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  1. Ho hum. Let's see, using your own stats, 41,000 heights residents. How many of those have even heard that this is happening yet? 30%? Let's be generous, call it 50% (I doubt very much). 20,500 people. Number with computer and internet access? 76.3% (Census stats 2009) = 15,641. %age with Facebook page? Approx 35% = 5474 So at 2405 members (yep, still adding ), that gives them almost half the user base. 44% of the local populace don't want this, if you want to play statistical games. Oh, and where's that Bring it On, West End Wal-Mart page again?
  2. Slightly more than a dozen. Try 2369 members and counting in one week on the Facebook Stop The Heights Wal-Mart page.....
  3. Petition already up at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopthehoustonheightsareawalmart/
  4. http://www.fidelisrealtypartners.com/property/documents/NorthlineFlier.pdf Some hard info on the Northline Commons Walmart - it has an executed lease, opening October 2010. Any actual info out there on a Yale St location isn't popping up on this interwebby thing.
  5. OC and DC, both within walking distance, Star Pizza for delivery, Stella Sola will be on the list now they do brunch, Lola, and I'm looking forward to Zelko's, Jenni's and Jus Mac opening up
  6. Apparently there was a stabbing on Bayland, close enough to Travis to get them to lock down Travis, and then Harvard.
  7. Anyone know what's with the current rash of choppers whirling overhead? Apparently there's been an incident (rumor - attempted murder) over at Travis Elementary so both Travis and Harvard Elementary are on lockdown.
  8. I just got mail from out of the country, addressed to Harrard St, Huston, Tx 77007, with a wrong digit in the number, which arrived at Harvard St no problem. USPS isn't doing too bad a job.
  9. Go ahead and show us these studies.
  10. Cell phone use while driving is banned in many countries already. All the studies from Europe as well as the US show that cell phone use, even hands free cell phone use is a major problem. It's not so much that it's a distraction like a passenger or having kids in the car - there's a lot more cognitive processing involved in a cell phone conversation than just yelling at your brats in the back. Partly this is down to the lack of visual clues and body language, partly that the guy on the other end of the phone doesn't see the truck that just cut you off - if you have a passenger, they will mostly see the same road situation you do, and break off the conversation leaving you free to deal with it. The surprising result is that hands free isn't much better - and that's because the data processing going on is much the same, minus a small component for motor skills in holding a phone to your ear. Redscare had it right - I can drink drive too, no problem. Until the one time that something does happen...
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