The Modernish Father

And on the third day there was a billionaire man-child, a crowd of unruly tech fanboys, a Hawaiian with a twisted sense of humor and some other stuff. Just another day here in Austin. Things kind of got off to a slow start this morning. Saturday night’s parties and the first morning of Daylight Saving [...]

Ugh, who’s bright idea was it to move the beginning of Daylight Saving Time up to the middle of March? Oh yeah, that’s right, our friends in Congress had the “brilliant” idea to extend DST so that it now gobbles up eight months of the year. Expanding DST has hit the youth of America pretty [...]

Wow! If the first day of SXSW was a little slow, then today certainly made up for it. I feel like I’ve already gotten my money’s worth, and there’s still three more days left. There was so much going on today and I took so many pictures that I don’t even know where to start. [...]

A big howdy to you from Austin, where I’m currently located as I attend SXSW Interactive 2008. It’s my first time to come to SXSW and I’m really looking forward to it. Hopefully I can attend some interesting panels and get to meet some interesting folks over the next few days.

I was watching Wheel of Fortune tonight (shut up – my five-year old likes it) when one of the contestants referred to her “three children by birth” and her “three children by marriage”. It really creeps me out when people refer to their children’s spouses as “their children”. It’s just not right. I don’t call [...]

After two months and just two pitifully short blog updates, The Wife headed back to work this morning. For the next two weeks she’ll be working half-days, which is probably for the best since she’ll need to get back into the swing of things and wean herself from crappy daytime television gradually. More importantly, today was [...]