http://www.babblegator.com This and that. Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... found this great little diatribe on a friend-of-a-friend's Facebook profile. [...] Last summer, in my first excursion here into politics, I wrote about the experience of hearing reason shouted down at a town hall meeting. I had gone there with my teenage daughter to speak for my hearing-disabled wife, who is ... http://www.babblegator.com/2010/01/its-3-am-and-your-neighbors-house-is-on-fire/ So it's been five weeks since school started. One midterm and one policy memo later, it feels like I'm really getting into the swing of things. When I compare my experience as an undergrad at UT at the same point, I think I can point to many more things and say, ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/09/foodstamps-et/ It's been a while! Jenny and I got to California just over two weeks ago. The trip went fairly smoothly; we had a few minor hiccups along the way, but nothing major. At least we didn't break down in the New Mexico desert like we did driving to Los Angeles ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/08/hello-again/ A few weeks ago, I changed my religious views on Facebook to "Pepsi." Pepsi is by far my favorite soda: I prefer it over Coke, Dr Pepper, and every other soft drink out there. Then, I started wondering why that might be. The first time I really drank Pepsi on a ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/08/marketing-to-the-womb/ My word. I've been ignoring the Babblegator for nearly two weeks! There's a good reason for that, though. Jenny and I have now moved out of our Austin apartment. We were done yesterday (Friday) around 8 PM; she then drove to Cedar Park to stay with her dad for a few ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/08/alive/ Spasmodic Dysphonia. That's the speech impediment Dilbert creator Scott Adams suffered from for several years. An interview in Wired magazine describes Adams' trials and tribulations. This is how the article describes spasmodic dysphonia as it occured in Adams: [He'd] open his mouth to talk, only to find the words tumbling out ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/07/spasmodic-dysphonia/ So here we go: my first podcast. As I'm a huge classical music nerd, my podcasts will cover music I like; each podcast will be centered around a vague theme or idea. In the first podcast we have: Charles Koechlin: Sonatine No. 2, Op. 87: III, Menuet Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Tale of ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/07/babblecast-1-succesful-themes-passages/ I've been meaning to upgrade my computer for a while now. Although I'm very happy with what I have now--a nice AMD 64-FX processor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 hard drives adding up to 570 gigs--my hard drives are filling up with music and movies and I don't want to ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/07/computer-upgrade/ Not much in the way of carefully reasoned opinion in this post except the following: If those wealthy republican assholes in congress screw us out of affordable health care again, I will be very angry. http://www.babblegator.com/2009/07/health-care/ Our move to California is coming closer and closer: Jenny and I will be leaving for the Bay Area (Emeryville, to be more exact) three weeks from today. We've been trying to pack for a few days now, but it seems that all we've done so far is turn our ... http://www.babblegator.com/2009/07/moving-etc/