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We’re Back!
After nearly two months on the road, we’re back in town. I have a long list of reflections, ideas, musings, pictures, and whatnot to share. It’ll come!
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MLB Attendance Dropping? 💸⚾️
The Wall Street Journal reported on information out of the Owners Meeting that attendance at MLB games dropped 6.6% over last year. I’ve been spoiled through the Round Rock Express and Texas Baseball. The cheapest seats for a Texas Rangers game is $17 for a random game I looked up high up in the outfield.…
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Google’s AI Will Call Places For You
This video from Google I/O today is mind-blowing. In it, Google shows off an in-development feature where Google Assistant will call some places to interact with someone on your behalf. “Google, please make me an appointment for a haircut on Tuesday.” Ideally, I would expect Google to interact with an API that ties into the…
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He is supposed to be young forever
Dule Hill (Charlie from The West Wing) is 43 today. This makes me feel old. I expect him to remain the baby-face in a world of old people forever. I’m scared to look up how old the rest of the cast is now.
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Anxiety of Youth
I asked Teresa if she was excited about starting Kindergarten next year. I’m really excited, but I’m nervous about waking up so early like my sisters. I wake up her sisters at 6 a.m. I wake her up at 6:10 a.m. Austin, Texas, United States of America Also on: Facebook
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Texas Leading Innovation
This is why I chose UT-Austin for my undergraduate education. An institution of the first class, they solve problems that most aren't yet aware exists.
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CEO Patch
Girl Scouts have patches for everything. When you meet the CEO of the region, she gives girls a patch like commanders do with military challenge coins. Also on: Facebook Twitter Instagram
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Coaching Debut
Tomorrow, the Delwood Grasshoppers make their tee ball debut with their first-time head coach (me). If everyone runs to first base, I'm going to celebrate like I hit a walk-off grand slam in Game 7 of the World Series. Also on: Facebook Twitter
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Keeping It Clean
I went through my debug log tonight, which had been a bit long mainly due to older plugins throwing warnings in PHP 7. Of four plugins generating PHP 7 warnings, two had merged-but-unreleased fixes, one has a pending PR that I could apply and confirm working, and wrote a PR for the last one. Clean…