeze, alright! Cheeze Whiz you don’t have…
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Book Review: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Suzanne Robertson My rating: 3 of 5 stars As with most pattern books, this is one you flip through in an hour and then save it to refer back to. The strength of software management and development pattern books is describing problems that commonly…
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Austin Politicos, Urban Outdoors, Nagging – Austin’s Very Own #45
To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 While Kim and I drive around to do some errands, we discuss: The Texas Freedom Network fund-raiser thingy, pictured above. Culture wars in Texas.…
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Hamthrax in the neighborhood – Austin’s Very Own #42
To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 Driving back from the gym, Kim and I talk about exposure to swine flu, which we never suffered from, except to be bored. We…
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Westin Bonaventure, Sushi in LA
Westin Bonaventure, originally uploaded by cote. While at Adobe MAX this year, I stayed in this place, the “Bonaventure” as everyone calls it. It’s sort of a weirded out collection of five cylinder towers with a low-key hotel-mall inside. As a plaque next to an elevator noted, there was a scene in True Lies shot…
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Book Review: It Can’t Happen Here
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis My rating: 2 of 5 stars I gave up reading this one because it never seemed to get to a plot. And, you know, it was like a “bad things can happen” book that got a bit repetitive and (given how cynical we all are now-a-days, without even…
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It was somehow unfair
But the Saigon years would not be happy ones. After all those years learning control, discipline, making those the touchstones of his life, Max Taylor was now confronted by the wild irrationality, the deviousness, the maliciousness and venality of the South Vietnamese. It was somehow unfair; people who are about to be saved from the…
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Office Space, Beeps, Pens, and Costly IP – Episode 158
To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 Earlier this afternoon, Charles and I found time to record an episode while we were taking a break from looking at office space. Check…
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Sugar on Cereal – Episode #157
To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 Charles and I catch up on things like water on sink-tops and sugar on cereal. Special guest: Kim! Tiny guest: Niilo!
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A fruit bowl for two
Awhile ago, I thought it’d be nice to have a fruit bowl on the table. We’d have apples and bananas and grapes just like one of the endless, boring still lifes you see on vacation muesem strolls. Minus the marble-eyed fish and shoulder flashing milk-maids. Keeping all that fruit from rotting is tough work. Bananas…
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Procrastination
I have that certain problem with procrastination, the one where I do all sorts of things of little to high value instead of THE one thing (or things) that really needs to get done. It’s sort of like, I’m too lazy to do the simple things I’m procastinating with without something more important to avoid.
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Mom Comes to Visit, Bacon Bourbon – Austin’s Very Own #37
To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 Kim and I recount a recent visit from my mother and eating at Frank, where they have bacon-infused bourbon.
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I’m sitting flipping pages on the iPhone doing nothing. It’s the new twiddling your thumbs.
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Themes of Bruce Sterling Works
Having finished up The Caryatids and the spime-tastic (unintentional) playbook for IBM’s “Smart Planet” Shaping Things, I’ve now read all (I’m pretty sure…except for the Difference Engine, co-authored with William Gibson) of Bruce Sterling‘s books. There’s a passel of them, but I’m a pretty big fan of his fiction and non-fiction. The list above is…
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Finally, someone to vote for
After his tragically failed run for Gov. of California, Our Friend, Lord Humungus is available for the ’04 election: Just give me your vote, and there will be an end to the horror. No one escapes the Humungus, least of all those who insolently pull gas from my desert.
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