The Texas Department of Transportation is closing the ramp from northbound 183 to southbound Loop 1 this coming weekend. The closure is supposed to start at 9 PM Friday, and run until 5 AM Monday.
TXDOT does have a pretty good reason for the closure; they’re repairing a section of the highway damaged in a horrible tanker truck accident/explosion last fall.
Lawrence pointed out that I hadn’t trolled the crowd for panel suggestions yet, and the schedule is up. Here’s the stuff I’m tentatively planning to see.
I’m open to requests, but I won’t make promises.
I’ll bring the cheese. His Gruberness has already brought the whine.
There’s two funny things about this. The first one: if you read the entire article, the Shifty Jelly people were fully aware going in that they weren’t going to make any money off of being the “free app of the day”, and had a chance to reject the offer…
And now you’re complaining?
Here’s the other funny thing. I’m one of those 101,491 people who downloaded Pocket Casts when it was free. I’m glad I did; if I had paid $2.70 for that app, I would have been very unhappy. Pocket Casts “works”, in the sense that it manages my podcast subscriptions and lets me play back podcasts.
But it’s buggy. For example, when I first start Pocket Casts, it frequently tells me there’s no podcasts playing. Sometimes that’s true; other times, I quit out of Pocket Casts during a podcast, so I’d expect it to show me the last podcast I was playing. Even better, when I select a podcast from the ones I’ve downloaded, Pocket Casts just displays the same “no podcasts playing” message. Repeatedly. No matter how many times I select a podcast; any podcast, I get the same “no podcasts playing” message. The only way I’ve found around this problem is to actually quit and relaunch the Pocket Casts application.
Good luck, guys. Don’t let the door hit you where God split you.
I really wish I could find that original Bloom County strip, but I digress.
The plan to build a new stadium for the New York Islanders failed. Overwhelmingly.
(Newsday has a pay wall set up, but the first two paragraphs are really the relevant part. ETA: here’s the NYT coverage.)
Yes, Michele Catalano has another “I”, “I”, “I” post up already.
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We’re all Islanders. Don’t we all want what’s best for our communities? Perhaps not.
Because reasonable disagreement about whether subsidizing a professional sports team is a good idea equates to not “wanting what’s best for our community”.
Edited to add: I didn’t pick up on this right away.
So all along, you’ve been agitating for other people to pay the bills for your hockey team, Catalano, knowing full well that you’d be moving away and not having to deal with the tax burden you wanted to impose on other people in Nassau County? This explains much.