jpcampbell
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The small town I grew up in had some very old phone switching equipment until about 1992 or 1993. Every phone in town was in the same exchange, so the way we dialed local calls was by just dialing the last five digits. If you dialed all seven digits for a local call, the call would not connect because the equipment was set up with every line on the same exchange. For example, my home number was 283-5968 and Dad's work number was 283-2231. To dial him at work from the house, you'd just dial 32231. Touch tone phones would also not work on that system -- just about everyone had the old rotary dial phones (Dad's store still has one that they still use!) or a push button phone set to the pulse setting. After SBC installed new phone switching equipment shortly after I graduated high school, touch tone phones could be used, and you were forced to dial the 2 and 8 for local calls. It took a long time for many people to break the habit of not dialing those two numbers.
When I lived in Pennington, TX, we had a similar thing. To call anywhere in Pennington, you just dialed the last 4 digits. To call to another town nearby, you just dialed a prefix digit + the last 4 numbers. Crockett, for example was like 5+1234.
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How can it be a town if it's not even incorporated? Are the residents there THAT gullible?
Yes, we are all slack-jawed yokels that don't understand the ways of you city folk.
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What makes you say they're illegals? Did they tell you this themselves?
Read post #7
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The idealist in me thinks, "How nice that the woodlands employees contribute their time so selflessly to these obviously worthy causes."
The cynic in me thinks, "The GHBA gives the woodlands a humanitarian of the year award, how totally apropos, since a majority of homes build in the last few years were certainly built in the woodlands area by these builders."
I wonder though, because the vast majority of those GHBA members aren't allowed to build in The Woodlands. I would think that if anything, there would be some animosity towards The Woodlands by those left out of the process. I think there are only 5 or 6 companies that build (Emerald, D. Weekly, Village, and Life Forms are the main ones). Even custom homes are limited.
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Who would be in the building if a hurrican hits? The should evacuate anyway.
Well, my comment wasn't so much geared to any poor soul on top of that building. It was more of me being amazed that a building of that shape could be engineered to made sound during Hurricane force winds. That being said, you wouldn't catch me up there if it got gusty. That's all I meant.
It reminds me of this mid-rise on Richmond west of the loop whose height:depth ratio is quite large. The one from this post looks a million times better visually though.
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Does the fountain on Allen Parkway count? I've seen that just about as crowded as Splashtown on an average day in August.
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When we bought a house in Braes Heights, just east of Stella Link and south of Bellaire, I didn't even realize the tracks would have an impact. The first night at 1am, I woke up to the sound of the train rumbling along, and thought "Oh no, what have we got ourselves into!". But after about a week, my body must have adjusted, because it never bothered me again a single time.
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I'm sure it's designed well, but I would not want to be on the top floor of that if a hurricane hits.
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And here's why I'll probably never go back:
FRONT GATE PRICES
General Admission $41.99
Children Under 48" $24.99
Holy Cow, have times changed.
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Ok, here is another site for all you people who, like me, are feeling nostalgic.
Scroll down to "Past Rides". I just read they closed down the old Dexter/Excalibur.
I guess that shows how often I go there. I rode that about 20 times last time I went because the line was so short. It was one of those classic herky jerky metal coasters
that was always second class after the Cyclone showed up, but was really fun.
Some good photos there too.
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Memories of the Alpine Sleigh are hazy, but I can remember being terrifed to death of the thing (wasn't there an abominable snowman?)
Even after they closed the ride and turned it into an indoor playground I was scared to walk through it.
My favorite part of it was that they had really cold air blowing on you when you entered the mountain. Then they had all the mechanical gnomes or elves or dwarves, or whatever they were. Then, just as soon as you got comfortable, it snapped you down the mountain at breakneck speed and continued the ride.
Even though that was over 20 years ago for me, it's like yesterday.
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It could be seen as a "voluntary high-risk state income tax". The goal however, should be for outsiders to come in and create new taxes, so that we Texans' don't have to give up ours (voluntarally or not).
OK, I get it. But the ideal would be for everyone to come to a Texas casino, out-of-staters and Texans who would voluntarily give up their money to Louisiana
anyway. But if they won't come, don't build it. ;-)
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If there were casinos here, it would be better for Louisianians & other outsiders to spend their money here, versus Texans spending that same money. If Texans spend their money in Texas, then sales tax-wise they are only recycling money, versus outsiders spending money here, generating new sales tax revenue.
I was just looking at it as "keeping those 80% Texans here is better than having them leave the state". For the few hours/days/weeks that they gamble outside the state, they are not spending any money here at all.
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Can someone explain to me how it's better for Texans who are going to gamble anyway to do it out of the state? I'm not disagreeing, but I just don't understand the reasoning behind it.
It seems that when they are in other states, they are buying gas, food, hotel rooms, etc from elsewhere instead of contributing to the local economy. What am I missing? But I guess if you mean that having casinos here would encourage those locals to gamble that otherwise would not, I see the point.
Can someone clear up the counter argument for me?
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When we lived in Braes Heights, we used to have a few of the little pet store variety parakeets (green and blue budgies) that hung out with the sparrows in our backyard. These have the flat little downturned beaks, so they always had a hard time rummaging for seed on the ground, but they seemed to make do.
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I'm still mad at Astroworld for getting rid of the Alpine Sleigh Ride. It was the perfect combination of coaster, cold air, and gnomes.
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There was a lot of talk last year of the Colts owner wanting to move to LA. Maybe if that happens, SA will have a better shot at getting the Saints.
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We need another NFL Team in this state. California, Floridia, and New York get all of the teams, and Texas is the 2nd most populated State.
It's all about concentration of population. Houston may be #4 in population, but it's like the 11th media market. Dallas is like #7 because of Ft. Worth, Arlington, Grand Prarie, etc, etc.
Even though San Antonio is a larger city than Dallas, it ranks 37th in market size. Granted, that's larger than New Orleans (43), but jumping up to LA (#2) is probably more appealing.
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I dont know dude. It's too far from everything.
But it's not too far from itself.
Some people both live and work in the burbs. Don't always assume that everyone who lives out must then fight their way back to the inner loop if they want to do anything at all. There are lots of things going on down there that can occupy people's time.
That being said, if someone did commute in, I wouldn't pay 270-700K for a condo out there. For 300K, you can get a very nice small home in a place like Braes Heights. You could have a yard and a short commute.
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Well, by reading the article. The Saints could move by the end of the 2005 season by paying an $81 million penalty. By the sound of the Saints owner, he really want to move away from New Orleans. Believe me, the city of New Orleans is not going to built another stadium, that's more taxes to be rasied, and the people there already doing bad then on top of it building a new stadium? More tax increase? Hell, they rather the franchise to relocate.
People already suffering for money, not only louisiana, but nationwide. I'm not an Orleans fan, nor a Saints fan, so my guess is to relocate to a better state. Besides, Texans love to spend money. We love to travel. We support our teams, and it's alot of money here in Texas.
I say either Saints or Vikings to move to SA.
I hate when teams move, but having the Cowboys as the third best team in their own state would be fun to see.
Go Texans
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Sorry all, my cut and paste didn't work on that last one.
First don't be decieved, more megapixels doesn't always mean better resolution. I've seen 3mp pro cameras blow away an 8 mp consumer.
Megapixels directly relates to resolution, but not neccessarily to quality. The 8mp camera will always have higher resultion, but the quality may be less due to the lens, etc. Resolution is just the number of pixels.
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I recently read that Montgomery County was putting up a bond for building an overpass from I-35 on to 242. Does anyone have more information about when this could be built and how many overpasses it will consist of? Also does anyone know any future plans for Research Forest or forseeing it having an over pass to eleviate its congrestion.
Do you mean I-45?
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As I understand it, more megapixels roughly equals higher resolution (much the same way that large format films can show more detail in enlargements than 35mm). A couple of questions:
At what point does more megapixels cease to matter when the maximum enlargement will be a 4x6 print? To some degree this is probably subjective, but in practical terms, greater detail eventually becomes indistinguishable to the unaided eye.
If one does choose to print enlargements from a digital source, where do you go? Obviously, it's impractical for most people to have a home printer capable of producing poster-sized prints. Any advantages to finding a local source and taking your digital media there, vs. transferring it over the 'net (if that's an option)?
And one more question: I read that Nikon is producing new cameras whose RAW data is not fully compatable with Adobe Photoshop. Is this likely to pose a problem?
I haven't yet taken the digital plunge, and am grateful for any insights y'all could offer.
Even if you don't enlarge beyone 4x6, you might crop a photo and then want to print at 4x6. The extra resolution will help with this. For me, that's a bigger advantage than printing poster size photos.
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The issue would also be to convince people to let go of their car once the line is built. That sad part is that many won't. They don't like the lack of flexibility and freedom of a rail system.
Right. I like the idea of taking transit, but it would certainly limit my lunchtime options. I think the deli in the building would get old after about 2 days. That may sound silly, but losing freedom to roam the city in search of good restaurants during lunch would suck.
We are probably moving downtown soon, so maybe there is more there within walking distance.
Allen Parkway Vs. Memorial
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Sigh. That will add another 10 minutes to my commute before I even get on the loop. Hopefully, the Westheimer u-turn lane will be opened up by then.
BTW, does anyone know of a rendering of what the west loop area will look like after all this mess is done?