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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I'd rather burn in at 200 mph and have some laughs, then to eat it in a car accident, I mean thats a really dumb way to go.  No, really, you see like the one thing I wanna do before I join the cosmos is to hang glide off of Mt. Everest. Yeah, but wait, this is the best part: NAKED! 

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2 minutes ago, Deej said:

Now, with vehicle inspections a thing of the past in Texas, you'll have many more random car parts flying into the path of your vehicle at a high rate of speed. 

Honestly, it doesn’t make a difference. Lived in Arizona for nearly 20 years and they don’t have vehicle safety inspections and there’s no difference in the number of unsafe beaters on the road. People driving unsafe beaters aren’t the type to register their vehicle so they had no need to get the inspection in the first place.

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16 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

This- it’s funny, I get asked all the time if I worry about my kid riding the subways in New York.  She’s far safer there than driving a car on I35 or 2222.

No doubt.

290 (W) still gets the podium when it comes to the biggest local death trap. We have friends that live on Fitzhugh Road. Not surprisingly, we never hesitate to be the first to offer up as host when it comes to get-togethers.  That road Is a nightmare.

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I'd rather burn in at 200 mph and have some laughs, then to eat it in a car accident, I mean thats a really dumb way to go.  No, really, you see like the one thing I wanna do before I join the cosmos is to hang glide off of Mt. Everest. Yeah, but wait, this is the best part: NAKED! 

Okay, Truman 

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2 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

No doubt.

290 (W) still gets the podium when it comes to the biggest local death trap. We have friends that live on Fitzhugh Road. Not surprisingly, we never hesitate to be the first to offer up as host when it comes to get-togethers.  That road Is a nightmare.

Also true.  My wife is really looking to dial back her wedding business.  And a part of that is the fact that probably better than 50% of her weddings are in the Dripping Springs area, and she is sick of making that drive.  It's stressful, always lots of traffic, and dangerous as hell (she's been caught in traffic behind more than one fatal accident out there).  It's just not worth it.

Plus, that means that more of her Saturdays are free for us to hang out and go to football and soccer games and such.

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Also true.  My wife is really looking to dial back her wedding business.  And a part of that is the fact that probably better than 50% of her weddings are in the Dripping Springs area, and she is sick of making that drive.  It's stressful, always lots of traffic, and dangerous as hell (she's been caught in traffic behind more than one fatal accident out there).  It's just not worth it.

Plus, that means that more of her Saturdays are free for us to hang out and go to football and soccer games and such.

Fuck that. Time to invest in a Brisketcopter. 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

I'd rather burn in at 200 mph and have some laughs, then to eat it in a car accident, I mean thats a really dumb way to go.  No, really, you see like the one thing I wanna do before I join the cosmos is to hang glide off of Mt. Everest. Yeah, but wait, this is the best part: NAKED! 

There's nothing wrong with going nowhere son, it's a privilege of youth.

@Gardner Barnes

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Lofl. 
 

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After decades on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, the Pecan Street Festival is moving this spring. According to a press release, the festival will relocate to Bee Cave. 

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I bought some awesome tailgate/camping chairs from a Pecan Street Festival vendor 25 years ago and they lasted until last year.  NOW where the hell am I supposed to go to find replacements????

 

 

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Just now, utee94 said:

I bought some awesome tailgate/camping chairs from a Pecan Street Festival vendor 25 years ago and they lasted until last year.  NOW where the hell am I supposed to go to find replacements????

 

 

Bee Cave.

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Also true.  My wife is really looking to dial back her wedding business.  And a part of that is the fact that probably better than 50% of her weddings are in the Dripping Springs area, and she is sick of making that drive.  It's stressful, always lots of traffic, and dangerous as hell (she's been caught in traffic behind more than one fatal accident out there).  It's just not worth it.
Plus, that means that more of her Saturdays are free for us to hang out and go to football and soccer games and such.

Why are people still getting married in 2025? Went to a wedding last Saturday and have 3 more between now and July. Is it a contract with the state? A contract with the church? I no longer believe in either of those entities. Just live together people.
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54 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


Last female mayor, huh? You know Fitlump is tanned, rested, and ready.

*Only* female mayor.  I think Austin has elected one Hispanic (Gus Garcia) and zero Black mayors.

Austin, always a town for everybody.

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5 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

Why are people still getting married in 2025?

To hear my wife tell it, the reason that people are getting married these days is to create Instagram content.

Seriously, she's super frustrated with Gen Z.  They are WAY higher-maintenance than any other generation she's married (she's married plenty of Gen-X, and a ton of millennials - a generation she actually thinks highly of), they are rude/dismissive of other people's time/demands, and EVERYTHING is focused on how it will look on the 'gram.  She has one coming up with NINE attendants on EACH SIDE (so the processional itself is going to take a full 5 minutes), and the couple has told her "we've only allotted 15 minutes for the wedding ceremony."  FFS, a marriage by the JP at the courthouse takes 15 minutes.  And they aren't shy about telling her what to wear so it will look right in photos, how and where to stand to create the perfect scene, etc.  The whole fucking thing is about the "content" it will create.  

So, she's about done with the headache of dealing with them, of dealing with people who really don't give a shit about the actual marriage ceremony and vows at all, and spending her Fridays and Saturdays on the road to rehearsals and ceremonies.  Instead, she wants to hang out and have morning coffee with me, maybe we go to some Longhorn baseball games and Austin FC matches, and chill.

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9 minutes ago, DaysOff said:


Why are people still getting married in 2025? Went to a wedding last Saturday and have 3 more between now and July. Is it a contract with the state? A contract with the church? I no longer believe in either of those entities. Just live together people.

Serious answer? Sometimes ceremonial rituals still mean something. My wife and I were together for more than a decade before we got married. It wasn’t something that was super important to us until it was. We decided we wanted that formality of a ceremony where we took vows in front of those that were closest to us. We chose a spot that was symbolically important* to us as a couple and had a ceremony there with around 40 people in attendance. Afterwards we had an amazing dinner and kick ass party with a gigantic bar tab that was worth every penny. Still one of my favorite days of my life. Tomorrow is our 6th wedding anniversary!

*We chose to get married at San Francisco City Hall, which is where the first marriage licenses in support of marriage equality were issued in 2004 and, subsequently, when marriage equality was finally codified in 2015 mass wedding ceremonies were performed in celebration. When I said marriage wasn’t important to us until it was, marriage equality is one of the things that made it more important to us. Love is love and all that jazz.

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After the ice storm a few years back, Austin Energy commissioned a study on what it would take to bury Austin's electrical lines.  That study is now published:

document.cfm?id=447845&utm_source=newsle

TL;DR - $50 Billion and negative ROI.  On one hand, WTF.  On the other hand, bravo to Austin for not just plowing forward with doing the project, then getting a few years into it and only then realizing it was going to run into the billions...

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1 minute ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

After the ice storm a few years back, Austin Energy commissioned a study on what it would take to bury Austin's electrical lines.  That study is now published:

document.cfm?id=447845&utm_source=newsle

TL;DR - $50 Billion and negative ROI.  On one hand, WTF.  On the other hand, bravo to Austin for not just plowing forward with doing the project, then getting a few years into it and only then realizing it was going to run into the billions...

Also.....duh.  People always say shit like "we should just bury all the power lines," and "to prevent floods, let's just build a new dam and reservoir!"

These are multi-billion...sometimes multi-HUNDRED-billion dollar projects.  Which have to be paid for.  Usually by the people who are demanding them.  Want to avoid power outages, but have your rates go up 3X?  Then bury your lines, by all means.

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1 minute ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

TL;DR - $50 Billion and negative ROI.  On one hand, WTF.  On the other hand, bravo to Austin for not just plowing forward with doing the project, then getting a few years into it and only then realizing it was going to run into the billions...

They had to do a study to conclude that it would be cost prohibitive? I could have told them that for half whatever they paid to commission the study and given them an answer in a single ppt slide. Too bad they didn’t have that same foresight with Project Connect. How are you guys in Austin enjoying that increase in your property tax bills for the fifth year? Are y’all enjoying your subway through downtown?

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The document isn't coming through so not sure what is in the scope of the study. Is the $50B to bury all lines or strategically to bury the lines which are more at risk for being downed? I highly doubt that it's the latter. The solution doesn't have to be all or nothing. 

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They had to do a study to conclude that it would be cost prohibitive? I could have told them that for half whatever they paid to commission the study and given them an answer in a single ppt slide. Too bad they didn’t have that same foresight with Project Connect. How are you guys in Austin enjoying that increase in your property tax bills for the fifth year? Are y’all enjoying your subway through downtown?

When the citizens and city council demand that you look into burying the lines - even though you know the answer, you’ve told them, but they won’t listen and trust you - you do a study so you have something objective to release to convince them that yes, this is a terrible idea.
That’s not something unique to Austin. Happens at the Lege, in every city and town, etc. “Why don’t you just resurface all of our roads? And keep all the swimming pools open? And have snack bars in the libraries?” Telling people the obvious - there aren’t enough dollars - doesn’t get them off your back. So, you have to show them hard, objective data. “Repaving all streets will cost $3 billion, and require raising taxes 25% for 10 years - it’s right here in this study.”
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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


When the citizens and city council demand that you look into burying the lines - even though you know the answer, you’ve told them, but they won’t listen and trust you - you do a study so you have something objective to release to convince them that yes, this is a terrible idea.
That’s not something unique to Austin. Happens at the Lege, in every city and town, etc. “Why don’t you just resurface all of our roads? And keep all the swimming pools open? And have snack bars in the libraries?” Telling people the obvious - there aren’t enough dollars - doesn’t get them off your back. So, you have to show them hard, objective data. “Repaving all streets will cost $3 billion, and require raising taxes 25% for 10 years - it’s right here in this study.”

Happens in business too - the Board wants XYZ and isn't listening to the management team so you hire BCG or McKenzie to say the same thing and they're like "Oh, ok!" lol

9 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

The document isn't coming through so not sure what is in the scope of the study. Is the $50B to bury all lines or strategically to bury the lines which are more at risk for being downed? I highly doubt that it's the latter. The solution doesn't have to be all or nothing. 

$50B for systemwide.  They identified $1.6B of lines where you could make the business case to do it.

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On 3/26/2025 at 8:25 AM, South Austin said:

The Galleria Circle Festival.

We would occasionally go because, why not... its sort of weird... you know, you just go because its there.  

In Bee Cave?  Yeah, that sounds really really terrible.  Its basically going to be some lameass Lakeway area Farmer's Market without anything weird about it.  Pass.

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Happens in business too - the Board wants XYZ and isn't listening to the management team so you hire BCG or McKenzie to say the same thing and they're like "Oh, ok!" lol

100%. Hell, happens to us lawyers. “That’s not a good strategy, I’ve seen this before and you can trust me,” but nope, we also need to engage an expert to tell you the same thing, and when the expert asks me “why did you hire us to tell you something so obvious?”, I tell them “yeah, because you have P.E. or some such after your name, and prepared a written report.”
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16 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

$50B for systemwide.  They identified $1.6B of lines where you could make the business case to do it.

Market it as giving the homeless electricity and the shit will pass.

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After the ice storm a few years back, Austin Energy commissioned a study on what it would take to bury Austin's electrical lines.  That study is now published:
document.cfm?id=447845&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_austin&stream=top
TL;DR - $50 Billion and negative ROI.  On one hand, WTF.  On the other hand, bravo to Austin for not just plowing forward with doing the project, then getting a few years into it and only then realizing it was going to run into the billions...

Im almost positive me or someone else on this board estimated $50bil. Wheres our consulting fee? A simple “its not feasible because this is how much it cost for other towns or cities”. Hell a quick conference call with Austin Energy would have done the trick. You probably could google it.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


When the citizens and city council demand that you look into burying the lines - even though you know the answer, you’ve told them, but they won’t listen and trust you - you do a study so you have something objective to release to convince them that yes, this is a terrible idea.
That’s not something unique to Austin. Happens at the Lege, in every city and town, etc. “Why don’t you just resurface all of our roads? And keep all the swimming pools open? And have snack bars in the libraries?” Telling people the obvious - there aren’t enough dollars - doesn’t get them off your back. So, you have to show them hard, objective data. “Repaving all streets will cost $3 billion, and require raising taxes 25% for 10 years - it’s right here in this study.”

Wish they would have taken this approach for the ProjectConnect.  I mean, really, they should pit the two against eachother.  Would you rather bury the powerlines, mitigating the ice risk, but raising the risk of some dumbass hitting the power boxes on the side of the road while drunk, or Option B, would you rather build a subway to nowhere?

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43 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

Wish they would have taken this approach for the ProjectConnect.  I mean, really, they should pit the two against eachother.  Would you rather bury the powerlines, mitigating the ice risk, but raising the risk of some dumbass hitting the power boxes on the side of the road while drunk, or Option B, would you rather build a subway to nowhere?

Bury the power lines in the unused subway tunnels.  Problem solved.

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11 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Bury the power lines in the unused subway tunnels.  Problem solved.

$50B government contract? Holes is the Earth? 

Elon Musk is going to spend $millions buying council members so that his Boring Co can bore 20' diameter tunnels for the power lines for $billions. 

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Well damn. Learned from Reddit. I guess citizen.com is a thing. Anyway, someone posted a video of the body floating facedown in the lake on that site. A crew row boat rows right by with nary a clue.

Looks like a pay site but you can Explore -> Austin and see the video.

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6 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Well damn. Learned from Reddit. I guess citizen.com is a thing. Anyway, someone posted a video of the body floating facedown in the lake on that site. A crew row boat rows right by with nary a clue.

Looks like a pay site but you can Explore -> Austin and see the video.

Maybe the crew row boat is just used to Nicole's BS by now...

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32 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

Maybe the crew row boat is just used to Nicole's BS by now...

Maybe Nicole is the pirate captain of that row boat and that's how they dump the bodies.

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