Hustle Culture Meets Riot Gear at 4 AM
I stood in line at 4 AM for the Swatch x Audemars Piguet drop at The Domain. A few hours later APD showed up w…
Austin
Q1 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the First Quarter
Chicago in January, SXSW in March, and everything in between. The first quarter of 2026 in pictures.
20 Builders, No Slides
Google DeepMind and AI Tinkerers picked up the tab for 20 AI builders at Juniper during SXSW. Good food, good…
SXSW 2026: No Badge, No Convention Center, No Problem
SXSW scattered across downtown Austin this year. The Convention Center is a hole in the ground, Hugh Forrest i…
ClawCon Austin: Locked In With the Teenagers
750 people showed up to ClawCon Austin during SXSW. The highlight was four teenagers who are already shipping…
CLAWSTIN
Attended the first CLAWSTIN meetup downtown. 26th floor views, great presentations, and the kind of energy tha…
Q4 2025 Highlights - A Look Back at the Fourth Quarter
Reflecting on the memorable moments and achievements from the fourth quarter of 2025.
400 Miles in September - A Cycling Milestone
Celebrating a personal cycling achievement - 400 miles logged during September 2025.
Q3 2025 Highlights - A Look Back at the Third Quarter
Reflecting on the memorable moments and achievements from the third quarter of 2025.
Q2 2025 Highlights - A Look Back at the Second Quarter
Reflecting on the memorable moments and achievements from the second quarter of 2025.
Ryan Trahan's Epic 50 States Challenge
Ryan Trahan, the 20M subscriber YouTube sensation from Austin, is driving through all 50 states in 50 days to …
The Day I Almost Had a Selfie with Weird Al
A two decade-old missed photo opportunity with Weird Al Yankovic on Austin's 6th Street gets an AI recreation.
A Gen X Night with Douglas Coupland in Austin, 1993
A memorable evening in 1993 when Douglas Coupland's book signing turned into an impromptu night of darts with …
John Cena at SXSW 2014
After John Cena's epic 2025 Royal Rumble performance tonight, I found an old YouTube clip where I actually app…
Starlight Soirée at The Domain
An unforgettable evening with my wife at the Starlight Soirée benefiting the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum.
Austin FC Lexus Level
Last weekend, my wife and I had the chance to experience an Austin FC game from the Lexus Suite, and it was ev…
Mark Hamill Crash Happened in Austin?!?
We celebrate May The Fourth, but I wanted to document an Austin urban legend that hasn't been well documented …
I Was An Extra On Sin City
In my continuing series of posts and stories about my Forrest Gump-like life, here is the time I was an extra …
Texas Eclipse 2024
Spectacular event for us in central Texas as well as a large swath of the United States today. Truly amazing …
Longhorn Network in Austin
10 years ago the Longhorn Network was started. With all of the changes coming to the Texas Longhorns and join…
Friday Night Lights Coach
I am lucky to have a bit of Forrest Gump in me in that I have had a ton of interesting and odd opportunities i…