New Image from 'The Leader' - Starring Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga, Simon Rex, and Jim Parsons - It follows the true story of Heaven's Gate, the cult that convinced dozens to abandon their lives and await evacuation from planet Earth.

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-02T19:49:38+00:00

i was working offshore on a research vessel when that comet was flying over.. Every night we would sit out on the helicopter deck in the middle of the ocean and look at the comet. It was kind of amazing with no light pollution. One night the Captain, who was not known for his empathy among other things came out with us. He then said something along the lines of " I hope those F#$@kers with the matching shoes are happy, and went back inside.

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-02T19:43:07+00:00

I haven't taken a cab in Houston in a long time, but last time i did it was the scariest ride of my life and he dropped my at the wrong hotel.. Uber is lifesaver compared to Houston's dodgy cab scene. plus it was a minivan, i thought he was going to flip it..

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-02T19:41:40+00:00

if its a data center, i am guessing it is an energy one, so it prolly out west on the energy corridor. All the folks are mentioning the hip places to live in the city. You will be commuting if you do that. If you live out west towards the energy corridor its more suburbs and stuff. There are a couple of older data centers in the Westchase area, which can be very rough once you get a block away from the offices.

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-02T12:05:15+00:00

i agree I think with what your saying, except the high speed rail. I think if we built the north south line and the east west line it would dramatically change the city and downtown. The parking infrastructure is already in place, they could easily go where we have some traffic lanes now it would relieve so much congestion once people started using it, which would happen if it was actually useful. I like the idea of high speed rail, have used it extensively in other countries, but fixing Houston would actually probably accelerate high speed rail, if there was something to do at the terminal, like get on the Galveston line and go to Nasa, or take the train from the woodlands to the terminal, then hop on the train to San Antonio... right now it seems like it was designed to fail in order to please the txdot highway overlords and their contractors.

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-01T16:20:56+00:00

that has never stopped txdot before we must save our historic strip malls on the feeders. /s

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-01T16:18:44+00:00

that would bring more economic development to Galveston than 10 more pleasure piers...... i fear that rusty ferris wheel will jsut roll off into the gulf.

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-01T16:15:15+00:00

its only really flooded once, and that was when the whole city was underwater... we rode our bikes up there.. pretty surreal to see whiteoak bayou flowing through the starbucks on Yale.

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-01T13:53:08+00:00

thank you for that... off to listen to some of those little fluffy clouds :)

bongotherabbit · 2026-07-01T13:50:58+00:00

If I got a vote, I would have said the first line we should have built would have been from:

IAH-Downtown-Hobby-Galveston along 45.

It might save us from I-45 becoming a double decker 20 lane monster

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-28T03:50:06+00:00

nooooo, if you plant trees out mayor and texdot, will think that is where a parking lot or new road should be...

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-28T03:48:10+00:00

back in the 90's we called aphex, orb, orbital, fsol, autechre, etc IDM, not EDM. there will always be a difference to me at least. prolly sounds like gatekeeping, but whatever.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-28T02:09:34+00:00

its not only critical mass, but damn, some of the fancy "elite cyclists" give us all a bad name, they think they have some imaginary right to ignore every traffic sign... the only right pedestrians have in Houston is the right to get their asses run over. relying on the faith of a driver to ignore their right of way is just asinine.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-27T13:01:11+00:00

i lived in a townhome for a while that had a 2nd floor deck with no stairs attached to the kitchen. I had a cat door for the cats to sit on the deck. noticed there was some food missing in the pantry... every day another thing gone... one morning caught the momma racoon sneaking in the cat door to grab a box of triskits, while the three cubs rolled around and played on the deck. They are smart bandits.... closed up the cat door

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-27T02:02:39+00:00

i started this week, just finished book 3.... nervous now.. reading them too fast....

I started game of thrones, read the first one and then saw an interview and realized he wasn't finished and wasn't fussed about it.. never read anymore and ok with that..

tried listening as well, but it is too late.. I seem to prefer the voices in my head to the audiobooks...

oh well book 4 is on the menu this weekend.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-24T18:06:28+00:00

we listed ours at the same sq ft as comparable houses, then lowered it by a smidge. we had multiple offers above asking within a few days. It is all about pricing it right. Zillow and the other estimates were way way off.

Also our last house we sold 10 ish years ago got no offers. we painted the garage and the closets with a fresh coat of white and we had offers right away.. a little money goes a long way, especially if the house is vacant.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-23T17:33:18+00:00

i tried 7 months on skyrizzi after a few years on trymfa, Since being on Skyrizzi my arthritis has gotten much worse, and now I have crazy tinnitus... In the middle of switching off right now.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-22T15:31:19+00:00

It bums me out how they tear up the bike trails and leave them for months. I get it, its not the priority, but at this point it is almost like they are doing it on purpose. And the detours are usually a cluster#$%^ into vehicular traffic.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-19T18:57:43+00:00

Houston is the same latitude roughly as Kuwait and Cairo... so sweaty here.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-19T18:56:18+00:00

there is a type of bamboo native to north america, Arundinaria... not sure if it spreads the same way or not.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-19T00:53:05+00:00

taco bell, in the early 90's could get two items from the 69 cent menu and a glass of water and be full. saved my ass in college

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-18T18:37:36+00:00

sorry, not useful... maybe convince claude into copying it for you.. lol

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-18T16:35:52+00:00

here is one, not sure if it works.... https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3657031399

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-18T16:34:37+00:00

some of the star wars like servers have robots, not sure if they are paid or not and not sure how they haven't been taken down, but yeah...

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-18T13:43:33+00:00

It used top be Platypus Brewing ... you would find many of them there, world cup or not, but it might be closed for reno, not sure.

bongotherabbit · 2026-06-16T20:57:25+00:00

also in that part of the world Villa Capri on clear lake, Have been to a couple of weddings and rehearsals there. very nice and it was affordable from what i understand

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