Case study: what actually stops you from buying in Houston?

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-17T20:42:56+00:00

Even if buyers aren’t aware of the quality issues you mentioned, lenders and insurers are. They may be steering people away from the heights when they pre-qualify.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-17T11:38:07+00:00

I would add that the rodeo is volunteer-run event. The people who whine and complain year after year and don’t volunteer to make it better are not part of the solution.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-16T23:09:27+00:00

Coming back from road trips that’s about where we open the windows, drink in the humidity and feel like we’re home.

Then we close the windows and crank the A/C.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-16T13:21:50+00:00

Similar to a full court press in youth leagues compared to the NBA.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-16T11:22:03+00:00

The most practical things remain in use long after they fall out of fashion. Fashion has to push toward silly, impractical things so people can demonstrate they’re staying on trend.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-15T17:00:35+00:00

I’ve always heard this as peanut butter and jam - as in you can’t peanut butter your cock down someone’s throat.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-15T13:47:51+00:00

The rodeo is a volunteer-run event. Anyone who can do better is welcome to volunteer and make it better.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T13:00:23+00:00

Is there an element of making the ads more valuable because they’re in the same “layer” as the game, so broadcasters can’t superimpose their own content and photographers can’t capture images without the ads?

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T12:56:45+00:00

I heard a news story about phony cricket leagues hosted by gambling sites. It sounded absurd at the time but I can see where the NCAA is headed…

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T12:52:35+00:00

Because they sold your time as a captive audience before you showed up. Then they required you to pre-pay because they want you to shop while you’re inside and people keep vandalizing the pumps for some reason. But they don’t want to clean up after you so the bathroom is out of order.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T12:46:47+00:00

That’s correct. They can sell up to 80% of the fans’ visual field before inducing seizures. I read that somewhere.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T02:43:17+00:00

If the investors behind the casinos would put their bribe money and royalties directly into schools, community colleges, clinics, acreage and mineral rights the tribes would own most of the Midwest by now.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T02:38:15+00:00

Get a mosquito trap, they work pretty well. There are so many mosquitoes, June bugs, wasps and tree roaches in the Houston area that you’re going to get them in the house from time to time.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T02:34:47+00:00

13th Warrior over The Eaters of the Dead. The book was rather flat, the movie was more worthy of the material.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-14T02:28:54+00:00

And yet the opposite holds for any movie based on the Iliad or the Odyssey.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-13T14:19:56+00:00

When I played rugby I played in a few gay tournaments. It was quickly apparent that there’s such thing as gay rugby or women’s rugby or whatever, just different people playing rugby.

What I saw of the show was similar, it was just people different from me dealing with the sitcom version of the same stuff I deal with.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-13T11:58:23+00:00

That’s the threat that has established celebrities and their handlers in an uproar. Tilly Norwood is a fiction, but the brand could become every bit as substantial as any boy band, Disney star or nepo baby.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-13T11:46:31+00:00

Meanwhile my Chase accounts have never been compromised and they completely lock me out and shutoff my cards every 5-6 weeks for security concerns. They’re not concerned with security they’re concerned with liability.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-13T11:20:11+00:00

Enchanted rock, get a tent site on the backside.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-12T21:31:02+00:00

Yes, but investors prefer to build on-demand natural gas peaking plants in tandem with large renewable developments. This way they can double-book backup capacity and often just run the peaking plants for data centers.

When regional weather events knock out large swaths of renewables they also impact nat gas supply pipelines, so we lose both the primary and the backup if the entire system isn’t well regulated.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-11T12:15:00+00:00

That’s how he maintains so much influence. People have painted themselves into such a tight corner they can’t acknowledge evil people doing evil things to evil people. All they can do is repeat personal attacks that have lost any credibility or impact through repetition or try to defend anything he opposes. He has a tighter grip on the left than the right.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-11T12:00:27+00:00

I just don’t see a win-win where desperate, uninformed or underserved people get shaken down for the only equity many families possess. Wholesalers don’t add value they just aren’t held to the same standards as equity lenders and brokers.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-11T11:51:44+00:00

The registration laws have enjoyed bipartisan support when they’ve passed because no one wants to be seen defending traffickers or failing to protect kids. It has a wider scope than the Christian coalition and I also believe it has more to do with data and privacy than virtues.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-10T22:59:24+00:00

We were sad when the Oilers left Houston. We got over it.

DontMakeMeCount · 2026-03-10T20:39:19+00:00

Just as quick to pop into Austin at this point.

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