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Paper_jam

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  1. Chain hotels can vary so much location-to-location, but I stayed at a Hampton recently that was spotlessly clean, and the service was really good. Also, the suite pricing was not much higher than a standard room. On the down side, the Hampton breakfast was less than impressive (but adequate if you just want a bowl of cereal or a banana)
  2. From later in that twitter thread:
  3. I heard that term a lot for Dobie.
  4. Salvatore “Sal” Cincinelli -- I'm not making any accusations but it's hard to imagine that any person with this name isn't mobbed up.
  5. Oh god this. I hate this.
  6. When TV shows begin with a brief teaser clip of some dramatic event, and then flash back to "Three Days Ago..." or whatever to fill in the backstory to explain how things developed. Pulp Fiction was 25 years ago; being gratuitously non-linear isn't all that clever anymore.
  7. Plans to build a diverging diamond interchange at I-35 & Parrmer Ln. Construction expected to take two years. Gonna suck for me, I have to use this intersection every day. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/divergent-diamond-traffic-project-coming-to-hectic-north-austin-intersection/
  8. Thanks for all the replies. This was a shady deal and my cousin doesn't seem to want to fight it (and may have no recourse). Basically a neighbor suggested they split the cost of replacing the fence between their properties. This was agreed to with no paperwork or estimate. The neighbor hired some guy (not a professional) to do it. After work is done, neighbor presents a receipt for $3000 and asks to be reimbursed for half, which she paid. I strongly suspect neighbor is in cahoots with the guy he hired to build the fence.
  9. Walking around at lunchtime today, the air temperature didn't seem too bad, but the sun itself felt like it was turned up to 11.
  10. As a child of the 80s, my SAT score was less than that and UT was like yeah come on in and here's a pile of free monies so I'm practically making a profit by going to school here
  11. Of all the countless actors I've seen play a psychopath who rips a teenage girl (or young woman) in half by using them as a human tractor-trailer hitch, his performance was head and shoulders above the rest. (But seriously, anytime you saw his name in the credits of something, you knew it was going to deliver.)
  12. I remember being kind of put out when the Varsity theater was shut down to become Tower. But then it turned out Tower was OK.
  13. It wasn't exactly my favorite place to eat, but damn. There's hardly anything left around campus that I recognize. I wish I had taken a lot of photos of the drag & campus when I was a student, but it was well before cell phones had cameras. Hell it was almost before cell phones, except for the "brick" style.
  14. Raise you both with A Clockwork Orange.
  15. I know the real answer is "it depends on the job", but what would be a reasonable cost or range (per linear foot) for installation of a new cedar privacy fence (6 ft high, treated wood posts set in concrete, but no frills)? Needs to include labor, teardown & disposal of old fencing material, etc. Location is Austin if that's a factor. Google gives me some numbers like $15-20 per linear foot, but I'm not sure if that includes labor or just materials. Asking because a family member was just charged over $3000 for about 60-70 feet of basic fencing. Thanks....
  16. Sometimes I have to** drive SH130 and I was fine with that when the traffic was light and the road was good enough to drive fast as shit. At least I felt like i was getting my money's worth. But now there is construction everywhere with reduced speed limits and more traffic, it's just like every other fucked up highway around here. ** OK, I could take regular 183 to Lockhart but fuck that.
  17. Maybe I'm misunderstanding some aspect of this but i would think Tim McVeigh and the 9/11 hijackers have this Julio guy covered and then some.
  18. Looks like it was slewing sideways before it rolled over. Engine out on one side, or rudder malfunction?
  19. That mob really took a slice out of his hide.
  20. The NWS warning for New Orleans before Katrina was something else: AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_bulletin_for_Hurricane_Katrina
  21. If this gets to north Austin you can thank me for washing my car on Friday, when there was supposed to be a zero chance of rain for the next week.
  22. It's incredible how many different products Chrysler was able to squeeze out of the K-car platform. Budget family sedan? Reliant K. Slap some chrome and leather on it and you have the "luxury" New Yorker. A sports car? Dodge Daytona. Even the fucking minivan. And who could forget the Chrysler TC by Maserati...
  23. A shaft of rain is thrusting up towards Austin from the south [im
  24. Very sudden and concentrated dump of rain in 78753
  25. I'm going to miss full-service branch banking. When I have a small discrepancy with a check or some other unusual situation, I've usually been able to work that out with the human employees at my local bank. If it comes down to purely electronic/web/phone-based customer service, it will be a nightmare. It already pisses me off so much when I go into my local branch, see a long line, and they only have one or two tellers at the counter (where there are positions and terminals for 6 or 8 tellers). Same with airline ticket/check-in counters. For some things, i want a human to fix my shit.
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