Tag: texas
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“People who grew up near pecan orchards (Texas, Louisiana, Georgia) overwhelmingly say puh-KAHN, regardless of education level.” There’s two things all Texans can agree to. The way to say “pecan,” and that there is no proper BBQ outside of Texas, just people who cook meat wrong.
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I am considering putting corn on my shit. I like corn just fine. I’m from Texas after all. But over here in Europe they put corn on damn-near everything, even pizza. A poke bowl has corn too. Corn has gone too far.
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Highlights from VMware Explore
Summer. For most of my life I lived in Texas, where the heat of summer melts your face off. Summer was fun because I wasn’t in school, not because it was sunny. Now that I live in a part of the world where summer is mild, I really like summer. I see what all the…
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Texas’ Regulatory Landscape | Mercatus Center – ”Texas is the 5th most regulated state in the US” // I wouldn’t have expected top 5!
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”¡A huevo!”
At its core, “a huevo” is an enthusiastic “hell yeah!” or “damn right!” in Mexican slang. It comes from huevo (which literally means “egg” but is also slang for testicles), but the phrase itself is more about confidence, excitement, or inevitability. How It’s Used Agreement or excitement → ”¿Vamos por tacos?” / ”¡A huevo!” (Hell…
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I used to be from here
Things expats notice when they’re back in America The night of arrival, at Stiles Switch. We go back to Texas each year for Christmas. You see things differently when you’ve been away for a long time. Here’s some from this year: Waymo everywhere, in Austin. So much yoghurt. Grown ass adults going to the store…
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The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues – State income tax flight: “The IRS last week published its annual data on the migration of taxpayers and adjusted gross income (AGI) between states. California ranked, again, as the biggest income loser ($23.8 billion) in 2022, followed by New York ($14.2 billion), Illinois ($9.8 billion), New Jersey ($5.3 billion)…
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Texas’s Biggest Barbecue City Is Attracting a New Crop of Exciting Restaurants – Lots going on in Lockhart.
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Everything is big in America & the men don’t wear designer purses
I’m a Texan living in Amsterdam, so when I come back to the States (Dallas and Austin this time), I noticed things about American that I never did: People are eager to be helpful, especially when you have a bunch of kids. Everyone offers to help with luggage. A cashier will race back to the…
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Impressions of America from an expat
Notes on what it’s like to be back, compare and contrast. Also, analysis of our recent kubernetes survey Lots going on at the moment. We’re on vacation for two weeks, finally going back to Texas to visit. Most of our family hasn’t met our two year old, born at the start of COVID in Amsterdam.…
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a dream I could only watch instead of do
She never brought up Daniel again, but it didn’t really matter. I’d already made it a habit to consider the way my life could have been if I’d said yes when Daniel had asked the question I knew he didn’t even think was a question, just a rite of passage we had to go through.…
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🗂 Duke Energy leases Tompkins Hall in Charlotte
> Meant to be more funky and collaborative than typical uptown office space, about 400 Duke Energy employees will work at the former mill on a permanent basis, with about 100 more working there on a rotating basis. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/busi…
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Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
“Austin’s tech talent pool has become increasingly tight, and it would be better for our economy to grow by 50 companies with 1,000 employees each than by one mega-project with 50,000 employees.” Original source: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
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Coté Memo #5 – OpenStack, an interest in cheese
I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting some pancakes and breakfast tacos with The New Stack folks, visiting with some analysts and other in-town, and moderating a panel on developer marketing Thursday morning. Also, I got my…
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Link: H-E-B creates online store with nationwide delivery service
HEB is the mega grocery chain, operating in much of Texas. It’s a sort of “mini-globalism” for them to sell globally. A lot of the local, in store brands they have are the kinds of things people visiting home would stock up on when they went back north or abroad, so there’s probably a good…
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