Category: Coffee Muses from Texas

I was cleaning up my bookmark list this morning and what usually happens when I try happened. I followed an old link that crashed. Then in trying to find a new clean link to the site I found a article that has more relevance to me now than when it was first published… A List Apart: Articles: 10 Tips on

Do you find it as disconcerting as I do when the morning goes from sunny to dusk in an hour? As you can tell from the screenshot, the weather here is a bit unsettled on this Memorial Day 2006. I am sure a whole lot of barbeque is being doused by the rain. Today usually marks the beginning of the

Spring in Texas…I thought I would give you a bit of a weather report:7pm May 27, 2006Temp: 82 Humidity: 76% The high today was 85 with a 96% humidity.The low last night was 73. You gotta love the climate here

 This just goes to show you how much difference there is between the Blue Ridge and my home here. This was taken today at 7pm. 

I was raised in a family that was slightly removed from the immediate locale of the rest of our relatives… therefore, whenever we were able to get together with our grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins it was a special treat. My dad’s family had moved into Wharton County, west of Houston, in the 1910’s and my mother’s family moved

 Just because I hate too many posts without a photo, here is a shot I took last year out west of San Antonio. I was taking the long road home (maybe that should be the title of my book if I ever publish one, do you mind Fred) which has always driven my wife crazy. She says I am the

I spend my days in a darkened room staring at twin windows on the electronic world. My twin windows are the twin 20” monitors on which I design my projects before sending them through the cable that ties my machine to the others in this network of interconnected ideas. My job titles me a design manager, but how does one

About Vault Radio Bill Graham and his concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000 concerts all over the world. His first venue, the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, was home to many of rock’s greatest performers – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Prince

From The Washington Post Editorial, May 17, 2006 “Why the National Guard?: “Disingenuously, Mr. Bush declared in his address that ‘we have enough Guard forces to win the war on terror, to respond to natural disasters and to help secure our border.’ That may be true in strictly numerical terms. But the president neglected to mention that the tens of