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  1. Yeah, I'm down with this as long as its not rehashing the past which is what pisses me off. Funny we bring up Italy but its like my mom bitching about Rome of the 1960s versus the Rome of today. I have my own opinions of Rome of today but there's still plenty to love. I digress. You know what I love about today's Austin? Tacodeli's $10 margarita to go will get it done! (not my pic, not my wife)
  2. My feet first touched the ground in Italy. Dago.
  3. Its funny but when we lived in Houston, I would have never ever gone to a city pool. Austin's got a different thing going on with its pools, depending on where you are. My office is a few short blocks from Ramsey Pool in Rosedale. Come summertime it opens up and is a great place to jump in for a swim in what is some of the cooler pool water in Austin. They use a big aerator thing to recirculate the water and, man, it could be 100 degrees and that water feels great. I'll walk from my office and take a quick swim for lunch. Its amazing, clean and free. Its very old school, a bit run down (bathrooms are a time capsule) and quiet but its perfect. You have to envy the people who are lucky to live right along Ramsey Park. Place must be a perfect summer job for neighborhood kids. https://www.austintexas.gov/department/ramsey-pool
  4. Usually we get lucky and park in the lot in the back or we try for one of the side streets. Which reminds me. Yeah, its changing but I love me some Clarksville and the two front yard ducks that live on Eason Street behind Howler Brothers. If I'm over there, I always walk over and say hello.
  5. Old Austin will always find a reason to complain. Always. I'm going to focus on the good stuff about the Austin of today. Love that this was added to Pease Park. I think we'll swing by Eeyore's to check it out and to see "Weird" in all its glory.
  6. I really like going to Bar Peached... great outdoor patio, food is really good, prices are surprisingly reasonable and there's lots of scenery. Y'all know prices in Austin and these prices are legit. And... I'm going to be very vulnerable here as the resident Italian but while I hate that they call it Bolognese, that dish is LEGIT, filling and only $17.00. Desano kicks ass
  7. Yeah, Crown and Anchor's burgers and fries are legit. Had a friend visiting town with his wife for some dance competition and I sent them there. They were like, WTF, but then understood.
  8. They opened another one in South Austin... https://captquacks.com/
  9. Focusing on the Austin of Today... I love what they've done at Cosmic Saltillo. I've been a big fan of Cosmic Coffee but Saltillo is so kickass, especially since you can drink there... go to a show at The Scoot Inn... and then go right on back. Not to mention, you can then work your way over to East 6th and allll the options there.
  10. Taco Shack was where I first learned about breakfast tacos. I feel like it was called Taco Wars back then. 99 cent tacos. One favor Can we please please please not turn this into a "I miss old Austin thread?" I would love to keep this about Austin today... Austin in the present tense. Not, "I miss going to the Black Cat... waaaaah" There are other "I miss Old Austin threads" scattered through surly
  11. As I said, I went to UT from 89-93. I have no qualms going to anything... and everything. F it. I don't care. (although I went to Latchkey with a group of friends... yeah, felt a little out of place there)
  12. OK... I have seen the DJ at Party Island but never seen the band. That is hilarious. Also love it when there is a band on a Saturday morning along the trail... usually there to support the Trail Conservancy. https://thetrailconservancy.org/programs/music/#:~:text=The Trail Conservancy is thrilled,to your morning Trail routine.
  13. Sweaty summer concerts at the Drop In... worth the humidity. Mmmmm burgers. These dudes better be back this summer... https://www.instagram.com/chuckwagon.burgers/
  14. Yeah, you know... its funny... we met up with my brother at Irene's about two weeks ago. He was at UT in the mid/late 80s. For me it was 89-93. I loved Austin back then and let's be honest, I didn't really take advantage of everything it had to offer. I left Austin for many years but would come back all the time and I watched it change. Same goes for my brother. The change was just that... change... and it didn't phase me. Living in Houston, I always laughed at Austin traffic. It was piddly in comparison. When we came back, I saw that it was worse but still so minor compared to Houston so I try to use that perspective. Well, anyway, my brother and I were at Irene's and I asked him what he thought of the Austin of today and he said exactly what I was thinking... "I love it even more today" Yeah, its more expensive and that sucks BUT there is more live music than ever before and it is a broad mix of music. The food is better than it used to be. East side has all kinds of stuff going on. Breweries throughout town. Hiking trails and network has been improved. BSP has not changed a thing. There's more to do... UT has stepped up its gameday experience, Austin FC, etc. etc. Oh... and I hate the 1980s skyline. Lame ass skyline. Fight me. The new skyline kicks ass. I'm thinking of eventually leaving because of the climate and because of the dicks running this state but, for Texas, nowhere else I would rather be. I'll raise a toast to y'all when watching a show this weekend. Central Machine Works has some good bands both Saturday and Sunday if I don't make it to Psych Fest (or Briscoe tonight at Stubb's since someone is trying to convince me to go)
  15. Well everyone knows the bottom of BSP is lined with liberal homeless people who had their bodies draped in LBGTQ flags. ...but when I'm not dodging them, give me a nice cold cocktail under the oak trees at Fresa's on S. 1st.
  16. By the way, in case aggy tells you that the jizz jar story is not true, please refer to the last paragraph in this article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-aggie-bonfire-tragedy/ From 2000... The problem with Bonfire is that it is red-ass (sometimes abbreviated as RA) culture run amok. The administration has never known quite what to do about it; it needs RA Aggies to uphold the school’s uniqueness and guard its traditions, but it doesn’t need drinking, hazing, racism, and strippers, and it has never figured out how to get one without the other. The redpot traditions exemplify RA culture. One is that no woman may set foot in a certain area of the stack site unless she has slept with a redpot; an Aggie who described herself as weighing 95 pounds wrote a letter to the student newspaper two years ago protesting that a redpot had shoved her when she breached the boundary to avoid a mud puddle. A wide-ranging witness statement given by a female member of the corps told how each group of redpots fills a jar with ejaculate and sets it atop the stack to burn.
  17. Good God, BSP was a lifesaver last year. It was so absurdly hot that on days when it was 105+, we would go down to Barton Springs, jump in for a swim and then you could sit in the shade and feel air conditioned for the next hour. One of my favorite things about BSP is the community feel around the diving board... a mix of people showing off, doing crazy jumps, learning how to jump off of a board the first time and... the best... the whole pool cheering on a kid who is scared to jump off. Its beautiful. First visit to BSP this year was end of March...
  18. There's so much bitching on the other thread that I thought I would start something more positive and why not start when Eeyore's Birthday is tomorrow... one of the weirdest, most Austin-like events of the year. Hey, while we're at it, there's some kickass music this weekend: Psych Fest - https://levitation.fm/pages/austin-psych-fest I really need to find a way to catch at least one day... Courtney Barnett will be awesome today + Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Levitation Room, Orions Belte... Austin Blues Festival - https://www.austinbluesfestival.com/
  19. Meta is breaking up with me... "I apologize, but I still cannot generate visual images or pictures today. I'm a text-based AI assistant and can only create text-based art, such as ASCII art, and respond to text-based questions and prompts. I can generate creative text, answer questions, and engage in conversation, but I don't have the capability to generate images. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with!"
  20. I think I broke Meta. It refuses to create anything else right now.
  21. Right? That one really threw me off... it was completely different than the other examples where I was asking for a giant statue of a golden school ring. At times I think AI was just giving me a middle finger based on the instructions I gave it. ex: I told it "no liquid anywhere" and this was its response... EXTRA LIQUID But then? Yeah, it can be pretty brilliant, too...
  22. What was really strange is I started noticing it kept putting yellow liquid in the scene or yellow balls and I kept telling it to not make the liquid yellow or not include the yellow balls and yet it kept doing it. I then asked him why do you keep putting liquid and it gave me an answer about a creative touch and some other nonsense. It said that if I did not want liquid then I should say no liquid or dry scene. So I said dry scene and it went all in on more liquid.
  23. Don't ask me how we got from this to the next few options. Follow me as you see a picture evolve. Each one has some great things going on but things then get weird. to making some additional comments which then gave me this... I told it to stop using the yellow balls and yet I got this... but its not understanding my instructions that it if wants balls, at least make them yellow and blue and add the SEC logo... Tried again... nope!? So I said, "can you make those balls hay bales" since it is obsessed with yellow balls... I guess this will do...
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