Sep 122006
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I noticed this morning on my way to drop off my daughter at daycare that many of the Capital Metro buses are displaying “United We Stand” in addition to their route numbers/names. It’s a nice sentiment, but I feel like it’s much less true than it was in the weeks following the attacks.
Five years ago, I was dropping off my son at the very same daycare. My daughter wasn’t born yet. I was flipping between different radio stations and began hearing reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center. It was early enough that no one was sure what was going on. There was speculation that it may have been an accident. Howard Stern was still on the air here that morning. I hopped between KUT, the Stern show and KLBJ. By the time I arrived at work, it was clear that it was no accident. I still work at the same tech company. We’d already had a round of layoffs that May. Since we’d chosen to target the airline industry as one of our primary areas of potential business, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks had a pronounced effect on our business. Another round of layoffs followed roughly a month after 9/11. I managed to avoid the axe once again that October.
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Sep 102006
Sep 072006
I sent in a post to BoingBoing this morning about Google blocking my proxy searches. Apparently, I’m not the only one with the problem right now. I switched off FoxyProxy for the moment, but the CustomizeGoogle privacy settings should still be protecting me from tracking even if I’m coming from my own IP.
I’m guessing maybe if I quit Firefox and got a different proxy, I’d be able to get going again as opposed to disabling proxy use for Google? Cory mentions that he’s tried other proxies and is getting the same forbidden page. A friend is advocating a BitTorrent, P2P-style proxy network instead. That way, the IP->search link is so diluted that it’s essentially worthless. Anybody working on that? Thanks.
[tags]google, proxy, anonymous, privacy, spambot, boingboing, p2p[/tags]
Emo's 14th Anniversary: Scratch Acid and Gorch Fock
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Sep 062006
From the Better-Late-Than-Never Edition:
I checked out the Emo’s 14th Anniversary Show this past Saturday. It was hot. It was crowded. There was a lot of sweat. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised given that it was an outdoor show in Austin in August. Who’da thought that the reunion would rate a cover story in XLEnt AND and cover story in the Chronicle.
I caught Gorch Fock’s last two songs. Austinist has a review of their latest CD today. I’d always meant to see them and intended to catch the whole show, but it didn’t happen. I was a big fan of Starfish, so I’m always interested in Jason Morales-affiliated projects. I didn’t see him onstage on Saturday, however. Anybody know why he wasn’t there? No longer in the band?
I also thought I recognized the singer. It turns out I did, but not exactly as I thought. Turns out, via some InterTubeWeb stalking, that he’s the twin brother of one of my neighbors, who apparently was in the cast of Texas Ranch House and who we saw in a report on a local news station (News8Austin?) about the opening of Talladega Nights at Alamo South Lamar. Have I ever mentioned that Austin’s a small town? Well, yeah.
Scratch Acid brought it. They played for over an hour and covered a lot of material. “Cannibal” hit early on and “She Said” was one of the last numbers. Yow made jokes, hung from the rafters and dedicated the show to Randy “Biscuit” Turner among others. Brett Bradford brought his son along to watch from the sidelines. Rey Washam looked very much the California surfer dude and showed his still got it, being the only one of the bunch still actively playing (I think). David Wm. Sims looked possessed and was rock solid as always. He must’ve been questioning his choice of shirt a few songs into the set.
I decided against bringing the camera, so I only got a few lame camphone shots, including the one you see here of David Yow trying to cool off on 6th Street after the show. Plenty of other people had cameras though, including several high-end looking video cameras. These two Flickr sets have some pretty good shots. Anyone else?
I wonder if any of our Chicago brethren are attending the Touch N Go 25th Anniversary that was the catalyst for this little shindig?
Sep 062006
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Bush Administration, Godwin’s Law and the all-important Goering at Nuremberg quote all in one article. What more could you want?
Sep 052006
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