Ryan Joy (atxryan)

After raving about my fish tacos for months, I finally had a chance to share them to much acclaim with a few of my coworkers this Saturday at a movie day. This is such an easy dish that people absolutely love. I have to share it… Ingredients Salsa 2 ripe mangoes, peeled and diced 1 [...]

My new Macbook Pro arrived this morning! Thing is though, I’m not a Mac person. I’m not even yet a convert. I work on a PC at work, have a linux desktop at home, and a linux server for remote-everything. I need tips. Tricks. Application suggestions. Resources. What’s your favorite text-editor? Dashboard widgets? AppleScripts? What [...]

I can’t believe Hailey is already 1 year old! It seems only a few months ago that Jade, Kat, & I rushed from Austin to Tomball hospital in order to make it for her birth. Scotty and Melissa have done so much to improve the house. Each time I visit there are new improvements – [...]

Sometimes you want a quick meal that doesn’t come out of the freezer or isn’t placed between two slices of bread. Such was the case last night when I wanted to cook myself something to eat, but was already very hungry and didn’t want it to take a half-hour. Rummaging through my cupboard, I came [...]

Returning from a recent trip to Houston, Jade and I stopped to fill up the tank in Brookshire, Texas at a Flying J. There I encountered this absurd sign → YELLOW is not a threat level. It’s a color. It represents the Department of Homeland Security’s Elevated threat level designation in their inane advisory system. [...]

Today we launched the first version of a project started in mid-January: StatesmanShopping I might write more on this later…