stop the TSA madness
Here’s the letter I just sent to my senators and district representative: I am writing to express my extreme displeasure with the new policies and procedures of the Transportation Security...
View Articlemy first (and almost assuredly only) chicken-themed gangsta rap parody
So, the last post around here was a little serious. Figured I’d lighten it up a little bit with a quick audio/visual project that I thought of a few weeks ago. Read the full backstory in the video...
View ArticleDL at Becker
Hey Austin-based folks, if you have preschool or kindergarten age kids, or you know people who do please, take a sec to read this. I’m trying to help get out the word about AISD’s two-way Dual Language...
View Articlenew song: Your Sing-a-ma-jigs And You
Just posted another new song over at http://rob.lifford.org/ysay/. As I mentioned on Twitter when releasing this, someday I suppose I’ll record “serious” music again, but until then, you’ll get weird...
View Articlethe Lighty Bear GIFs
Cheris took her camera & tripod into Graham’s room a few weeks back and got some great shots of the kiddo as his favorite stuffed bear cycled through its light routine. Since animated GIFs seem to...
View Articleanother solo gig recap
About two and a half years ago I played a gig at the downtown Austin farmers’ market where I got to play guitar and focus entirely on my own material, something I hadn’t done in many years. In January...
View Articlemini-rant on gay marriage debate
It’s been an odd week on Twitter for JavaScript enthusiasts, as folks started forwarding around the fact that JS creator Brendan Eich donated money in support of Prop. 8, California’s gay marriage ban....
View Articlemore thoughts on the self+crowdfunding era
There’s a really interesting discussion going on, sparked by Amanda Palmer’s smashing of a significant milestone on Kickstarter in May. I was drawn in by Austin Kleon’s response to a New York Times...
View ArticleHelium Taxi
I am really thrilled to announce that Helium Taxi, my first-ever album of original music, is available to buy today. The album is a collection of eight instrumental tunes, in the newgrass / jazzgrass /...
View ArticleAaron Swartz
Just caught up on the Aaron Swartz story. Very sad news. It’s especially sad to me that this has happened in the same week as Alex Jones’ widely-linked, totally unhinged “tyrannical government”...
View Articlethe story of a phone
I got my Nexus 4 in April 2013, and while I like the hardware and the stock Android 4.x UI just fine, somehow in 15 months I’ve broken the screen three times, and I thought I’d capture the history of...
View Articlemeat-free meat?
Health aside, some of my friends were just weirded out. Why turn plant proteins into burgers and dogs? Why not just eat them as peas and soybeans and seeds? To which I say: taco, chimichanga, empanada,...
View Articledriving the point home
Just finished reading “Forgetting Again” on Jeremy Keith’s blog. It turns out that while people are fond of saying “the Internet never forgets,” it’s more accurate to say that it rarely remembers....
View Articlethings change, but sort of not
1998-2001: weekend trips to Seoul to get American food we couldn’t get in Taejeon or Kwangju 2016: weekend trips to Barcelona to get Korean food we can’t get in Granada
View Articlein which I get angsty about Violet learning to ski
Violet is learning to ski today at the Sierra Nevada resort right outside Granada. Her school has an amazing trip for the 5th grade every year: 200€ covers the lift tickets, bus transportation (it’s...
View Articleanother solo gig recap
About two and a half years ago I played a gig at the downtown Austin farmers’ market where I got to play guitar and focus entirely on my own material, something I hadn’t done in many years. In January...
View Articlemini-rant on gay marriage debate
It’s been an odd week on Twitter for JavaScript enthusiasts, as folks started forwarding around the fact that JS creator Brendan Eich donated money in support of Prop. 8, California’s gay marriage ban....
View Articlemore thoughts on the self+crowdfunding era
There’s a really interesting discussion going on, sparked by Amanda Palmer’s smashing of a significant milestone on Kickstarter in May. I was drawn in by Austin Kleon’s response to a New York Times...
View ArticleHelium Taxi
I am really thrilled to announce that Helium Taxi, my first-ever album of original music, is available to buy today. The album is a collection of eight instrumental tunes, in the newgrass / jazzgrass /...
View ArticleAaron Swartz
Just caught up on the Aaron Swartz story. Very sad news. It’s especially sad to me that this has happened in the same week as Alex Jones’ widely-linked, totally unhinged “tyrannical government”...
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