I like finding unique things online and this morning I came across Happy Socks, a fashionable sock company. What caught my eye about the company is their full line up of brightly-colored socks. Happy Socks has also gotten into the fever of the World Cup with their latest line up of colorful socks sporting colors for a handful of countries. The company... [Read more...]

Remember how recently we transformed the pool here at the Remington into a cinema? That was pretty cool, huh? We'll be doing the cinema thing again, only the transformation won't be quite as  magical. It's our regularly scheduled First Thursday Movie Night. It's this week, on Thursday coincidentally. We'll be showing The Book of Eli, starring Denzel... [Read more...]

Here at the Remington we have a terrific swimming pool. It's lots of fun to splash around in or to lounge beside on a sunny day. But it's not just a pool. We here at the Remington can transform it into a an outdoor cinema. The way we do it is magic. Which is sort of like how a house can fly just by attaching a bunch of balloons to it. But apparently... [Read more...]

Hey Remington folk, we have some good news and some, well, not bad news... it's just a heads up. First the heads up: Tomorrow, June 10, the office here at the Remington will close a bit early, at 4:30pm. See, it's the night of the Austin Apartment Association annual awards, and we'd like some time to change into our ball gowns and tiaras before heading... [Read more...]

Sometimes we all have to put in some extra time at work. But too much of that can have a bad effect on your health. Medical science has the data to prove it. A recent article on WebMD describes a study in the UK that followed British civil servants for about ten years. The subjects who worked three or more hours of overtime a day showed a 60%... [Read more...]

We're going to call this a suggestion on how to clean out your closet. But it's really just a modest attempt to alert you to a cool organization that has an unusual way of making the world a better place. It's Girls Rock Camp Austin, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls and women of all backgrounds and abilities through musical education... [Read more...]