Decided to drive to Waco and check out the Magnolia stuff.  Also wanted to try out the Tesla Super Charger.  The drive up I35 was worse than I remembered.  We got to Magnolia Table and the wait was an hour and 45 minutes.  For breakfast on a Tuesday, in Waco, TX.  We decided to skip it and headed to the Magnolia Silos.  Had some Mexican for lunch at a place around the corner.  The Magnolia Silos was, well, underwhelming.  Lots of people milling around and some good looking food trucks.  We walked up to the Blanco River and saw the old suspension bridge.  Got back on the road and hit the Super Charger.  Pretty cool.  A really nice bakery across the parking lot.

Went out to Deckhand again.  Their credit card machine must have been broken because they were ”cash only’ tonight.  Normally we might not have had enough cash on us but we had just sold some old furniture on Craig’s List and the people paid cash with a $100 bill, so we were good.  Also found a pearl in one of my oysters.  Our lucky day.

Lost my big koi a few months back.  Put up this camera partly to see if I could catch the culprit.  All I have in the pond right now is a small goldfish and a few minnows.  Looks like I found out who has been going after my fish.  Seems to be a raccoon.

A video (recorded at 5 fps) below:

Not ‘why’, but ‘because’.  From Quartz:

THE BIG BECAUSE

The key to loving your job in the age of burnout

By Cassie Werber

April 7, 2019

Saw Lucinda Williams last night a ACL for the 20th anniversary of the release of Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.  Didn’t realize util the day of the show that she was going to perform the album in its entirety.  Great show.  A one point the vocals went out.  Realized the strobe lights weren’t part of the show, but a fire alarm.  No sirens and no announcement.  The band left the stage, some people left, we stayed and got something to drink at the bar.  I figured not much could burn in the big concrete ACL Moody Theater.  Band came back in about 15 minutes and re-played the cut-off song (“I Lost It” ?) and finished up a great show.

Been a little light on the tech postings lately.  Looks like we may yet see another round of AMD / Intel Server Wars.  Also seeing Intel take a page or two from Nvidia’s playbook.  300W+ CPUs?!  Water cooling mandatory?  Building your own servers?  Just when you thought it was going to get dull.  From the Next Platform:

PRYING OPEN THE LID ON INTEL’S MULTICHIP CASCADE LAKE-AP

That didn’t end well.  From France:

Civilian passenger accidentally ejected from fighter jet during ride-along

There was a copy of a small newspaper called the Epoch Times in our mailbox today.  Front page was a full page, full length color picture of President Trump.  There was also an envelope inside.  My first thought was that it was just political fundraising.  But we are the wrong people to be mailing this too.  But in our neighborhood, it would be a good bet.

The name of the paper was not very political sounding and vaguely religious.  My curiosity got the better of me and I Googled.  Turns out it is put out by the Chinese spiritual / political protest group Falun Gong.  They are in some sort of battle with the Chinese government and seem to be anti-communist in a serious way (how “communist” the current Chinese state is would be a different question).  Seems they are all in for Trump though.  Strange bedfellows.

Back in Austin and watched the Horns beat TCU in the semifinals of the NIT.  Been enjoying this old Jackson Browne tribute album, Looking into You.  One from Griffin House.  Lots of good stuff on this one.