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Theobromine poisining I've read of cases that its fatal. Has to be very large amounts, and is dependent on the size of the dog. My dog growing up got in to small amounts of chocolate, never got sick. He also ate indian food so that probably helped him build a tough stomach. Though he did die of cancer when he was 10... Anyways, I've been taking my dog to a couple of places weekly getting a spot in the corner of the patio and no one has said anything other than compliments on occasion.

nothing amazing, but i do like all the different options you have. could be the one i built wasn't the best combo, i'll probably give it another shot. I've only been in LA, i'm assuming the menu is the same here...

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But it doesn't make up for United's crappy customer service (relative to Continental's).

Downtown Streets shows some of the construction and the LRT utility work. Lanes are closed on St Joseph parkway and a couple of other places too. I think those are unrelated.

First off I agree with you for the most part, this is just a revenue generator and questionable on affect to public safety. But i don't agree with all your points... Aren't these just treated as any other non-moving violation? You can appeal them. The City is your accuser, and you can confront them. I've made several right turns on red and no had any problems. I only know two people that have gotten tickets and they were legitimate. I also was creeping at 4am on my way to work, basically let go of my brake when i saw the cross street go yellow with no one within miles. the flash went off, but i didn't get a ticket. they check the speed for every incident before generating a citation. there are a 1000 other distractions while driving i would say are worse, maybe your area has some ridiculous flashes but the ones i have seen are not startling at all. Interesting, you can beat them? that's good to know. Exactly how fast do you need to go? I have the opposite concern, i see people slamming on the brakes when a light turns yellow. Because they are afraid of the red light cameras they are stopping when they shouldn't and causing accidents. Agreed.

I read it as commercial for domestic flights. If Continental starts up their puddle jumper to IAH again that would be amazing, I know tons of NASA/Contractors would love to see that come back. Most of my coworkers have started flying Southwest for work because of Hobby's proximity and ease after Continental discontinued service from Ellington and SW improved service. From what I remember Continental said it was too expensive to fly out of Ellington when they tried to renew their contract.

Assuming the menu is the same (only been to the downtown location), the Philly Steak burger is amazing - though overwhelming with meat so may not be everyone's thing. will have to checkout the Heights location soon.

HTC androids are not google phones, they are HTC phones that run the Android Operating system. The Nexus One was a phone made by HTC where Google was partnered in the hardware development. Same thing for the Nexus S where Google worked with Samsung. It will be interesting to see which direction Google takes with Motorola hardware, and if they still collaborate with other mfrs on hardware, or just provide the Android OS and release all Google phones through Motorola.

She tried it twice, northbound train to southbound bus, as well as bus to bus, and she was charged double on her q card. I'll have her try again and confirm... I made one complaint but didn't have all the info (bus number missing). Will make sure to get that next time. also on the metro route builder, it doesn't even throw the option up there for a north bound to south bound transfer, even though in some cases its the best/fastest way to get somewhere. when i called earlier this year they said that it would charge double and you can only transfer in the same direction of travel.

Walgreens has an option for Glossy or Matte. But Glossy is the only option for in-store pickup, Matte has to be mailed. Its funny, i had the exact opposite experience when printing photos. This was back in 2004 in midtown, when I printed at CVS and didn't like the colors and then printed the same pics at Walgreens and they turned out much better and brighter, to what I expected over the post processing i had done on the photos. Though at the time CVS printed in glossy, so maybe things have changed. I was printing some photos just for frames and for those I preferred the glossy. I wasn't worried about glare or fingerprints and wanted pop.

I was at grabbing dinner few weeks ago and a Metro cop parked and after a few minutes went in to the convenient store across the street and made an arrest. After putting the suspect in the backseat another officer who had pulled up during the first arrest ran down the street yelling at people to get out of his way. It was rather amusing because he was going full speed and overweight, and the guy he was running for was just standing there not moving and confused on what was going on. Though I really don't know the situation, and maybe the guys was a risk of some sort, but he was just standing there after crossing the street. The officer arrested him and walked him back to his Metro Police car. Anyways, i was really wondering what their jurisdiction was and why they were making arrests like that.

Metro's transfer rules are really frustrating me. My fiance used to work in the Medical Center, and we live off Montrose and West Gray. The 34 was a good option, as its a straight shot, but it doesn't run very often and not at all on the weekends which she worked. We found the train to be the most reliable and fastest, so she would drive to midtown on the weekends (when she had a car, we share one) and park and take the train rather than paying $12 for parking. The best option (weekday and weekend) would be if she could take the 3 downtown then take the train. This would be faster than the 34 given her timings. Problem is, coming home the train is Northbound, and the 3 is 'Southbound' so you can't transfer and have to pay double. Now she works on Webster near LaBranch. There is no good option, the best is the 3 'north' to downtown, then the 60 south. Again she would have to pay double for each trip. Metro tells her to take the 3 and a commuter buz (zone 1 fare to go 6 blocks) or walk - which isn't bad except its so hot right now she's ending up drenched in sweat when she gets in (this is her first week). She will start biking to work when it cools off a bit. I don't see how they don't allow a transfer when it is the most straight forward and sometimes only route, to go from a northbound route (that run's east-west) to a southbound route. I know they have to draw the line somewhere but there are so many cases where it is no logical they way they do it. Another thing, some of the routes she has tried, the driver has stopped before what it shows on their schedule and just says "i'm going out of service" and kicks her off the bus adding to the blocks she has to walk. not sure what's going on there. I am going to call about that one, its happened twice this week. end rant.

you can segregate your friends in fb. set up groups in your settings, and make it so certain groups (which can have whichever friends you want in it) can see certain things. i stopped using fb years ago. added google+ cause i got the invite but haven't messed with it. i'm assuming it will fill up with stuff i don't care about like fb did.

FYI there are 2-3 German Shepherds that come to the Webster dog park. Its mixed in size, but most people know each other and don't mind the bigger breeds as long as their friendly. Very puppy friendly, tons of young dogs there (mine is 11 months, been going there since he was 3 mo)

haha, i had to be a nerd and acknowledge this one. Montrose1100- Amli has a couple of complexes just outside of midtown (Dallas near Montrose), Amli Towne square ($1400 2/2) and Amli CityVista ($1600 2/2). Amazing pools, new buildings, and cheaper than midtown proper. I used to live in what is now Metro Midtown, and it was fun for a while but it got old. I'm in a condo now near Montrose and like having the proximity of midtown (walk/bike/bus/cab there often) but forcing myself to go to other spots. Though it looks like they don't allow German Shepherds...

Haha that's great. Are you sure its JSC? Someone wrote "Save the planet, its the only one with beer!" on a stall in my building here. Gotta love those rocket scientists.

I think its a matter of first impressions and stereotypes. Every person I know that has limited visits to Houston, especially those that didn't know locals, have a very bad impression and didn't like the city at all. It always takes some time and know where to go and what to do. Weather: you come for a few days in July it'll be sweltering, in March it could be pouring, in December freezing and snowing. If you live here you know that most of the fall/winter/spring will be pretty nice, but it would be easy to see the worst of it any time of the year. And we are known as the hot and humid city, even though we have a very similar weather profile to Orlando which is a tourist destination and people just deal with the heat and don't complain. Cleanliness: a visitors impression is based on driving on the freeways, seeing billboards and strip malls everywhere. This may not have anything to do with how clean the actual city is, but it gives it a 'dirty' feel. Walking around downtown or the galleria, i wouldn't say the city is dirty especially compared to NYC or Chicago. But I would have to say San Diego, SF, and Orlando feel much cleaner than Houston. Next year I say we shoot for #1, who cares. We know what we have.

i walked over there last week just to check it out. we had a good experience, just wandered the store and bought a couple of drinks to sit outside with. it was crowded but nothing nuts, pretty easy to get around and the express checkout was efficient. didn't run into any crazy customers or anything. the bar was full and plenty of people were sitting outside. they really need to expand the bike rack... overall i think its a good addition to the neighborhood and looking forward to shopping there on occasion.

Two questions: 1) Why did you keep it for 2+ years if it SUCKS that bad? 2) Do you work for Comcast? If so you probably get a discount with them, maybe you should use their service.

well that light Seattle drizzle will have much less affect then our big thunderstorm drops! though we haven't had much rain here at all this year... the provider can overcome it somewhat by increasing transmit power, there are a lot of variables involved so its hard to compare city to city or even location to location. but anyone's experience can provide a general idea of performance, and it sounds mostly good.

its the rain, Clear operates at 2.5 GHz and rain fade is a significant issue at those frequencies. haven't tried it myself, but I've heard good things. My only concern would be if they can keep up bandwidth wise when the user base grows.

Just picked some stuff up from there yesterday in LA near Manhattan Beach. Location was by a bunch of box stores, relied on car traffic only. Its a smaller store then I'm used to, but got my truffles and other little unique stuff I like to bring home for the fam. I would love to have one in Houston. I agree you can't do all your shopping there, but I usually don't do that anyways (mix between HEB/Kroger and occasionally Target). I go to Whole Foods randomly to get specialty items when I'm in the mood. I can't afford to shop their regularly for all my groceries, and there is no way I would ever by toilet paper there. I don't even want to know how much organic TP costs... I would love to have a Trader Joe's and probably would hit it up once every few weeks. The selection is quite different from Specs, and much cheaper than Whole Foods. Before I saw this thread I did a random search for "Trader Joe's Houston" to see if anything was up and found this: Trader Joe's cease and desist to HEB Joe V's store concept Not sure what happened there, never heard of Joe Vs...

after 8 months of riding the 34 to the Med Center for work, it was late 15 minutes a few weeks ago, then the next day it was a few minutes early (new driver). other then that, no issues or safety concerns. my gf is actually more scared to stand at the Rail stops, she often gets hassled there by sketchy people, never on the bus (~6am). though she prefers the rail for timing and speed of course, and its her only option on the weekends.

Yeah, he is really awkward looking. But some how he runs the bases and covers outfield. And his throws get in, i remember him having plenty of outfield assists early on when I was paying more attention. But i agree it looks goofy. I haven't been out this year, but will at some point. I wanted to go to bring your dog day (did that with the aeros and my pup loved it though he was scared when they came crashing in to the boards) but that was last weekend and i missed it due to the MS150. But yeah, i assumed this was a lost season. but you never know in baseball. Central is not that strong but are chances are slim...