Matt Austin
mattaust.in
Matt Austin
@mattaust.in
Husband, Father, Christian, Nerd, Nationals Fan, Programmer, Amateur Photographer
https://mattaust.in
Happy New Year from the coziest pup in all the land.
December 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The setting of Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” for King’s College’s Festival of Lessons & Carols tonight was really lovely.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44325/...
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
After all there’s only one more sleep till Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
So many questions for Duck Duck Go, but mostly they start with "why do I still use this as a search engine?"
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Update: Trapped in a losing tic-tac-toe position, our daughter has brought forth the surveillance state to keep the elves from winning.
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The elves have decided upon global thermonuclear war, it seems.
December 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Big if true.
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

I pretty much only like whole albums not individual songs on Spotify, and this is the only album I have listed from that year.

Even googling lists of best albums from 2002…there’s not much. Maybe that’s why I listened a lot to the 80’s station.
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Some are clearly not a fan of Kuang. 🤣
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Amateur. 😛
July 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One other thought, on this in particular:

I have terrible news for the author.
May 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’d be stuck halfway through this mushroom trip of a story, wondering like our protagonist if there was any point to this book. (It’s got a book club at work or else I’d have given up on it.)
May 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Jamie got me this for Christmas a couple years back - it’s photographs Wenders made while scouting for PARIS, TEXAS. It has some interviews too, but those are in German.
March 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Question: which word did he emphasize?

Putin?
Not?
Planning?
Invade?
All?
or
Europe?

Options abound.
March 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Update:
March 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
February 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Cashed in my reward points at Barnes & Noble. $1.79 later I picked up these:
January 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Been thinking a lot about the closing sections of Auden’s “For The Time Being” since Christmas.
January 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Also, fire is good.
December 25, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Most of that batch will be going to the church’s missions bake sale tomorrow. But don’t worry, there’s another in the stove in the making.
December 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Whisky fudge day! (This year: Bowmore 12. Getting back to my roots)
December 15, 2024 at 12:44 AM
On our way back from our Christmas adventure weekend. Headed up to Bethlehem PA for ice skating, Christmas market, horse-drawn wagon ride with Santa and the Christmas lights display at CocaCola Stadium of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.
December 9, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I’m not going to say that Instagram is spying on us all, but sometimes the algorithm just works.
December 8, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Using only a restaurant, tell us where you want to college.

I still remember the local commercial jingle.

🎶El Maguey, El Maguey
Mexican restaurant and cantina
Serving you the very best
From old Mexicooooo🎶
December 5, 2024 at 12:46 PM
How you doin’?
November 28, 2024 at 7:06 PM