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  1. mollusk
    Well, at least it's good cheese 🥷
  2. mollusk
    Well done, Luminare. Congratulations!
  3. mollusk
    Saw one this morning on my way in to work. It went all the way from the far right lane of Katy Freeway to try to merge with the far left lane ramp to 45 South starting from just before the Crockett bridge - as if it were in "oh... the exit's on the other side of the freeway" mode. Definitely a learning curve.
  4. mollusk
    1. It's not uglier than Original Sin - actually, it has nice lighting elements at night. 2. There is a chef hall hidden on the ground floor.
  5. mollusk
    The Architectural Audi of its time? 🥷
  6. mollusk
    In the past the Supreme Court generally tried to make its rulings as narrow as possible, if it couldn't somehow sidestep the issue. Things are different now.
  7. mollusk
    The actual Second Amendment: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. The first part only lost its significance in 2008, when District of Columbia v. Heller erased 200 years of jurisprudence.
  8. mollusk
    Is Metro kicking in some cash for this? If not, they should considering how it's their busses that have pounded the outer lanes into something out of a war zone.
  9. mollusk
    I can't think of the last time I saw the Jones Hall fountain working, though it does have water in it (and assuming that we're talking about the water feature on the lower concourse). I walk past it several times a week going to and from the molluskmobile. IIRC the Main Street Square water screen only comes on when the wind is relatively calm. Otherwise it can give passers by a nice shower.
  10. mollusk
    The Electric Building, perhaps aka the Goggan Building, is still there and now known as the Great Jones Building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Jones_Building
  11. mollusk
    Hmmmm... sounds like a good reason to use something like the Zip system (properly sealed and flashed of course, but perhaps harder to mess up in the first place)
  12. mollusk
    Yikes. So how do you end up fixing this mess? Pull the windows? Or is there some way to achieve the same goal with them in place? (obviously if the structural members are somehow still sound)
  13. mollusk
    So... no 58 story building?
  14. mollusk
    nm. Couldn't get an image clip to attach.
  15. mollusk
    There's at least the utility easement, which in most (if not all) of Norhill is the rear three feet of each lot or tract. Buildings were frequently built more than 3' from the rear line - my own garage, for example.
  16. mollusk
    Woodland Heights did a pretty good job of keeping people aware of the project from its earliest stages. The city even came to a regular meeting or two before everything was locked down. As of a couple days ago it didn't look like anyone had nailed the Michaux / White Oak island yet - of course, it has a LOT of signage above the bright yellow curbs.
  17. mollusk
    If I could only find the one I had... that probably failed to survive some move or another decades ago. 🤷‍♂️
  18. mollusk
    Before the last expansion the Katy ran pretty well inside the loop. Since then, not so much.
  19. mollusk
    It's almost like the new highway induced demand. 🥷
  20. mollusk
    I now know what the frog felt like when it jumped out of the warming pan of water. Now, rather than trying to see past all the parked cars and blind corner and almost getting clobbered at least once a month by someone doing 50 down White Oak I cut over to Watson a couple blocks earlier, adding some Zen to my morning commute. 🥷🐸
  21. mollusk
    The only thing that Nextdoor and nuance have in common is they both start with N. 🥷
  22. mollusk
    Don't forget, after Safeway did their 80s swoon they picked up the former Weingarten's locations and created the Apple Tree banner (apparently at least someone in their corporate chain realized even then that around here the Safeway name represents hostile service, high prices, crashing, and burning). Nobody was fooled and within a couple years bailed on what everyone called Safegarten's. Cougar Kroger (West Gray) is one of those ghosts.
  23. mollusk
    s3mh, you, me, and maybe about a dozen other people remember what a clown he was as a county court judge - shoot, he'd even recycle the same "joke" 3 or 4 times during the same motions docket, as if there were a rotating group of people in the room. I think a combination of shifting precinct lines and going AWOL took him out, particularly when he was out golfing during one of the commissioners meetings he skipped.
  24. mollusk
    Good point. Even lots of Rs loathe Cruz.
  25. mollusk
    Nah - just more saber rattling by the opposition.
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