Archive | July, 2011

Protect and Serve it up. Part 2.

A continuation of the last post about my ride-along with the Austin Police Department last Saturday. • Back to running plates. Mind your stop signs, Austin. #BrePD – This is where I learned that I am very good at radaring. • Chasing a mofo going 11 over. Zoooom! #BrePD • Another one! 43 in a 30! Zooom. [...]

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My Duty to Protect and Serve, but mostly Tweet.

Last Saturday evening, I was privileged enough to do a ride-along with one of my friends, an Austin police officer (referred to here on out as “The Enforcer”). He was sucker enough to say yes when I asked him if I could ride with him and live-tweet “our” shift. The following is what happened when [...]

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What I learned in art school.

I learned a bunch of things that you’re supposed to learn in art school: kerning, font things, all about color palletes, sautering, patinas, screen printing, and the best ways to make spray mount actually stick when you want it to. This is all pretty important, but the learning that I’m talking about — the kind [...]

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Google+ : First Impressions

Google Wave, Buzz, now Plus. Google has been throwing these 4-lettered products at us in the last few years. Wave and Buzz have both caused most everyone to throw some 4-lettered words right back at Google. I’ll admit that I was riding the crest of the Wave, trying to get as many people as I [...]

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