Pumapayam

Have you checked out any of the netbooks. They can be small but you can run Windows or Linux and if you have modest 'office' needs just run Google Apps and get all of it over the 'net. They tend to run between $300 - $500 and they can be found in Targets to Frye's.

Good luck. Let us know how you make out.

I think that getting a netbook as a second laptop is a good idea, and once you get your ibook fixed, it will still be useful for traveling and coffee shop surfing.

I wish they would just go ahead an switch over to digital. I already went out and bought me a new 26' HDTV for my room. By going ahead and switching it, I think it will increase TV sales. HDTV's are NICE!!!!!!!!!!

Your wish is granted!

I don't have an all-time favorite, but this is definitely one of the better ones I've seen this week:

This dog was also featured on The Soup last year whenever they reference The View.

I love their running gags, "It's Miley", "Sanjaya", and this. I used to think BWE was superior, but since they went with Paul F. Tompkins only, it's gone downhill, whereas Joel McHale really does a stand up job for The Soup.

He'll be in Houston in 2 weeks.

Shhh! Don't tell anyone!

Does this related to the recent Monster.com hack?

Anyone taking that seriously?

Facebook is like a cleaner, smoother version of myspace...I've never been hit with spam messages from made up facebook accounts like I do with myspace. I will give myspace credit for the music pages for bands and such, although facebook has those pages now where you can become "fans" of athletes/musicians/etc...

And to think I was anti FB at one point. Now I don't look back, but I still hold on to 9 people on my MS that have not converted over.

Not a bad overlap though.

Darn, and I have a MySpace account too.

Facebook is the new MySpace, at least in terms of number of accounts.

One of my goals is to be a missing elderly plastered on those signs. I promised Mrs. Bag I was going to do that before I die.

That's sounds like my "Google" goal, still not there though. I need a reality show appearance for that to happen.

So I'm heading into H-town on 288 this morning, and I see that sign, and I think, "It's six-freakin-fifteen in the morning and STILL DARK out here. How on earth could I possibly be of service in this situation?"

Seriously, I don't know if it is the same person, or some new "Murder She Wrote/Matlock" watching individual that just decide to go all "The Way" on us.

Then why didn't the gubbamint allocate enough funds for converter box coupons?

And once the coupons program runs out of funds again, watch sub $40 converters arrive. I always found it fishy that you can't find some "Made in China" converter box for less than $40 right now. Just company's profiting from it now.

Should I be keeping an eye on my grandmother, it seems that once a month I see signage of a poor old lady that owns an *insert old persons car* missing.

What's going on. Are they senile, being kidnapped?

I don't have an all-time favorite, but this is definitely one of the better ones I've seen this week:

Ha, I saw that over the weekend and LOL'd tons. Good stuff.

I tried to search if anyone had brought this up before but didn't get anything. I know there is a twitter feed and facebook and RSS and all that for HAIF, but are there any developers out here that would consider doing a HAIF app for the iphone? Something that would run faster on the phone and still look attractive and have some of the same usability of the regular site. I personally have no idea how to program, but I think there are enough members on HAIF that have the iphone that would make having a HAIF application worth designing. Anyone else think the same?

Maybe we can figure something out here...

I think HAIF:Now is the version created for mobile devices.

You could tell the difference pretty easily if you had ever been to Bridgeland...the winding street pattern is supposed to be a selling point of the community. I found it a good way to get people going to wrong way down a divided drive...

I was always under the impression that a winding street was a fake way of introducing road design dependant on topography of the land. Developers think it makes the neigborhood more pleasant to drive in, but it is a waste of space in a location with flat land.

Check at this recent aerial photo of Bridgeland. . .

Looks inviting huh. . .

Okay, I kid, just a random development in California that went bankrupt, but who can tell the difference.

Was that approved in at last weeks meeting?

What meeting are you referring to Jessie?

That old article is from November.

I'm guessing reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points, Pumapayam.

Epic fail? Really?

Sales have gone well in Bridgeland. It's a beautiful new community surrounded by other really nice communities in the $200K+ to $1M+ range. GGP has taken a hit nationally and is trying to reduce its debt load.

Which translates to cutting the fat, removing the dead weight, = poor investment returns.

"Slow" sales maybe, I dunno what you are referencing then, "well" is considered slow, then yes.

I just sensing location bias since you live in NW Houston. Of course you will see it "half glass full".

Good news, bad news...

The Willie G's office project by Simmons-Vedder is off. The site is for-sale again.

Now, for the good news, here's some update info. from the HBJ on the new Four Oaks Tower

Tower Five at Four Oaks Place is the official name.

The tower has grown and will now be THIRTY stories instead of 17/18.

22 floors of office space making up about 525,000 square feet.

8 levels of parking holding 1500 cars.

Funding is in place and this project is a GO

Ground will break in first quarter of 2009

PICKARD CHILTON is the design firm on record

That last bit is the best news. Main Place and the old proposal for the AIM Headquarters are Pickard Chilton projects. At 30 stories, were looking at a 400 to 450 footer or more if there is a decorative top!

Some updates we have missed in HAIF since August, a variance sign, I saw posted last fall, was approved in November.

The City of Houston

Wow, is anything else opening up soon? I was not aware they were this close to opening anything.

That's all I was able to find, Lifetime Fitness of course, has been open for a bit now too.

The land is for sale now, anyone interested in buying?

There is no asking price attached to the property, but Creech says it will likely sell for $100 to $200 per square foot, or $13 million to $26 million. The site is most suitable for a residential property, retail space, office building or hotel, Creech says.

A multimillion-dollar model home and office space used to market Turnberry

Touched a nerve...

I'm just gonna quote myself in my defense:

They're all horribly average. Pappasito's included. Sorry.

Well looks like whatever Pappa-suffix they wanted to open is gone, flyer is updated, with the removal of Linens N Things completed too.

I liked the phrase "Special Introductory Pricing" on the site.

Studio Movie Grill opens in 2 weeks, on a Monday of all days.

So do you believe it

Pipe dream. It will take a while before anything that nice is built in Greenspoint. Unless they get some incentive or a tax break, this looks unlikely.

The Memorial City District redid their website.

http://www.memorialcitydistrict.org

Hey "Bridgeland", looks like companies know a poor investment choice when they see one.

Epic Fail.

I saw that too! I read that this store is going to have more modern furniture on the floor than the main location.

The closed Kreiss location in Highland Village is going to be incorporated into it.