mollusk

"seamless flow between rooms and the great outdoors and creating an mold inviting allergenic atmosphere."

FIFY.

11 minutes ago, editor said:

Truly deserved.  Pretty much anything older than last Tuesday is a blur for me.  A good portion of my brain is Jarlsberg.

Well, at least it's good cheese 🥷

Well done, Luminare.  Congratulations!

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.

7 hours ago, strickn said:

Or maybe a Tron themed escape room?

I have never been to that one; what are rhe coolest things about it, please?

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.

The Architectural Audi of its time? 🥷

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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)

So... no 58 story building?

nm.  Couldn't get an image clip to attach.

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.

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.

On 1/13/2023 at 3:46 PM, mkultra25 said:

Ran across a Mold-A-Rama history site containing some scans of an interesting period article about the building when it first opened. For those who aren't aware, the building originally had a coin-operated Mold-A-Rama machine installed on the floor that was publicly accessible as an observation deck, from which you could obtain your own plastic injection-molded replica of the building.

Humble Oil Building

If I could only find the one I had... that probably failed to survive some move or another decades ago. 🤷‍♂️

Before the last expansion the Katy ran pretty well inside the loop.  Since then, not so much.

4 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

This is no different than TxDOT coming out today and realizing they made sections of the Grand Parkway too narrow. Either they're dumb as bricks when planning or they're brilliant and ripping off taxpayers over and over. Either way it's old solutions that aren't solving much larger issues. 

It's almost like the new highway induced demand. 🥷

On 12/5/2022 at 5:48 PM, Ross said:

What do you mean I can't turn left on White Oak from Michaux!

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.  🥷🐸

On 12/15/2022 at 5:11 AM, 004n063 said:

I'm not on Nextdoor, but it was not my impression that their critiques were as nuanced as that.

The only thing that Nextdoor and nuance have in common is they both start with N. 🥷

On 12/1/2022 at 7:02 AM, Reefmonkey said:

The Safeway/Albertson’s saga in Houston always leaves me shaking my head. Safeway failed in the Houston market back in the 80s, and Albertson’s in the early 2000s, when Randall’s was still strong. So what does Safeway do, having failed in the Houston market because they were never nearly as good as Randall’s, they buy Randall’s and proceed to run it into the ground, with poorer service, reduced selection and always running out of things, but still keeping their prices high. Then Albertson’s who also failed in the Houston market because of their poor shopping experience and other issues, buys Safeway, getting access back to the Houston market they already failed in before, and then proceeds to further drive Randall’s into the ground and worsen its stocking situation by closing the Houston area distribution center, and more and more Randall’s locations shutter. Now Albertson’s will get to ruin all the Krogers in the area.  

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.

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.

3 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

May have had at least as much to do with the relative desirability of his opponent in the two races as well.

Good point.  Even lots of Rs loathe Cruz.