Refresh Austin Educates Austin Entrepreneurs On Affordable Care Act
10/9/2013 AUSTIN - Despite a Federal shutdown in Washington, Austin’s tech scene hosted an event at the Capital Factory last night to help small businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals in the work force get educated on the new healthcare marketplace. Amanda Fredriksen of AARP, Texas spoke for an hour to a crowd of about 80 on what the new healthcare law means to Texans specifically. For employers she mentioned a...
Family Values Tour: Dads
Dads is bad. Dads is painfully, totally, in spots off-the-charts bad, made with the kind of primitive humor and style that makes you wonder whether anyone involved had ever seen a sitcom before. It’s the only multi-camera, laugh-track sitcom of the lot here, but that’s not what makes it regressive. It regresses to a time long before the advent of multi-camera sitcoms. Dads’ premise is simple enough: two guys (Seth Green and...
The Numbers Game
We wanted to give this topic its due and be able to be honest, so the writers have been kept anonymous. Enjoy. A Female Perspective: Known as one of the oldest double standards in the book, my “number”, has been haunting me since the age of 16. Men are praised if they fuck a girl the first night they meet them. In most cases, it is expected behavior. But if a woman is sleeping around she’s a slut, whore, easy,...
Pumpkin Spice Everything
Summer is almost over. Which means beautiful fall weather right? Wrong. Well not completely wrong. But somewhat wrong as foliage and crisp air has competition for what signifies the arrival of fall. Somehow over the past few years a drink concoction so unholy has taking everyone by storm. It’s hard to say where the craze began. But I know one thing. I want it stop. IT’S NOT EVEN GOOD. Does it even taste like pumpkin....
The Great Casting Challenge Part I
It seems this Ben Affleck casting caused quite a stir. As the news was dropped and the debris laid to rest, fans were up in arms over their fallen hero, Christian Bale. The thing is the Batman recasting would’ve had to happen eventually. Just as all comic book movie stars will have to be recasted eventually. So to avoid another commotion we’re here to help. We want to help plan ahead for these comic book franchises, both new and...
Urban Camping, Huh?
My wife works in home healthcare. In its most basic sense, this profession is exactly what it sounds like: a nurse or a therapist does home visits for patients who have recently been discharged from the hospital. Pretty simple. Things have the potential to get complicated when the whole “walking blindly into a stranger’s home” part gets introduced. You might end up in a standard, single family home. You also might end up in dusty...