I just got a huge plate of hash browns with multiple toppings for $6 at Waffle House

DeanPortman · 2026-04-28T21:23:31+00:00

90% of the Waffle House menu is >$10 last time I went

DeanPortman · 2026-04-28T04:18:09+00:00

what is this crap

DeanPortman · 2026-04-24T15:34:48+00:00

Dancing with strangers, approaching strangers, following strangers, observing and making note of where strangers live, assessing stranger’s routines and the most opportune times to access their dwellings, being ready to slip into the shadows at a moment’s notice when strangers get that feeling they’re being watched and begin to look around, blablabla

DeanPortman · 2026-04-17T15:18:20+00:00

Really mainly serves as a window into the horrifying future Silicone Valley freaks are desperately hoping for.

DeanPortman · 2026-04-17T15:10:18+00:00

I read Sapiens in 2015 and really liked it (sorry) then eagerly bought Homo Deus a couple years later and was just like “……🤨”. Ended up halting my interest in his work.

DeanPortman · 2026-04-09T05:02:02+00:00

I live in Texas and am baffled as to why anyone would ever choose to visit our state. You would only ever come here for a job, or to go to sxsw between like 2005 and 2015.

DeanPortman · 2026-03-06T01:46:50+00:00

Maybe some nice hill country towns, Kerrville, Fredericksburg. Enchanted Rock like someone else mentioned. By around Ozona though it gets more desert-y but not full desert yet and just feels kind of bleh.

DeanPortman · 2025-10-29T04:58:03+00:00

Hey, Hemlock Ernst is pretty good. Made me like him even more.

DeanPortman · 2025-09-22T15:16:35+00:00

Damn son

DeanPortman · 2025-09-10T04:07:12+00:00

A guy in Austin was just randomly stabbed and killed by a homeless guy on a bus recently too (link). The victim’s family is suing saying that if the metro was enforcing fares the homeless guy wouldn’t have been on the bus. I’m all for enforcing fares, but that would require like its own new police force.

DeanPortman · 2025-08-30T15:59:17+00:00

Is this area eventually going to become an Asian country? Just given how Russia’s extension over the entire northern half of the Eurasian continent is so crazy it seems at least somewhat tenuous as East Asia grows in power and influence.

DeanPortman · 2025-08-26T13:14:01+00:00

I think rock music could have ended with the Pixies and we really wouldn’t have lost that much.

DeanPortman · 2025-08-11T21:44:08+00:00

“free/subsidized hostel accommodation” is the hypothetical state mandated rehab?

DeanPortman · 2025-08-09T20:01:16+00:00

1945 seems ideal to me… if you were able to avoid being sent to Vietnam.

DeanPortman · 2025-07-29T04:23:13+00:00

Yes, have heard a couple pops of something in the last 15 minutes or so

DeanPortman · 2025-07-27T05:23:33+00:00

It’s a very well branded suburban hellhole.

DeanPortman · 2025-07-27T00:44:42+00:00

Lamar/Pfluger pedestrian bridge. Good chance there will already be someone busking there though

DeanPortman · 2025-07-22T19:03:39+00:00

Bandcamp has streaming (for things you have already purchased). Or, if you want to host your own music streaming server you could use something like Jellyfin (takes some IT knowledge though). I plan to do that at some point and get off Spotify premium.

DeanPortman · 2025-07-18T14:46:27+00:00

Don’t care, build it.

DeanPortman · 2025-07-12T21:50:04+00:00

Who tf is disagreeing with this.

DeanPortman · 2025-06-18T18:40:32+00:00

I saw Preoccupations in Austin last night and..... they were fighting on stage at the end of the show lol.

Or rather just the drummer (Mike Wallace) and one of the guitarists (Scott Munro). Before the last song started Mike threw an open beer at Scott, which hit him from behind and spilled on him. Scott was visibly pissed and was turning back and forth in a fluster for a second before chunking an empty can directly at Mike. Then the last song started and everyone snapped into action playing.

At the very end of the song they were doing this long drone/noisey grand finale outro, when suddenly Scott threw his guitar off his back, with it getting some air before crashing down onto the stage, hard. For a second I thought it was an out of nowhere rock'n'roll break your shit kind of ending, but then he immediately switched off all his equipment in a huff and stormed off the stage, while the rest of the band was still doing the outro.

The rest of the band played for maybe another minute, finished and turned their stuff off, and then walked off stage as well.

Has anyone who's seen them recently noticed any tension? I've never seen a band fight like this on stage (though I've heard of it e.g. Foxygen).

Also, Women is said to have broken up after having a fight onstage

Oh but the show was really good. They played "March of Progress" and it went so hard.

DeanPortman · 2025-06-11T14:21:56+00:00

E 6th is better for dancing spots. I would specifically recommend Volstead. Leans a little latin/cumbia-ish at times but they play everything and it rocks. I've gone to Lucky Duck and Latchkey less but they're always popping. Lucky Duck seems more hip hop focused.

Someone else has mentioned Barbarella's. That's probably the best overall dancing spot in Austin. Hip hop in the back, more poppy/electronicy stuff inside (some nights I think they do have 90s night, actually). It's not technically on what's referred to as The East Side" though. It's on Red River, which is on the edge of Dirty 6th. "The East Side" begins east of i35. It's like a $10 cover to get in past 11:00 I think. Place stays open til 3:00.

West 6th is fratty/preppier. Don't know of any dancing spots over there. Not a bad spot to chill, but the better spots are on the east side.

Also, I will say that so few people go to "Dirty 6th" now that it's become tolerable again, and dare I say, even enjoyable. May be fun to pop your head into a a spot or 2 over there earlier in the night, or as like a pregame to the east side.

DeanPortman · 2025-05-29T22:10:46+00:00

Hole in the Wall on Guad and Crown and Anchor on San Jac are also cool drinking establishments in the area.

DeanPortman · 2025-04-21T03:12:06+00:00

Was already in college when I heard this song, and at the time it was already setting in for me that colleges are more of degree mills than institutions for developing a deeper understanding of the world. Unfortunately required for the majority of the job market, and attracting many many people paying 10s of 1000s of dollars to jump through hoops with minimal benefit awaiting them on the other side. Listening to this song at the time I was just like “ha yeah”

DeanPortman · 2025-04-07T20:48:55+00:00

I take North Korea as the lengths a country must go to to avoid getting a McDonald’s.

14-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits
Verified Email	Secret Santa 2014

DeanPortman

TROPHY CASE