Author Archives: mbey

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 →

There was a group trip down to Quality Seafood, and I was told that I had to have the oysters. They were cold, limp, covered in dirt, vaguely mucusy, and over-grown with secondary aquatic organisms. I dunno, I guess it … Continue reading →

My MP3 player stopped charging its own battery. In the past this would have been a tragic event, but luckily my co-workers have their own MP3 devices now, so I wasn’t forced to listen to John Aielli, or anything as … Continue reading →

By the time you read this, I will probably have eaten a perfectly ordinary, deliciously normal meal with my food frakking deputy Julia. It will be nothing that I can blog about. But go ahead and enjoy all the other … Continue reading →

I got this idea in my head that I wanted to do a scale model of the solar system. It probably came from listening to the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, a collaboration project celebrating the international year of astronomy. … Continue reading →

If you are a frequent reader of this blog (and really, who isn’t?), then you are familiar with my previous failed attempt to make a SPAM dip. Let me assure you, dear reader, that I have turned that failure into … Continue reading →