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Bridget on Happy Birthday, Dad DanC on The Real Threat to Democr… DanC on Peeing on Electric Fences RobinBrownDavis on Peeing on Electric Fences Brent on A.B. Porter Alexandra on 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepr… Eugene’s recent tweets
- sorry to miss #1stbday #clara H/B from uncles @speelunk & @eugeneaustin @LIVESTRONGCEO post.ly/7UGVr 21 hours ago
- (very bad sign?) "@BBCWorld: Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, asks the government for a bailout worth 19bns euros bbc.in/KpDJDM" 2 days ago
- Wheatsville Co-Op South! "@statesman: Wheatsville co-op to open 2nd location, this one on South Lamar: bit.ly/K2wenF" 2 days ago
- Tell ATx City Council NO on Planning Comm's ridiculously invasive & overreaching short term rental policies bit.ly/KhJT8B. 3 days ago
- LGBT-friendly again: @Target. They're supporting marriage equality bit.ly/KFzjaB Say thx: press@target.com or 612-304-6073 # 6 3 days ago
Steven’s recent tweets
- RT: Unkindness comes out of certainty; throw out certainty, and you have the bare reality of consciousness. Another name for that is love. 1 month ago
- OH in SF: "Tea is the new 'coffee.'" "No, chocolate is the new 'coffee.' Tea is the new *'wine.'*" 5 months ago
- Dad's advice to "Twilight" heroine: "Anytime two boys are pursuing you simultaneously, it's not really about you." 6 months ago
- You get a reliable thin slice of any civilization by watching how its representatives negotiate the allocation of overhead space on a plane. 7 months ago
- Sometimes it actually *does* hurt to ask. 7 months ago
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Eugene’s Tweets
- sorry to miss #1stbday #clara H/B from uncles @speelunk & @eugeneaustin @LIVESTRONGCEO post.ly/7UGVr 21 hours ago
- (very bad sign?) "@BBCWorld: Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, asks the government for a bailout worth 19bns euros bbc.in/KpDJDM" 2 days ago
- Wheatsville Co-Op South! "@statesman: Wheatsville co-op to open 2nd location, this one on South Lamar: bit.ly/K2wenF" 2 days ago
- Tell ATx City Council NO on Planning Comm's ridiculously invasive & overreaching short term rental policies bit.ly/KhJT8B. 3 days ago
- LGBT-friendly again: @Target. They're supporting marriage equality bit.ly/KFzjaB Say thx: press@target.com or 612-304-6073 # 6 3 days ago
- Nice finally catching up w/ my good friend @dbryanjones over lunch. Thx for everything you are doing 6 days ago
- less happy but averaged before closing 1 week ago
- $40.32 and happy to pay it 1 week ago
- Daniel & Andrew from @GoodPop have treats for everyone today http://t.co/X35QnMLu 1 week ago
- EF board members roll up their sleeves too. Dave Hood, CEO, Troux Technologies http://t.co/Cx05vXYE 1 week ago
- 1,200 hands makes anything doable #MLKGardens http://t.co/PgvsoWk9 1 week ago
- EF - 600 vols building ATx 1st comm teaching gardens, @Convio @Blackbaud sponsors. on.mktw.net/JcbgTH #MLKGardens @SFClocal @WBMATX 1 week ago
- Sorry missed Agapi Stassinopoulos' book signing (Unbinding the Heart) last nite but happy cohosted w/ Suzanne Deal Booth & Eddie Safady 1 week ago
- Coincidence that 10 cos on best places to work are EF member companies? bizjournals.com/austin/event/5… 1 week ago
- Gr8 boss! rt "@jamaustex: Two great opportunities open at @LIVESTRONGHQ. Exec Assist and VP of Programs: bit.ly/workatls #Austin #Jobs" 1 week ago
- Thx u mt @chrishughes: Marriage equality in Maine @seaneldridge & I r matching donations to @mainersunited up to $100k bit.ly/J4jbCV 1 week ago
- Congratulations to my dear friends Lynn Meredith (@MOBLYNN) and Mike Nelis who move mountains - Imaginarium for Austin Children's Museum 2 weeks ago
- @OhHilaryClaire, we're going to sleep now. See you in the morning. 2 weeks ago
Steven’s Tweets
- RT: Unkindness comes out of certainty; throw out certainty, and you have the bare reality of consciousness. Another name for that is love. 1 month ago
- OH in SF: "Tea is the new 'coffee.'" "No, chocolate is the new 'coffee.' Tea is the new *'wine.'*" 5 months ago
- Dad's advice to "Twilight" heroine: "Anytime two boys are pursuing you simultaneously, it's not really about you." 6 months ago
- You get a reliable thin slice of any civilization by watching how its representatives negotiate the allocation of overhead space on a plane. 7 months ago
- Sometimes it actually *does* hurt to ask. 7 months ago
- Successful self-reinvention is almost always the product of thoughtful increments, not bold leaps. 7 months ago
- US & UN have designated 2012 "International Year of the Co-op." @wheatsville 7 months ago
- @G_WeberGale Thanks for the RT, G. Looking forward to continuing the conversation. Have a great weekend! 7 months ago
- Shopping @wheatsville Co-op is my way of occupying Wall Street everyday. 7 months ago
- Wearing wristband from acomplaintfreeworld.org, trying to go 21 days without complaining. Friend asks: So what's left to talk about? 8 months ago
- Mentor: "We teach people how to treat us." If you're not getting the results you want, consider what you may be unconsciously inviting. 9 months ago
- Bateau Mouche http://instagr.am/p/BGUtt/ 1 year ago
- @OhHilaryClaire Boredom: incipient adventure resisting itself for fear of manifesting power for which one must ever after be responsible. 1 year ago
- Rather than making heroic resolutions, alter your environment in simple ways that encourage new habits. #applesonmydesk 1 year ago
- "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." -- Emerson 1 year ago
- Awareness is curative. 1 year ago
- Mentor: As long as you can resist giving young people advice, no one will notice that you've gotten old. 1 year ago
Reach me here:
Thank you for posting this Eugene. 2009 started full of promise and optimism, but then, through no fault of our own, my husband and I got caught up in the fight of our lives with our new mortgage servicer. As just an ordinary schmuck who got kicked to her knees during the President’s battle against the banks, I can say with some authority – I can see the light!
A few months ago I had a great conversation with an economist with the Dallas Federal Reserve during their visit to Alpine. He pointed at me and said, “It’s now up to you and the other entrepreneurs to pull us out of this.”
Now that the banks are being thumped off our backs, it’s so much easier to get back to concentrating on creating more business(es). And there’s a treasure of new technology just waiting to be put to use. It’s about to get fun again.