Author: Chris Minnick

Chris Minnick is an author, trainer, web developer and co-founder of WatzThis? (www.watzthis.com).

He has authored and co-authored books and articles on a wide range of Internet-related topics. His published books include: JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies, Coding All-in-One For Dummies, Mastodon For Dummies, Beginning ReactJS Foundations, Adventures in Coding, JavaScript For Kids For Dummies, Coding with JavaScript For Dummies, Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies, Webkit For Dummies, CIW eCommerce Certification Bible, and XHTML.

In addition to his role with WatzThis?, Chris is a winemaker, painter, novelist, swimmer, cook, and musician.

blood

I had to have blood drawn today, just for regular tests…no need to worry. They figured since I haven’t been to a doctor in 10 years, maybe they’d better make sure I have blood, or some such thing. Anyway, all went well, and today’s links are blood links.
Blood Online
Caverns Of Blood!
Human Blood
Howstuffworks.com’s “How Blood Works” (I like this one because they show you how much soda you could fit inside your veins!)
Blood Feast
That’s all for now. Have a lovely (and bloody!) day.

2001 goals

Some of the things that I want to do this year:

  • take bowling lessons
  • take golf lessons
  • write more fiction
  • make more tv shows
  • work on a guidebook for people without kids (things to do, places to go, etc)
  • write down things I want to do before I forget them!

places to eat in Austin

I’m making a list of places to eat in Austin that are not overrun with children….places where two adults can go to eat and actually hear each other talking…places where you don’t have to listen to Joe Bob at the next table tell his daughter to “shut up” (like we did last night at Kerby Lane).

Anyway, many of these places are a little more expensive than Chuy’s or other “massive quantities of cheap food to make your children stuff their faces with chips and salsa and hopefully fall asleep” places. But, if you don’t have kids, you can afford it. Enjoy yourself. Eat good food in a QUIET place!

So, here’s the list so far:

1. Dave and Busters…AFTER 10 (11 during the summer). They actually kick the kids out. It’s really a beautiful sight. And, things get so much more pleasant after they’re gone!

2. Cool River Cafe…this place is a meat market for single people who fancy themselves to be fancy. But, if you can put up with those people, you can play pool and eat some good food…without kids around (too expensive for mom and pop to show up in the minivan with lil’ Travis, Jebb and Ashley.)

3. Koreana. Good Korean food and sushi. Nice, quiet, atmosphere.

4. Manuel’s. Kids occasionally get in here, but they seem really out of place. A great alternative to the aforementioned Chuy’s.

4. Iron Cactus. So much Tequila, you’ll go nuts! Atmosphere is certainly not kid-friendly..much too clean for that.

More to come!

links

today’s links:
1. Totally Useless – Because the whole freakin web is turning into one big totally useless dot com
2. Useless Site of the Week
Curiously enough, these two sites define uselessness very differently. The second one is much more of a corporate monkey’s definition of useless…the type of thing that calls The Dark Side of the Scooby Doo Gang useless (I disagree), but fails to mention useless dot-coms. The editors of both sites understand the independant publishing nature of the web…but I think Totally Useless understands better (and I don’t think it’s secretly owned by some corporation that has an interest in shutting up people who are exposing the dark side of Scooby). I prefer totally useless because of its definition of useless.

the big D

Margaret and I went to Dallas (the big “D”) over the weekend, to celebrate our aniversary (3rd). We went to the Kimball Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Ft. Worth, Dealey Plaza in Dallas, a movie, an arcade, and various bars.