Archive for January 16th, 2008

Coming Out

By becky - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

For the last month I’ve been cheating on the Porch with my own blog on the side. Nothing in particular to see over there, but it was starting to seem like a dirty little secret. Now you know everything.

CIO Learns From Past Mistakes

By etrigan - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

As former CIO for companies employed by two of the residents of my home, Randy Mott is derided for turning IT into a corporate segment that resembled an Olsen twin — the one who needs to eat a hamburger or two before she shrinks so far she becomes a blackhole. Now he’s telling his […]

Eggs come out of a chicken’s butt, and other revelations

By becky - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

This NYT article got me thinking today. I’ve been a pretty solid veggie for the past 2 years, and aside from the occasional sushi-related back slide, I’m pretty sure it’s going to stick this time. I’ve always said that my reasons for going meat free were more practical (texture and taste icks me out, mainly) […]

Welcome To The New Site

By etrigan - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Anyone out there who actually knows how to use Wordpress? …maybe just a couple (bajillion) people… Well, now you can add me to the list as I migrate Backporch Beer to a new tool, and I start looking for Widgets and Plugins to clutter our little blog away from blog.

To those of you who […]

Green Juice

By KellyMc - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Hey Austinites — Austin is opening up its Green Choice energy program again. This is where you pay for the power company to buy your power consumption from renewable sources, primarily West Texas wind farms.

We subscribed when we moved to Austin and at some point in 2006, the Green Choice rate dropped below the conventional […]

Lions Were Just Nicer In The 70’s

By etrigan - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I received this bulk mail from a co-worker earlier this week. It is awesome on so many levels.
These 2 guys bought this cub from the zoo when it was newly born…after sometime the cub became big and hard to handle at home… so they decided to send him to his motherland Africa… a […]

OMG! It’s Steve Jobs!

By KellyMc - Last updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

John contended yesterday that Macworld was wasted on me, and I think he may be right.

Today I attended what is probably the biggest annual orgy of geekery, the Macworld keynote. For those who don’t know, this is the thing where Apple CEO/figurehead Steve Jobs comes out on stage and says what’s up and what’s new […]