Archive for the ‘Gripes’ Category
Looking for a place to rent? Don’t choose Verandah at Lakepointe
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
The last place I lived in before I moved to San Antonio was Atascocita, Texas, an unincorporated suburb northeast of Houston. At the urging of many friends at my second job, I moved there because the scenery, convenience, and location were great and totally different from what I saw normally at work, while making up for what I lacked at my last apartment north of Houston.
Tags: apartment review, atascocita apartments, humble apartments, leasing, verandah at lake pointe
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Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
And hopefully this will be my last discussion on the subject. You’ve seen it enough times (if you haven’t, I envy you). HTML5: 2022 (aka 2012). This created yet another pointless rift that I was temporarily part of last year where some people don’t want to touch it until 2022 and others are using it now. You know, I really hate the web. Why is this even a divisive issue I don’t know, but it is, it created an inane Twitter war between me and some agency where we both drank our respective Kool-Aid (I refused to support something that by the time it’s even in Candidate Recommendation will be outdated by some other new shiny object and they/he started using it immediately, or so they claimed.) and I did the adult thing, apologized, and tried to make amends. Didn’t happen, but that isn’t anything new. Of all the things I’ve read about HTML5, my favorite is this comment: “Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then.” Me, too.
Tags: html5 argument, rants, web development
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The new view: stop the sprawl
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
For a transplant to San Antonio, seeing a city go from a medium-sized “hidden” city that only people from Texas knew about in 1992 to over a million people by the time I left in 2004 to the continually growing city I returned to in 2009.
Tags: inner city, san antonio, sprawl, suburban development, urban area, urban sprawl
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