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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sixpence on May 17, 2007, 08:23:17 AM
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http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/greenarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=4848625>1=9966
"Not only does Austin lead the country in wind power and biodiesel production, but it has built advanced plug-in hybrid vehicles into its energy strategy."
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Anything that gets us off on foreign oil dependence is good with me! :aok I'd like nothing better than to make the leaders of the middle east another 3rd world nation!
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Sixpence really has no idea what Austin is all about.
Still have a hard-on for Texas politics, eh?
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Austin is L.A. east but weird. Visit once and you will see that it's the complete opposite of every other cityin the state.
oh Diablo TX i went with the Borla, so much better.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/greenarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=4848625>1=9966
"Not only does Austin lead the country in wind power and biodiesel production, but it has built advanced plug-in hybrid vehicles into its energy strategy."
Austin is a great city, I almost bought a town home in downtown Austin right across the street from Town Lake the end of last year. I still kick myself a little for not buying it, I know I'll probably regret it in the future even more.
:(
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Originally posted by whiteman
Austin is L.A. east but weird. Visit once and you will see that it's the complete opposite of every other cityin the state.
oh Diablo TX i went with the Borla, so much better.
Yea I took a road trip to Texas the end of last year, and can agree with yea.. Austin is nothing like the rest of Texas. That's the only city I'd even think about moving to in Texas.
(no offense meant to any of the Texans here but Austin is diffrent)
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Originally posted by crockett
(no offense meant to any of the Texans here but Austin is diffrent)
yea its like a mini version of kalifornia here. maybe we should put up a fence around Austin and quarantine it before it spreads to the rest of the state :cool:
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Originally posted by Sixpence
from link
"Not only does Austin lead the country in wind power and biodiesel production, but it has built advanced plug-in hybrid vehicles into its energy strategy."
I guess being a buyer of wind energy produced by others (Florida Power and Light, and Babcock & Brown & Catamount Energy) makes one a leader.
I am a leader in Chinese food.
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Originally posted by Airscrew
yea its like a mini version of kalifornia here. maybe we should put up a fence around Austin and quarantine it before it spreads to the rest of the state :cool:
that fence might also keep Houston from Annexing it.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Sixpence really has no idea what Austin is all about.
Still have a hard-on for Texas politics, eh?
Politics?:huh
From the outside, Texas has the perception of being non caring of it's environment. I think most people outside of Texas would be surprised to learn that the greenest city in America is the capital of Texas.
What kinda shocks me is the rest of Texas(well, this bb anyway) seems ashamed of it.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I guess being a buyer of wind energy produced by others (Florida Power and Light, and Babcock & Brown & Catamount Energy) makes one a leader.
Yeah, a leader in using alternative energy, beats sending the money to the arabs
I am a leader in Chinese food.
Still not reading the New England Journal of Medice I see;)
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Originally posted by Sixpence
I guess being a buyer of wind energy produced by others (Florida Power and Light, and Babcock & Brown & Catamount Energy) makes one a leader.
Yeah, a leader in using alternative energy, beats sending the money to the arabs
I am a leader in Chinese food.
Still not reading the New England Journal of Medice I see;)
I would think FPL and B&B&C are the leaders... they took the capital risk... all Austin is doing is buying what's available on the market.
1 billion + people can't be wrong.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Politics?:huh
From the outside, Texas has the perception of being non caring of it's environment. I think most people outside of Texas would be surprised to learn that the greenest city in America is the capital of Texas.
What kinda shocks me is the rest of Texas(well, this bb anyway) seems ashamed of it.
not ashamed just not surprised. my brother played ball at St. Edwards in Aus for 6 years so i got a good dose of hippies, techies, musicians and the cows in orange. The city motto is "Keep Austin Weird", their doing a good job.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I would think FPL and B&B&C are the leaders... they took the capital risk... all Austin is doing is buying what's available on the market.
Right, but if I buy a diesel engine and burn biodiesel, I am leading by example. Even though petro diesel is available on the market
illion + people can't be wrong.
lol, those 1 billion aren't eating what you're eating
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Originally posted by whiteman
not ashamed just not surprised. my brother played ball at St. Edwards in Aus for 6 years so i got a good dose of hippies, techies, musicians and the cows in orange. The city motto is "Keep Austin Weird", their doing a good job.
I had no idea, I thought Texans would be somewhat surprised too, I stand corrected
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Originally posted by Sixpence
1 Billion + people can't be wrong.
lol, those 1 billion aren't eating what you're eating
What... all those Chinese people are eating Texmex?
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Crockett you should go ahead and buy one. You probably lost out on 40k but the projects that are going up in downtown are changing the Austin market as we speak.
Austin born and raised!
Well i am on my way to Lake Austin to show a house. The boat is in the water and my office is 5mins down the street.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
What... all those Chinese people are eating Texmex?
Well, I guess the chinese can say they are eating like a healthy American when they buy a McDonald's cheeseburger.
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Who said American food was healty?
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Who said American food was healty?
Well, we do boast some of the world's top athletes
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And they are all chowing down on potstickers and water chestnuts.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
And they are all chowing down on potstickers and water chestnuts.
lol, you took the bait:aok
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Hook line and sinker...
pot stickers have been Chinese for a thousand years, and water chestnuts are indemic to SE asia and have been grown in China for 3000. Nobody in China eats them.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Hook line and sinker...
pot stickers have been Chinese for a thousand years, and water chestnuts are indemic to SE asia and have been grown in China for 3000. Nobody in China eats them.
Which is what I stated, they leave out the msg, transfat, and other crap the American chinese takeout puts in
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Well, we do boast some of the world's top athletes
they all chow down on rHGH and rEPO :D
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Originally posted by kamilyun
they all chow down on rHGH and rEPO :D
Yeah, but Bonds thought is was a crab rangoon:D
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I live just outside of Austin. Lived in Austin area most of my life and Austin proper quite a bit. You'd be suprised how 15 miles either way from Austin can seem so much different.
Austin is liberal....wierd...full of yuppies and hippies , techies , musicians (starving ones) , college kids , and alt more things I cant stand. But it IS a beatiful city. It's surrounded buy tress , lakes , and hills. The Colorado river runs right thru the middle.
I love living NEAR Austin. I couldn't live in it.:lol
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How near to Austin are you?
I'll make sure to put out extra squirrel traps if your in my neighborhood!!!!
;)
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Originally posted by whiteman
that fence might also keep Houston from Annexing it.
I dont know, not to worried about Houston, plenty of empty space between Austin and Houston still. Now San Antonio on one hand and DFW on the other hand, there might be problem.
I remember in late 70's Pflugerville and Round Rock were way out of town, and Georgetown just forget it, might as well drive to the moom. Nobody really went there for anything except Football games on Friday night. and driving south to San Antonio was miles and miles of nothing till you hit San Marcus and then more miles of nothing to New Braunfules with a short gap to San Antonio.
Now I swear you can drive from Georgetown to San Antonio (what 120 miles?) and you would be hard pressed to find more than a few miles of land that does not have a mall, shopping center, gas station, apartments or business parks built on it. the longest stretch of empty land might be between San Marcus and New Braunfuls, 5 miles maybe.
I live outside of Austin also, between Bastrop and Lockhart about 20 southwest of the airport.
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Sixpence, did you know that 95% of restaurants in China use MSG daily?
That China consumes a large portion of the world's MSG? (greater than the USA's)
and that (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,9950,1522368,00.html)source (non-USA, so it must be true)[/URL]
MSG-phobia still shows no signs of subsiding. This despite the fact that every concerned public body that ever investigated it has given it a clean bill of health, including the EU, the United Nations food agencies (which in 1988 put MSG on the list of 'safest food additives'), and the British, Japanese and Australian governments.
In fact, every government across the world that has a food licensing and testing system gives MSG - 'at normal levels in the diet' - the thumbs-up. The US Food and Drug Administration has three times, in 1958, 1991 and 1998, reviewed the evidence, tested the chemical and pronounced it 'genuinely recognised as safe.
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Originally posted by Sting138
How near to Austin are you?
I'll make sure to put out extra squirrel traps if your in my neighborhood!!!!
;)
Round Rock
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I dont know, not to worried about Houston, plenty of empty space between Austin and Houston still. Now San Antonio on one hand and DFW on the other hand, there might be problem.
I remember in late 70's Pflugerville and Round Rock were way out of town, and Georgetown just forget it, might as well drive to the moom. Nobody really went there for anything except Football games on Friday night. and driving south to San Antonio was miles and miles of nothing till you hit San Marcus and then more miles of nothing to New Braunfules with a short gap to San Antonio.
Now I swear you can drive from Georgetown to San Antonio (what 120 miles?) and you would be hard pressed to find more than a few miles of land that does not have a mall, shopping center, gas station, apartments or business parks built on it. the longest stretch of empty land might be between San Marcus and New Braunfuls, 5 miles maybe.
I live outside of Austin also, between Bastrop and Lockhart about 20 southwest of the airport.
Aint this the truth. I was born in San Marcos. Lived in Staples a year or so when I was VERY young.
WIde open spaces all around. Now....one HUGE CITY by a bunch of names.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Round Rock
Thx for Hunter Pence
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I dont know, not to worried about Houston, plenty of empty space between Austin and Houston still. Now San Antonio on one hand and DFW on the other hand, there might be problem.
I remember in late 70's Pflugerville and Round Rock were way out of town, and Georgetown just forget it, might as well drive to the moom. Nobody really went there for anything except Football games on Friday night. and driving south to San Antonio was miles and miles of nothing till you hit San Marcus and then more miles of nothing to New Braunfules with a short gap to San Antonio.
Now I swear you can drive from Georgetown to San Antonio (what 120 miles?) and you would be hard pressed to find more than a few miles of land that does not have a mall, shopping center, gas station, apartments or business parks built on it. the longest stretch of empty land might be between San Marcus and New Braunfuls, 5 miles maybe.
I live outside of Austin also, between Bastrop and Lockhart about 20 southwest of the airport.
i was joking but i know what your talking about, same BS out here. I miss the cows and oil pumps.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Sixpence, did you know that 95% of restaurants in China use MSG daily?
That China consumes a large portion of the world's MSG? (greater than the USA's)
lol, and what about the fat, cholesterol, salt and sugar?
You compare American chinese food to traditional asian dishes with a little msg
They also invented pasta, but I wouldn't call them a leader in itailian food
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You will notice (or maybe you haven't) that I said nothing about American Chinese food. (or even take out)
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this thread about "Oil & war" or "do something against global warming" ?
as far as i know only one thing is reality...
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Originally posted by RedTop
....Austin is liberal....wierd...full of yuppies and hippies , techies , musicians (starving ones) , college kids , and alt more things I cant stand. But it IS a beatiful city. It's surrounded buy tress , lakes , and hills. The Colorado river runs right thru the middle.
Sounds like a description for Boulder, Colorado: 40 square miles surrounded by reality"
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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
this thread about "Oil & war" or "do something against global warming" ?
as far as i know only one thing is reality...
Actually, kinda both
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Originally posted by Sixpence
I had no idea, I thought Texans would be somewhat surprised too, I stand corrected
That was my point.
Also, about Texas politics, it seems you have started a number, or at least one, threads regarding such in the last few months. Off the top of my head was the Perry innoculation plan thread.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Round Rock
RedTop....... Your'e Too Damn Close!! I'm right across the highway. Im on Wells Branch Parkway 1 block east of MoPac and directly behind the Wal-Greens :D I was wondering what that smell was.
<-------gets squirrel traps out! ;)
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Originally posted by Sting138
RedTop....... Your'e Too Damn Close!! I'm right across the highway. Im on Wells Branch Parkway 1 block east of MoPac and directly behind the Wal-Greens :D I was wondering what that smell was.
<-------gets squirrel traps out! ;)
I live right near the Dell Diamond. Subdivision called Ryans Crossing. That smell you smell is Taylor.:lol
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Red top,
We have some friends in Round Rock and were there in the beginning of April. They live in a subdivision just off of exit 254 Old settlers Blvd. We actually parked our rig in front of their house for a couple days. Kinda freaked the neighbors out a bit. :D
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Austin is an ok place I guess. Kinda fun to go to on random occasions, but it isnt somewhere I'd want to live or stay there for a prolonged period of time. To many crazy liberals and burnt orange. On top of that I always end up getting sick when I go there. Not sure why, but it has happened often enough not to be considered coincidence.
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Originally posted by Maverick
Red top,
We have some friends in Round Rock and were there in the beginning of April. They live in a subdivision just off of exit 254 Old settlers Blvd. We actually parked our rig in front of their house for a couple days. Kinda freaked the neighbors out a bit. :D
Thats not far from me at all. Wish I had known...I could have bought yall a Margaritta or 6:lol
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Originally posted by Wolf14
snip....To many crazy liberals and burnt orange. On top of that I always end up getting sick when I go there. Not sure why, but it has happened often enough not to be considered coincidence.
Its the Anti-Aggie chemicals in the water. :D
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Originally posted by RedTop
Its the Anti-Aggie chemicals in the water. :D
you laugh, but that has been joked about before and wondered about as well. Its danged long horned urine laced water I tell ya. :)
Hell truth be known, I'm an aggie by birth. Born in raised in the area and pushed to go to A&M, but grades and the fact they didnt offer the course of studies I wanted kinda hampered the ability to become an Agg on paper. Workin for 'em is good though.
Some things just dont always work out. I'm told thats just the way life goes at times.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Thats not far from me at all. Wish I had known...I could have bought yall a Margaritta or 6:lol
We'll be back in the area again. I'll send you a messsage when we do. I'm always interested in meeting the other "inmates" of the board here in our travels. ;)
Doesn't seem like there are any here in South Central Louisiana. :(
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For the folks who are not native Texans..........
The term "Tree hugging Texan" is the decription used by natives to describe the act of a Texan who has consumed too much Jack or Cuervo.
It is a time of rebooting so to speak. :)
Austin is a cool place to visit if you have never been there. You can feel the history almost.
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Originally posted by RedTop
I live right near the Dell Diamond. Subdivision called Ryans Crossing. That smell you smell is Taylor.:lol
Yep, thats right off Hwy 79,
I go to the park there and race RC Boats and fly my planes on the weekends when I'm not working. I also haunt the RC Field off of 290 on weekends when its too windy to fly my small slow/park flyer planes at the park on 79.
You should get you a RC Plane, I can show you how to crash it ;)
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Sixpence really has no idea what Austin is all about.
Still have a hard-on for Texas politics, eh?
You are just mad becuase there are pictures of you at Hippy Hollow on the internet.
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Originally posted by Yknurd
You are just mad becuase there are pictures of you at Hippy Hollow on the internet.
How could I possibly be mad of pics of me and Ginger and Hippy Hollow?
Nice try though.
lolz
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I didnt realize there were so many of us right around here. Last year Edbert, Shoulman, and myself kinda threw around an idea of having a minicon. At the very least we should get something togther some weekend soon if just to drink beer and bbq play poker and shoot the s**t
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Anything that gets us off on foreign oil dependence is good with me! :aok I'd like nothing better than to make Norway another 3rd world nation!
Yeah!
We are fed-up with having you suckling our titties!! :D
j/K
cheers m8 :)
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I didnt realize there were so many of us right around here. Last year Edbert, Shoulman, and myself kinda threw around an idea of having a minicon. At the very least we should get something togther some weekend soon if just to drink beer and bbq play poker and shoot the s**t
Sounds like a good time. Edbert is cool.
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I'd do a mini-con in Austin if ONLY it started early in the afternoon in Shiner.
:D
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i have a friend whose family works for Shiner, great place to go when we want to just get blasted for free
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Need a new best friend?
:D
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how bout a couple of new best friends :D i dont eat much :cool:
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You should hear a typical conversation between the wife and I:
"Honey, where's the lunchmeat?"
"Behind the Shiner Bock."
"Where's the mayo?"
"Behind the Shiner Bock."
"Where's the cheesecake?"
"Behind the Shiner Bock."
"Where's the milk?"
"We've got milk????"
:rofl
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Politics?:huh
From the outside, Texas has the perception of being non caring of it's environment.
Don't confuse Texas with California.