October 2007 Archive

Pum'kin Head Pug

posted by DL Byron on October 30, 2007

Happy Halloween!

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Who Really Deserves to Be President?

posted by Jason Swihart on October 25, 2007

In this month’s issue of Wired an feature titled “Campaign 2008: Webbiest Ever” highlights the six leading candidates’ pandering to geeks. Well, do they?

For your consideration now, our own “Textura Design Geek’s Voting Guide.”

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TDI in Dwell

posted by Jason Swihart on October 22, 2007

We’re all pretty excited about this one: November’s Dwell magazine makes prominent reference to Textura Design. A couple months ago, Dwell asked our own Byron to be November’s expert in that month’s “Dwell Reports” feature.

November’s topic: urban bike’s—and who better than Bike Hugger Byron?

Although this is largely a Hugger-related spot, I think we’ll all be happy if it produces some high-end design and architecture gigs.

Dwell Report 2, originally uploaded by Hugger Industries.

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Does Your Messenger Bag Ever get the "Not so Fresh" feeling?

posted by DL Byron on October 17, 2007

A package of Stride will freshen your entire bag for a trip.

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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Water and Sound

posted by DL Byron on October 17, 2007

Taipei sounds different: voices, scooters, construction, and this fountain outside the convention center

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Blogging Taipei: City Lights

posted by DL Byron on October 16, 2007

Blade Runner like, the city is full of various neon, flashing, and motor lights. Standing on a corner to get the neon boxes shot, I imagined a noisy blimp floated by selling noodles.

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What's your schwag?

posted by DL Byron on October 14, 2007

We spotted these attendees with some cool looking schwag at IDF Taipei and asked them what they had. Hilarity ensues.

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Industrial Art in Taipei

posted by DL Byron on October 14, 2007

This “coral structure” marked the entrance to a artist squatter community that’s probably torn down by now. I think the tubes are painted PVC. There was another smaller one off to the right. As we learned, artist communities in Taipei establish themselves in old barracks, thrive for a while, and then get kicked out.

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Agnes B in Taipei

posted by DL Byron on October 14, 2007

French, urban fashion from Agnes B is popular in Taipei — the hair, the hips, and the cyclists in the foreground. That’s us and Dahon.

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5 on a plane

posted by DL Byron on October 13, 2007

The flight to Narita, then onto Taipei for the Intel Developer Forum was uneventful compared to a recent Vegas flight. The details are sketchy as it happened very fast and I still don’t know exactly what happened, but do know this

• A plane was released to fly after maintenance that took most the day
• Passengers were needed to fly on it
• Mike and I were waiting for our flight and suddenly the counter agents started yelling a us to get onto another flight
• Once on the flight, the pilots had a 15 minute window to get back into the air or lose their flight rights because of FAA limitations.
• We got on, rushed out to the runway in a hurry, then suddenly braked hard, turned around, and came back because there were too many planes ahead of us to meet the pilot’s flight time cut off.
• We were escorted off the plan and the counter agents just shook their heads.

After that confusing and thrilling experience, I decided that was definitely worth a first-class upgrade and Alaska agreed. We took photos while on the plane, the attendants, mechanic, and pilot were all very nice and cordial.

That was a “never had that happened before” experience. With Alaska’s Wild Northwest past, I bet there are many more.

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Social Media Rewards Persistence

posted by Jason Swihart on October 09, 2007

Due to Byron’s delicate gastro-intestinal constitution, I’ve been designated the official TDI “adventure eater” for our upcoming trip IDF Taipei. I’ve been scouring sites for ideas on what to eat and where to eat it, but until this morning, those ideas have amounted to:

• The night markets have food
• Stinky tofu is one of those foods

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Blogging Taipei

posted by Jason Swihart on October 05, 2007

Next Friday, Byron and I are off to Taipei for the next Intel Developer Forum October 15-16. We arrive a few days early to adjust to the time difference and to do some advance blogging for the IDF Taipei folks and for Bike and Snow Huggers. Unfortunately, we don’t arrive until three days after Double Ten Day, which all my Taiwanese friends have chastised me for missing.

Having never traveled in Asia, I’m inexpressibly excited. Will it be exotic? Will I learn to haggle properly in the night market? Will I be offered strange things to eat? Will my kidneys be stolen?

While we’re there, we’ll be riding our folding bikes, meeting the folks from Dahon, gorging ourselves on Taiwanese culture, and covering the IDF events. So tell us: what must we see in Taiwan?

Photo by Paogao. Used under a Creative Commons License. Some Rights reserved.

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Various Bike Parts for Sale

posted by DL Byron on October 01, 2007

From a booth in the China Pavilion during Interbike.

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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