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  1. Looking for some old generation wireless controllers to use for some Steam gaming. If you have any of these laying around your house I would be interested in putting them back to use. I am in Austin.
  2. All combined with the proud ethos of wanting to recapture the small, college-town past.
  3. Well, kinda. If you sign up for their rewards program thing you get a free order of chips and salsa every single visit.
  4. Yeah, which is proof positive that food and community is what we need more of in this current environment. If we could shut down facebook and cable news, a lot of common ground could be hashed out over tacos, beer and grilled/smoked meats.
  5. Yeah, a modern day Metroplex West Side Story---err....Romeo and Juliet.
  6. And the job growth downtown, of high paying jobs in those offices, will continue to support the condos and apartments because...as you mentioned the lack of transport options. That becomes a moot point when you can walk, bike or ride a scooter/uber/autonomous dillo to your office, grocery store, bars and restaurants in under 10 minutes. The office towers are a bigger problem as they bring in more drivers to put more strain on the infrastructure, as most won't live downtown.
  7. And black people. And really anyone that isn't ,increasingly, rich or white.
  8. It really isn't that figure that is sad. It's the fact of all the years of work and fighting on all sides to end up with a beyond crappy status quo that will only exacerbate many of the very real problems we have concerning growth in this city.
  9. This is so predictable. It is also sickening, because it rewards the chicanery that drives this city into a deeper mess.
  10. If the weather is nice, a dinner at Shady Grove is still a good choice. Green Chile Chicken Fried Steak will do. Though as mentioned above, it is hard to beat Chili Parlor. I would do it for lunch.
  11. I understand on the face why he did it. But just screwing with Austin, isn't really screwing with "Austin" that the GOP guys want to do. If they wanted to screw with Austin, they would find a way to let the State Legislature rezone all of Austin, or do away with zoning in general in say Travis County. Backing up Fred Lewis and his cronies in another front to stop any version of zoning change in Austin just doesn't make any sense, unless you just hate the City Council and Mayor.
  12. Or, to boil it down simply, why is Ken Paxton carrying Fred Lewis' water on this one?
  13. Can someone help explain to me why Ken Paxton is involved in the Planning Commission makeup argument? Wouldn't Paxton, the supposed "defender of conservative causes" want to not be on the same side as the NIMBY liberals that are raising lawsuits against the planning commission makeup?
  14. Yes to both. But 1: they improve on this stuff every day because 2. They have told a story and backed it up that investors have bought. Walmart never told such a story, and thus were and have been judged as other retailers have always been.
  15. Randomly took a class of his back in the day. Physics for non-technical majors. On some days it was among the worst classes I ever attended on campus. On others, it was pure genius. It was odd, when a lecture hall of students looking for a blow-off science credit ran into someone that should have won at least one Nobel prize, and had no idea of his background. He had a unique style when dealing with people who didn't want to learn physics, often slowing things down in an attempt to simplify topics, but then the next class getting extremely frustrated. Though, he seemed to relish the chance to convey at least some of what he was passionate about to a diverse audience and had a great sense of humor, though it almost entirely came at the expense of other students. Many of which, because of his thick accent, and style had no idea what was going on. I do remember him joking about some of the Nobel drama a lot, at least he found some humor in it.
  16. TheYoungHorn

    Hank's

    You also have the bar downstairs at the Drafthouse, the place on the corner has a full bar (Colleen's) and for beer you can also do Whichcraft.
  17. No, I got your point. And I was trying to point out that I don't think in this current Texas football environment that Herman will want to voluntarily pack up his whole team, staff and hopefully humming organism to move into some ad-hoc, slapped-together solution elsewhere on campus. Yes, of course they can do it, and have done similar things in the past, but that wasn't in a recruiting/player-development age where elite facilities were such a bargaining chip, or at least elevated to the level they are now. One thing working against Texas is the campus isn't in a small college town, where there is still a lot of open space for greenfield development. We can't really just build a brand new football complex, including indoor facility next door, then move into that before we start a stadium renovation, especially not in an area where they might also squeeze in a new basketball area and training facility. This decision is going to be primarily about two things: 1. getting Herman the best facilities in the nation/connected directly to one of the largest stadiums in the nation. 2. Elevating the premium spaces to capitalize on the success CDC is demanding from all teams, and improving/innovating the game day experience to make DKR a jaw-dropping venue to showcase the program/university/city to recruits, media, etc.
  18. Do any of you live in Austin? Anti-development, anti-growth policies are as carved into the stone and fabric of this city and it's leaders.
  19. CDC isn't just going to pack up and move a football team into Gregory Gym. Gregory Gym utilized everyday by thousands of students and faculty, and as big as it is, has no room to house 100 athletes on a dedicated basis, much less the other necessary training and meeting facilities the team needs to operate. Let's be serious for a second and be realistic. Because this is 2018 and CDC seems like a very realistic and intelligent character. They are not going to pack up the entire football team and move into Gregory Gym for a year. They just redid the entire locker room, and I believe the weight room/training room. In addition to the SEZ, expansion and additional remodeling of player/coaches facilities, we will also need a new indoor facility in the near-ish term. They are thinking about solutions that get them to the entire package they want and need to recruit and compete competitively, and also attract more high dollar/corporate premium seats. This isn't wrong, it might suck that it isn't what you or I would want to see, or how we would design it on SketchUp, but I would bet it is a consideration.
  20. Also, for those of you proposing the full SEZ bowling. Where does the football team's entire operation move for the year plus after Moncrief is destroyed and the new thing isn't completed?
  21. Do you not understand Capitol View Corridors? This whole cities development is restricted because of them.
  22. TheYoungHorn

    Hank's

    Wasn't it a La Michocana? And then it was supposed to be that first coffee-shop/cafe for a long, long time. Good to see that something finally made it in. I would think they will be the tip of the spear for a rapid redevelopment of that whole shopping center.
  23. Of course that is just a rendering, but I wouldn't expect the addition to include any connections to the East and West sides, that makes the project more expensive and causes more of the existing stadium to be interfered with. Which is why I would guess why you get a rendering like this one. Lowering the overall vertical profile, while increasing the premium seating and most importantly for us facilities wise, additional amenities all connected to a totally revamped Moncrief. We are getting lapped on the training facility/hang out space for players, and whatever we build will connect the stadium, coaches and players facilities into one complex that rivals anything, while maximizing the value of having an amazing view of one of the fastest rising downtown skylines in America. Bowling in the SEZ, in the same way as the NEZ, even without the tiny upperdeck (or a video board on top) would block off all of that, plus add comparable seating options to what already exists in the NEZ.
  24. Okay. So they have a longer track record of innovation, and cultural export than we can claim as Americans, because their's is much longer. Not to discount what American has done in ripping off British invention and really kicking off the Industrial (and now post-industrial) ages. Because we certainly rocked at that. It's hard because we have all lived in only a Western-centric, western-dominated world where western-Liberalism has been the hero and engine of the last bit of history, but it would be naive to assume things will stay that way.
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