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Central Texas Community Thread of Heat, BBQ, Heat, Hail, Heat, and Heat
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squidhands
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Oh shit, there's a permit for my street. Wonder when this will actually happen?
So spent last weekend at Travassa, an amazing resort about 20 minutes west of Austin. Was simply spectacular and my fiance was overjoyed. Great activities, delicious food, and superb amenities. But the highlight has to be the pool, overlooking Lake Travis and Hippie Hollow...
Sunrise from balcony
Sunrise from balcony
Etrian Oddity
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Yeah the hill country and surrounding Austin area is so freakin' nice.
Anyways, took my mother to lunch at Kome today, gosh I love that place.
Anyways, took my mother to lunch at Kome today, gosh I love that place.
I'm moving the Pflugerville (though will use toll roads so ironically commute to things I do in Austin basically went up by a few minutes of a much more pleasant drive), and they already have AT&T Gigapower at 300 Mbps with a soon free upgrade at 1 Gbps @ $70/month. If nothing else Google has forced competition to actually try. Even TWC's data rate went up by 5x so uploading 36 MP photos to Flickr is no longer a marathon.
The design of my soon to be house has Cat6 to basically every major room and bedroom. In 10 years it will seem silly with high frequency WiFi achieving near lossless 1 Tb/s, but right now I want reliable 4K streaming.
FiveElementNinja
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Came in to work today and this was in our lobby. Pretty awesome. It's a 99-pack of Austin Beerworks Peacemaker.
http://gizmodo.com/good-god-someones-selling-a-99-pack-of-beers-1626890533
Etrian Oddity
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ABW was on Dudley & Bob the other week, and the 99-pack came up in discussion. Haha good lord.
Anyways what the hell is going on Austin-GAF, this thread has been dead for like a month.
Anyways what the hell is going on Austin-GAF, this thread has been dead for like a month.
ExitPlanetDust
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Lots of OT at work hasn't left me with much free time.
I'm old and married now, waiting for house to be built. Or more accurately waiting for the house to get a permit before it breaks ground. Having 2 apartments is weird, please be soon.
Zoe
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I'm so jealous. I reload builders' sites every day to see if there are any changes. We can't bring ourselves to look outside of Austin though.
If anyone else is looking for houses, the Redfin team here is pretty awesome. We haven't actually worked with them directly yet, but their classes are good, and they supplied a full dinner at Perry's for the last one :lol
Been busy house hunting, closing, and moving into a new house. Shit is time consuming.
Etrian Oddity
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So basically, all of Austin-GAF has relocated or is in the process of changing residence. 
Nostremitus
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I have about a month left as a member of TexasGAF. I'll become a member of KoreaGAF.
Well everyone is different, but for us we just don't see a huge reason to live in Austin considering I'm commuting to North Austin, she's commuting to the end of 290, and we hate traffic. Basically you only get affordable Austin culture if you're okay living just south of 183 and even that's expensive. To really enjoy downtown day to day you have to make quite a bit of money and live between Elizabeth Street and Enfield. And even then it's super gentrified and crazy busy. We plan on hopping on the toll roads and getting to work in 15-20 minutes with easy driving where the left lane isn't a favorite lane to go 20 mph under but one used for passing sparsely distributed cars going 80+ mph. And if we really wanted to, especially as Mopac toll lane is completed, we could get downtown in 25 minutes.
Getting a house first time with new construction is too. So many options and KB Home doesn't use computers so literally each studio appointment was 1 hour of going over a stack of papers from the last appointment, and constantly walking back and forth between tiles/flooring/countertops to see how they look together.
If anyone is good at software and using 3D rendering engines and has savy salesmenship, KB Home seriously could benefit from app software to allow people to visualize what their options look like. If you drive through a KB Home neighborhood you'll see plenty of exterior options where people failed to extrapolate a small brick sample to a house and they look horrible.
Well then again a new construction is less stressful than this. Not playing the "what bottom of the barrel, poorly maintained, horribly overpriced house built in the 1960s can we obtain pre-market without visiting it before it sells" was a big part of going new construction.
Zoe
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We don't care about central or south--we're looking in Avery Ranch, RRISD side of Brushy Creek at the furthest. We just don't care for Pflugerville or east Round Rock. The hardest thing about looking at the new construction in the northwest area is accepting that the prices are near 100k less on the opposite side of town :\. Things are a bit cheaper just past 1431, but it's like entering a different country once you cross that road. I know that will change before too long, but I want to feel good living there from the start.
The way we look at it we can always go from work to Austin areas or take tolls. Pflugerville is a nice place for a low cost, large house. It's quiet there. And there are some interesting things to go to in that area. Taste of Ethiopia is one of our favorite restaurants and it's a 1-2 mile drive away.
ExitPlanetDust
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I'm looking for a place in the Cedar Park area that can install a screen protector on my Vita without trapping dust n' bubbles or scratching the screen in the progress. Any recommendations? A go-to associate in a cell shop with unnaturally steady hands?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Etrian Oddity
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ACL and ComicCon in the same weekend, and I work right across from the convention center. Pray for me, Austin-Gaf. If you don't hear from me by Monday, send a search party for my cadaver.
squidhands
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Comic-Con's a bust for me and the wife, almost everyone we were interested to see has cancelled. Thankfully her precious pretend-boyfriend Norman Reedus will still be there, lol.
Anyone going to the Princess Bride quote-a-long this month?
Anyone going to the Princess Bride quote-a-long this month?
Etrian Oddity
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Holy crap, the weather has been awesome.
I finally ate at Kyoten. They've got some seriously good shit, Japan-style sushi you can't find anywhere else in Austin.
I finally ate at Kyoten. They've got some seriously good shit, Japan-style sushi you can't find anywhere else in Austin.
I have never heard Manchaca described as cool, and it's basically my hometown.
Troubled Bat
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Guys! These tacos, I love them. (╥﹏╥
Casa Moreno's! $1.95 tacos that are pretty big than norm. C: Then there is the Suicide Taco!
I'll have to look this place up! :3
Casa Moreno's! $1.95 tacos that are pretty big than norm. C: Then there is the Suicide Taco!
Holy crap, the weather has been awesome.
I finally ate at Kyoten. They've got some seriously good shit, Japan-style sushi you can't find anywhere else in Austin.
I'll have to look this place up! :3
Brilliant Disaster
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Guys! These tacos, I love them. (╥﹏╥
Casa Moreno's! $1.95 tacos that are pretty big than norm. C: Then there is the Suicide Taco!
I'll have to look this place up! :3
I work 7 min away from Morenos. Will try it out. Thanks. We needed a new place.
ExitPlanetDust
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ExitPlanetDust
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What are you having?
Zoe
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I had the Dirty South (chicken fried steak) while bf had the Dizzy Porker (fried ribs app) and the Ron Burgandy (Cali burger). He said the fried okra was really good too.
I only managed one fourth or so before I had to separate the doughnut/potato/steak stack :lol
Troubled Bat
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Oh, awesome! Let me know what you think of it! Definitely try out the signature Suicide Taco whenever you get the chance.
Double D's is the best! Ugh... I'm so hungry now. Dammit!
ExitPlanetDust
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My wife and I have gone to the Public House for the last two Valentine's dinners. They were having a month of Studio Ghibli films this year so that was awesome. It was something like every Friday they show an animated film or something and it was all Ghibli films in February. I believe Howl's was on that night.
Zoe
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HEB's chocolate frosted are my favorite chocolate frosted in town :lol
But Gourdough's is really about the specialty doughnuts with toppings. That said, I really like the bread of the doughnut itself.
Love me some Round Rock Donuts. Shipley's is another fave -- I think they're maybe from Houston originally but they have a few in the area including one on Brodie. I recommend em. Gourdough's is really unique though -- not like the chains.
For those interested, Mondo have a gallery show starting tonight: http://mondotees.com/blogs/gallery/17127823-mondo-celebrates-75-years-of-batman. Runs until 11/15.. unless you're a collector, you'd be better off going tomorrow and avoiding the crowds tonight.
For those interested, Mondo have a gallery show starting tonight: http://mondotees.com/blogs/gallery/17127823-mondo-celebrates-75-years-of-batman. Runs until 11/15.. unless you're a collector, you'd be better off going tomorrow and avoiding the crowds tonight.
ExitPlanetDust
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We stopped by the Hill Country Galleria on the way home from a hike and paid visit to Bee Cave Coffee Co. They serve CTX's very own Cuvée Coffee, even the cold "Black & Blue" brew. I've tried this stuff before, but never bothered to take a picture of it.
When my wife and I toured Cuvée's facility few months back, it was explained that a batch is brewed overnight and then they hit it with liquid nitrogen while transferring it to a keg the next morning. It's served from a tap and develops a head like beer. Really delicious stuff. Extremely strong.
When my wife and I toured Cuvée's facility few months back, it was explained that a batch is brewed overnight and then they hit it with liquid nitrogen while transferring it to a keg the next morning. It's served from a tap and develops a head like beer. Really delicious stuff. Extremely strong.
ExitPlanetDust
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Damn! I can't believe they didn't make you a deal. We aren't far from you and they dropped our price by $10 and increased our speed when our contract was up.
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
Tell them you're going to switch to Xfinity or Time Warner (whichever one is in your area). Loss of all revenue is your only lever with them.
squidhands
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Or the "I think I'll just wait it out for Google Fiber" might get them to offer you something better. We're closing in on our initial year contract too, so I'll be interested to see what they can do for you, if anything.
Google Fiber is literally laying cable on our street, but I know that shit is gonna be expensive.
That makes sense. Google isn't charging a lot for their ISP considering. They just want people to use their services more so they can make more money. Also if they have aspirations for automated cars, stirring up competition to get to 5G is important because the wavelengths needed for 5G are so short it's nearly lossless signal within 1ms which is important for things like navigating a barrel of steel on Mopac while dodging hipsters, cops, pickers of favorite lanes and go 20mph, and Matthew Mcconaughey.
In north Pflugerville near Dell there is AT&T Gigapower at 300 Mbps and soon to be 1 Gbps for $70/month initially. I'll let you know how much they fuck us in March 2016.
In north Pflugerville near Dell there is AT&T Gigapower at 300 Mbps and soon to be 1 Gbps for $70/month initially. I'll let you know how much they fuck us in March 2016.
Etrian Oddity
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Getting chilly!
ExitPlanetDust
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As if earlier this year wasn't enough. Contemplating keeping a set of studded tires in the utility closet.
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