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2 hours ago, Angostura said:
Self driving cars will obey the speed limit and stop at yellow lights. They will slow down or stop for any object they recognize as having the potential to enter the roadway. People are going to hate getting stuck behind a self-driving car.
It will be like driving in Portland.
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Walked by at lunch time today (blissfully ignoring the BoA sign in the lobby on my way out the door - prolly mentally registered as likely having to do with home loans or some such)... they're setting the sidewalk trees, and the ground floor lobby suddenly looks a whole lot more finished than it did even last week.
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👺 Dang authoritarian freedom hating building codes.
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Last time I looked, the sign on the easels on the tunnel level in Pennzoil and Esperson said 2Q this year - which certainly looks doable, if a bit tight.
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Key word: inefficient. As in, single pane glass, old school 1 or 2 zones a floor HVAC, dark roofs, etc., etc. - like an office I had a few years ago in an early 80s building in which we alternately baked or froze, depending on the season. We were on the top floor (21); you could see the uninsulated underside of the concrete roof deck above the ceiling tiles.
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On 4/12/2019 at 1:10 PM, gene said:
#same ! haha
and was curious to see just what one of the future obstructed units would be going for currently and boom found this:
https://www.har.com/1600-post-oak-boulevard-1006/sale_69608467
It is currently the lowest priced of 6 listed units...it will be interesting to see how many go up for sale in the coming months, years...
Looking at that link, it's amazing how much that building improves when the facade color is adjusted to something that wouldn't belong better on a 1962 Thunderbird.
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I couldn't get a decent picture, but the rebar is now above the street level.
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Best picture of the Pink Pussycat that I've seen since it was actually there (***sigh...***).
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Dated, perhaps, but it really uses the space efficiently.
It's also the same granite as the tower, even though it's several blocks away, and curvy rather than angular.
BTW, that was really the amount of traffic that was around at the time. We had perhaps half the population we do now.
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Funny thing is, the Katy was both the first and last freeway they were on.
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Keep in mind - some areas are going to have more pedestrian activity than others, and time of day enters into the mix, too.
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Sounds like a situation where the best thing to do is smile and nod, thinking (but not saying) "bless your heart."
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They are the same road in the same sense that FM 1093 and Westheimer are.
Actually 90A departs from Houston's South Main when it turns onto OST, and ultimately Wayside, before joining US 90 / Interstate 10.
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1 hour ago, AnTonY said:
It's quite obvious.
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2 minutes ago, cspwal said:
I think it's because Allen's landing is as far upstream as was navigable on Buffalo bayou back in the day, probably to leave room for expansion. Industry kept going downstream, because they could have access to the water for docks
IDK whether it was so much to leave room for expansion as it was that the town of Harrisburg was already there, around where the Loop crosses the ship channel (which was itself a massive expansion of the bayou and the San Jacinto River after their confluence).
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Considering the issues they had with imploding part of the unoccupied Houston Club building, I can't imagine that they would have an implosion when there are people living a foot away.
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Isn't moving cities part of the plot of Mortal Engines?
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3 hours ago, august948 said:
nie patrz teraz, ale nadchodzą te małe łobuzy z Teksasu...
Oh, so you've met Aunt Violet...
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Judge Hidalgo said pretty much the same thing in Spanish that she did in English, as do Art Acevedo, Sam Peña, the ASL interpreter, Garrett Morris doing News For The Hard Of Hearing, etc., etc., etc. This wasn't my aunts swapping their gossiping over to Polish when the kids from Texas drew near, instead, it was all about communicating to as many people as possible. Anyone who is scared that she was sliding in some secret stuff for her peeps is paranoid at best.
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Can you point us to a source for the idea that Galveston's dunes were 20 feet tall? Or perhaps some less developed barrier island on the Gulf coast that has such a thing?
The city was raised with sand dredged from the harbor. https://www.asce.org/project/galveston-seawall-and-grade-raising-project/
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Ugly is in the eye of the beholder, just as much as beauty is. Some people like prairies.
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You want examples of rare, endangered prairie species? OKfine. Starting with birds:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/w/whooping-crane/
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1 hour ago, Twinsanity02 said:
My error, not plastic straws, but plastic bags....
As for reducing pollution, who can be against that? I live along Lake Houston and am appalled at all the trash that winds up there. Some of it is due to the rapid growth in the area, some to sheer carelessness. It is irritating and disgusting. If industry could make these things decay, and decay much faster that would be helpful.
Don't plastic bags, cups, and bottles make up a significant portion of the trash that winds up on/in Lake Houston?
Then, there's this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/whale-dies-88-pounds-plastic-philippines/
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That fraction that lives inside the loop has the same population as a medium sized city - think Tulsa, Albuquerque, Baton Rouge...
Beyond that, we have a bunch of freeway segments that don't need a stall or wreck to come to a near halt in the middle of the flippin' afternoon - mostly inside the loop, but not entirely.