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.
Brand My Lanta
I want to direct everyone\’s attention to my-lanta.com\’s take on the new 15 million-dollar Brand Atlanta campaign. Funny stuff. My favorite is Ku Klux Ikea, right at the top. Originally found via the metroblog.
Read More...Eminent Imminance
Due to it\’s local politics flavor, I invested most of today\’s blogging energy over at the Metroblog. I don\’t really have anything else right now. Oh, except that this is in the mail. All Tall Brown needs now is a liquor license. UPDATE: A reader named Greg tracked down the speech I referenced on environmental [...]
Read More...A fucktarded plan
With most major media outlets focusing on the sickening fact that the U.S. just lost most of a major metropolitan area to a rainstorm, I thought I\’d lighten the mood a little and talk about the illegal war in Iraq that we are currently losing. Actually, since I\’m not in Iraq and I\’m not in [...]
Read More...Foreshadowing
The rain is starting to take a toll on my mental condition. It\’s not some sort of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Not only do I not mind overcast weather, I prefer it to the blazing southern sun. The problem with Atlanta\’s weather this summer is that we keep getting tossed from blazing upper-nineties heat to these [...]
Read More...Items: 2
FIRST: Through an anonymous source, it has come to my attention that the Atlanta Chili Cookoff at Stone Mountain will take place on October 1st of this year. The anonymous source is not the Atlanta Chili Cookoff website, which, as of right now, appeasrs to be missing a file called index.html. Pursuant to the authority [...]
Read More...Where he\’s going
I replenished my parched, arid kegerator after work yesterday. The sun made a rare appearance late in the afternoon, and it felt good to tear ass around Atlanta, windows down, chucking CDs I don\’t like at people who look like people I probably wouldn\’t like, and giving everyone else the stinkeye. My destination, as per [...]
Read More...Small talk is people too
Say you\’re in a large group of people–some people you know very well, some people you\’ve met a few times, several people you\’ve never met before–and the conversation suddenly dies. While you aren\’t directly responsible for the conversation, per se, you are the reason the group has gathered. For each second the undeniable, awkward silence [...]
Read More...\”I just did something so awesome … \”
After spending the two previous weekends tearing ass all over the Southeast like the childless, twenty-something, social butterflies we are, The Geester and I celebrated this past weekend by doing exactly nothing of any significance. And it was everything we both hoped it could be. We teamed up with Andy and Sheri after work on [...]
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