AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III - Page 114

lzppjb · #**2261** Posted **May 24, 2013, 10:19 PM**

Very cool. Welcome back.

ahealy · #**2262** Posted **May 24, 2013, 11:05 PM**

Welcome back, and buckle your helmet.... cuz it's gonna be a wild ride.

MichaelB · #**2263** Posted **May 25, 2013, 12:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

Welcome back, and buckle your helmet.... cuz it's gonna be a wild ride.

What he said!

pscajunguy · #**2264** Posted **May 25, 2013, 5:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by rvank

Hey, y'all. I just wanted to say I read this thread from page 1 to 113 last night and y'all have helped me decide to move back to Austin. I was at UT from 2004 to 2009 and had a blast watching the city have its first modern urban growth spurt. I eventually left because I started to feel the city was too small and not growing fast enough, but it looks like the city's downtown urban growth is really ramping up again - I'm a big urban development nut and that's pretty much the only criteria I have in picking my new city. Since my job lets me work anywhere, I've decided to move myself and my company up there. I just thought I'd share my little nerd moment and thank y'all for the awesome urban development dirty talk and construction site porn.

Hopefully when I'm up there I can actually contribute something helpful to this thread.

Be sure to bring some water with you, and leave that boat at home, because Lake Travis is almost gone, ugly and polluted, and all the boat ramps have been closed for a long, long time and may not be useable for years, if ever, because of polluted urban runoff. It won't be too long before they have to suck all of the water out of the Edwards Aquifer.

The ATX · #**2265** Posted **May 25, 2013, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by pscajunguy

Be sure to bring some water with you, and leave that boat at home, because Lake Travis is almost gone, ugly and polluted, and all the boat ramps have been closed for a long, long time and may not be useable for years, if ever, because of polluted urban runoff. It won't be too long before they have to suck all of the water out of the Edwards Aquifer.

I think you strayed from the comments section of the Statesman.

Jdawgboy · #**2266** Posted **May 25, 2013, 7:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by pscajunguy

Be sure to bring some water with you, and leave that boat at home, because Lake Travis is almost gone, ugly and polluted, and all the boat ramps have been closed for a long, long time and may not be useable for years, if ever, because of polluted urban runoff. It won't be too long before they have to suck all of the water out of the Edwards Aquifer.

Hmm guess you didn't look out the window today as well as yesterday because its been raining quite a lot and a a lot of rain fell upstream too which should help the lake levels a little. Is it enough? No but its not bad getting over 5 plus inches of rain in the area, means nobody has to water their lawns for awhile huh...

JoninATX · #**2267** Posted **May 25, 2013, 8:43 PM**

Welcome back rvank...

migol24 · #**2268** Posted **May 25, 2013, 10:11 PM**

Honest question here folks. Why are there a lot of paranoid people in Austin? I feel that Austin is like the mecca of paranoids, gov't conspiracies and global warming being a hoax. I mean, there is Alex Jones... but even if you look at that movie "Slacker" Linklater did a fine job of portraying the folks in Austin.

I always find most of the youtube videos on my recommended lists that are about gov't conspiracies or whatnot, its not entirely surprising that many of them are from Austin. It's weird. There should be a little study done on it. Or maybe it's simply my own impression. But even when I read comments like the one above it always reminds me about how paranoid people from Austin are.

"We're gonna run out of water." "Austin's becoming more and more like Houston." etc etc This is even coming from a couple of friends I work with here in SF who also lived in Austin for a long time and I am always arguing with them about their ridiculous comments about Austin. Has anybody else noticed this?

Austin_Expert · #**2269** Posted **May 25, 2013, 11:29 PM**

I'm not sure why, but there are certainly a lot of douchebag morons in the Austin area, and I say this as someone whom loves Austin.

ahealy · #**2270** Posted **May 25, 2013, 11:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austin_Expert

I'm not sure why, but there are certainly a lot of douchebag morons in the Austin area, and I say this as someone whom loves Austin.

I'm the last one who can move to Austin, nobody else is allowed in and I hate tall buildings. They're stupid and cheezy. That's not Austin. I've lived here for a month, ok! How long have YOU lived here!? I remember when Austin used to have food trailers on that corner before those condos went in. Growth? Pfft, all those Californians. A solution for growth gong vertical? NO. Just build a fence around the city. Urban rail?!?! HA! Nobody will ride that!

ahealy · #**2271** Posted **May 25, 2013, 11:48 PM**

I don't think people realize they're turning into senile rocking chair geriatrics...oops

ROCrot · #**2272** Posted **May 26, 2013, 2:50 AM**

http://www.austin360.com/weblogs/out...as-or-houston/

JACKinBeantown · #**2273** Posted **May 26, 2013, 2:55 AM**

Every new highway in the country should have a rail lane in each direction. Cars create traffic... trains alleviate it. Also, even though the Big Dig in Boston went way over budget, the result is outstanding. Go for it, Austin!

ROCrot · #**2274** Posted **May 26, 2013, 2:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by migol24

Honest question here folks. Why are there a lot of paranoid people in Austin? I feel that Austin is like the mecca of paranoids, gov't conspiracies and global warming being a hoax. I mean, there is Alex Jones... but even if you look at that movie "Slacker" Linklater did a fine job of portraying the folks in Austin.

Hey, doesn't smoking pot make some people act paranoid?

wwmiv · #**2275** Posted **May 26, 2013, 3:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

Every new highway in the country should have a rail lane in each direction. Cars create traffic... trains alleviate it. Also, even though the Big Dig in Boston went way over budget, the result is outstanding. Go for it, Austin!

The results was a subpar freeway with massive cost overruns and major engineering problems that are still being fixed to this day. Thank God the idea in Austin isn't nearly as ambitious or complex.

And thank God one of the major causes of the post-finish problems that faced the Big Dig doesn't exist here in Austin: the ocean. Also not part of Austin's landscape is the fact that we don't have to actually tunnel through the city to build the new freeway, but instead just have to sink it and cap it. Much much easier and costs sooo much less.

cvalkan · #**2276** Posted **May 26, 2013, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by migol24

Honest question here folks. Why are there a lot of paranoid people in Austin? I feel that Austin is like the mecca of paranoids, gov't conspiracies and global warming being a hoax....

I always find most of the youtube videos on my recommended lists that are about gov't conspiracies or whatnot, its not entirely surprising that many of them are from Austin.

Maybe we're just more tech-savvy than other places so *our* paranoids have more visibility.

Seriously though, isn't that just one aspect of being weird?

The ATX · #**2277** Posted **May 26, 2013, 10:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by cvalkan

Maybe we're just more tech-savvy than other places so *our* paranoids have more visibility.

Seriously though, isn't that just one aspect of being weird?

I remember when Alex Jones was just a lunatic who rented time on on the local access cable channel (2005-06). I used to kill time laughing at the losers who felt that they deserved a podium on local access. Unfortunately Alex went on to national infamy.

hookem · #**2278** Posted **May 26, 2013, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

I remember when Alex Jones was just a lunatic who rented time on on the local access cable channel (2005-06). I used to kill time laughing at the losers who felt that they deserved a podium on local access. Unfortunately Alex went on to national infamy.

He was around a lot earlier than that. He was on local cable access at least as far back as '97. His big thing was "predicting" 9/11 and before that being involved with the Waco (Branch Davidian) survivors.

Just keep in mind "weird" doesn't necessarily mean likable or good. Linklater got it right. Sometimes it's uncomfortable or spooky.

MichaelB · #**2279** Posted **May 26, 2013, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by ROCrot

Hey, doesn't smoking pot make some people act paranoid?

Why are you asking????? Huh? I don't smoke pot.

really.

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KevinFromTexas · #**2280** Posted **May 26, 2013, 7:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by ROCrot

Hey, doesn't smoking pot make some people act paranoid?

Only while you're high. And for me it was always over sensible things like getting in trouble with the cops. I never worried about being eaten by furniture.