samagon

laiall, in an effort to steer this discussion back from a tangential discussion with little hope of providing any actual benefit to this thread, I will ask you some questions: have you completely read the ordinance? have you reviewed how the HAHC has ruled? have you considered how this would not just impact you, but your neighbors (positive and negative)? have you found people who have gone through the process and spoken with them? have you found people who are in a HD, but not gone through the process and asked them why they haven't? I personally have not done the latter of the two, but logically, based on what the ordinance states and what the HAHC is doing, they're going to be frustrated. every one of them, not just from the added time spent, but the money wasted because the HAHC is making decisions based on fiat rather than following the ordinance.

This is one of the long list of reasons I switched to Android nearly 4 years ago now. It has been indispensable. I have about 150 numbers stored as blocked.

not to make light of a situation like this, but I'd have probably converted right on the spot.

is this the graphical representation of a dangling participle?

They've been a part of this unfolding for years now, and while my house is not in a HD, it is well old enough to be, I want no part of what they must endure, and can understand every bit of hostility they ooze.

Plus all the local stuff that happens down there anyway. random quincenera and bridal extravaganzas, home and garden shows, there so many local gun shows that can't be handled by GRB now anyway, so we can have 2 per weekend and still need more of them.

True or not, and despite the hamfisted way they did this I'll vote yes, I don't like the idea of possibly losing the dome.

it's an interesting topic. when you boil it down, the subsidies that are extended to oil companies aren't a subsidy for the company, they are a subsidy for people who drive. what would happen, if these subsidies either were stopped abruptly, or over time? They oil company currently 'enjoying' the subsidy, would pass the costs to you/me/every driver. at the end of the day though, the difference of subsidized vs non subsidized gas price is less than 1 cent per gallon (at least when I did the calculation a few years ago, I was bored). so it really shouldn't be that big of a deal. Anyway, this doesn't take into account how other product prices would change, everything that is shipped in trucks, prices would go up. everything that has plastic in it, or in the packaging, goes up. so while to you and I at the gas pump, we'd see a minimal increase of 15-30 cents per fillup depending on the size of our gas tanks, it would add up over the course of a year and all products considered to well more than $480 billion.

I perform with my family in the dutch folkdance group, if you watched the performances on the Lebanese stage, you've probably seen me at least once. my parents forced me to join them when I was too young to disagree, and now that I'm older, I enjoy acting a fool in wooden shoes with my family. I wouldn't go so far as folklife fest nerd, it's more that I've come to enjoy sharing part of the culture and heritage I grew up with, and experiencing the same from other people, but then, I guess that is probably what a folklife fest nerd is

3 words can explain that: J. R. Ewing.

I don't resent Texan culture, I resent the stereotype of what my culture is because I am from Texas. At least from my perspective. I am proud of my state's heritage (and I think thanks to public school curriculum anyone who cared about Texas history is as well proud), but that doesn't make me a gun toting, horse riding cowboy. I think anyone who is confused about the varied cultures that made Texas what it is should visit San Antonio and hit up the Institute of Texan Culture http://www.texancultures.com/ Bonus points if you visit when the Texas Folklife Festival is happening (and extra credit if you find me performing). I've attended this festival every year since 1985, and if I've learned anything it is that Texas culture as dictated by stereotype is far from correct. Texas is comprised of pockets of communities that immigrated from all around the world, and it all adds to the vast tapestry that is the REAL Texas culture. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else because of it.

Do I smell a haify hour at numbers coming soon? :-D

My biggest guilty pleasure? I still go to numbers on Friday nights. But it's not so surprising actually, I used to stay up every Saturday night listening to the live club feed from 6400 on 93q. I had 104 on in the car the other day, one of my friends was in the car and I started singing along to some ke$ha his words "I can't believe that anyone who likes nitzer ebb can actually listen to this crap" his wife laughed at me :-( I can't help but watch the movie hackers whenever it is on.

perhaps... Booming Bubble Bounds Before Bust

It would be if they did it in Houston :-)

http://green.autoblog.com/2013/08/29/edinburgh-enacts-20-mph-speed-limit-to-encourage-bike-riding/

I am a belieber. OK not really. I do enjoy Katy Perry, Mackelmore and Icona pop though.

And I doubt that many people share the view that being close to 19th street is better than being close to Rice village. Plus you're closer to the museums, plus zoo, plus Hermann park.

Nearly 3 years later, but my mom grew up on Truett and Dismuke and she was over this Saturday. We had to go to Martini hardware (which she says has been there forever, all I know is they have the most random hardware and it's not that farther than home depot to get to on a Saturday). On the way back she swore up and down that Lawndale used to have really really bad traffic. But more to the point of this topic, she said that what is now "Stephanie's Ice House" used to be called "The Wagon Wheel". I'm assuming this is the location you were talking about? I may press her for details next time I see her, but she seemed to be very sure of it, even telling me a story of how my dad's boss once drove there for lunch, then walked back to the office less than 2 blocks away, and after work thought his car had been stolen since it wasn't in the office parking lot.

The sandwich shop is jimmy johns and the are open now.

The retail center will have the following tenants from left to right: The nook cafe (my coffee shop) Brown bag deli, or which wich, can't remember, it's a toasted sandwich place though. Pinks pizza Cafe 101 On the roof will be a bar, they haven't announced anything, but I think it's going to be called Calhoun Rooftop.

You're always welcome to come back to the east end!

I hope that unlike the late 70s and early 80s that developers show a modicum of restraint. even had Houston not done the other B word (bust) because of the oil industry, there would have been a crazy over-abundance of everything.

It's cheap because not many people play it. I really enjoy playing it. I think it's empty because it still has a bad reputation for being seedy. It's been at least a decade since a kid shagged a ball I had hit in the rough and tried to sell it back to me though.

The comments on swamplot are hilarious.