The Regulars

December topics included:

  • RIP Joe Gracey. Thank you, sir.
  • The Wire and Treme
  • Global Guerrillas and resilient communities (including a great in-person visit with Shlok Vaidya)
  • smuggling
  • Tokyo
  • startup accelerators
  • The Plant, a vertical farm and food business incubator in Chicago
  • Hackerspace
  • HubCast
  • the Banksy intro to The Simpsons
  • FF&E
  • game development
  • Infinity Blade II, Sword and Sourcery, Scribblenauts
  • Formula One and Austin
  • the holidays

Topics:

Topics (updating as we go):

  • creative agencies, organization of, strategy; creative infrastructure in Austin
  • Occupy; surveillance IRL and on the web
  • the World Series
  • ringtones; iOS 5
  • Texas Book Festival and Gypsy Picnic
  • Incubation Station
  • B.B. King, George Jones, other musicians and shows and venues
  • Spain; travel; the Basques
  • Texas Tribune
  • moving to Texas; diet; vegan etc.
  • Europe Asia Latin America travels; swing dancing; hiking thousands of miles
  • the rolling global financial crisis and the need to default; Michael Lewis’ The Big Short and Boomerang — “I just really like nickels.”
  • Pinterest and Beta List
  • A couple Formula One fans are getting excited, talking up what’s coming to Austin.
  • LA frowning on cash
  • driving in Austin; traffic; rail; all the mysterious uncompleted flyovers

Topics discussed (updating as we go):

  • Cotton; international trade;
  • Texas and water rights; Shell in the Rockies
  • The Occupy movement; Bloomberg at dinner
  • SXSW
  • 5by5
  • game development, in Austin and in general; Garriott
  • fireworks in Chicago
  • Internet TV
  • the POS that is the Sprint Overdrive
  • Apple, iCloud, etc.
  • political parties; Tea Party and OWS; Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, et al
  • alternative currencies, banking history, BitCoin, buying heroin on Silk Road, etc.
Topics (updating as we go): Hank Alrich is here. Awesome. Of course, we’re talking AWHQ and his work. stress in the system and workplace; unemployment; managing stress in different cultures e.g. the US, Latin America, Russia, Korea. Occupy movement, tea party, etc.; #occupysesamestreet; Adbusters; the corrupt mess of our banking system the evolving business model for music and other creative pursuits; house concerts; the Alamo’s No Talking policy; see Techdirt. Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks Willie Nelson fire fighting techniques and preventive practices baseball playoffs; A-Rod ineptitude; competitiveness; personality types; Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame speech How We Decide Steve Jobs, his impact, the tributes (ht @aarron); Apple Blue Ocean Strategy the earthscraper idea (ht @laughingsquid) financial and monetary history, Lords of Finance, etc. Solyndra and the abject obvious corruption of both Rs and Ds. GTD and Remember the Milk Audacity

Topics (updating as we go):

Topics (updating as we go):