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  1. Orange&White
    So she and a few other Council Members voted against your wishes again and it's a huge problem? Got it. Maybe you should just tell them to vote exactly the way you want them to to each time? You know, to make things easier.
  2. Orange&White
    I live way down in the Bull Creek basin. Temps at our house are usually 3-7 degrees cooler than what is being reported for Austin. It looks like we will likely dip below freezing at 10 PM on Saturday and stay below until 10 AM on Tuesday. We're gonna need a shitload of bourbon.
  3. Orange&White
    I wonder how that "Total Institutional Debt" of $1.5B compares to the rest of the country? Not only do they lie about having the largest endowment, it also kinda looks like they are further in debt than most other schools in the country.
  4. Orange&White
    NWS finally came around for Austin. Projected low for Saturday night is onw 20 degrees. Seems like the models are starting to agree.
  5. Orange&White
    There is a new overpass going over 35 in Georgetown as we speak. It will connect FM971 across the freeway to Northwest Blvd, about 3/4 mile north of Williams Dr. That project will be done in probably a year or less?? Once complete, as mentioned, the construction on the Williams Dr overpass will commence to create the diverging diamond. There is a massive upgrade on RM2243 (Leander Rd) joining Leander and Georgetown. Elevated, limited access, flyovers,etc. It will be basically like 183 or 290. I'd guess it's probably less than 6 years away from beginning construction. I agree with something said earlier that the City does typically plan better than most, but I also agree that Georgetown is probably about to be a shitshow for traffic. Too little, too late in place that is growing so fast. It has basically tripled in size in 15 years.
  6. Orange&White
    I can't speak to the future, but the elderly population has continued to rise in Georgetown. There are far more 55+ communities here than just the well known, Sun City. Granted, for the past few years, the growth in elderly living units has been primarily in Assisted Living and retirement homes as opposed to subdivisions full of single family homes/garden homes. I can also say that no one is moving to Georgetown for affordability. It's not cheap to live in Georgetown compared to the surrounding wilco cities. With that said, there has been an explosion of growth in the SE quadrant of the city in homes that are much cheaper than the homes being built on the west side oft he highway. The down side on that area is that it is basically indistinguishable from RR and Pflugerville. Georgetown has gotten much better about restaurants and entertainment, but it is still very lacking.
  7. Orange&White
    I assume it is just a battle models, but my weekend forecast from the NWS is about 15-20 degrees warmer Wed-Sun that my forecast from Wundeground. For instance; the Saturday night low on NWS is 40. The same night, WG shows a low of 18. This is for 78750 in NW Austin.
  8. Orange&White
    About fucking time
  9. Orange&White
    I didn’t realize there was such a Victoria contingent on Surly. I was born in Victoria and grew up in Edna and went to school in Victoria for my 3rd thru 6th grade years at Nazareth. We moved to Austin in 83. I still have a lot of family there. I haven’t been in several years, but after this thread, I will need to check a lot of these out. Thx.
  10. Orange&White
    What's on the line for the Brocks coming to Texas?
  11. Orange&White
    As the Poet Erick Lynn Wright once so eloquently stated.... One Two suckas dead, L.A. Times front page.
  12. Orange&White
    Everyone that recruits against them will remind every high school player of this.
  13. Orange&White
    Get your muskets ready.
  14. Orange&White
    So what you are saying is that all of these millions dollar hotels won't fix the problems that everyone in town is fucking tired of dealing with. Great.
  15. Orange&White
    So if the 3000 number is true and each hotel holds 150 people, you think the city should be buying and operating 10 hotels to house the homeless? And when the homeless of Dallas and San Antonio figure out that in Austin you get a free hotel room, and then they all move here, the Austin should own and operate 20 hotels? Sounds fucking ridiculous.
  16. Orange&White
    I seriously don't buy that 3k number at all. I have no hard numbers to go on but my "feeling" is that just below the 6 overpasses on 183 and the one big one down under Ben white you are likely getting close to 1500 and that leaves all of downtown and the big concentration off of Pleasant Valley and everywhere else in town to make up the other half. There really is no chance that 3000 is correct.
  17. Orange&White
    Exactly
  18. Orange&White
    Someone has to pay for all of Chody's lawsuits and all of the grift on the Wilco Commissioners Court.
  19. Orange&White
    Then why do more and more homeless continue moving to Austin from all over Texas, despite Austin having a much, much higher housing costs than the places they are moving from?
  20. Orange&White
    There was a long time, director level person at different business unit at my place of employment, that as of just like 3-4 years ago I think, still had his secretary print out all of his emails and have them sitting on his desk for him to read when he had time.
  21. Orange&White
    I was I was just about to post this guess as well
  22. Orange&White
    I'd like to "tap" her face with a crowbar, I suppose.
  23. Orange&White
    I was allowed JUST LAST WEEK to decommission a virtual server running Server 2003 and a legacy RMS in an Informix db. The thing would barely even run in our VM environment anymore, could only be accessed by RDP and had a single local admin user. It housed a bunch of records that spanned from 1999 to 2003. I first tried to decom this POS back in 2010 but the legal people and the records retention people would not let me. It took a $75k conversion project that lasted four years, plus paying someone to scan and catalog 37 boxes of documents before they'd let me finally pull the plug. When I sent the email out informing everyone that it was finally gone, I included this exact gif and two of the recipients didn't understand why I included it.
  24. Orange&White
    Is there a petition? Where do I sign? I have a business unit I support that claims that it is a requirement. So fucking worthless. My GF just bought a new MFP for the house and her son set it up for her. He found a telephone cable in the box and plugged it into an actual landline port in the wall and tried to fax. He was fiddling with it for like an hour and not telling me what he was doing. He finally asked me if we would ever fax anything and I said "absolutely not". He showed me that he had plugged it all in and was trying to test it and couldn't figure out why it was not working. I had to inform him that the "tiny ethernet port" that he plugged into was an old landline phone jack that had not been active since he has been alive. He looked at me and asked "what is a landline?".
  25. Orange&White
    I know you don't really believe that the people that are actively trying to help themselves to the point of qualifying for and affording subsidized housing in Mueller are even close to the same type of situation as the people that live under IH35 and 183 that the City is wanting to put into the hotel mentioned above. While I do believe that you personally would be ok with the latter, I do not believe that the rest of Mueller would be.

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