Highway6

The G+ takeover never quite happened. I am disappointed by that, however I've happily abandoned both for the most part. G+ I check maybe once a week, I contribute nothing. FB, I check never, contribute nothing. The only thing I find FB useful for is a log-in portal / source of players for Words or Chess w/ friends on my mobile.

Stanford needs help. Stanford has 1 quality opponent left.... and there's no way #4 Stanford beating #7 Oregon is going to overtake a #2 OSU beating a #6 OU.

I agree the game was kind of boring (as the night wore on I found myself sticking with the OSU game more often) but I don't only attribute the boring to being SEC football. After all, there have been plenty of offensive showcase this yr involving those two teams and other SEC teams. I think it was in part that when you have 2 evenly matched teams, on both sides of the ball, a low scoring slug fest is a possibility. Go check out the other SEC scores from the week, this game was an aberration. I don't know where to pull up the full data.. but I'd be curious if other #1vs #2 matchups also put up their share of slugfests. This doesn't cover all the matchups, but if you wiki "game of the Century", it posts the results for a handful of #1vs#2 matchups and it's split 50-50 between slugfests and shootouts.

Drink.

Not true. To some haifers.. a rendering is a solemn vow forged in steel.

So.. i hear there's a big game in SEC country tomorrow. No. I prefer crying, but laughter would be an appropriate response. Last time I was in Norman, we kicked OU's ass... course that was pre-Stoops. Here's hoping for ball protection, no stupid offensive play calling by Sherman in key possessions, and a reasonably competent secondary.... here's hoping for a miracle.

Swamplot has details and pretty renderings. http://swamplot.com/...te+Landscape%29 Very ambitious plans include: 3 new pedestrian bridges (Shepherd, Jackson Hill, Police Memorial) A small Lake near Dunlavy and Allen Pkwy Detailed/Large map can be found here, courtesy of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. EDIT: Ambitious.. but seems a lot more doable than their previous plan which included getting rid of the cloverleaf and adding numerous small lakes and boat launches there. They already have half the money raised for this project. Scheduled completion: 2015.

Swamplot posted a timelapse video of track being laid along Harrisburg. See above link for full size.

I saw two OWS guys holding up their Occupy Houston signs over I-10 (Houston or Taylor) during evening rush hour yesterday. Did they not think of the irony when they decided the best time and place to convey their message would be to tens of thousands of Houstonians coming home from work ?

UH vs Rice right now on fox sports. Rain has not been keenum's friend. Interception, fumble for td. Rice up 17-14.

Very stupid and petty request.... Evey time I come to haif, I'm momentarily fooled into thinking I have a message because of the green search button at the top right. It's that green.. It's like a mental trigger. Anyways that can be changed down the line ? Also.. Is anyone else finding it super fast now? Are you going to be adding in custom icons and graphics like you always do? Is the lack of custom icons and graphics one of the reason for the speediness now ? #pettycompaints You mentioned tagging. Does it work like Twitter? I don't see a tagging button.

Still have not seen a single mosquito, day or night, inside or outside. .... I wonder if my Citronella Right Guard has anything to do with it.

Thank you.

Clicking on a thread doesn't go to the last post, or even the last page, even if I've visited it before. Can this change ?

I like that the View New Content" keeps track of your latest "By Time Period" selection. I like the "other" search filter on the main page. It seems pretty speedy too. And it seems that just by visiting then re-saving your signature, fixes that issue.

Agree on ND.. Love to hate them. I'm wondering if UH has reached their ceiling in the polls. Non-conference games are usually scheduled a few years out, so you never know how good/bad a team will be when you play them. So Kudos to them for attempting to schedule a good team in a BCS conference - UCLA - but unfortunately with as poor a season as UCLA is they don't get many strength of schedule points for it. Going undefeated is always impressive...but... They've beaten one team with a winning record, and as currently stands, if they win out, 3 wins will be over schools with winning records. I don't think that should earn a BCS at large spot.... but I'm curious to see they can get up to 12 in the rankings to qualify. UH's opponents and current records UCLA 3-4 N Tex 3-5 La Tech 3-4 Georgia St (Div II) 2-5 UTEP 4-3 East Carolina 3-4 Marshall 3-5 Rice 2-5 UAB 1-6 Tulane 2-6 SMU 5-2 Tulsa 4-3

Then I am surely blessed.

This must be a very localized problem. I had a friend mention to me yesterday that he had half a dozen get into his place this weekend. That was in one part of Montrose half a mile from me. But in my part of Montrose, I haven't seen a mosquito all summer. I was outside enough over the weekend I should have seen the latest infestation.... but nada. So in short, Sucks to be you people.

I last visited about a yr ago, but I remember thinking the boiler house would make for a unique residential renovation project. It seemed to be in fairly good shape.

I'm not saying Houston isn't capable of beating great teams. I'm saying that's what i want to see in a bowl matchup - them playing a great team. Boise State plays one quality game a year in the regular season. That they've won that game (Vt and Oregon x2) is a testament to them being a goood football program right now. But their 10 and 11 win records every year are meaningless when the rest of their schedules are made up of Idahos, Fresnos St, Utah St, San Jose St, etc. They better have 10 win season every yr with a schedule like that. TCU has one quality conference game against Utah every year. They didn't have a quality non-con game last yr. The two years prior, they schedule OU and Clemson non-com and split them. They split Texas and Tech the two yrs prior to that. The rest of their 11 win season are made by beating UNLV, Co St, and Air Force etc every year. Boise St played and beat OU by less that a field goal back in the 06 Fiesta... Now that was a hell of a game and a hell of a matchup. TCU beat Wiscy last year. Again, a hell of a matchup. Boise St and TCU played against each other in bowl games two years in a row prior. they split the series. And those games accomplished nothing. Two Good football teams, yes. But two David's that get 10 wins a season by beating nobodies. UH is no different. I want their bowl competition to be against a real team, one that is tested more than once a season. Playing against Boise St is not an opportunity to prove themselves. And until Boise St moves to a conference where they will be tested, they will always be a David. TCU is getting the chance starting next season. If they can maintain 9 or 10 win seasons every year when they play OU, Texas, Tech, OK ST, K State.. they'll be a monster and will finally have earned their reputation as a great team.

You're the anti-Midas

By that definition of Goliath, every team that makes a BCS game would be considered a Goliath. All BCS games would be equal. Cincinatti vs UH would be the same as Ohio St vs USC. I've changed the channel on enough BCS games involving the BEast champ to know not all BCS games are created equally. I'm totally with you on the need for at least a plus+1 and the unfairness of the BCS system... however.. that doesn't change the fact that there are some conference that are better than others. There are schools that are bigger and have more resources and history and are going to be better than others. The conference you are in is indicative of the competition you routinely face. Kudos to BS for beating Georgia, and kudos to UH for beating UCLA... but that one quality win over a good SEC team or a mediocre PAC team isn't enough to convince me they could beat any team they played, much less any team in the top 5 not named Bama.

How can you assume that. They play one ranked team all yr... and that's Georgia from an underwhelming SEC East. Having a good football program does not make you a Goliath. 3rd best academic ranked school from the 39th ranked most populous state in a 2nd tier conference.... i don't care how good they are, That's a David. That's why people want to see them play actual competition in a bowl... Not against another BCS buster, not against the BEast champ, a big name school with a big name football program. Same goes for UH... I wanna see how they'd do against the Pac or B10. Boise St beating UH or visa versa doesn't show us much.

Would be a disservice to both of them.. just like 2010 Fiesta (TCU / Boise). Nobody wants to see David vs David... they want to see David vs Goliath, like 2011 Rose (TCU / Wiscy)

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8394421 Meeting tonight and Thursday at De Pelchin Children's Center - Buffalo Bayou Partnership is showing off their latest plans for Shepherd to Sabine stretch of Buffalo Bayou. More info in the project can be found here - http://www.buffalobayou.org/shepherdsabine.html