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EMT 5/22/16 [krakatoa]

Houston.

I'm going to Houston.

Luckily it's only for a couple days.

But it's Houston.

Is there anything to do there other than wonder if it would be better on Venus?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:00 AM




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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2016 05:57 AM (3wHFl)

2 Good Morning Morons. Today is Sunday, May 22, 2016. On this day in 1968 the nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sank with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores. To this day the cause of the loss of this submarine is unknown with many different theories abounding.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:57 AM (vvmPQ)

3 Scankles panders to the gun grabbers in an attack on Trump who she accused of pandering to the gun lobby. How about we do away with the rest of the Constitution and make the Democrat Party illegal?


http://fxn.ws/25fRdxU

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:57 AM (vvmPQ)

4 IL school refuses to allow a Marine to attend her graduation ceremony in dress blues.


http://fxn.ws/1W9FwUw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:58 AM (vvmPQ)

5 Kept hitting post and was coming up blank

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2016 05:58 AM (3wHFl)

6 WaPo is still a liberal rag eat up with idiots who support violating the Constitution in their efforts to make sure the US is a Communist third world shit hole. How about this lead in a story about an OR group who think today's government is an illegal oligarchy (which it is).


B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target. Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols. Then Soper helped his 4-year-old daughter, in pink sneakers and a ponytail, work on her marksmanship with a .22-caliber rifle.


We are supposed to find this "shooting" ominous. How would they feel if we finally got up the votes in congress to make the first amendment for the press regulated the same way they regulate guns???


http://wapo.st/1NEmzqk

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:59 AM (vvmPQ)

7 Cutting back on salt in your diet can cause heart attacks says new study. The former study saying high salt intake (and the US's own guidelines on salt have long been discredited). I don't believe ANY study anymore. My own theory on heart attacks after a lot of study is that the largest contributor to heart disease is heredity. IOW you can't do a damn thing about it but try to eat right in moderation and get some exercise.


http://dailym.ai/1YMdo7A

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:59 AM (vvmPQ)

8 DAY 1,293

170 to go (243 to Inauguration Day )

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mario's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, McKesson's, Mizzou malefactors, mewling mattress-myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 05:59 AM (p4UlV)

9 LA set to sign into law a new bill that makes targeting police a hate crime. Of course the hate group known as the Anti-defamation League apposed the law.


http://bit.ly/1U6SMFU

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:00 AM (vvmPQ)

10 And speaking of BLM, Pittsburgh police may refuse to work Beyonce's concert there.


http://bit.ly/1TOVbSU

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:00 AM (vvmPQ)

11 This is the kind of racist crap you get from all of the corrupt Obamanite departments in the feral government since Pharaoh Obama took the reigns.


An issue brief published on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control claimed that that Southerners' racism, and homophobia may be causing high HIV rates in the South that are disproportionately high among African-Americans and homosexuals.


http://bit.ly/1U6Ar90

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:00 AM (vvmPQ)

12
Houston????

You have a problem.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:00 AM (p4UlV)

13 Liberal insanity even occurs in AZ. Must be the invasion of locusts from CA. Security guards impound a tie clasp.


http://bit.ly/1TrYrEn

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:00 AM (vvmPQ)

14 After failing to get a mosque at the NYC ground zero site, the muzzie developer now wants to build a muzzie cultural center and museum there.


http://bit.ly/1swCxJc


That's it for today folks. Typical Sunday, not much out there today.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:01 AM (vvmPQ)

15 11 An issue brief published on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control claimed that that Southerners' racism, and homophobia may be causing high HIV rates in the South that are disproportionately high among African-Americans and homosexuals.


http://bit.ly/1U6Ar90
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:00 AM (vvmPQ)


It's more likely you get VD from toilet seats than this disgusting trope.

Things like this are telltale signs that we are in fact living in a hijacked nation. It's tyranny, as if it wasn't for a long time now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:02 AM (p4UlV)

16 I'm going to Houston.


I have some in-laws who live there. But the above sounds like a song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXZzJcH3Qe4

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)

17 14 After failing to get a mosque at the NYC ground zero site, the muzzie developer now wants to build a muzzie cultural center and museum there.


http://bit.ly/1swCxJc


That's it for today folks. Typical Sunday, not much out there today.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:01 AM (vvmPQ)


An Islamic cultural center? To paraphrase Fred Allen, you could fit all the culture of Islam inside the navel of a fruit fly and still have room for 3 caraway seeds and some lint.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:04 AM (p4UlV)

18 15 Things like this are telltale signs that we are in
fact living in a hijacked nation. It's tyranny, as if it wasn't for a
long time now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:02 AM (p4UlV)

As I have said many times, Obama is the biggest racist since Woodrow Wilson. Every thing he does that isn't about pushing communism is about pushing racism.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)

19 4 IL school refuses to allow a Marine to attend her graduation ceremony in dress blues.


http://fxn.ws/1W9FwUw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:58 AM (vvmPQ)


Yet the Harriet Reids of the world must not be denied entrance to the Little Girls Rooms because, Jim Crow.


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:06 AM (p4UlV)

20 18 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)


Well, once you've achieved "divide," the "conquer" part is not far behind.

Levin did a segment on his video program all about Chicago '68 and how Obama has sown the seeds for violence both in Cleveland in ironically in Philly.

He's worst than racist if that's possible. He's a monster. A narcissistic ignoramus but it's not mutually exclusive.

Blood now at a slow simmer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:09 AM (p4UlV)

21 Conservative should push that meme above that says if we can trash the Constitution to regulate guns out of existence than we can trash it to regulate Democrats out of existence for treason.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:11 AM (vvmPQ)

22 Time to go fix some breakfast. Stayed up late last nigh and slept late this morning. BBS

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:12 AM (vvmPQ)

23 Reminded me of a song we do Vic, if you're referring to the same post.

She's got Texas through the windshield, and Houston on her mind.

Posted by: teej at May 22, 2016 06:14 AM (ijopM)

24 Okay, I'm out.
Gotta we if I can find somewhere to get the kick drum I want.
See end of ont for back story, and maybe let the few there know emt is up if you would.

Posted by: teej at May 22, 2016 06:18 AM (ijopM)

25 21 Conservative should push that meme above that says if we can trash the Constitution to regulate guns out of existence than we can trash it to regulate Democrats out of existence for treason.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:11 AM (vvmPQ)


Who needs a Constitution when you have a pen and a phone? It'll be the best pen and phone ever. The best!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2016 06:19 AM (p4UlV)

26 On leftist racism heard David Horowitz has new book Progressive Racism.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2016 06:20 AM (3wHFl)

27 OB, for crying out loud, don't stay in Houston! Get on I-45 South and keep going till you get to Galveston.

Posted by: creeper at May 22, 2016 06:22 AM (5RW7F)

28 Good luck with the search, teej.

Posted by: creeper at May 22, 2016 06:23 AM (5RW7F)

29 Thanks for the news, Vic. A slow day is welcome.

Posted by: creeper at May 22, 2016 06:23 AM (5RW7F)

30 Is there anything to do there other than wonder if it would be better on Venus?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:00 AM


Maybe going to the Johnson Space Center would be fun for you.
There are also some war memorials that need visiting.

Posted by: goon at May 22, 2016 06:27 AM (WCaSy)

31 Don't be hat in' on Houston!

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 22, 2016 06:29 AM (t5zYU)

32 On another aggravating front yesterday my cookbook program which I use to track my calories and cholesterol somehow got some corrupted files and I kept getting error messages. So I backed up my files and reloaded the program.


I forgot that the "ingredient list" was under a separate directory that the "my cookbook" directory. And now I will have to reenter hundreds of ingredients I had added over the years.


And on top of that it looks like its going to rain again today.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:30 AM (vvmPQ)

33 You could catch an Astros game.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 22, 2016 06:32 AM (t5zYU)

34 Houston? You already hate it so why bother. Stay in your hotel.

Posted by: Lester at May 22, 2016 06:33 AM (2UPXV)

35 I used to like this restaurant: http://www.americasrestaurant.com

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 22, 2016 06:33 AM (t5zYU)

36 Fun exhibit at least the museum of fine arts:
http://hhpage.com/mfah.org/SculptedInSteel

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 22, 2016 06:34 AM (t5zYU)

37 Damn auto cucumber

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 22, 2016 06:35 AM (t5zYU)

38 I'm guessing that you mean that when you reinstalled the program that it overwrote the data in your ingredients directory? Have you tried a file recovery program to see if you can get your data back. There are some good free recovery programs. Recuva works well.

Posted by: goon at May 22, 2016 06:36 AM (WCaSy)

39 38
I'm guessing that you mean that when you reinstalled the program that it
overwrote the data in your ingredients directory? Have you tried a file
recovery program to see if you can get your data back. There are some
good free recovery programs. Recuva works well.

Posted by: goon at May 22, 2016 06:36 AM (WCaSy)

I deleted the earlier install first so it is not longer there and has been overwritten and defragmented so it is gone forever unless I can find a backup somewhere else.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:41 AM (vvmPQ)

40 you might try the de menil foundation and museum and the rothko chapel.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 22, 2016 06:42 AM (WTSFk)

41 Another aggravating thing about the program is I figured since I had to reload it I would go ahead and get the latest version from Amazon. Not so sayith the specs. It will not run on XP. Another reason to hate on Microsnot and their continued tinkering to sell product.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:46 AM (vvmPQ)

42 I don't understand the Target suing man who helped stop stabbed story on the ONT
If the stabbed was in Target, how did the man chase him into Target's entrance?
What are Target's lawyer's thinking?

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 06:52 AM (7lVbc)

43 Vic do you still have the ingredient directory on your computer?

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 06:55 AM (7lVbc)

44 42
I don't understand the Target suing man who helped stop stabbed story on the ONT

If the stabbed was in Target, how did the man chase him into Target's entrance?

What are Target's lawyer's thinking?

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 06:52 AM (7lVbc)

IIANM the woman who was stabbed is suing Target so this is some kind of action to combat that. It is totally stupid and will further hurt their reputation and sales, which are definitely not doing too well now.

Their big mistake, listening to lawyers who love a civil suit.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:55 AM (vvmPQ)

45 i visited houston once years ago and was impressed by two things: 1) the stultifying heat and humidity in march of that year and 2) the wild variation in land use from neighborhood to neighborhood owing to the total lack of zoning regulations (so i was told).

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 22, 2016 06:58 AM (WTSFk)

46 43
Vic do you still have the ingredient directory on your computer?



Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 06:55 AM (7lVbc)

The ingredient list is under the program directory as an individual file. So no, don't have the old one. Do have the "new one". You can add or subtract ingredients on the list which is great, but you need to also back up that individual file. And that may have actually been the file that had become corrupted and was giving me all the error messages.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:58 AM (vvmPQ)

47 Yeah, but Target's CEO claims their sales are down on account of the cold weather.

Posted by: creeper at May 22, 2016 06:58 AM (5RW7F)

48 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 22, 2016 06:59 AM (KCxzN)

49 46 that sux

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 07:00 AM (7lVbc)

50 Do Leftists anywhere admit their own policies are failures?

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2016 07:04 AM (3wHFl)

51 47 Yeah, but Target's CEO claims their sales are down on account of the cold weather.

--

Cold weather, the recession and bad management, but mostly bad management.

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 07:05 AM (7lVbc)

52 2 Good Morning Morons. Today is Sunday, May 22, 2016. On this day in 1968 the nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sank with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores. To this day the cause of the loss of this submarine is unknown with many different theories abounding.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 05:57 AM (vvmPQ)

Blind Man's Bluff
has a good rundown of the incident, and they suggest it was a low-order detonation of a torpedo due to it's battery overheating.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 22, 2016 07:06 AM (OR5cC)

53 What's wrong with Houston?
(Never been to Texas)

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 07:06 AM (7lVbc)

54 Good morning all. Things are picking up on this date in 1944 on the Anzio beachhead. The breakout is imminent.

The EZ Dog Journal

May 22, 1944
No change. We moved to a little valley south of Conca (977 212). There is a little farm house here - we eat in the stable. The farmer has a wife and three kids with a fourth on the way. How they can live in this nest of activity I don't know. Tomorrow is the day.



Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 22, 2016 07:08 AM (NeFrd)

55 a special sneak preview of a comment i'll be posting on the book thread! appearing here once!

just a reminder that a shakespeare first folio is coming up at christie's. london on wednesday. in the same sale are the second, third and fourth folios, too.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 22, 2016 07:09 AM (WTSFk)

56 49
46 that sux

Posted by: @votermom at May 22, 2016 07:00 AM (7lVbc)

Yeah, and I have really loved the program too. It has generally been very reliable and easy to use.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:09 AM (vvmPQ)

57 Too much Houston hate here. I moved there after three miserable years in Boston, so perhaps that colored my views of it, but I liked Houston.

Today is a BBQ festival.

Other events here: http://www.visithoustontexas.com/events/

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 22, 2016 07:10 AM (t5zYU)

58 52 Blind Man's Bluff has a good rundown of the
incident, and they suggest it was a low-order detonation of a torpedo
due to it's battery overheating.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 22, 2016 07:06 AM (OR5cC)

The Navy's best guess is an accidental launch of a torpedo which then "hunted for the only target in the water" which was the Scorpion.
But other experts who listed to the sound tapes made by the then classified Atlantic sound monitors say that is not supported by the recorded sounds. BTW, the treasonous Walker family sold out those listening posts to the Soviets later. They should all have been shot.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:12 AM (vvmPQ)

59 Anything to do in Houston?

Drink....strip club fun...sleep. In other words, no.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2016 07:13 AM (ej1L0)

60 BTW @votermom I have copied the entire directory that has the ingredient list in it to a special director where I keep files I back up on a weekly basis.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:15 AM (vvmPQ)

61 >>40 you might try the de menil foundation and museum

Looks like they have a Salvador Dali exhibit right now. Could be interesting.

There are very good restaurants in Houston and some nice shopping. Museum district is nice. We always enjoyed the zoo, as well. Or, hell, just plunk yourself next to Rice University and enjoy walking around there then hit the Gingerman for beers and grab a bit to eat.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 22, 2016 07:19 AM (t5zYU)

62 Thanks Vic.

Posted by: Valiant at May 22, 2016 07:19 AM (3MiF8)

63 Depends on what you like to do. Museums, Symphony, theater, we got that. Certainly have lunch at Goode Company BBQ. Maybe one of the tours of downtown https://www.downtownhouston.org/guide/tours/

Posted by: Original Roy at May 22, 2016 07:24 AM (fASYn)

64 Well, once you've achieved "divide," the "conquer" part is not far behind.

Levin did a segment on his video program all about Chicago '68 and how Obama has sown the seeds for violence both in Cleveland in ironically in Philly.

He's worst than racist if that's possible. He's a monster. A narcissistic ignoramus but it's not mutually exclusive.

Blood now at a slow simmer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
.............
The Hillary loving libtards still think those crazy Bernie or bust kids are gonna come around and vote for her in the general election.. The funny thing is, a month ago we were preparing for riots in Cleveland.. now it's gonna be Philly.
I still don't think the loss of the Bernie supporters will be enough to give Trump the gig, but it sure would be fun if it did.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 22, 2016 07:27 AM (UpGcq)

65 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:12 AM (vvmPQ)

Those torpedoes were designed to safe themselves if they turn near 180 degrees exactly for that reason. That's why when there's a "hot run" (torpedo activating by itself in the tube - fairly common occurence), the procedure is to turn the boat on a reciprocal course and eject the torp.

BMB thinks that the battery shorted rather than activated, and when a "hot torpedo" was reported the bridge thought "hot run", and that's why they suspect the boat was headed in exactly the wrong direction when she went down. The battery exploded and the warhead "burned" (low-order detonation) instead of properly exploding. When they found her, it appeared that the explosion was from the inside, but the hull wasn't blown apart enough like you would see from a proper warhead explosion.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 22, 2016 07:29 AM (OR5cC)

66 It's all circumstantial (I don't think we will ever know for certain), but very suggestive and fits with what we know.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 22, 2016 07:32 AM (OR5cC)

67 I'm off to the range for some recoil therapy

BBL

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 22, 2016 07:33 AM (KCxzN)

68 I don't know Houston that well, but years ago I really enjoyed visiting the Museum of Natural Science. I learned a lot in the Energy exhibit and my little boy loved the butterfly house.

I just went on their website and it turns out I know their curator of marine biology, a super guy who lives in Corpus when he's not in cancer treatment at MD Anderson.

The city is gigantic and has terrible traffic, but like Y-not said, just hang in that one part of town.

Or as creeper and goon said, NASA and Galveston. I love Galveston. The NASA visitor center when I went there years ago sucked--it was way too Disnified with nothing for adults but the actual tour is interesting.

Posted by: stace at May 22, 2016 07:33 AM (ozZau)

69 Why don't you serfs just let me take your guns? Putting you in camps is going to be much more difficult if you are armed.

Posted by: Hillary "Felon" Clinton at May 22, 2016 07:35 AM (22uju)

70 66
It's all circumstantial (I don't think we will ever know for certain), but very suggestive and fits with what we know.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 22, 2016 07:32 AM (OR5cC)

Too bad they have not recovered the sound tapes from the control room like they did the Thresher.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:35 AM (vvmPQ)

71 Vic, XP stopped being the primary version of Windows a decade ago. Developers aren't going to ignore the features of newer OS releases forever and eventually this means their stuff will stop being backward compatible. At some point they have to move forward or lose their market to competitors. If you're doing a major new version of a program for 2016, people still running XP aren't likely to be shopping for new software.

That's just the harsh reality of it. It isn't like being able to pull up to a gas station with a 40 year old car and use the same gas as the newest ICE cars. You'll find a few notable items out there that have maintained backward compatibility for an amazingly long time. IMGburn and Atlantis Word Processor are two I use that will run on remarkably old systems. It requires a level of commitment that most small developers won't muster or cannot afford due to the testing costs. In both cases it mattered that the developers paid close attention too Microsoft's guidelines for how stuff should be done.

Back when XP came out Microsoft published a book saying do this and don't do this if you want your stuff to last. Accessing an API in an unintended way might be convenient at the time but there is no assurance that future versions of the code will work that way. This is why a lot of stuff broke under Vista and later. Developers ignored the guidelines and did things that lead to a lot of security holes and other weaknesses. It was long common for systems like Unix to rigidly enforce the rules about such things but it was long the Microsoft attitude to let third party developers do whatever they felt like so long as it helped sell the platform. But it finally sank in that a lot of stuff going wrong was the fault of bad third party software and Microsoft was being blamed for it. So the party ended with XP and Vista treated what were formerly guidelines as laws to be enforced.

This and other changes (dropping 16-bit code support) changes meant a fair amount of older software and some really bad current software (looking at you, Intuit) stopped working but it was a big improvement going forward. These days, if I have a crash that brings down the whole system, it's a really major event and more likely a hardware failure. Back in the 90s it was just regarded as time for a break while the system rebooted. In fact, my Android tablets crash more often than my PCs.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 07:35 AM (IdCqF)

72 13 Liberal insanity even occurs in AZ. Must be the invasion of locusts from CA.
_____________________

The Cali transplants are certainly part of the problem, but all those "natural conservatives" who come up here from Mexico don't help either.

In my area (Tucson), we also have to deal with all the "progressive" nutjobs posing as university professors at the U of A. They were the ones behind that stupid Obama rally after Gabby Giffords and the others were shot here.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 22, 2016 07:36 AM (BNs9e)

73 Houston weather isn't that bad... yet. Only in the 80s. Sadly, it looks like it'll be rainy this week so my idea of walking around Rice's campus may not fly.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 22, 2016 07:37 AM (t5zYU)

74 71 Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 07:35 AM (IdCqF)


That's all well and good but every new release they do is chock to the gills with garbageware that takes up more space and uses more memory.


And requires a NEW computer to run it worth a damn. If they would quit doing that I would not have a problem.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:39 AM (vvmPQ)

75 Go to Minute Maid Park and watch an Astros game. Keep the ticket and make it the start of your tour of every baseball park.

Posted by: A Reasonable Man at May 22, 2016 07:40 AM (JeUWi)

76 Couple of odd things about that 'racism causes more AIDS' story.

Since when is homosexual a race?

Since when have gays not been the most represented group for new infections in developed nations? How can the numbers be disproportionate when gays have always been the most affect by a very large margin?

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 07:40 AM (IdCqF)

77

Fourth annual BBQ festival at NRG park


Go to a Houston Rockets Game

Go to the Museum of Fine Arts

Go to the Houston Symphony

Go to the Menil Collection

Go to the Houston Ballet

Maybe the Astros are in town

Tour NASA

Tour Aunique Ranch in Huntsville

Listen to the blues at Brennan's

Take a tour of craft brewery's on the Brew Trek tour

Canoe through Memorial Park

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 07:45 AM (zOTsN)

78 My first computer was a Kapro C/PM machine with a 20M hard drive and 710K of memory. You could not even load the current version of Windows on the hard drive even if it was compatible.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:45 AM (vvmPQ)

79 Go to a huge gun show at the convention center


Houston is a morons kind of town

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 07:48 AM (zOTsN)

80 If you're flying to Houston then chances are you'll need to get past the TSA.

A wise man (chuckle) once said in reference to the TSA: "You can't professionalize unless you federalize"

So be sure to wear clean underwear and don't pack anything in your bags that won't be worth more than $5 at the local pawn shop.

Oh and be sure to get to the airport 16 hours before your flight, to make sure the TSA has enough time to process you.

Posted by: weew at May 22, 2016 07:48 AM (O1uuu)

81 Computers? You had computers? We had to walk to school with pencils!

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2016 07:50 AM (e3bId)

82 USS Texas

Wikipedia: http://tiny.cc/i21nby
Texas Parks: http://tiny.cc/q21nby
Navsource photos: http://tiny.cc/y21nby
DANFS: http://tiny.cc/421nby

Posted by: Rusty Bill at May 22, 2016 07:50 AM (OweXm)

83 Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 07:45 AM (zOTsN)

All sounds like fun, but the Rockets are out of the playoffs now--so are my Spurs.

*A single tear running down cheek, gently rolls up little Spurs car flag and folds away Spurs jerseys until next season*

Posted by: stace at May 22, 2016 07:50 AM (ozZau)

84 Unless something has really changed for the worse in Houston, very good restaurants there, including excellent Vietnamese food.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 22, 2016 07:53 AM (t5zYU)

85 If you like relatively inexpensive Greek food I'll recommend Fadi's while you're in Houston. We are due for some rain today so hopefully it won't be the kind where we'll need an ark.

Posted by: 144 at May 22, 2016 07:53 AM (vCPt1)

86 Posted by: Rusty Bill at May 22, 2016 07:50 AM (OweXm

ooh yes, very cool. I thinks it's the only battleship left that fought in both world wars.

Posted by: stace at May 22, 2016 07:55 AM (ozZau)

87 ".... The NASA visitor center when I went there years ago sucked--it was way too Disnified with nothing for adults but the actual tour is interesting."

Posted by: stace at May 22, 2016 07:33 AM (ozZau)


I took my Russian distributor to NASA when he came over for some meetings in Houston. What an embarrassment.

The visitor's center is ridiculous. If it wasn't for the Saturn 5 rocket, the tour would have sucked too. Everything there seemed stuck in the '70s.

Posted by: jwest at May 22, 2016 07:56 AM (Zs4uk)

88 81
Computers? You had computers? We had to walk to school with pencils!

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2016 07:50 AM (e3bId)


I had to walk to school five miles through the snow uphill there and back. And we were not allowed to use the abacus for math, all work was done using Roman Numerals and finger-toe counting. Notation was done with a burned stick.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 07:57 AM (vvmPQ)

89 I hope Beyonce has to cancel her concert.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 22, 2016 07:57 AM (iQIUe)

90 Ninfas for Mex. Papadeaux for cajun..call armadillo airways if they are still in business for transport. They are like uber...but with helicopters.

Posted by: birddog at May 22, 2016 07:59 AM (pYDR/)

91 Never been to Houston, but I spent some time in San Antonio and Corpus Christi. I was at Camp Bullis for weapons training before I went to Vietnam. A buddy and I hitch hiked to Corpus on a three-day weekend. An older couple picked us up and in the course of conversation going overseas came up. That couple drove us around showing the sights of Corpus and then took us out to dinner. Very kind folks.

Posted by: Hank at May 22, 2016 07:59 AM (VZUT/)

92 #74

Then perhaps it is time to look at a competing product. Without knowing the name of what you're using I cannot say anything about their resource requirements but it wouldn't take much by today's standards to greatly exceed what was common when XP was still shipping on new PCs at retail.

Unless you're talking about Windows itself, in which case the complaint is simply not true. The specs required for Vista to run well remain in effect today for Windows 10 and they actually reduced the minimum memory and storage footprint since Vista. The emergence of the mobile market motivated that after many years of the market providing little incentive.

The Core 2 Duo machine I first built for running Vista back in early 2007 ran Windows 10 fairly well before I retired it. The only major change from when it was first assembled was going from 2 GB of RAM to 6 GB. I wouldn't bother building a desktop with less than 8 GB today because it's so cheap. I had too many newer machines around to justify the space it was taking up in storage, so it went to Goodwill after I pulled the hard drives.

If you're playing high end games or content creation software, the sky is the limit on the hardware to get the best results but the modest demands of most other software is one of the reasons the PC industry is in bad shape. A well equipped machine from 2011 or thereabouts is still perfectly good for most stuff in terms of running software. The marketing people have done a lousy job of getting through to the non-enthusiast market (most of the world) how much nicer the new machines can be because of cumulative advances in secondary areas. One of the best advances in over a decade has been the appearance of SSD (solid state drive) in affordable form.

If you go to Dell or HP's sites and look at mainstream consumer systems, you might not realize that SSDs existed. They aren't even offered as optional upgrades to supposedly customizable systems. My belief is that the marketing types chickened out when presented with trying to sell something that cost more and had lower capacity. But the performance is so, so worth it. Especially since so few people who have systems with TB or greater capacity hard drives are not using most of the space. Most people just don't do anything that creates that much data to store. Thus that do are more likely to have a higher end system or something custom made, especially the gamers and content creators.

But the pleasure of SSD speed is something everyone can enjoy, if only they know it exists in the first place. It's one of the good reasons to get into a newer system but the industry treats it like a secret.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 08:03 AM (IdCqF)

93 "Notation was done with a burned stick. "

Look at Mr Fancy Pants here.

What with having fire and all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2016 08:04 AM (ptqRm)

94 "But the pleasure of SSD speed is something everyone can enjoy, if only they know it exists in the first place. It's one of the good reasons to get into a newer system but the industry treats it like a secret."

One of the selling point to me for my MacBook Air.

Super thin and light, with crazy battery life.

Start up and shutdown are incredibly fast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2016 08:06 AM (ptqRm)

95 I thought Houston was famous for its titty bars?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 22, 2016 08:07 AM (iQIUe)

96 Let the cartoons .... begin!


https://is.gd/Akzptd

Posted by: The King of Cartoons at May 22, 2016 08:08 AM (Cq0oW)

97 aside from art, the museum of fine art has an exhibit of 11 art deco cars, including some of the greats like a talbot-lago.

i looked it up.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 22, 2016 08:08 AM (WTSFk)

98 If you have any interest in fountain pens, inks or papers visit Dromgoole's in Rice Village. One of the finest pen stores in the world, a multi generation, family owned store with a lot of Texas hospitality thrown in at no extra charge. My only have to visit place when I go to Houston because it is a fun and funny experience.

Posted by: OldTexan at May 22, 2016 08:08 AM (o6QPE)

99 92 Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 08:03 AM (IdCqF)


The fact that you have to go to >4G of ram to get windows 10 to even run at above a crawl speaks for itself. I have 1G of onboard ram and 1G on my video card. Even at today's prices it is not worthwhile to add more ram even if I could find compatible ram for this ancient bucket.


My next computer will likely be a cheap as I can find e-machine. I hope to find one without a monitor so I can at least continue to use my Dell 21" flat panel.


As for games, I gave up on those long ago.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 08:10 AM (vvmPQ)

100 Harrumph. On my first computer I got by with a cassette deck for storage for nearly a year until I bought my first floppy drive. I sold a motorcycle for the money. Both of my brothers had been in fairly serious crashes, yet I considered them more skillful at riding than I'd ever likely be. So I decided in favor of the sort of crashes I could recover from by just hitting reset and not need to be carried to the hospital.

I wish now I'd been more focused on the technical side of things and acquired more skills that would have served me in a decent job. It may be I just don't have the brain for it. I'm still trying to figure out what gainful employment I am equipped cognitively to do. After reading that sidebar piece about the guy who cannot visualize anything I have to wonder. I cannot imagine how he functions, yet he was an engineer at Facebook and has sold books and TV scripts. Meanwhile, on bad days like Saturday every song I've heard in fragment in the last month becomes an ear worm.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 08:12 AM (IdCqF)

101 Coming to Houston?

Tune radio to 740AM.

Bring a kayak, you may need it.

Claim you're going to tour NASA, but keep paddling down to Heartbreakers.

But if you don't like Houston, do us natives a favor and stay in your hotel and off the roads.

If you care, Baltimore is in town, so visit Minute Maid and go to an Astros game.

Posted by: Leland at May 22, 2016 08:13 AM (Sj3xp)

102 Titty bars? You had titty bars?

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2016 08:13 AM (e3bId)

103 "Titty bars? You had titty bars?"

Is that where they sell 'em in Texas?

Bartender.......gimme a double!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2016 08:16 AM (ptqRm)

104 Great Mexican food, Cajun food, Indian food, Vietnamese food and food food. Yes Ninfas. I also love Pico's Mex Mex on Kirby

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:16 AM (zOTsN)

105 That grass isn't going to watch itself grow, y'know.

Posted by: CrustyB at May 22, 2016 08:16 AM (Hnglq)

106 Canoe the bayous. Everything is blooming, should be lovely

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:17 AM (zOTsN)

107 Museums - Houston Art, de Menil, Natural History

Great food, and lots of it
Example:Cajun: Ragin' Cajun, Pappadeaux

Posted by: La Frontera at May 22, 2016 08:19 AM (pPTyU)

108
Good Sunday Morning, friends and morons. For this morning's Praise and Worship, I'm offering to you "Bless the Lord O My Soul", also known as "10,000 Reasons". This is one of the songs we will play at our wedding later this summer. When I was selecting songs, I played this one and was surprised when my little six-year granddaughter started singing along. She knew all the words. You don't know what that did for my heart. I hope it blesses you too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YXCuUP5Zz0

The song was written by Matt Redman, but it is performed here by Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, Kristian Stanfill and others. I think I see Kari Jobe in there too.


Bless the Lord oh my soul
Oh my soul
Worship His Holy name
Sing like never before
Oh my soul
I'll worship Your Holy name
Bless You Lord

And on that day
When my strength is failing
The end draws near
And my time has come
Still my soul will
Sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years
And then forevermore


Posted by: grammie winger at May 22, 2016 08:19 AM (dFi94)

109 Best coffee and pastry, Common Bond

Best sushi, Ouchis

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:19 AM (zOTsN)

110 If you want booze, Anvil, Julep, Pastry War are your bars. For beer, do Hay Merchant on Westheimer. Herman Park is cool and there might be a free performance at Miller Outdoor Theater (you can bring food, drink and set up on the hill).

Posted by: Darii at May 22, 2016 08:21 AM (cjog0)

111 Common Bond is fantastic.

Posted by: Darii at May 22, 2016 08:21 AM (cjog0)

112 Go to any of Johnny Carrabas restaurants and have a wonderful experience. Might meet Johnny of his mother Grace. Old Houston restaurant family

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:23 AM (zOTsN)

113 Anvil makes great cocktails

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:25 AM (zOTsN)

114 Is Houston like Dallas? I spent 3 days in Dallas in 1988 and all I remember is that every lady had a bouffant hairdo about 2 feet high.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2016 08:25 AM (EZebt)

115 We went to Chicago's Pappadeaux yesterday for lunch.. the Gumbo is to die for..

The crawfish combination plate is excellent - 1/4 deep fried crawfish and 1/2 crawfish etoufee.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 22, 2016 08:25 AM (UpGcq)

116 Best used bookstore in Houston: Kaboom Books in the Heights.

Posted by: Darii at May 22, 2016 08:25 AM (cjog0)

117 ...

Take a tour of craft brewery's on the Brew Trek tour

Canoe through Memorial Park
Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 07:45 AM (zOTsN)

Go to Pasadena and visit the San Jacinto Battleground Memorial and visit the battleship Texas and the monument (where you'll see my ancestor's name prominently on the wall). It's where the other independence was won.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 22, 2016 08:26 AM (4ng05)

118 NASA definitely needs upgrading.

The time I went there with three astronauts, including a fellow geologist who had walked on the moon, was great, though.

The other two were active shuttle astronauts.
Got to ride in the amazing Mars rover up and down a 50 degree incline as a bonus. Fuck you Matt Damon.

The Mercury Redstone rocket looked like a firecracker next to the Saturn.

Posted by: La Frontera at May 22, 2016 08:27 AM (pPTyU)

119 Houston is infinitely more international than Dallas.

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:27 AM (zOTsN)

120 Breakfast Club for best chicken and waffles, since forever

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:29 AM (zOTsN)

121 Nothing like a Bloody Mary to get you going!

Posted by: Hillary! at May 22, 2016 08:30 AM (/m8T6)

122 Not sure why the hate for Houston. It's a working city, and doesn't have all the landmarks of some, but it's managed to shift only to purple when Dallas went from deep red to deep blue.

If you have a good per diem, there are some great restaurants to eat at: Pappas Bros.; Underbelly, Uchi, Pax Americana and others.

Weather has been relatively nice lately also. If you need some greenery Memorial Park is not far from downtown.

Posted by: Boone at May 22, 2016 08:30 AM (bLfK+)

123 Houston. means...

A. Food. Most competitive in the nation
1. Lupe's Tortillas (beef fajitas)
2. Niko Nikos or Fadis for Greek
3. Thai Village
4. Pappas Steakhouse, Pappadeaux etc
5. Star Pizza for deep dish fans. Grimaldi's for the rest
6. this list could go on forever

B. NASA. Take the tour and you'll note how small some of the original craft were made. "You came here in THAT? You're braver than I thought."

C. Note the "No Zoning" and how it made the city the Wuld West of construction.

D. Sports. Well it's not football season yet. Catch an Astros game at night. But note that a short bike ride will take you past 3 very nice football stadiums.

E. Note the 1920's era train in the downtown area. Since the city couldn't pay for a proper train which moves people from where they don't live to where they don't work.

F. Someone in the comments sectioned mentioned some nightlife hangouts. Enjoy.

Posted by: David at May 22, 2016 08:32 AM (BExPN)

124 #99

Have you looked at RAM prices lately? I put 16 GB in the last machine I built for less than I spent to put 512 MB in an XP build back when XP was new. Even factoring for inflation the price per megabyte has gone way down.

Check out the refurb sector. Walmart actually has a good selection that you can have delivered to your local store without shipping charge. It's been a useful means for some of my sometime employer's small business clients to get off XP and onto Windows 7. There are liability issues in some fields that can come up from running an OS that is no longer receiving support. Plus the old machines were just unpleasant for everybody due to sheer age.

You can get a Core 2 Duo box with Win7 remarkably cheap, between $100 and $150. But for a bit more this would be far more enjoyable:
http://tinyurl.com/hox9og9

For another $100 you can throw an SSD in there for a big upgrade. This also gives you the option of cloning the existing hard drive to the SSD, then doing the Windows 10 upgrade on the SSD. (Windows 10 has much better SSD support but there are utilities for stuff like TRIM on Win7) That way, if you decide you don't like it, you can clone the hard drive again to start fresh with Win7. (A local shop should be willing to it cheaply. A place like Best Buy will charge a lot more.)

Yes, it will be a bit different and there will be some learning to do. But it's worth it in the long term.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 08:33 AM (IdCqF)

125 The weather has been GORGEOUS (when it's not flooding) lately.

Go to Space Center Houston, see if the Muslim outreach has improved their self images yet. No, it hasn't, I was there two days ago. But the Saturn V rocket is there, to show you what Americans used to do with their brainpower and testosterone. Yes, it's an explosion, but one that was contained and directed, and used for good.

Take I-45 South, to about Exit 24 (NASA Bypass), follow the curve, go past the Space Center Houston entrance to Saturn Lane, turn left and get into the right lane. Turn right into the Rocket Park parking lot and go see the Mercury and Gemini rockets, then go inside to see the pinnacle of human creativity and bravery, an Apollo rocket. Inside a building. Air conditioned. With exhibits. Free.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/RocketParkYoustin

You're welcome!

Posted by: MathMom at May 22, 2016 08:33 AM (EE96d)

126 Houston also has more live theatre than any city except New York

Posted by: Boone at May 22, 2016 08:34 AM (bLfK+)

127 Y'all are making me hungry.

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2016 08:34 AM (e3bId)

128 I was in Houston last weekend. Good food. Ate at Ninfas on Navigation, Cyclone Anaya's down by Rice and Underbelly (very interesting food and good). All good and recommended.

Posted by: Aviator at May 22, 2016 08:34 AM (c7vUv)

129 From the side bar:

The Obama administration has ordered the nation's colleges and universities to stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities.




Of course they have. This administration is at war with the country and that commie queen is doing everything he/xe can to destroy the country

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2016 08:35 AM (45oDG)

130 Houston also has more live theatre than any city except New York
Posted by: Boone at May 22, 2016 08:34 AM (bLfK+)

One of the premier opera companies in the country.

Amazing golf courses all over the city.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 22, 2016 08:36 AM (4ng05)

131 Also Houston Grand Opera. And wonderful live theater at the Alley Theater

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:37 AM (zOTsN)

132 Omg. Golf. Everywhere. And shooting ranges. Everywhere


Some have ladies night

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:38 AM (zOTsN)

133 Yeah, but Target's CEO claims their sales are down on account of the cold weather.

Posted by: creeper at May 22, 2016 06:58 AM (5RW7F)



It's always the weather. Let's see sales continue to tank for the assclown through the summer then it will be the warm weather

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2016 08:39 AM (45oDG)

134 Houston? You already hate it so why bother. Stay in your hotel. "

This, plus bless the cob's heart...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 08:40 AM (C9pBZ)

135 So, according to Obama, a minority yout cannot reach college age without collecting a criminal history and/or a record of misbehavior in school. And colleges shouldn't care about this.

It's almost as if they want to make absurd claim of 1 in 5 coeds being raped a reality.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 08:41 AM (IdCqF)

136 It's infuriating that Obama, wanting to make sure no benefits whatsoever inured to people who didn't vote for him, didn't send one of the retired space shuttles to Houston.

Posted by: Boone at May 22, 2016 08:41 AM (bLfK+)

137 But I've been to Oklahoma.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 22, 2016 08:43 AM (1ijHg)

138 Everything there seemed stuck in the '70s."

Well, considering that was pretty much NASA's heyday...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 08:43 AM (C9pBZ)

139 I love Houston. Not really a touristy place, but a great place to live

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:43 AM (zOTsN)

140 As I have said many times, Obama is the biggest racist since Woodrow Wilson. Every thing he does that isn't about pushing communism is about pushing racism.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)




I think it's both with a big dose of gay because he's a bitter little queen who can't come out of the closet yet and has to still pretend with the wookie. He hates this country, its institutions, traditions, founding and all it stood for. He was raised in hating and wanting to destroy it and enough idiots put that anti-American fruit in the White House to unleash his hatred on the country

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2016 08:44 AM (45oDG)

141 "This administration is at war with the country and that commie queen is doing everything he/xe can to destroy the country"

I reorganized some of my preps yesterday. I don't have nearly enough ammo and I probably have too much food. When the shooting starts, I won't live long enough to eat a whole lot.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 22, 2016 08:45 AM (eHpnh)

142 I used to have to go to Houston two times a month (well, Baytown). All I can say is, "hahaha sucker!" I love Texas, but Houston is horrible.

Posted by: Kevin at May 22, 2016 08:45 AM (ntfb4)

143 I moved from Boston to Houston, receiving much grief from the Bostonians as I was leaving. But Houston is really a superior city, particularly in the restaurant scene. And very international/cosmopolitan in a meaningful way because of the oil industry. Boston felt so parochial to me. And, of course, the people in Houston were 1000x nicer.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 22, 2016 08:47 AM (t5zYU)

144 Re the criminals and college admissions story: apparently the Obama Administration is unhappy that the 'one in four women in college is subject to sexual assault' statistic is bogus. Working hard to make sure that statistic becomes a reality.

Posted by: Guy in Texas at May 22, 2016 08:47 AM (DSlUh)

145 I love Texas, but Houston is horrible."

Well, bless your heart too...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 08:48 AM (C9pBZ)

146 Baytown isn't Houston fwiw

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:48 AM (zOTsN)

147 President Obama signed a bill into law Friday that strikes derogatory terms for minorities, including "Oriental" and "Negro," from federal law, The Hill reports.





The United Negro College Fund will be closing soon?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2016 08:49 AM (45oDG)

148 The science museum in Portland, Oregon has a replica of the Gemini capsule. At just over 6 feet tall, and with no space suit and helmet, my head still sticks out of the hatch. The first astronauts must have been some very brave and tough hobbits.

Posted by: PabloD at May 22, 2016 08:49 AM (GP2ST)

149 It's always the weather. Let's see sales continue to tank for the assclown through the summer then it will be the warm weather
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2016 08:39 AM (45oDG)
***
Hey, the Soviets had - what? 70 years - of weather-related crop failures.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 22, 2016 08:49 AM (lutOX)

150 No, there isn't.

I'm out of Texas freezing in the Poconos. Raining too.

Posted by: lindafell de spair at May 22, 2016 08:49 AM (jwAgf)

151 "But I've been to Oklahoma."

You were born there, remember?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 08:50 AM (C9pBZ)

152 Morning horde.

About to check out Civil War. Hope it's entertaining.

Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 22, 2016 08:51 AM (sOvMT)

153 Houston is a damned fine city, not only because it's in Texas, but also because about half of the future Empress' family live there.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 22, 2016 08:53 AM (lutOX)

154 nood book

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 22, 2016 08:53 AM (IYUoZ)

155 Baytown isn't Houston fwiw"

Funny, that - no one would confuse say, Newark with midtown Manhattan, but they're less than 10 miles apart, while Baytown is some 20 miles plus away from downtown Houston.

C'est la vie.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 08:54 AM (C9pBZ)

156 People in Houston are so genuinely nice that when we moved here from New Jersey we thought they were trying to rob us or cheat us somehow. So nice. Just to be nice

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:54 AM (zOTsN)

157 I have an HP DV9000 laptop (Core2 Duo) from 2007 that's running Win 10. 4GB RAM and an SSD lets it run rather crisply, I might add.

I can't get some of the features it has (1080P video) for less than $1K nowadays for a replacement. I paid $600 for it then.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 22, 2016 08:56 AM (OR5cC)

158 Neighbor, they's a-plenty to do in an' around Houston. Yew can start with grazin'.

Have a few at La Carafe. Best jukebox in the country; old building; alleged ghosts. House wine and Edith Piaf on the Wurlitzer takes some beating.

0300? Have a truly Nighthawks meal at House of Pies. The Kirby one. (http://www.houseofpies.com/)

You're spoiled for choice for chicken-fried steak: Treebeards (http://www.treebeards.com/) downtown (and running The Cloisters at the Whiskypalian cathedral), Hickory Hollow (the Heighst one, for choice: http://www.hickoryhollowrestaurant.com/), &c, &c.

You want 'cue? Luling City Market. http://www.lulingcitymarket.com/

Tex-Mex? Ninfa's on Navigation (and no others) will do you; but, frankly, Irma's (original) is best: http://irmasoriginal.com/

Sadly, the Cleburne is rebuilding from a fire. World's best cafeteria.

Corelli's for Italian. http://www.corellis.com/

Spend an hour or three at Pete's Fine Meats, and have lunch there, too: http://www.petesfinemeats.net/

And if you want a real burger, or anything else God made good, git your ass to the Lankford Grocery: http://www.lankfordgrocery.com/

Feeling Austro-Bavarian? Rudi Lechner's is not to be missed. http://www.rudilechners.com/

Stock your cellar at Spec's, downtown. http://specsonline.com/location/downtown-smith-street/

Hell, have a Whataburger.

Go see the Astros. They have to catch fire sometime.

Walk it all off with a side trip: yes, USS Texas, yes, the Monument, but seriously, walk the San Jacinto Battleground and remember.

Next time, try coming when the Symphony and Houston Grand Opera are busier. Meanwhile, swing at http://www.cezannejazz.com/.

And don't worry about eating too much. 'S why we have the Medical Center and the Heart Institute.

Posted by: MarkhamShawPyle at May 22, 2016 08:56 AM (WlkUc)

159 Books up

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 22, 2016 08:57 AM (NeFrd)

160 When we were looking for houses here we booked a restaurant reservation. We got a little bit Liston our way to the restaurant. We were 16 minutes late. Now, in NJ or NY if you are 15 minutes late they cancel the reservation


We were panicked. We tear in there and immediately act like assholes to the hostess, who was only trying to tell us the previous party was still dining and would we like a free cocktail


We had to recalibrate our mindset. Being an asshole here is the exception, not the rule

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:58 AM (zOTsN)

161 About to check out Civil War. Hope it's entertaining.
Posted by: RWC
------------

Spoiler: The Imperialists win.

Posted by: Un-Reconstructed Southerner at May 22, 2016 08:58 AM (9mTYi)

162 Most honest assessment of Houston from friends who lived there:

"It's ugly. But the people are nice and the schools are great!"

That's better than most places I've been.

Posted by: JDog at May 22, 2016 08:58 AM (aePQ1)

163 I have never wanted to live in Youstin. But it has opportunity, when other places have unemployment. Something about the place brings companies and places to work. And excellent, world-class, bring-theiKing-there-for-heart-bypass-surgery medical care. Best heart transplants in the world, I have one living in my house.

Lived here three times. This time, for 18 years. As they say, you don't have to shovel humidity!

Check out Saddle River Shooting Range, just opened a few months ago. I shot there Friday. Can rent a gun for $10, buy some bullets and shoot.

http://www.saddleriverrange.com/

Posted by: MathMom at May 22, 2016 08:59 AM (EE96d)

164 Best medical care anywhere. Brits come here for extremely delicate pediatric neurosurgery

Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 09:00 AM (zOTsN)

165 books up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 09:02 AM (vvmPQ)

166
Where is this Civil War everyone is watching? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon? Meat theater?

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:02 AM (5o5ek)

167 I love Houston. Not really a touristy place, but a great place to live
Posted by: ThunderB at May 22, 2016 08:43 AM (zOTsN)

I loved Houston, and all that area. I grew up in the League City area before it got big. Hell, I remember when Clear Lake was still clear.

No. You're right. It's an awesome place. If nothing else, charter a boat and go catch some redfish. That would make a day you wouldn't soon forget.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 22, 2016 09:02 AM (4ng05)

168
Where is this Civil War everyone is watching? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon? Meat theater?

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:02 AM (5o5ek)

Meat theater.

*yes, the Gun Free Zone won't be gun free. Pity that.

Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at May 22, 2016 09:07 AM (sOvMT)

169 And don't worry about eating too much. 'S why we have the Medical Center and the Heart Institute.
Posted by: MarkhamShawPyle at May 22, 2016 08:56 AM (WlkUc)

I nearly forgot about that. Amazing just to go out and see the Med Center. Practically a whole city in itself where some of the most cutting edge medical research in the world is done.

The Woodlands was growing when I left and I know they had big plans for that area. I haven't seen it since the early '90's so I'd like to know how it is panning out.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 22, 2016 09:09 AM (4ng05)

170
Speaking of cops and big cities, I'll repost this from laaaaate in the ONT:

San Francisco police chief resigns because he "leaves behind a trail of dead bodies since he was appointed chief in 2011 He is not alone in the carnage," according to reporter/activist Dave Cook. "Next on the list needs to be Mayor Ed Lee.. who has been a lapdog for White Supremcy [sic] in SF."

A pair of cops were questioning a Black woman in a neighborhood where a car theft had been reported. She took off in the car, crashed into a truck about 100 feet away, moved into reverse towards the cops, and they shot her dead. She was "unarmed" except for being behind the wheel of a car she wasn't afraid to use.

SF has a cop shortage, which means they can't fire bad apples. Also, most cops can't afford to live in the city much less the neighborhood they patrol. What do you think causes these 2 problems?

Friends of mine visited there recently and they said SF is population is nothing but millionaires and homeless people.

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:09 AM (5o5ek)

171
I hope Beyonce has to cancel her concert.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 22, 2016 07:57 AM (iQIUe)
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So do I. Be hilarious for once to watch the lefty crybullies scream and stamp their feet because the cops WON'T show up.

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:10 AM (5o5ek)

172 Last year, or maybe it was the year before, Houston had more new construction than the entire state of California. Biggest medical center in the world too.

Posted by: stace at May 22, 2016 09:11 AM (ozZau)

173 155 Baytown isn't Houston fwiw"

Funny, that - no one would confuse say, Newark with midtown Manhattan, but they're less than 10 miles apart, while Baytown is some 20 miles plus away from downtown Houston.
--

That was the hardest thing for a northeasterner (well, Maryland - close enough) like me to adjust to. The distances in Texas are out of this world.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 22, 2016 09:13 AM (t5zYU)

174

The Woodlands was growing when I left and I know they had big plans for that area. I haven't seen it since the early '90's so I'd like to know how it is panning out.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 22, 2016 09:09 AM

When I was in college up the road in College Station in the late 70s, the new and shiny Woodlands was used for field trips. My roomie was in architecture so her class went down there to ooh and ah over the planned development.

I was in agriculture, and when my class went there everyone was all, what is the deal with this planned-out bullshit? They felt it was too regimented.

Posted by: stace at May 22, 2016 09:20 AM (ozZau)

175 Many years ago when the Braves were just starting the rise that took them to the World Series a newly divorced lawyer had to go to Houston during playoff season. Some how he ended up in a combination strip club/sports club. That was something not found at Myrtle Beach. Testerone poisoning can be expensive.

Posted by: Tmitsss at May 22, 2016 09:20 AM (sUvQQ)

176 "The distances in Texas are out of this world."

That's a big thing when I 'talk' to Europeans online. They have difficulty adjusting to the fact that you can drive over 800 miles in a straight line and still be in the same state.

Orange, TX (Louisiana border) to El Paso (New Mexico border) - 855.84mi / 1377.34km

Posted by: Rusty Bill at May 22, 2016 09:28 AM (OweXm)

177 148 The science museum in Portland, Oregon has a replica of the Gemini capsule. At just over 6 feet tall, and with no space suit and helmet, my head still sticks out of the hatch. The first astronauts must have been some very brave and tough hobbits.
Posted by: PabloD at May 22, 2016 08:49 AM (GP2ST)


Yes, and the spacecraft before that one, Mercury, was even smaller. The first astronauts could be no more than 5'11" and 180 lbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Seven

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2016 09:32 AM (sdi6R)

178
Yes, I know Venezuela is "collapsing," but how will we know when it actually collapses? What does it mean for a country to collapse? Do they have to call in foreigners to run it? Is it like a brain-dead human on life support, with minimal vital systems functioning but no agency?

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:34 AM (5o5ek)

179
They're trying to humanize the Hillbot by referring to her as "Hillary" at her website. "As a senator, Hillary was a strong supporter of X," "Hillary will put in place a simple, straightforward, accessible system for Y." I think calling her "Hillary" was considered some sort of sexist affront in the not-so-distant past.

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:41 AM (5o5ek)

180 Great restaurants. Check out Americas for one.

Posted by: JD Will at May 22, 2016 09:45 AM (EEqRQ)

181 Welp, I got my lawnmower back from the repair shop yesterday and it's working fine. But it rained all day yesterday and it looks like more of the same today, so I can't mow.

This is my depressed face: D)

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2016 09:45 AM (sdi6R)

182 Once again, this is my depressed face:

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2016 09:46 AM (sdi6R)

183 Many great parts of Texas to visit. Space center is worth a few hours if you have to be in Houston. I much prefer San Antonio, Austin, D/FW, North Texas, Big Bend, etc. to Houston.

Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2016 09:50 AM (u9+TN)

184
"The distances in Texas are out of this world."

That's a big thing when I 'talk' to Europeans online. They have difficulty adjusting to the fact that you can drive over 800 miles in a straight line and still be in the same state.
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Hah, I got to chatting with a British couple in Las Vegas once. They were shocked when they found out what it was. They'd expected to walk the whole city in a day, like Disneyland or a university.

Posted by: iforgot at May 22, 2016 09:51 AM (5o5ek)

185 I haven't seen it since the early '90's so I'd like to know how it is panning out."

Seems to have been sorted out pretty well. They're about done (there's a square mile or so of it unfinished), and they voted themselves "out" of the counties (Montgomery and Harris) to be their own township.

Know several folks who live there, and they're all pretty stoked about it...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 09:53 AM (C9pBZ)

186 Goode Company Seafood, get the flounder, the ceviche, the seafood tamales and the gumbo. I only go about 6 or 7 times a year, but I then only visit my hometown about six or seven times a year as well.

Chinese is very good too, but you have to go out on Bellaire almost to Beltway 8.

Best Chicken Fried Steak is Barbecue Inn on Crosstimbers, over the decades I have never had the bbq there but the chicken isn't bad. Remember Houston is underwhelming in barbecue by Texas standards.

As to other things to do there, my usual thoughts are food related because the chief things to do are eat and make money. As mentioned the Science Museum is very good, especially the new Dinosaur hall, and the mineral collection which is flabbergasting, but like a lot of Houstonians I am a geologist. The Museum of Fine Arts is pretty good, the permanent collection has some genuine highlights, particularily Remington's "The Call for Help is amazing, and they have Corot's Orpheus leading Euridyce", there is a Memling and there is a fair amount of nice stuff.

The Menil is free though and aside from really fantastic, is probably the most focused museum you will ever visit. It is all what a very strong willed French lady with exquisite taste who happened to be the daughter of the man who discovered you can use electrical conductivity to find things like oil and precious metals underground and then invented well logging would like.

Posted by: RoyLC at May 22, 2016 10:00 AM (wdHQo)

187 When people start out bashing the crap out of Houston, I usually don't offer my apologies and attempt to convince them otherwise.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 22, 2016 10:03 AM (MNgU2)

188 It could always be worse. It could be Houston in July.

Posted by: WeatherComputer at May 22, 2016 10:06 AM (/MSme)

189 Come on down and when you do, please take note of all the out of state plates... We have opportunity, do not tax the hell out of it, do not mind sharing.

Born in Houston, grew up in CT, lived and worked in Houston off and on for the last 35 yrs. Every time I go back to CT to see my HS buds, one in particular who works in NYC and travels regularly to Houston (and runs in Memorial park when he does) says to me - "The people are so NICE".

When we are not nice we have cause, like when we told the last Mayor (in a vote) to stuff the transgender BR idea - hopefully you have many kindred spirits here.

Sports (professional and recreational), Partying, Eating, Culture, Education, Medical. Difficult to go wrong my friend, and I do mean friend.

Posted by: Corsair at May 22, 2016 10:09 AM (aEIUe)

190 In Houston, stay at the Modern B&B. It's walking distance from the Menil Collection. Take a tour of the St Arnold's Brewery, visit the Dunlavy on Buffalo Bayou for morning coffee and light breakfast, eat Chinese BBQ at Long Sing Supermarket for $6, and try Hunky Dory for gastronomy.

http://modernbb.com

Posted by: Papa Rod at May 22, 2016 10:10 AM (EEAs2)

191 As much as I admire the spirit of Texas and Texans, the weather in No Illinois is predicted to be mid-80s this week. Just. Can't. Do. It. If the temp goes above 65, I start melting.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2016 10:15 AM (MIKMs)

192 First of all, Houston is a great American city. It's hot in summer, but that keeps the wimps out.
Second, Houston isn't all that excited about having you for a few days either. So shut your pie hole buttercup.

Posted by: sgr at May 22, 2016 10:19 AM (PRPs4)

193 It's 54 right now in Pennsylvania, with a high of 65 today. I said yesterday that it's late May but still feels like April. I'm not complaining, mind you.

I've never been to Texas. I think I could only go there in the winter. I don't handle heat well.

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2016 10:21 AM (sdi6R)

194 It's hot in summer, but that keeps the wimps out.

I chimed in right on schedule, didn't I?

Posted by: rickl at May 22, 2016 10:22 AM (sdi6R)

195 Well, I do understand that some folks prefer cool/cold weather.

I also understand that there are those who enjoy self mutilation...

Heh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 22, 2016 10:27 AM (C9pBZ)

196 Vic, XP stopped being the primary version of Windows
a decade ago. Developers aren't going to ignore the features of newer
OS releases forever and eventually this means their stuff will stop
being backward compatible. At some point they have to move forward or
lose their market to competitors. If you're doing a major new version of
a program for 2016, people still running XP aren't likely to be
shopping for new software.

That's just the harsh reality of it.
It isn't like being able to pull up to a gas station with a 40 year old
car and use the same gas as the newest ICE cars. You'll find a few
notable items out there that have maintained backward compatibility for
an amazingly long time. IMGburn and Atlantis Word Processor are two I
use that will run on remarkably old systems. It requires a level of
commitment that most small developers won't muster or cannot afford due
to the testing costs. In both cases it mattered that the developers paid
close attention too Microsoft's guidelines for how stuff should be
done.

Back when XP came out Microsoft published a book saying do
this and don't do this if you want your stuff to last. Accessing an API
in an unintended way might be convenient at the time but there is no
assurance that future versions of the code will work that way. This is
why a lot of stuff broke under Vista and later. Developers ignored the
guidelines and did things that lead to a lot of security holes and other
weaknesses. It was long common for systems like Unix to rigidly enforce
the rules about such things but it was long the Microsoft attitude to
let third party developers do whatever they felt like so long as it
helped sell the platform. But it finally sank in that a lot of stuff
going wrong was the fault of bad third party software and Microsoft was
being blamed for it. So the party ended with XP and Vista treated what
were formerly guidelines as laws to be enforced.

This and other
changes (dropping 16-bit code support) changes meant a fair amount of
older software and some really bad current software (looking at you,
Intuit) stopped working but it was a big improvement going forward.
These days, if I have a crash that brings down the whole system, it's a
really major event and more likely a hardware failure. Back in the 90s
it was just regarded as time for a break while the system rebooted. In
fact, my Android tablets crash more often than my PCs.


Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 07:35 AM (IdCqF)

Late to the party - but I have to ask: "Do you work in marketing or in PR at Microsoft?"Microsoft has been blaming the developers as corporate policy since at least Windows 3.0. Perhaps you aren't old enough to remember the "Unrecoverable Application Error" box that popped up every time that OS version crashed. Amazing how the same code that had UAE's under 3.0 quit having them under 3.1.One of the things that Microsoft got convicted of doing when it was judged to be an illegal monopoly was deliberately sabotaging competitor's code to make it appear to be poorly written - while the Microsoft alternative worked with fewer problems. Look up the history of Netscape and Windows Exploder Explorer.

Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2016 10:39 AM (SuZ6S)

197 You can find of do anything you want in Houston. Except a real space shuttle. Real rockets (and Rockets) fake shuttle.

Posted by: Rihar at May 22, 2016 10:40 AM (+ao6J)

198 I reorganized some of my preps yesterday. I don't have nearly enough ammo and I probably have too much food. When the shooting starts, I won't live long enough to eat a whole lot.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 22, 2016 08:45 AM (eHpnh)

This is my philosophy:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-07-31

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 22, 2016 10:40 AM (VSenK)

199 Dallas and Houston are WAAYYY different. Houston is lot more of a capitalist town, focused mainly on the making of money. Dallas is all about image, and ACTING like you're making money. Now having said that, Dallas has the best looking women of any city I've ever seen - the average woman in North Dallas now never seems to step outside in anything less than 6 inch heels. It's like a grown-up Disneyland full of high-end hookers.

For my taste, Fort Worth is the most family friendly and laid back big town in Texas, maybe the country.

(the less said about Austin, the better. Sure, if you're a prog and like the smell of drunks puking on the street, then it's for you, but other than that it's just an overcrowded PC mess)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2016 10:45 AM (V2Yro)

200 92 A well equipped machine from 2011 or thereabouts is still perfectly good for most stuff in terms of running software.
[...]
But the pleasure of SSD speed is something everyone can enjoy, if only they know it exists in the first place.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 22, 2016 08:03 AM (IdCqF)


I just ordered a 960GB SSD for my 2011 laptop to replace its twin 7200 RPM drives. I've become spoiled by my MacBook's near instant-on capability coming out of sleep mode.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 22, 2016 10:58 AM (jV8Mq)

201 Now having said that, Dallas has the best looking women of any city I've ever seen - the average woman in North Dallas now never seems to step outside in anything less than 6 inch heels. It's like a grown-up Disneyland full of high-end hookers.

Seconded.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2016 11:02 AM (VdICR)

202 The fact that Robocop were filmed in Houston is hilarious. Peter Weller must have been boiling in that outfit. The predicted crime-death of Detroit turned out to be not-too-pessimistic.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2016 11:09 AM (VdICR)

203 The Dallas architecture ... I could talk about a gorgeous 10 to 20 story building I noticed just about every day.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2016 11:12 AM (VdICR)

204 The Dallas architecture ... I could talk about a gorgeous 10 to 20 story building I noticed just about every day. Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2016 11:12 AM (VdICR)
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I stopped taking visitors to downtown Chicago a few years ago (too rough). Really sad because a brisk loop walk to the lakefront was usually a highlight of friends and relatives visiting.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2016 11:18 AM (MIKMs)

205 201 Now having said that, Dallas has the best looking women of any city I've ever seen - the average woman in North Dallas now never seems to step outside in anything less than 6 inch heels. It's like a grown-up Disneyland full of high-end hookers.

_____

In the US? Maybe, although LA and Las Vegas and Miami would certainly give it a run for its money.

Worldwide....come on!!

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 22, 2016 11:21 AM (0LHZx)

206 "Is there anything to do there other than wonder if it would be better on Venus?"

Best thing to do in Houston:

Find the road that leads to Aransas Pass and take it.

Posted by: Meremortal, oh yeah at May 22, 2016 11:32 AM (3myMJ)

207 21 Conservative should push that meme above that says if we can trash the Constitution to regulate guns out of existence than we can trash it to regulate Democrats out of existence for treason.


Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2016 06:11 AM (vvmPQ)


I've suggested for a long time that we say that 'IF' abortion is a Right...

Why can't it be treated exactly like guns???

ie... can't get one without Federal approval and a 2 week waiting period?

Posted by: Don Q at May 22, 2016 11:39 AM (qf6WZ)

208 "Is there anything to do there other than wonder if it would be better on Venus?"

Head to Galveston, charter a boat, and head out into the Gulf for some deep sea fishing. Red Snapper season starts in just over a week.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 22, 2016 11:49 AM (VSenK)

209 Look, people, Houston ain't what it was. Luby's hasn't pegged level with the Cleburne since the cold hand of Pappas seized it and they took fried chicken livers with cream gravy and Jeff Davis pie off the menu. Brenner's isn't Brenner's anymore. Hebert's is gone with the Black Angus and the Confederate House, I had the last order of scallops ever served at Kaphan's, and Sonny Look's and the College Inn and Don Quixote are mere memories. Rice bought out the last Lewis & Coker around the corner from where my folks lived on Tallowood, and now Rice is gone the way of Jamail's and the real Antone's.

The Shamrock is no more, and nobody nowadays would dare to be The McCarthy - or his lawyer, Leon Jaworski. Not all the changes are for the worse: Dimassi's, http://www.dimassi.com/home.html; Khyber Grill; lunch and weekend brunch at Logan Farms: http://westhouston.loganfarms.com/. But our alleged elite have developed a cultural cringe Jesse Jones would have cussed them out over and for which Miss Ima would have slapped them. The place tries too damn hard to be liked by carpetbaggers, hipsters, statists, and other damnyankees.

Nevertheless, it's the only place I ever missed when I lived in Rockbridge County; and the Shenandoah - and Rockbridge and Big Lex especially - are the only places I ever missed in Houston.

And anybody who communicates by means relying on satellites or who travels, including to Houston, by any means involving the combustion engine, might just want to consider that without Houston ... they wouldn't. Couldn't.

Posted by: Markham Shaw Pyle at May 22, 2016 12:11 PM (WlkUc)

210 I have to agree with others. Ninfa's on Navigation has terrific food. My only caution is if you choose to eat on the patio, watch out for the bees. That was only drawback.

Posted by: KathyP at May 22, 2016 12:19 PM (tGKoo)

211 The first word spoken from the Moon was "Houston". So F-U.

Posted by: furious at May 22, 2016 12:34 PM (8lw4l)

212 "Orange, TX (Louisiana border) to El Paso (New Mexico border) - 855.84mi / 1377.34km

Posted by: Rusty Bill at May 22, 2016 09:28 AM (OweXm)"

Get in your car in London. Drive to Dover and get on the car train to Calais. Now drive across France to the German border. Drive across Germany to the Polish border. Drive to Warsaw.

You have not driven as far as El Paso, TX to Orange, TX.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at May 22, 2016 01:25 PM (QHgTq)

213 Houston don't you just love it when it floods. Markem Shaw you forgot Bill Williams.

Posted by: Dick Taylor CSA at May 22, 2016 01:27 PM (prlxw)

214 213: LTG Taylor, I have never forgotten the Home of the Capon Dinner: that would be like forgetting Biba's or Felix or the Lantern Inn. I simply didn't mention it. Family lore has it that it was there I had my first ever dining out experience, after an Alley Theater matinee of The House at Pooh Corner, about which, it is said, I was discoursing learnedly at my tender age until I fell asleep face down in my mashed potatoes in the middle of a sentence.

Posted by: MarkhamShawPyle at May 22, 2016 02:06 PM (WlkUc)

215 Yet again Pino's, Weldons, the org. San Jacinto Inn. We could go on and on.

Posted by: Dick Taylor CSA at May 22, 2016 02:25 PM (JOEmq)

216 At Space Center Houston they now have a 747 that used to ferry the Shuttle back and forth. There is a shuttle atop it, but probably not a real one, because Barack acted like America and our space program was a Monopoly board, and just gave shuttles to places who couldn't have made them fly. So, Buck Farack. But, you can walk through that "shuttle", and tour the actual 747. Great photos of bringing that thing down city streets without the wings on.

Brought in the shuttle on a barge. Yup. It's the "shuttle replica" Independence. So, Buck Farack, with a pitchfork.

Posted by: MathMom at May 22, 2016 02:35 PM (EE96d)

217 The Big Easy for blues. 4th Saturday of every month, standing gig for Alan Haynes. Don't miss it.
http://www.thebigeasyblues.com/

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 22, 2016 02:51 PM (5f5bM)

218 Hey, Houston is a great city. But hurry up because it's almost summer, and you really don't want to be there in the summer months.

Posted by: jazzuscounty at May 22, 2016 03:16 PM (iRHb1)

219 Oh, and go Texans. We love our JJ Watt.

Posted by: jazzuscounty at May 22, 2016 03:20 PM (iRHb1)

220 Eat at Killen's BBQ in Pearland - get there by 1030 for lunch. They run out by 1 or 2 pm.

Miller outdoor theater has free shows & the park is nice too.

There are some great brewery's downtown

Posted by: batterup at May 22, 2016 05:20 PM (hes+/)

221 Come to my restaurant. The food and drinks are awesome, it is downtown and your meal is on me since I have been reading Ace of Spades since I got linked to it from Allah is in the House.

It's The Springbok, downtown at 711 Main Street
http://www.springbokhouston.com/#eat-together


Posted by: Todd at May 22, 2016 07:25 PM (Rvali)

222 Houston don't you just love it when it floods. Markem Shaw you forgot Bill Williams.Posted by: Dick Taylor CSA at May 22, 2016 01:27 PM (prlxw)


And the San Jacinto inn.


Posted by: GoTex at May 22, 2016 11:41 PM (xx+WQ)

223 "Is there anything to do there other than wonder if it would be better on Venus?" No.

But, maybe find some BBQ. Maybe. Otherwise, no.

Posted by: Larry Geiger at May 23, 2016 04:39 PM (9xzxW)

224 While in Houston be sure to check out the Shamrock Hotel pool. Just walk in the side gate in your swim trunks and act like you own the place. It's the closest thing to Beverley Hills in Houston. Get seen at Remington's Bar right inside the loop off Westheimer. Dance to the Scott Gertner band playing Lionel Ritchie and Chuck Mangione covers. Slide on over to Harlow's on Hillcroft after hours for breakfast.

Oops, nevermind. It's all gone.

Peak Houston would have to be 1980. Downtown was a panorama of cranes erecting shining new skyscrapers. Gilley's, Urban Cowboy, Earl Campbell, Bum and Luv Ya Blue. The Oilers, Astros and Rocket barely missed the gold ring that year. That was the best time to be a Houstonian.

Posted by: Spoonman at May 23, 2016 08:04 PM (PcHwJ)

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