Jul

31

Volkswagen releasing 62mpg diesel

July 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Technology, Current Affairs

Who needs a hybrid when you can get 62mpg with a diesel?
Did I mention it’s under $20K?
From Treehugger.com
-Dave

Jul

30

My life as a cartoon

July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Web, Humor, TV

Found a cool Simpsons character generator online. Enjoy.
-Dave

Jul

30

A woman gets on a bus…

July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Humor

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That’s the ugliest baby that I’ve ever seen.”
The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “That driver just insulted me!”
The man says: “You go right up there and tell […]

Jul

30

Weekend festivities

July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Music, Food & Drink, Misc

Friday - Went to Kyber for some Indian food, then to Borders for some books/magazines.
Saturday - Went to El Teimpo Cantina for some Mexican food, then to Sound Waves for some music (I got some Thelonious Monk, Killing Joke, The Fall & Metallica - Justine got some Gypsy Kings, Erasure, Echo & the Bunnymen, and […]

Jul

28

What woud Mel do?

July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Current Affairs

Devout Catholic party animal, Mel Gibson, was recently stopped for suspicion of DUI on the PCH in California. He was not painted blue (as pictured above), but doesn’t it play much better in your minds eye if he were painted blue at the time?
So kids, the next time you watch Passion of the Christ, […]

Jul

27

Save River Oaks Theater

July 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Texas, Current Affairs

From the Houston Chronicle:
Three Houston landmarks, including the Landmark River Oaks Theatre and the Bookstop in the former Alabama Theater, have been declared endangered by the Greater Houston Preservation.
The alliance has learned, spokesman David Bush said Friday, that two buildings in the River Oaks Shopping Center could face demolition within two years.
Justine and I have […]

Jul

26

Blog additions

July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Web, Blog

Just added a cool weather plugin and RSS subscription buttons to the blog. You can see the weather widget at the top of the right column and the RSS subscription icons on the bottom of the right column.
I’ll be tweaking the blog for the next couple weeks until I get it configured for maximum nerdiness.
You […]

Jul

26

A little wet in Texas

July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Texas, Current Affairs

It’s been raining for the past day or so here in southern Texas.  Fash flood warnings and overflowing streets have been making folks in Houston late for work and a bit more cranky than usual.  This seems pretty normal to me for this time of year.  I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that the good […]

Jul

26

Mobile posting is working

July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Web, Blog

I finally got the mobile posting working on Wordpress (as seen by my Mr. T post below). It was very easy to do on Blogger, but I was having a hard time configuring a system to do this with Wordpress.
On blogger, I just registered my cellphone number and email address and anything I sent […]

Jul

26

Mobile post test

July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Mobile

This is a mobile blog test post. If this works correctly you should see Mr. T above this post.

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