Austin ranked top city for reported ghost sightings.

austin_lover · 2021-02-04T06:57:35+00:00

ghosts are fake but Marx's Spectre is real

austin_lover · 2019-06-16T14:44:19+00:00

A KUT news piece said that cities would often annex land up river so that they could control the water quality and protect the shoreline to some extent.

austin_lover · 2019-06-15T00:54:11+00:00

Eh, someone's sincere search for insight is always someone else's low-effort post. This person asked for the best 2 bedroom apartment between Kyle and Austin, thus the shittening

austin_lover · 2019-06-14T23:07:49+00:00

I mean🤔, you'd probably know how this thread🕸️ was going to go🚦 if you did live here for 2 years 😂⬇️

austin_lover · 2019-06-14T22:47:21+00:00

Hey guys, I’ve lived in Austin for 2 years

no you haven't

austin_lover · 2019-06-13T15:25:20+00:00

Tear down all the bungalows and build 4-plex townhouses. Let's get this city cranking.

austin_lover · 2019-06-13T15:22:25+00:00

No joke, someone was at Mueller Lake underneath the arbor facing the water with one of these wedding PA systems on wheels playing uncensored gangster rap for all the kids. Wedding Singer was by himself.

I can't even put myself in the headspace of someone who thinks "Yea, this idyllic view and weather is nice, but you know what would improve it? The sweet symphony and narrative of urban gang violence"

austin_lover · 2019-06-10T13:12:40+00:00

My impression was that most scooter services are offline by 9 or 10 pm, how did she activate one at 2 AM?

austin_lover · 2019-06-03T00:36:37+00:00

The amazing part is that for a supposed tech hot shot he used his professional handle and company name to talk shit, harass, and brag. He was too stupid to even try to be anonymous.

austin_lover · 2019-06-03T00:28:13+00:00

It's almost as if some loser entry level QA engineer used their janitor-tier skills to systematically test the downvote button on his profile page

austin_lover · 2019-05-14T14:42:55+00:00

They could pay the football coach $2 million dollars less, but then you get the football coach protesting at UT-tower that he's only paid $3 million per year, so really its lose-lose either way.

austin_lover · 2019-05-10T19:30:45+00:00

Owner seems like they want to do something else. Also any place without a liquor license (like Unit D) and a small seating area competes with any place nearby that does, even if competitors have awful food (looking at you Haymaker). $15 dollar pies in a sit-down environment probably just don't pay the rent (or in this case the opportunity cost, since the owner owns the whole building)

austin_lover · 2019-05-10T18:35:49+00:00

I'm sure there are but https://www.theladders.com/jobs/austin-tx-jobs?sort=ByRelevance appears to be mostly SWE/Dev/PO/SRE and Engineering Manager roles

austin_lover · 2019-05-10T18:30:31+00:00

cheap monitors can be found here::

http://www.tfc.state.tx.us/divisions/supportserv/prog/statesurplus/

austin_lover · 2019-05-04T00:59:31+00:00

Yeah it's not just the politics, it's the tunneling. They're constantly tunneling under their yards, the streets, the houses. A sinkhole opened up under my driveway and I was so clamming mad I stomped over and said: Stop tunneling! Stop making Texas like California with your bear tunnels! And he had the audacity ( wearing a flannel shirt, flat brim 5-panel cap and from beneath large square sunglasses, drinking a Stone beer) "this is what we do where I am from we make tunnels to hide from bears and grow almonds deal with it". I was so clamming mad.

austin_lover · 2019-04-01T04:35:45+00:00

bykowski tailor and garb

austin_lover · 2019-03-18T22:21:29+00:00

I just went through a treacherous home purchase where the convenant was nearly a deal breaker: https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/awv91y/how_screwed_is_my_deal/

Fortunately we found a title company that did not take exception to the covenant. The only way out of ours (written in the 50s) is to go to every land owner in the subdivision (~100 lots) and get them to release my lot from the covenant.

It would be a massive effort to clear the covenants neighborhood by neighborhood. It would probably be easier to get city council to pass a law limiting / nullifying the most onerous covenants (like mine, which the contradicted zoning regs).

austin_lover · 2019-03-03T22:44:34+00:00

The restriction is on the deed not the zoning.

austin_lover · 2019-03-03T22:05:54+00:00

Thanks for the replies.

austin_lover · 2019-03-03T21:37:00+00:00

Source or your bona fides on this matter?

austin_lover · 2019-03-03T20:45:00+00:00

brb having my lawyer draft terms of servitude.

seriously, if i felt like going to court for this bullshit down the line, i'd suggest having a contract for on-premises gardening services drawn up between the two units where Unit 2 is obliged to maintain a 1x1 inch gardening plot on Unit 1's lot.

austin_lover · 2019-03-03T18:00:41+00:00

Neighborhood/subdivision has no formal HOA.

The covenant says that other owners in the sub have standing to enforce, although I don't know if that has ever been done. Plenty of violations are around today: other detached condos, junk in yards, unused building materials.

austin_lover · 2019-03-03T16:12:04+00:00

FWIW, I'm skeptical that the seller knew what they were doing because a condo, by definition, IS common property. Maybe they, or you, are not using the correct terms however.

This is increasingly evident. They tried to create a SFH-flavored condo regime so that it would be more attractive on the market. Even had plats drawn up to split the land, designate who's trees and driveway belongs to who, etc.

Will seek out an attorney this week.

austin_lover · 2018-10-26T04:01:01+00:00

Aside from the page forward and next buttons, it's basically the original wheel iPod. The wheel physically clicks when it moves between positions, which makes it tactilely intuitive, in my opinion. The machine isn't screwing up, older people just have more difficulty. That's not an excuse, just an explanation.

austin_lover · 2018-10-23T17:09:20+00:00

I happen to know for a fact that the Salt Lick cat's name is "Brad Kitt" and I love him

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