So I went snooping around the set of The Alamo yesterday with my camera. I purposely wore my work badge with STAFF on it hoping that’d gain me access to otherwise restricted areas. No one shooed me away, but I still didn’t get very far, mostly because I’ve never been a good gate crasher. I […]

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… Dennis Quaid. And he just saw me. Really, though, I don’t expect him to walk up to a crew member later and say, “Hey, I just saw Michael Brown!”
There are hordes of big-budget movie trailers lined up and down the streets downtown. I circled the block once, asked someone with a badge what they […]

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Le Geek, c’est chic? I downloaded Red Hat 9 last weekend. I now have two boxes, the old generic Pentium my co-worker gave me last year (zelda) and another $50 Gateway I picked up from Goodwill (sophie). I put two hard drives in zelda, which is the server. Sophie is the workstation. I even built […]

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Tim Robbins for President.

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As in, “Easter.”

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There’s this Russian site that has reprinted the entire text of William Gibson’s short story, New Rose Hotel (http://lib.sarbc.ru/win/GIBSON/hotel.txt). I wanted to read it but I didn’t have time right then so I tried printing it out to read later. But for some reason it wouldn’t print. So I copied the text into NotePad and […]

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There used to be a retail store called Gibsons, back when I was a kid. These were the days of Piggly Wiggly, TG&Y (aka toys, guns and yo-yos) and Woolworth’s. I only remember buying balloons there one summer which I would later fill with water and pretend were high-tech hand bombs. See, the water inside […]

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[The dog enters, sniffs the small child once as if to verify that he’s the same small child who’s been terrorizing his kingdom for the last year. Dog loiters, waiting for some desperately-needed attention from the grown-up who’s watching the small child.]
SMALL CHILD: [pointing at dog] Da-da.
GROWN-UP: No, doggie.
SMALL CHILD: Da-da.
GROWN-UP: Nooooo, doggie.
SMALL CHILD: [gleeful] […]

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Can you believe it? One year ago today, Ari was in huge amounts of pain while Julien and I twiddled our thumbs in anticipation of Mr. Gabriel’s arrival. Time flies. Happy birthday, little monkey.

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So there I was at work cataloging a Texas Parks and Wildlife document on endangered slender rush peas and I’m like going through my database looking for an authorized subject heading for rush peas and like there’s nothing (!) so I try under SLENDER RUSH PEA and even ENDANGERED SLENDER RUSH PEA but still nothing […]

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