http://andrewcruse.com ...another waste of bandwidth Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever since Netflix started streaming movies on demand over the Internet I've been skeptical. Sure, it might occasionally be nice to watch a movie on a laptop and yes, it's technically possible to hook a PC up to a television and watch a movie that way. But let's ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/60 Tuesday morning we headed to the nearby Grand Saline, Texas where we visited the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace is a small museum constructed entirely of salt blocks which contains a few exhibits on salt and the Morton Salt mine elsewhere in the town. From there we visited ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/59 Today we headed out of Austin and made our first stop in Snook, Texas, home of Sodolak's Original Country Inn for lunch. We started with the specialty of the house, and our reason for visiting: chicken-fried bacon. Yep, you read it right -- chicken-fried bacon. The ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/58 We again started the day with breakfast at Dan's Hamburgers, though I couldn't bring myself to eat at a place called "Dan's Hamburgers" a second time without getting a hamburger. Breakfast of champions, there. It was a decent burger, but nothing to write home about. (Though apparently ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/57 Short on time this morning, so a quick recap of yesterdays events. Breakfast at Dan's Hamburgers, then on to the see the following acts: Bonnie Bishop, Langhorn Slim, The Old 97's, Band of Heathens, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves, Robert Earl Keen, John Fogerty, and capped ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/56 If yesterday was the day of BBQ excess, then today marked the beginning of three days of music excess. We arrived at Zilker Park around 11 am and set up our lawn chairs in our usual spot -- in the shade of a tree in front of the BMI ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/55 Today was the big BBQ tour day! We started our tour by picking up our tour companions, Matt, Cherie, and Tom at their hotel, then headed out to Taylor, Texas where we visited the Taylor Cafe. The Taylor Cafe is easy to miss, being just another run-down building ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/54 Our first stop this morning was in Dublin, Texas, home to the first, and oldest operating Dr. Pepper bottling facility. There we toured the bottling plant, and tasted their Dr. Pepper which is still made with real cane sugar, rather than high-fructose corn syrup as all other Dr. Pepper ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/53 We started the day with a visit to the Roger Miller Museum in his old hometown of Erick, Oklahoma. The folks at the museum were kind enough to open the museum for us, though it is normally not open on Tuesdays. As such we got a personal tour ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/52 Started out this morning with a quick visit to the Walton Five & Dime, the original Walmart, in Bentonville, Arkansas. Though modern Walmart's are open 24/7, this one was closed on Mondays. So we headed west into Oklahoma, where we picked up Route 66 a little north of ... http://andrewcruse.com/archives/51