Too good to pass up – flame

Too good to pass up – flame: Round a-bout, 4/10/03 5:27 AM, ya’ll said: > Hmmm….seems a bit shady…kinda like if you visited your favorite diner day > after day for a free cup o’ joe…maybe bought a muffin while you were there, > etc. Then one day, after many years of free coffee….suddenly you Too good to pass up – flame

BBQ

Lovely Saturday in Austin. Got the hottest deal going, a friend of a friend was talking about music and the [url=http://www.continentalclub.com/]Continental Club, [url=http://www.hankthree.com/]Hank III, over a plate of home-style “country style pork ribs” and some babybacks. So he burned me a copy of a bootleg of one of the Hank Three shows at the Continental. BBQ

Fishing tournament

“Then you can have, like, a celebrity challenge bass tournament, it can benefit ‘Bubba’s Kids’ and you can also make enough money to help keep your site free….” Let me see if I understand this correctly, I can put together a charity event, then siphon off enough money to show a tidy personal profit – Fishing tournament

Feeding frenzy

I’ve got some amusing – to me – flames I’ll be posting soon enough. But Thursday turned into a delightful day – I caught the right bus, got to work early enough to swing by Mi Madres for breakfast tacos, then, after dealing with exigencies, such as they were, I noticed the church across the Feeding frenzy

Quotes and such

One of my professors used this at the beginning of most American Lit tests, a little ditty – “I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn’t prove there was no America.” Saul Bellows in [i]The Quotes and such

it’s live – and working properly

One last tweak, one e-mail to tech support, 30 seconds more work, and “Bingo!” The subscription software is working now. Flawlessly. Early adopters wound up with an extended lifetime pass. Reflections in cyberspace. I came to William Gibson’s [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441000681/fishinguideto-20]Neuromancer a little late in the game – I think I read it first in 1986. I it’s live – and working properly

Editing, appearance and display

A trick a I heard about recently – one that made a lot of sense to me – involved breaking up large bunches of text into smaller paragraphs. This has been done to my material in other forums, at one time or another, but I tried it recently here. For it? Against it? Let me Editing, appearance and display

Work and more work

It’s strange, I was pinpointing decisions I’ve made in my own life, times when I took a left instead of right, places where I forged ahead instead of sitting around, and consider what planets affected my disposition, giving influence to choices I’ve taken. I can still the picture a spring evening, not unlike last night, Work and more work

Say something funny

Round a-bout, 4/6/03 4:05 AM, ya’ll “SecretSun7@cs.com” said: > While occassionally enjoyable, your column was among the least illuminating, > giving your strained and colloquial use of allegory. Breszny would never stoop > to this. After all, he displays a genuine talent for metaphor as a means to > challenge the reader’s hunger for information Say something funny