20thStDad

Hard drive crashed yesterday, what a great excuse to move to Windows 7. So, I did it. All I had time for last night was moving files so I haven't used it much, but so far so good. Anything I should look out for (good or bad)?

After my one crappy jury experience, I'm not sure I share your faith in my peers. Then again it was the victim and defendant (and defense lawyer) who were the real idiots. Everyone on my jury agreed that the whole thing was the biggest was of everyone's time. I do hope they find 12 people who do the right thing.

Pearland reminds me of Plano/Frisco. Same thing. Unfortunately, so does the new Bunker Hill/I-10 mega shopping center. Big box hell. I mean, I shop there for some stuff, but the place is way annoying.

Has anyone else upgraded to Firefox 4 beta? If so, are you noticing that it's a big memory hog? I don't remember 3.6 versions taking that much memory. I'm not really noticing it's much faster, and seems to hang more often. I know it's a beta (or pre-release), but I was expecting it to run smoother, not heavier on memory.

Near-north Baton Rouge? Didn't know you had ties to my hometown. Maybe I need to check out Pasadena and judge for myself. Sometimes Memorial Park reminds me of a national forest/park in Mississippi with all the pines. Lots of places around here remind me of Louisiana because it's basically the same landscape.

I just figured charette was what was left behind after burning a witch. p.s. Firefox doesn't agree that it's a word yet, must not be

Ah, college memories. I was part of a small group of people (7) who thought it was a good idea (it wasn't) to resurrect a fraternity that had been kicked off of campus for 8 or 9 years. The house was nice, built in 1920, but even before being abandoned for 8 years it was neglected for the previous 20. It took us 4 years of work to get the fire marshal to let us live there, and even then it was a hell-hole. I remember tossing the pieces of bread out that some rat had eaten through in the loaf to get to an uneaten piece to make a sandwich. Sitting there watching tv and a giant possum just strolls by, not giving a crap. Once my friend woke up and a squirrel was sitting on his chest, staring at him. Good times. The possum was easy to catch (I strongly recommend leather work gloves), the rats not so much. They had so many holes to escape through. We tried traps, sticky traps, bb gun (they never did come while we were sitting there), but the only thing that worked was an accident. One came out of the pantry, and my friend flipped out and started doing cartoon-style stomping freak-out, and in the process of not trying to touch the rat he totally smashed its head. So I guess my advice is to keep your shoes on until the situation is resolved.

Or be quart-sized

After 6 years and 200,000 miles traveled my current leather computer bag is at its life's end, so I'm looking for another one too. I'd love one that is smaller but can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I agree about tablets, they are toys, not tools. I need files (not just photos) and I could give a crap about apps.

Do both people have to pedal for it to stay up?

Yeah I'm too lazy to read their patent right now, but those are banners you made, not logos. According to me, and I am the public who consumes such banners.

Is a cafetorium better than a cafeteria? We only had crappy cafeterias back in LA public schools.

I'm pretty sure that's not what having a hard-on means. You should google that or something. No, idiots are what I can't stand. Cops serving public safety are fine by me. Cops who make up traffic fines from nothing fall into the idiot category, or cops who are out to do nothing but make money by pulling people over who are driving perfectly safely. I've never once complained about a ticket I'm guilty of. I'm just annoyed I got caught. I'm friendly with the cop and joke around, it even got me out of a ticket 5 years ago or so. Less than a ticket per year - that was your 3rd grade math lesson for justifying just adding a $100 to my taxes every year (more than I would pay in traffic fines if I got a ticket every other year) if cops stop harassing people who are doing nothing wrong just to get money. If you want stats on my driving, fine, 7 total tickets in 17 years of driving, last one 3 years ago. How about we stick to your original proposal of me letting you know when I'll be on the road, so you can stay home. I'll be out on the road tomorrow from 6am to 11pm, and also every day after that for the next 35 years. Please stay home.

What's with the keyboard demo percussion in the background?

Who said I drive like a jackass? Stop daydreaming while you read my posts. You are probably the tool in the left lane who slows down to 50 when answering the phone, and just stays in the left lane and somehow thinks that's the best thing to do. There, I made something up about your driving based on absolutely nothing. Last time I got pulled over I wasn't even speeding. Asshat cop said 70 in a 60, but he said he didn't gun me, he paced me, and he also tried to claim I was following too close to another car. Neither of which happened. Assistant DA agreed it was weak, plus idiot cop was in Spring Valley where he supposedly paced me, so it was out of his jurisdiction, so it got thrown out.

Anyone can make a study that shows about anything, they are all fudg-able. That reminds me, it's been a while since citykid (or is it IronTiger, I get them confused) has posted any articles where Houston ranks first in something sucky or last in something good.

I went through this on another thread bitching about cops, but they have been instructed to write multiple violations if at all possible when pulling someone over too. It's a damn cash cow. I would GLADLY pay $100 extra per year in taxes if they would leave me the hell alone, and I average less than a ticket per year. So they would get their $$, and I would be less cynical toward "law" enforcement.

So they are semi-publicly funded harassers for hire, that's even worse. If they exist to a large extent because of these contracts with neighborhoods or other developments, then they should be run like a temp agency and no one should care about layoffs, and their public funding should be totally removed. I also think they should stay out of traffic business. The jgriff story is pretty familiar - some unqualified, ignorant power-trippy jackass who at his own whim decides to mess with people who are not doing anything that hurts anyone. I'm sorry you struggled to get through 5th grade, but just because you have a car with 9 antennas and a gun doesn't give you the right to take it out on the rest of us.

Maybe county court. I thought constables original purpose was to track down warrants, and they managed to expand themselves to do whatever HPD already do. To me it's a duplication of effort, a waste.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7477086.html Budget cuts. Someone remind me again why constables patrol? Isn't it enough that we have HPD and Harris county sheriff patrols? The answer might be no, currently, but I would think those 2 should be doing all of the patrolling for Houston, not constables. Stay in court (or hunting down warrants) or doing security. I shouldn't have to worry about 3 different organizations power trippy cops trying to give me traffic tickets.

Louisville jacked up everyone's bracket! But basically it affected us all the same, no one had them getting past Kansas, only lockmat had them losing in the 2nd round. Crazy though.

Mine are way boring. 3 1's and a 3 in the final 4, and I have the top 2 seeds in the final. Not likely. As long as Notre Dame loses early, I'm happy.

Hecks yeah. I hate how people hide in their cube surfing the net (wait, what am I doing right now?), they should be exposed for their laziness.

I'm guessing more along the lines of the discovery green water park. Even that would be nice.

First bump...go do it! It doesn't lock until Thursday, so you can watch the play-in games before finalizing. I'm disappointed they don't let us pick those, it's not like it would be that hard to program.