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SXSW 2002

It’s All About the Love…

So there is this big discussion going on over at SXSWbaby! and it reminded me of something I realized while at SXSW… I’ve been spending WAY too much time online. Matter of fact, some of you may have noticed my absence both during the conference and afterwards. No, this is not one of those “I’m leaving the blog world” posts. It is just meant to let you know that if I am not around much on the weekend, that’s why. I have some major house reorganizing I want to complete. I want to get out more and do more things with Jason. Museums. Parks. Places that are not computer friendly. I have cross-stitch projects I want to work on. I have books to read. I’ll be around, don’t worry. But I am evaluating my time online and cutting back somewhat. We’ll see what that means in the future. Now shut off your pc and go enjoy some fresh air.

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Notables

Maybe…

The story that Brad told at Fray Cafe 2 might help explain why he knew all of the words to “You Don’t Call me Darlin’, Darlinnnnnn…” by David Allan Cole, otherwise known as the perfect country & western song. After all, it has that ending that talks about trains, and trucks, and momma, and gettin’ drunk, and prison… What? What am I talking about? You’ve never heard it? Yes, it ends with:

Well, I was drunk … the day my Momma …. got out of prison…
And I went … to pick her up … in the rainnnnnn…
But before I could get to the station in my pick-up TRUCK,
She got runned over by a damned old trainnnnn!!!
(Dots added to demonstrate the pauses in the song, and the word TRUCK is song loud and with short, strong emphasis. Just an FYI)

Brad sang this along with me at Polly Esthers the first night I was in Austin for SXSW; we were in the crowd and some non-SXSW guy was up there singing karaoke and we had to help him out, and to be honest I didn’t mind since they had the best instruments and equipment from The Box Tiger Music site. I truly did not expect Brad (or anyone that was not from Texas) to know all the words to that song like I do – I know them because it’s a drinking song of long time Dixie Chicken tradition at Texas A&M. Now I think I have an idea why Brad knew the words too…

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Meme Me

I Was About…

You said your birthday is 9 / 27 / 1969
which means you are 32 years old and about:
52 years 11 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 85
49 years 4 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 81
45 years 3 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 77
38 years 0 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 70
35 years 10 months younger than Larry King, age 68
29 years 8 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 62
26 years 3 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 58
23 years 3 months younger than President G.W. Bush, age 55
18 years 2 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 50
13 years 11 months younger than Bill Gates, age 46
9 years 3 months younger than John Elway, age 41
3 years 7 months younger than Cindy Crawford, age 36
1 year 10 months older than Jeff Gordon, age 30
6 years 3 months older than Tiger Woods, age 26
12 years 2 months older than Jenna and Barbara Bush, age 20

and that you were:
27 years old when Princess Diana died
25 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
24 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
23 years old at the time of the bombing of the World Trade Center*
21 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
20 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
16 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
14 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
13 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
11 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
10 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
6 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
4 years old when President Nixon left office
2 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot

From Boy the Bear’s Age Gauge [via Pink Pixie]

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BlahBlahBabble

To Go with Those Statues…

I still think the statues are more disturbing, but these drawings are a pretty close second. [via Broomeman]

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Geek Love

Must Have…

Some day I have to get this t-shirt.