what I like about Austin

My sleep number is 45. After hearing so many ads and promotionals about the Select Comfort bed, I just had to walk into their retail store at the mall and get my number. I had just bought a bed about a year [ . . . ]

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unlocking Treo 600, an exploration

I’ve been having occasional problems with the Treo 600′s cell phone function (loud buzzing heard only by the person I’m calling, and usually during the most important calls), and want to find a reliable way to use my current cell phone number [ . . . ]

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listen to the future

Got my first custom CD burned off at Brian “Cosmo” Lin‘s Starbucks (Parmer & Metric) in Austin. It’s Starbucks‘ latest initiative with Hear Music, and I sure hope it goes better than Chantico (how many people really want to drink warm chocolate [ . . . ]

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I bruise easily

I bruise easily

The physical is a metaphor for my emotional being too, in this case. I got this shiner walking into a coat hook in the bathroom stall. I bruise easily, physically and emotionally.
While my talents seem to be more in the technical arena [ . . . ]

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drawing a blank

I got awoken in the middle of the night, slowly catching up on my Bloglines feeds, a mostly hopeless effort. So many people are writing so much faster than I can possibly read, much less scan (skim).
Good to see Pagitt and Rudy [ . . . ]

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Acknowledge weaknesses, Build on strengths, Confess mistakes

No ice cream + wifi at Dairy Queen. Trumped it with local flavor, after hearing an Austinite talk about Amy’s Ice Cream. Went to its Arboretum location, and got a cup of Mexican Vanilla with a chunk-in of cookie dough. Most of [ . . . ]

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Thinking in Austin

Here are thoughts that’ve crossed my mind today:

Yesterday on my only day home in weeks, I conducted open-heart surgery on my Treo 600. It occasionally has a terrible buzzing, heard only by the person I’m calling. Several web forums (Cingular, TreoCentral, mytreo.net) [ . . . ]

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now in Austin for about a week

Got up at o-dark-thirty to leave out of Dulles Airport, and arrived in Austin, Texas; will be here for the rest of the week. The smaller geography and numerous hotspots should make it easier to get online more often. This doesn’t necessarily [ . . . ]

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back in DC for a day

Returning home from an 18-day journey cross-country, having had many great conversations, meeting old and new friends, and also quality time with my family. Met up with 2 old pastor friends I’ve not seen for over 5 or 6 years included Ray [ . . . ]

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