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In case I ever end up with Vista…shudder.
Jun 052007
Jun 042007
I saw Matt Dentler mention a rumor that Prince played the Belmont on Saturday in a post yesterday and another mention popped up as well.
Well, I found this Statesman blog entry and Statesman news story this afternoon and it appears that Prince did, in fact, play The Belmont on Saturday night for a private birthday party for local philanthropist Chris Mattson (AMOA among other things) with Groupo Fantasma backing him up. More from Prince’s own site here.
Anybody know anyone lucky enough to attend?
Jun 022007
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Collection of YouTube videos related to scare rides and dark carnival attractions.
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Today’s the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (via Bob Mould’s Blog). I heard a story on it yesterday on The World as well. Are they all 64 yet? My father will be in a week.
Jun 012007
According to my Metroblogging brethren in San Jose and DC, today is National Doughnut Day and Krispy Kreme is giving away a free doughnut to honor the occasion.
I haven’t verified with the Stassney or the 183 locations that they’re participating, so don’t blame me if you get down there and they tell you to screw off. The free doughnut isn’t really all that special since they seem to make a habit of giving out a free one when you’re standing in line. At least they do at the Stassney location when I’m there on Sunday mornings.
Not coincidentally, I suppose, Metroblogging LA points to a list of America’s Best Doughnuts. I saw Voodoo doughnuts in Portland, OR featured in an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. It was drool worthy. There aren’t any Texas shops on the list. I know people are partial to Shipley’s and there are fans of Round Rock doughnuts. Dale Rice blogged last month that Dunkin Donuts will be adding five locations here over the next few years.
Have we gotten far enough past the Atkins craze that people are eating these again? Are there any other local shops we’re missing? I’m all for the fat doughy goodness. I’m still pissed off at Starbucks for instituting that no trans fats deal. Their pastries taste like shit now. Who do I have to kill to get the old Pumpkin Scones back?
Free Time: Layoffs Hit for Dell and Freescale
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Jun 012007
If you notice a few more people hanging out at your local coffee shop during the day, they probably work for Dell or Freescale. Dell announced yesterday a 10% cut in staff over the next 12 months and Freescale handed out pink slips on Wednesday to an undisclosed number of its 5,400 local employees, including a friend of mine.
This follows the AMD layoffs early last month and announcement from IBM that they’re cutting down their Global Services divison, following an opinion column from Robert Cringely predicting that they’ll be instituting massive layoffs. I don’t think there are very many Global Services workers based in Austin, but somebody can correct me on that one.
Taking out the 9/11 factor, are we headed for another 2002-like downturn? I saw some people mention that they thought Austin wasn’t as tech heavy now, so it wouldn’t hit as hard, but this seems like a lot of jobless tech workers dumped into the market in one month.
Jun 012007
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I bought one of the WRT54GLs a couple of weeks ago to replace our venerable Netgear MR314 whose radio suddenly stopped working. I’ve been waffling on flashing it with DD-WRT, but I think I’m going to do it. The range right now isn’t acceptable.
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In case I give up my dreams of a Macbook…I’m definitely not going to Vista.