Monte P
jazzmaven.bsky.social
Monte P
@jazzmaven.bsky.social
Software, Politics, Science Fiction and Music
I’ll have to check it out! In the meantime, this was another favorite on the Colorado trips - their versions of the Hokey Pokey are classics!

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Brave Combo - Group Dance Epidemic (Fun... And Functional!)
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 CD release of "Group Dance Epidemic (Fun... And Functional!)" on Discogs.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It was a staple on our summer road trip to Colorado. Both daughters finally forgave me.
December 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Eat the rich!
December 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I strongly endorse Mi Madre’s on Manor Road for breakfast tacos. The Old Man’s Fan recommendation is a #8 (migas) and a #9 (huevos y machacado).

www.mimadresrestaurant.com/breakfast-menu
Breakfast Menu — Mi Madre's Restaurant
Served until 3pm! A full breakfast menu including Austin's best breakfast tacos.
www.mimadresrestaurant.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
SInce 2014, the Texas Economic Stabilization Fund has grown each biennium, from $6.7B to $21B. Abbot and Patrick refused to fund warning systems from The Rainy Day Fund. What the hell were they waiting for? Casket futures to go up?
July 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I'm waiting for one of them to grant "Cancun" Ted Cruz some space on the editorial page to explain how relinquishing Congress' authority to the executive branch is really fodder for the next "Profiles in Courage."🤘🤘
June 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
You know the situation is dire when the f*cking Onion writes a more pointed editorial than anything written by the New York Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle or Austin American Statesman.
June 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
She continues:
“We’ve allowed these people to be called job creators,” she said. “And I don’t care if it’s AI or crypto or whatever, we bow down to them and let them tell us what they are going to do to our community because they are job creators. They’re not job creators, they’re profit makers.”
May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“This is going to sound awful,” she says, “but if they're putting it here, then that means it's bad. We've lived here long enough to see that that is how it works. You put those things that you don't want in your neighborhood in a place like this.”
May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
To assert that a team of 20 programmers and an AI can replicate the functionality of millions of lines of a procedural language using an object oriented one with minimum disruption in five f*cking months is the definition of magical thinking.

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March 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM