Worldcon Renovation

I went to Worldcon in Reno (aka the strangely googlable ‘Renovation’) a little more than a month ago. So it’s time to write the obligatory con blog. This was my first Worldcon, and I was a little disappointed in how familiar it was. It was your standard con. Just a lot bigger. I did however

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As Much Ethiopian as I Could Eat

There are times in life when moderation is called for, and then there are those times when you’re eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. A big group of folks went up to “Taste of Ethiopia” in Pflugerville. All the meals were served on giant platters lined with injera bread, with scoops of spicy bits and greens

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Sichuan Austin Eating

Way up on 183 is a Szechuan restaurant called A+A Sichuan Garden. It’s definitely a different sort of Chinese food than we were normally accustomed to. All the dishes came marinated in spicy red oil. I of course ordered the dish with the white gelatinous chunks that tasted slightly soapy. But the menu items that

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Swarm of Mourning Doves

My new house has a bird feeder in the back yard, so one of my first thoughts on moving in was, hey, wouldn’t it be great to have a birdfeeder out the back window, so I could see all the new and exciting birds in this new neighborhood. So I bought some seed and poured

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Many Views of a Cloud

About a month ago, right at sunset, there was this huge cloud over Austin. At the time we were a bit short of rain, so it was an extra-exciting event. So I was inspired to shoot this time-lapse of the event. Right, so it’s a cloud, right? As it turns out, I wasn’t the only

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