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It's all about the swimming... this will be a fast year.

So I heard a rumor Baylor is having some financial issues and may have trouble staffing and operating this hospital once it is built out... Anyone know what the deal is?

Yea... seems like adding lanes and rail will mess up all the bases of those chrome archways right?

$629 million is a lot of cash to come up with these days, no?

It's too small Nice view though.

Ya... too bad this is never gonna happen. Maybe something similar and/or better will happen in the next decade though.

If someone is smart, someone will connect those luxury apartments to the tunnels.

Marvy Finger should definitely have consulted you before he started construction, because it isn't connected to the tunnels...

You'd have to ask the folks who designed it. My guess is, no, they didn't go out of their way to invite people from the streets. People on the streets downtown are usually losers who can't afford Chik-Fil-A. Why bother with doors for street people?

Maybe b/c someone might build a luxury apartment complex on the adjacent lot?

The tunnels lead straight into it. It invites the people it wants to invite.

So they consciously didn't want to invite more people?

The exterior and entry points are so uninviting... I've always thought this place was lame. I don't think it is rehabilitate-able either.

This has made it above ground level... things are moving fast. This will be a nice project.

I noticed construction workers bulldozing on the block north of this project... they are either improving or tearing down the Nehemiah Center. Anyone know?

Outer Limits, the Sixth Finger

To Serve Man is classic btw. IT'S A COOKBOOK!

I love that stuff... used to watch the marathons to all hours of the night. I was young when I first saw it, but I always remember the feeling I had when he yelled "IT'S A COOKBOOK!". Classic for sure.

Sorry to stray off-topic.

It says Houston now.

How old is that picture... it was taken before the Enron/Chevron buildings were built.

Subdude... is your new picture/Avatar from the Outer Limits (or was it Twilight Zone) episode "To Serve Man"?

I think the city should start erecting Discovery Greens within every few square miles of each other all over the city. Imagine what a Discovery Green (complete w/ a large reflection pond) would do for Uptown. It gives me chills every time I think about it.

$120+ million every few square miles? Aren't we already spending sums like that on the new rail lines?

In a SimCity way, I do wish we could bury the stretch of 59 running east of GRB. Could we bury the Pierce elevated too?

Got a 78 for my place in Midtown...

Seems like they would need to include environmental factors too... like 95 degree heat + 90 percent humidity.

Who can study outside in this heat? I would be dripping all over my books...

Too bad the Central Library has such crap hours (open til 6 on Fri/Sat, 5 on Sun)... I have been thinking about studying there lately, although parking is an issue.

Some of those posts are wildly pretentious:

"I visited Huston, once, and found it to be an unpleasantly hot place, plagued with horrendous traffic, with no real center to it. Its residents are however somewhat cosmopolitan, in sort of an amateurish way, able to copy sophisticated behavior but exhibiting no real curiosity for cultural pursuits outside of their favorite Mexican restaurant and what's new at the mall."

6 houston would be nice, but 5 allen would completely alter our skyline.... it is a beautiful building. here's hoping that's what it is.

You can tell 5 Allen is a beautiful building by the fuzzy, low-resolution image that was discussed here?

Yea, noticed the big decorative pillar on the east side of the bayou last week... this will definitely change up traffic flow in that area. It also provides a direct connection to Baylor's new hospital and MD Anderson/UT's research park.

I think they are cutting another road through, parallel to Fannin, south of the bayou... not sure what the street name is though.

Les Grivales on Milam... can't beat their Vietnamese sandwhiches for $2.50.

No eye contact helps quite a bit. Just dont act scared.

This is the same advice The Dog Whisperer gives when approaching a large breed with behavioral problems.

I like Chron.com. What other newspaper websites are better?

The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times... note the use of color scheme, clean design, font choice, subheads, photos (Chron.com frequently doesn't bother to post images that accompany the story in print), less visually obtrusive advertising...

A large chunk of the homeless population resides in the midtown area, and generally on the Main St. corridor... many use the rail to get to the various social support services, esp. free breakfast at Palmer church across from Memorial Hermann.

Also, Cathedral clinic at 1212 Praire in DT on Sundays... huge numbers hang out there for free showers, laundry, food, HOMES clinic, and socializing.

Chron.com has a totally amateur style that suits the newspaper as a whole.

Whew... a lot of text for one day.