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As a new ebike owner, I’m in the market for panniers. I want to take home a large load of groceries. My bike has a rear rack and a front rack built into the frame. My current solution is a grocery tote box and cargo net. The whole
So I’m back again. Again. I’ve futzed with even more static site generators, in an effort to stay away from Wordpress. The problem is I want to be a site author, not a site developer. I have plenty of development tasks in other parts of my
Here’s my goal: write 100 words every day. It can be any topic, it just has to be 100 words or longer. That feels like a decent length. I requires more thought than your typical lazy tweet, but not so much that it makes me feel like i
Info in this article can be found in EdgeRouter - DNS Forwarding Setup and Options I have Google Fiber for Internet. $70/month for symmetric gigabit is a good deal. Speeds are consistent and service is reliable. But I don’t want to give Google the data of my DNS
The title Decasia is a play on decay and Fantasia . The allusion to the Disney film indicates a more straightforward narrative than you’ll find. The movie is made of deteriorated film clips from silent era films and newsclips. Filmmaker Bill Morrison edits them together and holds them in
I don’t know if speculative anthropology is a genre, but if it were, The Sparrow would be an exemplary piece. It gets categorized as science fiction, but the science is the least of its concerns. Yes, there are spaceships and aliens. But the spaceships are dealt with just
Martin Luther King, in Letter from Brimingham Jail . …I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the
In the fall of 2020 I got Google Fiber. For about $5 more than I was already paying to my local cable company, I got 5x the speed. I remain skeptical of Google as a company, and I hate trusting them with my privacy, but so far Google Fiber is
By “next Silicon Valley, ” I mean a runaway housing affordability disaster that prices out all the diversity and creativity that we value about Austin. Michael Agresta at Texas Monthly is opimistic that Austin won’t repeat the same housing mistakes as San Francisco. If there’s
“Good riddance” seems to be a common sentiment towards 2020, but I can’t complain too much. I have my health. I have food and place to live. Nobody in my family got sick. Not everybody can say this. It did my best to stay healthy, but
Texas Department of Transportation Open House . Don’t forget to submit a comment . Towers.net, Widening I-35 to 20 Lanes in Downtown Austin is the Anti-Project Connect : More people than ever recognize you can’t build your way out of traffic, but the Texas Department of
Emma Freer wrote a good retrospective on Austin’s successful 2020 light rail election in Austonia : Unlike other races this election cycle, the results weren’t close. Prop A passed by a nearly 19% margin, which local political analysts and transit advocates attributed to record-breaking turnout, a
In November 2020, Austin passed Proposition A, authorizing a $7.5 Billion transit expansion which includes rail. There have been various interpretations of why this succeeded. I’m not a transit or political expert, but I am an Austin resident who has been paying attention to transit issues since
Candidate for Austin City Council Place 7, Morgan Witt, quoted in the Austin Monitor The reality is that when we talk about preserving neighborhoods as they exist right now, that means we’re excluding people from those neighborhoods, If we don’t develop in these neighborhoods, people build