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Houston is a vibrant city and has plenty of dough for the arts – great museums, opera, art scene, etc. Shitty weather from May till November, but especially in the summer when it is awful, hot humid and lots of rain. I could live there, but never wanted to if I could help it.
East TX is refinery land, West Texas agricultural and cotton producer, Dallas more buttoned up than Houston in my opinion. And many New Yorkers like Austin in the hills.
Home of UT and a big big music scene and very liberal.
None of it appeals to me very much although I love the way Texans talk. Very poetic. But just too much, but then I am not moving anywhere ever, except on the East coast — anywhere down to South Florida, that is IT.
To take this to the next level from a productivity standpoint, I’d recommend creating ‘contacts’ within your email account so that you aren’t constantly looking up all of those cell numbers that you don’t have memorized each time you send an email.
denton- I love all thing geek= wish I had the time to study more but I try to keep up with stuff. Maybe it’s a generational thing- every succeeding generation forgets that what they know they learned by standing on the shoulders of the generation before. Lord knows, in my twenties I was sure I knew everything. Today? Well, there’s that line from My Back Pages. I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now 🙂
Yup, you can even stay closer, the Domino sugar plant, the Pfizer plant, the Navy Yard, the ExLax factory… if you can’t turn it into condos, we don’t want it.
Huh??? What the heck are you talking about??? Please be specific.
If you want to see an industrial wastelands, go visit NYS’ formerly great industrial cities: Schenectady, Utica, Rome and Buffalo, for starters. After you take in that vista, go feast your eyes on Allentown or Bethlem, PA.
“Yeah, but keep in mind that Texas is far far larger and much less densely populated. There are giant wastelands of industry there.”
Which is why they’re doing huge windfarms.
cobble, you’re showing your New York roots here. Texans would never use the term ‘giant wastelands’ and ‘industry’ in the same sentence. When a Texan sees a half million sft of manufacturing, he smiles. When a New Yorker sees the same thing, they see a ‘giant wasteland’.
That in a nutshell is what’s wrong with this country.
“Imagine that happening in NYC? Hell, people complain when their organically raised bees suck up red #2 from the maraschino cherry plant.”
Denton;
During the Great Depression, FDR was making his rounds through the country, giving pep talks. I remember reading about one of his speeches in a mid-size industrial city in NJ (Perth Amboy, if memory serves correctly). One part of his speech went something like: “After our policies are implemented, the skies over Perth Amboy will be brown again!”.
Houston is a vibrant city and has plenty of dough for the arts – great museums, opera, art scene, etc. Shitty weather from May till November, but especially in the summer when it is awful, hot humid and lots of rain. I could live there, but never wanted to if I could help it.
East TX is refinery land, West Texas agricultural and cotton producer, Dallas more buttoned up than Houston in my opinion. And many New Yorkers like Austin in the hills.
Home of UT and a big big music scene and very liberal.
None of it appeals to me very much although I love the way Texans talk. Very poetic. But just too much, but then I am not moving anywhere ever, except on the East coast — anywhere down to South Florida, that is IT.
I found this and it works:
To send a text message via email, just substitute a 10-digit cell number for ‘number’ for each carrier below:
AT&T: number@txt.att.net
Qwest: number@qwestmp.com
T-Mobile: number@tmomail.net
Verizon: number@vtext.com
Sprint: number@messaging.sprintpcs.com or number@pm.sprint.com
Virgin Mobile: number@vmobl.com
Nextel: number@messaging.nextel.com
Alltel: number@message.alltel.com
Metro PCS: number@mymetropcs.com
Powertel: number@ptel.com
Suncom: number@tms.suncom.com
U.S. Cellular: number@email.uscc.net
Making the Most of Texting from Email:
To take this to the next level from a productivity standpoint, I’d recommend creating ‘contacts’ within your email account so that you aren’t constantly looking up all of those cell numbers that you don’t have memorized each time you send an email.
denton- I love all thing geek= wish I had the time to study more but I try to keep up with stuff. Maybe it’s a generational thing- every succeeding generation forgets that what they know they learned by standing on the shoulders of the generation before. Lord knows, in my twenties I was sure I knew everything. Today? Well, there’s that line from My Back Pages. I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now 🙂
“If you want to see an industrial wastelands,”
Yup, you can even stay closer, the Domino sugar plant, the Pfizer plant, the Navy Yard, the ExLax factory… if you can’t turn it into condos, we don’t want it.
g10, Austin seems to be the Brooklyn of Texas.
“There are giant wastelands of industry there.”
Huh??? What the heck are you talking about??? Please be specific.
If you want to see an industrial wastelands, go visit NYS’ formerly great industrial cities: Schenectady, Utica, Rome and Buffalo, for starters. After you take in that vista, go feast your eyes on Allentown or Bethlem, PA.
Biffy – I think it’s different w/ different companies.
“Yeah, but keep in mind that Texas is far far larger and much less densely populated. There are giant wastelands of industry there.”
Which is why they’re doing huge windfarms.
cobble, you’re showing your New York roots here. Texans would never use the term ‘giant wastelands’ and ‘industry’ in the same sentence. When a Texan sees a half million sft of manufacturing, he smiles. When a New Yorker sees the same thing, they see a ‘giant wasteland’.
That in a nutshell is what’s wrong with this country.
“Imagine that happening in NYC? Hell, people complain when their organically raised bees suck up red #2 from the maraschino cherry plant.”
Denton;
During the Great Depression, FDR was making his rounds through the country, giving pep talks. I remember reading about one of his speeches in a mid-size industrial city in NJ (Perth Amboy, if memory serves correctly). One part of his speech went something like: “After our policies are implemented, the skies over Perth Amboy will be brown again!”.
Can you imagine such a speech today???