Mutterings

The lovely Miss Macy accepted my proposal of marriage tonight. We then set off to the Austin Symphony to celebrate the occasion.

Let’s get to the stuff the girls care about. It’s a 1.5 carat yellow sapphire.

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I randomly woke up last night dreaming of a horror story of my own creation (I assume?). “Skin Deep” follows a an aging beauty queen who finds life hard to accept after losing her beauty and finding she is infertile. She loses her marbles and her friends are shocked by her pale appearance [...]

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So I’m back home and finished with all my conference speaking engagements. It was an interesting learning experience to say the least. Some things I learned:

I was pretty uncomfortable giving a non-technical talk at technical conferences. It’s not unheard of, but I felt like I had to explain up front to the [...]

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Today was a bit of a bummer. I set out the day to visit the National Museum and the Kafka Museum. I found out that the Kafka Museum was not where I thought it was (it is across the river) so I couldn’t get to it. I couldn’t raise the energy to [...]

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I’ve been walking all over Prague for the last two days and it hurts to move at this point so I figured I’d spend some time writing a blog posting with random notes on the trip so far.
The fellow at the head of the check-in line at CDG airport in Paris wanted to see my [...]

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I’ve started adding pictures from here in Prague. I’ll update the album tomorrow with more.

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I’m flying into Prague in late August and planning on spending a few days there before taking a train to Berlin for RailsConf 2008. Anyone have suggestions:

Where to stay?
What to see?
How to get around?

I don’t know anything about Prague so I’d appreciate any suggestions from people who’ve been there.

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Since Tammy got a new bike and she’s talking about pimping it with all sorts of cool things, I’ve felt the urge to get some new toys of my own. I’m thinking of getting a cool metallic red helmet (BMX style since a typical bike helmet would look ridiculous on my cruiser), a lock [...]

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Looks like someone got a phat new ride for her birthday!

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Tammy and I went to see Austin Lyric Opera’s production of Carmen Thursday night. Unfortunately I had the poor judgment to go and get sick the night before. I doped myself up before and enjoyed the show as best as I could, as we could not exchange tickets. Seeing as it was [...]

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