Aboot
Swashbuckling, Atlanta-area, Technology Program Manager. I brew beer, play drums, run a little bit, and try not to under-achieve. I have people skills.
Premature deck announcement (aka – SINKHOLIO)
So … we\’re going to put a new deck on our house. I originally planned a big announcement (which really just means a long blog post with lots of capital letters), but I\’ve come to realize if I try to plan something to completion, I will spend the rest of my life in the planning [...]
Read More...Mea Culpa
I meant to write this up a couple days ago, but I keep forgetting because I will be 31 in July, which means my brain resembles a single, sparking wire dangling in the center of a dank, empty warehouse. Last Thursday, whilst enjoying some frosty cold ones around a large table at M&T, Bob Townsend [...]
Read More...Sub-optimal Beer episode 1: \”Chelada\”
Do you happen to have 45 extra minutes burning a hole in your life? Well then sashay on over to the Georgia Podcast Network and listen to Jen, Rusty, Duane, Garrett, and me review four beers that have been infused with some sort of lime flavor. Sub-optimal Beer episode 1: \”Chelada\” beers – May 22, [...]
Read More...Onomatopoenis
Oh, did I forget to tell you I\’m in a new band? It\’s called Onomatopoenis. We have one album [s/t], and it has one song on it, which is called Onomatopoenis. Unfortunately, immediately following the release of our debut record, we broke up having never played a single live show. Oh well. Here is the [...]
Read More...Next Beer Tasting
Due to some schedule adjusting, I will be filling in for Bob Townsend at next Thursday\’s Muss and Turner\’s beer tasting. You will be sampling (and I will be yammering about) 6 beers new to the Atlanta market. The list isn\’t final, but I can tell you there will be beer(s) from Utah (pronounced UTAH!!!) [...]
Read More...Houston, Texas
\”Oh, your Austin connection is leaving from C17 in in C Terminal. You have to take the inter-terminal shuttle to get there. Walk down to the end of this terminal until you get to gate A2. That\’s where the shuttle is.\” \”Okay. Thank you.\” Sigh. I know where the shuttle is. It\’s right there under [...]
Read More...Random Search Strings
I\’ve stopped doing a monthly search string post because there haven\’t been enough good new ones the past several months to justify a quality post each month. And come one, people, I am all about the quality. That said, I was just poking around in the stats files and some of these made me chuckle. [...]
Read More...Garden 2008
I\’ve tried my hand at suburban farming in the past. As with virtually every aspect of my life, I am really good at getting it started and exceptionally shitty at following it through to the end. Why, just last summer, I started a (rather late) container garden at the end of the driveway with some [...]
Read More...Torche – Meanderthal
Atlanta / Miami 4-piece, Torche released a new album called Meanderthal yesterday. Gchatting with Thomas a little bit ago, I used the description \”Melodic, stoner prog.\” I feel that\’s pretty accurate, but I would also add the words \”anthem\” and \”rumbling\” in there somewhere if I could. I\’m still on some PR email lists from [...]
Read More...Starbucks – now with less charcoal and pee pee
Well over a year ago I described Starbucks coffee as \”Kingsford soaked in hot pee.\” It\’s not some sort of revelation. Virtually every homo sapiens I know thinks Starbucks coffee is on the licking-the-campfire side of the flavor spectrum. Well, it appears someone very high up at Starbucks marketing reads my blog (or, you know, [...]
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