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JasonDFW

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  1. I have a rich (top ~1.5%) friend in Houston that takes the bus. He enjoys being able to concentrate on something other than driving. He's in the oil business too, he's not trying to save the earth or anything. Jason
  2. In the Baylor hospital district in Dallas, all of the parking lots take these $1 vouchers that let you park as long as you want (multiple days in my experience) and they don't expire. Of course, you have to know they exist, but usually if you're there enough to have parking fees add up you'll have read the website or your doctor told you. I'm sure they still get lots of $ at the regular rate though, it's too easy to swipe a credit card. I wouldn't mind them jacking up the rates a bit like the TMC when rail comes in late 2009, hopefully enticing people to use that option. Jason WHOOPS, I see the vouchers are now $2. Still less than a Dart day pass though, which should change IMO.
  3. Not that my opinion matters much, but I agree. Jason
  4. I hadn't heard of this project before. It looks just like the Gaylord Texan up here, which has been a great success so far so I'm sure it'd be the same down there. There are 2 nearby golf courses but there is always the lake. I stayed there with my wife a while back when our Dallas apartment was being painted and we walked down to the lake and rented a pair of jet skis and had a fun time out on the water. Some pics from our visit:
  5. At least with respect to football, Dallas fans don't show up when they're losing OR winning. I spend a lot of time in real football towns (and grew up in one), and that was the first big thing I noticed when moving to Dallas, there were no Cowboy fans nor hardly any support for them. It quickly became apparent that a big problem was nobody I met was from Dallas. On my block of the 8 neighbors I've met not one is even from Texas. They all retain their favorite teams from wherever they're from. Houston may be better about that but it certainly has some of the same problems in creating a "sports town" name for themselves. (e.g. huge pop. influx from other areas). Jason
  6. You guessed wrong. When I had formed that opinion and viewed it elsewhere, it was around the time of 95/96 season and I had never stepped foot in "Dallass/Ft.Worthless." And by the way Lawrence, I don't think the Rockets deserve asterisks. They were the best team in the league those two years. Someone just brought up that "what if" scenario that I commented on. Jason
  7. The consensus in the rest of the country is the Rockets would not have gotten the titles. The consensus inside Houston is the opposite. No surprise then that you have no doubts. I have little doubt that if the Rockets had won the first championship Jordan would have trained so hard the next off season he'd have slain the Rockets by himself. Jason
  8. Most definitely. 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98. He didn't come back until 3/18 and that was too late to get into prime shape for the playoffs. That was obvious from even his first game back, which he'd have loved to make a 50 point game. Jason
  9. Informative post. I'm not sure about them hating Madison though, definitely not to the degree of Milwaukee. And just as an FYI, Appleton-Oshkosh did in fact end up being the big market, and Green Bay the smaller one. Jason
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