My very Austin weekend
- Jake came into town late Thursday night and we stayed in and watched the shows (Office [x2], 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation).
- Friday morning, I made a big breakfast and then we went to Mt. Bonnell and got some great pictures
- After Mt. Bonnell we went to Zilker Park and went canoeing for about an hour - saw tons of turtles, one snake, and one bird tried to attack us.
- On our way back from that, Jake voiced that he very much wanted to go to Dave and Buster’s to fulfill his childhood dreams - so we went.
- That night we headed downtown to eat at my favorite sushi place - Imperia. Sooo good.
- After dinner, we walked to Maggie Mae’s and had a beer then went to see Adventureland at the Alamo Drafthouse downtown.
- Saturday, we woke up and went to the Texas State Capitol for a tour. The capitol is incredible - no pencils in the ceiling like Louisiana’s, but still has tons of history and is beautiful.
- After the tour, we were starving so we went to Hut’s and got some burgers.
- My head started to hurt because we took so long to eat lunch (3 or 4 pm), so we came back to my apt and laid down a bit before getting ready to go to a Kinks Tribute night at Ruta Maya.
- Jake was in heaven - he loves the Kinks. We stayed for 4 bands but my migraine was pretty bad by then, so we left.
- Easter Sunday we woke up and put on Sunday’s best to go get some breakfast at Kerbey Lane Cafe. I got gingerbread pancakes and Jake got the blueberry ones.
- After our food settled a bit, we went to St. Edwards park for some hiking. It was a fun Easter hike. We really wanted snowcones afterwards, but since virtually every place was closed for Easter, we assumed that would include snowcone places.
- Instead we got a slushie and decided to get ready for dinner.
- I was going to take him to Trudy’s, but we got there and it was closed. So instead we swung by the Domain to see if anything was open and ended up at an Italian restaurant called North. We shared a pizza, an appetizer, and mean looks.
- We skipped dessert at the restaurant so that we could eat some Amy’s Ice Cream in the Arboretum. Thank you Amy’s for being open!!
- We were going to see Sunshine Cleaning but that would have put us getting home very late and I was getting tired. So instead we rented I’ve Loved You So Long, which is now one of my favorite movies.
Happy Bunday!
Ok, this one is a freebie since it’s Easter. Those floppy ears gets me everytime.
Common Sense Cartography of the Day: Same-sex marriage legalization by state over time.
Courtesy of The Map Scroll, by way of Nate Silver’s predictive data.
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Joe and I were talking about this yesterday! I just assumed Louisiana would be one of the last to legalize gay marriage (see “school desegration”) and I put us about 10 years out. Joe was a bit more optimistic.
Since working at the legislature I’ve realized that Louisiana’s conservative lawmakers are Super Conservatives and about half our democrats are “rural democrats” (not “liberal democrats”) and tend to be pretty moderate. So yeah, look for us to take the plunge around 2020.
I will wait for you until 2020, Erin!
I think this might be a Google maps car. It has California plates.
Hey look, now you can Google map MY FINGER, too.
Hmmm You could be right
My brain is about to explode. My mom just sent me this. I love it!
From: Mom
To: Me, Brother
Date: Thurs, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Subject: Tech Question
I am trying to get hostnames and IP addresses on two computers but after doing the run- cmd
the screen comes up with
C:\Documents and Settings\usersname> This will not allow me to type Ipconfig/all
Usually it just comes up with the C:\
Any suggestion Tech wizards?
The only thing she was missing was a space, but I am shocked she got that far.
Hypothetical question
Ok, so the draft and queue features were recently introduced to tumblr, and I immediately think of Law & Order: SVU. Let’s throw out this scenario of how my episode would go…
1. I kill someone and a few strands of my hair are left at the crime scene.
2. Somehow I’m in their database, so they come knocking on my door.
3. I tell them that I have an alibi for the time of the murder, which is, I was at home blogging and show them my entry from the time of the murder.
4. They believe it, until someone brings up the fact that people blog from their cell phones all the time now
5. They come back to me, but I tell them about geocaching or geotagging (not sure which one it is) and that you can tell I posted the entry from the web and not from my cell phone (also they can check my cell phone records).
6. Again, they buy my story, until after my court date when they learn of queuing posts, but by that point, I’ve already been found not guilty.
Tumblr - helping me get away with murder!!
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