A nice Bob Schneider cover of and old Jackson Browne song on this Saturday night.

Got some good seats for the UT vs SDSU NIT game (7th row).  I could get used to this. Horns won and we have 8th row tix for the game on Sunday.

After these White Terror attacks I keep going back to the New Yorker article from two years ago by Toni Morrison, Mourning for Whiteness  This is an artists take on this problem.  Today the Sydney Morning Herald calls it out explicitly as journalism.

Broken white men and the racist media that fuels their terrorism

The bring up the fact that:

… 100 per cent of all terrorist attacks carried out on US soil in 2018 were carried out by right-wing extremists.

Time to take this seriously yet?  I’m guessing the people in charge largely don’t feel threatened because they aren’t the targets. Is that the way it is supposed to work?  I know if any other ethnic group were shooting up non-ethnic places of worship like this action would be swift and extreme, almost certainly too extreme.  We are waiting.

Been a bit busy.  SXSW is in town, but to cranky old timers like me it just means more traffic and crowded restaurants.  Did catch the last UT home basketball game of the season.  Went out to Deckhand, a favorite seafood joint.  About the only place I will order raw oysters that isn’t on the coast.  They have the best crawfish of anyplace I have ever been (sorry New Orleans).  I am told it is a Asian / Houston thing that involves a final step in a saute pan.

Figured I could charge the ThunderCat at work, but it is really my wife’s car and it just wasn’t that convenient.  Was using the 110V adapter, but that got us like 5 miles of range per hour of charge.  Finally sprung for a Tesla charger in the garage.  About 45 miles of range per hour of charge.

Been a little light on the postings lately.  Was a bit under the weather for a while. Figured it was just the colds and other wintertime bugs going around  Ended up at the doc and they tested me for mono, strep, flu and probably other stuff I don’t want to know about.  All normal.  Sent my blood to the CDC in Atlanta and it came back positive for a well known childhood illness that is now considered “very rare”.  And yes, I was vaccinated, as is everyone in my family.  I blame the anti-vaxxer crowd.

Enough of that.  Here is some nice Thai food from dinner.  Yum.

Been down with a cold (along with what seems like the rest of the world).  Ran across this posting from the Collaborative Fund blog with a great quote:

Different Kinds of Stupid

Feb 20, 2019 by Morgan Housel

“The older I get the more I realize how many kinds of smart there are. There are a lot of kinds of smart. There are a lot of kinds of stupid, too.”

– Jeff Bezos