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Notes of Interest: Texas Music and Active Verbs

Bob Livingston provided an all-around fantastic read and first-hand insight to the creation of an iconic Texas album. If you have any interest at all in Texas Music, you should read it. So, we played it a second time and the audience knew what was coming. You think “Redneck Mother” had a great crowd reaction? [...]

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“Siri, remind me to start the crockpot at 9:30.” M…

“Siri, remind me to start the crockpot at 9:30.” Marital harmony must be maintained.

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“Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail,…

“Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.” – From music theorist John Cage’s list of ten rules and one hint.

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Notes of Interest: Volume 002

My kind of photography. Majestic seems appropriate. Gridmaster Mark Boulton tweets on the limitations of mobile: “Columnar grids are used to create *horizontal* connections between content. On 300-odd pixels, there isn’t enough horizontal.” I was happy to see a number of friends from The 9513, and writers from other blogs in general, included in Nashville [...]

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“I’ve never eaten Mexican food in Chicago. And, no…

“I’ve never eaten Mexican food in Chicago. And, no disrespect, but it can’t be that good if a guy named Bayless is cooking it.” – Lyle Lovett waxes philosophical in the February/March 2012 issue of Garden & Gun

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Framing Battlefield Texas

Speaking of iPhone, I used mine to snap a few process photos of a frame I built over the past couple of weekends. I already had the wood cut, assembled, and sanded before I thought about capturing any pictures, so these are mostly the complete frame laying around to dry. Most of my time is [...]

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Step aside 3D, the world was meant to be seen in @…

Step aside 3D, the world was meant to be seen @2x. — That’s code for “I got an iPhone 4S”

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How Doctors Die

If I had my druthers I’d go out like Clint Eastwood at the end of Gran Torino, but I’d say doctors have things pretty well figured out, too. [...] they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. [...]

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This Is Me Getting Action

I’d like to get in the practice of writing again. Consider this your notice. And that TR quote in the previous entry, that’s my guide, a drill sergeant of sorts, to help accomplish the goals below in the new year. “Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a [...]

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“Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter…

“Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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My Minimoir

Like a teenage boy, this site lacks focus. Consider it a dumping ground for my brain; little snippets of things I'd like to remember, but probably won't. I like to say that I'm a designer by day and a designer by night, too. That'd be a joke if it was funny. I also like country music, western novels, and wrestling bears. I've got the beard to prove it. Writing about myself is ridiculous.

Sometimes I tweet and dribbble.

I work at www.blazersix.com and live in Austin, TX.