BNSF locomotive ready to pull the RailPAC Special out of the Stockyards. 
Positioning the Fleetwood E3 in just the right space for a weekend of camping. 
Weekend of camping on the beach at North Padre with the Texas Rovers. 
Pavement? Who needs pavement? 
Congress and the Senate are currently working on a new highway bill. An article from April 15 2012 in the Wall Street Journal described some of the nonsense in the Boxer version of the bill. Highlights: Approximately 10% of the total goes to nonessential and what looks like non-highwayrelated funds, such as the Land &
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I read about Livehoods in Fast Comapany. This is an excellent use of Four-Square ‘check-ins.’ Usually, I would file check-ins in the category of being a little too public, but the side benefit is through analysis, you get a really clear picture of neighborhood clusters – where people of a like-mind tend to hang out.
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From Fast Company, an interview with Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords. Smashwords is an independent e-book publisher, popular with authors that don’t have mainstream contracts. Basically, anyone can write a book, upload it to Smashwords, who will then distribute it. Most of the revenue goes back to the author. Great model for aspiring authors. This
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Reason.TV video about volunteer police departments. This video focuses on Redlands, CA, but there are similar programs around the nation. Important points about the way the Redlands program works: All volunteers go through the same police training program that regular police do. All volunteers provide their own equipment, including cars. They usually fundraise to pay
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Very interesting and good interview with Art Laffer on how to fix California by Reason.tv. “right to work states far out perform non-right to work states” California State teachers are the highest paid in the nation, but second lowest in testing for 4th and 8th grade math and english. But it’s not the teachers fault
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Reason TV published a story about the “assault on record stores by DC City Hall.” (Link to video) There really aren’t very many record stores around any more. The few that do exist sell mostly used vinyl records, posters, clothes, and other music paraphernalia. Recently, it looks like DC changed their business licensing requirement and
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Food trucks have been making a lot of news in the past couple of years. Just to be clear, we aren’t talking about the usual “roach coaches” that go out to industrial areas and construction sites. This is a new generation of food trucks that sell gourmet food and are targeting upscale locations, such as
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Justin Lewis from Choctaw, OK designed and built this flying replica of the Microjet from “Octopussy”. Link to the article. The original plane from the movie is a Bede BD-5. Link to Wikipedia. Pretty amazing and cool that he designed and build the first one himself. If you find that you’d like your own micro
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This weekend was the 9th Annual SCARR (South Central Area Rover Rally) sponsored by Texas Rovers. It started on Thursday and went through Sunday. For this weekend, I rented a Fleetwood Evolution E3 for my accommodations that I rented from Campers4Rent in Lewisville. This pop up is designed for off road adventures with plenty of
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I travel mostly on American Airlines, but this time I am on Frontier to go to Denver, mainly because they had a really good ticket price. The airline is fine but got me to thinking about the drawbacks of loyalty programs, which is basically that I thing I’ve been spoiled by Gold treatment on AA,
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