The Davebrand Monthly Visitor

We here at Davebrand Industries take our civic responsibilities seriously. We encourage all of our employee* to pay taxes, serve jury duty, and vote.

1. Register to vote. If you haven’t done this, it’s too late to do so for the coming November elections, but why not register now for the next voting thingee? To do so, just go to the Travis County voter site.
2. Find your precinct. You’ll need this information to know where to vote and which ballot options are yours. To find out your precinct, try the Travis County site. My precinct is 238.
3. Print your ballot. Now here’s where my advice differs from all of the other advice you’ll get on lesser websites. Print your ballot and go through it. Read the propositions. Check out the websites of the candidates. Then google their names with the word “scandal” and see what comes up. A well-informed voter is the best defense against tyranny. You can get the Travis county sample ballots here.
4. Find your voting place. I recommend early voting from this list of locations… why not get it out of the way now?
5. Vote!
6. Wear your pride!! Take that little “I Voted” sticker and plaster it all over your happy face. I wish they had “I Voted” face painting. That would be awesome. Maybe I could get an “I Voted” tattoo…

*Yes, employee. There’s only one.

Austinites, click here to answer a survey about our beloved and largely neglected Waller Creek.

My personal recommendation? Let’s make it the first Mobius waterway.

Congratulations to all of the players and spectators on this beautiful afternoon at Spiderhouse. We all had a lot of fun, and I really think that you are all winners!

But in a real, more truthful way, Matt is the winner, with a great streak of games into 1st place. Larsson placed second, and I came into a close 3rd place.

We all had a great time and a lot of fun playing all four rounds of double-elimination play. Hope to see you when we play next time!

Coal is dirty, smelly, and just like a baby’s diaper, no one wants it in their neighborhood. The New York Times recently previewed a new film, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, about how we, the people of Texas, fought back against dirty coal and TXU’s plan for 13 new coal-fired plants fast-tracked into place with no public input in under a bad energy law and a crooked governor.