A two decade-old missed photo opportunity with Weird Al Yankovic on Austin's 6th Street gets an AI recreation....
A memorable evening in 1993 when Douglas Coupland's book signing turned into an impromptu night of darts with Richard Linklater and Wiley Wi...
After John Cena's epic 2025 Royal Rumble performance tonight, I found an old YouTube clip where I actually appear in the background during h...
Long before Portlandia captured the quirkiness of Portland, there was Austin Stories. It captured the Gen X weirdness of Austin during the ...
At SXSW 2013, Prince threw the party to end all parties, it was 3.5 hours long, had 5 encores, and I WAS THERE....
Time is a cruel beast. A big garage cleanup brought back some memories of a summer job I had 30 years ago....
Visiting the ESPN campus in Bristol were experiences I'll never forget, thanks to Anthony Mormile. When I arrived, we had several highly pro...
SXSW offers more than tech innovations—it brings internet memes to life. Meeting "Success Kid" in person, alongside his parents, is a surrea...
We celebrate May The Fourth, but I wanted to document an Austin urban legend that hasn't been well documented (or documented at all)....
In my continuing series of posts and stories about my Forrest Gump-like life, here is the time I was an extra on the movie Sin City. I defi...
Twitter sometimes amazes with simple access to some of the best minds on the planet....
If you want to know how I got to be so good at shipping world class software and managing teams of people much smarter than me, it all began...
Famous designer Frank Chimero tweeted a few months ago that he was a fan of Commander Mark growing up. I responded to let him know that Com...
What was the best concert you've ever seen? It is a question that I've asked friends for years as I'm curious about their tastes in music a...
About 30 years ago I had an amazing opportunity to spend a few hours talking with Molly Ivins as she came through El Paso to promote her boo...
I am lucky to have a bit of Forrest Gump in me in that I have had a ton of interesting and odd opportunities in my life. One of them was wh...
Today was a day for the books. I got an opportunity to chat with Mike Monteiro about the design biz, getting older and our role as a leader...
The Demi and Ashton Foundation focused on child slavery, human trafficking awareness and legislative change. We built a fully functional con...
There are a handful of movies that never got made and ultimate "what ifs". Stanley Kubrick was supposed to make a Napoleon movie starring J...
