Monthly Archives: September 2009

Texas is generally a pretty ugly state. On any given day it will be beautiful for no more than ten minutes. Those days, when they happen, look like this:

I was saying when Julia and I did the solar system model that I needed to do more projects that I could take from conception to completion in the course of a single evening. Here’s some more modest time commitment … Continue reading →

I blogged earlier about my laser printer and how I had to order a new cartridge over ebay. When the cartridge arrived, it turns out that it didn’t quite fit in the printer. And that’s where the hacksaw comes into … Continue reading →

During that last big trip to MT Asian Market, I had to buy a packet of spiny eels. They were just so cute, with their pointy little noses and spotted tails. There’s very little on the web about how to … Continue reading →

The bad thing about the internet is that you can learn about something obscure and then buy it on impulse a couple minutes later. That’s what happened to me when I learned about Alternative 3, a British hoax documentary that … Continue reading →

When I heard about chicken-fried bacon I thought, how could something so wonderful exist in this cold, cruel world? So of course my food-frakking deputy Julia and I had to make a pilgrimage to the holiest place in the chicken-fried … Continue reading →

So I brought a lot of the junk from the inside of projection TV home with me a while back. The other day I finally got around to turning some of that into a telescope. The body is a used … Continue reading →

Did you guys just fly some sort of top-secret experimental aircraft over Austin? Like fifteen minutes ago? I think you would recognize it if you did. It was running without lights, but I could see its shadowy outline against the … Continue reading →

I watch way too many movies. To give you an idea of how many movies I watch, if I were to blog every single movie I watched, the entries would far out-number the entries about me eating weird food. I … Continue reading →

With a characteristic suddenness, Austin has entered the rainy season. We have actually had a couple of days that were cooler than 90 degrees. There’s a life-giving release of nature when the rains return. Here’s a Hyde Park lawn with … Continue reading →