Per usual, we enjoyed a good Mozart’s Friday morning. As the crew grew, we moved outside to have more room. Several cool conversations flowed simultaneously.
I caught topics like:
- The Last Days of the San Jose
- the greatness of the Hotel Saint Cecilia
- Gerry Van King, King of 6th Street
- East Austin geography and development
- the current markets for office and industrial space in Austin
- Austin commuter rail
- The Wire
- Manda Bala (trailer above), directed by Jason Kohn
- Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil
- Mexico City neighborhoods
- Mexico seemingly falling apart
- traveling Thailand and Southeast Asia
- international business, especially w/r/t different cultures, communication, and norms
- Hernando De Soto’s Mystery of Capital and The Other Path
- The Plaza Accord (1985) and the present, building currency war
- Austin City Limits
- Alex Jones of Infowars (here confronting David Gergen about Bohemian Grove, here in Waking Life)
- the greatness of Austin Cable Access
- The Show With No Name
- the economics and associated temptations of college football
- the UT budget and “putting a price on professors” (here via the WSJ)
- the BCS and anti trust
- McBride’s and Governor Perry
- Concealed carrying
- Bishop John Hines
- Gypsy Picnic
- the history of SXSW (see page 12)
Btw, the link list is the new thank-you note. Thanks, folks. I really dig this thing we’ve got going.
Hasta pronto.