Note: This Event was part of my “Secret Experimental Event Series” for Big Weekend Calendars and The Austin Events Wall Calendar. You can read more about the event series in this post. Event Premise One of my requirements for these events was that htey needed to be easy to partic...

Note: This Event was part of my “Secret Experimental Event Series” for Big Weekend Calendars and The Austin Events Wall Calendar. You can read more about the event series in this post. Where The Idea Came From I didn’t even know what a drum circle was when I moved to Austin 20 ye...

Note: This Event was part of my “Secret Experimental Event Series” for Big Weekend Calendars and The Austin Events Wall Calendar. You can read more about the event series in this post. Where The Idea Came From If you look for tv shows about history you will find that more than half of them are about...

Note: This Event was part of my “Secret Experimental Event Series” for Big Weekend Calendars and The Austin Events Wall Calendar. You can read more about the event series in this post. Where The Idea Came From Years ago, in the early days of my calendar company, I held some relea...

Note: This Event was part of my “Secret Experimental Event Series” for Big Weekend Calendars and The Austin Events Wall Calendar. You can read more about the event series in this post. The Event Listing Below is the event description as posted to the public. Let’s See How Many Extension Cords We Can...

I had some images that were on white backgrounds and when I put them on my white backgrounded site, they looked a little weird to me without a border. Just text hanging in space: I wanted them to have a border. There's plugins for this but I wanted something simpler. Here's how I did it. Creating a...

During the summer of 2019 I started developing a set of events that would promote the Austin Events 2020 wall calendar. It was called the "Secret Unpublished Event Series". Here's the list of events I created. Follow the links to read posts about individual events. I Made An Extra Cup Of Coffee. Who...

Warning: This post digs deeply into the minutiae of one part of my process. You might find it incredibly boring. Current Strategy When I last blogged about learning spanish, the plan was to do more listening comprehension once I finished catching up to my 5000 card ANKI deck.  Well I finished t...

I do this exercise pretty often called “What Went Well”. Basically you think of three things that went well, write how they went well, and then ask yourself why they happened.  Having done this hundreds of times I’ve seen a clear pattern of “why”. They are” I got lucky.I sat down and did the wo...

There’s a lot of ways to approach the idea of surprise. Here’s one way I look at it. First, we have the experiencescape. This is the people, place, objects, rules, relationships and blocking (how things move around over time) of the experience. Each of these things might interact with any of the oth...